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Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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Australian Federal Election Day

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I got partway through Vote Compass, until it started asking Data Harvesting questions. Why does it need my Income, gender and gender identity to tell me how to vote? Religion should also be irrelevant!

The answers were pretty generic too. How many asylum seekers should we let in? “At least as many as required by UN obligations.” None of this “Much More”, “More”, “Same”, “Less”, “Much Less” rubbish!