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« Reply #4680 on: February 04, 2020, 05:02:27 PM »
Di natale did a good job for the greens hes leaving on top. Well played and well done to him.

Dickie Di Natrotsky was a far-left nutjob who wanted to shut down media organisations and arrest journalists he disagreed with, only bad thing about him leaving the Watermelons is that Bandt is even more of a Neo-Marxist mouthbreather.... :shh
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« Reply #4681 on: February 04, 2020, 06:25:09 PM »
Di natale did a good job for the greens hes leaving on top. Well played and well done to him.

Dickie Di Natrotsky was a far-left nutjob who wanted to shut down media organisations and arrest journalists he disagreed with, only bad thing about him leaving the Watermelons is that Bandt is even more of a Neo-Marxist mouthbreather.... :shh

Well put Dio. My only point of difference is that Bandt will further disgrace this pathetic party even more than the previous nutjob.

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« Reply #4682 on: February 10, 2020, 05:40:24 PM »
Fun and games in parliament today. We have a new deputy speaker that wasn't Scomo's choice.

Just to put it in perspective the pay rise he got was the equivalent of three years of the Newstart allowance.

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« Reply #4683 on: February 14, 2020, 06:24:21 AM »
Not sure which is worse a totally imcompetant government or a corrupt one

Currently we have one that combines the 2

But I'm sure people will continue to defend them

Not sure how anyone can defend or support any govt that has been proven to be corrupt like our current mob have over the sports sorts fiasco


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« Reply #4684 on: February 14, 2020, 07:03:50 AM »
They all do it. Past and present. It's not right but it's the system. You think Dan hasn't done any deals :banghead

You wanted shorten to lead this country right? Let's talk about his days as the union boss?

And what about this...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_rorts_affair

Insert sour grapes emoji someone. WP is at it again.





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« Reply #4685 on: February 14, 2020, 07:36:26 AM »
They all do it.

Sounds like the sort of excuse I used to get from my Yr 9 students when caught cheating.

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« Reply #4686 on: February 14, 2020, 09:55:43 AM »
As bad as things are they could always be worse


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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4687 on: February 14, 2020, 10:22:46 AM »
They all do it. Past and present. It's not right but it's the system. You think Dan hasn't done any deals :banghead

You wanted shorten to lead this country right? Let's talk about his days as the union boss?

And what about this...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_rorts_affair

Insert sour grapes emoji someone. WP is at it again.

Another cheap shot at me personally from your seat I see Frankie

Re your link - did you read all of it? Did you see the bit about Kelly actually resigning from parliament? McKenzie hasn't done that all she did was resign form the ministry, if you think that's enough good on you.

If the parties were reversed, that is the current govt was in opposition they would be demanding the govt be removed about now

If you think the PM of this country lying about his own office's involvement about this whole sordid mess is OK, then again good for you

If you believe having his former head of staff conducting a review of what happened then refusing to release the actual report of the review and he came up with his findings is OK, good for you

If you think in this case the PM refusing to accept the finding's of an independant body (auditor general) and dismissing their report as not accurate is OK, then good for you.

But our PM like you it seems will accept findings of the Auditor General Office when it finds against opposition parties, unions or any sector but not when it is damning against this current govt.  If you think that's honest and transparent them ...well good on you

there is no excuse for it this time or any of the previous time. It isn't "the system" it is corrupt, greedy individuals only worried about themselves and not those there are supposedly there to serve.

Simply by saying "it happens all the time" and "it's the system" you are condoning it which of course is your choice

But this govt must be held to account over this. It is $100 million that has gone not where it was intended and that is unacceptable and morally bankrupt

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4688 on: February 14, 2020, 10:41:00 AM »
You voted for Labor mate.

Give it a rest.

They're both corrupt. Neither one is worse than the other in that department
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« Reply #4690 on: February 14, 2020, 12:37:54 PM »
They're both a little corrupt.

The right wing is too right. The left wing is too left.

We need to alternate right and left wings which is silly.

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« Reply #4691 on: February 14, 2020, 12:39:12 PM »
My departments workload within the health industry has increased 4% in the last year. Funding from federal government has decreased 3% in each of the last two years.

So my program is expected to do more work with less resources. Typical of a far right wing government. With an ageing population also it's laughable.

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4692 on: February 14, 2020, 02:18:34 PM »
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good...."

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« Reply #4693 on: February 14, 2020, 02:19:20 PM »
You voted for Labor mate.

Give it a rest.

They're both corrupt. Neither one is worse than the other in that department

Did I? Really? You I know this for fact?  :wallywink

And no, I won't give to a rest. I don't give a rats which side of politics it falls under (though to some on here it's a massive influencer) this sort of corruption is wrong. Yes it has happened before and likely will happen again but that doesn't make right or acceptable

To have a PM that is so out of touch with reality and who blatantly lies time and time again to protect his job and his mates is insulting to ever Australian, yes including those who voted for them.

People want to shrug their shoulders be complacent and say "it happens" then go ahead but don't criticise those who want better for this great country of ours. Because we deserve better than this
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4694 on: February 14, 2020, 04:41:04 PM »
We also deserve better than Albanese and his mates