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This is a politician. First step open they gob just to change feet, and then stuff both in.
This is a politician. First step open they gob just to change feet, and then stuff both in.It's Brad Batten now the opposition leader. An ex cop.
If he gets in and Peter Dutton is the leader it might be an advantage to Victoria.
Some reporter asked him why there weren't any women in the shadow front bench. Why is it an all male team?
His answer:
"Today I fought to bring a woman back into the party room and I will continue to make sure that females and women are heard in the party room."
Hopefully, he won't become another awful pick and a loser. Hopefully he realises that the previous guy gave him a winning lead and all he has to do is nothing stupid.
‘Gutter politics’: Peter Dutton forces Anthony Albanese to order Labor post be removed
Liberal leader Peter Dutton with his wife Kirilly, and part of the Labor attack ad. Main picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
Anthony Albanese has been forced to order a highly personal attack against Peter Dutton and his wife be scrubbed from the Victorian ALP’s social media accounts.
The Prime Minister’s intervention came after Mr Dutton called on Mr Albanese and Labor to show his family respect and avoid an election campaign dominated by personal attacks, after the Victorian ALP targeted him and Kirilly Dutton in a “gutter politics” social media post.
With Labor’s polling share falling sharply in Victoria ahead of next year’s federal election, the Victorian ALP manipulated a five-year-old newspaper report on the Duttons to attack them.
The post went up about 11am on Monday under the heading “We all know that one couple” and a secondary line stating “Justifying dating your new partner to your friends who don’t like him” above a 2019 newspaper photo quoting Ms Dutton saying of her husband: ‘‘He’s not a monster.’’
The original Queensland-based Sunday Mail newspaper front page was headlined “My Pete’s no monster’’.
Victorian ALP Facebook social media post. Picture: supplied
With the election to be called within months, and possibly as soon as the end of January, the Opposition Leader vowed that his campaign would be clean and would not target family members such as the Prime Minister’s fiancee, Jodie Haydon.
“I can assure you: the Liberal Party I lead will not be targeting Jodie Haydon,” he said in a statement. “I respect and like Jodie but she is not an elected official and will not be the subject of humiliation, attack ads or public smear by the Liberal Party.
“I would ask the PM to equally respect my wife.”
The post was taken down from the Victorian Labor Party’s social media feed less than an hour after Mr Dutton’s statement.
A spokesperson for Mr Albanese on Monday night said: “When the tweet was drawn to his attention, the Prime Minister demanded it be taken down.
“Families should be off-limits.”
Victorian ALP secretary Steve Staikos defended the post, declaring it was “not a personal attack at all”.
“It’s supposed to be a comedic meme,” Mr Staikos said.
When asked whether the post used a doctored screenshot, Mr Staikos said: “I don’t agree.”
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson, a senator from Victoria, described the post as “grubby gutter politics from a desperate government slipping in the polls”.
“We all know Labor’s plan for the election next year is negative personal attacks on Peter Dutton; this is just a preview,” Senator Paterson said. “When you run out of ideas to tackle the cost of living and have no second-term agenda, that’s all that is left.”
James Paterson. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
The Melbourne-based state ALP headquarters is understood to have full responsibility for posting social media content.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s office declined to comment on Monday about the Facebook post on the party’s account, which also features prominent photos of her together with Mr Albanese.
The latest three-month Newspoll, compiled for The Australian and reported last week, revealed the federal Coalition for the first time has drawn level with Labor in Victoria, where the state Labor government has lost ground heavily in polling, with the federal two-party-preferred support now split 50-50.
The three-month total represents an almost 5 per cent swing against the Albanese government since the 2022 federal election result.
Labor’s primary vote fell to a new low of 30 per cent in Victoria in the October-December analysis. This represents a three-point fall over the past three quarters.
Labor’s Victorian primary vote is now lower than the 32 per cent support it has in NSW and is only a point higher than its primary vote of 29 per cent in Queensland.
The poll also found that Labor had lost ground across key demographics, and given up its edge in the two most-populous states of NSW and Victoria.
The Australian also reported that while the two major parties were tied nationally on a two-party-preferred basis, the high cost of living had pushed Labor down into second place among 35 to 49-year-olds.
Well it worked for Labor with Morrison, so why not roll out the personal attacks again?Absolutely disgusting behaviour from Labor. “Families should be off-limits.”
