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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3195 on: July 12, 2015, 06:42:08 PM »
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3196 on: July 13, 2015, 06:45:06 AM »
Word is shorten will be gone in a month

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3197 on: July 13, 2015, 06:26:09 PM »
Word is shorten will be gone in a month

one can only hope, although i think its not true. An internal pact signed by the ALP that they wont torch their leader again after the gillard/rudd debacle is what i heard.

let the commission play out before calling an early election, with this bloke at the helm is the play here for big tone.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3198 on: July 13, 2015, 06:31:36 PM »
Is anybody else  getting junk mail that can only  be described as election material?

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3199 on: July 14, 2015, 06:25:17 AM »
The only junk that I get is these stupid links you put up here

Let's talk about shorton mate.
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« Reply #3200 on: July 14, 2015, 07:35:09 AM »
The only junk that I get is these stupid links you put up here

Let's talk about shorton mate.

"a drover's dog could lead the Labor Party to victory, the way the country is". Bill Hayden 1983

and even more applicable today.

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« Reply #3201 on: July 14, 2015, 11:59:52 AM »

Abbott is really peeing off the farmers at the moment.

First a bloody big coal mine in the middle of prime agricultural land and now this...


Cattle trade slashed: Labor questions if poor relations with Indonesia to blame
 
Date July 14, 2015 - 10:26AM 
Judith Ireland 
 
Australia's live export industry is in shock after Indonesia has drastically reduced the number of import permits for cattle for the current quarter, with Labor leader Bill Shorten describing it as a "grave concern" that he hopes is not due to tensions in the bilateral relationship.

The allocation for the July to September quarter is just 50,000, which is significantly less than the 200,000 permits that were expected and the 250,000 for the quarter just gone.

Australian Livestock Exporters' Council chief executive Alison Penfold described the news as a "disappointment" and a "surprise".


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/cattle-trade-slashed-labor-questions-if-poor-relations-with-indonesia-to-blame-20150714-gibkqc.html#ixzz3fpL4deO7

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3202 on: July 14, 2015, 12:19:40 PM »
He shouldn't crap on about tsunami aid

In retaliation to the indos killing two drug traffickers, then

Tosser in the highest order IMHO is Tony
Then he grabbed two chopsticks and stuck them in his mouth , pretending to be a walrus

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3203 on: July 15, 2015, 04:38:43 PM »

Abbott has even peeed off Alan Jones.

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Alan Jones takes aim at Tony Abbott in 30-minute spray about Shenhua mine
   
July 15, 2015 - 3:08PM

Georgina Mitchell

It can't be fun to be on the receiving end of a blast from Alan Jones.

But that's the position Prime Minister Tony Abbott found himself in on Wednesday, when the broadcaster told his listeners on radio station 2GB that the Abbott government's approval of the Shenhua Watermark coal mine was "disgraceful", "beyond belief", and tantamount to selling their soul to mining.

Beginning an almost 30-minute reprimand of the mine, on the Liverpool Plains in north-western NSW, Jones said he had been deluged with emails after "what can only be described as a disgraceful, but not final, decision by the Abbott government and the Environment Minister [Greg] Hunt".

"The NSW government have the final say on all of this," he said on The Alan Jones Breakfast Show.

"Quite frankly, Tony Abbott and [NSW Premier] Michael Baird are going to have to understand that governments rise and fall, sometimes, on a single issue. And the single issue, about selling this country out to foreign interests, no matter whose interests they are, is now emerging as a massive issue in this country."


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/alan-jones-takes-aim-at-tony-abbott-in-30minute-spray-about-shenhua-mine-20150715-gicten.html#ixzz3fwJkciQB



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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3204 on: July 15, 2015, 05:15:05 PM »
 :chuck
“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,
So are my ways higher than your ways,
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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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3205 on: July 20, 2015, 01:21:12 PM »

Well Bronwyn Bishop has to go, her position is untenable.

But be careful what you wish for.

Rumour is Christopher Pyne wants the job.

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3206 on: July 20, 2015, 03:10:21 PM »
Shorten cant beat Abbott. Abbott is over the line in terms of the next election. The ALP hiding Carbon Tax No 2 put a chance to any hope they had.

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« Reply #3207 on: July 20, 2015, 03:23:15 PM »
Shorten cant beat Abbott. Abbott is over the line in terms of the next election. The ALP hiding Carbon Tax No 2 put a chance to any hope they had.

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #3208 on: July 22, 2015, 03:01:50 AM »
WA Federal Liberal MP Don Randall has been found dead in the WA wheatbelt town of Boddington.

Police were called to the corner of Club Drive and Hakea Road, near the Boddington Golf Club at about 3pm on Tuesday afternoon.

It is understood Mr Randall, 62, was found deceased in his car in Boddington.

The cause of death is not yet clear but the circumstances are not suspicious and it is believed he suffered a heart attack.

Mr Randall is survived by his wife Julie and two children.

http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-mp-don-randall-found-dead/story-fnj4anv2-1227451412715

RIP.

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