The ScoMo Government

[Humid]

Pay the $20 fine and get hammered drunk
I would vote for an independant watchdog with teeth

 

[basilio]

There's a whisper going around.
The Liberals are looking for a handsome, high publicity candidate with an outstanding military record to parachute into a safe seat.

Seems someone might be currently auditioning for the role..
Ben Roberts-Smith Using Defamation Trial To Audition For Safe Liberal Party Seat

In explosive new allegations today, it has emerged that former SAS solider Ben Roberts-Smith is actually using his defamation proceedings as a way to prove his credentials for a blue-ribbon Liberal Party seat.

A source within the Liberal Party said they were closely watching Roberts-Smith’s performance at the trial and were impressed by what they had seen.

“He’s demonstrated that he knows how to bury dodgy information, he’s got a range of bizarre excuses about how his laptop was destroyed – the best we’ve seen since Daryl Maguire said he’d run over his iPad with a tractor, he has extreme confidence despite his mediocrity and there’s a whiff of sexual misconduct. He’ll be perfect,” the source said.

Others within the party were impressed by Mr Roberts-Smith’s admission that he had spied on his former partner without her consent. “I can see a role for him in Immigration or Foreign Affairs down the track for sure,” one party strategist said. “Although he has shown that he knows how to initiate defamation proceedings that then spectacularly backfire. So maybe Attorney General is more his calling”.

Ben Roberts-Smith Using Defamation Trial To Audition For Safe Liberal Party Seat

“He’s demonstrated that he knows how to bury dodgy information, he’s got a range of bizarre excuses about how his laptop was destroyed - the best we've seen since Daryl Maguire said he'd run over his iPad with a tractor, and there’s a whiff of sexual misconduct. He’ll be perfect".

www.theshovel.com.au

 

[Caveman]

Interesting I tipped a while back, that an early election in late OCT may be on the cards, makes perfect sense, from Morrison's point, I still think Albo needs to get a move on to get some policy traction.
Hopefully they will crank it up soon.
With Singapore, they have to be everyone's friend, small island trade hub, financial hub, sod all resources.
It will be interesting to see if the U.S and U.K start to crank up its steel production again.

Just interested Sptrawler when did you decide to swap from unions/labor to Liberals/conservatives.

 

[sptrawler]

Just interested Sptrawler when did you decide to swap from unions/labor to Liberals/conservatives.

I didn't swap as such, more a pragmatic decision, to vote for who I think will improve the situation for middle Australia.
I don't really care who is in office, more what they are putting forward as policy, I've lived and worked too long to believe that one side has my best intentions at heart.
But looking back over my working life, I guess the penny dropped when I was in my mid 40's, representing the guys at EBA discussions.
It became obvious that the discussions were more about politics, than the guys, I eventually realised the guys do better when the union is against the government, rather than in bed with the government.
So now I'm retired I just judge both sides on the policy platform they present.

 

[moXJO]

Pay the $20 fine and get hammered drunk
I would vote for an independant watchdog with teeth

I drew a giant penis on mine and scomo got in.

 

[macca]

I drew a giant penis on mine and scomo got in.

If he won by one vote, would it be your fault ?..................just saying

 

[wayneL]

If he won by one vote, would it be your fault ?..................just saying

When you think about it, it coulda been a vote for any of the major candidates. We got Scomo, but equally coulda got Albo.

Quelle horreur?

 

[macca]

When you think about it, it coulda been a vote for any of the major candidates. We got Scomo, but equally coulda got Albo.

Quelle horreur?

It does not happen much but it does get very close in some seats in most elections.

If one large family all decided to vote the same way they could decide the government

 

[PZ99]

People voted Liberal and got Labor lite.. ie borrowing money and giving it away, growth over austerity, resistance to border closures...

In turn Labor have started going Liberal lite ie... how-good-is-coal, how-bad-is-woke... all they need to do now is declare a budget emergency, block everything in the senate and put onions over unions and the process is complete.

 

[Humid]

 

[wayneL]

People voted Liberal and got Mussolini lite..

...and WA voted Labor and got McStalin

 

[moXJO]

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NZ is surprisingly down there as well

 

[Humid]

And I give you our national leader clearing things up!

 

[rederob]

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And I give you our national leader clearing things up!

"At no stage of that plan...."
It was not a good plan last year, and the 20+ revisions since then have made marginal improvements almost entirely as a result of continuing pressure from the States.
Blind Freddy knows that it makes more sense putting $billions into protections at the border by funding proper quarantine facilities than into propping up businesses and jobseekers when things go pear shaped. Howard Springs is a prime example of the type of facility needed and the controls necessary to be effective. But it is at odds with the requirements it recently set for Queensland, so Morrison is just playing politics with our health!
The bottom line is that Morrison has one overarching plan, and that's to fudge his way to the next election and hope nobody remembers how ineffectual the federal government has been during this pandemic.
Perhaps he can claim his big win was putting the nation into collective debt for the next 4 decades because he didn't understand that paying people to be unproductive made us worse off.

 

[Knobby22]

...and WA voted Labor and got McStalin

And Victoria got Dictator Dan and NSW got Gestapo Gladys. (this one is taking off)
And SA Premier Steve Marshall is doing a partial lockdown without a case - call him Herr Marshall? Need a good one.
Meek Morrison?

 

[wayneL]

They are all totalitarian dreamers.

I would go with Herr Martial-Law...
Still thinking of something apt for the Puppet in Chief

And Victoria got Dictator Dan and NSW got Gestapo Gladys. (this one is taking off)
And SA Premier Steve Marshall is doing a partial lockdown without a case - call him Herr Marshall? Need a good one.
Meek Morrison?

 

[moXJO]

I understand how infectious this is, but we seem to be losing our minds over a handful of infections.

 

[IFocus]

NSW strip searches of unaccompanied children has to be up there for extreme authoritarian behaviour.

As for McGowan not much day light between him and Barney both have and are avoiding religion and ideology something that is currently the Liberals are riddled with Australia wide.

 

[basilio]

I understand how infectious this is, but we seem to be losing our minds over a handful of infections.

Cute moXjo. Just a couple of infections. Going nowhere, No problem really.

Global report: rise in Delta variant cases forces tougher restrictions

Moscow reports highest death toll of any Russian city, while Delta variant forces tighter restrictions in the Asia-Pacific region

www.theguardian.com

 

[moXJO]

Cute moXjo. Just a couple of infections. Going nowhere, No problem really.

Global report: rise in Delta variant cases forces tougher restrictions

Moscow reports highest death toll of any Russian city, while Delta variant forces tighter restrictions in the Asia-Pacific region

www.theguardian.com

The media reaction is out of proportion to the number of infections. No its not all going to fall apart. You cannot and should not expect a zero infection rate forever

Let's just say we will come to a point where lockdowns will no longer be economically viable.
Scomo wants to get the vaccine rolled out quick smart when that's the case.