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AusPoliERA |OT| Section 44’d straight to Manus Island
- Thread starter Bernie Bernbaum
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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/prime-minister-scott-morrison-egged-at-election-function
Fuckwit. A protester for refugees threw an egg at Scott Morrison, it bounced off him (or perhaps someone else, ABC suggested?) unbroken and an older woman was knocked over (she is OK) and Scott Morrison helped her up. And on twitter he goes on about union thugs and farm invaders. Scott Morrison is the only winner. I don't defend this egging.
Also, the high court unanimously dismissed Clive Palmer's attempt to prevent the AEC from publishing the preference results before WA's polls have closed.
Fuckwit. A protester for refugees threw an egg at Scott Morrison, it bounced off him (or perhaps someone else, ABC suggested?) unbroken and an older woman was knocked over (she is OK) and Scott Morrison helped her up. And on twitter he goes on about union thugs and farm invaders. Scott Morrison is the only winner. I don't defend this egging.
Also, the high court unanimously dismissed Clive Palmer's attempt to prevent the AEC from publishing the preference results before WA's polls have closed.
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https://www.theguardian.com/austral...m-rises-among-refugees?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other making our literal concentration camps worse, yep that should be a top priority
Almost guaranteed to be Richard Marles, a truly inspired choice.
Are you serious? I was hoping it would be Chalmers. They need some youth on their side and Marles is just... ugh.
Who's that meant to attract to the party exactly?
marles is better than chalmers, a man too racist for even mark latham
Ooh, yikes then.
I only know of Marles because he's my local member, and never really feels like he's done anything. I'm sure he has, but in that regard he almost seems as bad as Sarah Henderson.
I did like his stance on coal the other day though, which I thought was pretty ballsy:
Apologies for the source :(
I disagree, mainly because a bog standard Labor member is much better than any Liberal.
Henderson campaigned on repealing the carbon tax, supported penalty rate cuts and voted for every liberal budget since 2014.
Happy to be informed and it seems I was wrong. She did worse than nothing.
And the interest rate is going down again. I don't know the effects it has on a country but as someone who frequently buys things online from overseas and gets interest on my savings, it's not a good time there. My money is probably losing value.
And it doesn't seem like a good time to get into the stock market...
And it doesn't seem like a good time to get into the stock market...
What's the play here? Do they really think that if these tax cuts increase the deficit they can wield the fiscal responsibility cudgel against the Coalition? That thing is like Mjolnir, it only works in certain hands. But also instead of just being immovable it electrocutes you or something if you try to use it against someone who isn't to your left.
They've been a neoliberal party since the Hawke days and this is what they do.
Well yeah, I'm mostly surprised at how obviously ineffectual/self-defeating it could be as an electoral strategy rather than any belief in them taking a principled stance. It's something I would have thought was obvious even to them, considering they have a prime example of it from literally the last time they won power. Remember when Rudd "outflanked" Howard by making a show of stopping any further spending announcements and labeling himself a fiscal conservative during a campaign he'd already pretty much won? And how that counted for sweet fuck all once the GFC hit and everyone spent every second between then and the Liberals being reelected being hysterical about the deficit, only for it to promptly be forgotten? If so, congratulations, because you have a firmer grasp on recent Australian politics than the ALP.
Also if your point was that electoral pragmatism is actually of secondary importance to the very serious types then you're probably right and I should have known better.
Who's ready for our fiscally responsible LNP federal government to navigate us through a recession of their own making?
At least we got that budget surplus....when in reality Government spending is needed to kick the economy in the pants.
The amount of rejected applications from the NDIS is staggering - i have seen plenty of people in my work get rejected for various stupid reasons that make it seem like they simply don't want to pay out and then we find out they have all these unspent funds. Makes my blood boil as when someone is on NDIS it makes a world of difference and the fact that most Non-Profit agencies now won't accept someone without an NDIS plan it puts out those people who were receiving support before now loose access they were receiving pre-NDIS and being told they won't get anything else.
Combined with the robo-debt its a 1-2 lethal punch to the country's most vulnerable
it is in no way justifiable
even from a sociopathic economy-only viewpoint, when the country is still giving multi-billion tax subsidiaries to the coal industries
Fuck, even Trump can understand meeting Houston may look bad, meanwhile ScoMo just closes his eyes, raises his hands and basks in the light of Jeysus' chosen one...
ffs, seriously
Trump probably doesn't know anything about it. Probably what happened is they put in the request and the WH was like "Who the eff is this?"
The second-hand insider goss I got was that they weren't expecting (or even preparing that much) to win and were pretty confident that they could run a successful campaign of Abbott 2.0 style hysterics if Labor got in and the economy so much as hiccuped, which is all but guaranteed. However I saw ScoMo on 730 a couple of weeks back and he had the same shit eating smirk answering every question as he used to have when saying "on-water matters". So even if it is the case that there's some worry behind the scenes I wouldn't read too much into it, because the PM for one seems to be reveling in the fact that he can just say whatever he wants. "It's gossip, surpluses are stimulatory, why does the left want people to be addicted to drugs?"
The Trump-Scomo nexus of doom just keeps getting better.
Revealed: the QAnon conspiracy theorist who is friends with Australian PM Scott Morrison
The article makes clear that this is more of a weird coincidence than anything serious but still ffs.
We've got media personalities going full Askin on climate change protesters on national TV, but sure, social media is the true source of division.