Australian Politics thread [merged]

[Francois Jackson]

Dan Andrews is coming up to 10 years as Premier and will probably be Premier for another 10 years if he wants it.

So you think he’s doing a good job?

Any opinions on his latest trip to China & his silence on the atrocities of the communist regime or Victorians paying the highest taxes in the country?

Or can you only provide opinions of the useless and inept liberal party?

also how about his odd looking wife hitting a cyclist then driving off the scene with a smashed windscreen as the kids were "crying"

Thats a great story.

[1965]

Even Mr Potato-Head is getting involved.


https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/i-want-this-mess-sorted-out-dutton-refuses-to-rule-out-intervening-in-victorian-liberal-party-20230505-p5d5tq.html

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has refused to rule out federal intervention in the Victorian Liberal Party crisis, brought on by MP Moira Deeming’s plan to sue Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto over her nine-month suspension from the parliamentary party.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Even Mr Potato-Head is getting involved.


https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/i-want-this-mess-sorted-out-dutton-refuses-to-rule-out-intervening-in-victorian-liberal-party-20230505-p5d5tq.html

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has refused to rule out federal intervention in the Victorian Liberal Party crisis, brought on by MP Moira Deeming’s plan to sue Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto over her nine-month suspension from the parliamentary party.

Yes yes Dutton is a knob and the liberal party are irrelevant now. Tell us something we don’t already know. Last I noticed we don’t actually have a Liberal leader or government in power in the whole country.

What are your thoughts on our actual premier and what I previously asked you?

Will you answer the questions or just continue to remind us on how useless the liberal party is?

What are your opinions on his silence regarding  human rights atrocities in China and the fact they still have our journalists in custody without trial, the plight of Uyghurs and the draconian treatment of a communist regime on its own people? 

Have you got any opinions?

Do any of you Labor sycophants think he is consistent in his views?
You like that our premier will increase our taxes?

Can you observe or have an opinion without offering comparison analysis of other government politicians to prove all politicians are corrupt?

How about focusing some of your energy on what you don’t like about our current leaders both federal and state? Is everything they do only great? If yes, then why?

[WilliamPowell]

Tigeritis,

Tasmania has the only Liberal government in Australia

[1965]

Another byelection test for Mr Potato Head.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/06/stuart-robert-former-minister-and-ally-of-scott-morrison-to-retire-sparking-byelection

Stuart Robert: former minister and ally of Scott Morrison to retire, sparking byelection.
Robert’s retirement means a second byelection test for Peter Dutton’s opposition, this time in the Queensland seat of Fadden.

[1965]

Hmmm.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/he-is-a-dead-man-walking-pressure-mounts-on-pesutto-despite-belief-deeming-will-be-expelled-20230508-p5d6p1.html


Mundine, also the Labor Party’s former national president, told The Age Pesutto was a “fool” for letting the issue drag on for six weeks, particularly when Victorians needed a strong opposition.

“He is a dead man walking, no matter what happens,” he said. “They are arguing about minutes [of a meeting]. There are bigger things and that’s the Victorian people.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Tigeritis,

Tasmania has the only Liberal government in Australia

Yes forgot Tassie. 

[one-eyed]

The federal government is forecasting a small budget surplus of about $4 billion this financial year, the first in 15 years.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-08/federal-budget-to-forecast-first-surplus-in-15-years/102319604

[1965]

Liberal senators could be in serious trouble?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/police-commander-urged-officers-not-to-speak-to-lehrmann-defence-20230510-p5d766.html

Extraordinary allegations by the top prosecutor in the Bruce Lehrmann rape trial that there could have been a political conspiracy to derail the case have been vehemently denied by former Coalition ministers Michaelia Cash and Linda Reynolds.

In explosive evidence delivered before an inquiry into the abandoned trial of Lehrmann – a former Liberal Party staffer – ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC said a series of “strange events” throughout the case led him to believe there was federal interference in the politically charged case.

[1965]

John Pesutto on the nose. Victorian Liberal party as well.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/shannon-deery-john-pesutto-is-starting-to-look-like-a-leader-living-on-borrowed-time/news-story/9fce0eaeb92c5f9cc66849a83d4b5351


John Pesutto is starting to look like a leader living on borrowed time.

He won’t say it publicly, but he would suspect it to be true.

That’s why in a regular radio spot recently he urged Victorians to be patient.

He did the same before 400 members at the Liberal Party’s state conference on Saturday.

Half of that number stood and applauded his vision to reform the party.

The other half didn’t want to know: some older members walked out, others heckled, some booed, in what seasoned Liberals described as unprecedented scenes.

[1965]

Victorian Libs in turmoil (again)


https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/talks-of-toppling-opposition-leader-john-pesutto-gain-momentum/news-story/3c416c489c368bcd34cfb0fcc7ea4b10


Talks of toppling Opposition Leader John Pesutto have gained momentum in the week since he was booed and heckled at a party conference.

Dozens of members walked out on Pesutto before he addressed a crowd of hundreds at the State Council meeting in Bendigo, prompting the leader to call for party unity.

But despite repeated pleas, talks of a potential challenge to his leadership have escalated during the week.

Sources close to the leader’s office said Pesutto now believed it was now only a matter of time before he faced a challenge.

[Andyy]

Going to be a long time in opposition

[1965]

God bless the mighty Liberal Party.


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/29/victorian-liberal-mp-says-indigenous-people-should-be-grateful-for-wonderful-things-brought-by-colonisation

Marcus Stewart, a co-chair of Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly has criticised state Liberal MP Bev McArthur, after she said Indigenous people should be grateful for the “wonderful things that have been enabled via colonisation” such as hospitals, running water and electricity.

[Damo]

Notice you haven’t commented on anything happening in WA?

Wonder why ????

Side note, thought it was fitting when Dan Andrews referred to him as “comrade”

Good on you China Man Dan .. would fit in perfectly as a communist .. even in your tweets

[1965]

More trouble in paradise.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/nationals-leader-says-claim-voice-will-re-racialise-australia-should-not-be-in-referendum-pamphlet-20230529-p5dc25.html

Nationals leader David Littleproud says he would not support the assertion by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that the Voice will “re-racialise” Australia being included in the official Voice referendum pamphlet, as he pledged the junior coalition partner would seek to ensure the No case was put in a respectful tone.