Australian Federal Election
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Nice that Glen Lazarus didn't get back in, even after selling his soul to the Maroons. "I'm supporting Qld because I love Kevy Walters so much". Bell end.<br><br>
Now that the result is settled I reckon Shorten will have to watch his back. When all is said and done he still only managed to get the 2nd worst ever primary vote for labour. -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/AlboMP/'>Albanese</a>. No doubt with <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/tanya.plibersek/'>Plibersek</a> as his deputy. Both are from Labor's left.</p>
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<p>Bill Shorten looks like a retard after running around as if he'd won the election despite not getting enough seats and overseeing the second lowest primary vote in Labor's history.</p> -
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/AlboMP/'>Albanese</a>. No doubt with <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/tanya.plibersek/'>Plibersek</a> as his deputy. Both are from Labor's left.</p>
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<p>Bill Shorten looks like a retard after running around as if he'd won the election despite not getting enough seats and overseeing the second lowest primary vote in Labor's history.</p>
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<p>I don't know how much the aussies want to shift leftwards but I guess Turnbull is going to have trouble doing what John Key has done and shifted so far left that they've pushed Labour into looney territory.</p> -
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Bill Shorten looks like a retard after running around as if he'd won the election despite not getting enough seats and overseeing the second lowest primary vote in Labor's history.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Shorten's concession speech was a bit grovelly, and his shit-eating grin was gone. Back in your box Bill. </p>
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<p>It's similar to 2010 in many ways. Shorten will sit back for the next three years and watch Turnbull struggle, and then win a sizeable majority in 2019. </p>
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<p>All he has to do is keep his mouth shut and get out of the way.</p>
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<p>And attack dog everything the government says. Use the "Bradbury" paradigm that worked so well for Tony.</p>
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It's similar to 2010 in many ways. Shorten will sit back for the next three years and watch Turnbull struggle, and then win a sizeable majority in 2019. <br><br>
All he has to do is keep his mouth shut and get out of the way.</p></blockquote>
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I don't know about that. Abbott hammered them mercilessly about the carbon tax promise and the boats. And Kevni was of course there doing his best to destroy Gilliard from within. Does labor have something similar to go after them with? Will be interesting to see. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="barbarian" data-cid="595832" data-time="1468196229"><p>It's similar to 2010 in many ways. Shorten will sit back for the next three years and watch Turnbull struggle, and then win a sizeable majority in 2019. <br><br>
All he has to do is keep his mouth shut and get out of the way.</p></blockquote>
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The big question mark for me is whether Labor can hold it together for 3 years.<br><br>
Whilst the election result has been a positive for Labor, Shorten's approval rating has not really risen too much.<br><br>
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<p>This is what's wrong with democracies:</p>
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<p><strong><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-04/final-senate-make-up-confirmed-with-11-crossbenchers/7689788'>Malcolm Roberts: One Nation senator-elect says UN trying to impose global government through climate chance policy</a></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">Mr Roberts, a prominent climate change sceptic with the Galileo Movement, also renewed calls for an inquiry into CSIRO's climate change research.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">Mr Roberts, whose latest press release stated that he "spent the last nine years working pro bono checking alarmist climate claims", said he wanted to repeal any legislation put in place "as a result of the claim that humans affect global climate as a result of our use of hydrocarbons fuels, coal, oil, natural gas".</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">Describing himself as a scientist, he said "we need to stop these ridiculous lies based on climate".</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"I went looking into the agencies that have been spreading the climate science," he said.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"I started finding out things about the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"That led me then to the UN, which has been driving this.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">"Then I started following the money trails. It's important to understand the motives."</p> -
<p>Is this the fluffybunny who got in to the senate despite only getting 77 primary votes? Or is that another one of the One Nation retards. </p>
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<p>No, it's him. And of course he's from Queensland. Fuck.</p>
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<p>And, hilariously, it's only 5 years since he tried to claim he was a sovereign citizen, and therefore exempt from the carbon tax.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p>One Nation's newly elected senator Malcolm Roberts has denied being a member of a controversial anti-government movement based in the United States and Canada.<br><br>The senator has been quizzed about his knowledge of the Sovereign Citizens movement because of the existence of documents he began writing five years ago in a style similar to that used by the group's adherents.<br><br>In a series of letters and documents in 2011 and 2012 he appeared to use the unusual style of writing.<br><br>Many were addressed to politicians and prominent figures in which he rails against orthodox climate change science and the carbon tax.<br><br>Among the documents' distinctive characteristics was an unusual style of punctuation.<br><br>For example, in one he identifies himself thus:<br><br>Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts.<br>Beneficiary, Administrator for<br>MALCOM IEUAN ROBERTS<br>Another, a self-declared court affidavit, is addressed to a former Labor PM.<br><br>The Woman, Julia-Eileen: Gillard., acting as The Honourable JULIA EILEEN GILLARD<br>Prime Minister of Australia<br>Parliament House<br>Canberra ACT 2600<br>The affidavit goes on to outline his case for hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the carbon tax.<br><br>I, Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul has not seen or been presented with any<br>material facts or evidence that I, Malcolm-Ieuan: Roberts., the living soul am not living<br>in a free and equal society or should pay for it in some further spurious tax levied<br>supposedly on carbon dioxide, and believe that none exist.<br>The documents can be found on the website of a group of climate change deniers calling themselves the Galileo Movement.<br><br>The site identified Mr Roberts as the group's "project leader", who identified himself as the author of the documents.<br><br>Similar stylisation of names is often employed by those within the Sovereign Citizen movement, in the belief that hyphens and colons can help them evade governments' use of grammar to enslave their citizens.<br><br>Adherents claim to exist outside the country's legal and taxation systems, denying authorities have any legitimate power over them.</p></blockquote><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442'>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442</a><br><br>Thanks Turnbull you muppet.
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442'>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-05/one-nation-senator-denies-link-to-sovereign-citizens/7695442</a><br><br>
Thanks Turnbull you muppet.</p>
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<p>I see this lament a fair bit. People tend to awfully quiet when I say a normal half senate election got us Jacqui Lambie, Ricky Muir, etc.</p> -
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<p>Not to my recollection. I remember alot of noise about Jacqui Lambie and Ricky Muir.<br>
We should also consider that these no name senators were mostly elected in as part of the party ticket vote which has since been scrapped.</p>
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<p>There was noise at the time but that wasn't my point; they were elected in a normal half senate election.</p>
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<p>The party ticket hasn't been scrapped. Hence how the loon One Nation Senator got in despite only 77 first preferences.</p> -
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