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AusPoliGAF |OT| Boats? What Boats?

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Fredescu

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Elaugaufein

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Not going to convince anyone. Even if it is mostly true.

The LNP does have one advantage over most countries undergoing Austerity though: The LNP's is totally voluntary. If it starts to look like it's screwing things up they'll basically start the stimulus stuff themselves too. Which will of course cost more in the long run but at least its not an inevitable nose dive into despair (a la Greece).
 
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Fredescu

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Dead Man said:
This is behind a paywall, anyone have the full story?
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To get around the Australian paywall, just google the headline and click the link in the search results.

Libs stand by candidate who boasts of evicting 'animal' tenants

BY:pAIGE TAYLOR, NICOLAS PERPITCH

THE Liberal Party is standing by a real estate portfolio manager who referred to his tenants as illiterate animals, boasted about evicting them by "forklift and dumptruck" and said he always negotiated harder with women to let them know he would not "play their games".

Federal Labor yesterday called on Tony Abbott to disendorse Darryl Moore in the seat of Perth where he is in a battle to best Labor's Alannah MacTiernan.

It has emerged that, using the handle Dazzling, Mr Moore made dozens of provocative comments on a property investment website in 2005, including that in negotiations "I make it a particular point to be extra tough on the women".

"They absolutely do not like it when they realise I am unwilling to play their gameoes (sic) take an extra special effort to ignore the subtle 'non-verbal and non written' stuff that goes on during a negotiation," he said.

"Just my way of ensuring I don't get rolled by that particular and common tactic."

On a visit to Western Australia yesterday, Workplace Relations minister Bill Shorten likened Mr Moore to the fictional rake Don Draper in the television series Mad Men, saying some of his comments were suited to the script of the drama set in the 1960s.

"Women should be treated equally in the workplace. Full stop," Mr Shorten said.

"There's a lot of progressive Liberals, I'm sure, who would be shaking their heads at these out-of-line comments.

"This isn't just a women's issue. This is a men's issue. Why should men have their daughters, their sisters, their wives go to work and be confronted with attitudes that are 50 years out of date in the Australian workplace."

Yesterday the Liberal party issued a statement confirming Mr Moore remained its candidate for Perth.

The Australian has been told there is no intention to disendorse him over what the party describes as "poorly-worded" remarks. Mr Moore did not add to a statement he issued through the party on Monday conceding some of the dozens of comments published on The Good Oil political commentary website were "open to misinterpretation".

Yesterday the website published more of Mr Moore's 2005 remarks, including recounting his tactics to compel a "whinging" tenant out of a house.

In earlier posts, Mr Moore likened court action against tenants to "being forced to get in the gutter with these illiterate animals". He preferred a method he described as "forklift and dump truck".

"(G)etting moved on from your supposed 'home', as you have no ultimate control over its life if you don't like it or don't want to put up with that set of circumstances you can always go and buy your own castle," he wrote.
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Dead Man

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My cousin, who theoretically works for a youth political non partisan group thingy, just posted something stupid on facebook about preferential voting. :/
 
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-leading-article/9001331/tonys-time/ said:
Should he fail to win the forthcoming election, Tony Abbott would be forgiven for expressing his frustration by punching a hole in the nearest wall, regardless of who happens to be standing by it. For surely, very few politicians have worked as effectively, as patiently, as diligently and as determinedly as Mr Abbott has these past four years to return an opposition to government.

Whatever you think of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, events, and more importantly the Labor party, quickly passed judgment on their prime ministerial skills and found them wanting. The obvious, and only, conclusion that can be drawn is that neither leader was capable of living up to the hype or delivering on the commitments which had gained them power. Or to put it less kindly, but more accurately, both were frauds; used by a ruthless party machine to gain and retain power and callously disposed of when their deficiencies became clear.

Mr Abbott rides to probable victory in less than a fortnight not on some ad man’s slick slogan, nor on the opportunistic and cynical backroom deals with minority parties and Independents, but because of good old-fashioned blood, sweat and tears.

Go back four years: hard as it may be to believe today, it was the Liberal party that was in a state of disarray after the unsatisfactory leadership periods of Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull. Spooked by the seemingly never-ending popularity of Mr Rudd, the Coalition MPs and senators tore themselves apart attempting to create distance from the Howard era; embracing an unconvincing and erroneous centre-left positioning that John Stone wittily labelled in these pages as ‘Ruddbullism’. Unimpressed by this pandering to the inner-city elites, voters fled and the LNP dropped dangerously low in the polls.

Then came Copenhagen. In one predictable but nonetheless astonishing week, the entire climate change/greatest moral challenge/ETS artifice came crashing down like a Bangladeshi clothing factory, built as it was on the unstable mud-flats of Al Gore, global warming alarmism and the IPCC. Tim Flannery’s moment had come and gone, but Mr Abbott’s moment had just arrived: he transformed the political debate, the Coalition, and the future of the nation in a narrow party-room win. To the taunts and disbelief of most of the Canberra press gallery and despite being derided as unelectable by the likes of Laurie Oakes, Michelle Grattan and Peter Hartcher, Mr Abbott set about achieving the impossible: ousting a Labor government after only one term.

He very nearly made it. As a rattled Mr Rudd descended into a King George III-style madness of ill-temper and chaotic governance only to be back-stabbed by Ms Gillard, the Coalition soared into an election-winning position under Mr Abbott’s leadership that has remained virtually untouched throughout these past few turbulent years. With neither of the major parties actually winning the 2010 election, Mr Abbott held onto his job and maintained the effectiveness of his ruthless and single-minded approach. He goes into the 2013 election with the scalps of not one but two Labor prime ministers dangling from his belt.

