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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...
What thinking Australians are thinking, part 2
How dumb I must be thinking this double dissolution was all about the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the rule of law on building sites. No, it was all about Medicare, negative gearing and company tax rates. Nobody deserves to win this election....
What thinking Australians are thinking, (hint, Turnbull’s a dud)
Malcolm Turnbull’s campaign was devoid of passion for the eight tedious weeks it ran. It is a total mystery why it took near-defeat to get him to fire up, show some conviction, and mention Labor’s Achilles’ heels, including the crooked unions. The only achievement of...
Voter show contempt for both major parties
One of the questions that arose from time to time at various forums during the campaign concerned the whys and wherefores of the rolling of first term Prime Ministers. Some have rather complex reasons but my own view is more pedestrian and prosaic. Very simply it's...
Turnbull crafted Triple-A disaster for himself, Liberal party and the country
Turnbull has to take full ownership of the completely bonehead tactic of calling a double dissolution election off the back of the Budget.
Things are moving at warp speed.
Wham, Splat, Kapow and Blam. Bolt doesn’t miss.
Malcolm, you assassinated a Liberal Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who’d won an election by a huge margin. You promised to do even better than him. Malcolm, after this election you are now finished You then treated the Liberal base like dirt, smashing it with a huge...
Votes made invalid or informal BECAUSE of the AEC?
Listening to the radio this morning one scrutineer said that something like 30% of votes declared informal at her booth were because the AEC official issuing the ballot paper to the voter had not initialled it in the top right hand corner. Does this error by the AEC...
Drongos, Dopes and Dills—Malcolm Turnbull
Either Malcolm Turnbull is some kind of Manchurian candidate or he and his cronies are complete political novices, bozos, drongos and dills on a multiplicity of levels. Instead of going to the people when his polling numbers were stratospheric late last year or early...