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.
The Hawke program tonight was very good.
Bob certainly had charisma – loads of it. Such positive drive.
“You can’t keep sniffing the wind trying to decide who to please- just LEAD”
Everyone watching must have been thinking “if only we had someone like him in charge now”.
but he didn’t just LEAD, he led a proper Cabinet government, with all the consultations and arguments that entailed.
it helped that his was the most talented Cabinet in our history but it is still the best method of governing.
by jingees, there’s some stroppy folk what?
https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-new-york-times-contrarian.html
Richo is right on the money here.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/graham-richardson/vikki-campion-getting-a-new-job-means-malcolm-turnbull-has-to-face-tough-questions/news-story/28cc71813c54c4fee0d7f0361a31d8e5
Love Barney’s girl job description…here is Un National Michael Laundry on jobsongrowth for Barnaby’s bit on the side:- “My office has worked quite closely with Vikki. I’ve found her very dedicated to her job, she was very good at it. She did a lot for the Nationals, getting us more hands-on with the Facebook and the Twitter.”
$259k for playing social media? This is not nation building stuff! Why are we paying big bread for this?
Think we should bulldoze Canberra and start from scratch? Lets have a postal vote plebiscite, conscience vote on that!
It’s actually a very nice place. It’s just some of the fly-in, fly-out folk can be troublesome.
Architecturally nice but culturally sterile.
No surprises.
Yes Jack, especially the ones that fly in and forget to fly out.
Figure skating just gorgeous to watch. Something that must be so incredibly difficult to do made to look so easy.
Houston…
https://www.domain.com.au/news/demand-grows-for-refurbished-buses-as-sydneysiders-choose-the-vanlife-over-houses-20180211-h0v4fp/
Given the heightened incidence of ordinary folk getting hot under the collar over an activity that just comes naturally, both in our National Capital and elsewhere throughour our nation, perhaps the mandatory infusion of a few Carthusians to our Federal parliament may assist in positively influencing the prospect of any future ‘quasi-affairs sexuelles illicites’ from getting out of hand.
It would also lessen the present negative impact on the consumption of beetroots which are high in immune-boosting Vit C, fibre and other essential minerals, including folate which helps reduce the risk of birth defects.
Unfortunately, the currently dominant order in Parliament is not the Carthusian one, but the Mendacian one.
Nice.
How’s this for a scenario: Turnbull resigns over the Joyce imbroglio and Abbott returns triumphant??!!!
You know it makes sense!
On other matters I scored (2nd hand) The R. Crumb Handbook the other day for $4.50 – bargain. It’s in good condition but sadly without the cd that was supposed to be included. Interesting dude, good artist/satorist and his family put the d in dysfunctional.
Abbott would campaign better than Turnbull-King of The Scare campaign.
Turnbull was criticised after the last election precisely because he vetoed a scare campaign. I think you might have your parties mixed up Bassy.
There ya go. Nothing to see: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/completely-above-board-cormann-backs-barnaby-joyce-over-staff-moves-20180211-p4yzxv.html
A handy little tool, Mr Insider, and no I am not referring to Barnaby’s John Thomas, but a reverse image finder tool called TinEye.
https://www.tineye.com/