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Kafka Syrup posted:I like the logo that's a rip-off of Medicare. I noticed this too and I wonder if it's to trigger lefties
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I think QLD Labor is the biggest nail in the change from within coffin. The whole party got wiped out by Newman and saw a surge of new memberships because young lefties felt like renewal was on the cards only for them to get elected again and be one of the biggest threats to the Great Barrier Reef in modern times.
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Join Salt
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NTRabbit posted:Tony will never be pro-China I will
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Jun 27, 2017 12:54
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Abby says it's saying Welcome to the home of the Chinese People
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Jun 28, 2017 01:57
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It is a half step away from recommending bitcoin
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While the opinion polls continue to deliver bad news for the Turnbull government, it clings to the prime minister’s personal edge over Bill Shorten as proof that all is not lost. It’s true that despite a sharp decline in his own personal approval since late 2015, the Essential Report shows that Malcolm Turnbull maintains a 39-26 lead as preferred prime minister. The Coalition has form in snatching elections by personalising the political contest and defining Labor through their opponents: think Kim Beazley’s “lack of ticker”, Mark Latham’s “L-plates” and “Ju-liar” as textbook examples of the dark art of political character assassination. The Coalition has been probing to define Shorten for some time. First it was the clunky attempt to christen him “power Bill” – as the freshly minted Tony Abbott fought to keep his climate wars going from office. That attack went the way of its lead attacker. Then there was the attempt to create “crooked Bill”, turning the taxpayer-funded guns of the Heydon royal commission onto Shorten with a terms of reference skilfully calibrated to target his time as a moderate union official. Under evidence Shorten was forced to justify his model of centrist unionism, the right-wing lynch-mob wringing their hands about his betrayal at the same time as they were condemning the CFMEU for being too militant. When Shorten was cleared by the commission and endorsed by former business leaders as a great example of a pragmatic union leader delivering for his members, that line of attack was also ditched. At the start of this year, a new thrust began, call it “boot-licking Bill”, a weird twist on the politics of envy by attacking him for the powerful business contacts he had made during his union career. Central to this attack is the contention that Shorten plays both sides of the street – that he talks about being the champion of the worker but he would rather be hobnobbing with the rich. That this attack was led so vociferously by a multi-millionaire who had to personally fund his last election campaign to hold onto power, did tend to position the argument as “that’s not the sort of chap we want in our club”. Whatever, it seemed to fall away as soon as it had been launched. Now the Coalition seems to have settled on the more generic “do anything Bill”, building a story that Shorten doesn’t believe in anything and will do anything and say anything to get elected (presumably unlike other politicians). What’s clear is that notwithstanding the preferred PM numbers, the Coalition has struggled to make any individual attack stick. Despite its best efforts, the Coalition has yet to identify Bill’s achilles heel. That’s because strong negative attacks need to be rooted in greater truths. Each of the successful Coalition character attacks in recent times has resonated because they were based on a fundamental – rather than a confected – flaw: Beazley’s indecision, Latham’s inexperience and recklessness, Gillard’s malleability. So does our latest Essential Report offer the Coalition any clues? On the regular leadership attribute questions we ask there is not a lot of clearly fertile ground. On key negatives, Malcolm Turnbull is seen as more out of touch, more arrogant and more intolerant. Yes, the PM is seen as more intelligent, and incumbency has delivered him marginally higher ratings on capability and vision, but there is no emerging character flaw here to build a movement around. Digging further into personal qualities, with a series of alternate leader attributes we developed first for the federal election and repeat this week, we get a richer picture of how the two contenders characters are perceived. Turnbull’s real-life appeal is transactional, a successful person who we would ask for advice, or dine or travel with – after all he knows where the good spots are. Bill’s appeal is more relational – going for a beer, helping you if your car broke down or if you needed a spare pair of hands with the renovations. Despite the wealth disparity, he’s also more likely to lend you $100 if you need it. You’d even trust him with your pet. Yes, it’s a little trite, but there is a deeper truth here that goes to the Coalition’s struggles to define their opponent. Despite his sometimes awkward presentation, the opposition leader has managed to build a perception of someone who does more than just talk, someone who is prepared to pitch in and get his hands dirty when it’s needed. Or maybe it’s just that when forced to contrast him with a prime minister who promised so much but has delivered so little, a more grounded leader doesn’t seem so bad at all.
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Sounds like they need students for their lovely job searching courses to get that sweet government cash
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I can see true socialists quitting the greens over this and affecting Kevin Rudd's leadership ambitions.
