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[danm999]

Unlikely. Canning should be a fairly safe Liberal seat (and thus significantly different in general demographic to central Melbourne). Canning is only competitive because the Coalition poll numbers are abysmal but its demographic makeup is likely pretty military and law and order campaigning.

Ah that's right, the demographics are pretty old and white huh.

Well in other news, Liberal Democratic candidate Connor Whittle drew 2nd spot on the ballot for that byelection above Hastie for the Liberal's opening the door to some potential lulz.

Hopefully the voters read their ballots very carefully.

 

[Yagharek]

 

[Rubixcuba]

Been away from news all day, just caught up.

Literally a Brownshirts/Nazi era idea. Whoever let that release out is amazingly fired. I wonder if it'll backfire as much as the Knightood drama did?

 

[Yagharek]

Been away from news all day, just caught up.

Literally a Brownshirts/Nazi era idea. Whoever let that release out is amazingly fired. I wonder if it'll backfire as much as the Knightood drama did?

We can only hope.

I wonder if Bill will say anything about it.

 

[Rubixcuba]

We can only hope.

I wonder if Bill will say anything about it.

Im sure he

Spoiler

won't.

 

[Arksy]

Been away from news all day, just caught up.

Literally a Brownshirts/Nazi era idea. Whoever let that release out is amazingly fired. I wonder if it'll backfire as much as the Knightood drama did?

Well if this does, it will at least be a very good reason for backlash.

 

[hidys]

Ah that's right, the demographics are pretty old and white huh.

Well in other news, Liberal Democratic candidate Connor Whittle drew 2nd spot on the ballot for that byelection above Hastie for the Liberal's opening the door to some potential lulz.

Hopefully the voters read their ballots very carefully.

I would imagine that since they have to number every box and take a how to vote card the results won't be as swayed as NSW, but they may get a disproportionately high vote.

And Melbourne is an amazing city.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Work let me use time in lieu to go protest. Cheers m8s.

Sucked standing with Socialist Alternative, but sometimes the common enemy unites.

Peter Dutton washing his hands of the whole thing. Of course he is.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Looking forward to seeing how the Tele reports this in the morning.

If it's anything like how 7 News reported it: "Visa fraud crackdown ruined by mob".

 

[hidys]

I wonder if my work would let us do that.

 

[wonzo]

lol

 

[bobnowhere]

lol

Meanwhile at Coalition Headquarters:

 

[danm999]

lol

This government could fuck up a cup of coffee.

 

[Arksy]

Fucking hell, this government really fucking needs to get its shit together. They're making it fairly difficult to justify my continued membership of the party.

 

[Yagharek]

This government could fuck up a cup of coffee.

Indeed, they'd probably tender it out to Serko/Serco whatever and only stock it on Nauru

 

[hidys]

I hope he loses by one vote.

 

[Candescence]

Holy hell, I want Labor win Canning just to see the meltdown that would inevitably occur in the Libs at this point. The government is pretty much a comedy of errors at this point.

 

[danm999]

I can't decide what I want. The inevitable meltdown and chaos from losing Canning would be pretty sweet, but if they hold it Abbott is more likely to stay on until the election which means this Vicious Cabaret ends for good.

 

[Candescence]

I can't decide what I want. The inevitable meltdown and chaos from losing Canning would be pretty sweet, but if they hold it Abbott is more likely to stay on until the election which means this Vicious Cabaret ends for good.

That's assuming that any other leader would be better. The right wing in the party would rather lose than let Turnbull become PM, and the only other possibly competent leader might be Bishop, but she's even less likely. Everyone else is just as bad as Abbot.

 

[danm999]

That's assuming that any other leader would be better. The right wing in the party would rather lose than let Turnbull become PM, and the only other possibly competent leader might be Bishop, but she's even less likely. Everyone else is just as bad as Abbot.

My guess is they'll put Morrison in before the election but it won't do any good, electorally or otherwise.

 

[Fredescu]

We can only hope.

I wonder if Bill will say anything about it.

I posted a quote from Bill on the previous page. Weaker than you could imagine.

 

[senahorse]

I truly wish Bill had some spine, especially in these issues, and lately Labor look to be closer to the centre than ever before. But, they (presumably) have some smart people working for them that know what will win and lose them votes. If we are headed into a khaki election and security is the "Big Issue" and Labor is looking weak on this, we may just see the horrible Coalition voted in for a second time. So I guess in that sense a more hardline centre/left party is the lesser of two evils when compared to the alternative. On the other hand, the Coalition are continuously shooting themselves in the foot so the hardline stance on security issues for Labor may be unnecessary. The best thing out of all of this is that the Greens will potentially stand to gain a big shift towards them.

 

[Rubixcuba]

Oh hey gorgeous man.

 

[senahorse]

Resting a beer on the cushion is not cool Albo.

 

[bomma_man]

Rudd is a CNN anchor?!?

 

[Yagharek]

Resting a beer on the cushion is not cool Albo.

House rules

 

[Dryk]

I truly wish Bill had some spine, especially in these issues, and lately Labor look to be closer to the centre than ever before.

It's so weird. Labor's cabinet were a shambles but at the end of the day they were still able to get their jobs done, the Coalition seized on the chance and won the public over. The Coalition are a shambles that couldn't boil an egg at the moment and... nothing.

 

[Yagharek]

Why in every press conference does Tony Abbott say everything twice? Why does he say everything twice?

 

[Aarglefarg]

Why in every press conference does Tony Abbott say everything twice? Why does he say everything twice?

