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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
The electorate has yet to face reality, with many still believing that money grows on trees. Perhaps after capital investment stops, our AAA rating evaporates and interest rates go up, the resulting unemployment and financial crisis will do the trick. No one seems...
Hey, Malcolm..
Random Note 194,362—-Billy McTurnbull
What’s required against Labor’s lies and dirty tricks is a scrappy, dog eared, mongrel street fighter. A street fighter who’ll get down in the gutter, a street fighter with experience at eye gouging, kneeing in the groin, taking the fight up to his opponent and most importantly WINNING!!!
Five seats and a hung parliament in 2010 and a landslide in 2013 has to count for something.
Like it or not Tony Abbott is the last man left standing. He has the runs on the board and for all his faults is every bit the junkyard dog and street fighter that Turnbull isn’t.
Turnbull has cornered the franchise on excrement sandwiches.
Looking back on my own editorial from exactly a month before the election on Turnbull’s own goal over Pauline Hanson and as I predicted there, he has as good as lost the election and Pauline Hanson has been elected and maybe even 3 of her party will sit on the cross benches.
To add to his humiliation he’s now going to have to chow down on a very large, steaming hot excrement sandwich…
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
The election result is one Malcolm Turnbull deserved but the nation didn’t. In one of the most insipid Liberal campaigns since John Hewson’s Fightback, a double dissolution election was called over union corruption but nary a word was said about it.
Bill Shorten channeling George Costanza. Medicare is a metaphor for just about everything.
As George Constanza observed, "its not a lie if you believe it" Medicare is a metaphor for just about everything. "......Everything you wanted to know about how and why we got to where we are. Some choice pars from Nick Kater's column in today's Oz. Is that an...
No one to blame but Turnbull himself—Andrew Bolt
Too much meat and potatoes in this mother load of commentary to do a cut and paste any sort of justice No one to blame but Turnbull himself
Conservatives don’t really matter. Really? Quadrant March 2016
“…Predictably, this progressivist capitulation and accompanying grandstanding is driving conservative and moderate voters away from the Liberal Party and the political centre. However, they are not shifting to the left as the progressivists would prefer, but to the right where they were supposed to have nowhere to go, as Turnbull and his advisors so arrogantly insisted when he seized power. These power brokers decided that the loss by a Turnbull-led Liberal Party of disgruntled conservatives outraged by its wanton progressivism will be outweighed by its appeal as a more moderate party to swinging voters. As Liberal pollster Mark Textor contemptuously observed about conservative voters:
“The qualitative evidence is they don’t matter,’’ Mr Textor said. “The sum of a more centrist approach outweighs any alleged marginal loss of so-called base voters…” (emphasis added)
About right.
Many thanks to everyone
Just to wrap it all up, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all my web page and Facebook supporters and non Facebook supporters and helpers throughout the last 8 weeks and on Saturday out there in the cold manning booths doing the pointy end stuff that has to...