Wasn't here at the time but on another site I gave Mr Abbott full credit for that. And I give full credit for doing it now. No point in criticising people for doing something they're good at.Well this is a news report, on Tony Abbott's volunteer firefighting in 2013.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-09/labor-mp-sorry-for-abbott-stunt-tweet/4458118
From the article:
Mr Abbott yesterday said he would be on "standby" to help out given the fire emergency gripping large parts of the state.
Federal Housing Minister Brendan O'Connor this afternoon responded to Mr Abbott's comment on Twitter, describing it as a "#standbystunt".
https://www.news.com.au/national/to...l/news-story/cd2a93328d8ca6df50da40ff49d1dcb2
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...icising-the-pm-is-wearing-pretty-thin-2013-10
Some critics said fighting fires was not the best use of the prime minister’s time and that he was only doing it for publicity.
Scomo gets criticised for being away and Abbott was criticised for being in the front line.
Guess you just can't please some people, especially if it doesn't fit with what the virtue signalers want to put over.
Just saying.
It wouldn't have been devastating, it would have been spun in a way to make Abbott look bad, as was the want of the time.IMO
And it's always the left and union membersAfter all that you 2 finally get it
Congrats
It isn't us that needs to get it.After all that you 2 finally get it
Congrats
As Albo says he is not into cheap politics. Smart.It isn't us that needs to get it.
You had better drop Albo a line, before he blows his feet off and scores an own goal.[emoji23]
Spot on Knobby, it would be too easy to make yourself a target with these issues, as Scomo has found out.As Albo says he is not into cheap politics. Smart.
Let the actions speak for themselves and don't become the story.
No need for a Union when you work for Dad.....whinge to Mum lolAnd it's always the left and union members
How dare you.No need for a Union when you work for Dad.....whinge to Mum lol
If he gets on with it I don't think it will be to much of an issue. Politicians make the mistake of trying to appease Twitter whinging. Best of making 1 statement and moving on. Media knows it's on a winner though, so he needs to hammer home a simple statement.This is pretty good from MacroBusiness
SmoCo and Albotross.....
“There are moments in politics when everything that has come before is crystalised in a moment. Malcolm Turnbull branded himself a phony when he leapt into bed with the Coalition’s right wing. Tony Abbott captured himself when he recommended Prince Phillip be offered an Australian knighthood. Before him, John Howard made himself a political legend when he threw children overboard. Julia Gillard did it in her act of backstabbing. Kevin Rudd did it when he dumped climate change mitigation for Big Australia. Paul Keating branded himself forever with the “recession we had to have”. So on and so forth.
These are moments when the truth about a leader’s character is revealed for all to see and branded that way forever more. For Keating it was arrogance. For Howard it was opportunism. For Rudd it was narcissism. For Gillard it was illegitimacy. For Abbott it was archaic ineptitute. For Turnbull it was hollowness.
That moment arrived last week for Scott Morrison. He will henceforth be remembered as SmoCo, the guy that fled to Hawaii – sand, sun and Mai Tais – as his nation burned to the ground. No doubt his minders will kid themselves that he can spin his way out of it. That the marketing guru will find a new angle to shift the blame elsewhere. They are wrong.
The Morrsion Government is now covered in ash and forever will be. Over Christmas tables across the nation for the next week, SmoCo will be a combined laughing stock and object of incredulous anger. SmoCo of the “quiet Australians” has become instead the incredible vanishing PM.
In truth, it’s not all SmoCo’s fault. His party is really to blame. It has made destructive climate politics the centre of its value system for thirty years. It has unilaterally blockaded global action. It has embraced and defended carbon interests. It has ruined the debate with pseudo-science. It has trashed energy policy and twisted mitigation policy to such an extent that Australia now faces combined environmental and energy calamity. From day one, it has divided and conquered instead of uniting and acting.
It never needed to be this way. There is nothing in conservatism or economic liberalism that insists upon it. It was a political choice to create the mother of all culture wars.
All of this history has landed on SmoCo in a teeming ash rain reminiscent of the happy-go-lucky denizens of Pompeii.
That is not necessarily politcally fatal. Sometimes, circumstances can combine to fit the brand. That happened to John Howard, for instance, with successive wars.
