Negligent posted:

even if I wanted to tell you, I couldn't until the candidates for my electorate are finalised.

freebooter posted:

Even before the "debacle" (in the public's eyes) of the Gillard minority government, any major party is always going to be fundamentally uncomfortable about losing seats to a minor party, which compromises their ability to form government in their own right.

Negligent posted:

we've only had one truly Bad prime minister since I've been alive.

Hawke was fine, Keating was fine. Keating benefited from having a good speechwriter in Don Watson and a sharp wit of his own.

Howard is still thought of as a great PM by tons of people. Really he was pretty poo poo, but still fine, even if socially he wanted to coat the whole place in formaldehyde.

Rudd was fine, Gillard was fine, Rudd moreso than Gillard, because he was a technocrat with popular appeal. Also, stuck to his guns on BOTES and paid the price.

Abbott was a fuckup, but even his own party recognised that.

If by some miracle Shorten gets in, he will probably be fine. He's been training his whole life for this. He's even hosed off the ill fitting suits so he will look like an adult when he goes to meet the Queen and poo poo.

But you know Turnbull, he's the real deal. He is the right man at the perpetually wrong time, which forces him to not be himself, and he is shithouse at the politics part of politics, because he hasn't been doing it since birth high school.

none of this influences my vote in the slightest, because I vote for the person who is best able to represent my electorate in the national parliament.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Granite Octopus posted:

Yeah that's why it was going to be a swell idea to dump nuclear waste there.

Negligent posted:

Turnbull wins the next election, has a mandate, tells the reactionary wing of the party to gently caress off, is best prime minister since Whitlam

CrazyTolradi posted:

Just dump the waste into the void inside Negligent's head.

Zenithe posted:

Isn't central Australia supposed to be one of the most tectonically inactive areas on the planet?

Senor Tron posted:

on the other hand, the group which half the time runs our country is literally called the Coalition.

evilbastard posted:

Central Australia is actually the most earthquake prone part of Australia, with a 6.6 on 22 January 1988. There was also a 5.8 at Marryat Creek a few years earlier. (Newcastle was a 5.6). I bet right now there's a bunch of helicopter charters being made for geologists to go out trying to see if they get more huge cracks appearing from this one.

There is lots of talk about the ground cracks and deformities that appear after these types of earthquakes, and investigations into rock structures that show a long history of this occuring, There doesn't seem to be any explanation as to why Central Australia keeps getting these, though.

Map of Earthquake Hazards in Australia

CrazyTolradi posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-21/responses-to-peter-duttons-comments-on-refugees/743140

"My parents were from overseas they came here with nothing to give us a good life here, and if someone's going to come and take our work, our job, then it's not worth it."

By your logic your parents stole someone else's job, you hypocritical FYGM.

quote:

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield knew NBN Co had referred alleged document leaks to the Australian Federal Police but did not tell the prime minister.

Senator Fifield on Saturday confirmed he had been advised by NBN Co on the matter but insists he did not pass the information on to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull or any other ministers.

NTRabbit posted:

For about 3 years, only 1/3 of Happy Valley Drive has had the new street lights promised for the whole length, the rest languishing as Federal funding disappeared. Just 6 weeks ago, crews finally started erecting the first dozen light poles, with many more to come, though they remain unconnected.

This week they're being used to hold party advertising boards, before they've ever been turned on. That's my election story.

Comstar posted:

So the NBN staffer is the head of their security who was brought in in November to STOP THE LEAKS. The Leaks continued and got worse.

He's an ex-cop(!) whose family in WA are members of the LNP (allegedly). Was the board on that CC list he emailed of the documents he sent to (would have to be) senior management at NBN Co?

He has ONE JOB that night - verify documents were from the NBN. He failed in doing that job as well.

I wonder if he's ever played the latest Deus Ex - maybe he's creating a role for the sequel.


Late edit- Government Minister knew


Who I might add, include another minister on the same board of directors.

Adam Jensen posted:

This island? The one where the whistleblowers' signal came from? It's got Border Force signs all over it! I think it's some kind of internment camp.

Bill Morrow posted:

Border Force? That's impossible! Half our contracts are government issue

ewe2 posted:

Found on the Loon Pond blog bwahahaa

http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/05/20/slow-internet-forces-afp-collect-nbn-documents-person posted:

The Australian Federal Police have executed two searches on ALP electoral offices over leaks relating to the National Broadband Network, with slow upload speeds allegedly forcing the officers to have to collect documents in person.



While reports are still trickling in this morning, the AFP have claimed that the raids were in relation to the leaking of documents related to the underperformance of the NBN rollout - and while they would have loved to avoid a raid entirely, it was simply taking to long to sit around and wait for the files to upload.



“This is of course a last resort,” said one officer. “We do not take to invading the offices of a politician during an election campaign lightly. It’s just - christ these things take a long time to download. It’s really, very slow.



“We are just trying to get to the bottom of our investigation. It’s a long process. We need to know who revealed that the internet in Australia was really, disappointingly slow. We’ve reduced our list of suspects to ‘anyone who has ever used it’.



The AFP are denying the raids are politically motivated saying that such a suggestion is ludicrous.



“It really is pretty basic to believe these raids would be politically motivated. Like, really, think about the Government plotting to have a massive scandalous news stories centred entirely around one of their largest failures and policy disappointments. That’s more of a Labor move, anyway.



“This was just another routine run-of-the-mill police raid of a federal politicians office just to keep the fear alive, you know? Just to keep them on their toes. Heck - if this brings NBN policy back to the forefront of the election, so be it! At least we’ll be able to torrent Game of Thrones a little faster.”

Comstar posted:

So the NBN staffer is the head of their security who was brought in in November to STOP THE LEAKS. The Leaks continued and got worse.

BBJoey posted:

how are they loving this up so bad