|
lines don't fit the meter!!!! gently caress!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2019 01:54
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 29, 2024 05:50 |
|
|
JBP posted:Scomo has the blind positivity that electors crave. I think this is it. Australian voters want someone to reassure them that things are going to get better. As that Quiet Australians article explained, they don’t care if things don’t actually get better and they distrust anyone with actual plans to make things better.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 2, 2019 05:16
|
|
|
Anidav posted:What is it with Lib candidates and re emerging as some lobbyest gently caress? I have some bad news about the Australian Labor Party, Anidav
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2019 01:09
|
|
|
JBP posted:China dumps all its dumb students into vocational training before PISA does it's thing and also lies and obfuscates on matters of national pride. We should stop mandating people go to uni for stupid reasons and put them into other things. The world needs ditch diggers too. "We" don't mandate people go to uni, the market does, and the market knows all things.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2019 00:17
|
|
|
CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:What the gently caress. laws don't apply to the pigs
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2019 00:45
|
|
|
Anidav posted:How can the senate continue. there's no secret deal, dude. she's loving lying
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2019 05:26
|
|
|
if you've been following australian politics for more than a month and believe lambie is telling the truth that well, she doesn't want to but she has to vote to repeal medevac because of a secret deal, i'm sorry but you're dumb as loving dogshit
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2019 05:29
|
|
|
wow I can’t believe there wasn’t any deal! how could savvy jacqui let this happen
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2019 22:58
|
|
|
Jacqui Lambie is the stupidest person in parliament
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2019 23:26
|
|
|
Les Affaires posted:I’m sure the media will do its job by mocking lambie enough to make sure she never trusts the government again. This is based on the assumption that Lambie didn’t want to see this legislation passed which I cannot find any evidence to support.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 5, 2019 02:28
|
|
|
Apparently in the absence of a Corbyn the thread has undertaken to fabricate one
|
|
#
¿
Dec 5, 2019 03:55
|
|
|
This APS restructure is going to be a mess, no ministerial reshuffle so you’ll have multiple cabinet ministers fighting over the same department and public servants having to service multiple senior ministers’ offices
|
|
#
¿
Dec 5, 2019 04:51
|
|
|
the deal Lambie did was worse than expected, in that it does not exist
|
|
#
¿
Dec 5, 2019 10:24
|
|
|
Amethyst posted:Do the department mergers need parliament approval or can the government just do whatever they want? They can do whatever they want, all they need is the GG’s signature. Certain government bodies are defined in legislation (for example, CSIRO) and would therefore require parliamentary approval to significantly change or abolish, but departments are not.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2019 00:43
|
|
|
Amethyst posted:In 30 years will Scott Morrison be widely reviled as the man who hosed australia or is the country too stupid even for that? I expect he’ll be seen as a tragic figure whose government was victim to external factors it had no power to affect (oh the global economy! oh the bushfires which we can do nothing about!)
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2019 05:59
|
|
|
Mattjpwns posted:What makes you think this? (genuine question!) people in this thread have insanely bad political instincts SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:Shortly after the federal election, I had a conversation with a figure at the very centre of the Government. yeah, morrison's conceives of the public service as a machine where ministers' advisers (19 year old young liberals) feed ideas into it and media releases come out. there's no actual policy development in the public service any more.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 7, 2019 06:42
|
|
|
so what actually defines a left faction member these days
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2019 12:06
|
|
|
lol under 35s cast more votes for the Greens than the Libs
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2019 23:16
|
|
|
Anidav posted:Study found big business has too much power the electorate is simply too stupid for any progress to be achieved
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2019 23:17
|
|
|
Anidav posted:I mean Why haven’t countries with lower standards already undercut Australia’s offerings? In the global race for the bottom, how is it that Australian mining is still viable and profitable compared to exploiting developing countries?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2019 00:24
|
|
|
a simple solution to Australian politics: abolish home ownership
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2019 00:42
|
|
|
BrigadierSensible posted:ScoMo's recent increase in popularity is, in my uninformed opinion, largely due to his inaction on the big recent fires. You’re correct. Morrison has identified that the way to appeal to the Australian public is to be seen to do nothing. The economy is stalling; do nothing. The country is burning; do nothing. Refugees in our care are killing themselves; do nothing. By all means work through parliament to crush the unions and legislate religious bigotry, but when you’re talking to the public, tell them it’s ok, there’s nothing going on, how good is Australia.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2019 04:36
|
|
|
Trapezium Dave posted:Is all this talk on Scott Morrison's popularity based his Newspoll approval figures and how his second worst since the election are a step up from his worst ones? It’s based on him winning the “unwinnable” 2019 election hth
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2019 04:39
|
|
|
I mean keep in mind the reason Finland has a new PM is because the previous PM (also part of the SDP) was forced out of office by a general strike sparked by the govt trying to gently caress over postal workers On the other hand that kind of industrial action is explicitly illegal in Australia and was made so by the “””Labor””” party so lmao!
