As we sit and wait for news of the fate of the seven dual citizens as they traipse from their parliamentary offices with the woebegone air of condemned men and women to the High Court this afternoon, it is worth reflecting on the sort of week the government has already had.
There is a prescient sense of deja vu about it. The Turnbull government often has good Tuesday afternoons but come the weekend, the control of the agenda has been lost, a scandal has emerged, or infighting on the backbenches has turned into a donnybrook. The familiar theme is, in any one week of the Turnbull government, one step forward and three back.
Indeed it has happened so often the thought occurs that possibly Malcolm Turnbull isn’t very good at being prime minister.
Full column here.
Could the last wog leaving parliament please turn off the lights.
good call wraith, but it should be half wog….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHvWh6uP9yA
Wot’s wong wif wog?
I did not know I was a wog?
Leave your money on the fridge (new Australian).
So, Mr Insider, this weak reed of a PM Turnbull doesn’t want a Citizenship Audit because it may strip away his hopeless Governments hold on power, given other ” foreigners” will surely be found. The fact that about 7 or 8 so far have had to resign he doesn’t consider that to be a concern as long as he stays PM. I think we know what to do my fellow Australians when a Federal Election arrives and that is to say goodbye to this failed government and its rancid leader. 22 consecutive negative Newspolls cant be wrong Malcolm!
Tee hee – that fountain of wisdom, Dismayed, has declared that he has decided I am a misandrist!
That’s really funny.
But at least I can be certain of not finding him in the Business Class lounge – let alone a Business Class seat.
Because, true as bob, if I had to sit next to the likes of Dismayed on a long haul flight I would definitely emerge at the other end as a misandrist!!
Get a hobby Dismayed
Yvonne, almost right for the first time but I would hardly consider myself the fountain of all wisdom. I continue to learn every day. Anyone who prefers a chair over another human must be some sort of hater. Do you really think you are the only person to fly Business class? Get a grip, you have told us about it at every opportunity it must have been a one off. Having worked mostly internationally since the mid 1990’s most of my flights have been business class and I have been using the various lounges for decades. You would not even know if you had sat next to the “likes” of me. Just like CWA Annie (whatever happened to her? ) would not have known she was serving us when she was working as a stewardess Oh my hobby is cons open their eyes it’s what keeps me Dismayed.
Annie – that was her blog name – not your childish CWAnnie – was hounded off this blog. She was insulted on a regular basis when she gave her opinion. Remember?
My blog name is Boadicea. Use it, or just don’t comment on my posts.
My misandry applies uniquely to you – big time.
Annie wasn’t hounded off this blog Boa, she appears regularly on the other side under another name. She gave as good as she got, some of her tales were outrageous and if she really did do as much as she claimed to have done she would have to be about 150 years old.
People don’t get hounded off this blog they just leave when they’ve had enough.
In the early days of this blog, I had several people gunning for me, (trust me things are mild compared to what it used to be like) but I never took it too seriously. If I did it would be time to take myself off to greener pastures.
What does misandry mean?
This is a hobby isn’t it?
JB, give em heaps is.
I thought hobbies were pleasant pastimes JB!
If Kevin Andrews was PM…………
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/kevin-andrews-if-i-was-prime-minister/news-story/ceb0c0a70e65362dec2e64390adeff86
On what planet?
The guys the most deluded current MP, and that’s a big call when you consider the likes of Eric Abetz and Peter Dutton.
Nearly choked on the weeties on that one TO. Hilarious.
I suspect that camp may make a move on Malcolm one of these days. TO.
And that will spell the end of the Liberal party and the Coalition government probably.
I just love the way Turnbull keeps saying we must listen and adopt the recommendations of his ‘expert’ energy panel which came up with his new hair brained scheme. Hmm….the Looters took no notice of the Expert Refugee Panel led by Paris Aristotle, Angus Houston and Michael L’Estrange in 2013 and look where we are now with the rapes murders deaths and self-harm on Manus and Nauru. Then there are the mental scars that will never heal. The Looters have owned this for 4yrs. Dutton can blame Labor no longer especially when Rudd’s agreement with PNG was for only 12 months.
This corrupt government continues to mislead the nation using price assumptions 30% to 40% above actual cost for renewables. Absolute disgrace. They should all be sacked. This is ongoing corruption by the Federal government agencies doing this.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/esb-to-use-inflated-costs-for-wind-and-solar-to-justify-neg-56434/
someone’s gunna do him one day..
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/unilever-a-multinational-tax-dodger-classic/
Australia, it’s like taking lollies from babies.
Give ’em heaps.
Fox (Sky) tried to but he chewed up the young bloke and spat him out and made him look silly. I think the footage is on Westy’s page. Thank goodness Australia has journalist like Michael West.
On the citizenship fiasco.
If the electoral commission did an audit of all candidates and found a candidate that was invalid and that candidate’s references resulted in a being elected – where does it go from there.
Try preferences resulted in a person being elected
I thought you’d gone completely nuts. Obviously the person elected on preferences should be charged with collusion and jailed.
Might be able to pick a few up, perhaps, for submitting false statutory declarations. Otherwise, I don’t think anyone wants to open up that can of worms.
I’ve only managed to see ads from the labor side thus far in the qld coming election and boy howdy are they of the “ACME Build yourself a Political Ad in 3 easy steps” range.
Perhaps this type of ad is from the if it ain’t broke don’t fix it school.
LNP have amassed twice the amount of donations than Labor largely from fossil fuel and Mining companies. No surprises.
eh? if the LNP have double the funds why aren’t they converting it into cultivating votes?
btw can you please provide your source for your leading comment?
Try this one. Not that hard to find.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/lnp-in-front-on-funding-as-parties-election-warchests-are-revealed-20171026-p4ywnx.html
Oh by the way the LNP’s policies are bordering on absurdity their “leader” former treasurer cut all sorts of funding to all sorts of community groups now claims he will re-fund. He is calling for a curfew and various types of centre’s which are already operating.He is almost as untrustworthy as the SA Lib. leader S. Marshall who continues to knock Labor energy policies and initiatives but will continue with the whole suite of measures and spend a couple of hundred $ million more subsidising Solar and batteries all while attacking it?
Timing Milton, timing. Keep your powder dry and hold your fire till you see the whites of their eyes. Be patient Grasshopper.
Razor says:November 1, 2017 at 4:24 pm. You have never disproved anything I have put forward. I have never been connected or affiliated with any political organisation. The reason I seem to be “on message” as your paranoia put it is because your coalition are hopeless and deliberately mislead the Nation and it is very easy to find REAL data and research to disprove their deceitful misinformation. You seem to have one source of information, your preferred media outlet. I read it then go and find other sources looking for facts rather than the misinformation bias and ideology that comes from your preferred media outlet.