Australia General Discussion 4.0: It ain’t easy under Albanese

[Meclazine for Israel]

Andrew Bolt identifies the members of Parliament who voted against the Australian Government saying "we stand with Israel" and "Israel has a right to defend itself".

Andrew Bolt

https://youtu.be/bSCbJN_TYbM

Greens and Teals.

[GoTfan]

Andrew Bolt identifies the members of Parliament who voted against the Australian Government saying "we stand with Israel" and "Israel has a right to defend itself".

Andrew Bolt

https://youtu.be/bSCbJN_TYbM

Greens and Teals.

This is what I meant earlier.

Sky News has been on the verge of encouraging direct violence against people for a while now. 2020 and 2022 collectively snapped something inside Sky News. Honestly, I'm surprised he didn't post their home addresses and where their kids go to school as well, because that seems an awful lot like something they would do.

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

[Estrella]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

[GoTfan]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

[TheTide]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

Indeed. Australia is a country where the most right wing Prime Minister it has ever had was able to address a crowd of gun nuts and tell them what a load of idiots they were and then subsequently pass legalisation that severely cracked down on guns. It is not the United States.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

Indeed. Australia is a country where the most right wing Prime Minister it has ever had was able to address a crowd of gun nuts and tell them what a load of idiots they were and then subsequently pass legalisation that severely cracked down on guns. It is not the United States.

and the loudest and most universal criticism of that speech wasn't its contents, but his decision to wear a (very conspicuous) bulletproof vest! Howard even called it one of the biggest mistakes of his Premiership!

[CumbrianLefty]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

Indeed. Australia is a country where the most right wing Prime Minister it has ever had was able to address a crowd of gun nuts and tell them what a load of idiots they were and then subsequently pass legalisation that severely cracked down on guns. It is not the United States.

Tony Abbott says hi

Though yes, this is mere quibbling with your (totally correct) broader point.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

WA Nationals state MP for North West Central, Merome Beard, has defected to the Liberal party in yet another WA Coalition farce. Regardless of what's said publicly, I strongly suspect this is all to do with her seat being torn apart in the upcoming state redistribution.

[Intell]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

Indeed. Australia is a country where the most right wing Prime Minister it has ever had was able to address a crowd of gun nuts and tell them what a load of idiots they were and then subsequently pass legalisation that severely cracked down on guns. It is not the United States.

Tony Abbott says hi

Though yes, this is mere quibbling with your (totally correct) broader point.

It's Scott Morrison.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

The first round of suggestions for the NSW federal redistribution have also been released. Usual mix of parochialists and crackpots in personal submissions, meanwhile the three party submissions are as hilariously blatant as they always are in NSW.

Labor's proposal is as direct as ever. Dai Le's seat is split in four directions (lmao) being most blatant. On the two party front they've proposed some new tricks this time. Down in the shire they obviously push Cook back south across the Georges, but their new trick is Banks crossing to take in the Menai, abolishing and merging with Hughes very cleanly. This helpfully allows all the Illawarra/South Coast to shuffle up, shoring up Eden-Monaro. On the north side they choose not to abolish a seat, instead shuffling everything west to their liking. Bennelong is pushed west into more favourable territory which pushes Parramatta into rock solid status. By pushing most of the gains through Bradfield, Berowra takes most of the Hawkesbury, finally shoring up Macquarie (on horrendous boundaries that split Penrith in half). Hume gets pushed well into Macarthur though not as much as they've past suggested. Total sum is 1 Liberal abolished, every marginal Labor seat would be comfortable even on 2019 figures.

The Liberals don't butcher the teals as much as I expected, seems they've got bigger fish to fry. Only North Sydney is cleanly abolished, which will flip Bennelong at the cost of strong teal bases in both it and Bradfield. This allows for a new electorate of Reibey based on the Hawkesbury. Parramatta is abandoned on very similar borders to Labor to allow it. Greenway is somewhat weakened on the off chance 2019 numbers come back. By abolishing Blaxland in the Inner West Reid is also totally abandoned, and Barton is further shored up too. This is all to keep Cook, Banks and Hughes on relatively comfortable (undersizes) boundaries. A new seat of Bird Walton is centred on the south west, clearly inspired by Badgery's Creek state electorate. In the country Macquarie is merged with Calare which would be a shtshow for all involved (local independent, Nationals, Labor). Paterson also loses the river towns to give a fighting shot back.

The Nationals blindly butcher Sydney in the sole pursuit of maintaining country seats, cleanly abolishing Albo's seat of Grayndler in the process just for a laugh.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

Indeed. Australia is a country where the most right wing Prime Minister it has ever had was able to address a crowd of gun nuts and tell them what a load of idiots they were and then subsequently pass legalisation that severely cracked down on guns. It is not the United States.

Tony Abbott says hi

Tony Abbott, the second greatest Prime Minister our country has had after John Howard.

John Howard was a gifted Australian and his pedigree was clear at age 16.

Give It A Go Radio Show (1955)

https://omny.fm/shows/simon-owens-radio-archive/john-howard-with-jack-davey-on-give-it-a-go-in-195

[GoTfan]

Someone is going to get hurt in 2025. Someone may even be killed.

Most likely by the people who went to the Sydney Opera House and chanted “gas the Jews”.

And that goes to show how little you know of Australia

Indeed. Australia is a country where the most right wing Prime Minister it has ever had was able to address a crowd of gun nuts and tell them what a load of idiots they were and then subsequently pass legalisation that severely cracked down on guns. It is not the United States.

