asio posted:

What the sports commentator said was ill-informed and unpleasant and it would be nice for this thread to be able to point this out without echoing his sentiment in different words.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Anidav posted:

I want them to dunk Turnbull only for the high court to dunk Dutton leaving a very confused Scott Morrison.

drunkill posted:

I am now worried that dutton won't get up in a spill motion.

ewe2 posted:

Just a paranoid stab in the dark, but what if Gina Rinehartan anonymous billionaire promised the right faction an all-expenses paid election campaign as long as Peter and Tony were running things? It's probably not that but it makes more sense than an insane compaction cycle that leaves them representing cattalaxyfiles.com.

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Also expressing effusive praise for the US President (not that that's a surprise) was key IPA patron Gina Rinehart, who sent along a message urging Australia to adopt the US' policies.

"Under President Trump's leadership, free enterprise policies that promote economic growth and reduce the size and cost of government are doing more to help the underprivileged in the United States than eight years of big government and socialist policies," she said.

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At the end of last year I was told that I wouldn’t be renewed on the board of the National Museum even though I’d been told by the relevant minister that I was going to be renewed.
“And then I heard that Malcolm Turnbull had said, ‘Well, I can’t possibly — why would I reappoint her? She is an enemy of mine.’

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I just read that site for the first time in ages and there was a link to qanon lol.

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On the basis of what we know, the Liberal Party should be able to win the election: the economy is going well, the country's at peace and urgent social and environmental issues are being addressed.

But to win an election in a Western democracy requires more than good economic data. There's very little truth in the Clintonian slogan "It's the economy, stupid." People don't vote for statistics. They vote based on how they feel. Successful politicians are more than good policy analysts. Leaders, to use a phrase, "ring the chimes in the hearts of the people".

So here's the challenge for the Liberals. They have to develop an inspiring story about where they're going to take the country. They won't find that story in focus groups and quantitative polling. They won't inspire the public with a fusillade of cliches about listening and delivering. They need to produce a quite emotional story about Australia and where it needs to go.

An inspiring story will make people notice. It will play to their emotions. Australians love Australia. They care for the country and they care for it's people. So it's no political crime to put Australia first.

Moon Atari posted:

Plus both Murdoch and Rinehart comments came from "journalist" and current IPA director Janet Albrechtsen, noted for this quote earlier this year:

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For many, the party culture at Flight Centre represents something of a pay-off for the long hours and low pay.
"The parties are insane — they are amazing," one Flight Centre staff member told the ABC.
There's the all-but mandatory booze-soaked "buzz nights". Held in pubs, restaurants and function spaces, the unpaid monthly events offer a chance to boast for those who have hit sales targets and are known to devolve into sexually-charged hard-drinking sessions.
The nature of buzz nights varies depending on the store, but those who don't attend are reportedly frowned upon and asked for a compelling reason for their absence.
"You are required to go to these staff nights, but I dreaded them," Ms Little said.
"There'd be new starters who they'd introduce to the whole group.
"In my area, when you were introduced, you either had to tell a joke, tell a funny story — which usually had to be quite dirty — or you had to flash. Not men, women.
"You'd have men in the back-row howling like fools."

Don Dongington posted:

I'm enjoying the IPA disappearing up its own irrelevant rear end in a top hat out of the mistaken belief that lobbying is a one way street.

The overwhelming majority of Australians do not want a US style system. That applies to health, welfare, government, the administration, gun rights, employment conditions, the election of public servants down to a pathetically low level etc.

We have a better country than the US by almost every metric that works on a per-capita basis. We would be idiots to want to change that, and every time somebody has given it a solid go they've ended up on their rear end.

So yeah, the IPA and their benefactors openly declaring support for the least popular president in US history, as well as a desire to adopt policies that a majority amount of the US are desperate to overturn is just fine, as all it will do is marginalise them and cause politicians to keep their distance.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Remember when Janet Albrechtsen got in a big argument with Sophie Mirabella and Catriona Rowntree had to break it up?

bandaid.friend posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-22/flight-centre-accused-of-ripping-off-customers-underpaying-staff/10051474

There's a lot of stuff about how Flight Centre are exploiting employees, but the parties sound awful



"Memory fading in and out" "Where did that bruise come from? What am I drinking?"

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A snap Roy Morgan poll, to be released tomorrow, suggests Malcolm Turnbull remains the preferred prime minister over Bill Shorten. But it also suggests Shorten is preferred to Peter Dutton.

It polled a cross-section of more than 1,200 voters. Key results are:

Malcolm Turnbull was preferred as the PM (52%) Shorten (44.5%). A further 3.5% were undecided.
Shorten (59%) rates above Dutton (36.5%). A further 4.5% can’t say.

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We warned you earlier things were liable to change with extraordinary speed. Well, 2GB’s Alan Jones has just tweeted that we should all “Get ready. Party room meeting tonight”.

Cool your heels, at least for the moment.

Our editor Katharine Murphy has done a ring-around of Coalition MPs, who are saying they’ve heard nothing of the sort.

The office of Nola Marino, the chief government’s whip, has told us it’s “completely untrue”.

G-Spot Run posted:

Does the GG operate by business hours or can Turnbull race up in a comcar to try and call a GE out of spite?

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Now The ABC understand one of those other frontbenchers has insisted his resignation be accepted, putting more pressure on Mr Turnbull as he fights for his job.


It is not clear yet if it will spark more Ministers or assistant ministers to join him in finally quitting.


More resignations would be a sign Mr Turnbull's position is further weakened.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

From the abc