Australian Politics -- and YOU WILL LIKE IT

Makes me feel better about putting them last.

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Commercial morning tv is quasi-fascist and has been for a looong time. Remember that (and Dancing With The Stars) is how Hanson rehabilitated herself after her first election loss and batch of scandals, and they’ve been done for racial hate speech etc several times. That stuff is piped direct into every doctor’s surgery, nursing home, etc etc in the country.

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The GP clinic I go to has ABC 24 running all day.

Well, that and some TV just running medical infomercials on a strange combination of very common minor ailments and extremely rare severe ones.

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Yeah, I mean if it wasn’t so obvious and terrible it would be funny.
Seven reporting on what the tabloids are reporting.
The media setting the agenda on verbal slips and not on policy. Morrison somehow starting with a blank slate.

None of it’s surprising.

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Maybe not but Albo’s performance is surprisingly bad or is it?

the one i went to for most of my life just had a fish tank

I think the only saving grace is that most people will (or should) have made up their minds.

ALP/GREENS/GET UP probably have some stuff up their sleeves closer to the end of the campaign.

Rapes
Prostitutes
Paedophile enabling mates
QAnon mates
Corruption
Grifting
Lying
Failing to order vaccines
Failing to order RATs
Climate change
ā€˜Women problem’

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I thought the first day was.
The nonsense since then is kind of making me think they would have found something.

It will be interesting to see how the ALP attack ads go…
Or to see if any shadow ministers start pulling their weight on that front.

Liberals are a climate death cult.?

The National Party say Hi!

What used to be a farmers party. Now more a miners party.

Ok, I know it’s PRGuy, but the info is interesting.

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I’ll believe it when I see it

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ā€œFederal Labor has promised a vote on a national integrity commission by the end of this year if it wins the federal election.ā€

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Sorry should have clarified - I’ll believe that the ALP has a genuine intention to address political corruption once I see the draft bill, and whether or not it provides safe harbour protections for MPs who have participated in corrupt conduct

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hark back to the greatest tweet ever posted

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That question was asked of our Federal Member last week, and her response was that it would be retrospective and so be it, if any Labor people fell.

So took out of that, that it has been discussed in Caucus and all crooks will get hammered.

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i’ll believe it when i see someone face an actual consequence via it

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So far it’s been a comparison between Morrison and Albanese, with sniping on the sidelines by Ministers and Shadow Ministers.
There are some good performers in the Shadow Cabinet, but Marles doesn’t perform well in interviews. Wong is a bit neutralised as ALP is largely bipartisan on foreign policy, but she could be used on a wider front. Gallagher and Plibersek are on top of detail and handle Qs well. Chalmers is good, Bowen spoke with passion on QandA ( compared to wooden performances in interviews).
At least they haven’t been tainted with corruption ( that we know of) and haven’t had the occasion to be careless with the taxpayers money.

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Or has it been a comparison between their election campaigns?

Because I’d truly welcome a comparison between Morrison and Albanese.
Won’t hold my breath, though.

The Secretary of PM&C is retiring.

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Passover Easter and Ramadan coincide this year. Yesterday PM did a Baptist service ( his original religion) and a Synagogue ( pics of him wearing skull cap), Jen did a Maronite service, they are going Pentecostal at their local on Sunday.
No mosque appearances. Probably no votes in that, Maronites might be offended.