Tony Abbott says hi

Tony Abbott, the second greatest Prime Minister our country has had after John Howard.

John Howard was a gifted Australian and his pedigree was clear at age 16.

Give It A Go Radio Show (1955)

https://omny.fm/shows/simon-owens-radio-archive/john-howard-with-jack-davey-on-give-it-a-go-in-195

Howard gave up billions in revenue during the mining boom for tax cuts so he could get votes. Abbott was just about one of the worst Prime Ministers ever with his clear wish for us to be a colony again

They sucked to everyone not on the right wing, which says a lot about you.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

NSW Liberals have finally settled on a replacement for Marise Payne in the Senate, former member for Wentworth Dave Sharma beat former State Transport Minister Andrew Constance 251-206 in an upset. While they're both moderates, Constance had the support of Dutton (after Seselja's flop) and moderate powerbrokers. It looks like Sharma won based off strong speeches on the Israel-Gaza conflict, as a devout Jew with close links to the Eastern Suburbs Synagogues.

In other news, tonight's newspoll has been released at 50-50. Detainee Release looks to have hurt Albo. Albo's approval rating has also fallen to 40/53, the same as ScoMo's on election day 2022. Labor may be about to panic and do something stupid...

[CumbrianLefty]

the same as ScoMo's on election day 2019

When he won?

[AustralianSwingVoter]

the same as ScoMo's on election day 2019

When he won?

Woops, edited

The prime cause for the weakness this week looks to be the High Court striking down indefinite immigration detention. Thanks to extremely terrible legal advice that they'd win the case, Labor was totally unprepared for the verdict and has now had to release 93 serious criminals. Crimes that landed the men in indefinite detention include murder, rape, child sex abuse, drug smuggling and terrorism concerns. And now these men have been released!
The case is NZYQ v. Minister for Immigration et al, with NZYQ being a Royhinga man convicted for the rape of a 10 year old boy, who was found by psychologists to have a severe risk of reoffending and no remorse for his crime.

All in all just about the worst possible story for Labor! And now they're going to work with Dutton to make a bipartisan solution to the ruling.

[Meclazine for Israel]

One of Australia's political masterminds thinks the Coalition are half a chance at the next Federal Election.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0TP9t8S4Ks/

Albanese's brand is not appealing to everyone.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

political mastermind… Tony Abbott

Lmfao

[Meclazine for Israel]

2 December 2023

ABC News Top Story

Coffin holding 16 y.o. Cleveland Dodd's body lowered into the ground on Yamaji country after boy's death in custody.


Cleveland was described as a "bright boy".(Supplied: Family)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/cleveland-dodd-buried-on-yamaji-country-in-mid-west/103179062

Children comforted other crying children in the crowd of mourners huddled near the boy's grave, at a cemetery on the outskirts of Meekatharra, 750 kilometres north-east of Perth.

His father was allowed to attend his funeral despite also being in jail.


Cleveland Dodd's father Wayne Gentle in handcuffs and flanked by police officers.(ABC News: Jake Sturmer)

https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/corrective-services-backflips-on-decision-to-bar-cleveland-dodd-s-father-from-funeral-20231201-p5eoe2.html

R.I.P.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Member for Dunkley Peta Murphy has died after a long fight with cancer, triggering a by-election for her semi-marginal seat in Melbourne’s southeast.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yes, will be a very interesting one.

Will the recent downturn for Albanese/ALP in polls be reflected in real votes?

[Meclazine for Israel]

Premier of Queensland resigns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/annastacia-palaszczuk-resigning-as-queensland-premier/103211112

Annastacia Palaszczuk oversaw a boom in the Queensland economy and also an explosion in juvenile crime and the like.

[MaxQue]

Premier of Queensland resigns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/annastacia-palaszczuk-resigning-as-queensland-premier/103211112

Annastacia Palaszczuk oversaw a boom in the Queensland economy and also an explosion in juvenile crime and the like.

Let's be honest here, as it's an Australia-wide problem. The explosion in juveline crime should be put at the feet of the government who was in power for most of her time, the federal Coalition.

[Pericles]

Premier of Queensland resigns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/annastacia-palaszczuk-resigning-as-queensland-premier/103211112

Annastacia Palaszczuk oversaw a boom in the Queensland economy and also an explosion in juvenile crime and the like.

Let's be honest here, as it's an Australia-wide problem. The explosion in juveline crime should be put at the feet of the government who was in power for most of her time, the federal Coalition.

It's a problem in NZ too and I'm pretty sure I've seen these same headlines from across the world after Covid.

[GoTfan]

Premier of Queensland resigns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/annastacia-palaszczuk-resigning-as-queensland-premier/103211112

Annastacia Palaszczuk oversaw a boom in the Queensland economy and also an explosion in juvenile crime and the like.

Let's be honest here, as it's an Australia-wide problem. The explosion in juveline crime should be put at the feet of the government who was in power for most of her time, the federal Coalition.

Meclazine has described Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce as our greatest and most respected political minds. He doesn't want to hear anything about the Coalition doing bad things.

[CumbrianLefty]

Premier of Queensland resigns.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/annastacia-palaszczuk-resigning-as-queensland-premier/103211112

Annastacia Palaszczuk oversaw a boom in the Queensland economy and also an explosion in juvenile crime and the like.

Let's be honest here, as it's an Australia-wide problem. The explosion in juveline crime should be put at the feet of the government who was in power for most of her time, the federal Coalition.

Meclazine has described Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce as our greatest and most respected political minds. He doesn't want to hear anything about the Coalition doing bad things.

I mean, what a pair