Australian Politics thread [merged]

[Francois Jackson]

Touché

Though you won't find many of those. Normally one looks like Caro

[Penelope]

lmao

if abbot crapped on toast and said it was caviar, danny would eat it

Lol probably. I respect a man with 3 daughters

what about one with four, like Josef Fritzl?

[Francois Jackson]

Jo Who

No I said 3 mate

4 is too much

[Diocletian]

Always admired Mrs. Palmer - she had five....

[Penelope]

Jo Who

No I said 3 mate

4 is too much

lol
three succesful roots is the magic number when combined with the 1 in 4 chance hey?

[Penelope]

no credits for three of them also being his granddaughters?

[1965]

And just so you know what you voted for...

[1965]

Interesting that the Liberal loving posters can only deflect the conversation.

Sure, Abbott has stopped the mining tax, stopped the carbon tax and stopped the boats.

But unemployment is up, the deficit is up national debt is up.

His Royal commission will be seen to be a blatant attempt at smear a political opponent.

Tony's captain's picks have all failed, Browyn Bishop, Dyson Heydon, his branch stacking (Christopher Pyne's words) to get his way on same sex marriages.

And there is just a slight smell of WorkChoices about their industrial policy

Just a matter of time before this moron is removed from office.

  (just for the emperor)

[🏅Dooks]

[mightytiges]

This government is a complete joke.

and I quote "Heydon's spectacular demise - for surely he cannot credibly continue - is the latest political and administrative disaster for a Prime Minister who is now the most crisis-prone since the McMahon and Whitlam periods"

and just for the emperor

 

Abbott government's week from hell: question of 'whether' this farce will end now moves to 'when'
Date August 13, 2015 - 4:07PM
1153 reading nowComments 307VoteRead later
 Mark Kenny
Chief political correspondent

As the accidents and bungles mount daily, the pre-eminent question in Australian public affairs seems to be moving rapidly from "whether" this farcical political period will end, to "when".

Justice, as he would know, must be done and be seen to be done. That now is impossible.

Tony Abbott's royal commission into trade union governance and corruption had always been a nakedly political exercise - a cynical plan B by a government that lacked the guts to take on trade union power through the front door by way of industrial relations deregulation after its over-cooked WorkChoices experiment.

So too the choice of inquisitor.

And it was in these two decisions that the seeds of its now calamitous failure were sown.

The selection of the avowed conservative Justice Dyson Heydon had tainted the credibility of the $61 million royal commission from the get-go.

Now his participation as a drawcard in a Liberal Party fundraising event has removed any remaining air of independence he and his process had enjoyed.

Justice, as he would know, must be done and be seen to be done. That now is impossible.

Heydon's spectacular demise - for surely he cannot credibly continue - is the latest political and administrative disaster for a Prime Minister who is now the most crisis-prone since the McMahon and Whitlam periods.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/abbott-governments-week-from-hell-question-of-whether-this-farce-will-end-now-moves-to-when-20150813-giy71k.html#ixzz3ig1s78Si

Heydon would be gone (forced to resign or sacked) already in past years. Credibility as a 'unbiased' Royal Commissioner is shot.

Seriously, how stupid are our political parties these days.

[Smokey]

Mark Kenny.  Greatest left wing parrot in the media going around.  Credible.    Factual.    Says a lot about the basis of your point when you need to quote that toss pot.  Cue Clementine Ford and Mike Carlton to back him up. 

[mightytiges]

Mark Kenny.  Greatest left wing parrot in the media going around.  Credible.    Factual.    Says a lot about the basis of your point when you need to quote that toss pot.  Cue Clementine Ford and Mike Carlton to back him up. 

Quote the News Ltd article on this if you want, Smokey. Heydon should do the right thing and resign. You can't have a judge overseeing a RC about the abuse of process and corruption, who then abuses his own RC process by agreeing to attend a political party event of the party that appointed him to judge their political opponents. Separation of Powers is a key component of our democracy. He has to go.

[Diocletian]

Mark Kenny.  Greatest left wing parrot in the media going around.  Credible.    Factual.    Says a lot about the basis of your point when you need to quote that toss pot.  Cue Clementine Ford and Mike Carlton to back him up. 

Geez Clementine Ford... makes Germaine Greer look like Maggie Thatcher....the article is right though, regardless of the author.

stuff Neo-Cons & stuff Leftists - a pox on both their houses and so say I.

[Penelope]

Heydon himself, when judging others, has said that even a appearance of impartiality is grounds for disqualification.

[1965]

New poll out today has the government trailing the Labor party.

That's 166 polls in a row.

How long before they get rid of Abbott to save their own seats.

Smells a little like the Labor party replacing Gillard with Rudd to minimise the damage at the next election.

    (for the emperor)