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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4755 on: March 15, 2020, 09:07:27 PM »
Scott Morrison is one of the most poorly equipped leaders I have ever seen. He has just had a practice run at crisis management, which he failed miserably, and seems to have not learned a thing from it.
As a matter of urgency he needs to:
-add the USA to the Do Not Travel list and not allow anyone in who has been there recently
-self isolate as he has been meeting closely with a carrier who was in the incubation stage
-recall the Army reserves from burnt forest raking and get them to start building hospitals, at worst they can set up MASH style units for the peak period.

While it's true that there is not much point in blaming state leaders for worldwide recessions, this one is a special case. Morrison and Frydenberg were claiming credit for, and congratulating themselves, for a surplus that they in 6 years have not been able to achieve. As previous mentioned, the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison governments have accrued more debt than all of the governments in Australia's history combined.

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4756 on: March 15, 2020, 11:49:14 PM »
Well one good thing about this Coronavirus ...don't see many leftists banging on about open borders these days...#silverlinings :shh
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4757 on: March 16, 2020, 06:56:52 AM »
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/coronavirus-overseas-arrivals-in-australia-have-to-selfisolate-for-two-weeks/news-story/87d923137de264df9f54f33be3ac1996

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Any comments WP and MT or we still upset about Hawaii.

Funny I thought I gave him some credit a fortnight ago

Since then he has gone back to being a moron... "I'm going to the footy", refusing to get tested... blah, blah

Agree with the latest decision but if we are truly honest it was another reactive decision not decisively leadership

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4758 on: March 16, 2020, 07:29:00 AM »
I thought he didn’t end up going to the footy

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4759 on: March 16, 2020, 11:22:47 AM »
I thought he didn’t end up going to the footy

True; Julz he didn't

But that was only after he whacked for saying it

He misread the situation again

Leading by example isn't Scotty from Marketing's mantra
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4760 on: March 16, 2020, 11:31:54 AM »
Scotty from Marketing does seem way out of his depth. Just like the stuffwit running the USA.

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4761 on: March 16, 2020, 12:40:10 PM »
:lol
I work in Africa and they were taking the pee out of me for saving Africa.......
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4762 on: March 16, 2020, 02:42:27 PM »
Today we declared a State of Emergency for Victoria. This declaration gives the Victorian Chief Health Officer the powers required to enforce the quarantine and isolation measures agreed yesterday by Premiers, Chief Ministers and the Prime Minister.

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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4763 on: March 18, 2020, 06:26:38 PM »
Typical of you MT to not acknowledge anything this guy does that's actually good

Gee mate I like your work but you are very petty and biased at times when discussing the libs.

Even I acknowledge and applaud  Arden for showing some leadership in her country despite what I think of her. Scomo does the same and yet he will cop abuse for it.

Wake up mate 65 has left Scomo has led by example here.
The initial China ban was a tick and I'm glad he (and the national cabinet which has 5 Labor/3 Lib first ministers as well) are following the expert medical advice.

However, let's see what the 'second' stimulus package involves as the first one proposed was inadequate. Economists are now talking about 500k people losing their jobs and the unemployment rate rising to double digits. What Morrison initially claimed would be a quick in-out "V" recovery in a couple of months has now stretched out to at least a longer "U" (|____|) 6-month recession. 
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4764 on: March 18, 2020, 08:23:13 PM »
I like Scomo. A man of the people.
He is very articulate without being a wanker and doesn’t prevaricate like the rest
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4765 on: March 18, 2020, 10:06:40 PM »
I like Scomo. A man of the people.
He is very articulate without being a wanker and doesn’t prevaricate like the rest

"A man of the people"?

What? If your a member of Hillsong? Or any other religious group?

He's many things but a man of the people, not even close

He is so out of touch as he has proven during the first 3 months of 2020

Sidebar, today's presser was the most prime ministerial he's ever sounded, when he went whack over the morons panic buying.
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4766 on: March 18, 2020, 10:34:48 PM »
Must've missed the part where he overturned Australia's secular status and made Pentecostalism the official state religion....are we officially a theocracy yet? Did he even ban people from using the lord's name in vain just because one "Christian" complained? :shh
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4767 on: March 19, 2020, 03:43:58 PM »
If Albo was PM everything would be okay. A true man of honour. Maybe he could team up with Adam Bandt to form a power duo, 2 leaders Australia can really get behind. :)
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4768 on: March 19, 2020, 05:25:30 PM »
Maybe he could team up with Adam Bandt

The Watermelons seem to have gone awfully quiet of late....  :shh
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Re: Australian Politics thread [merged]
« Reply #4769 on: March 22, 2020, 11:51:17 AM »
Some comments on COVID 19 a few pages back are not going to age well

And ...

Time for Federal govt to get tough....

Time for states to get tough too.

Kudos Tas & NT govs for getting bloody tough

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