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norp posted:Do they really think that dutton is a good choice? Yeah, they genuinely do. He's been floated as leadership material for years, and there's a reason he's still in cabinet. I'm not joking.
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Feb 24, 2017 03:55
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I guess this is the party that put Abbott in charge so it certainly shouldn't surprise me.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:04
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Fkn do it. PM Dutton, the final destruction of the oblate spheroid.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:05
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Its says a lot about your party if a mad monk and a potatohead are your top leadership contenders.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:07
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Morrison would have been the Tories' first choice had he not supported Turnbull over Abbott (and done a poo poo job as treasurer)
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Morrison would have been the Tories' first choice had he not supported Turnbull over Abbott (and done a poo poo job as treasurer) He's a "moderate", always suspect, despite trying his best to be a hardarse. Its the mute smirking indifference that marks Dutton as a winner over Morrison. One thing's for sure, it's destroying the presidential PM convention more surely than anything else I'd hoped. Which only makes elections harder for the parties.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:10
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What happens if he sprouts in office?
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Feb 24, 2017 04:17
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The back bench are more concerned about him turning green if anything. They'll need to keep him out of the sun.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:42
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Morrison would have been the Tories' first choice had he not supported Turnbull over Abbott (and done a poo poo job as treasurer) He was because he was the pre-Dutton abuser of refugees, essentially whoever has that portfolio is their choice for PM. I'm sure there are Labor voters still pining for Chris Bowen by saying "look how good he is as shadow treasurer" whilewilfully ignoring how he was another refugee abuser. Long live the Malaysia Solution.
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Feb 24, 2017 04:42
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Anidav posted:https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/02/24/abbott-turnbull-its-on-but-theres-a-third-player/
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Feb 24, 2017 05:41
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Literally never before has this comic been more appropriate:  (ignore the panel about the wife, it doesn't apply here) Anidav posted:https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/02/24/abbott-turnbull-its-on-but-theres-a-third-player/  
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Feb 24, 2017 05:56
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That photo looks like he's in the middle of making the sound a giant potato crushing all in its path would make. Duzzh. Duzzh. Duzzzh.
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Feb 24, 2017 06:47
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I was rewatching the Sky News coverage of the Liberal Leadership Spill on youtube a while back and whenever Dutton was mentioned as a leader people would crack up laughing.
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Feb 24, 2017 07:08
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At one point Peter van Onselen jokes makes a joke that Peta Credlin is texting Paul Murray and Paul Murray gets lovely with him because Peta Credlin actually was texting him.
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Feb 24, 2017 07:10
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I hope Dutton becomes PM and then loses the ensuing election by a landslide so we can use the #putoutyourpeelers tag
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Feb 24, 2017 07:27
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That's the only upside I can see from a Dutton-led government actually
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Feb 24, 2017 07:28
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The Deadly Hume posted:That's the only upside I can see from a Dutton-led government actually At least he wouldn't be Minister for BORDER FORCE any more
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Feb 24, 2017 07:35
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I know of another laughed at politition who was predicted to lead his party to a crushing defeat 
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Feb 24, 2017 07:38
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I'm pretty sure PM Dutton would just be a somehow even worse Abbott.
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Feb 24, 2017 07:42
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Zenithe posted:I'm pretty sure PM Dutton would just be a somehow even worse Abbott.
