Is Shorten PM material?

SirRumpole · 30 November 2017

Shorten has told Dastyari to resign from all his official positions in the Labor Party, ABC TV reports.

PZ99 · 30 November 2017

Today's a good day to get it done. It'll fly under the radar of the banking royal commission over the next few days.

SirRumpole · 30 November 2017

The Labor Party is hitting back about Andrew Robb taking a job with a Chinese company after recommending that company be sold Darwin ports.

Quite a valid criticism imo.

Tisme · 30 November 2017

SirRumpole said:
The Labor Party is hitting back about Andrew Robb taking a job with a Chinese company after recommending that company be sold Darwin ports.

Quite a valid criticism imo.

Told you so.

The ALP have an overstocked weaponry store they can call on at any one time. The LNP is rife with questionable activities.

Logique · 30 November 2017

Incredibly, Dastyari had already wormed his sway back into the position of ALP Deputy Whip.

Short of terrorist acts, or multiple homicides, what will it take for the ALP to divest itself of this "..Spiv from central casting", as Peter Dutton said. ..?

SirRumpole · 30 November 2017

Focussing on Silly Sam ignores the real question that foreign donations must be banned.

When you have a system that encourages bribery, it's pretty certain that it will happen.

dutchie · 1 December 2017

I don't know why Dastyari is not being charged with treason.

dutchie · 4 December 2017

Now we know why Shorten backs the traitor Dastyari.

Foreign donations to political parties to be BANNED after explosive revelations Bill Shorten sought election funding from Communist Party-linked Chinese benefactor

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-political-parties-banned.html#ixzz50EQ1NIJV

Shorten is definitely not PM material!

PZ99 · 4 December 2017

"Mr Shorten has not denied the visit, but pointed out to Fairfax that senior government figures from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop and former PM Tony Abbott, all have socialised with Mr Huang."

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work...e/news-story/dbb9b3b3f25a91020a1c13d5af1012be

Kinda rules out the whole mob then dunnit hey?

Logique · 6 December 2017

Sino-Sam,
second offence, but he still won't be expelled from Bill Shorten's AWU and Chinese business-funded Labor party, let alone the Senate ticket. ABC and Fairfax will fall into line.

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/
Wednesday, 06 December 2017
... Sam Dastyari has never received so much as acknowledgement of his application for renunciation - let alone the requisite approval from the Islamic Republic of Iran, of his release from his obligations to that country.
Dastyari's obligation includes an order that he complete national service in the Iranian military prior to his application to renounce proceeding any further...

SirRumpole · 6 December 2017

Logique said:
Sino-Sam,
second offence, but he still won't be expelled from Bill Shorten's AWU and Chinese business-funded Labor party, let alone the Senate ticket. ABC and Fairfax will fall into line.

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Whatever Dastyari did, he wasn't in government, Andrew Robb was. There are much bigger questions over Robb's involvement in the sale of Darwin port to the Chinese than there are over Dastyari's misdemeanour.

dutchie · 7 December 2017

Well we know Dastyari is a traitor.

He should be kicked out of Australia.

Sam Dastyari is under fire again for his “pro-China” stance after it was revealed he hounded senior defence officials with more than 115 questions about Chinese interests since his appointment to the Senate in 2013.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s/news-story/452eb6c4cb3aa62ddaa9be4fb0cfc2b9

So where does Shortens' allegiance stand?

Shorten backs him so he should never be PM.

Shorten can not be trusted with Australias' security.

Tisme · 7 December 2017

dutchie said:
Well we know Dastyari is a traitor.

He should be kicked out of Australia.

Sam Dastyari is under fire again for his “pro-China” stance after it was revealed he hounded senior defence officials with more than 115 questions about Chinese interests since his appointment to the Senate in 2013.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s/news-story/452eb6c4cb3aa62ddaa9be4fb0cfc2b9

So where does Shortens' allegiance stand?

Shorten backs him so he should never be PM.

Shorten can not be trusted with Australias' security.

I think the real question here is just how virtuous are any of the political parties and pollies? We saw a senior Liberal lease our naval assets in Darwin to a Chinaman, we see, on media, the unsettling fawning of cuckolded pollies of both sides as their master sits like the cat that got the cream.

Very unbecoming watching grown men and women acting like fanboys at a George Michael concert.

SirRumpole · 7 December 2017

Tisme said:
Very unbecoming watching grown men and women acting like fanboys at a George Michael concert.

We should give some credit to the government for banning foreign donations, and to Labor if they support it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-...ut-crack-down-on-foreign-interference/9231586

dutchie · 7 December 2017

Dastyari and his side kick Shorten are more of a threat to Australias' sovereignty than all the "non-Australian" politicians put together.
Yet the High Court has to rule on the latter and waste time and money. Does not make sense.

Tisme · 7 December 2017

dutchie said:
Dastyari and his side kick Shorten are more of a threat to Australias' sovereignty than all the "non-Australian" politicians put together.
Yet the High Court has to rule on the latter and waste time and money. Does not make sense.

So many foreigners running the country, it's little wonder we are in the sh17e .... they escape the mess of their homeland just to infect our turf.

dutchie · 7 December 2017

Bill Shorten on Dastyari talking to Chinese..

" I don't know what Sam said to the Chinese but let me say I support whatever he said."

"I'm sure he's right."

Macquack · 7 December 2017

dutchie said:
Bill Shorten on Dastyari talking to Chinese..

" I don't know what Sam said to the Chinese but let me say I support whatever he said."

"I'm sure he's right."

Posting false doctored statements just highlights your bias and lowers your credibility.

dutchie · 7 December 2017

Macquack said:
Posting false doctored statements just highlights your bias and lowers your credibility.

Agreed.
When it comes to traitors my bias is extreme.
My credibility is very low. Luckily, not as low as yours.

drsmith · 11 December 2017

Bill Shorten won't do the job himself but is naughty boy Samuel now being white-anted from within his own party?

Labor frontbencher Linda Burney said this morning "it is now up to Mr Dastyari to consider his position".

"And I am sure he is doing that," Ms Burney told Sky News.

"In relation to the continued role of Sam within the Parliament, that is a matter I think very much for Sam.

"Sam Dastyari, I am sure, is thinking very deeply about his role within the party."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-...ure-to-resign-from-within-labor-party/9245526

Is Shorten PM material?