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[Sheb]

Is it low salt or low sodium?

[Helgoland]

How would you produce salt with less sodium? More chlorine?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Obviously you'd use different kinds of salts. Like lead salts. Okay, maybe not lead salts but other options do exist outside of the classic NaCl salt.

[Reudh]

So, it has less salt, but is still just as salty? What is this!? D:
I need to science some onto toast!

It's less % salt by weight. It used to be 10% by weight, which was reduced to 4% by weight at some point in the 90s, then they wish to reduce it further.

Obviously you'd use different kinds of salts. Like lead salts. Okay, maybe not lead salts but other options do exist outside of the classic NaCl salt.

There are a few options besides NaCl that are fit for human consumption and have the same taste. Potassium chloride (KCl) has a similar (though slightly metallic) taste, and a similar LD50 to table salt.

[Osmosis Jones]

Next they'll be trying to get us to drink low strength beer.

Fun fact; they tried to do that to VB (drop the % by 0.5, and the volume by a few ml as well). It saw VB rapidly drop from first place. After a while they bumped it back to original values, and hey presto, top market share once more.

[Jimmy]

We'll ignore common sense and elect our current government, but drop the alcohol in VB and suddenly everyone's paying attention. Kind of sums up the Australian public doesn't it?

[Descan]

Because not buying a certain type of beer after it changes is suuuuch a big change. :U

[Osmosis Jones]

Because not buying a certain type of beer after it changes is suuuuch a big change. :U

To the lifetime VB/XXXX/Export/etc drinker, it actually kinda is. If politicians will always be bastards, it doesn't matter who's in charge, but most of these guys have been drinking their chosen tipple since before we were born... that builds up serious mindshare.

[Descan]

True enough, but if it's been changed, it can be a simple matter of "They betrayed me!" and then switch beer. >_>

[Edmus]

Everything sounds like a simple matter when you say it's a simple matter though.
We accidental voted in an imbecile, so we simply vote him out next election.

[Descan]

Hrm. I guess. I was going to say that there's not really any coordination involved in beer-buying that there needs to be in a voting campaign, but the same logic applies.

Though I will say that while there is loyalty in both, in beer it's to a specific taste generally, and there's only one of it. If it changes, you've been betrayed and are amenable to switch.

But in party-politics, especially if it's anything like the Canadian system (we vote for our local representatives in parliament, and their numbers decides who governs. We don't vote for the prime minister, he's just the result of how many seats his party gets) then it's a rationalization of "I don't like that guy, but I like his party, and that's more important," and "I didn't vote for Abbot, I voted for [local representative of Abbot's party]! So it isn't MY fault."

Loyalty to the party can supersede whether or not you find the head honcho a cock or not. They're separable, while in beer it isn't.

... This is a really silly conversation, anyone else realize that?

[Osmosis Jones]

The support for Abbott worsens.

At least seven ministers who previously supported Abbott in the spill motion (which went 61-39 overall) have changed their tune, and are now saying he should be removed (disclosing on condition of anonymity). This dissension includes people in the actual cabinet, mind. Perhaps most damningly, this seven member swing was from only 11 MPs asked; while it is almost certainly not a representational sampling, also is it unlikely that these are the only 7 who have changed their minds.

The word is another spill after NSW election, likely June.

[DG]

Aussies are a patriotic people. Rather than wait for the metadata laws to be introduced, enterprising individuals have started helping Attorney-General Brandis kick off his data collection.

http://www.beyondgreen.net.au/curious_george

[Osmosis Jones]

It may be their middle name, but the Palmer United Party is struggling with unity, it seems. What was once the largest swing bloc in the senate has now crumbled to a single senator, with Glenn Lazarus splitting from PUP following the sacking of his wife. Given they used to command 3 PUP senate votes and effectively Ricky Muir as well, Palmer and Dio Wang have suddenly become a lot less important to the political scene.

It will be interesting to see how Senator Lazarus votes away from Palmer's influence. He always struck me as a bit of a mercenary, but who knows, maybe that was just him being possessed by the Palmer.

[Owlbread]

British politics has acquired some Australian driftwood lately in the forms of John Mcternan, who is running the disastrous Scottish Labour campaign (looking at losing nearly ALL of their seats in early May), and Lynton Crosby, who is running the disastrous Conservative campaign for David Cameron. Can any Australians fill me in on their Australian careers?