A lean period of polling awaits, given the interruption of Easter and the no doubt related fact that every single pollster in the business unloaded results last week. If you’re desperate, Nine Newspapers has further results from last week’s Resolve Strategic poll finding 56% support for “stronger laws to ban hate speech on the basis of religion and faith”, with 19% opposed; 74% in favour of criminal penalties for “doxxing”, with 4% opposed; and 57% saying there had been a rise in racism and religious intolerance “as a result of the Israel-Gaza conflit”, with 15% disagreeing.
Other news:
• Troy Dodds of the Western Weekender reports that Melissa McIntosh, the Liberal member for the marginal outer western Sydney seat of Lindsay, has secured preselection after the withdrawal of Penrith deputy mayor Mark Davies. The expectation that Davies would have the numbers in conservative-dominated local branches to topple McIntosh had been a source of consternation among the party leadership, with Paul Sakkal of the Sydney Morning Herald reporting earlier this month on “the prospect of a rare federal division intervention in the NSW branch” if the challenge went ahead. McIntosh was promoted from the shadow assistant ministry to outer shadow ministry status in a recent reshuffle.
• Tim Wilson won a Liberal preselection vote for Goldstein last week, setting up a rematch with teal independent Zoe Daniel, to whom he lost the seat he had held since 2016 in 2022. Wilson won the local party vote ahead of Colleen Harkin, research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, and Stephanie Hunt, lawyer and former staffer to Julie Bishop and Marise Payne. Paul Sakkal of The Age reports Wilson won a second round vote ahead of Harkin “by about 160-130”.
• Amelia Hamer, a former staffer to then Financial Services Minister Jane Hume who has more recently worked for financial technology start-up Airwallex, has won the Liberal preselection vote for the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, which teal independent Monique Ryan won from Josh Frydenberg in 2022. The Australian reports Hamer won the party vote by 233 to 59 ahead of Rochelle Pattison, director of an asset management and corporate finance firm and chair of Transgender Victoria.
• Former state government minister Andrew Constance has again won Liberal preselection for Gilmore, where he narrowly failed in a bid to unseat Labor’s Fiona Phillips in 2022. Constance won a party vote by 80 to 69 over Paul Ell, lawyer, Shoalhaven councillor and long-standing hopeful for the seat who was persuaded to stand aside in favour of Constance in 2022.
• The Australian’s Feeding the Chooks column reports that Margaret Forrest, a commercial and criminal law barrister, has been preselected as the Liberal National Party candidate for the Brisbane seat of Ryan, which the party lost to Elizabeth Watson-Brown of the Greens in 2022.
• Rowan Ramsey, who has held the regional South Australian seat of Grey for the Liberals since 2007, has announced he will retire at the next election.
• Tammy Tyrell, who won a second Senate seat for the Jacqui Lambie Network at the 2022 election, quit the party last week. Tyrell issued a statement saying the move was made on Lambie’s suggestion, saying it had “become clear to me that I no longer have the confidence” of the party.
• I have a page up for the Cook federal by-election, to be held on April 13.
Political Nightwatchman:
“Thanks for that Irene. I would respond, but the big long unfocused paragraphs which goes a big tangent on everything from immigration, to NDIS, to Aged Care, to Emma Husar.”
Thanks PN for taking the time to read through Irene’s post – it saved me the effort. I usually just skim through Irene’s incoherent scattershot tirades without trying to figure out WTF she’s on about. From now on, I’ll skip them altogether.
The last two years have seen the Labor Parliamentary Party with Albanese as PM, give the necessary effort required to begin the process of remediation to Federal government processes.
The previous ten years of LNP governments were negligent, sometimes wilfully, sometimes slovenly, often unfair and biased.
Remediation after consideration is needed as an ongoing process, deliberate and focused.
Demarcation between the public service including it’s leadership and the elected politicians is essential.
Recent years have seen “boundaries” blurred, erase and ignored far too often.
The recent LNP governments, often neglected some quite basic tenets required by “first world” governments.
Labor and Albanese, while not perfect have attained a satisfactory grade for the efforts of two years.
The polls reflect this.
The punctuated deflection, false outrage and noise being supplied by “leftover” mob making up the current opposition sees lack of policy progress and a reluctance to relinquish their servitude.
The polls reflect this.
The media have been reduced to “third world” scribblers, commentators and talkers often prepared to sell their ethics for a bag of money or infamy.
I appreciate the truncated efforts of the LNP operatives on PB however they are of no more value than my own totally bias pro Labor viewpoints and opinions.
Personal abuse, I’ve had some, is totally unnecessary and counter productive.
