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Culprit
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The Federal LNP simply ignored the Vic State election results. Despite a fear campaign and the chicken little approach that the sky will fall in, the polls have gone the other way to the ALP. Keep preaching to the converted and the conservative commentators, that works. All we need now is Banaraby Joyce as Deputy PM again. The LNP clearly went with a delayed election as giving them a bigger chance to win. Instead it's going to lose them more seats. From my Liberal Party friend, many have hit the self preservation button.
I am staggered that NSW Labor lead in the polls, I think it will be a LNP Victory in NSW as Labor are screwing up on a daily basis. If Labor happen to win that will be another nail in the coffin for the ATM PM. |
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Jezza
2023 PREMIERS!
Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End
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Wokko wrote: | They're floundering about too, can't decide on being conservative or centrist. They've been a visionless party since Turnbull came in and they still don't know what they stand for.
It's time to put them out of their misery, let them find themselves again and come back in a term or two once Labor has sunk the economy and opened the boat people floodgates again. |
Agree with this 100%.
The Libs don't stand for anything anymore. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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Pies4shaw
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne
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Pies4shaw
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Culprit
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Pies4shaw wrote: | https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/malcolm-turnbull-warns-idiocy-of-federal-colleagues-is-damaging-gladys-berejiklian-20190314-p5144r.html | If the ALP win NSW it has to come back to the Federal LNP as the NSW ALP have tried everything to lose. I cannot believe they are ahead in the polls. |
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regan is true fullback
Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: Granville. nsw
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Remember back to the 81 Grand Final when that insufferable showpony, David Parkin said:
"just relax, they're losing it for us" ?
Quote: | NEWS NATIONAL New Daily
5:34am, Mar 26, 2019 Updated: 3h ago
Liberal Party’s Teena McQueen stuns Q&A audience with outrageous remarks |
Quote: | Liberal Vice President Teena McQueen shocked the Q&A audience when she publicly defended Donald Trump, described Milo Yiannopoulos as an “entertainer” and claimed white supremacy is “not growing” in Australia.
The Liberal Party federal representative became the focus of criticism and mockery on Monday night’s program for her outrageous comments, which also included an accusation that Greens leader Richard di Natale spews hate speech. |
Quote: | The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have been told that Ms McQueen's media appearances have been of concern to Liberals for some time. SMH 26.3.19 |
"That, my Lord, is Morris Dancing."
"Yeees, I've been concerned about Morris for some time..."
from "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again"
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regan is true fullback
Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: Granville. nsw
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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I was reading about that. While I wouldn't put it past 1 nation to do something like that, apparently it's illegal for a party to accept foreign donations, a law bought in to stop exactly this, foreign lobby groups influencing Aus politics.
So, if this is true, how the hell did they expect to get away with it? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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^ Seriously can't believe so many right-wing minor parties are still flogging this dead horse and trying to manufacture a culture war that doesn't exist. Most Australians don't want guns, and aren't even interested in having this conversation. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Pretty much, and of the minority that do want guns, most of them are comfortable with the current laws. I'm one of them.
The key selling points the NRA use in the USA won't float here anyway.
1. We have no constitutional right
2. Self defence is not a valid reason to own a gun and our self defence laws are, in the main, fundamentally different from the USA _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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stui magpie wrote: |
I was reading about that. While I wouldn't put it past 1 nation to do something like that, apparently it's illegal for a party to accept foreign donations, a law bought in to stop exactly this, foreign lobby groups influencing Aus politics.
So, if this is true, how the hell did they expect to get away with it? |
Further info, apparently this happened a month or so before the government put in place the foreign donation rule. So, at the time it apparently occurred they could have got away with it, but that was quickly scuttled. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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watt price tully
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_________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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Geez, I hope our governments (National & State WA), don't blow this surge like they have previously.
Iron ore is surging and you can thank it for your tax cut
Australian iron ore exports hit the highest level on record in February. Along with gains in other key Australian commodity exports, this has helped to boost government revenues and is one factor why many Australian workers are about to receive income tax relief.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/iron-ore-price-china-2019-4
At current prices, the government stands to get around $50 billion more than they budgeted for this financial year.
And our xmas Chairmans Bonus will be massive _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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David
I dare you to try
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More on Morrison’s Christmas Island debacle:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/we-paid-180m-for-scott-morrison-to-have-a-press-conference-on-christmas-island
Quote: | In early March the prime minister flew a media cohort to the facility, a 10,000km round trip from Canberra. He got what he wanted: footage of him inspecting gleaming palisade fences and scrolls of razor wire, and some soundbites from a vacuous press conference. Then everyone returned to Australia.
On budget night, the kicker: the centre will be closed by July. The flood of opportunistic refugees and their bleeding-heart lawyers never materialised. The government has torched more than $180m dollars ramping up security and services at the site, in anticipation of a deluge of people who only ever existed as a talking point to hurl at Labor and the crossbench.
One hundred and eighty million dollars. The figure didn’t feature in the treasurers’ budget night speech, and nor does it seem to exist anywhere in the excruciating “back in black” budget rebrand. The government is no doubt counting on the story to go under the wheels of tax cuts that nobody asked for and the jumble of an oncoming election campaign. They are banking on political amnesia to erase the short-term memory of what must count as the most costly press conference in history. |
Christmas Islanders are furious, too:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/04/very-negative-detention-centre-u-turn-angers-christmas-islanders
It’s almost as if cynical political decisions have real-life consequences. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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