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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3225 on: July 31, 2015, 07:39:15 AM »

"The Speaker is the guardian of parliamentary standards," he said.

"The speakership is one of the most important offices in the Parliament. The Speaker is there to uphold the integrity of the Parliament and now we have very, very serious allegations against the incumbent Speaker ... The prime minister, to uphold the integrity of the Parliament, needs now to require the Speaker to step down until these matters are resolved."


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bronwyn-bishop-expenses-scandal-tony-abbott-goes-to-ground-as-speaker-finally-says-sorry-20150730-gio0g7.html#ixzz3hPftsyeP

So said Tony Abbott April 2012 in regard to Peter Slipper and his travel rorts.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3226 on: July 31, 2015, 09:29:19 AM »
The current Speaker should resign, end of story.  She has misused public money and whether it was an excusable error of judgement or a blatant attempt to rort is irrelevant.  It happened on several occasions so she is not fit to hold that position.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3227 on: July 31, 2015, 10:05:19 AM »
But its in the stupid ruuuuules
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3228 on: July 31, 2015, 10:42:21 AM »
im not sure it is in the rules. wasnt there someone else a few years back you got into strife for using their travel allowance to attend a party fundraiser, which contravened the rules?

either way, the biggest thing coming out of this is, for me, is that the rules have to be tightened. we are having similar things with the local pollies up here at the moment as well.

It makes me ill how the pollies tell us we have to tighten up blah blah and the way the tax dept wants to screw over the little person while these scum are wasting thousands and thousands of dollars on decadent travel expenses.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3229 on: August 04, 2015, 01:57:56 PM »

I have been saying this for a long time.


Is Tony Abbott's regime the worst federal government ever?
 
Date August 4, 2015 - 1:45PM 

Sally Young
   
Stopping the boats and repealing the carbon tax have not had a demonstrably big impact upon the lives of ordinary Australians.
 
Abbott government has been in power 686 days and, in the wake of a turbulent half year capped off by the Bronwyn Bishop expense scandal, it is a valid time to ask a question that is often debated online and among political scientists. Is this the worst federal government ever?

I'm talking here about the effectiveness of the Abbott government. Can it pass legislation? Perform administration? Do Australians judge it to be effective? I'm not trying to make value judgments about whether it is a morally "good" government or whether its policies are good or bad (readers will have their own views).


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/is-tony-abbotts-regime-the-worst-federal-government-ever-20150803-giqtnx.html#ixzz3hobZydXt
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3230 on: August 04, 2015, 03:03:56 PM »
Quote from: 1965 on August 04, 2015, 01:57:56 PM

I have been saying this for a long time.




No shyte, have you really?
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3231 on: August 04, 2015, 03:33:05 PM »
Quote from: Diocletian on August 04, 2015, 03:03:56 PM
Quote from: 1965 on August 04, 2015, 01:57:56 PM

I have been saying this for a long time.




No shyte, have you really?

Do you have an opinion on this government?
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3232 on: August 04, 2015, 03:39:42 PM »
A detailed one of my own or just a glib one line statement with a laughing emoticon preceding a copy 'n paste of someone else's
opinion? If it's the former then it's bit rich for you to ask more from others than you're seemingly ever willing to offer up yourself.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3233 on: August 04, 2015, 03:49:39 PM »
Quote from: Diocletian on August 04, 2015, 03:39:42 PM
A detailed one of my own or just a glib one line statement with a laughing emoticon preceding a copy 'n paste of someone else's
opinion? If it's the former then it's bit rich for you to ask more from others than you're seemingly ever willing to offer up yourself.

Geez, what's wrong with you today?

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3234 on: August 04, 2015, 04:44:16 PM »
He's dead.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3235 on: August 04, 2015, 04:46:32 PM »
sharp stabbing pains in hands and feet are getting to him?
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3236 on: August 04, 2015, 04:51:10 PM »
He was waiting for '65 to make a point but in the end he just got tired of hanging around...
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Quote from: 1965 on November 17, 2023, 06:47:06 PM

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3237 on: August 05, 2015, 01:48:58 PM »
this government a paradigm example of what governments should be like. they stopped the boats, they stopped everything. they are a credit to this nation. not like that socialist rabble we had before.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3238 on: August 05, 2015, 01:57:03 PM »
Quote from: No More on August 05, 2015, 01:48:58 PM
this government a paradigm example of what governments should be like. they stopped the boats, they stopped everything. they are a credit to this nation. not like that socialist rabble we had before.

....wow
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« Reply #3239 on: August 05, 2015, 02:16:37 PM »
they have even put a stop to their own members using tax payer money to fly a helicopter to a party fund-raising event  :clapping

Now all we need is for them to put a stop to the socialist healthacre rort called medicare
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“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways my ways,” says the Lord.
 
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
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And my thoughts than your thoughts."

Yahweh? or the great Clawski?

yaw rehto eht dellorcs ti fi daer ot reisae eb dluow tI
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