Australian Politics thread [merged]

[mightytiges]

Mr Morrison has had the highest approval PM rating since 2008 or something

yes saw that Chucky, over 54%

No surprise to be honest

Not as good as Danny Andrews now at 70%

Up 20% since he was re-elected in Nov 2018. In fairness though,  not much competition he Vic Libs are a joke 

They've been pathetic! Unlike all other oppositions of both stripes around the country who have put the welfare of their nation and respective state first, the Vic Libs have continually tried to undermine the necessity for these lockdown health measures including slagging the integrity and independence of Victoria's chief health officer Prof. Sutton. They still haven't learnt that appealing to the conspiracy fringe doesn't work in Victoria and it's why they got annihilated at the last state election.

[Rampsation]

No thanks

[Rampsation]

Scotty from Marketing is on his way to a massive electoral victory at the next election. Albanese will lead labor into the electoral abyss.

[Diocletian]

Dan Andrew's for PM?

 

No, because I still quite like freedom & individual rights, meritocracies, borders, national sovereignty and personal responsibility....you know all those "crazy far-right" concepts....

[one-eyed]

#Newspoll WA McGowan ALP: Approve 89 (+44 since March 2017) Disapprove 6 (-34) #wapol #auspol

#Newspoll TAS Gutwein LIB: Approve 84 Disapprove 11 #politas #auspol

#Newspoll VIC Andrews ALP: Approve 75 (+30 since November 2018) Disapprove 17 (-23) #springst #auspol

#Newspoll NSW Berejiklian LIB: Approve 69 (+26 since March 2019) Disapprove 23 (-19) #nswpol #auspol

#Newspoll SA Marshall LIB: Approve 68 (+38 since March 2018) Disapprove 21 (-29) #saparli #auspol

#Newspoll QLD Palaszczuk ALP: Approve 55 (+15 since November 2017) Disapprove 39 (-8) #qldpol #auspol

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[Francois Jackson]

Dan Andrew's for PM?

 

No, because I still quite like freedom & individual rights, meritocracies, borders, national sovereignty and personal responsibility....you know all those "crazy far-right" concepts....

how about the form of the commie's deputy health officer. These are the people who are locking us up. hahahaha what a farce.

Smart people see right through this play.

[1965]

how about the form of the commie's deputy health officer. These are the people who are locking us up. hahahaha what a farce.

Smart people see right through this play.

OK I will bite.


What did she say that was untrue?

[mightytiges]

how about the form of the commie's deputy health officer. These are the people who are locking us up. hahahaha what a farce.

Smart people see right through this play.

OK I will bite.


What did she say that was untrue?

She compared Covid-19 to Cook 1770 in a tweet on the anniversary of Cook's landing at Botany Bay. As in it being a foreign invader which leads to the existing population being forced to change their ways.

While it was silly, it's hilarious seeing all the Vic Libs having a hissy fit over it demanding her sacking. Really focusing on the big issues once again . Of course "free speech" which offends is only okay for the LNP to do and not for anyone else . 250 years ago is still too soon apparently. As Aussies we are not allowed our own unique 100% Aussie ethnic identity nor mock the LNP's precious foreign monarchy, foreign flag and foreign "mother country" .

[Diocletian]

As a high level unelected government employee she shouldn't be making public political comments that apart from being completely hysterical and factually incorrect, have nothing to do with her taxpayer funded job...even more so if she also mentions that job in her twitter bio or worse the account is an official department one (I don't know if she does or it is I've only seen the tweet on television) ....not surprising all the smug middle class Marxist simpletons can't work out the difference...after all they still can't understand the difference between the ABC & commercial media and understand why the ABC needs to be held to a higher standard...but then again they also seem to unquestioningly believe that people whose grandfathers were natives allegedly shot by Cook himself are still alive and that Cook also somehow managed to rig crates of dynamite left on the shore to explode after he left - never mind that it was nearly 100 years before Alfred Nobel actually invented dynamite and long before anyone had the ability to perform remote time delayed explosions on land from a ship out at sea....   

..and don't act like the left wouldn't have a far bigger hissy fit bordering on a psychotic episode, demanding she be sacked and probably worse had she said something less politically fashionable... they do it every other day to nobody private citizens let alone public officials......

[1965]

I thought what she said was inappropriate but factually correct.

[Diocletian]

How exactly did Cook "decimate the population" ...what "terror did he create" and how did he force anyone to "sacrifice and change the way they live in order to survive"? How exactly was it an "invasion" when he was only here for a few months, only had a few relatively minor skirmishes that were either in self-defence or the result of cultural misunderstandings , left leaving no occupying force behind and no-one else arrived until nearly two decades later?

Also how exactly is the Coronavirus "decimating the population" when the death toll  so far is still below 100 and less than 0.25% of the population has been infected? How many Australians are actually "living in terror" over it?

But yeah apart from all that -"factually correct"... .

[1965]

Cook was the starting point. FACT
 

[Diocletian]

So you concede he actually did none of those things himself then?

p.s. The loss of the American Colonies 13 years later that were unforeseen in 1770 was the starting point. FACT.

  

[Francois Jackson]

Mr Morrison has had the highest approval PM rating since 2008 or something

yes saw that Chucky, over 54%

No surprise to be honest

Following the experts' advice in a crisis and especially handing out money is popular  .

ps. 12 years almost to the day since Rudd hit his Newspoll peak out of interest.

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Morrison's test will be when these 'stimulus' measures (which cost four-times what Rudd's did) have to be wound back after September and tough unpopular decisions will have to be made to make inroads into the massive budget deficit and almost trillion dollar debt we will be left with. Giving out money is easy but taking these 'entitlements' back even when financially right and prudent to do so has been a political nightmare in Australia especially over the past decade or so. That's when political popularity can quickly dissipate.

Unemployment for example is expected to remain high not only this year but throughout 2021. Halving the jobseeker payment after September and expecting people to live on just $40 a day as it was before the covid-19 crisis is going to be a huge issue with so many expected to still be out of a job. 

The reality is life doesn't snap back to the way it was before a crisis. The world will have permanently changed in some ways (eg: a more tech-based connected society, a more cash-less economy, more online shopping, etc...). Many bricks & mortar retailers won't return which means less retail jobs. It's a slow rebuild economically and people quickly become impatient (some already are on Morrison's own side and we haven't even started the road back). If Morrison thinks he can just stick to typical LNP-script and promise to offer even more tax cuts we can't afford later this year and somehow that will miraculously fix things including reducing the massive debt then he is kidding himself. Trickle down economics has never worked. There needs to be genuine reform of and across the economy which includes the LNP's older base and their over-generous middle-class welfare.

the difference is one has not wasted money on pathetic schemes.

Now that your back i take it by your post that scomo has done a great job, hence why your  anti scomo posts are back? Your bias of the man has no end.

I need to go back on your gfc comments on Rudd if you shared the same economic viewpoint when he was handing out money left right and centre on half arsed schemes. 

I am curious what generous middle class welfare are you referring to?? Family tax? F Credits? Neg G?  if its the last 2 then i hate to break to you but its low income who also benefit, and besides the people have voted. End of story.

[Francois Jackson]

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what he has actually done that's not someone else's idea. Admittedly he is good at making up new names for things; jobkeeper, jobseeker, national cabinet etc.

Virgin say hello. Do you even follow politics?

Next you are going to tell me he should have bailed them out?

I suppose dan's ideas were all his and not the chief medical guru of victoria?

You obviously have never worked in a team before, but ultimately the buck stops with the leading man and he is doing a tremendous job.