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« Reply #1675 on: January 19, 2015, 07:22:22 AM »
Knights and dames, solo. Knights and dames.
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« Reply #1676 on: January 19, 2015, 07:59:57 AM »
Quote from: CrabCake on January 19, 2015, 07:22:22 AM
Knights and dames, solo. Knights and dames.

Oh and doubling the deficit, giving up billions in revenue from an effective climate measure, turning the G20 into a giant pity party, achieved the worst polling for the first year of a new Government and a first-term PM in the modern era, gutted support for groups that advocate for homelessness and childhood cancer... be fair solo.
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« Reply #1677 on: January 21, 2015, 08:05:03 PM »
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As the saying goes... "never believe something until it's been officially denied"

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« Reply #1678 on: January 22, 2015, 07:01:53 PM »
Quote from: CrabCake on January 19, 2015, 07:22:22 AM
Knights and dames, solo. Knights and dames.

What does that mean?
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« Reply #1679 on: January 22, 2015, 07:11:49 PM »

Australia stopped handing out Knight and Damehoods nearly 30 years ago... Abbott re-introduced them.
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« Reply #1680 on: January 22, 2015, 07:24:26 PM »
Quote from: Senator Polnut on January 22, 2015, 07:11:49 PM

Australia stopped handing out Knight and Damehoods nearly 30 years ago... Abbott re-introduced them.

Ah, I assumed it was a idiomatic expression that we don't have over here.
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« Reply #1681 on: January 23, 2015, 01:19:16 AM »
The Libs just keep digging their own grave... deeper... and deeper...
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« Reply #1682 on: January 23, 2015, 12:22:36 PM »
are they really reviving the debate over industrial relations? Seeing as it completely sunk a pretty competent Liberal leader, I don't see why Abbott thinks he can do any better...?
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« Reply #1683 on: January 23, 2015, 07:21:46 PM »
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are they really reviving the debate over industrial relations? Seeing as it completely sunk a pretty competent Liberal leader, I don't see why Abbott thinks he can do any better...?


This Government has utterly lost the plot. You have to wonder, with all these self-inflicted wounds, if they actually want to win.
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« Reply #1684 on: January 23, 2015, 09:46:29 PM »
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Quote from: CrabCake on January 23, 2015, 12:22:36 PM
are they really reviving the debate over industrial relations? Seeing as it completely sunk a pretty competent Liberal leader, I don't see why Abbott thinks he can do any better...?


This Government has utterly lost the plot. You have to wonder, with all these self-inflicted wounds, if they actually want to win.

No, but they have reached their goal, changing the country. They know ALP is too cowardly to go back on those changes.
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« Reply #1685 on: January 23, 2015, 10:41:10 PM »
That's the thing ... they haven't really been to do anything. I think the ALP will be a lot more aggressive in undoing whatever they do manage to get done.
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« Reply #1686 on: January 24, 2015, 12:40:17 AM »
Quote from: MaxQue on January 23, 2015, 09:46:29 PM
Quote from: Senator Polnut on January 23, 2015, 07:21:46 PM
Quote from: CrabCake on January 23, 2015, 12:22:36 PM
are they really reviving the debate over industrial relations? Seeing as it completely sunk a pretty competent Liberal leader, I don't see why Abbott thinks he can do any better...?


This Government has utterly lost the plot. You have to wonder, with all these self-inflicted wounds, if they actually want to win.

No, but they have reached their goal, changing the country. They know ALP is too cowardly to go back on those changes.

The problem with Labor is more when it has a mandate than when it is in opposition.  When they take over from Tony, they will have no problem gutting the very small things he has actually managed to do.
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« Reply #1687 on: January 24, 2015, 01:31:18 AM »
Quote from: MaxQue on January 23, 2015, 09:46:29 PM
Quote from: Senator Polnut on January 23, 2015, 07:21:46 PM
Quote from: CrabCake on January 23, 2015, 12:22:36 PM
are they really reviving the debate over industrial relations? Seeing as it completely sunk a pretty competent Liberal leader, I don't see why Abbott thinks he can do any better...?


This Government has utterly lost the plot. You have to wonder, with all these self-inflicted wounds, if they actually want to win.

No, but they have reached their goal, changing the country. They know ALP is too cowardly to go back on those changes.

lol the country is in no way different to what it was in 2013. The ALP has already promised to bring back a carbon tax, scrap changes to welfare and have basically promised to end off shore processing.
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« Reply #1688 on: January 24, 2015, 01:35:03 AM »
Well, I heard their hard-right rhetoric, so I assumed the actions went into that direction.
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« Reply #1689 on: January 24, 2015, 08:15:09 AM »
Quote from: MaxQue on January 24, 2015, 01:35:03 AM
Well, I heard their hard-right rhetoric, so I assumed the actions went into that direction.

They haven't gotten all that much done though since they don't control the Upper House.
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« Reply #1690 on: January 25, 2015, 12:28:11 PM »
Apparently this is real
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« Reply #1691 on: January 25, 2015, 12:37:38 PM »

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« Reply #1692 on: January 25, 2015, 01:14:46 PM »

Yes, but also WTF.
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« Reply #1693 on: January 25, 2015, 02:23:47 PM »

Gardiner for PM
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« Reply #1694 on: January 25, 2015, 04:14:28 PM »
What's going on in Australia?
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« Reply #1695 on: January 25, 2015, 04:54:03 PM »
This is also real.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/26/prince-philip-angus-houston-named-australian-knights
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« Reply #1696 on: January 25, 2015, 07:12:21 PM »
omg tony just  off back to england!!!!
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« Reply #1697 on: January 25, 2015, 08:07:09 PM »
And I told my mother she must have misheard when she said she heard it on the radio. Jesus Christ.
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« Reply #1698 on: January 25, 2015, 11:42:11 PM »
Poll on the fairfax websited with over 25,000 votes has a 92% negative reaction to the announcement.

Admittedly, the readership skews left, but still... I think this might be the 'jumped the shark' moment.
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« Reply #1699 on: January 26, 2015, 03:53:13 AM »
Quote from: Platypus on January 25, 2015, 11:42:11 PM
Poll on the fairfax websited with over 25,000 votes has a 92% negative reaction to the announcement.

Admittedly, the readership skews left, but still... I think this might be the 'jumped the shark' moment.

The issue is the Prince Philip or the former defense guy?

Also, Happy Australia Day, mates!
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