Australia Thread v7 - a pack of durries and a slab of piss
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Scott Morrison most likely has a stronger mandate than any of his recent predecessors. Take this as you will:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-19/annabel-crabb-election-result-2019-scott-morrison-mandate/11127994
Having campaigned as a one-man show, Scott Morrison — the author of a "miracle victory" — now finds himself with that rarest and most inscrutable of political assets: the one mandate.
Think "Aladdin's Cave" for politicians.
Mr Morrison genuinely can now do whatever the hell he likes.
This is a man who — in one evening — has won the hysterical adulation of his horridly divided party, condemned Labor to a painful round of internal recrimination and grief, won Government without the tedious overhang of rash or unachievable campaign promises, and taken Clive Palmer for 60 million big ones without actually having to deal with the bloke in the Senate.
Oh — and the electorate helpfully cleared away the management issue of opinionated former leader Tony Abbott too.
This is the sort of outcome from which a Liberal leader would ordinarily awake to find it had all been a dream.
It's not a dream.
"Our view yesterday was that we could only win if absolutely everything went right," said a senior Liberal last night. "And it did. Beyond what we could possibly have expected, actually."
Thought by friend and foe alike to be a serviceable nightwatchman tinkering about at the crease until light stopped play, Scott Morrison is now the entire shape of the team. It's difficult to overstate the power he now wields internally.
Viewed with a pinch of suspicion by both warring camps within the Liberal Party (the Abbott camp suspects Morrison of betraying Abbott for Turnbull, and the Turnbull camp suspects him of betraying Turnbull for Morrison), the re-elected PM has at his disposal a new, third way: His own.
When asked during the campaign by Leigh Sales who would set the pace in a re-elected Coalition Government:
"Who will have the upper hand in driving Liberal Party policy if you're re-elected? The climate change sceptics who killed the National Energy Guarantee, voted against same-sex marriage and orchestrated Malcolm Turnbull's downfall, or the mainstream of the party?"
Scott Morrison's reply was swift and brutal.
“I will.”
hes still a shit cunt with bad ideas so nothing will be better.
i hope dutton backstabs him
But we can all agree that it's still a win that Abbott got booted out, and now has much smaller sway in the LNP.
abbott being out just means he can't be a shitstirrer and talk to the media as a way of influencing the party direction. plenty more luddites and coal farmers to push morrison around
undoubtedly another coup coming in a few years because of his shit polling, but he'll be allowed to keep the job until it makes sense strategically to boot him
Whys it so hard for us to get a charismatic, likeable PM.
on track to minority government = mandate lol yeah ok
Man my brother worked the election yesterday, from 7am until 10pm. He was making like $29.50/hr. Cunt made bank yesterday.
I'd kinda just really forgotten that most people don't really give a shit about politics. Maybe it's because i'm in a very safe labor seat (Electorate of Bean in the ACT), but a lot of people either can't (public servants) express their displeasure or simply realized that we'll end up as red and therefore don't really care. There's a lot people have to lose in our electorate, considering the massive incoming cuts to both the public service and education sectors, as well as moving several government departments to rural areas. Really fucking sucks when Tasmania gets five house of rep members and fucking twelve senators, while we (a territory with a <100,000 population difference) gets a measly three house of reps members, and fucking two senate members. They did add another house of reps member to the ACT this time around which helps but fucking hell, I'm not saying we need the same amount as a full on state but 4 reps and 8 senators would be a fuckload better than what we have now. I'm feeling really under-represented now.
Yeah canberra gets a raw deal in the senate but can you imagine the cunts from WA and QLD having a moan about the 'top end of town' getting more senators or another reps member
Let then moan. I'll just moan back that if they want to be like that, maybe the "Top end of town" shouldn't be putting money into fixing the fuck ups of their respective state governments, like WA swan diving into a severe recession just months after experiencing one of the biggest resource booms in human history.
I cannot understand WHY the people of New England voted Beetrooter back in. He backstabbed them all. TWICE. And they still voted for him!
Some unpleasant truth: Election 2019
Hard pill to swallow but if Labor and the Greens are talking about moving beyond coal they need to have a strong explanation of where employment is going to come from. Not good enough to say that renewable energy will provide that work because there's every indication it wont.
The shift away from coal is coming, the market is taking care of that. I just don't know what can be offered to QLD or WA which will be acceptable to them. It's gotta hurt at some point. Burying you head in the sand isn't a solution, nor is saying its over without proposing something which will help alleviate the transition.
They should probably have talked about encouraging non-fossil fuel resource extraction. Tax breaks for example.
"Jobs are key in Queensland and Adani's Carmichael Coal mine will guarantee work."
Except Adani's track record of hiring suggests otherwise. This is just pushing me and my BF to further want to move to the Netherlands, a major reason being every summer I'm struggling more and more to cope with the heat we get.
the cunts who live in the area they want to build it are just fucking greedy bogans. one of the only good things to come from them actually building the mine is barely any of the locals getting jobs and most of them going to fly in fly out workers.
https://www.redbull.com/au-en/a-record-breaking-bam11-means-a-bright-future-for-the-australian-fgc-scene
I went to this, shit was really fun and had a excellent turn out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3W5w3y2RUo
I really liked that cover. I don't understand all the hate.
Yeah, the youtube comments are filled with complains about the guitar but i didn't see anything wrong with it.
the guitar tone is dogshit and hes butchered the main riff, the female singer is doing her own thing in the chorus.
it doesnt matter the genre, if you have an instrument that is prominent in the mix, it should sound good. the tone is shit and his g string is flat. they are playing in d minor rather than e minor so it already sounds off but with a shit tone and out of tune guitar it sounds a lot worse than it could have.
what the fuck did someone gouge your eardrum out with a spork?
it sounds worse than the guy sharting in the stall next to me at work today
i saw a bloke at the shopping centre with a stall peddling these things:
https://tactoys.com.au/collections/rifles
like a pussy version of airsoft thats legal in queensland (dunno about other states), still wish that we could have airsoft guns though.
I wish they wouldn't do that. It only attracts the wrong sort of attention.
They're much better for the environment, less plastic BBs, cause even the biodegradable ones take a while to break down
