A political schism once begun cannot be stopped. It develops a force of its own and moves in ways that cannot be controlled. The consequences can only be appreciated after the fires have been extinguished.
Scott Morrison will be sworn in as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia. The fight is not over. In many ways, it has only just begun. He won the spill 45 votes to Dutton’s 40. Julie Bishop was knocked out in the first round of voting. Morrison’s deputy is Josh Frydenberg.
Malcolm Turnbull’s delaying tactics allowed Morrison to assemble the numbers. He almost certainly did not have them yesterday.
n the comings days, expect the words “healing”, “repair”, “revival” and “restoration” to be vomited out of a thesaurus by senior Liberal figures. These words will be a nonsense, yet another damning exercise in the party’s obsession with introspection.
Full column here.
jack says: August 24, 2018 at 11:52 PM ” yes i knew the talking points would arrive on time. ” Can you refute any of the facts presented? Are you going to claim the Budget document is false the ABS data is falsified the OECD and other agencies data is all falsified because it does not suit you? I did not create the terrible outcomes of the measures and indicators. I just put up the facts to try and wake up a few of you from your coma’s. the coalition through their policies have created the terrible outcomes we see today. Not Labor Not the Greens, not left wing gay Marxist latte set muslin inner city baristas, not the Fascist left as claimed on Fox (sky) last night. The situation the country is in today is purely because of the incompetent cons who have been in government for almost 5 years. Your input here highlights the problem the coalition and its supporters create. “Don’t worry about the facts just try and blame someone else”. what a hillsong horizon you people see.
things are not getting better on the horizon in Australia. the hillsong delusional has largely been responsible for the undoing of the nation. Oh the so called “Christians” believe in love, justice, care, but not for those who want to choose their own partners. Remember hillsong morrison was against Australians have the choice of their own partners. He is and frydenberg have delivered record Spending record Debt, wages reductions and the imprisonment if children and people legally seeking asylum while calling them illegals. this country cannot afford this coalition hypocrisy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/sydney-airport-seizure-of-phone-and-laptop-alarming-say-privacy-groups
This is some of the rubble morrison created. Never before has Australian government attacked civil liberties like this one.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/sydney-airport-seizure-of-phone-and-laptop-alarming-say-privacy-groups
Not one Liberal can explain what, why it was all about. NEG? Frydenberg was running that and gets a promotion, Unfunded, unaffordable corporate tax cuts that evidence shows will reduce wages further and maybe raise GDP by 0.6% in 20 to 30 years time? hillsong morrison was running that and he gets the to job. All the freaks on FOX (sky) last night are still running their usual revisionist and plainly outlandish bullshit.Michael Croger claiming the “fascist Left” is ruining the country and is causing the problems? FN Delusional is putting it lightly.
Highest level of taxation since since the Howard era, doubling of Debt in less than 5 years, 808,000 migrants into the country in the last 12 months according to the ABS yet the coalition still attack minorities and new arrivals. Falling real wages, Spending still above 25.5% of GDP as it has been for 5 years Labor averaged 23.8% of GDP for its 6 years. Australia’s economic growth rate has dropped from 3rd in the world to 100th in the last 5 years. Ease of doing business ratings have plummeted it is now harder and more expensive to start and run and business than it was 5 years ago. Australians are again the most indebted individuals on the planet with savings dropping back to Howard ere record lows. The terrible trans pacific agreement about to allow foreign corporation to stop legislation being passed. hillsong morrison and frydenberg have been the architects of the terrible outcomes the nation faces and they have been rewarded. Wake up Australia. The Nation cannot afford this coalition calamity. No Surprises.
The Libnat pols are doing swimmingly Dismayed. They are nothing more than mediocre people who couldn’t cut the mustard in the real world so sell their arses to the establishment to rise to a prominence and rewards way beyond anything they could achieve off their own bat.
With a lot of help from the other trained seals who bamboozle the public they can achieve results like this,
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australia-s-one-per-cent-gets-richer-as-wealth-inequality-grows
Give ’em heaps.
I would have that by anyone’s measure Turnbull did ok in the ”real world”, Jean. Got a name for himself in the legal world, a gig for Packer and goes to the ATM to take out a sly $50, when Luce is not around, and finds out his balance is $200 million.
Who knows, a gig as a union rep may be a more profitable and ”real world” preparation to run the ? Personally i think some time in a seminary should be a prerequisite.
The difference is Turnbull made his money before entering politics, a modern pirate, and then became a politician. How many of the lifers do you think would have risen above mediocrity in the real world, even those born with al the advantages?
You were saying that they were mediocrities who couldn’t cut it in the real world. Turnbull did. But I agree that the lifers who go from uni to the sheltered workshop that is the unions and straight into the party would be mediocrities in the real world. Sadly most of them are mediocrities in politics as well.
I would like to hear your “drone” Eric Abetz explain it all Boadicea. Of course, the prerequisite to that would be quite a number of Jim Beams or the like beforehand.
