Australia General Discussion

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Yes. If this election was actually fought on the economy, Liberals would have Hockey or Turnbull as their leader.

If you should give a top three on the issues that are going to decide this election, what would they be?

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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/12/22/top-achievement-minister-women-was-carbon-tax-repeal-pm-says

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...I don't even.

Defender of the Aussie housewives.

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Apparently this is real

FF

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I kind of disagree that it will be Bishop.

She's an unmarried, childless woman ... everything said about Gillard would come into play. That doesn't sit well with a lot of the voting base. She also knows that people started digging into Gillard's private life the moment she became PM... it would be the same for Bishop and let's say there's certainly some decent skeletons to find.

I think Bishop is actually content where she is, for the above reasons and others.

My money is on Turnbull PM, Bishop retains Deputy and FA and Morrison gets kicked up to Treasurer.

What sort of skeletons?

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I kind of disagree that it will be Bishop.

She's an unmarried, childless woman ... everything said about Gillard would come into play. That doesn't sit well with a lot of the voting base. She also knows that people started digging into Gillard's private life the moment she became PM... it would be the same for Bishop and let's say there's certainly some decent skeletons to find.

I think Bishop is actually content where she is, for the above reasons and others.

My money is on Turnbull PM, Bishop retains Deputy and FA and Morrison gets kicked up to Treasurer.

What sort of skeletons?

My mum mentioned something about screwing over people making abestos claims when she was a lawyer.

That's actually pretty well known. There are some that I personally think are off limits, but the media won't.

Hmm, so how did you get access to this non-publicly known info about Bishop?

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The Bulgarian lady director of UNESCO will get the job.

It is not Europe's turn.

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The Bulgarian lady director of UNESCO will get the job.

It is not Europe's turn.

It is Eastern Europe's turn, however.

Is that official?

Eastern Europe has not been part of the post-Hammarskiöld rotation schedule:

Asia (10), Western Europe and Others (10), Latin America and Caribbean (10), Africa (15), Asia(-Pacific) (10).

There have been three European SGs whereas the non-European part of Western Europe and Others has never had a SG.

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Queensland federal LNP member for Dawson George Christensen is speaking at a rally for hate group Reclaim Australia.

Weird how Danish-Australians seem to produce so many right wing nutters, while Danish-Americans seem to be fairly moderate.

Also, the Wiki page claims he is Greek Orthodox.. Whats up with that?

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Plebiscites are also non-binding so even if one was held and the vote was overwhelmingly in favour Abbott could still decline to legislate on it for whatever reason. It's all a deceptive ploy.

In most developed democracies plebiscites are considered morally binding and it is "political suicide" to ignore their result. Is that really different in Australia? If so, why?