IF you’re like me, you’re sick to death of the Barnaby Joyce story already and it has only been out there for little more than a day.
And oh, how the Op-Eds rolled out, like a torrent spewed out by the terabyte.
What we might kindly call the new media babbled on about conspiracies between the press gallery and the parliament. Democracy denied was the collective shriek, as if the readers of these inner-city websites were exclusively the denizens of New England.
Joyce won New England with a 7 per cent swing and if an election was held in his seat tomorrow my best guess is he would win by a similar margin.
Even during the campaign Twitter knew. I knew and I didn’t care. Indeed, during the New England by-election campaign, mainstream media reported Joyce was no longer living at the family home. Any journalist worth his or her salt could have chased the story down.
Full column here.
Gong Xi Fa Cai to you all
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Penny. Year of the Dog or summat or was the canine last year’s year?
Dog it is JTI….rabbit last year I think
Sounds like Klingon swearing. But right back atcha . . .
Clive Palmer may have done a pre-emptive strike on Barnaby Joyce, Mr Insider with this cheeky quick “Goodbye” clip. No saying goodbye to Clive though a product of our much loved late QLD Premier Sir Joh Bjelke Peterson., one tough banana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFiZm82LVo
Turnbull has asked both Shorten and the legal beagle (?) to point out where Joyce has behaved in a way that did not meet the pm’s or govt’s whatever, whatever. If Joyce is found to have broken the rules re financial benefits then he deserves whatever punishment that crime deserves.
On the personal side of his life he will no doubt endure more pain, fiscal and otherwise, than what the media and politics can throw at him. But I doubt that will match what his children will face.
Regardless, how would our media and we opinionista’s respond to Ms Campion having a miscarriage, or committing suicide due to the stress etc? Or how would we have gone if Barnaby had paid for an abortion? I could go on, but will only ask if the media, and we bloggers, me to would accept complicity in those horrible scenarios?
On another variation, would the approach to Joyce, in QT and elsewhere, be considered as workplace bullying??
hey, I know our supporters in the workplace are the Unions and their public faeces are personified in Shorten, who know what real bullying is all about. But surely for softies like Jean and his little protégé even words and laughter can be considered bullying. Their silence on this bullying concerns me.
http://aa.org.au/
Milton how did you become so ridiculous? Do you dare offer opinions in general society? You have some serious brain damage. Oxygen thief suffering from hypoxia is the likely cause of your brain damage. No Surprises.
Hope you are not so deluded as to think the vitriol and personal insults you write would be considered as opinion.
That’s got 3:38am written all over it.
Joyce has a reprieve-but only until the next Newspoll
carl, milton and other cons Get it through your thick heads. Barnaby has been caught out rorting. Getting jobs for his bit on the side so he could hold onto her. The dates he has provided do NOT add up. He has been caught out rorting living away from home allowances, he has many other questions to answer on his purchase of lands and legislative changes that make those lands much more valuable now, He should also face investigation over the blatant pork barrelling of every area he has operated in. He should be investigated over the Murray Darling debacle. The longer your mate Barnaby stays the more Australians see the worst excesses and rorting of all politicians but especially conservatives. As usual your resort to the knee jerk position of supporting him because he is a con and no matter how many facts are presented you refuse to acknowledge them. The longer he stays the more damage he does. No Surprises.
To be fair Dismayed he is an outstanding example of a Libnat big biz servant.
As long as there isn’t an ABC or blue movie rendition of this whole sordid affair, I’ll be happy.
Mutant Tomato Man’s hypocrisy and possible rorts should see him relegated to the backbench for the foreseeable future. Maybe do a switcheroo with Darren Chester, whom he also seems to have shafted in a different fashion.
Geez Rhys, you’re an educated man and provide this:
“hypocrisy and possible rorts should see him relegated to the backbench for the foreseeable future”.
Possible rorts?? With that line of ‘argument’ you’ll have Pauline Hanson on the blower (phone!!) and you can say goodbye to Maccas!!!
The “hypocrisy” is enough. The rest will be seen.
Sign the online petition requesting Barnaby to remain at his post whatever happens. He is absolutely positively the best Deputy PM this country has ever had.
Beep for Barnaby.
Stuff Barnaby
In the carnal or turkey sense?
Save Our Barnaby!”
Yes, a few posters on here may have beetroot on their fizzogs in the comming week or so.
Why?
Tasmania blacked out. Obviously due to the Liberal state government hey Yvonne?
No it isn’t. I ‘ve had power all day. Regional power failures due to big front coming through – but not the entire state.
Besides, the whole place is only the size of an average Melbourne suburb.
Thank God for that Triv. It’s a really nice place to live! Unfortunately too many are discovering that and moving here. You can have ’em.
Blacked out. reports all over the media. The Liberal government cannot keep the lights on time for liberals and their supporters to move along.
Perhaps i should have mentioned that localised power failures are usually caused by fallen trees onto power lines. We have plenty of hydro electricity
Despite the efforts of loggers we still have a lot of trees here – big ones. And they sometimes fall over in 50knot winds – which we had today.
Sounds like a good spot for a wind farm? 😛
well, well, well gas wells that is. What role has Barnaby had in legislation regarding water triggers and payment to land holders for gas wells? Strange he would buy up large areas of land and then make legislative changes an various issues? Why would abbott be against a National ICAC. Worst most corrupt government in Nations history.