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Dr E
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Abbott is no chance of leading again - I was never sure how he ever got the job anyway.
I found it hilarious that Turnbull conjured the ghost of Menzies to validate his "soft cock" centre stance - Menzies, who serenaded Her Majesty The Queen, Turnbull who wants to shiv her! |
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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max manewer
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Turnbull showing considerable political nous in announcing his preference for a more centrist party. That is where the votes are at election time. Abbott's ascendancy was just a case of voter fatigue at the shenanigans of the Labor Party. The public got a gut-full of Suppository Tony, quick smart. Turnbull does well to put as much political real estate as he can between himself and loons like Bernardi.
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Dr E
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Yes your analysis sounds about right max, Abbott was simple timing ... ironic, since Malcolm seems to have absolutely no sense of timing! ... and whilst the closer he positions himself to the ALP, the better, you can guarantee that it will be the preferences of loons like Bernardi that will be the only thing to save us from Bullgelati Bill and oblivion.
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Not sure who the Turnbull govt is listening at the moment but they are starting to make the right sounds. I suspect it is the new President, former moderate NSW Liberal Premier Nick Griener. Just heard Michael Keenan taking questions on Liberal Party internal divisions and was pleasantly surprised to hear him speaking candidly about it rather than the usual ''nothing to see here'' lines that defies credulity and pizzes people off who know what they are looking at and listening to.
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Passing Through
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Turnbull's new department for Home Affairs. This is not really the sensible centre Malcolm
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Passing Through
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Central Command for the new Super Security Department
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maccamax
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Dear Mr. Turnbull as the official replacement for Mr. Abbott,
Instead of giving billions of dollars to car companies & other business that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations: 1) They MUST retire. Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed 2) They MUST buy a new Australian car. Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed 3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed 4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university - Crime rate fixed 5) They MUST buy $100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week ....... and there's your money back in duty/tax etc 6) Instead of stuffing around with the carbon emissions trading scheme that makes us pay for the major polluters, tell the greedy bastards to reduce their pollution emissions by 75% within 5 years or we shut them down. 7) Cut down on pollies perks - they earn enough money to pay for their own petrol, food, drinks, airfares for their wives & families like all other hard working Aussies do. We pay big money but we still get MONKEYS. 8) No government credit cards for pollies - let them get their own then they will be more careful about how they use it and pay up on time so as not to incur interest. It can't get any easier than that! P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances Also ... Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out. They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance. Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them. A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell. They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose. They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request. Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls. There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to. The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay $600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---- THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq ......... Why don't we just give them ours? It was drawn up by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for centuries and we're not using it anymore. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------- THE 10 COMMANDMENTS The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse or Parliament, is this - You cannot adjudicate on 'Thou Shalt Not Steal', 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Kill' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...... They would all be convicted. |
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max manewer
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Hahahaha....ScoMo makes a classic Freudian slip, talking to Leigh Sales, referred to the "bodge-it" instead if the intended "budget".
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Shrunk in the Wash
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There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.
Pay them $1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations: 1) They MUST retire. Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed 2) They MUST buy a new Australian car. Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed 3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed 4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university - Crime rate fixed 5) They MUST buy $100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week ....... I'll take the million tomorrow |
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Dr E
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Sounds interesting Shrunk! ... need to build more pubs, clubs, golf courses and race tracks ... even more stimulus!
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Tlazolteotl
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There are only 12.1 million people in the workforce. I doubt that 10 million of those are over 50. Probably more like 2.1 million over 50. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0 |
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Tlazolteotl
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What is an Australian car?
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max manewer
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A thing of the past. We are more nimble and agile now. |
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Australian manufacturing doesn't even manage fishing reels these days, Alvey, makers of the famous side-cast reels, is going out of business after 100 years.
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maccamax
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We don't need them any more. Dynamite has closed another industry. AND , I note = NO Whale posts and TBV is closing down. |
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Isaac soloman
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Another industry gone to the chinese; will be buying on the silk road soon...if you have the money...
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The FBI shut down the Silk Road.
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maccamax
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Prepare yourself .. The big LNP comeback. watch those polls do a sharp turnaround .
Nick Greiner magic . if he could save his Mrs from a hi range drink driving conviction , fixing the LNP will be a piece of cake. |
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max manewer
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Abbott looking like a "mental" these days, Labor had Latham, now the Libs have Tony, as an embarrassing reminder of how far off the track these parties can wander. The talent pool has never looked thinner in Canberra.
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Dr E
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No changes for 16th straight Newspoll.
Preferred PM ... Turnbull 43% Shorten (or as he is better known "The Great Right Hope") 32%
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Shrunk in the Wash
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Mal will win easily when it comes to the crunch
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I'll add to that that I think most swinging voters are happy with the way things are going |
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32%?
Abbott had an approval rating of 24% a year before winning in 2013. That would make Shorten a certainty wouldn't it?
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Dr E
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... nobody cares about polls that don't favour them.
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Then why did you mention them?
