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.
REGIONAL PORKBARRELING Millions in Federal funds intended for “economically struggling regions” have been diverted to some of the country’s richest Coalition seats.
A Fairfax analysis of the $620 million National Stronger Regions Fund found that the electorates allocated the most money included blue ribbon Liberal seats of Kooyong, held by Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, and Warringah, held by Tony Abbott. 91% spent in coalition held seats.
“It has taken just 29 months for Turnbull’s corruption count to reach 100. That is a rate of 3.5 rorts revealed per month, or almost one a week. By corruption, we mean actions which have benefited – financially or in other ways – Coalition members or their mates at the expense of the community.”
QLD burning Kero to keep the lights on again.”it also called on the Mt Stuart peaking plant that burns kerosene, or jet-fuel. In Queensland this week – the state with the biggest coal fleet that was forced to turn to plants powered by jet fuel, and imports from NSW to ensure the lights stayed on in the middle of their heatwave. No Surprises.
HAHAHAHA Not only did SA Lib. leader S.Marshall say if you want SA to grow vote Labor, there is now video of him saying the best thing for SA is a hard working Labor government. Apart form having NO polices how could you vote for a fool like this? Oh that right he epitomises the best the cons have to offer. an oxymoron a clever con. HAHAHA. No surprises.
this one is for Barnaby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhx6UwuwVM