Mark Latham did not bring corrupt people like Eddie Obied into the party.
Also I quite liked The Latham Diaries.
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Mark Latham did not bring corrupt people like Eddie Obied into the party.
And then Kochie went the PM. Still waiting for just one of them to call him a hypocrite to his face for the juliar crap.
It works for as long as the candidates you gather up to follow orders, follow those orders. As soon as they realise that they don't have to it tends to fall apart.
PUP strikes me as a weird experiment into how money works in politics. You have PUP and Katter's party, both hopeless vague political parties with no message aside from fuck the other guys. Katter who is an established political player and PUP who is seen as basically as Scrooge from A Christmas Carol.
PUP gets three senators and wins his lower house seat while Katter is barely able to fight off the libs.
PUP gets three senators and wins his lower house seat while Katter is barely able to fight off the libs.
bobnowhere
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Yeah that the kind of the point. 3 federal senators, already lost one. Signed up 2 in Queensland, neither lasted. Signed up 3 in the NT, lost one. Might have one over the line in the Victorian upper house.
Candidates and voters were sold the line that this time politics would be different, they are now just realising they were sold a line of BS by an unstable billionaire with a chip on his shoulder the size of the Titanic and are already jumping ship. When Palmer goes at the next election so does the party.
I don't particularly understand how it works in the Senate, I think there's a current legal challenge to the DLP Senator who quit his party to stand down...A by-product of the Whitlam fallout was a referendum which determined that a resigning (as in leaving the Senate for one reason or another) senator would be replaced by the same political party.
So the challenge is to replace Madigan with an actual DLP Senator.
So the challenge is to replace Madigan with an actual DLP Senator.
so Pyne now starts an ad campaign to pressure the senate.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-...-blitz-promoting-proposed-uni-changes/5951888
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-...-blitz-promoting-proposed-uni-changes/5951888
Saw one on my bus-stop today. Basically said "Don't worry HECS still exists you can still pay 0 up-front". I think this campaign is massively under-estimating how savvy the target audience is, but I could be wrong.
shanshan310
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Yeah, I don't think anyone was actually worried about changes meaning students would have to pay upfront.
lulz @ The Australian being so disappointed with Abbott that they can't even find new words to describe it. Poor Rupert.
Yep. "interview".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-...ernment-fund-air-conditioning-schools/5954026
Guys it would cost too much to put air conditioning in all the schools!
I mean, its not like politicians or public servants use air conditioners at their places of work. We all gotta make sacrifices. Even the kids.
Guys it would cost too much to put air conditioning in all the schools!
I mean, its not like politicians or public servants use air conditioners at their places of work. We all gotta make sacrifices. Even the kids.
They set new standards to win power then failed to live up to them. Hopefully they're going to pay the price for that. Especially since for all the cries of instability last term we still had two functional houses.
So the PM's literary awards are about as much of a joke as I expected. One of the books which received the award was about how unionists sabotaged the Australian war efforts during WWII.
Mike Carlton did an interesting take-down of the book in Crikey but unfortunately it is pay-walled so I won't link it here.
Mike Carlton did an interesting take-down of the book in Crikey but unfortunately it is pay-walled so I won't link it here.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...anding-government-claims-20141208-121xca.html
Satire is fast becoming impossible.
Satire is fast becoming impossible.
Yeah. Now doctors can take the heat instead.
The whole 10 minutes thing is curious though. I mean does that mean making all consultations 10 minutes or more mean they evade the 5$ loss?
Kind of like the states and gst measures, ey? Cause the shortfall and try and push the tough decisions on to someone else
Yeah. Pretty much.
Not that I'd be totally against a GST rise myself, well I'd prefer a rise in income taxes as they aren't regressive. But generally speaking I'd rather see a tax increase over the large cuts the LNP is pushing through.
I do think we should have a total re-examination of the kind of revenue needed to create the kind of society social net is good for the country and they look at a tax system that can generate that.
Though thats probably crazy talk and I should move to one of those crazy scandinavian countries instead.
That's pretty fucking transparent. Still has to make it through the senate, doesn't it? I can't see people saying no to the $7 thing and approving a $5 thing instead.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-...e-change-references-from-council-plan/5954914
Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney has intervened to force the removal of all references to climate change-derived sea level rises from the regional plan of Moreton Bay Regional Council, a decision experts say could have wide ramifications.
Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney has intervened to force the removal of all references to climate change-derived sea level rises from the regional plan of Moreton Bay Regional Council, a decision experts say could have wide ramifications.
bobnowhere
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Just had a double-take when a friend retweeted this
I wonder if News Limited is one of the 10 multinationals with embedded tax compliance officers from Joe.
Lol, nope!
You guys certainly have a knack for melodrama.
I'm not saying they're going to knock a hole in the bottom and going to sink the continent or something, but you have to admit that a government does have power to set the system conditions for decades to come and that the current government is doing some pretty weird things
People are almost certainly going to lose their homes in 50 years because of this fuckwit tying these councils handsYou guys certainly have a knack for melodrama.
Fucking awesome.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...s-under-copyright-reform-20141208-122rmj.html
This is kind of surprising if true. I really expected them to push something much harder.
This is kind of surprising if true. I really expected them to push something much harder.
Elaugaufein
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Probably looking for an easy win that can be ramped later. Probably under considerable pressure to do something and really don't want to spend months with senate debate drawing attention to this and their retention proposals.
Or the fact that anything serious would catch untold numbers of Howard battlers rather than teenagers/young adults. Which might make their election prospects worse.
On the topic of Howard's battlers, I'm surprised more conservative parties around the world didn't try the same trick, in the same way that Clinton and Nu Labour copied Hawke/Keating.
They did, Howards Battlers was the same sort of thing Thatcher and Reagen did. Its just we had Labour in power then, so it was sort of delayed.
Isn't it just a kind of extension of the Forgotten People?
Elaugaufein
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Yeah its similar to the the moral/silent majority thing too.
They will, give it time.
viciouskillersquirrel
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My in-laws are staying with us at the moment and I have to admit that I LOL'd when a news report came out about cracking down on pirates by blocking websites.
Oh noez they be takin mah access!
Explaining to them why it was futile only got me blank stares.
Of course, I am against these laws because they set a bad precedent and brand ordinary citizens as criminals, regardless of whatever efficacy they may or may not have.
Oh noez they be takin mah access!
Explaining to them why it was futile only got me blank stares.
Of course, I am against these laws because they set a bad precedent and brand ordinary citizens as criminals, regardless of whatever efficacy they may or may not have.
zorlaczerohero
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If this goes through expect bulk billing to be a thing of the past. They can't get enough GP's as it is, if the GP's end up paying for this (You can bet the big providers won't be paying for it) they will see around a 10-15% cut in wages. Not happening, the GP's will move elsewhere. Once one big provider stops bulk billing to hold onto GP's they'll all follow, most probably past the $5 fee to recoup the costs of lower numbers. Bottom line, the patient will end up paying, they'll just blame the GP instead of Tony Abbott.
And don't forget GP's are some of the lowest paid when compared to other medical specialists in Australia. So the most important field in medicine, the front line, is paid lower than all the others and they shit on them again for fun. Who as a newly qualified Doctor would even consider going into General Practice when they can earn double in other fields.
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