With Newspoll and Essential Research both having said their piece this week, there is likely to be a fortnight gap between federal polls. Not counting state and territory election action, which you can be assured you will be hearing more about shortly, there are two important preselections on the boil on the conservative side of politics:
• A situation is vacant for the Liberals in the Toowoomba-based federal seat of Groom following last week’s resignation announcement from John McVeigh, the member since 2016. In a column for the Brisbane Times, former Newman government minister and current 4BC presenter Scott Emerson says the vacancy presents an opportunity to head off a stoush over the order of the next Senate ticket between James McGrath and Amanda Stoker. The winner of this fight will get top position while the loser must settle for third, second being reserved for the Nationals. Emerson reports that this amounts to a battle between moderates and the Christian Right, of which McGrath is apparently one of the former. The suggestion is that Groom might give McGrath an opening, but in this he could face opposition from locals who support the claim of Toowoomba councillor Rebecca Vonhoff. Suggestions the seat might be of interest to another Senator, Matt Canavan, are complicated by the fact that he is a National, the sensitivity of which was illustrated when the LNP organisation blocked an attempt by the seat’s previous member, Ian Macfarlane, to jump ship from Liberal to the Nationals in 2015.
• Nathan Hondros of WAToday reports the Liberals will hold their preselection to fill Mathias Cormann’s Western Australian Senate vacancy on November 7, with the winner to take third position on the party’s ticket at the next election behind Michaelia Cash and Dean Smith. There would appear to be three nominees: Julian Ambrose, stepson of the late Perth construction billionaire Len Buckeridge; Sherry Sufi, an arch-conservative party activist; and Albert Jacob, former state Environment Minister and current mayor of Joondalup, who emerged as a “last-minute nomination”. Jacob held the coastal northern suburbs seat of Ocean Reef from 2008 to 2017, when he was defeated in the landslide the tipped the Barnett government from office. Cormann is reportedly lobbying for Ambrose, and his backers are pressuring Sufi to withdraw.
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[If I was Justice Yip I wouldn’t be making plans on how to spend the money]
Justice David Ipp formerly of the WA Supreme Court then the New South Wales Court of Appeal and then ICAC.
Nathan Rees‘ towering achievement after years of having mild commissioners.
As Mavis alluded to, all the ICAC representatives had their legal costs paid for by the state.
Steve777 @ #2333 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 4:41 pm
Notwithstanding, gay boys are proud boys….
– https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-01/sydney-surgeon-stripped-of-medical-licence/12721974
A plastic surgeon who thought it a good idea to wake patients up in the middle of cosmetic procedures to ask whether to go larger (etc.).
Q – why did the anaesthetist allow this to occur?
Morrison must be feeling the need for a Hawaiian holiday right now:
Amongst all that bad news there are a couple of real examples of progress.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-01/commercial-laundry-discovers-25-staff-with-31-degrees/12718622
citizen @ #2353 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 5:51 pm
Don’t think Scrooter would give a toss. After everything else he’s got away with Aged care shenanigans is a walk in the park. He won’t even crack a sweat.
No holiday required.
Damn. I thought Richard Colbeck might have taken Ministerial Responsibility for the Morrison government’s Aged Care debacle and had tendered his resignation this afternoon.
mundo
It’s easy peasy, accept the findings,look sad then look determined and rattle off a stream of $ numbers that is to be spent. If we are super lucky some of the promised spending might not have been already announced months ago or be just reinstating what he had previously cut. Then feet up and relax.
C@t
You’re dreaming. He was sent out to look as dumb as he is.
Lizzie @ #2360 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 6:17 pm
Pretty vacant..
Here’s something you don’t see every day.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1311573854167285760
C@tmomma @ #2357 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 6:13 pm
Naïveté thy name is C@tmoaner.
poroti @ #2358 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 6:14 pm
Don’t tell me, Albo rocks the hamock and holds the fan?
mundo
When someone has made it clear to someone else that they don’t like being addressed in a certain way, it is polite to stop calling them by it.
To continue to do so is harassment.
Player One:
Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 5:24 pm
[‘WTF?’]
Probably to counter Palmer’s influence. I’ve observed, you don’t deal realpolitik all that well.
Player One @ #2346 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 5:24 pm
You sound surprised ?
This is what the cartel does.
mundo @ #2363 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 6:54 pm
zoomster I think mundo is simply showing his insecurity by behaving like this towards me. He knows his contribution to this blog is of an insignificant and irritant nature only, so he seeks to attack those whose contribution is exponentially more substantial by playing silly playground-level games with their names. He seeks to attract attention to himself by attacking those who he knows will be defended by others with integrity such as yourself. I think it’s probably a better strategy to do to him what he would hate the most. Be ignored.
Like I do, until such time as good people like yourself bring his juvenile antics to my attention. 🙂
E. G. Theodore @ #7522 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 5:39 pm
There was no anaesthetist. This was IPA-flavoured barbarity.
Mundo: shut the fuck up, please.
You’re just trolling.
Bushfire Bill @ #2370 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:12 pm
It’s not going to work. mundo is like toe fungus that you can’t get rid of, he’ll never go away. Mr Bowe even told him to ‘Fuck off, mundo’. He’s still here. He’s impervious to reason, or abuse. Best ignored.
mundo should just change his nom to ‘sick puppy’ and be done with it.
Yay! NSW has extended its ‘border zone’ again so I’ll be able to get back to work next term.
C@tmomma @ #2372 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:18 pm
Mundo doesn’t like being called ‘sick puppy’.