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Politics is full of catastrophic debacles and tragedies that nonetheless finish up in weed-covered, neglected dead ends. The Soviet Union comes to mind. All that work. All that butchery. All those millions killed. And then pffft! It was gone. Similarly, Tony Abbott. Okay, not the millions dead, but what an utter destructive force, an utter waste of space this man has been on the Australian political landscape. Can you remember anything positive that he has contributed to our polity that has not involved tearing something down? Even as a minister there is not much to recommend him. He oversaw the introduction of a so-called private sector run employment market that was supposed to ensure that all the government subsidies went to those most in need of assistance. It has never, ever worked like that. Still doesn't. Health Minister? Well, no-one remembers anything particularly positive there either. Having torn down his leader in Opposition, he unleashed a feral – and deadly – negativism on Australian politics from which we have never really recovered. So firmly set on a path of destruction, he set about making everything in his prime ministership a negative and ended up destroying himself. You might think that at some point there might have been a moment of midnight reflection. But no. Tony Abbott has continued on his destructive path, not just trying to destroy the man who replaced him but being happily prepared to burn the government of which he is allegedly a part, and some of his closest colleagues at the same time. All in the truly deluded name of policies that he didn't have the political ability to implement when he was prime minister but which he still thinks might win votes. Abbott's latest intervention has only had the effect of finally bringing out those who have been most admirably loyal to him - like Mathias Cormann - to call him on his disingenuous, hypocritical and dishonest policy critiques of the current government. The other own goal of this latest speech is that it has finally freed the prime minister to give an honest appraisal of what his predecessor didn't achieve, and point out that he has, in fact, achieved things that eluded Abbott. "We are acting and we are getting things done which we couldn't, wouldn't or didn't get done in the last Parliament," Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday. "I haven't talked about reintroducing the rule of law to the building sector, I've done it. "I've had the courage, not to give speeches, but to act." The shame of it is that, as is always the case, Abbott leaves a stinking pile of loopy policy ideas steaming on the footpath – ranging from cutting immigration to the renewable energy target – that others will have to go to some considerable trouble to avoid, or, worse, being the sort of populist nonsense they are, be adopted by those profferring simplistic solutions. This was all done under the deluded contention that the political debate in Australia has been hijacked by the Left. Backed by the tailwind of a gushing and fawning conservative media, Abbott had every opportunity to set a new highwater mark for the right in Australia. But as his own conservative colleagues publicly abandon him, it is a sign of Abbott's utter failure that he has even made this unfashionable.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:He wouldn't even have Abbott's eccentricities, like eating onions or stealing waves.
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Feb 24, 2017 08:52
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Lid posted:This was all done under the deluded contention that the political debate in Australia has been hijacked by the Left. Just taking this on its own merits outside of any context: A significant part of the base believes this. He would not be encouraged in this view without a bubble big enough to reinforce it. Media has of course shifted drastically right under the pretense (to themselves) that they represent the middle. But people like Dutton are of the absolute same worldview and bubble.
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Feb 24, 2017 09:37
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Lid posted:Hahahahahahahahaha This but louder and drunker.
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Feb 24, 2017 09:48
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It makes me angry that the TV is going to pretend the mad monk was a great dude when Tony Abbott dies in like 40 years time. poo poo. When Howard goes, you know they're going to trot out footage of some old bint with a purple loving hat who'll use the phrase "that nice Mister Howard" in her five second grab.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:33
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FuckenPunchOn posted:It makes me angry that the TV is going to pretend the mad monk was a great dude when Tony Abbott dies in like 40 years time. They're going to do something really annoying like say 'love him or hate him, you couldn't ignore him' just like they will when Pauline Hanson's brain stem finally leaps out and strangles her.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:39
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quote:Face it, penalty rates are a hangover from a bygone era Lol
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Feb 24, 2017 11:42
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Lid posted:Lol
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FuckenPunchOn posted:It makes me angry that the TV is going to pretend the mad monk was a great dude when Tony Abbott dies in like 40 years time. In 40 years time there will be no TV and only a bunch of mad monk memes on YouTube. In a thousand years time after the great burning the History Man will recount how Australia was a theocracy gripped by the wars of the Mad Monk and the Banker Man.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:51
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I've been trapped in a meeting all day. Did we find a new way to gently caress low paid workers over today? Cartoon posted:When you are driving a clown car does it actually matter who is at the wheel?
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Graic Gabtar posted:I've been trapped in a meeting all day. *enters LNP party room and puts on thinking cap* What if... we had unpaid internships for baristas and hospitality workers? *chuckles into brandy, lights cigar*
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Feb 24, 2017 12:58
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So what the gently caress's happening with the NBN? There was going to be a FttN cabinet-thing installed near me some time mid this year. But according to the NBN website I'm now not getting connected until the end of 2020? Has it got something to do with this?
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Feb 24, 2017 13:09
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Reluctant PM...
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Feb 24, 2017 13:31
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JBP posted:Dutton's gonna win.
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Feb 24, 2017 13:32
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Wait he still has the support of.... Eric Abetz?
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Feb 24, 2017 13:34
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What's the Lib spill procedure? Would love to see Abbott make a move only to get single figure support.
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This is crass as gently caress coming from NTATA. Even when Abbott was being spilled Turnbull had the decency to deny he was spilling him until it was over. Libs are feeling vulnerable and sensitive (and dare I say shook) after Corey's ratfuck I'm not surprised at all this backfired so badly.
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