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That's a declaration of war if I ever saw one
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Also lol that proposal to lock down senators to national decisions is ALP as gently caress
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The Greens had a good shot at being a left wing alternative but this war for the centre is really loving things up. Hard Liberals call the Turnbull government Labor Lite, Labor leftists call the ALP government Liberal lite and Socialist Greens are thinking RDN Greens are Labor lite on the other end of the spectrum. Australia is simply politically boring and you'd think this current climate would make way for a true left wing alternative but you are still getting these war for the middle types like the NXT and probably a few more by the time the next election rolls around. We are entirely vanilla here and something has to be shaken up or else political apathy will consume the whole system and you'll end up with donkey voters or people who just vote for the flavor of the election party which once again is most likely a war for the centre party. The NSW Greens should actually split into an actual Socialist Party, if successful it benefits the Australian political system as a whole.
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Aesculus posted:Anidav taking full advantage of the situation: Waiting for Qldleft.com
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Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is calling on Malcolm Turnbull to resign as prime minister for the good of the Liberal Party. Mr Newman, who is now a political commentator for Sky News and sits on the boards of various companies, said the base of the party has turned against Mr Turnbull and he needs to put the party first. "He is dividing the Liberal Party, there's a lot of attention on (Tony) Abbott giving these speeches, but the person who is really dividing the Liberal Party is actually Malcolm Turnbull," Mr Newman told ABC Radio. "The base of the Liberal Party are desperately unhappy and that's reflected in the polling." Recent polling has the federal coalition on 36 per cent of the primary vote, and Mr Newman says there is no way for Mr Turnbull to turn that around. While he shied away from naming a potential successor, Mr Newman had harsh words for federal frontbencher Christopher Pyne, whom he labelled a "toffee-nosed schoolboy". "He's a schemer, he's not focused on doing the right thing, he thinks he's better than he is ... frankly he a walking talking caricature of a Tory toff." The former premier also suggested former PM Tony Abbott should resign, but said his ongoing criticisms of the party were "technically right". Mr Newman, who was himself ousted from power in one of the largest electoral defeats in Queensland's history, said he considered standing aside when he saw his government struggling in the polls, but the idea was vetoed by LNP Queensland President Bruce McIver.
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JBP posted:Surely the Vatican can fake his death and lock him up in there with a bunch of concubines for company or whatever it is they do with trouble makers. Actually it's kind of like Hellsing Unlimited
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This is the worst thing I have ever read. Like gently caress me capitalism, If John Full Time can only afford to do groceries on a weekend and you surge price up your poo poo because of it simply being a weekend then John Full Time is just going to go to the fruit shop instead or a farmers market.
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Nyah ha ha, we will surge price the avocados so that millennials can't afford those either! Soon we will live in a utopia where the rich can eat whatever they want and the poor will become a separate species of undereducated vermin who can only afford a diet of John West tuna cans and LA Ice Cola! Nyah ha ha ha haaaa! Anidav fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Les Affaires posted:Why is John Full Time (a rarity lol) going to the fruit shop or the farmers market a bad thing for John Full Time? Well I mean, its a choice that won't benefit the supermarkets but instead cause John Part Time to go to an old fashioned store with printed pricing because lets face it, not every fruit shop can afford or bother with E-Ink screens on every item. QR codes maybe but not a loving Amazon Kindle on every stick of bread
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Why is it everytime I use a joe average nickname that it becomes a micromeme
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Jun 29, 2017 06:50
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So Andrew Shitposter goes down to the store to by a bike helmet and some milk. He walks up to Jane Cash Register Slave and asks why everything is so expensive She talks about communism for a second and Andrew gives up and shops at Amazon instead Jane is now unemployed and has to go the Jacob Job Service Provider and work on a Strawberry farm for free for Randy Farmer instead. What do you do?
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In a bid to boost cycling numbers in Brisbane the city's public transport boss Adrian Schrinner has challenged Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey to make helmets optional. On Thursday morning Cr Schrinner posted on Twitter that he was delighted with the use of Brisbane's CityCycle bike share scheme, with more than 1.9 million trips since its introduction in 2010. A reply from Melbourne PR agency MediaWise said if helmet laws were relaxed trips would soar. "It's not rocket science, just how the rest of the world succeeds in bikeshares," the tweet said.
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Surely the court will have the balls to charge him and lock him up without bail? I mean this is a pretty big network of sexual abuse and the 3rd highest catholic in the Vatican is the equivalent of catching a godfather.
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So the Left Renewal facebook page has gone bonkers and has started claiming that RDN is giving false information to the media.
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JBP posted:What is going on with that spooky monster in the photo (not Rudd). It's Bob Brown
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