There’s one thing we can predict about the upcoming vote in Wentworth — it will be a Chris Gayle by-election. That is, it’s going to swing hard.
When unpopular governments begin the doleful trudge to the next election almost anything can trigger the descent into abject despondency.
At the fag-end of the Labor Kirner government in 1992, a government beset with turmoil, scandal and chaos, the tram drivers went on strike. Not only did the drivers pull the pin, they decided to make their displeasure known more starkly by driving trams up to the top of Bourke Street and along Spring Street, before parking them in long lines just outside Victoria’s Parliament House.
For the weeks the strike lasted the motionless conga line of trams remained. Labor MPs would look out their windows from their parliamentary offices at the traffic chaos below, shudder and draw the curtains before having a long lie down with a cold compress on their foreheads. It was an excruciating reminder when one really wasn’t needed of the belting that was coming their way.
Full column here.
“Fake Honey”!!! Where will all this fakery end?
Do drowning men clutch at fig leafs? In Shorten’s world they might.
“A tough year” ? boo-hoo, he made his own bed.
It’s great. Really it is
https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-new-phone-books-herethe-new-phone.html
Don’t like the ABC? Move to China!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/china-officially-bans-abc-website/10193158
Christine Forster pulls the pin and Human Headline Hanson tells Human Headline Hinch to push off back to NZ. Tell him to take Rusty back with him, Pauline. But we’ll take Jacinda.
Yes, Labor and the CFMMEU being joined at the hip may well be Shorten’s Achilles heel.
Haven’t we already been there? Wasn’t the justification for the double dissolution election in 2016 the creation of the Aust Building and Construction Commission, rejected twice by the Senate? How did that pan out? Well, there was a 3.4% swing against the government across the board. Shorten was with the AWU, which sits, along with Shorten, in Victoria’s Labor right faction. The CFMMEU sits collectively on the left. The Turnbull gov tried to have it both ways. Mathias Cormann, among others, attempted to paint Shorten as a rabid lefty which is bizarre while MT was busily portraying Shorten as a billionaire’s sycophant, doing a number of EBA deals that dudded workers which is probably closer to the truth. First point is, they can’t both be right. Second point is, MT is gone and Cormann so badly scarred and diminished by the leadership challenge (another bloke who can’t count to 43) while Shorten seems to be doing remarkably well by way of comparison.
You do remember what happened to the AFP raid on the AWU’s HQ? Seriously, do you think the possibility of criminal charges being laid on members of Senator Cash’s staff is something you would regard as an electoral asset for the Liberal Party on the eve of a federal election? Do you think it might be a vote winner?
Been there before? No, not quite Jack. My cryptic comment was in relation to the CFMEU’s Setka using his young kids to be photographed presenting a prepared, printed message which included “GET FU#KED” directed at the ABCC and then tweeting it. Setka has now taken the tweet down and reportedly claims it was all to do with him somehow having a “rough” year. The poor pet. Shorten subsequently appears to believe its no big deal, nothing to see here. But then he would, wouldn’t he.
If that’s the case, and the electorate at large believes and condones such actions and utterances of Setka, Shorten and Co are OK and par for the course and “a vote winner”, then our collective moral compass is way out of whack.
Regarding the remainder of most of the guts of your comment, I have no quibble with it.
Would your Holiness on the Coast please kindly deign to instruct us on how we should adjust our singular and collective moral compass/compasses?
Upon reading your chastisements Carl, I hang my head in shame and I now confess to snorting with laughter, not that I approved, but in joyful anticipation of the delicious outrage of the better bred and refined in our society.
I burn with shame! Moral compass? I’m not even sure I have one .
Rah rah. I am endlessly amused by those who accuse Labor of being beholden to the evil unions when everyone knows that the unions formed the Labor Party, back in the nineteenth century. Union does not equal evil. Move on.
In fact,
https://www.quotes.net/quote/6321
And I recommend to anyone who wishes to adjust their moral compass to consider the mans exhortations to pursue the truth.
Any info on this?…I have been trying to ascertain how much the Liberals have spent on Royal Commissions that have led to nowhere in attempts to wedge Labor…Starting with Howard’s $60million, the batts about $49 million, $55million trying to get Gillard, another umpteen milion trying to get Shorten, the present one under High Court Judge Dyson Heydon…you know the guy who likes addressing Liberal fund raisers-$45million so far with possibly ONE conviction! This is money for jam for Liberal lawyer mates. There are others that I have forgotten about but this is a crazy waste of taxpayers money simply for spite!
A worthwhile RC would be Howard’s wars.
Interesting?
https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=map&solar=false&remote=true&wind=false
Yes. Thanks
Looks like a jig saw puzzle.
One can understand why France has no problem with stuff like Paris agreements – all nuclear but aging.
More interesting.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/angus-taylor-energy-minister-power-price-solution-curious/10188496
Hear hear Bella, Hear hear
So Christine realises there would be resistance to two Abbotts on parliament.
Could she perhaps get her brother to follow her example and give this government some chance of unity?
I reckon Abbott won’t settle down in the role Morrison dreamt-up for him in exchange for his ‘quiet’ loyalty.
I can’t imagine he knows the meaning of the word Boa.
Ms Forster not nominating.
Inflaming party tension cited
Hohoho pull the other one
Shame that.