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2019 07:27
|
|
|
How good is it that our nominally centre-left party isn’t even as good on the environment as the UK Tories Can’t even be better than the pedophile party
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2019 07:55
|
|
|
I marched against John Howard but he showed leadership in a way Scott Morrison is refusing to Van Badham
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2019 03:26
|
|
|
bandaid.friend posted:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/11/drug-deaths-inquest-gladys-berejiklian-says-she-is-closing-the-door-on-pill-testing my hate is purer than ever
|
|
#
¿
Dec 11, 2019 07:54
|
|
|
Gridlocked posted:He's a good guy on a personal level ?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 11, 2019 09:15
|
|
|
Konomex posted:Is the PM suicidal? Is he sending a secret message that he wants a mob to rise up and burn Parliament house? I think the smoke is affecting his brain. Australians like this kind of empty platitude poo poo
|
|
#
¿
Dec 12, 2019 08:50
|
|
|
The problem is that the electorate is so stupid that they think right wing parties are better at “the economy” (whatever that is meant to mean), which means that during hard times they will keep voting in the Tories/Liberals because well, they’re the only party that can get things on track. You might think that a century of evidence that the right wing is only in it for enriching themselves might make a difference, but the majority of the electorate is functionally braindead and has no understanding of object permanence.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 00:27
|
|
|
My political analysis is that every election is the same as every other election. I am extremely smart.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 01:31
|
|
|
Post Barnaby voters realising they’re going to die under Barnaby https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/12/bushfires-and-drought-leave-nsw-town-of-tenterfield-without-clean-water-for-72-days
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 01:35
|
|
|
hambeet posted:i think the left just need to lie to get elected. Electoralism will never save you
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 03:29
|
|
|
bell jar posted:looking forward to turning away boatloads of poms at the border or putting them on hell island as a part of ironic colonialist justice lol we’re going to sign a free movement deal with them my dude
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 03:39
|
|
|
Solemn Sloth posted:Shorten should have just made up some bullshit that climate change is real but solvable and we’re going to make a fuckton of money by being world leaders in it No, it wouldn’t have, because voters wouldn’t have believed him. They didn’t believe that electric cars exist, and you’re suggesting they would have believed some horseshit about a just transition? Come on, dude
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 07:32
|
|
|
bell jar posted:they should have campaigned on tax cuts across the board, and then just done all the climate poo poo once they got in i'm not sure tackling emissions by having a single 3-year Labor term every 20 years is sustainable
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 07:38
|
|
|
Gridlocked posted:You know I'm really uncomfortable with the idea of people getting all big on the death of the Queen. She's just this distant, ephemeral old lady who acts as a living embodiment of all the good ideals people put around western civilisation. Polite, graceful, magnanimous, unreal but at the same time having traits that appear to remind people despite all the pomp and circumstance she's still a human. source your quotes
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 12:06
|
|
|
Yeah the fact of the matter is that Labour was completely wedged and would have suffered a similar fate even under a third way wunderkind like Blair. There was no way to maintain the red wall without compromising the other half of the Labour base. This is part of why dogshit analysis like “Labour is Labor and Corbyn is Shorten” is so stupid - not only is it inaccurate but it ignores critical localised issues. There is no Brexit in the US and Australia.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 13:40
|
|
|
I mean not really? For the past 9 years they’ve been pretty solidly pro-torture. Not that it does them any good because nobody believes them!
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2019 13:44
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 29, 2024 05:50 |
|
|
BTW the public service is hosed, if you're dumb enough to work there like me get out ASAP https://theconversation.com/view-from-the-hill-morrison-wont-have-a-bar-of-public-service-intrusions-on-governments-power-128880
|
|
#
¿
Dec 14, 2019 08:57
|
|