The beauty of PB is the tolerance of the Bowe and the tolerance and sincerity of the majority of posters.
RFK Jr. Was a Compulsive Womanizer, and Yes, We Should Care
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/30/2232584/-RFK-Jr-Was-a-Compulsive-Womanizer-and-Yes-We-Should-Care?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web
“The presidential candidate might be the political outcast of his family, but he inherited his father’s and uncle’s disregard for women”
https://newrepublic.com/article/174667/rfk-jr-compulsive-womanizer
Labor and L/NP on a unity ticket re…
– Trickle up economics
– CoL crisis
– Indigenous oppression
– Draconian asylum seeker policy
– Massive fossil fuel export supply
– AUKUS waste
– Rental crisis
– Jobs Provider rorts
– Robotax
– NDIS shambles
– Jobseeker poverty
Rex Douglas says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:46 pm
Labor and L/NP on a unity ticket re…’
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Same old, same old Rexy.
Mexican Beemer
In an ideal world our Embassy processing centres would make the decision while the person was overseas and the High Court would not have to make a decision about detention at all as no law would have needed to be passed in regard to indefinite detention in Australia.
It’s fairly simple,. Instead of deporting them. Take them to a court of law and put them to a trial in the same way we do for citizens. If they are found guilty let them serve that sentence the court issues just like for citizens. Let’s avoid politicians being judge and jury where we can.
Don’t give politicians powers to over rule a court decision politicians disagree with.
This was the sort of work that Cronus used to do:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/united-nations-secretary-general-condemns-explosion-that-injured-un-observers-in-southern-lebanon
Scott says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:51 pm
Mexican Beemer
In an ideal world our Embassy processing centres would make the decision while the person was overseas and the High Court would not have to make a decision about detention at all as no law would have needed to be passed in regard to indefinite detention in Australia.
It’s fairly simple,. Instead of deporting them. Take them to a court of law and put them to a trial in the same way we do for citizens. If they are found guilty let them serve that sentence the court issues just like for citizens. Let’s avoid politicians being judge and jury where we can.
Don’t give politicians powers to over rule a court decision politicians disagree with.’
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LOL. ‘Simple’.
This comes from a Greens Party supporter who does not seem to realize that managing illegal border crossing is, in fact, hideously difficult. But then, after only 35 years, the Greens Party has failed to explain its ‘simplicity’ solutions to 87% of Australia’s voters. That simple!
BW
Yes in an ideal world simple.
Your ignoring of those words says everything.
Edit: There is a reason journalists use the term god powers for the immigration minister
OC would, I believe, have an interest:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/31/no-longer-useful-the-dark-history-of-australias-post-war-asian-deportations
This is a disgraceful bit of Australian history and Calwell and the Labor Government was up to its neck in it.
That said, there are now something like 4,500,000 Australians who identify in the Census as having asian descent so we seem to be getting it right at last.
Give it another four or five generations of intermarriage and probably 100% of Australians will be able to claim asian descent.
Around two thirds of Australian marriages involve some degree of out-marraige.
Boerwar says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:51 pm
This was the sort of work that Cronus used to do:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/united-nations-secretary-general-condemns-explosion-that-injured-un-observers-in-southern-lebanon
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I miss Cronus’s presence here.
‘Scott says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:57 pm
BW
Yes in an ideal world simple.
Your ignoring of those words says everything.’
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Why do moral political posturing and try to sow moral panic based on impossible premise?
I know the Greens Party likes that sort of thing. The rest of us have to make real things work in the real world.
The legacy media, especially the ABC and Financial Review, are barracking for the return of Josh Frydenberg. Joshie was the man who could do no wrong in the eyes of the legacy media, and his loss in Kooyong was not only a blow to him but a blow to them. Expect a full throttled propaganda campaign with the aim of getting him back to Canberra if he declares he’s running.
BW
Nice try. I don’t think it’s an ideal world. Big fail for you.
In Belfast the other boot drops.
The PSNI confirms that the woman charged with abetting Sir Jeffery is his wife Lady Eleanor
The PSNI also threatens action against anyone naming the victims.
(Far too late as it has been all over the web for the last day)
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/jeffrey-donaldsons-wife-eleanor-charged-with-aiding-and-abetting/a618758664.html
The SA Voice is a joke. Members being elected with 6 votes. Less than 10% turn out of eligible voters. What a waste of money. So much for the Voice having the support of aboriginals.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/low-voter-turnout-for-sa-voice-is-a-start-says-malinauskas-government/news-story/84fc437442961ab7a55cf0c8181f52fe
The Oklahoma State Patrol said Saturday that it closed a highway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over Arkansas River. Troopers closed South U.S. Highway 59 about 1:25 p.m. after receiving word of the incident and diverted traffic from the area, state patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart said. The bridge, which crosses the Arkansas River where it enters the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, will remain closed until it can be inspected, she said.
