Australia General Discussion 2.0

[Lachi]

How was talking to Shorten like?

[Ebowed]

How was talking to Shorten like?

Pleasant!  He came across as genuine and friendly.

[Lachi]

Pauline Hanson has been slammed over saying that we should #pray4muslimban, and rightly so, considering it wouldn't really do jacksh**t a lot of the time.

[Ebowed]

Pauline Hanson has been slammed over saying that we should #pray4muslimban, and rightly so, considering it wouldn't really do jacksh**t a lot of the time.

Pauline Hanson shilling for Abbott-Turnbull cuts to struggling families is the ultimate confirmation of her pyramid scheme party being a stalking horse for failed Liberal policies.

[GoTfan]

Pauline Hanson has been slammed over saying that we should #pray4muslimban, and rightly so, considering it wouldn't really do jacksh**t a lot of the time.

Pauline Hanson shilling for Abbott-Turnbull cuts to struggling families is the ultimate confirmation of her pyramid scheme party being a stalking horse for failed Liberal policies.

She's actually said some good things about trade and oir farmland being sold off . . . but she's sold out now.

Same for Xenophon the Xenocon. Populist? He's proved that he's not. He used to be a good fighter for us in SA, but now he's sold out big-time.

Meanwhile, my respect for Shorten, Di Natale and Lambie grows.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Pauline Hanson has come out and said Australia needs to be vaccinated against Islam.

[Lachi]

A new Fairfax-Ipsos poll has shown that if the election was to be held on Saturday, the Government could lose 24 seats, including cabinet ministers Peter Dutton, and Christian Poter, along with junior ministers Ken Wyatt, and Luke Hartsuyker.

2PP
LAB: 56% (+4)
L/NP: 44% (-4)

PRIMARY VOTE:
LAB: 34%
L/NP: 33%
GRN: 16% (unusually high, also the reason why labor's primary vote is so low for the 2PP)
OTH: 17% (They don't separate PHONy from the others)

Under a uniform swing, that would get Labor to 93, and that's if the Greens don't gain seats from that high of a primary vote, as I would think that the Greens word take at least 1-2 more seats.

[Ebowed]

Hahaha!  Hopefully that will teach Turnbull not to waste his diminishing (diminished?) political capital on watering down race-hate laws.  What an idiot!

[Lachi]

Hahaha!  Hopefully that will teach Turnbull not to waste his diminishing (diminished?) political capital on watering down race-hate laws.  What an idiot!

Ikr, and people thought we was gonna have a polling bounce.

[Lachi]

A new Fairfax-Ipsos poll has found at 8/10 Australians polled disapprove the proposed changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

Link (profanity warning): www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxipsos-poll-eight-in-10-voters-oppose-turnbull-governments-18c-race-hate-law-changes-20170327-gv7dlq.html

[GoTfan]

A new Fairfax-Ipsos poll has found at 8/10 Australians polled disapprove the proposed changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

Link (profanity warning): www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxipsos-poll-eight-in-10-voters-oppose-turnbull-governments-18c-race-hate-law-changes-20170327-gv7dlq.html

Duh. Turnbull has let me down. I thought he'd be different from the radical right of Abbott.

[Ebowed]

A new Fairfax-Ipsos poll has found at 8/10 Australians polled disapprove the proposed changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

Link (profanity warning): www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxipsos-poll-eight-in-10-voters-oppose-turnbull-governments-18c-race-hate-law-changes-20170327-gv7dlq.html

Duh. Turnbull has let me down. I thought he'd be different from the radical right of Abbott.

The crucial problem, of course, is that while Turnbull lets regular people down for being such a hard-right sell-out, the far-right nutters simultaneously question his purity and devotion to the cause.

In other words, nobody really likes Malcolm Turnbull, and it doesn't look like there is any way that is going to change.

[Phony Moderate]

Those who would be happy to see Trump to be replaced with a 'moderate' Republican should take note of all this.

[Barnes]

The High Court has finally handed down its ruling on the validity of Bob Day's election to the Senate. In sum, Day has been deemed to have been ineligible to serve since February 2016, obviously before the last election. As a result, he was also ineligible to be elected at the July election and a re-count of the votes will be conducted by the AEC to choose his replacement.

The High Court has yet to decide if Family First is still entitled to it's above-the-line votes or if they are disqualified.