Readers won’t be surprised that we support Mr Abbott not only for his political ideals, but because he is the only leader capable of seeing through the empty charade of ‘compassionate’ socialism and of withstanding the craven intellectual dishonesty and fake ‘feel-good’ morality of our times.

That’s not to deny our very real disagreements with the member for Warringah. His interventionist and big-spending paid parental leave scheme and direct action plans are not for us. We have opposed the depressing and endless war in Afghanistan and have called on Mr Abbott to be more vocal on conservative philosophies.

But one can take issue with Mr Abbott and still greatly admire him, not least for his amazing ability to weather the most extraordinary personal attacks and ignore the basest deceptions from left-wing flame throwers. Ms Gillard’s disingenuous ‘misogyny’ speech, which is touted as a glorious moment by the Labor party, was one of the lowest points among many in the past parliament. Mr Rudd’s current depictions of Mr Abbott as ‘unfit to govern’ are not only clear evidence of Labor’s inability to mount a case for re-election based on its own record, but more importantly is testament to the fact that Labor have failed to comprehend the lesson of the last four years: you underestimate Tony Abbott at your peril.

And so, just as the ETS-Copenhagen showdown in late 2009 had marked the right time for Mr Abbott’s ascension to the Liberal leadership, so too does the Labor meltdown and the myriad of policy problems linked to Labor governance represent the moment of his elevation to the prime ministership. He is, in short, a leader our country needs and deserves.
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We deserve this!
 
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r1chard

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Sweary thing said nothing about the invasion of the boat people which is apparently the only thing people in Western Sydey (aka the only place worth paying attention to) care about.
 
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Fredescu

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Elaugaufein said:
Yes. I just mean that approaching an undecided and calling them an idiot isn't going to sell well.
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You could be right. I've given up trying to understand undecided folk.

CrazedProfessional said:
We deserve this!
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"Editorship of The Spectator has often been a step on the ladder to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator

Interestingly they refused to be bought out by Murdoch. "Most of our contributors and many of our readers would be horrified at the idea of your buying The Spectator. They believe you are autocratic and that you have a bad effect on journalism of quality – they cite The Times as the chief example."
 
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DrSlek

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Why does it look like Abbott is pimping his daughters in that video?

I don't have sound at work, so I can only assume it's even more awkward with audio.
 
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Bulbagarden said:
Thank you very much for your vote. =)


Could I perhaps sway you and other gamers on the fence by mentioning that a vote for the Pirates is a vote for (amongst other things) the abolition of the Refused Classification (RC) rating from the classification system? ;)
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Aye aye Captain.

Jintor said:
[*]No one should even know they fucking exist when they drown or get turned back or arrive
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I'll gladly exchange the liberal party for a dozen boats full of asylum seekers.


Abbott trying to influence Big brother viewers by pitching them that he's the one with the hot daughters.

''Vote for me because my daughters are hot'' appears to be Tony Abbott's main political pitch to the Big Brother housemates.
His actual words, flanked by a visibly embarrassed Frances and Bridget, were: ''If you want to know who to vote for, I'm the guy with the not bad looking daughters . . .''
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Argh, choc'ed by Omi.
 
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Box of Bunnies

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Clear example of Mr. Abbot's shining wit and absolute mastery of the nation's larrikin humour. PC brigade trying to destroy everything that makes this country great yet again.
 
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viciouskillersquirrel

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I'm more shocked that they brought Big Brother back. I mean, what the f*ck?

EDIT: I dispute the notion that this country was ever great. We've basically been riding on the coat tails of Mother Britannia and Cousin America since Federation.
 
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Dead Man

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viciouskillersquirrel said:
I'm more shocked that they brought Big Brother back. I mean, what the f*ck?

EDIT: I dispute the notion that this country was ever great. We've basically been riding on the coat tails of Mother Britannia and Cousin America since Federation.
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No country is great, some are just more powerful than others.
 
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Dead Man said:
No country is great, some are just more powerful than others.
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Great countries produce cultural treasures that are remembered for all time, generate fantastic technology, overcome great adversity or accomplish mighty things.

The Americans landed on the moon, for instance, the British kicked off the Industrial Revolution, the Greeks gave us the basis of our culture, the Chinese invented paper etc.

So far Australia has grown fat and spoiled because of our distance from potential invaders, our vast, unexploited natural resources and the fact that we have big, powerful, technologically rich allies.
 
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Fredescu

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For a narrow enough definition of "great" you're probably right VKS, but there aren't many countries in the world as wealthy and as equal as we've been for decades. If that's not great, it must only be a notch or two under.
 
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viciouskillersquirrel said:
Great countries produce cultural treasures that are remembered for all time, generate fantastic technology, overcome great adversity or accomplish mighty things.

The Americans landed on the moon, for instance, the British kicked off the Industrial Revolution, the Greeks gave us the basis of our culture, the Chinese invented paper etc.

So far Australia has grown fat and spoiled because of our distance from potential invaders, our vast, unexploited natural resources and the fact that we have big, powerful, technologically rich allies.
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Australians seem to have a general "it's good enough" attitude and it shows, especially during elections. That's the simple version of my take on it.
 
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TriangleOfCorruption

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Guessed 76 LNP, 72 ALP (which is as optimistic as i could possibly be) + Katter and Wilkie for the Crikey election contest thing.
Now to turn it into a drinking game so I don't have to deal with it in harsh sobriety.
 
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Box of Bunnies

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The weeknightly turning on of my television for Simpsons reruns has exposed me to Liberal Party ads that have been nothing but LABOR IS LITERAL TRASH THAT WILL SHAKE YOUR BABIES AND SMOTHER YOUR ELDERLY. It's almost like they've got nothing good to say about themselves.
 
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