The legacy media , especially the ABC and Financial Review, are barracking for the return of Josh Frydenberg. Joshie was the man who could do no wrong in the eyes of the legacy media, and is loss was not only a blow to him but a blow to them. Expect a full throttled propaganda campaign with the aim of getting him back to Canberra if he declares he’s running.
@S. Simpson
Joe Hildebrand who says he has ‘deep Labor sympathies’, urged Labor voters to save Josh Frydenberg in Kooyong last election by preferencing him. They (the media) did everything to save him in Kooyong, although I didn’t really notice the ABC so much.
Now the Kooyong Liberal preselection has been done. I can’t see Frydenberg coming back or at least for the next term. I’m surprised you have thrown the idea up, unless I’ve missed something in the media.
sprocket
“And having seen the impact on extended family members of profound disability in a child, pre NDIS days, and what the scheme was intended to provide for. And does it very well in large measure.
Also knowing some NDIS workers, both working for an agency and as independents, it is fair to say that some tightening up is essential. Especially in the psychosocial categories.”
100%
All,
What happened to cronus? I took a break after the Voice vote, and his was a noticeable absence when I returned.
Rebecca says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 12:25 pm
Griff: I hate to tell you, but Labor is the government – and “my department is doing something really problematic, but of course, I, the minister, couldn’t possibly be expected to pay attention and/or do something about it” was, quite literally, the defence of every LNP minister in Robodebt.
I didn’t say the schemes were the same (if having some very significant similarities), but the governmental response certainly has been the same so far.
Citing the Ombudsman in support of the move is deeply ironic when the Ombudsman just rebuked the ATO over it, stating, and I quote, “don’t repeat past failings”, and “not implementing previous advice and recommendations on taxpayer rights, including those made in the 2009 report”.
The handling of this and the attempts to just pass the buck back to the minister’s own department makes an absolute mockery of the regular line that seems to be coming out of the rusted-ons about how Labor is just so committed to good governance these days. Ministerial responsibility used to be considered part of that, but it seems it’s been absolutely abdicated across both major parties.
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The grass is short, lunch has been eaten, and I’m back. There is reason to my mention of the 2009 report. The irony is you stating that the Ombudsman “rebuked the ATO”, my exact point 😉
As I have said, it is an administrative matter for the ATO. As to the debts themselves, some $15 billion or so, The National Audit Office has informed the ATO that they are in breach of legislation for not chasing them. See https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/anthony-albanese-government-robotax-debts-wiped-ato-tax-commissioner-chris-jordan-national-press-club
Now shall we revisit the start of this? You are looking at this entirely through a political lens, and cannot see through to the underlying matter. You stated at 10:01am “Stephen Jones is spouting the literal exact same excuse for having Robotax go on under his watch as every LNP minister during Robodebt: “oh, the Department totes told me it was fine so I ignored all the media reporting, complaints from the victims and criticism of the scheme from people with specialist experience”.” Despite the rhetorical tone, you are correct in this: politicians of all persuasions will seek to rely on the defence of being provided advice.
However, you go on to say “Jones has just done the same thing as those LNP ministers within nine months of the handing down of a Royal Commission report that tried to stamp out this sort of thing permanently.” This is where you err. I repeat, the underlying facts are different. Opposite even. One debt is unlawful, the other lawful. The Royal Commission’s 57 recommendations run somewhat broader than the sending of letters. See https://robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/report.
If we want to wipe the $15 billion in tax debt, then we need legislation, as the ATO is currently obliged to collect. By all means say Labor should act faster, but it is a very different situation to “this sort of thing” i.e. Robodebt.
DM
Re: Cronus. We don’t know.
‘Scott says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 3:05 pm
BW
Nice try. I don’t think it’s an ideal world. Big fail for you.’
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Your premise presumed it. Which made a nonsense of your flailing around.
Do the Greens want the ATO to let taxpayers get away with $15 billion which could be used to be build housing for the homeless?
Or are they only interesting in sowing moral panic?
Eagles drubbed by 12 goals after managing to score just the three goals in four quarters.
Queenslanders can forget pill testing at festivals.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/31/queensland-opposition-leader-casts-doubt-over-future-of-states-new-pill-testing-regime
Bolza canvasses issues around the looming judgement in the Lehrmann defamation case.
https://citynews.com.au/2024/judgment-looms-in-lehrmann-defamation-case/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=canberra-daily-today-s-news-today_7801
If you see a Liberal can a defamation case be far behind?