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I knew there was another reason I liked Jay Wetherill
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has been urged to apologise after branding critics of the state’s power outages “right-wing f..kwits” at a federal colleague’s book launch. Speaking at the launch of Labor MP Mark Butler’s book Climate Wars at the University of Adelaide yesterday, Mr Weatherill unloaded on a handful of commentators he believed used any opportunity to attack the state’s renewable energy program. During his speech, Mr Weatherill referenced a power outage at Adele’s Adelaide concert in March, mentioned in the book, which was caused by a roadie unplugging the wrong cord, but was interpreted by concert-goers at the time as the fault of the state’s patchy power supply. Mr Weatherill described the angst he and several colleagues assembled in a corporate box had felt as the outage unfolded, and then their relief when the pop star confirmed the outage was unrelated to the state’s power supply. He was scathing of the “right-wing f..kwits” who he believed had sought to take advantage of the situation, in particular The Australian’s associate editor Chris Kenny, and a series of tweets he released in the wake of the outage. Mr Weatherill also slammed senator Nick Xenophon for spreading fear that energy concerns could put lives at risk and spreading fears that the “lights might be out for five days”. The Premier did not respond to requests for comment yesterday. A government spokesman tried to downplay the remarks: “The Premier made lighthearted comments at a private function.’’ Mr Butler’s team did not respond to requests for comment and repeated phone calls. |
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hes right about xenophon - the greatest monday expert ever
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The next federal election is a shoo-in for the Coalition. This statement may appear counter-intuitive, but is nonetheless true. The government has at its disposal the means to obliterate Labor and the Greens in 2019, and re-establish a healthy majority for a Liberal National government able to work with One Nation and the Australian Conservatives in the Senate.
The battleground is climate change and energy poverty. But to win it, the government must first freeze out its many left-leaning bedwetters. The leader who goes to the next federal election with an unequivocal commitment to halt or scrap all current climate change policies until 2030 in order to guarantee cheap electricity for households and businesses will easily win. The rationale is simple, and covers many areas. Even the IPCC now acknowledges the lengthy ‘pause’ in global warming. Even ardent climate scientists now admit that climate reality does not match climate modelling predictions. Even our Chief Scientist admits that anything Australians do to lower emissions will not have any tangible effect on reducing global temperatures. China and India have made it clear they intend increasing emissions until at least 2030. The US has walked away from the Paris Accord, making its lofty aspirations meaningless and unaffordable. Turkey has followed suit. And on the whackier side of the street, President Macron believes climate change is responsible for Islamic terrorism. Meanwhile, despite us being blessed with the world’s cheapest energy supplies, our polity has blighted our nation with the world’s highest energy prices. This is insanity writ large. With high energy prices comes – by definition – energy poverty. As Joe Kelly wrote in the Australian: ‘Australia is entering the “realm of third world countries” with residential power disconnections rising by as much as 140 per cent in six years and the average household paying more than double what it did a decade ago to keep the lights on. And that doesn’t even take into account the 20 per cent increase in bills (on July 1). Australian Energy Regulator figures reveal almost 60,000 households are on electricity hardship payments and another 151,862 customers are on electricity payment plans.’ In South Australia, our very own basket case state, $500 million is being spent trying to fix their own energy mess; a thousand bucks for every family of four. Meanwhile, Australian households without solar panels will end up spending a staggering $14 billion subsidising those that do. It’s almost understandable that loopy Labor and the madcap Greens are happy to carry on cruising along on this ship of fools. But the Liberals and Nationals? Does anybody seriously think a smart politician could not obliterate their opponents on this brazen stupidity? Thus far, three Liberals have dared to speak out against the climate insanity. The first is of course Tony Abbott, who has called for an end to windmill subsidies and a freezing of the RET. The second is John Howard – he whose government Mr Turnbull refers to as ‘the gold standard’ – who owned up last week to his ongoing climate scepticism. Yet the bravest is backbencher Craig Kelly, the MP for Hughes in Sydney’s south. Speaking to the editor of this magazine last week on Sky News, he pointed out that renewables policy will kill people this winter. The Left went berserk, with calls for his sacking, yet the facts are as unastonishing as they are incontrovertible. Deaths in Australia are highest during winter and the trend has been increasing over recent years in direct correlation with rising energy costs. South Australia, which boasts of its renewables credentials, has the highest number of disconnections of any Australian state. In Queensland, a manager of a complex of town houses has written: ‘I have 35 low income residents of which a dozen or so would be on an old age pension. I have witnessed a number of these people wearing a lot of outside clothing in their homes (that are freezing) to keep warm… When we questioned the residents some admitted they couldn’t afford higher power bills and some I believe had too much pride to admit to this.’ This is the scenario that another Liberal MP, the bedwetter Sarah Henderson, disgracefully mocked when she ridiculed Craig Kelly on Sky TV. She should hang her head in shame. Energy poverty is no laughing matter. It is the bedwetters, including Malcolm Turnbull, Josh Frydenberg, Scott Morrison, Christopher Pyne and Julie Bishop, who are consigning the Liberal party to self-inflicted oblivion. Wake up, Libs – or you’ll end up out in the cold. |
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max manewer
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As if the writer of that article could give a rats about people who struggle to pay electricity bills, but can see an angle to win an election through them.....and they'd still have the same bills.
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Dr E
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The next election is a non event if Bill Shorten is the ALP leader, and will be won and lost on border security, full stop!
... power prices and negative gearing are also massive losers for the ALP, assuming that the LNP are smart enough to work that out and if they get their messaging right, which is admittedly a big IF! ... everything else that the ALP would like to promote as a point of difference is pretty much neutralised by the LNP's "Labor Light" policies.
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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