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Good overview of yesterday from Tim Blair
Not a single seat to Xylophone.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel and Mal Roberts: the Senator who wasn't. I assume you're not among the 77.
In NSW we've got Luke Foley in opposition, who has about as much charisma as my morning ablutions. Actually a lot in common with Andrews on the "gormless bespectacled twat" count.
Of course, the leader after Mr Popular Christian Banker left for an even higher-paid job is Gladys, and she's interested in knocking down stadiums for the purpose of building stadiums, all at the taxpayers' expense. Still getting my head around that. Well that's about all I hear, anyway... not that I'm listening too hard. State politics is generally fucking tedious here, and circulates mostly around light rail and traffic and bottles of wine.
As it stands we've got Tasmania, SA, and NSW under Libs, and WA, QLD, and VIC under Labor, along with the two territories. That could make for some interesting COAG moving forward.
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@rembrandt said in Aussie Politics:
That my friend was a post with a number of whiskeys behind it and no I don't think they are radically different from LNP
My anti-Labor evidence is poor but thus: Greens and Labor campaigners walking hand in hand at the polling booths in Batman, genuinely all acted like best mates which was just super weird.
I think Labor wanted to avoid being painted as the big red monster, and were happy to watch the Greens stab each other in the back.
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@nta said in Aussie Politics:
@Rancid-Schnitzel and Mal Roberts: the Senator who wasn't. I assume you're not among the 77.
In NSW we've got Luke Foley in opposition, who has about as much charisma as my morning ablutions. Actually a lot in common with Andrews on the "gormless bespectacled twat" count.
Of course, the leader after Mr Popular Christian Banker left for an even higher-paid job is Gladys, and she's interested in knocking down stadiums for the purpose of building stadiums, all at the taxpayers' expense. Still getting my head around that. Well that's about all I hear, anyway... not that I'm listening too hard. State politics is generally fucking tedious here, and circulates mostly around light rail and traffic and bottles of wine.
As it stands we've got Tasmania, SA, and NSW under Libs, and WA, QLD, and VIC under Labor, along with the two territories. That could make for some interesting COAG moving forward.
Honestly can't remember who I voted for the senate but I would have voted for Hinch and the Hunters and Shooters Party before One Nation.
Gormless bespectacled twat is a beautiful description.
Fark I hate Australian politicians.
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@rancid-schnitzel I don't see how things can change when we don't really have a viable third or fourth party capable of upsetting the status quo. This production line of fuck knuckles on either side are selected on who shouts party policy the loudest, and then refuses to have an original idea.
And the few "original" ideas - like Shorten's tax credit imputation thing this week - are shouted at so loudly people don't actually understand the pros and cons.
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Great to see those demented Greens sabotage themselves and hand Labor the seat of Batman
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5 by-elections due to this citizenship bullshit. Bloody hell.
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@rancid-schnitzel "Is there anyone in Australia eligible to represent in parliament? Please send your entry in to Locked Bag 2020, Parliament House, Canberra"
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Yeah, anyone who doesn't think it's reasonable to throw a "I don't wanna be a citizen of your country anymore" application over the fence five mins before an election.
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@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
@virgil said in Aussie Politics:
I’m sure this has been brought up but why don’t we do the same back?
Send their ferals back when they misbehave?I think we do, there just aren’t as many of their Ferals here. This one stinks imho
Is there any reason why he can't be deported to American Samoa?
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@nta said in Aussie Politics:
@rancid-schnitzel "Is there anyone in Australia eligible to represent in parliament? Please send your entry in to Locked Bag 2020, Parliament House, Canberra"
You should run @NTA. Your mantra could be "BUILD THAT (power) WALL!".
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Plenty of people looking stupid after this.
Fark Peter Fitzsimmons is a prize piston wristed gibbon.
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@no-quarter said in Aussie Politics:
You should run @NTA. Your mantra could be "BUILD THAT (power) WALL!".
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And of course the usual dickheads try to make this a race issue and look like idiots doing so:
Waheed Ali is poison.
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@rancid-schnitzel Can't stand him. The way he knowingly lies on his show editing footage to make guests he doesn't like look like monsters shows just how morally corrupt he is. The Islamic museum here has a shrine to him which is pretty vomit inducing.
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The sheer cancer of this statement from our Victorian Premier over the tragic death of a young Melbourne comedian a couple days ago.
Daniel Andrews
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Eurydice Dixon was 22 years old. She was an aspiring comedian. Smart, funny. She lived in the inner north. Surrounded by friends.She had a phone.
She was using it: "I'm almost home safe."
She was keeping an eye on her surroundings. Looking out for herself. Being responsible. Doing everything we expect.
But Eurydice did not make it home safe.
In a few days, women across Melbourne will gather in Princes Park for a vigil of her life.
And they will do so firm in the knowledge that Eurydice died because of her attacker's decisions – not because of her own.
They're right. And we need to accept that fact, too.
We'll never change a thing until we do.
We'll never change this culture of violence against women. All women.
We'll never change the fact that one woman in this country dies every week at the hands of a partner or former partner – someone they loved, in the safety of their own home.
We'll keep asking "Why didn't she leave him?" instead of asking "Why did he hurt her?"
We'll keep asking "Why was she alone in the dark?" instead of asking "Why was he?"
We'll keep ignoring the real problem, instead of actually fixing it.
So our message to Victorian women is this:
Stay home. Or don't.
Go out with friends at night. Or don't.
Go about your day exactly as you intend, on your terms.
Because women don't need to change their behaviour.
Men do.
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@rembrandt too much to whinge about in that.
Mind you we're just part of the half of the population who are all just murderous rapists. Be ashamed of yourself @Rembrandt ...
Reminds of that dick from NZ Labour who apologised for being a man.
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@rembrandt said in Aussie Politics:
The sheer cancer of this statement from our Victorian Premier over the tragic death of a young Melbourne comedian a couple days ago.
Daniel Andrews
9 hrs ·
Eurydice Dixon was 22 years old. She was an aspiring comedian. Smart, funny. She lived in the inner north. Surrounded by friends.She had a phone.
She was using it: "I'm almost home safe."
She was keeping an eye on her surroundings. Looking out for herself. Being responsible. Doing everything we expect.
But Eurydice did not make it home safe.
In a few days, women across Melbourne will gather in Princes Park for a vigil of her life.
And they will do so firm in the knowledge that Eurydice died because of her attacker's decisions – not because of her own.
They're right. And we need to accept that fact, too.
We'll never change a thing until we do.
We'll never change this culture of violence against women. All women.
We'll never change the fact that one woman in this country dies every week at the hands of a partner or former partner – someone they loved, in the safety of their own home.
We'll keep asking "Why didn't she leave him?" instead of asking "Why did he hurt her?"
We'll keep asking "Why was she alone in the dark?" instead of asking "Why was he?"
We'll keep ignoring the real problem, instead of actually fixing it.
So our message to Victorian women is this:
Stay home. Or don't.
Go out with friends at night. Or don't.
Go about your day exactly as you intend, on your terms.
Because women don't need to change their behaviour.
Men do.
Andrews makes my skin crawl. A chronic sjw under the thumb of the worst, militant union in the country. An absolutely appalling creature.
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@rembrandt said in Aussie Politics:
We'll keep asking "Why was she alone in the dark?" instead of asking "Why was he?"
Ahh, that answers itself really...
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Anyone following the Emma Hussar saga?
"But I'm a single mum."
Awesome excuse you pathetic bitch.
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