[Vosem]

The High Court has finally handed down its ruling on the validity of Bob Day's election to the Senate. In sum, Day has been deemed to have been ineligible to serve since February 2016, obvisouly before the last election. As a result, he was also ineligible to be elected at the July election and a re-count of the votes will be conducted by the AEC to choose his replacement.

The High Court has yet to decide if Family First is still entitled to it's above-the-line votes or if they are disqualified.

What would be the difference between this case and One Nation in Queensland in 1998, where their above-the-line votes were obviously maintained?

[Barnes]

The High Court has finally handed down its ruling on the validity of Bob Day's election to the Senate. In sum, Day has been deemed to have been ineligible to serve since February 2016, obvisouly before the last election. As a result, he was also ineligible to be elected at the July election and a re-count of the votes will be conducted by the AEC to choose his replacement.

The High Court has yet to decide if Family First is still entitled to it's above-the-line votes or if they are disqualified.

What would be the difference between this case and One Nation in Queensland in 1998, where their above-the-line votes were obviously maintained?

That was a pretty clear-cut recount with Len Harris being deemed elected in place of Heather Hill. Here, Family First received so few below-the-line-votes that if they were denied their ticket the seat would almost certainly go to Labor's Anne McEwen, who was defeated last July.

[Barnes]

Found a bit more clarity on the above topic and High Court precedent over several cases would see Day's votes remaining and being distributed to the number two on the list, Lucy Gichuhi, electing her to the Senate.

A single justice of the court has to now decide the specific mechanics of the recount to instruct the AEC, but Gichuhi's election is a foregone conclusion. To be honest, the ALP (and really just McEwen more than anyone else) were really grasping at straws here.

[Ebowed]

I thought it interesting that following the result in WA, the Nationals opted to pick a new leader who not only prefers to not coalesce with the Liberals, still wants mining companies to pay taxes, and even goes so far as to call herself a feminist.

[Barnes]

I thought it interesting that following the result in WA, the Nationals opted to pick a new leader who not only prefers to not coalesce with the Liberals, still wants mining companies to pay taxes, and even goes so far as to call herself a feminist.

The WA Nationals always have a renegade streak. Depending on whether or not Labor can get a Liberal elected President of the Legislative Council (thus giving them and the Greens a one-seat majority), working with the Nats is probably their next best option.

[Barnes]

Tony Nutt, the Director of the Federal Liberal Party, resigned from his position a few days ago. He was appointed soon after Turnbull took over and oversaw the 2016 campaign.

Also, the party's internal review of its handeling of the 2016 election is due to be presented to MPs today. It's expected to be pretty wide-ranging and damning of the party's performance.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Australia's Top New Story for April.



Ben McCormack, the Current Affair reporter who chases paedophiles and suspected criminals around with a camera asking them juicy questions live on TV is himself arrested for child porn offences.

Did not see that coming.

I have lost all faith in Tracy Grimshaw and the team, but they did admit it live on air.

https://youtu.be/nseEDGGxbxo

If you cant trust A Current Affair to chase criminals live on air, who can you trust.

https://youtu.be/NJ2L1k0xee8

I like that Joe guy.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Australia's Top New Story for April.



Ben McCormack, the Current Affair reporter who chases paedophiles and suspected criminals around with a camera asking them juicy questions live on TV is himself arrested for child porn offences.

Did not see that coming.

It takes a pedo to catch other pedos.

[GoTfan]

Australia's Top New Story for April.



Ben McCormack, the Current Affair reporter who chases paedophiles and suspected criminals around with a camera asking them juicy questions live on TV is himself arrested for child porn offences.

Did not see that coming.

It takes a pedo to catch other pedos.

I've never had respect for either A Current Affair or Today Tonight. They're both pathetic excuses for journalism.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Australia's Top New Story for April.



Ben McCormack, the Current Affair reporter who chases paedophiles and suspected criminals around with a camera asking them juicy questions live on TV is himself arrested for child porn offences.

Did not see that coming.

It takes a pedo to catch other pedos.

I've never had respect for either A Current Affair or Today Tonight. They're both pathetic excuses for journalism.

They are not journalism. I agree.

But i love the way the chase and confront people.

Check this cameraman out. Nails a dude whp sprays them with a fizzy drink outside court when they were filming his sister.

https://youtu.be/KsWgrJINr00

[Barnes]

The first sittingof the new Parliament of Western Australia is on Thursday 11 May. The new MLCs take their seats after 21 May.