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[moXJO]

Not sure if everyone commenting has heard the actual recording. The tone in which they discussed distributing tax payer funds was deeply disturbing. It's not about Wagga. I mean, seriously, if she had somehow battled on and contested the next election all the ALP would have to do is play that recording non-stop on radio and TV.

I can tell you that no one would have cared except rusted on Labor voters.

KK is still a politician who was basically obeids poodle and I'm sure her son was just involved in alleged corruption within the police. They just launched her into a safe seat as well. Not surprised as she's more on the nose then Bjiggles.

Labor ran the state so badly that even when BO was taken out everyone still went with the libs. The state moved exceedingly in the right direction since the libs have been in. It stagnated under Labor and was a corrupt shthole at every level during their last time in office.
If Wagga got funds because of corruption and because "I don't care" I'm corrupt- so be it. Watson can go eat a dick.

 

[basilio]

To me she only did what all politicians do, try to stay in power by pork barrelling.

If Wagga needed another hospital or better facilities at the old one, what's wrong with that ?

Corruption is stealing money from taxpayers for yourself. If she did that then she deserves all she gets but I haven't seen that yet.

I understand that what Gladyis is being investigated for was failing to report corrupt behaviour by Darryl McGuire. If you'll notice from the testimony she was very quick to deny or not hear any situations where Daryl was talking about making money from various dealings he was engineering.

 

[SirRumpole]

I understand that what Gladyis is being investigated for was failing to report corrupt behaviour by Darryl McGuire. If you'll notice from the testimony she was very quick to deny or not hear any situations where Daryl was talking about making money from various dealings he was engineering.

Sure, if MacGuire got any financial advantage from his relationship to Gladys, then that's a different matter from pork barelling.

 

[Humid]

Does corruption increase with population because that $hithole NSW seems to produce large amounts!

 

[mullokintyre]

And on it goes.
From ABC News
Tim Smith, a liberal from Victoria, has resigned from Cabinet after crashing his car thriugh a fence and being charged with drink driving after having been found to be over being over .05 after the crash.
This was the loudmouth who helped Mathew Guy undermine the previous Lib leader, and was elevated to shadow cabinet as Attorney general for his trouble.
It is a pity their brains were not as big as their egos, otherwise everyone would be better off.
Mick

 

[basilio]

I love Annabel Crabb's writing. Witty, clever, incisive.

Her piece of the "spectacular new leadership model " of ScoMo is up with her best.

Morrison's climate 'plan' reveals a spectacular new model of political leadership in Australia​

By Annabel Crabb
Posted 16h ago16 hours ago, updated 10h ago10 hours ago

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's net zero 'plan' reveals a spectacular new model of political leadership in Australia.(ABC News: Adam Kennedy)
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This is the age of disruptors. And the man who today hops off a plane to take Australia's climate strategy to the world has changed the model of political leadership as we know it.

All this time, we've been thinking the idea was to outline your vision, then campaign, then get elected.

But the Morrison doctrine on climate reveals a new path: Outline what you oppose, then get elected, then shimmy backwards under sniper fire from your own side — all the while denying you're shifting at all — then calmly declare victory, claiming credit for a bunch of stuff you opposed all along.

It's sort of spectacular, in a way. If the spectacle's what you're in it for.

The truly remarkable feature of the climate "deal" ostentatiously fished out by Scott Morrison last week from a performative scrimmage with his own Coalition colleagues, is that it's essentially a redundancy package for conventional political leadership.

After 25 years of parliamentary advocacy, research, vision, frustration, advances, retreats, reversals and waste, the Australian Government's new plan to eliminate net emissions will involve no legislation whatsoever.

Morrison's climate 'plan' reveals a spectacular new model of political leadership in Australia

Scott Morrison's climate 'plan' reveals a spectacular new model of political leadership in Australia — and our next election is going to look very different from the last, writes Annabel Crabb.

www.abc.net.au

 

[mullokintyre]

And on it goes.
From ABC News
Tim Smith, a liberal from Victoria, has resigned from Cabinet after crashing his car through a fence and being charged with drink driving after having been found to be over being over .05 after the crash.
This was the loudmouth who helped Mathew Guy undermine the previous Lib leader, and was elevated to shadow cabinet as Attorney general for his trouble.
It is a pity their brains were not as big as their egos, otherwise everyone would be better off.
Mick

And in another one of those delicious ironies in politics, Mathew Guy will have to demand that Smith resign from parliament, considering his similar demand that Simon Ramsay, one of his factional enemies, should "consider his position" after being arrested on a similar charge in 2018.
Seems the Vic Libs are just a bunch of pisspots.
Mick

 

[moXJO]

I don't like the direction Morrison or Dutton are taking us. Unfortunately the other choice is Labor. After watching some of the other states, I don't want those totalitarian d wads in power either.

