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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@jegga A story based on the Daily Mail's trawling of social media? Is that premium content?
They usually hide premium content behind the paywall. But hey if three people tweeted it it must be a thing
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Its amazing, makes one short speech and wears a hijab ....
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@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
Its amazing, makes one short speech and wears a hijab ....
Oh come on she cuddled people too.
Whereas Scomo's attempts to show some empathy have been labelled cis-gendered violence.
I'd say "have her", but that means I get her ...
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@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
Please share your rant.... I mean thoughts on this .
Btw you’re welcome to her.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12298839
I have plenty to say about the Duchess of Arden, "Neighhhhh", oh yes I have, doan, doan-choo, no, no doan-choo worry about that!¹ Just today I read this about the strumpet:
"Arguably, Mzzzzz Ardern has put New Zealand on the global map, ensuring a better profile for the country, better networking and better status to build trade, security and relationships. These are all part of the work, and key metrics (the hip, modern term for "characteristics or "tasks") for a country’s leader."
That was some furriner sheila writing in thenational.ae, burbling about non existent new trade relationships delicately crafted by your universally loved national Goddess. Western wymminses spend a hell of a lot of time talking themselves up, eh? ... probably because blokes are better at what they are good at and they are not permitted to admit that.
Anyway, to answer your question Jegga - Fins Restaurant is in the Salt development south of Kingscliff, a stock standard collection of square sterilised white apartment blocks priced for retiring middle income dills who have no idea that the thing was put together by an under-capitalised developer who routinely dudded the subbies. The subbies dealt with that in the time honoured fashion here - get in, get it done as quickly and as cheaply as possible using low cost unskilled labourers and get out and on to the next job. Liberal applications of plaster and render can hide most sins and recommending the client to your competition kills two birds with one stone.
The thing faces east, just a few degrees south of east, which means when the southerly is blowing a little bit it's not a good idea to sit outside. You must sit inside and hope the air conditioning is how you like it. I've eaten at Kingscliffe Hotel just to the north and the front verandah suffers the same from the wind approaching across miles of open beach to the south.
Eating at the pub at least offers local scenery, passers by and bikinis to ogle at.
Have a go at Fins menu (https://www.fins.com.au). It has won a few State wide awards and the pricing reflects that, you'd unload $400 to $500 a couple easily ... oysters $55 dozen, scallops or king prawns $27; mains, sirloin steak or fish of the day $45++; SA white wines $80 to $120, NZ chardonnay $55 to $105. The servings are gobble, gobble, gob....! and its gone, not the amount of tucker favored by a proper sized bloke but then you are talking about Beta Boy Gaylord.
My thoughts? In summary it has cost you a fortune for these chancers to sit in isolation in a gaunt, sterile space, in the wind to scoff down a tiny feed, delicious until (I fervently hope) they discovered that the oysters had gone off³ and that the unpaid plumbing contractor had not properly fitted the gaskets on the dunny outlet in their grand suite!
¹ borrowed from New Zealander Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen of Dannevirke
² "arguably" is most often seen as an attempt to legitimise some dopey sports blogger's over-inflated ranking of his favorite under-performer eg. "Bono is arguably on paper the world's best 7 - no, No 8 - err - don't get me wrong." When confronted with this do remember it would be cruel to mention Dusautoir, Schalk Burger or the several other obviously better contenders - bigger, stronger, more threatening, bruising and so on.
³ you never ever want to experience this. Oysters were about as much my favorite as Tooheys New and Turkish Delight. I copped a dud, halfway back in my allotted time to date, and it took me probably two whole years before I could try them again. The pain in the gut was excruciating, the disturbance to the waste product works was bloody awful and the sentence was days not hours. -
@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD It seems wrong to keep her here when you guys are begging I repeat begging for her to stay.
I worked on an apartment block at Milsons point in sydney, the floors were so out of level we shot the skirting to height with a laser level and labourers poured barrow after barrow of flc to bring the floor up to height under our skirting. Shame the windows still looked terribly out of plumb.'
Anyway I was still there at the end of the job and usually had a chat at smoko with the owner of the cafe next door who was Chinese. He said he could tell by the colours they'd chosen for the place they were targeting Chinese buyers. Then he gave me a run down on how feng shui worked and said no Chinese person would ever buy there because it it was at the end of the t intersection because it meant bad fortune for anyone living there. .... -
@Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD I had dud oysters while camping 3 years ago.
Hottest weekend of the summer - a long drop - lying in pain with cramps in a sweatbox of a tent getting up to go for a shit every 20 minutes - no thanks.
24 hours later I had to pack up the tent still weak as a kitten. Finally got the car loaded. Drove 5 metres outside the campground and got a flattie.
I lovz me oysters but I haven't touched one from that harbour since.
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@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
Swap you Ardern for some Koalas
The spelled Port Macquarie wrong...
New Zealand has a long successful history of taking animals that are endangered here and thrive in New Zealand.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
Swap you Ardern for some Koalas
The spelled Port Macquarie wrong...
New Zealand has a long successful history of taking animals that are endangered here and thrive in New Zealand.
I think we actually sent endangered wallabies back to Australia years ago .
I’m so proud of myself for not taking the low road and saying bringing something that seems cuddly and cute into the country could end up having adverse unforeseen effects on the local population and they could find out behind it all the creature is actually quite viscious and capable of wreaking havoc .
That’s just Ardern , who the fuck knows what a koala would do here?
I’ve turned over a new leaf this year and such behaviour is a thing of the past.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
Swap you Ardern for some Koalas
The spelled Port Macquarie wrong...
