After watching #QandA last night I think my prediction that fracking will turn rural people to ALP/Green might just be right - they (farmers down for the Royal Easter Show) savaged the federal Nat MP.
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Mon 23 Mar, 2015 08:32 pm
The Nat's are simply the Liberal party's little bitches. If the Libs say "Jump", the response is "how high sir?".
I think, like Queensland, it will depend on 'Below the line' preferences but the freaking ballot paper is the biggest in Australian history I understand.
I think, like Queensland, it will depend on 'Below the line' preferences but the freaking ballot paper is the biggest in Australian history I understand.
NSW senate has optional above the line preferential.
Some of my fave news sites really have thoughtful comments - it's like the anti-youtube.
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When Rudd was unpopular the ALP back room boys installed Gillard. When Gillard was unpopular the ALP back room boys installed Rudd.
But now Abbott is unpopular, and Bishop is grooming the world for a new Aussie female PM. The LNP wide boys will be acting before the next election.
Aaahh, sexism. I have yet to hear Senator Heffernan smearing the unmarried with no kids Bishop for being deliberately barren, as he did with Gillard.
I have yet to hear Brandis smear her as "she has chosen not to be a parent ? she is very much a one-dimensional person" - his public comments about Gillard.
I have yet to see a Mal Brough menu with a dish of Julie Bishop Roast Quail "small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box".
So maybe Bishop isn't fighting sexism because her ALP opponents aren't putting the boot in, like her fellow LNP comrades did to Gillard. Easy to be above the fray when no-one is taking potshots at you.
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hingehead
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Sun 3 May, 2015 04:49 pm
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hingehead
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Tue 5 May, 2015 11:19 pm
Richard DiNatale replaces the retiring Christine Milne as leader of the greens
As one twitter wag said, with Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters as co-deputies that leaves Adam Bandt to be the backbencher ;-)
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hingehead
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Wed 6 May, 2015 05:18 am
Great bit on foreign aid on the weekly
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hingehead
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Wed 6 May, 2015 06:20 pm
From former Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson's address to graduates at Uni of Adelaide
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... he suggested some challenges they should take up, “climate change, indigenous advancement, entrenched disadvantage” challenges his generation had ducked. “We rode the benefits of other’s reform efforts, and thought that success was our doing. In the process, we conflated self-interest with national-interest. We lost sight of the big picture and applauded the things that made me better off, irrespective of the cost to others in our community, or to future generations.”
A fitting eulogy for our current political leadership.