Not much of a choice

 

[mullokintyre]

A mate of mine used to say that the ideal form of government was to have two four year terms of elected democracy, then shove the lot out in a coup and have a dictatorship come in for 1 year and clean up all the **** the elected goons left behind.
Rinse.
Repeat.
I am thinking perhaps it is not all that bad an idea.
Mick

 

[sptrawler]

I don't like the direction Morrison or Dutton are taking us. Unfortunately the other choice is Labor. After watching some of the other states, I don't want those totalitarian d wads in power either.

Not much of a choice

What I've noticed through life, is that all Governments get stale, same as coaches, bosses etc.
Labor will win this election IMO, they would have won the last one, if they hadn't imploded and alienated their voter base.
The problem for a Government that has been in for a long time is, they have to change direction with the times and that is difficult to sell as it is seen by some as a backflip and by others as capitulation.
Having said that, a mate won $500 on Morrison last election, he still rubs it in.

 

[PZ99]

What I've noticed through life, is that all Governments get stale, same as coaches, bosses etc.
Labor will win this election IMO, they would have won the last one, if they hadn't imploded and alienated their voter base.
The problem for a Government that has been in for a long time is, they have to change direction with the times and that is difficult to sell as it is seen by some as a backflip and by others as capitulation.
Having said that, a mate won $500 on Morrison last election, he still rubs it in.

I won around 20 times that amount just by buying banks before the election and selling them afterwards.

FWIW... I don't think the ALP can win the next election. And when was the last time the ALP won with a lefty leader ? Nearly 50 years ago right ? History isn't on its side.... particularly with Shorten in the same position as he was when he took down two other ALP leaders

 

[wayneL]

What I've noticed through life, is that all Governments get stale, same as coaches, bosses etc.
Labor will win this election IMO, they would have won the last one, if they hadn't imploded and alienated their voter base.
The problem for a Government that has been in for a long time is, they have to change direction with the times and that is difficult to sell as it is seen by some as a backflip and by others as capitulation.
Having said that, a mate won $500 on Morrison last election, he still rubs it in.

If Aussies had any sense they would learn how our preferential voting system works and use it to keep totalitarian Muppets under control.

At least in the senate anyway.... Keep the b@stards honest.

 

[Humid]

I don't like the direction Morrison or Dutton are taking us. Unfortunately the other choice is Labor. After watching some of the other states, I don't want those totalitarian d wads in power either.

Not much of a choice

New Zealand

 

[sptrawler]

I won around 20 times that amount just by buying banks before the election and selling them afterwards.

FWIW... I don't think the ALP can win the next election. And when was the last time the ALP won with a lefty leader ? Nearly 50 years ago right ? History isn't on its side.... particularly with Shorten in the same position as he was when he took down two other ALP leaders

I hadn't thought about it from Labor's side, only from the coalition side, they haven't had good press for two years the media want change and what the media want, they usually get.

On the media, I don't think the press are doing Macron any favours by using him to wedge Morrison, the other World leaders will be watching and Macron isn't putting on a good show for all the allies that fought and died for France in two world wars IMO.
History has shown not many like open disloyalty, how it is viewed will be interesting, whether it is Morrison for cancelling a contract or Macron for being overly petulant.

 

[Humid]

New Zealand

Bro

 

[Humid]

I hadn't thought about it from Labor's side, only from the coalition side, they haven't had good press for two years the media want change and what the media want, they usually get.

On the media, I don't think the press are doing Macron any favours by using him to wedge Morrison, the other World leaders will be watching and Macron isn't putting on a good show for all the allies that fought and died for France in two world wars IMO.
History has shown not many like open disloyalty, how it is viewed will be interesting, whether it is Morrison for cancelling a contract or Macron for being overly petulant.

The war lol

 

[sptrawler]

The war lol

Not everyone is young and has forgotten the history, well I'm not sure about Biden.

By the way, great to see you back, you didn't get caught up in the Rio/BHP issue did you?

 

[Humid]

At the moment Barnaby is running the show

 

[sptrawler]

At the moment Barnaby is running the show

I thought he would have enough problems, running around after the kids.

 

[banco]

At the moment Barnaby is running the show

Seems like it's a poor reflection on Australia's rural folk that they look at that florid idiot and think he's the kind of person they want representing him.