New Zealand has a long successful history of taking animals that are endangered here and thrive in New Zealand.
Get Oprah to launch the introduction of the species:
"You get chlamydia! And you get chlamydia, and you get chlamydia..."
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Morrison has plummeted in the polls, and is now trailing Albanese as preferred PM. One of the more stunning falls from grace you will see, even accounting for the current state of opinion polling.
It's probably a tad harsh, but Morrison is dying by the sword he lived by. He wanted the election contested in the pub, as a personal likeability competition between him and Shorten. Despite his policy response to the fires being relatively sound, it's the series of ham-fisted personal blunders that is hitting him where it hurts - the pub, the cafe, the people in the street who take note of that sort of thing.
They swung to him over Shorten, and now they are swinging away.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Politics:
Morrison has plummeted in the polls, and is now trailing Albanese as preferred PM. One of the more stunning falls from grace you will see, even accounting for the current state of opinion polling.
It's probably a tad harsh, but Morrison is dying by the sword he lived by. He wanted the election contested in the pub, as a personal likeability competition between him and Shorten. Despite his policy response to the fires being relatively sound, it's the series of ham-fisted personal blunders that is hitting him where it hurts - the pub, the cafe, the people in the street who take note of that sort of thing.
They swung to him over Shorten, and now they are swinging away.
That poll really means nothing. It will show if the party has learned anything over the past few years.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
That poll really means nothing.
I disagree. It quantifies the general feeling on the ground, which is that he's made a mess of it. There was a chance it was just a lot of media noise which most people ignored while on their summer break.
He loses a couple of points, whatever. But to have such a large drop means that the media were broadly right and it has hurt him plenty.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
That poll really means nothing.
I disagree. It quantifies the general feeling on the ground, which is that he's made a mess of it. There was a chance it was just a lot of media noise which most people ignored while on their summer break.
He loses a couple of points, whatever. But to have such a large drop means that the media were broadly right and it has hurt him plenty.
Hurt him how? I guess he could be rolled by someone in his party but there’s no election any time soon . Maybe more of the public think he’s a cock than usual I guess .
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@jegga said in Aussie Politics:
Hurt him how? I guess he could be rolled by someone in his party but there’s no election any time soon . Maybe more of the public think he’s a cock than usual I guess .
It's recast the entire political landscape, at least for the first half of 2020.
Morrison has now lost his 'man of the people' mantra. He's lost his buffer in the polls. He is under pressure to do more on climate change, but will also be under pressure not to do too much. He's had his first real test of leadership and in the eyes of most it's one he has failed.
Albanese hasn't announced a policy yet, and was going to use 2020 to slowly develop a platform to take to the next election. Now he's unexpectedly leading the race, and Labor will definitely be thinking about doing far less than they maybe first anticipated they would.
Now I don't think people will be thinking about the fires when they cast their vote in 2022, but it will certainly set in motion a chain of events that will see 2020 look very different to what we previously may have thought.
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There is no doubt Morrison's performance the past month has been sub par filled with some absolute clangers. But much like masoginist/luddite stitch up on Abbott at the start of the decade by the entire media left of Piers Akermann he has been defending himself against the impossible IMO. The 08-09 Busfire season, where Rudd had ~150 fatalities and his visits to these communities are regarded as one of the sole positive moments of his premiership. The media so poisoned the well before Morrison returned from Hawai'i that there was simply no winning. We are currently at 29 fatalities.
I agree with @barbarian - it's terminal for Morrison.
Albo is a very underrated operator and if you chart his career has probably the best radar for mainstream Australia since Howard. The current cabinet is built to similar specifications as @Mick-Gold-Coast-QLD described earlier so it's difficult to see a viable challenger.
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@rotated said in Aussie Politics:
There is no doubt Morrison's performance the past month has been sub par filled with some absolute clangers. But much like masoginist/luddite stitch up on Abbott at the start of the decade by the entire media left of Piers Akermann he has been defending himself against the impossible IMO. The 08-09 Busfire season, where Rudd had ~150 fatalities and his visits to these communities are regarded as one of the sole positive moments of his premiership. The media so poisoned the well before Morrison returned from Hawai'i that there was simply no winning. We are currently at 29 fatalities.
True enough, but the trip to Hawai'i was a big blunder. The trip itself was poorly timed and chosen (I think it would be very different if he was just in Noosa), and his office tried to cover it up for days before it came out. He also took his sweet time to come back.
It went down really badly with the wider public. But broadly speaking I think people are willing to chalk up an error like that every now and again. The real damage came when he tried to visit Cobargo and other towns.
He's already on the back foot, with the Hawaii trip losing him the benefit of the doubt in the eyes of the public. And he goes in to a struggling town and makes a series of blunders, walking away mid-conversation from a young woman, forcing a weird handshake with a firefighter, turning up to devastated areas without so much as a case of bottled water.
After that people have been far less forgiving. If it had been Gladys, I think she would have been forgiven as she's been handling the situation pretty well thus far. But Morrison had already gone missing once, and then he stuffed up his first foray into the field.
Sections of the media have over-egged it, sure. But I do think it they have broadly mirrored the wider public reaction.
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Sounds like the same premature assessments of Trump and Boris, and the polling data.
All those predictions severely underestimated the thoughtfulness of the voters too.
You may be right eventually but recent history shows that the incessantly noisy and disparaging media doesn't actually reflect the mood of the populace very accurately.
Who knows, except to say that political predictions aren't following msm messages
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