Trouble in Aus State Politics

I heard on the ABC (unreliable now?) that the highest moron vote was 21%.

In which seats did the moron party outpoll the Tories?

I thought up North. Watched the Election coverage on Saturday night (lifes a constant thrill in the nursing home). Hinchinbrook eg had No Notion ahead on Saturday. Numbers may have changed since.

Embattled Labor MP Barry Urban has quit the Labor Party, amid a series of questions about his educational and service history.

In a statement to his Facebook page, Mr Urban said he told the Premier he would be resigning his party membership, as well as his membership of two Parliamentary committees.

Mr Urban said he expected to make a full statement to Parliament tomorrow.

Dying with Dignity legislation passes the Vic Parliament.

Now Vic should introduce a death tax.

Well of course probate should be reintroduced, prolly on a sliding scale affecting estates of $1.0M +. Family Trusts should also be taxed when a member pegs out - 30% flat rate.

I see that the young ALP leader in Tassie is campaigning on abolishing pokies.

Needless to say the cries of anguish from the qunts who pedal this misery is deafening (1000s of jobs at risk ya da ya da ya da....).

Good on her, her Fed colleagues didn't have the cojones to do this. I hope she wins.

Me too. A rare moment when the ALP does the good thing.

Me too. A rare moment when the ALP does the good thing.

horace wrote:Me too. A rare moment when the ALP does the good thing.

Horrie agrees with the ALP twice.

I hate the farking things. If you want to gamble, learn to read a form guide or count cards. They have pamphlets in the premises explaining how stupid you are because we can legally steal your money FFS!

JGK wrote:I see that the young ALP leader in Tassie is campaigning on abolishing pokies.

Needless to say the cries of anguish from the qunts who pedal this misery is deafening (1000s of jobs at risk ya da ya da ya da....).

Good on her,  her Fed colleagues didn't have the cojones to do this. I hope she wins.

Phurt!...Just more nannystate socialism. The small minority of problem gamblers need to accept responsibility for their own actions instead of having the whole of society pay for their weakness.

Big Dog wrote:

JGK wrote:I see that the young ALP leader in Tassie is campaigning on abolishing pokies.

Needless to say the cries of anguish from the qunts who pedal this misery is deafening (1000s of jobs at risk ya da ya da ya da....).

Good on her,  her Fed colleagues didn't have the cojones to do this. I hope she wins.

Phurt!...Just more nannystate socialism. The small minority of problem gamblers need to accept responsibility for their own actions instead of having the whole of society pay for their actions.

Err... society is paying for their actions.

Big Dog wrote:

JGK wrote:I see that the young ALP leader in Tassie is campaigning on abolishing pokies.

Needless to say the cries of anguish from the qunts who pedal this misery is deafening (1000s of jobs at risk ya da ya da ya da....).

Good on her,  her Fed colleagues didn't have the cojones to do this. I hope she wins.

Phurt!...Just more nannystate socialism. The small minority of problem gamblers need to accept responsibility for their own actions instead of having the whole of society pay for their weakness.

Small minority  It's not even gambling.  It's betting the week's pay on a farking random number generator for most of these poor fools.

Bradman wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

JGK wrote:I see that the young ALP leader in Tassie is campaigning on abolishing pokies.

Needless to say the cries of anguish from the qunts who pedal this misery is deafening (1000s of jobs at risk ya da ya da ya da....).

Good on her,  her Fed colleagues didn't have the cojones to do this. I hope she wins.

Phurt!...Just more nannystate socialism. The small minority of problem gamblers need to accept responsibility for their own actions instead of having the whole of society pay for their weakness.

Small minority  It's not even gambling.  It's betting the week's pay on a farking random number generator for most of these poor fools.

Its their money & their responsibility. The government should just fark off.

When they scuttle it they'll want to steal more GST from the wozzies

embee wrote:When they scuttle it they'll want to steal more GST from the wozzies

It is the Tozzie way...

JGK wrote:

embee wrote:When they scuttle it they'll want to steal more GST from the wozzies

It is the Tozzie way...

Two heads are better than one?

taipan wrote:

JGK wrote:

embee wrote:When they scuttle it they'll want to steal more GST from the wozzies

It is the Tozzie way...

Two heads are better than one?

Two heads are better than one dickhead.

I hate the pokies.

Like cigarettes, they are IMO little more than a selective blue collar and dole tax, a sneaky way of pinching money back from the unemployed and poor by governments that have been too gutless to impose a flat GST. They have taken the easy way out and - for decades now - stolen money back from the poor, the addicted, and the intellectually impoverished or bereft.

It's ironic that the ALP, which nobbled Kevin Lyons all those years ago so that they had the numbers to vote in a poker machine monopoly for Federal Hotels, now seeks to have them banned. If the Liberals had an ounce of courage they would make this a bipartisan policy so that it was no longer an election issue.

No, I've never played a poker machine.

I stopped playing the fruit machines when they took away the handle and made them electronic.

At least you've quit - better late than never.

En route to various functions, notably a cricket function I attend at the Casino here annually, I have to 'run the gauntlet' to reach the function room. On these occasions I sometimes look at the poor souls sitting mesmerised by the rows of machines ... in their zombie-like state they never notice me or other passers-by checking them out; nor do they ever show the slightest evidence that they are enjoying themselves. I've seen people enjoying root canal therapy better ...

lardbucket wrote:At least you've quit - better late than never.

En route to various functions, notably a cricket function I attend at the Casino here annually, I have to 'run the gauntlet' to reach the function room. On these occasions I sometimes look at the poor souls sitting mesmerised by the rows of machines ... in their zombie-like state they never notice me or other passers-by checking them out; nor do they ever show the slightest evidence that they are enjoying themselves. I've seen people enjoying root canal therapy better ...

Well with the handle you had some control.

I often go to the local casino, to the cinema multiplex. The wife, who is a local bank manager, regularly sees her more troubled clients there.

the flashing lights and the bells and whistles trick them into thinking they are winning

they are the games in the casino most geared to the house