The old “Gong Show” had a lot going for it imho. Cheers
How’s about 38 negative polls in a row? Though of course in these record breaking days no one would now dare state a specific use by date/number.
And as we are heading towards worlds best practice in deposing elected PM’s, it’s become patently obvious that any reason (of which there are few that pass the pub test – except this one!) offered will return to haunt. Recall a govt that has lost its way, 30 negative polls. It’s all a nonsense and we the public can see through it.
On the plus side the Italian’s have been sending delegations and are watching us closely. Apparently we even do coffee better than them now!
Its encouraging to know that you obviously watch Sky News Dismayed. Keep it up mate and given time you just might learn a thing or two about the real world. Who knows?, we may even eventually have you offering a spot of balanced commentary on here. Something that you have not lifted from the back page of yesterday’s fish wrapper, for example. It should be an exciting journey, a magical metamorphosis perhaps. But hey!, you’ll need to steer clear of those freaky fascist lefties if you want to make a clean breast of it, eh.
What a freaking mess we’re in.
Great post Dismayed.
A bizarre outcome, not least because Morrison and Frydenberg came up with two of the main policies – NEG and corporate tax cuts – that were supposed to have triggered the RWNJs in the first place.
And, to be fair, ScoMo helped to create some of the rubble he inherited.
Yes, but God moves in mysterious, or devious ways. Sco-Mo has, and we sincerely hope he has God on his side. That undershot jaw reveals a fervent tenacity, I’m in first I think with “Sco-Moses.”
I think he’ll do quite well as PM
barney. .yokyokyok
On more important matters, the eight for the AFL are now decided, and everyone else is reading cruise brochures over brekky today, whether they’ve played or not. Cats are in but at 8th spot, and no team has ever won from there. (sigh) There’s always next year.
Dwight – Is it the Year of the Cheeseheads? GBP celebrate a century this year, 1919 – 2019. That’s gotta be an omen.
Hoping it is indeed a good omen. Got 13 to one odds for a Super Bowl win. My cheeseheads are on the shelf waiting and right now I’m streaming the Packers/Raiders preseason game.
We both lucked out this week. Bills didn’t do well against the Bengals.
No-one had ever won from 7th either
Without checking, I think the best outsider came from 5th. I was surprised by them making 7th. They probably were too. Pies inched home this week, and could still be contenders.
Bulldogs
I am hoping so Wiz. Streamed the Packers/Raiders match yesterday. The Cheeseheads are on the top shelf in my office, just waiting for opening day.
Ex ousted PM Tony Abbott just can’t stop laughing Mr. Insider. Abbott now wins the “Kevin Rudd Dismantler” Trophy for 2018 by 20 lengths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxHjNDnQlo
Ah, but he got outsmarted by Turnbull, Henry, and his puppet, Dutton, got done like a dinner.
Malcolm looked relaxed and relieved to be keaving the house of fools – and who could blame him.
Abbott is now a pariah. Morrisson must have gone cold to hear him say he was looking forward to working with him fir “years” ahead. Christ, that made me go cold too! He needs to go – he alone has turned Australian politics into a sad joke.
Yippee! Just 3 more PMs until Xmas!
No-one can turn a phrase quite like Dylan. I was treated to his concert at the BEC by my grand-daughter last night, and lyrics penned more than 50 years ago still sounded fresh and relevant, particularly after yesterday’s malarky.
taken from “The Times they are a ‘Changin’ ” 1964
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
Thanks for that Bob
Wonderful music Wissendorf…💙
Certainly a lot of blowin in the wind about, Wiss.
Was it the Idiot Wind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzcwlmhfws&list=PLDM_P5QoXszvEARH0Pq7pCLgdPynQW2px
This bloke hated it when Dylan went electric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAd5LMBq3Q
So much have the times changed since 1964? Politically that is.
Nothing much has changed since Göbekli Tepe (Potbelly Hill) in Turkey. Göbekli Tepe was the earliest permanent social habitation yet found, 11,000 years old. It supported an agricultural society with a top down organisational structure, dominated by the wealthiest citizens. The populous were scared into obedience by a class of priests. There’s nothing new under the sun; only the alphabets have changed.
So the answer my friend,
Is just Dylan pissing in the wind.
Is it better to have a deckchair on the bow or the stern of the Titanic Jack perhaps a tip for the libs now?
Ted, that’s a tricky question. On the Bow it would all be over quickly as the ship sinks however on the Stern you would get a fabulous view of proceedings as it rears skyward before ghastily joining the Bow in Davy Jones locker. One must keep in mind fellow the Bow and Stern are attached to each other,
Hope that clears up your query. Cheers
The stern. Not so far to jump when the rats start leaving.
The bow hit first, but the stern came apart on the way down the floor of the Atlantic.
Don’t worry about the bow or stern, in the life boats the place to be.