Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (XII)

by skully Fri 17 Jun 2016, 23:07

Shortarse continues to show up Crum-bull in the head-to-head debates. Come back Tony!!!

by horace Sat 18 Jun 2016, 12:08

rofl....people like Turncoat and loathed the mad monk and his crazed supremacist mates.

I note Get Up is targeting the lunar right Lib candidates and is having an impact.

by Paul Keating Sun 19 Jun 2016, 07:19

The Libs/Nats will win the election.

Not because Trunchbull is any good. In fact he is not the messiah everyone thought he would be. But we all knew that from his embarrassing stint as opposition leader in 2008/9.

The Libs/Nats will win simply because people will not go back to Labor after only three years.

Australia has never been served by such a low standard of people claiming to be leaders of this nation.

by skully Sun 19 Jun 2016, 08:32

Paul Keating wrote:Australia has never been served by such a low standard of people claiming to be leaders of this nation.

Hear hear.

by horace Sun 19 Jun 2016, 13:00

at least the country will not be lead by the MM joke, a few extreme righties may lose seats (thanks to Get Up - not Shortpants) and filth Mirabella will not win back her seat.

by skully Sun 19 Jun 2016, 13:26

Turncoat/Crumbull has been a thorough disappointment.

by skully Sun 19 Jun 2016, 13:27

Currently in Port Macquarie for a few days. Everyone is laughing about Oakeshott running again. Talk about deluded.

by skully Sun 19 Jun 2016, 13:41

Dear God, Shortarse enlists the Vulture

"TWO of Labor’s great modern-day feuds appear consigned to the memory banks - at least publicly- with Julia Gillard joining Bob Hawke and Paul Keating in the audience as Bill Shorten formally launched his election campaign.

Mr Shorten was in the group that elevated Ms Gillard to prime minister before cutting her down three years later, but there was no public sign of tension yesterday when Ms Gillard greeted Mr Shorten with a hug and a kiss."

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Whatever it takes - which I guess is fair enough.

by JGK Mon 20 Jun 2016, 08:33

Crucial election day information:

http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/

by lardbucket Mon 20 Jun 2016, 09:12

Is a real tradie the same as a fake fake tradie?

by JGK Mon 20 Jun 2016, 09:25

That is something we should ask both Bob Katter and Rob Oakshott - it might fill in the next two tedious weeks.

by skully Mon 20 Jun 2016, 12:31

I see the Libs are finally standing up against Shortarse's bald-faced lies. It seems like they've saved all their campaign ads for the final 2 weeks. About ferkin time. Is this a case of the Good Guys keeping their powder dry?

by skully Thu 23 Jun 2016, 07:47

And now Shortarse refuses to repeat the Pinko ad lies

"Interviewer Leigh Sales asked Mr Shorten to, "put your hand on your heart and look Australians in the eye" and say the Coalition has a policy to privatise Medicare.

"I can say to the people of Australia that this election and their vote on July 2 will determine the future of Medicare," Mr Shorten replied.

He was again asked directly whether the Coalition was privatising the publicly funded healthcare system.

"We will head down the path of an Americanised healthcare system where it is how much you earn will determine the quality of your health care," he said.

One of the core pillars of the Labor election campaign is the accusation the Government wants to privatise Medicare. Here's what the major parties have to say about Medicare.

The Prime Minister has labelled Labor's Medicare claims "the biggest lie of the campaign" and he explicitly ruled out privatising any part of Medicare on Saturday."

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Lying qunt(s).

by lardbucket Thu 23 Jun 2016, 09:04

The bigger the lie, the better.

They're all qunts.

by Bradman Fri 24 Jun 2016, 03:57

Why didn't he just say it? No-one could ever accuse him of lying one way or another and it is an election campaign after all. And why all the fuss over the tradie? I think most people accept political ads using actors. Sure the script was lousy and the fact he was at work and not on strike should have been a giveaway, but this campaign must be seriously short of gotcha moments if this is the best beat-up the press can do.

by JGK Fri 24 Jun 2016, 06:41

Stand by for Turnbull to play the "with all the financial uncertainty from Brexit do you really want the ALP in charge of our finances" line.

by skully Fri 24 Jun 2016, 06:54

First thing I thought of after the Brexit result was confirmed. He'd be crazy if he didn't.

by JGK Fri 24 Jun 2016, 07:33

PM warns of uncertainty, instability

Acknowledging the now-unassailable British vote to leave the EU, Mr Turnbull said: “There is no cause for Australians to be alarmed by these developments.

“However, there will be a period of uncertainty and some instability in global markets. I’ve no doubt that European leaders will provide reassurance and leadership that will, in due course, settle many, if not all, of those uncertainties.

“A strong majority government, a strong economic plan - that is what Australia needs in these times of opportunity and, as we have seen, uncertainty.”

by Ethics? The Gall! Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:22

just remind me who was in charge during the gfc and how well the country managed that period?

by Big Dog Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:27

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:just remind me who was in charge during the gfc and how well the country managed that period?

Labor did it on the huge surplus they inherited from the libs.

by Ethics? The Gall! Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:31

and on the back of policies the coalition was dead set against. so how would it have gone with the other mob in charge?

by skully Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:40

Swimmingly.

by JGK Sat 25 Jun 2016, 05:29

The great man on the Greens today:

Former prime minister Paul Keating has turned his caustic wit on the Greens Party, labelling it "a bunch of opportunists and Trots" damaging the progressive movement.

"They purloined the name Greens. We're more green than they are," he said.

"Ratting on Rudd with the ETS scheme and walking away from the Malaysia Solution, things that required a bit of courage ... they could've been the Yellows."

How can you not love the guy?

by lardbucket Sat 25 Jun 2016, 07:31

The ALP should be frightened of the Greens.

They can't get elected without Green preferences, and the ALP heartland voters are becoming greener by the day. If the ALP member is not an environmentalist or cappuccino socialist, he/she is most likely a Union apparatchik ... I'm not sure how long that aggregation can remain stable. The ALP's saving grace at present is that the Libs are a disparate rabble of whom many - increasingly - are Liberal only in name.

I've said it before ... they're all qunts.

by embee Sat 25 Jun 2016, 07:54

It's a clever line

however ...

It could be argued by the Watermelons that voting with the pinkos on the half arsed (to them) ETS and accepting the appalling (to them) Malaysian Solution would have been the Yellow option

If Keating hadn't got scared on the GST the pinkos could be looking at their version of it and Australian Tax Policy wouldnt be handicapped by the leprous elephant in the room (dont touch it, dont talk about it ...still there)

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