Australia General Discussion 2.0

[Knives]

I'm curious to see polling now.

[Knives]

it was also a poll done by SMS and in 24hrs.

[Knives]

What is the chance Shorty gets routed?

It'd take an election loss.

[Knives]

What is the chance Shorty gets routed?

Very unlikely given the new rules.

Nor should we.

Shorten's problem is his speech ability and the fact that he was intrinsic in toppling 2 PMs. Aside from that he's got some pretty good ideas and having met the guy he's quite nice. I think he'd make a surprisingly good PM and is quite underrated.

[Knives]

The NSW ALP continues to make a strong recovery.


TPP
Coalition- 56% (+2)
Labor- 44% (-2)

Primary
Coalition- 47% (+1)
Labor- 33% (-1)
Greens- 11% (+1)
Otherd- 9% (-1)

Mike Baird Favorability
Approval- 63% (+6)
Disapproval- 23% (-6)

Luke Foley Favorability
Approval- 35% (-3)
Disapproval- 37% (0)

Preferred Premier
Baird- 57% (+3)
Foley- 19% (-8)

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2015/09/25/newspoll-56-44-to-coalition-in-nsw-3/

Foley needs to go jfc. NSW Labor is such a damaged brand.

[Knives]

So the federal government came out in support or legalizing medical marijuana yesterday. A Turnbull decision, or something a long time coming?

Prompted by a Di Natalie campaign on the issue, at least in part.  He got Shorten to commit to medical cannabis the day before Turnbull also agreed to it.  Now we have a funny situation where the ALP is criticising Turnbull for only allowing states to give out growing licenses whereas they argue that the scheme should be federal, and that people should have access to medical cannabis regardless of their location.

Probably more because of the Victorian government, let's be real Di Natalie has like no influence.

[Knives]

God I hate the Australian media, rather than focusing on how horrific raising the GST would be all they want to do is focus on Bill's awkward trip to the shops. The media's mindset is basically "let's not scrutinise Turnbull but spend a day talking about lettuce" and it's ing ridic.

[Knives]

:/ Turnbull is planning on outsourcing Medicare - this is worse than Abbott's copayment.

[Knives]

Glorious news.

[Knives]

The Libs are imploding, they should have called an election as soon as they replaced Abbott.

[Knives]

Australian politics is such a joke atm.

Not as much as the US but like jesus christ these people are ridic.

[Knives]

Glorious ing glorious.

[Knives]

Turnbull's win makes it a lot easier for state Labor parties to win again which is a good thing.

[Knives]

I haven't seen this much public concern about industrial relations in ages, the FWC ruling is going to be a major headache for the libs.

[Knives]

So the AFP raided AWU offices over a donation from 10years ago and it has all blown up in the governments face after it was revealed that a staffer had tipped off the media. Cannot ing wait to vote this pack of useless s out.

[Knives]

So the AFP raided AWU offices over a donation from 10years ago and it has all blown up in the governments face after it was revealed that a staffer had tipped off the media. Cannot ing wait to vote this pack of useless s out.

I hope Labor gets a surge from this blatant abuse of power,

Senate estimates has been brutal tonight. By the end of the week I think Turnbull is going to lose 3 ministers.

[Knives]

Newspoll 55/45

Insane. LNP primary is 34%, it was 39% in 2007 when they lost 22 seats. But this is a historic low.

[Knives]

It's nice to see something nice come out of this ing awful 45th Parliament.

That being said, for the 3rd time in history and in this term of Parliament a majority government lost a vote on the floor of the HoR over Manus. Timely reminder that as far as we as a society progress internally we have much to be ashamed of internationally.

[Knives]

Obviously I think things will settle down but the Liberal brand is incredibly damaged.