To upend the politcal applecart, the brand must fall out of step with external circumstance, then the PM and government are rendered obsolete. For SmoCo that context is now undeniably climate change.
But the danger for the incredible vanishing PM is that his disappearing act is toxic much more widely. Australia confronts a mounting series of national crises that require deep policy policy reform in the national interest:
China is encroaching upon Australian sovereignty aggressively and persistently;
after twenty years of poor policy, the structural flaws in the economy have overtaken its capacity for effective stimulus. Stagnation in growth, profits and wages is permanent without change;
the intergenerational war is worsening as the marginalisation of youth across all features of life is now as severe as it is entrenched in jobs, the Budget, housing and climate;
the environment is a disaster on all fronts with water the crisis to follow fire next year;
and above and behind it all is mass immigration and the bonds of Australiana, which makes all of the above worse.
How can an invisible man lead a nation as such times? It takes debate. It takes ideas. It takes disruption. It takes management and the reassurance of insight.
Without these things we now know what happens. Crisis erupts anyway and instead of calm we get chaos. Instead of a plan we get careering. Instead of reassurance we get refracting anxiety. Instead of quiet we get the roar of conflagration.
The raw political problem with disappearing all of the time is that you get ahead of nothing. If the incredible vanishing PM only reappears when he is overtaken by crisis, he will only ever arrive just in time to be blamed for it.
It’s not that the polity understands this in detail. It’s worse than that. They sense it. In their bones, they know that their children and nation need more. That “it’s time” for change.
That does not make change certain. SmoCo is being aided by the Albotross around Labor’s neck. Bizarrely, that ill-omened leader has decided to become equally invisible as his re-election strategy. As is so often the case, fighting the last war.
As well, SmoCo might get lucky. It could rain for two years delivering a miraculous economic recovery with falling house prices, a flourishing of extinct species and water for Sydney, just as the Chinese Comminst Party declares peace and mass immigration falls away all by itself.
I wouldn’t bet on it.”
That is probably the best summation I've read of the current status, how Morrison handles the next two years is critical for him and the Coalition, sitting on his hands and hoping for a miracle I don't think will cut it.This is pretty good from MacroBusiness
SmoCo and Albotross.....
“There are moments in politics when everything that has come before is crystalised in a moment. Malcolm Turnbull branded himself a phony when he leapt into bed with the Coalition’s right wing. Tony Abbott captured himself when he recommended Prince Phillip be offered an Australian knighthood. Before him, John Howard made himself a political legend when he threw children overboard. Julia Gillard did it in her act of backstabbing. Kevin Rudd did it when he dumped climate change mitigation for Big Australia. Paul Keating branded himself forever with the “recession we had to have”. So on and so forth.
These are moments when the truth about a leader’s character is revealed for all to see and branded that way forever more. For Keating it was arrogance. For Howard it was opportunism. For Rudd it was narcissism. For Gillard it was illegitimacy. For Abbott it was archaic ineptitute. For Turnbull it was hollowness.
That moment arrived last week for Scott Morrison. He will henceforth be remembered as SmoCo, the guy that fled to Hawaii – sand, sun and Mai Tais – as his nation burned to the ground. No doubt his minders will kid themselves that he can spin his way out of it. That the marketing guru will find a new angle to shift the blame elsewhere. They are wrong.
The Morrsion Government is now covered in ash and forever will be. Over Christmas tables across the nation for the next week, SmoCo will be a combined laughing stock and object of incredulous anger. SmoCo of the “quiet Australians” has become instead the incredible vanishing PM.
In truth, it’s not all SmoCo’s fault. His party is really to blame. It has made destructive climate politics the centre of its value system for thirty years. It has unilaterally blockaded global action. It has embraced and defended carbon interests. It has ruined the debate with pseudo-science. It has trashed energy policy and twisted mitigation policy to such an extent that Australia now faces combined environmental and energy calamity. From day one, it has divided and conquered instead of uniting and acting.
It never needed to be this way. There is nothing in conservatism or economic liberalism that insists upon it. It was a political choice to create the mother of all culture wars.
All of this history has landed on SmoCo in a teeming ash rain reminiscent of the happy-go-lucky denizens of Pompeii.
That is not necessarily politcally fatal. Sometimes, circumstances can combine to fit the brand. That happened to John Howard, for instance, with successive wars.
