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Is Shorten PM material?

Is Shorten PM material?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 16.2%

  • No

    Votes: 31 83.8%
  • Total voters
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MrBurns said:
He's a devious, no good, lying SOB
That about covers it...
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A desperate move by a desperate man......


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...588806511?sv=cc75817a6820ae80172c52a6098b6df4


Here are the first 3 readers comments....Check out the other 200 or so.

Bill must think voters are stupid like himself.

Graeme
44 minutes ago

Here we go again, another distraction from Bill's low rating, the left media will be all over this and we can expect nothing else for the next week or so. He should have waited until the Royal Commission Report is to be released, he will certainly need a distraction then.
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Jim
Jim
46 minutes ago

The Turnbull factor. They are now so certain of an election wipe out in years to come that they resort to this. The Teachers union will become the front line in their battle to win over the minds of youth. What a desperate, grubby mob they have become.
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Steve
Steve
46 minutes ago

Is this an election policy announcement? Or is it the act of a desperate man trying to distract the electorate? I’m sure that this demographic would almost all vote labor or greens but where would this newly empowered group take us Bill? Lower the drinking age perhaps, subsidies for skateboards? Automatic pass for VCE and entry to uni with $50,000 per year Austudy. The possibilities are endless.
 
Where is IFocus, Sydboy, Banco, Overhang and Sinner????????

Have you all gone in to hiding.

How about some comments about your comrade Bill?
 
noco said:
NO.

Shorten is full of BS......if had a good $hit there would be nothing left of him.
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I don't think the Government has mentioned Shorten once, it makes a difference, when the Government focuses on the job.

Unlike Labor for the last 7 years, it's Abbott's fault, Abbott's to blame, another poor stumble by Abbott.

Now Bill is thrashing around in ever decreasing circles, we all know where that ends.:D

Turnbull is saying much the same as Abbott, but Labor made it so much about Abbott, that know he has gone they can't say Turnbull's the problem,

Talk about dig your own grave, well done Bill.:xyxthumbs

Best of luck making it all about Malcolm, in the next 6 months, it is a tight schedule to re invent yourself.
 
Poor old Bill...things are going from bad to worse.

Every idea he comes up with seems to turn to mud.

Billy boy, you will have to find that "DUCK' that lays the golden egg.....the ducks you are using are too old and need steaming for Xmas dinner.:D:D



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...593693105?sv=de60c06332249fa91912d74eb3f33338

And if every silly season has a Santa, Shorten is surely it. More and more, the Opposition Leader resembles a second-rate actor who has assiduously studied a set of lines but hasn’t managed to inject any conviction into the role. This week Shorten has been on “a fact-finding mission” to the Pacific *Islands. Translation: the Opposition Leader thinks he can use global warming to dent Turnbull’s popularity.

Shorten’s core problem begins with his role in past policy. Shorten rode the Kevin ’07 wave into office when Labor’s position was that global warming was the great moral challenge of our time and required an emissions trading system. As a senior minister, he then backed Rudd’s change of heart to dump the ETS. Shorten was a critical backer of Julia Gillard, when Labor’s new position was “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”. He was there too when Labor signed a deal with the Greens to legislate a carbon tax.

Shorten has a long and unfortunate history of reactionary-style politics. As a union leader, he injected passion into his position. In politics, he simply looks like a desperate political leader trying to attract the increasing number of centrist voters who are looking favourably at Turnbull and the Coalition. Last week, there were racy lines Labor would devote more funding to encourage girls to learn coding, as he tried to beat off Turnbull’s talk of innovation as a driver of growth. The education system has failed us, Shorten said. Ominous words, except it only serves as a reminder that while the country has doubled spending on education over the past decade to $40 billion, outcomes on basic measures of literacy and num*eracy have gone backwards *according to the most recent international scorecards of educational achievements. Shorten’s shadow boxing was evident as soon as Turnbull became PM. Labor’s attacks on Turnbull’s wealth served only to remind voters we have a PM who was highly successful before he entered politics and understands business. It makes a refreshing change from the career politicians who have never worked in the real world.

Last week Shorten proposed giving the vote to 16  and 17-year-olds. That went nowhere except into the cynical box, given Shorten thinks his best chance at winning an election comes by winning over teenagers under 18. If you can’t attract enough adult votes, well, to put it politely, you’re stuffed.

With the COP21 summit fast approaching, Shorten is now desperate to make climate change a positive for Labor. But, once again, his problem is one of believability. No one can question that Turnbull genuinely believes in the human drivers of global warming. It drives his critics mad and weakens the knees of his admirers.

Shorten’s history, on the other hand, is replete with stark episodes of him making statements thrust into his hands by spin doctors and pollsters. There’s no detail on the Opposition Leader’s uncosted “aspirational” 50 per cent renewable energy target. Nor has Shorten told us what Labor’s emissions target would be if he were the PM heading to Paris. A four-day visit to our Pacific neighbours does nothing to build Shorten and Labor’s credentials.
 
I actually think Shorten has a few brains - not up to Turnbull's standard though.
He needs to sack his spin merchants. Labor are really sucking at present as you have pointed out noco..
 
Almost terminal you'd think - or am I going out too soon. See if the honeymoon period wears off.

Bill Shorten plumbs the dreaded 29 per cent - November 17, 2015
SMH Editorial: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-e...-the-dreaded-29-per-cent-20151115-gkzr2l.html

When Julia Gillard's Labor government plumbed the 29 per cent primary support level in June 2013, her colleagues revolted, tossed her out and reinstalled Kevin Rudd.

...For the first time since that loss, Labor's primary vote has dropped to 29 per cent – below both the 33 per cent vote at the last election and the 30 per cent threshold which analysts and Australian history consider dire.

When Julia Gillard's Labor government plumbed the 29 per cent primary support level in June 2013 opinion polls, her colleagues revolted, tossed her out and reinstalled Kevin Rudd.

Mr Shorten's approval rating in the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll is also 29 per cent – down 14 points in a year. When Tony Abbott's approval as prime minister plumbed these depths in January 2015, his colleagues revolted, issued him a warning, eventually tossed him out and reinstalled Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal leader.

As Prime Minister, Mr Turnbull now has the approval of 69 per cent of people. His lead over Mr Shorten as preferred prime minister is 69 per cent to 18 per cent...
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Logique said:
Almost terminal you'd think - or am I going out too soon. See if the honeymoon period wears off.
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I think Shorten will see the next election

After a trashing he will be dumped and Labor can then move on from the Rudd Gillard period.
 

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