And it made sense I feel to remind people that the policies of the Abbott government aren't changing with a new front man.
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And it made sense I feel to remind people that the policies of the Abbott government aren't changing with a new front man.
Turnbull was leader before and wasn't able to build a connection with voter base. The policies he has are the same that Abbott advocated. The messaging and governance will undoubtedly improve but to say he has election edge over Shorten so soon is short-sighted.
It's wishful thinking but it's policy that will hopefully drive the election issues/debates. Not Turnbull is better than Shorten as a person.
Also, where's Tones?
It's wishful thinking but it's policy that will hopefully drive the election issues/debates. Not Turnbull is better than Shorten as a person.
Also, where's Tones?
I wish it was, but I think it will continue to be presidential style.
Begging Peter Cosgrove to let him kill Malcolm.
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I really want one of the newspapers to pick up my new slogan 'Stop the Votes' and run with it.
Yeah, I don't think it will be Albo (as much as I'd love for it to be). Other guy has copped too much over the travel thing. So yeah, Tanya or Wong.
I still want Albo there, though
Wong is a senator. She can't be opposition leader unless she runs for a lower house seat a la barnaby joyce.
From opposition with a popular Rudd in office. Now he's PM with Shorten in opposition.
I'll concede that point haha. Will be interesting next month then how Turnbull attempts to quell the right, News Ltd. If he can't, I think we'll see (2009?) Turnbull Mk II
Wait for Turnbull to assume his final form at Election 2019 where he will devour David Flint and then shit out a Republic.
D.Lo
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I thought it was okay. His best speech in years.
I think he might be a sociopath though. A very strange man.
Given his behaviour towards his sister I wouldn't be surprised?
But if that was a fact then I feel sorry for his daughters
even with the uni scholarship
Pretty good blog action on Turnbull and sloganeering: http://sabinedotwolff.com/2015/09/15/returnbull/
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Baww, cute grandson
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Baww, cute grandson
He was a Prime Minister who thought he was a President. Strange given his monarchist views.
It managed to be both rambling yet robotic. At least when Sarah Palin goes full verbal diarrhea she has some emotion behind it.
It's also a bit rich of him to ask the press to play along by the rules when he's had the sympathy of the largest commercial news vendor in the country.
The media are still running with the old "All change is bad" from the Labor spills. Nobody has bothered to point out in all this time that if the prime minister is shaking in stunned silence it's probably best to wheel them out and get someone that can do the job.
I don't want the LNP anywhere near government, I'm also a little worried about how much worse a current LNP government that can actually do its job may end up being. This was still absolutely the best move they could have made at one of the best possible times and it baffles me that their base can't see that.
It's going to be so interesting because the government has a Prime Minister who very much admits the polls matter.
I'm expecting a clean 180 degree shift.
on a ratio of harassed by the media : amount of stupid shit done, hes definitely had the best run
This is such a depressing read.
I'm guessing the Malaysian Flight 17 victims?
Polls will almost certainly still swing in their favour.
This week will basically be a wash since everybody is shell shocked and playing defensively, while everybody else is jockeying for positions and picking up the pieces. They'll get a poll bump, possibly even surge ahead of Labor 2PP, simply because they're changing from a very unpopular leader to a popular one.
It'll matter more in a few weeks once he's picked his new Cabinet, and decided on strategy and policy and all that. Because if all he does is champion existing policies with a better speaking style that isn't going to go very far.
Well yeah, maybe not as big as I'm expecting tho.
He seems to be doing exactly the latter.
If he does he will be in for a tough time. He really can't re-litigate the 2014 budget and climate change inaction and the like. The ship has sailed on those.
It's why Abbott didn't want to touch industrial relations reforms or Shorten didn't want to touch boat people. Once the narrative has formed it's really fucking difficult to dislodge.
They'll need new policy, and it will need to satisfy the party, the Senate cross benchers and the public.
Yup, no clue how that's going to go down any longer.
Christ I thought he was talking about bombing Iraq and Syria.
Who knows.
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I don't think Canning is winnable for Labor regardless of what happens. It seems that the rusted on Liberal primary vote is just too high.
The Liberals just lost the seat of Prahran with a PV of 44.8% at the 2014 election, which is on the lower end of the current polling in Canning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Prahran#2014_election_results
The Liberals just lost the seat of Prahran with a PV of 44.8% at the 2014 election, which is on the lower end of the current polling in Canning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Prahran#2014_election_results
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