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Negligent posted:How can a Prime Minister be judged to have governed competently when his or her Party colleagues thought he or she should be replaced, and actually did replace him or her? History will quite rightly judge Labor for Rudd/Gillard/Rudd harshly. What you can argue as an alternative is that despite the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd flip flops, the Labor party in general and Rudd/Gillard in particular, were able to govern competently, given the metrics used. There was no doubt that the Labor party royally screwed up anything to do with public relations, but there is very little doubt that they managed to achieve quite a lot until they went down in flames.
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Negligent posted:See the article didn't actually define the criteria for saying "this is the worst government". The implication I take from the list of examples is that a government that gets its key legislative priorities enacted is a " good " one regardless of what those policies are - he says even if you hate the policies a government can still be effective. I don't think you can make the "did stuff" = "good government" equivalency. Sure, the LNP did what they promised to do, sort of, but that doesn't make what they did any good. Of course, there are all the things they said they'd do and didn't, along with all the things they never said anything about and did anyway. On all of those measures it's been a crappy two years and I'm surprised we've come out of it as well as we hav.e
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Knorth posted:Holy poo poo, an actual empathetic human response out of this government, it's been so long... In the context of "Muslim extremists are coming for them. If they're prepared to kill Muslim civilians, what more against professed Christian civilians?" In isolation it's not the best argument, better to argue "most needy first" and see where religious persecution puts them.
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Sep 4, 2015 05:50
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katlington posted:That's what they are of course, they've even taken somebody elses spot in our quota. Looks like it was only a two-flag worthy announcement, too. Budget cutbacks already?
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Sep 9, 2015 05:52
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freebooter posted:I don't know what's more annoying - people who whinge about changing PMs without consulting the electorate, or people who whinge about people who don't realise this is perfectly legitimate without stopping to consider whether it should, in fact, be legitimate What they should think about getting pissed about is when a PM is rolled, how often they then chuck a hissy fit and quit parliament, thus technically screwing over the electorate who voted for them in the first place. Rudd/Gillard would have to be one of the last ones I can recall that didn't quit, and look how that turned out!
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