Victorian ALP secretary Steve Staikos defended the post, declaring it was “not a personal attack at all”. “It’s supposed to be a comedic meme,” Mr Staikos said. When asked whether the post used a doctored screenshot, Mr Staikos said: “I don’t agree.”Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s office declined to comment on Monday about the Facebook post on the party’s account, which also features prominent photos of her together with Mr Albanese.
Shows that there is very little of substance when it comes to politicians.Well it worked for Labor with Morrison, so why not roll out the personal attacks again?
Well it worked for Labor with Morrison, so why not roll out the personal attacks again?
Apart from taking the teenage daughters away when a bushfire was on, it was a national disgrace, now we have bushfires all over the place and no one gives a ratz about where politicians are.I don’t think they involved his family at the time.
A wheelbarrow with a square wheel would be of more use than this pair of di**heads.Apart from taking the teenage daughters away when a bushfire was on, it was a national disgrace, now we have bushfires all over the place and no one gives a ratz about where politicians are.
It all revolves around the optics, Morrison was unpleasant so copped it, Albo is insipid, so everyone feels sorry for him and cut him a lot of slack, that's human nature and the media playing to it. Lol
Very true, but in three years Snowy2.0 was started, Kurri Kurri power station was started, the country was shut down with covid and welfare payments were doubled and companies helped to keep people employed so the economy rebounded, a vaccine production facility was organised to be built and the useless French diesel subs were cancelled and nuclear alternatives sourced.A wheelbarrow with a square wheel would be of more use than this pair of di**heads.
This is the greatest argument against democracy, because the majority of people are incapable of seeing and analysing beyond that.Politics these days is all about optics and if you have the media in your corner.
Personally I liked the old model where the public service and anything else owned or run by government (eg utilities) was expected to be firmly professional and steer the ship.This is the greatest argument against democracy, because the majority of people are incapable of seeing and analysing beyond that.
Back then @Smurf1976 , there was no money in one option over another to those public servants, they were paid to just present the facts.Personally I liked the old model where the public service and anything else owned or run by government (eg utilities) was expected to be firmly professional and steer the ship.
In practice what happened is the relevant department or authority identified the options, evaluated them all, and produced a recommendation for approval by government along with detailing the reasons for favouring it over alternatives.
The role of government, the politicians, was then to scrutinise senior people in the relevant department to ensure they had in fact looked at all the options, ask probing questions about any assumptions made, ask anything else of relevance eg whether the project will employ local labour, whether there's an opportunity to take on trainees or apprentices as part of it, and so on before giving the final yes / no to it.
As with anything, no doubt someone can find exceptions where it didn't produce ideal outcomes but mostly it did, it got things done and is how most of our long established public infrastructure came into being. Some would argue it's undemocratic, since unelected bureaucrats are making the recommendations, but I'll argue that's what professional competence requires. It needs real experts on whatever subject to assess the situation and make recommendations, the role of politics being to hold them to account and make sure they're acting professionally in society's best interests. We don't need elected MP's themselves assessing geology or working out how to schedule the trains.
Other people's money. LolI'm going into making dining tables for "socialist" governments.
I'll join you Wayne.I'm going into making dining tables for "socialist" governments.
That's about what I thought too... Could have got the e identical thing from IKEA I reckon.I'll join you Wayne.
Looks like an el' cheap o' from Cliff and Eddy's from a bygone era.
@Smurf1976 Obviously the in-laid gold is missing for the photo shoot.That looks like a very ordinary, generic dining table that wouldn't be out of place in any random suburban home. Something similar could be found in any random furniture shop.
Surely that's not the actual table they paid $40k for? Incredible if it is.
My Dad was in the furniture game and did some custom work for governments.... Usually embassies here in Oz and even the Sultan of Jahore.That looks like a very ordinary, generic dining table that wouldn't be out of place in any random suburban home. Something similar could be found in any random furniture shop.
Surely that's not the actual table they paid $40k for? Incredible if it is.
Its not just government, the suits in private enterprise are just as bad.It is just a case of Australian Governments, State and Federal, with bogan mentalities IMO.
50 years ago Australia lived off the sheeps back and it didn't pay much, so Governments were carefull and voters were carefull who the voted in.
Then the resources boom came and with it a bucket load of cash, that politicians had no forethought when throwing it around and everyone was happy.
Well that is comming home to roost and the politicians that realise it first, will win a long term in office, because even the muppets realise this isnt sustainable. Lol
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