I see that the Senator Blofeld Party recently had its national conference, with speakers including former Laborite (now conservative friendly) fellow baldy Michael Costa saying this, apparently:
'People want EVERYONE ELSE to use public transport so they can use their CAR"
I don't know when exactly it happened, but along with their climate change denialism, much of the Right wing has gone a bit nuttily against public transport, against the evidence (such as good usage figures for the Gold Coast light rail, and Sydney's light rail having high demand.) One would also have thought that travel to cities with great public transport systems would help convince them too. But no. Apparently, Houston is gold standard for cities, because land is cheap and you can spend your day commuting on a really, really wide freeway. Beautiful.
Their other speaker of note was Jennifer Marohasy - IPA aligned "independent scientist" who thinks the weather bureau is conspiring to fake our climate record, and that no understands the Murray-Darling like she does.
Way to go with the eccentrics and cranks, Leyonhjelm. I guess you fit right in, though...
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