Synthbuttrange posted:

Hahahah what the gently caress.

Also is there really anything to be scraped in the area between the Coalition and One Nation?

tithin posted:

https://twitter.com/ANSETT_AU/status/828471017920016385

Synthbuttrange posted:

Hahahah what the gently caress.

Also is there really anything to be scraped in the area between the Coalition and One Nation?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

tithin posted:

https://twitter.com/ANSETT_AU/status/828471017920016385

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/DanBox10/status/828444287289266178

Graic Gabtar posted:

Sorry I'm misreading this. Why does it have Christian Brothers listed at 22% when its supposed to be about 98%?

Frogfingers posted:

It happened again?

Comstar posted:

What? I don't get it.

Comstar posted:

What? I don't get it.

Synthbuttrange posted:

wardrobe malfunction

ewe2 posted:

Pfft Naomi Robinson did her own hair and makeup at Beaconsfield, suck it up princesses.

tithin posted:

How's Q&A tonight?

unrelated:

tithin posted:

unrelated:

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Garbage, had to listen to it from another room. I liked that everyone in the audience burst out laughing when one of the panel tried to claim the Muslim ban wasn't racist though.

Anidav posted:

Jesus chest Campbell Newman hosed Queensland Rail so hard, its become a vengeful ghosts and claiming Minister scalps.

Seriously gently caress Campbell Newman.

hiddenmovement posted:

Stalin patiently listened to his advisors and carefully considered strategy before enacting it.

hiddenmovement posted:

Stalin patiently listened to his advisors and carefully considered strategy before enacting it.

Frogfingers posted:

Stalin also died of a cerebral haemorrhage in his early 70s which I hope is something that Trump picks up on.

ewe2 posted:

Ok, so Daisy Cousens is funnier than Rowan Dean. Should I be worried?

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

I had a Marist Brothers house like a street away from my house growing up. I know one of the brothers used to go for walks passed the school until he was asked to change his route. 20% is hosed up.

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/susanamet/status/828497700312068097
https://twitter.com/susanamet/status/828497900275527681

quote:

Ministers ordered to stop talking about same-sex marriage


The Turnbull ministry has been ordered to put a lid on talk of moves to reopen the issue of same-sex marriage, with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce yesterday reading the riot act to colleagues.

The Australian has learned that the Nationals leader addressed a meeting of the frontbench yesterday before a return to parliament today, warning that continued discussion of fringe issues such as marriage equality would be the government’s road to ruin.

A Liberal frontbench source in the meeting confirmed Mr Joyce told the room MPs had to stop talking about issues that appealed to Sydney’s inner-city “Oxford Street”.

“It was a spray,” one Liberal frontbencher said.

“He said if we continue to be distracted by issues which only appeal to people in George Street and Oxford Street but not in the outer suburbs and the regions, things will not improve,” another said.

“He then specifically raised gay marriage as an example.”

Malcolm Turnbull was said to have nodded in agreement as Mr Joyce addressed colleagues, in a clear signal to moderate MPs agitating for a shift in policy to a free vote on same-sex marriage there would be no deviation from the Coalition policy of a plebiscite. “The mood of the room was clearly anger that the agenda we tried to set last week had been derailed by a few MPs trying to push the issue again,” another source in the meeting said.

They said there were several ministers prepared to resign if there was any contemplation of shifting on the policy of a plebiscite to decide the issue.

It has been reported that several moderate MPs among the Prime Minister’s support base were agitating to bring the issue back to the Coalition partyroom within the next two weeks. They want Mr Turnbull to dump the ­national plebiscite, which would allow the people to decide the outcome, in favour of the Labor policy of a free vote in the parliament under which MPs would not be bound by party policy.

Mr Turnbull has insisted there will be no change of policy and blamed Labor for its refusal to ­support the plebiscite as the ­reason the issue had not been ­resolved.

Newly elected Victorian MP Tim Wilson is among those leading the charge and has argued that he had honoured a commitment to vote for the plebiscite in accordance with party policy when it was introduced and defeated late last year. This, he suggested, had freed him from his obligations and now allowed him to push for a free vote.

Other MPs named as behind the push included West Australians Dean Smith and Melissa Price, Trent Zimmerman, a first-term MP from NSW, and Queenslanders Warren Entsch and Trevor Price. Colleagues of cabinet minister Christopher Pyne had accused him of encouraging the move.

Mr Pyne said yesterday a ­national vote could have been held this Saturday had Labor not blocked the plebiscite.

“Labor defeated the plebiscite bill for marriage equality last year in a very ‘cutting-off-one’s-nose-to-spite-one’s-face’ move,” he said.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Why don't labor call a vote on it?

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Actually Trump was elected because social progress happened too fast I'll have you know. Don't think about the fact that they've had multiple centuries to acclimate to black people being human, and were bitching and killing people all through that acclimation, it's still too fast!

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Why don't labor call a vote on it?