Please stop harassing Mundo.
More ways that the Trump campaign, in concert with foreign actors such as Iran and Russia, are using social media, and potentially ransomeware attacks, to disrupt the free and fair deliberations of the people, the casting and counting of their ballots:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/trump-debate-election.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/30/biden-misinformation-earpiece-tiktok-facebook/
Bushfire Bill @ #2370 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:12 pm
No BB.
Mundo was merely commenting on C@tmoaner’s post. It seemed a tad naïve. Even though I knew she was being sarcastic.
But Mundo has copped it in the past for being taken literally when he’s being sarcastic.And has taken it on the chinny chin chin chin.
If everyone here is related to C@tmoaner just say so. At least I’ll know.
Sheesh.
Have just spent the hours between 3.30 and 6.30 arguing with an old friend who doesn’t believe Climate Change is real or, if real, is significant. He quotes Ian Plimer as his authority of first and last resort.
I have known this man since kindergarten, when we were both 5 years old (actually, I was 4). He is as near as I have to a brother. My real brothers, all three of them, died either stillborn, or soon after birth: two before me, and one after.
So, John is precious to me. I didn’t want to have a verbal punch-up with him after so many years.
We finally reached a position of agreement, at least in principle, so that we weren’t arguing anymore, asking a question to which neither of us – as yet – has an answer: “Is our human civilization worth preserving?”
More generally: “Is Earth’s ecosystem worth preserving as it is? And, if so, why is it so special that it is worth preserving?”
Next question: “Say we solved the energy problem [via thermonuclear, ubiquitous solar, wind, hydro, whatever], such that energy was plentiful, yet not producing greenhouse gases. So what? Isn’t overpopulation the real problem? How long ’til something else comes along to wipe us out?”
Have to say that, at the end of 3 hours, I was exhilarated. We found no solutions, but came to the right questions, in my view.
I knew you weren’t capable of basic politeness, mundo, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
Mavis @ #2366 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:04 pm
Realpolitik? Is that what you call it when you defraud and endanger the electorate you are supposed to represent? This is a subsidy. Just by another name.
mundo @ #2374 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:29 pm
….and ‘toe fungus’ I don’t like that either.
Just for the record, the comment I made to which Bushwhacker has taken exception was meant in good humor. A quality some here lack. But, was intended to highlight the repetitive nature of the comment. Vis a vis, Scrooter is a shit. We know.
And Mundo has copped a lot of flak for being repetitive. Non?
C@tmomma @ #2371 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:17 pm
Good advice, C@t. Take it.
It was OBVIOUSLY, INCONTROVERTIBLY sarcastic. So your “logic” is faux.
You’re trolling Mundo: hanging your hat on a very slender hook of total bullshit.
It’s OK if you don’t think Labor is doing enough (if that is a genuinely held view). But don’t try to con us that yoy’re being anything other than nasty, childish and repetitious.
https://vp.nyt.com/video/2020/09/30/88952_1_mag-voter-fraud-promo_wg_720p.mp4
Test
Edit not working for me either. Anyway, that is video of all the times Donald Trump has Tweeted about Voter Fraud and Mail In Ballot irregularities. It’s a lot!
This guy’s research skills are impeccable:
Jommy Tee – electric HiLux owner
@jommy_tee
Hark back to 2007.
PM John Howard released a $1.4B manufacturing package, details below.
Fast forward to today Morrison announces a $1.4B manufacturing package.
#whatgoesaround
Has Scott Morrison ever had an original thought in his life!?!
XKCD comic:
Bushfire Bill @ #2382 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:43 pm
‘It’s OK if you don’t think Labor is doing enough’
Great, thanks Bushman.
You think I’m the only one here who thinks that?
Mundo hopes Bushman thinks that too.
Otherwise Mundo might have serious doubts about Bushman’s motives.
Nudge, nudge.
C@t
Never had an original idea in his life.
This makes me really sad:
Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
Years ago, in a Canberra far far away, a sneering adviser to a federal communications minister said to me, “We are going to take the ABC apart wire by wire, microphone by microphone.” And they are.
#ABC #withMEAA
I think it hardly matters what Labor is doing right now since by all accounts the voters aren’t paying a blind bit of attention until the 4 weeks preceeding an election.
steve davis @ #2388 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 8:00 pm
I just keep wondering when a majority of Australians will realise he’s just a Bullshit Artist?
C@tmomma @ #2385 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:53 pm
Err, No?
Gee, I hope I got that right. 🙂
caf @ #2390 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 8:02 pm
Yes, but the question is can Labor get those four weeks right.
C@t
They are totally blinkered with it. Theyre been taken for mugs and they cant see it.
Bushfire Bill @ #2382 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 7:43 pm
Mundo can’t jump puddles.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1311325748439986182
That was a reference to Alan Marshall GG? He could after all.
caf @ #2390 Thursday, October 1st, 2020 – 8:02 pm
An excellent strategy if you are ok with losing the net election.
Otherwise, it is an idiotic strategy 🙁
Julie Collins
@JulieCollinsMP
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3h
The Royal Commission’s special report on COVID-19 confirms the Morrison Government had no plan for COVID-19 in aged care.
The result of the Morrison Government’s catastrophic failure is a national tragedy.
If you think anything that happens in the political sphere today is going to affect anyone’s vote in 18 months time, I think you’re sadly mistaken.
No mention of the Aged Care report on ABC TV News.
Therefore it didn’t happen.