Reflecting its confidence about its prospects in Victoria, Labor has traded in its existing prospect for the seat of Higgins, Josh Spiegel, for a higher profile model in the shape of barrister Fiona McLeod. That’s all I really have to relate at the moment, but a new federal politics and general discussion thread is required, and here it is. Note the new Brexit post from Adrian Beaumont below this one and, naturally, the latest New South Wales election post above.
This is what happens when you vote for Liberal/Nationals Coalition governments. There are consequences:
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/chemist-warehouse-stores-running-low-on-stock-as-strikers-allegedly-targeted-20190322-p516kw.html
“70% of the landmass of NSW hasn’t voted for a major party “
Most meaningless tweet of all time … Tony Windsor has lost it, next he will be asking that farmers cows get the vote.
Leroy @ #582 Sunday, March 24th, 2019 – 7:11 pm
Thank you. It’s not unexpected. As for the guessing game, I will carry the current guesses forward, and of course accept changes before the poll is finally released.
🙂
Briefly put it quite succinctly this morning at
Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 6:28 am
“It’s fair to say the SFF are escapists – political escapists. Australian right wing/reactionary politics is very solidly escapist.”
In some ways it’s NSW equivalent of ON, which is Australia’s equivalent of D Trump.
It’s voters trying to return to a world that no longer exists. A world I remember 50 years ago.
Too many things have changed, our population is too large, to allow the freedom to do what we did then.
When driving to the countryside with rifles to shoot Roos by spotlight was weekend sport, when dropping a line off the side of a tinny would always catch decent fish, when neither activity needed licenses, when you always had ‘one for the road’, when there was plenty of well paid work, when queens, coons, wogs, beggars and refos knew their places, when your wife was a chattel, and most women became secretaries or did menial jobs, and left the good jobs for men.
Ah yes, the good old days that voters for SFF, ON and DT wish would return.
Shallow thinkers; escapists one and all.
Maude Lynn
“In some ways it’s NSW equivalent of ON, which is Australia’s equivalent of D Trump.”
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Oddly, I saw the two winning candidates for SFF in Barwon and Murray interviewd and they seemed less off the planet than your average Nat politician. Not at all like a ON crazy.
New thread.