The Turnbull Government

[Valued]

I think we have a few of each of these political tribes in here, there's an online test at the link if you're unsure

I did it and apparently I am an "Ambitious Saver". Hard to argue with wanting to get ahead, wanting financial security and being career-minded. Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[sptrawler]

I did it and the same as you, was classed as an ambitious saver, closely followed by "anti establishment firebrand".lol

 

[PZ.]

Malcolm Turnbull axes Life Gold Pass, angering MPs > news dart calm

Good move! Only the pigs with their snouts in the trough are unhappy. LOL

 

[ianna]

Good to see one of the outrageous perks ended. Perhaps a bit harsh to wipe out the free travel completely. I'd be happy for them to receive a free bus pass. Help them keep in touch with folk they are supposed to represent.

 

[SirRumpole]

Good to see one of the outrageous perks ended. Perhaps a bit harsh to wipe out the free travel completely. I'd be happy for them to receive a free bus pass. Help them keep in touch with folk they are supposed to represent.

The Gold Pass is for retired politicians so they don't really give a stuff about anyone else now.

 

[Tisme]

Malcolm must be feeling the pressure, because he just went down in the gutter and got personal with Billy Boy, with invective. Good stuff for rednecked liberals, but hardly becoming of a leader.

If only he would take my advice and learn Keating speak; it's not like I haven't told him many times

 

[PZ.]

Yep. Similar attack during the 7:30 interview. Turnbull is taking aim at the true source of his grief of loosing donating three times his annual PM salary just to keep his job at the last election. It was a very expensive Electricity Bill

 

[SirRumpole]

Malcolm must be feeling the pressure, because he just went down in the gutter and got personal with Billy Boy, with invective. Good stuff for rednecked liberals, but hardly becoming of a leader.

If only he would take my advice and learn Keating speak; it's not like I haven't told him many times

Pretty disgusting really, as Turnbull played with Kerry Packer's crystal to get where he is today.

 

[noco]

Malcolm must be feeling the pressure, because he just went down in the gutter and got personal with Billy Boy, with invective. Good stuff for rednecked liberals, but hardly becoming of a leader.

If only he would take my advice and learn Keating speak; it's not like I haven't told him many times

Shorten was just getting a bit of his own medicine.

 

[Tisme]

Shorten was just getting a bit of his own medicine.

A battle of mediocre

 

[sptrawler]

Jeez Tisme and Sir Rumpole, you wanted Turnbull and now you have him all you want to do is bag him.

Noco didn't want him, and now all you want to do, is bag noco for Turnbulls faults.

It would appear, you two really don't know what you want, you just seem to be happy bagging anyone that isn't Labor.lol

 

[wayneL]

I thought it was great... dead accurate.

About time Malcolm got fired up.

 

[SirRumpole]

Jeez Tisme and Sir Rumpole, you wanted Turnbull and now you have him all you want to do is bag him.

When he deserves it.

He and his mates are parasites sucking the life out of people trying to buy a house with their negative gearing rort.

Absolute hypocrisy to bag Shorten for being a moderate union leader..

 

[Tisme]

Jeez Tisme and Sir Rumpole, you wanted Turnbull and now you have him all you want to do is bag him.

Noco didn't want him, and now all you want to do, is bag noco for Turnbulls faults.

It would appear, you two really don't know what you want, you just seem to be happy bagging anyone that isn't Labor.lol

I think you will find I have always considered him a ditherer (I used to call him variously a hollow man or Chauncey Gardiner). It's been an ongoing argument I have had with Rumpole since well before I came to this board. So no, you are wrong in your statements, which just goes to show how messages can get garbled when predisposed to personal bias.

 

[Tisme]

I thought it was great... dead accurate.

About time Malcolm got fired up.

I think this is the agenda this year: to play the man instead of the policy. Very Abbottesque, but requires a certain amount of ingrained hate, which means Malcolm is not going to be the man his wife married at the end of it.

 

[Tisme]

So the boss of the Post Office has decided to donate several million of his outrageous income to an offshore Muslim museum to show how gracious he is.

What I want to know is who in govt allowed his wage to double in six years, why he got that amount of money in the first place and why hasn't it been flagged on annual audit before?

Be interesting to see how much the other executives and board members get....????

 

[SirRumpole]

So the boss of the Post Office has decided to donate several million of his outrageous income to an offshore Muslim museum to show how gracious he is.

What I want to know is who in govt allowed his wage to double in six years, why he got that amount of money in the first place and why hasn't it been flagged on annual audit before?

Be interesting to see how much the other executives and board members get....????

The CEO gets $5 million of a profit of $36 million.

That's a pretty fair slice of a pretty slim profit.

 

[Tisme]

When he deserves it.

He and his mates are parasites sucking the life out of people trying to buy a house with their negative gearing rort.

Absolute hypocrisy to bag Shorten for being a moderate union leader..

Tony (and Billy) was rather smug don't you think LOL. He knows this is potentially the death roll year for Turnbull

Peta Credlin dreamed up a "Mr Harbourside Mansion" back last year when Malcolm walk around working class Penrith went pear shaped and he ran for shelter from the media.

This kind of outburst will haunt him in later years and it's not a good idea to be calling into question the character and calibre of the Melbourne money set and by implication the family of Bill's wife.

I actually watched the whole thing live and I wanted to put the boot into Billy just to shut him up. Malcolm could have had a bigger win by just ignoring it with a WTF hand gesture and going to the vote.

 

[SirRumpole]

This kind of outburst will haunt him in later years and it's not a good idea to be calling into question the character and calibre of the Melbourne money set and by implication the family of Bill's wife.

Political invective appeals to the Party Faithfull, but it puts everyone else offside. Keating was probably brought down in the end because of his lack of statesmanship towards his rivals.

So I think "Mr Harbourside Mansion" probably resonates more with the public than Turnbull's outburst, because it was one of the Liberal Party machine that first coined it.

Question Time might be worth watching today.

 

[PZ.]

Labor strategists must have seen Turnbull's very similar outburst on 7:30 and used it as a cattle prod... they got him where it hurts and it works. Otherwise there seemed little point in moving a motion against the Govt in parliament.

It worked for Abbott - he did it 75 times in 3 years.