Australia General Discussion 2.0

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http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6451-australia-better-pm-turnbull-shorten-september-15-2015-201509150557

Better PM:

Malcolm: 70
Bill: 24

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What is the chance Shorty gets routed?

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Di Natale take advantage of Turnballmania to clean up some  troublemakers of his own.

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Tbh nowadays ego demands every senator will eventually form their own party.

Also, senator Ian MacDonald (another notorious fruitcake, maybe Bernardi will take him) is in trouble for telling a Scottish accented senator to "learn how to speak Australian". Will the SNP declare war?

In other news, a seal has been spotted riding a whale off the NSW coast.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/seal-rides-on-the-back-of-a-whale-on-the-nsw-south-coast-20150916-gjo732.html

And that was the greatest day of that seals life :')

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Who is the minister for women!? As I'm sure we are all asking.

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Steve Ciobo is Minister for Int. Development. He was purged from the Shadow Cabinet when Abbott originally won leadership.

So dutton remains?

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TONY ABBOTT'S ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT RUTHLESSLY OBLITERATED BY MALCOLM "ROBESPIERRE" TURNBULL.

RIP Australian sense of whimsy.

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Is their a chance Malcolm Turnbull could be leading the Liberals into the next election? Especially if Abbott can't force through the Carbon Tax repeal in the new parliament.

It seems that for a third time consecutively in Australia a Prime Minister will be traumatically damaged over a botched tax

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Lol ... The Deputy Chief Minister of the NT has resigned. This really needs to end.

Lmao

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Wait, are the Liberals really calling for an investigation into "cultural marxist indoctrination" in public schools?

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Wait, are the Liberals really calling for an investigation into "cultural marxist indoctrination" in public schools?

Not really, what they ARE calling for is an investigation of the program that encourages safe spaces in public schools for LGBTI kids.

tbf Cory Bernardi did mention the cultural marxist thing in his big speech.

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Hack Senator Joe Bullock resigns because he can't accept SSM, and is being replaced by indigenous leader Patrick Dodson:

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So if Turnbull does lose, how long will it take for the LNP right to rewrite history and claim they would have won if Abbott wasn't betrayed?

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Prediction: Turnbull is rolled next year.

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There's been serious hijinks surrounding Bob Day, a Family First senator until yesterday. It's quite complicated and it involves his housing company, party finance and the possibility he was never legitimately elected in the first place.

My main takeaway: a minor party crossbencher turns out to be crooked? What a shocker!

(Oh yeah we missed a whole lot of Abbott/Turnbull feuding a week or so ago about guns, and the (crooked) crossbencher David Leyonhjelm. Nobody came across very well, least of all Abbott who appears to believe he can swoop back in KRudd style, apparently forgetting that the public quite liked KRudd, even if his party didn't. At the moment neither the parliamentarians nor the public particularly approve of Abbott, so God knows what his game is.

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"The Coalition will consider a form of carbon pricing for power companies as part of a long-awaited review of Australia's climate policies, Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has confirmed."

Kek

Kek

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Cory Bernardi is leaving the Liberal Party.

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I tend to think they won't get too far. The most vulnerable part of the LNP is probably the bush area; and I don't see them going for a true-blue party when more populist and protectionist outfits are available (whether they be One Nation, rural independents (like Xenephon) or the single-issue parties).

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They still haven't filled Day's seat?

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Hilarious that the Nationals are pushing for a mining tax, after the chaos of Rudd's departure and Gillard's mangled implementation.

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He's genuinely delusional. I mean, Rudd managed to get back in because even if his colleagues hated his guts, the public were broadly sympathetic to him still (relative to Gillard anyway). Who - Liberal MP's and Australians alike - has any nostalgia for the Abbott era? Not to mention even his idealogical wing seems to have lost their patience. At best, he'd be an inadvertent staking horse, by striking Turnbull a blow that will be taken advantage of by a less toxic figure like Morrison, or , if the Libs are especially stupid, Dutton.

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I hope Dutton does take the role, seeing that his seat is marginal.

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Has she explained why being swamped with Asians is no longer a problem?

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Terrible news: Palmer United disbands.

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Why don't Family First cooperate with Fred Nile's lot in NSW?