bell jar posted:

I hadn't heard about this, and had a look into this here. It's not something you see Labor get attacked about, and something I doubt most people have even heard of.

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If the Govt hadn't actually held the RC into banking, Labor definitely could have carried that to an election, but if you remember, the only reason the Govt held one was because of overwhelming public support and George Christensen threatening to cross the floor. Turnbull knew he didn't have the numbers so he capitulated as usual.

Anidav posted:

Be honest here, how many of you think Scott Morrison will win the next election.

Anidav posted:

I didn't know all these LNP spin doctors posted here.

Even if the LNP turn around their vote in QLD they still lose due to bleeding votes in NSW and VIC.

Don Dongington posted:

Or the "well it's never a good idea to let one party control everything, so-" crowd come out.

snoremac posted:

Aesculus posted:

I too, am a single issue voter who cares solely about immigration policy and education, health, the economy, who even cares about that?

e: actually I think this unironically describes a majority of voters in Australia

Konomex posted:

Been speaking to some people about this, and the general consensus is they're going to need a lot more properly trained Early Childhood Teachers, because if people are going to send their 3 year olds off to preschool they better not be getting taught by a primary school teacher, or a school that is going to try and push formal schooling onto such young children.

Halo14 posted:

How small can the font be for gamble responsibly...hmm.

Anidav posted:

How the gently caress is Luke Foley still Opposition leader.

Konomex posted:

It would be lovely, but they were happy to have this published, and he is a finance manager. He should be better at managing his own finances. Who the hell has a 100k personal loan? Why are the repayments for their vehicles so drat high? Why have they not consolidated their debt?

To whine 'we just can't save money, it's impossible!' and also 'we choose a bigger house in a more expensive suburb because...' well thats it then, that and his bad loan choices. It's not impossible to live well on 200k, he's just voluntarily burning that money.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

So it's like a Sydney knockoff of the Melbourne cup?

im alan jones posted:

https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/1049073643580342272?s=20

the slanderyou caucus

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"I was never attracted to the far Left," she says. "The centre of politics is where the gravitas and responsibility lies." In her maiden speech, Kitching talked with a passion for small government, saying: "Our duty as elected representatives is to check and limit the inexorable growth of the state and of the taxes that sustain the state."

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"Kimberley is a very charming, warm, engaging, highly intelligent moral vacuum," a senior figure from the Labor Left says.

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Kitching's friend John Roskam, executive director of the free-market Institute of Public Affairs think tank, says she is part of a "dying breed" in the Labor Party. "She represents traditional Labor Right values in a party that is being dragged to the left. She doesn't hate capitalism, she doesn't hate employers, she would view the Greens as just as much an enemy of the Labor Party as the Liberals."

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Kitching opposes giving rank-and-file members a say on the grounds it could drive the party too far to the left and make it unelectable. She offers a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte: "Lofty principles butter no bread and grease no wheels."

I can find no evidence that Bonaparte ever said this

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A day after our lunch, I meet Kitching at her favourite brunch spot, Lolo & Wren, a hipster-friendly cafe in Melbourne's inner north. When I arrive she's there, clad in a stylish grey poncho, with four Saturday newspapers in front of her. I'd expected her to be alone but Landeryou is present as well. So are their dogs Ronnie and Nancy-Jane, a pair of fluffy white cavoodles named after Ronald Reagan, Landeryou's political hero, and the late US president's two wives.

Dude McAwesome posted:

Whenever you see someone use the term “inner city elites”, chances are they’re an rear end in a top hat.

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In 2001, Landeryou and Kitching bought Wardlow, a heritage-listed mansion in the well-to-do inner-city suburb of Parkville, paying $1.175 million for it. A real-estate listing from the time boasted of its "cigar room", "servants' wings" and "formal dining room". Fans of the ABC series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries will recognise it as the exterior of protagonist Phryne Fisher's house.



By now in their early 30s, the pair would host parties at home that guests still compare to the lavish soirées in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. "It was a who's who of up-and-coming Melbourne, people from business, unions, the arts," one attendee recalls. "They were living the high life." Kitching was also driving a $92,000 series 5 BMW.

Zenithe posted:

Even Thatcher had decent views on climate change. loving Thatcher.

Lid posted:

My bet is he backed Foley before realising I'm backing Luke Foley what the gently caress am I doing.

Anidav posted:

You would think the UN saying we have 12 years to live would cause worldwide riots.

Knorth posted:

The Aus at 59 geez...

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

What the gently caress is this about. I tried to read an article about it but half the nouns were meaningless to me.

Aurubin posted:

My point for Australia was one of scale. Go whole hog into renewables! Hopefully you get enough batteries/set up hydrogen electrolysis stations. Just astonished how well the dumbass tying of nuclear power to nuclear weapons worked.

Don Dongington posted:

The thing I look forward the most to in the 2018 election is the increasingly likely removal of Cory Bernardi and Senator Lionhat from public office.

snoremac posted:

It has its analogue in Americans believing Democrats hold pedo orgies under pizza parlours but that Brett Kavanaugh is an innocent man with a rapist doppleganger.

JBP posted:

I'm with Andrew on this one.

Les Affaires posted:

Turnbull and others in this mess of a government haven’t really been lauded for their political judgment.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

who would win in a fight between Gladys Berejiklian and Clover Moore?

Anidav posted:

So what do you guys think.

Is Prime Minister Sharks and his persona working for the LNP or is Newspoll rigging the preference flows super hard.

Anidav posted:

What are you talking about? It is clearly aiming to paint plucky little ScoMo as Comeback King Morrison. It's helping them.