To upend the politcal applecart, the brand must fall out of step with external circumstance, then the PM and government are rendered obsolete. For SmoCo that context is now undeniably climate change.
But the danger for the incredible vanishing PM is that his disappearing act is toxic much more widely. Australia confronts a mounting series of national crises that require deep policy policy reform in the national interest:
China is encroaching upon Australian sovereignty aggressively and persistently;
after twenty years of poor policy, the structural flaws in the economy have overtaken its capacity for effective stimulus. Stagnation in growth, profits and wages is permanent without change;
the intergenerational war is worsening as the marginalisation of youth across all features of life is now as severe as it is entrenched in jobs, the Budget, housing and climate;
the environment is a disaster on all fronts with water the crisis to follow fire next year;
and above and behind it all is mass immigration and the bonds of Australiana, which makes all of the above worse.
How can an invisible man lead a nation as such times? It takes debate. It takes ideas. It takes disruption. It takes management and the reassurance of insight.
Without these things we now know what happens. Crisis erupts anyway and instead of calm we get chaos. Instead of a plan we get careering. Instead of reassurance we get refracting anxiety. Instead of quiet we get the roar of conflagration.
The raw political problem with disappearing all of the time is that you get ahead of nothing. If the incredible vanishing PM only reappears when he is overtaken by crisis, he will only ever arrive just in time to be blamed for it.
It’s not that the polity understands this in detail. It’s worse than that. They sense it. In their bones, they know that their children and nation need more. That “it’s time” for change.
That does not make change certain. SmoCo is being aided by the Albotross around Labor’s neck. Bizarrely, that ill-omened leader has decided to become equally invisible as his re-election strategy. As is so often the case, fighting the last war.
As well, SmoCo might get lucky. It could rain for two years delivering a miraculous economic recovery with falling house prices, a flourishing of extinct species and water for Sydney, just as the Chinese Comminst Party declares peace and mass immigration falls away all by itself.
I wouldn’t bet on it.”
True, but if you just ignore all the hate and vitriol, in the article it, does sum up the lack of direction by both Parties since Howard really.I noted
"... it’s not all SmoCo’s fault. His party is really to blame. It has made destructive climate politics the centre of its value system for thirty years. "
30 years so 1990. Was that journo born then cause i can tell you hardly anyone cared about CC in the 90s, even less as politic platform
But who needs facts when talking about global warming...
Realistically, 2000 is more or less the start Al Gore movie etc
Oh no problem with that but let's not use fake facts to stress a point. there is enough real facts not to make up some.True, but if you just ignore all the hate and vitriol, in the article it, does sum up the lack of direction by both Parties since Howard really.
The whole economy and the way it functions needs looking at, currently we just seem to be jumping around, pointing sticks at each other.
The power system, requires a huge amount of storage installed, the Government is going to have to get on with it, then the private sector can install renewables and have somewhere to store the excess. Or the private sector is going to require incentive to install storage, if the Government doesn't want to do it.
The tax system needs a massive overhaul, as a guy on here said years ago said, stamp duty on houses should be dropped and a land tax introduced to replace it.
Maybe negative gearing for investment properties could be dropped and interest on PPR for first home buyers introduced.
Personal income and company tax could be dropped, GST increased and welfare payments increased.
There is obviously a miriad of things that inter relate and should be looked at.
The rate of change in the economies of the World, is accelerating and we need to make ourselves competitive again.
Just my opinion.
No mate it's only the leftist outrage mobs, people like yourself.Who wrote that Focus? it is gold..
And SmoCo has the gall to try and capture the narative; As a nation was 'anxious at his absence'. Don't make me puke.
Let it be noted the only thing the nation is anxious about is SmoCo's continuing seemingly fathomless Ineptitude.
Good to see someone with a balanced outlook.lolWho wrote that Focus? it is gold..
And SmoCo has the gall to try and capture the narative; As a nation was 'anxious at his absence'. Don't make me puke.
Let it be noted the only thing the nation is anxious about is SmoCo's continuing seemingly fathomless Ineptitude.
Nice bit of dishonest bastardry from The Project last night too.
Low act.
I don't know. I don't watch it.Has Sky News finished for the year?
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