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Really, where is govnuts debt vs GDP?
Hardly doing well, they just keep loading up on debt for future generations to pay off.
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Hardly doing well, they just keep loading up on debt for future generations to pay off.
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Tony and Cormann will merely blame Rudd, Gillard and Billy.
Midnight Express reworked :
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Julie Bishop is going for it as well - 4 way split. 3 moderates and a far right.
Mal is very popular there. Libs would take a massive hit. And with Duttons views on the gay community, he would more than likely lose it for them if he becomes leader.
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Malcolm Turnbull today has bought time for alternative candidates to Peter Dutton to marshal their numbers. If Scott Morrison gets the gig, he's less likely to quit politics and force a by-election in Wentworth than if its Peter Dutton in my view.
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If Scott Morrison gets it, I think silly Billy will be worried.
Morrison has proven to be very calm under pressure, and copes well when put under the pump by the press.
I personally think, he would be a big step in the right direction for the Libs, seems to have the gonads for the job. IMO
I don't think Abbot, Dutton or anyone else would shout him down.
I also think Turnbull would be happy, as you suggest.
Bishop is nice, but from memory folds like a pack of cards, when the media put the pressure on.
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Morrison is one of the best bull$hitters in Parliament, along with Turnbull.
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Morrison stopped the boats.
The first task for him, should he become leader will be to unite the party. Difficult with the conservatives given he was a supporter of MT's successful 2015 coup against TA.
Morrison stopped the boats.
The first task for him, should he become leader will be to unite the party. Difficult with the conservatives given he was a supporter of MT's successful 2015 coup against TA.
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Julie Bishop also doesn't have the presence in Parliament whereas Scott Morrison really served it up to Bill Shorten earlier in the week during debate on Labor's No Confidence Motion.
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I believe Dutton ran to open it up for others so they would not be seen as disloyal to Turnbull.
My bet is that Bishop is the one. A women for appeal and hopefully on their plan, the electorate will not see her as the knife holder I see.
My bet is that Bishop is the one. A women for appeal and hopefully on their plan, the electorate will not see her as the knife holder I see.
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Now I know why they stopped the boats. The LNP is full of refugees with nowhere to go
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The impressive thing was, he did it with aplomb, it was a $hitty gig but he did it well.
The media, tried unsuccessfully to nail him to the wall over it, but couldn't. That took some skill.
Yes I think Abbott had a lot of faith in Morrisson and was disappointed, but the media had made Abbott's position untenable, Morrisson did the only thing he could which was to back the change.
Hopefully Abbott realises, his job was shot and nothing could rescue it, the media are still obsessed with him. He will never get back in, and should realise his strengh's are needed in a cabinet.
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Rubbish, the new jobs are part time and on less pay. The figures are totally fudged
The economy is on the edge too, Banks and manufacturing in real strife, mining in the west stuffed.
Inflation is through the roof, particularly food. Just one, peanuts, 2 years back 1 kilo $10, today, 500 gram packs $10 And could go on.
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Increasing casualisation of the workforce and a lack of growth in full time jobs.
Lack of wages growth.
House prices.
Energy.
Immigration and gender imbalance is starting to become an issue.
They're fooling themselves if they think that "the economy" is all that matters. To them perhaps that's true but not for the masses it isn't.
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Increasing casualisation of the workforce and a lack of growth in full time jobs.
Lack of wages growth.
House prices.
Energy.
Immigration and gender imbalance is starting to become an issue.
They're fooling themselves if they think that "the economy" is all that matters. To them perhaps that's true but not for the masses it isn't.
On the money Smurf.....as always
What needs to be done, the Liberals – free market, neoliberal zealots to the last, raised on Milton Friedman mantras of deregulation and labour exploitation – will not do. No modern government has ever held Australian wage earners in such proactive contempt. All of these Liberals presided over the cut to penalty rates – they were no neutral players here, their members advocated for it, just as they articulated their beliefs against maintaining minimum wages. They’ve capped the wages of their public servants. They’ve enhanced and expanded the punishment of the unemployed. They have lauded subcontracting and casualisation as “labour market flexibility” and they’ve blithely repeated incantations to getta-betta-jobbism even when structural employment crises like their own closure of the car industry have hit communities.
And they’ve fought an ongoing legislative war against the means by which workers win wages – the unions. There was the trade union royal commission. The reinstatement of the ABCC. The abolition of the road safety remuneration tribunal that maintained “safe rates” of transport pay. The “registered organisations” obligations. Anti-union appointments to the Fair Work commission. Philip Lowe, the head of the Reserve Bank, has implored that wage rises now are necessary for economic stability into the future. The Liberals do not care.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...minister-if-its-a-liberal-it-will-be-the-same
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Increasing casualisation of the workforce and a lack of growth in full time jobs.
Lack of wages growth.
House prices.
Energy.
Immigration and gender imbalance is starting to become an issue.
They're fooling themselves if they think that "the economy" is all that matters. To them perhaps that's true but not for the masses it isn't.
That sums up the western world, ATM.
IFocus
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Sums up the hard right running the world at the moment..........
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Good to see you back and firing on the left bank of cylinders.
At least in W.A we have a sensible labor Party, I don't think you will get that with silly Billy.
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Good to see you back and firing on the left bank of cylinders.
At least in W.A we have a sensible labor Party, I don't think you will get that with silly Billy.
Haha yeah moment of weakness ...plus a couple of red wines good to see you still around to Sptrawler
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Haha yeah moment of weakness ...plus a couple of red wines good to see you still around to Sptrawler
Nothing better than having a political discussion with mates, over a couple of reds, bound to get interesting.
I'm sure you will keep us on track.
