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he's grade A fuckwit but what's he done now?
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@voodoo said in Aussie Politics:
@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
So, don't get drunk and tweet.
Exhibt A:
I had the same thought, then I saw that he sent it at 10:13am…
My point stands ...
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
he's grade A fuckwit but what's he done now?
One of the few websites that quote his tweet...
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lol fuck. Imagine how hard you have to fuck up for Pauline Hanson to call you out?
Has Latham been checked for a tumour or something? His general behaviour borders on deranged.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
he's grade A fuckwit but what's he done now?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
lol fuck. Imagine how hard you have to fuck up for Pauline Hanson to call you out?
Has Latham been checked for a tumour or something? His general behaviour borders on deranged.
I think it all stems from when he managed to lose the election. Up until his brain fart, he was going to be Prime Minister.
I'm astonished that a seasoned politician actually wrote what he thought. One thing to think it, another entirely in this day and age to say it. Might as well have had a go at the Jews at the same time. Lunacy.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
I think it all stems from when he managed to lose the election. Up until his brain fart, he was going to be Prime Minister.
That’s debatable.
Before that said brain fart he made a couple of very big political errors during that 2004 campaign. None bigger than doing the deal
with the devilwith Bob Brown in Tassie. He went down there and did a walk through a forest with Brown talking about conservation etc.A day or so later John Howard was down in Tassie in a packed hall of CFMEU members telling them that he would save their logging jobs. Tassie seats of Braddon and Bass turned to the Libs on massive swings.
The polling in Sth Aust was that Latham didn’t resonate and Labor lost a couple of seats and there was a swing overall against them.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Aussie Politics:
@antipodean said in Aussie Politics:
I think it all stems from when he managed to lose the election. Up until his brain fart, he was going to be Prime Minister.
That’s debatable.
Before that said brain fart he made a couple of very big political errors during that 2004 campaign. None bigger than doing the deal
with the devilwith Bob Brown in Tassie. He went down there and did a walk through a forest with Brown talking about conservation etc.A day or so later John Howard was down in Tassie in a packed hall of CFMEU members telling them that he would save their logging jobs. Tassie seats of Braddon and Bass turned to the Libs on massive swings.
The polling in Sth Aust was that Latham didn’t resonate and Labor lost a couple of seats and there was a swing overall against them.
I'm not sure those places matter. It was the inability to secure anything of note on the Eastern side of the map that was the problem - that's where elections are decided. IIRC his polling collapsed following that incident with Howard.
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@antipodean the inner suburban seats had started their shift to the left so those seats that the Libs turned were important. There’s no way that Labor thought they would loose Braddon and Bass. ALP had a 6% margin in Braddon.
The Howard battlers basically remained and that’s why I never thought Latham was in for a show. It’s just that those Tassie seats were the biggest surprise.
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@nostrildamus for sure. One Nation. Goes without saying. For interest though, what's he done recently?
Had a drunk, racist altercation in the middle of a Melbourne street at 3am? Like last night?
Disrupted a Pride parade by lying down in the middle of the street?
Attacked a women's rights event?
Fucked a bike leader?
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@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@nostrildamus for sure. One Nation. Goes without saying. For interest though, what's he done recently?
Had a drunk, racist altercation in the middle of a Melbourne street at 3am? Like last night?
Disrupted a Pride parade by lying down in the middle of the street?
Attacked a women's rights event?
Fucked a bike leader?
I grant you those are spectacular, but someone who rails against immigrants and doesn't even know which country he is a citizen of (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/high-court-verdict-goodbye-malcolm-roberts-you-wont-be-missed-20171027-gz9byd.html), not to mention his tenuous grasp on science (https://theconversation.com/one-nations-malcolm-roberts-is-in-denial-about-the-facts-of-climate-change-63581), got re-elected.
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@nostrildamus said in Aussie Politics:
@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@nostrildamus for sure. One Nation. Goes without saying. For interest though, what's he done recently?
Had a drunk, racist altercation in the middle of a Melbourne street at 3am? Like last night?
Disrupted a Pride parade by lying down in the middle of the street?
Attacked a women's rights event?
Fucked a bike leader?
I grant you those are spectacular, but someone who rails against immigrants and doesn't even know which country he is a citizen of (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/high-court-verdict-goodbye-malcolm-roberts-you-wont-be-missed-20171027-gz9byd.html), not to mention his tenuous grasp on science (https://theconversation.com/one-nations-malcolm-roberts-is-in-denial-about-the-facts-of-climate-change-63581), got re-elected.
Not disagreeing at all.
Just, umm, Lydia Thorpe
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@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@nostrildamus said in Aussie Politics:
@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
@nostrildamus for sure. One Nation. Goes without saying. For interest though, what's he done recently?
Had a drunk, racist altercation in the middle of a Melbourne street at 3am? Like last night?
Disrupted a Pride parade by lying down in the middle of the street?
Attacked a women's rights event?
Fucked a bike leader?
I grant you those are spectacular, but someone who rails against immigrants and doesn't even know which country he is a citizen of (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/high-court-verdict-goodbye-malcolm-roberts-you-wont-be-missed-20171027-gz9byd.html), not to mention his tenuous grasp on science (https://theconversation.com/one-nations-malcolm-roberts-is-in-denial-about-the-facts-of-climate-change-63581), got re-elected.
Not disagreeing at all.
Just, umm, Lydia Thorpe
Remember she got elected on the greens senate ticket. Roberts got elected on the one nation senate ticket.
As Stealers Wheel once said: clowns to the left of me, jokers to my right....
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hello smart people
thoughts on the Feds move around the RBA today?
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@booboo said in Aussie Politics:
Lydia Thorpe.
How does someone so obviously disturbed get elected?
Greens. There's a bunch of them and by extension about 10% of the population.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Politics:
hello smart people
thoughts on the Feds move around the RBA today?
I think Australia is clearly going to be better served by the economic genius Chalmers appointing more unqualified ACTU people to determine monetary policy.
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Happy to see the OZ citizenship pathway finally get easier. I got here just after the change in 2001 and never bothered getting citizenship as it was going to cost close to 10k for my partner and I as the permanent residency is fucken expensive.
Now I think the cost is $490 so come July 1st I will have to pretend to understand waltzing matilda and somehow hide my hatred for the wallabies.
One other surprising stat was this;
"There are currently 670,000 New Zealanders in Australia on special category visas, including about 380,000 who arrived after 2001 who are eligible for citizenship."Is my math correct in thinking in the last 4 years 290,000 kiwis moved to Australia? That seems like a lot.
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