''Since he's become Prime Minister his speech rate has dropped considerably,'' Dr Madill [voice research expert] said. ''He repeats himself far more often, he never used to repeat what he said, but now he will repeat phrases two or three times in close proximity and he's far more fluent, he doesn't have what we call disfluencies and fillers, that is the um, ahs and long pauses. In that sense his speech is far less interrupted, but he's also slower, much more monotone than he was, with much less pitch variation than he used before.''
[...]
His media interviews dropped from 216 words per minute to 108 words per minute.
[...]
''I look at his rate of speech now and I think, 'He's got a lot of time to think about what he'll say next,' and repetition is a very good strategy to buy yourself time. If you can't think what you're going to say next, just repeat what you said before.''

http://smh.com.au/federal-politics/...-becomes-a-slowtalking-pm-20140118-311s7.html

 

[Yagharek]

That last bit is a useful strategy for conservatives in general.

 

[Candescence]

Pope knocks it out of the park yet again:

 

[JC Sera]

http://www.smh.com.au/business/work...onvenience-store-workers-20150828-gja276.html

Like everyone knows it happens but its great to see it finally chased up

i'm really happy about these recent fairfax media "collaborations" in investigative journalism

 

[Candescence]

So Shorten actually revised his satement on the border farce, and he basically said that he wasn't terribly impressed when the whole thing sunk in, to say the least.

 

[Arksy]

Pretty disgusting. They should throw the book at 7/11. Dodgy as fuck.

 

[hidys]

Pretty disgusting. They should throw the book at 7/11. Dodgy as fuck.

I'm surprised that at a place as big as 7/11 this is only being exposed now.

 

[Yagharek]

I'm surprised that at a place as big as 7/11 this is only being exposed now.

I wonder if mining companies are getting away with it already. They can afford to pay for silence.

 

[hirokazu]

Double post. D:

 

[hirokazu]

So Shorten actually revised his satement on the border farce, and he basically said that he wasn't terribly impressed when the whole thing sunk in, to say the least.

Haha, nobody's buying that unless he's just fucking daft. I was working and it took all of ten minutes to work out all of the implications for such an operation to work. He was clearly in the me-too tough on security stance when he commented on it. Either way, he's unfit to be leader of the opposition.

 

[danm999]

Haha, nobody's buying that unless he's just fucking daft. I was working and it took all of ten minutes to work out all of the implications for such an operation to work. He was clearly in the me-too tough on security stance when he commented on it.

Yup.

In other news, Peter Dutton's office says it received the briefing for Operation Fortitude, but nobody read it.

This is the guy they wanted to have the power to cancel citizenship with the stroke of a pen.

 

[hirokazu]

Yup.

In other news, Peter Dutton's office says it received the briefing for Operation Fortitude, but nobody read it.

This is the guy they wanted to have the power to cancel citizenship with the stroke of a pen.

Pfft, pens are too slow. I'd imagine they'd spend millions on a Tinder-style app. Swipe left to send to jail, swipe right to revoke citizenship and deport.

 

[Yagharek]

Haha, nobody's buying that unless he's just fucking daft. I was working and it took all of ten minutes to work out all of the implications for such an operation to work. He was clearly in the me-too tough on security stance when he commented on it. Either way, he's unfit to be leader of the opposition.

He's not a leader of anything. Waits til the popular opinion emerges, then appropriates it.

 

[danm999]

He's not a leader of anything. Waits til the popular opinion emerges, then appropriates it.

Yep.

Though when your opponent seems to be waiting until popular opinion emerges then ignores or opposes it, you can probably win an election.

 

[Yagharek]

Expression of opinions in more than three words is an advantage.

 

[bobnowhere]

So that refugee resettlement in Cambodia? Yeah, it's going as well as expected.

Australia's $55 million operation to resettle hundreds of refugees from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia appears to have collapsed in a diplomatic embarrassment for the Abbott Government.
.
.
.
The first group of an Iranian couple, Iranian man and Rohingya man from Myanmar have been living in an Australian-funded luxury villa in a Phnom Penh suburb...

Plan to Resettle Refugees in Cambodia Collapses

 

[Arksy]

Fuck my party for not agreeing to the Malaysian people swap. It wasn't perfect but it sure as fuck beats the current situation.

 

[danm999]

Those poor souls in Nauru are probably trapped there now because of politics.

 

[JC Sera]

what the hell is with the new anti-bikie laws
like social media bans???
????
the tv news use the excuse "reduce ice dealing"
if you think bikies are main source of ice you are sorely mistaken

 

[danm999]

So Fairfax is reporting Abbott is being urged by MPs to dump Hockey and call a March election. Wonder if its retribution for his erstwhile Republican vices. So it should be another fun week.

Saw John Oliver at the State Theatre in Sydney last night and he thanked us all for this government providing this wonderful gift for satirists to the world while also apologising for inflicting one of his countrymen on us.

 

[Shaneus]

Oh hey gorgeous man.

House rules

If only there was a way to photoshop Abbott in the background doing a lap with his pants around his ankles.

It's so weird. Labor's cabinet were a shambles but at the end of the day they were still able to get their jobs done, the Coalition seized on the chance and won the public over. The Coalition are a shambles that couldn't boil an egg at the moment and... nothing.

Weird, and incredibly fucking frustrating. Can't help but think *anyone* other than Shorten would be castrating Abbott by now. Apparently he's been groomed to be Labor leader/PM for years, but I honestly don't see it... guy's softer than a scotch finger left out in the rain.

 

[Yagharek]

Imagine a world where instead of Blair, Bush and Howard we had a future with Corbyn, Sanders and Albanese.