Australian Politics thread [merged]

[1965]

words

[Chuck17]

If you take away the newspaper articles though, what's left?

[Smokey]

Paper to wipe your nether regions.  Pretty much what it's like with the words in the case of The Age.

[🏅Dooks]

Paper to wipe your nether regions.  Pretty much what it's like with the words in the case of The Age.

Herald sun wouldn't be your first choice?

[Penelope]

I could just imagine 65 teaching English classes and giving all the kids A+s for simply handing in someone else's work verbatim

[mightytiges]

so you think the public voted over the east west link WP? All the voters like myself in the south east went to the polls on the back of the link? Can tell you the majority of people did not vote on the back of the link, and their decision was made up well before election day.

WP the 1.5 was for the east-west link project. It would be breaking a promise if the federal government would then give the money for some other project which they will most likely screw up like the desal plant.

Unfortunately you will have to suck it up just like dan the man and find something else to moan about.

The Abbott government has already changed what that money was originally allocated for. It (the full $3 million) was originally designed for the Melbourne Metro rail tunnel which was considered the highest priority infrastructure project for Victoria by Infrastructure Australia. Yet anti-rail Abbott came along and moved the money to fund East-West link (despite its kept secret joke of a business case) and with Napthine scrapped the Melbourne Metro rail tunnel. This was despite Baillieu and the state Libs promising to build the MMRT at the 2010 state election (remember all the bayside seats voted Liberal at the 2010 state election based on public transport being a biggest issue and put the LNP into power). With Napthine wanting EWL which does nothing for those down in bayside/southern suburbs, all those seats dumped the Libs. Of course, Abbott said pre-state election that the election was a "referendum on EWL", yet in typical Abbott fashion has and continues to ignore the will of the majority of the people  . Now, Abbott and Hockey are making up crap about Federal governments shouldn't fund urban rail . Only in Australia would you get senior politicians saying that "Rail isn't isn't our core business" as Hockey did on radio yesterday . So while major cities around world such as London, New York, etc are expanding their rail networks in a major way to cope with city congestion, we have these two morons running the country who are still living back in the 1950s/60s  .

[Smokey]

Paper to wipe your nether regions.  Pretty much what it's like with the words in the case of The Age.

Herald sun wouldn't be your first choice?

Nope.  Dislike it just as much but for different reasons.

[1965]

Double dissolution coming up.

Heaven help us if these mongrels get control of both houses.

Fairfax-Ipsos poll: Coalition draws 50-50 with Labor, Abbott approval soars
Date May 17, 2015 - 7:49PM
Mark Kenny
Chief political correspondent

The Abbott government's second budget has strengthened the Prime Minister's grip on the leadership and shored up the position of his embattled Treasurer, Joe Hockey, with support for the Coalition rising dramatically since last month.

In a stunning reversal of fortunes, the government has now pulled even with the Labor opposition, answering internal critics and increasing the prospect of an early election in the second half of 2015, should Tony Abbott decide to capitalise on the electoral recovery.

It is the best result for the Abbott government in more than a year
Mr Abbott has also shot into the lead as the preferred prime minister ahead of Labor's Bill Shorten.

At 44-39, it is the first time Mr Abbott has led on that index since April 2014 and the first time the government has been in a potentially election-winning position since February of that year.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxipsos-poll-coalition-draws-5050-with-labor-abbott-approval-soars-20150517-gh3ok8.html

[Francois Jackson]

give up 65.

Big smoking Joe on qanda next monday, should be a good one. Shame its filmed in Sydney that show we could have car pooled 65.

[1965]

Another reason why Tony will call a double dissolution.

"The Killing Season" will be shown over 3 Tuesday nights starting June 9 and will remind voters of the Gillard Rudd mess.

http://www.news.com.au/national/julia-gillard-and-kevin-rudd-savage-over-labor-leadership-in-new-abc-interview-series/story-e6frfkp9-1227348668925

[Smokey]

There is as much chance of a double dissolution as there is of RFC winning the flag this year and Hardwick being named Coach of the Year.

[Chuck17]

 

May as well add that there will be no more posts in the sack Hardwick thread as well

[Smokey]

 

Pretty much Chucky!

[🏅Dooks]

How funny is it that the Libs have racked up just as much debt as Labor in 5 months post GFC as the ALP during worse times. And then some more.

Yet the rusted on LIB voters (aka the 'aspirational class') still whine about this budget being needed to correct Labors debt. No one else's.

And of course, the aspirational class's understanding of global economics and the countries economy, is that it's simply run like a 'small business' with no macro economic factors, so hey aspirational class, you get it! Have 20k in tax breaks. Vote for us! We talk the same language!

[Chuck17]

Hey '65 since I don't pay any attention to the rabble of a Labor party could you give me a run down on the Albanese/Shorten power struggle.

Feel free to post in articles on a mass scale

Thanks