Ven
Is being a womanizer morally bad? Is being a nymphomaniac morally bad?
BW
Your foundational premise is wrong and no flailing about will change that.
I happen to be arguing we should trust courts more and politicians less. In fact I am arguing it’s in the long term self interest for politicians not to have to make these decisions. It’s the hig fail of what the LNP has done.
I think it’s the LNP that has made the tactical mistake in trying to replicate their support of the Greens as they did in voting for the Greens on the “Malaysia Solution’ in sending to the committee. A committee can come to all sorts of conclusions and is not a final vote like that was. Transparency helps Labor on immigration not the LNP in the long term even if not in the short term.
Plus I think Labor would like to spend more on diplomacy rather than rely on defence alone. Having a respected judicial system making these decisions instead of politicians makes for better diplomacy. So the arguments today as the sausage gets made are in danger of losing the big picture. Instead of accusing the Greens of “moral posturing” argue about the LNP attacking the rule of law. It might have some resonance for a party that campaigns on law and order.
Not yet…
Cairns Post (probably pay-walled):
Pill testing goes ahead at Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival on Southern Downs despite conservative opposition
https://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/queensland/pill-testing-goes-ahead-at-rabbits-eat-lettuce-festival-on-southern-downs-despite-conservative-opposition/news-story/35e09642fa4f589d19d02aaf4707b8f3?amp&nk=f44bba131e19ace90b72909e6af46538-1711861590
The reactionaries have reacted, but the world moves on.
32% Labor needed a reminder of where they’re at.
Tonifasays:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:18 pm
Political Nightwatchman:
“Thanks for that Irene.
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A pleasure. You obviously like Labor wasting our taxes on wealthy businesses, often providing poor services.
And scrimping on Jobseekers and children.
Just as the Howard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison LNP governments did.
Fortunately most voters know Labor are not worth their first preference. Latest polling 32% or lower
You are in the minority.
Feel sorry for Wong. Her reputation has been damaged, likely cast aside as time goes on. But is a woman ….. Those in Labor who trusted the corrupt bully and liar Morrison to keep his AUKUS brainwave and cruel asylum detention policies as well as $billions annually of taxes supporting wealthy businesses really have been fooled.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/ten-seeks-to-call-fresh-evidence-about-bruce-lehrmann-days-before-judgment-20240331-p5fgdx.html
32% Labor needed a reminder of where they’re at.
@Rex Douglas
Higher then your precious Greens and Teals Rexy. As for your previous comment wishing Monique Ryan was PM. Ryan was voted in as an independent for Kooyong, and should be working for her constituents. Nothing more, nothing less.
‘Pueo says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 4:07 pm
Queenslanders can forget pill testing at festivals.
Not yet…
Cairns Post (probably pay-walled):
Pill testing goes ahead at Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival on Southern Downs despite conservative opposition
Conservative critics have been told to ‘grow up’ as a Queensland music festival becomes ground zero for the biggest pill testing operation in Australian history.
https://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/queensland/pill-testing-goes-ahead-at-rabbits-eat-lettuce-festival-on-southern-downs-despite-conservative-opposition/news-story/35e09642fa4f589d19d02aaf4707b8f3?amp&nk=f44bba131e19ace90b72909e6af46538-1711861590
The reactionaries have reacted, but the world moves on.’
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Chrisafulli has promised to knock it on the head.
A pleasure. You obviously like Labor wasting our taxes on wealthy businesses, often providing poor services.
And scrimping on Jobseekers and children.
Just as the Howard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison LNP governments did.
Fortunately most voters know Labor are not worth their first preference. Latest polling 32% or lower
You are in the minority
@Irene
Irene most of your rant had nothing to do with Job Keeper, and it was irrelevant. It was the comment you replied to. The fact the Liberals originally paid 40 billion on Job Keeper to businesses that were not entitled to it, and implemented it without a mechanism to get that money back. And your slamming Labor when the elephant in the room was this was the Liberals doing. Shows to me that you hold the Liberals to no accountability, as Rex Douglas does either.
Bandt, Shoebridge and Dutton are essentially crossing their fingers on behalf of the citizens of Australia that the looming High Court decision does not result in people being released who then go on to behave in a criminal fashion because they cannot be deported.
What they are ALL doing together is sowing moral panic for sordid party political purposes – putting their own objective of gaining power by putting Australians at risk.
Of course he has.
The QLD State election isn’t until 26 October 2024.
The Inland Rail project between Melbourne and Brisbane has stalled with just 17 per cent complete, and insiders say it is unlikely it will ever reach the end of the line.
Political infighting, poor planning and governance, and increasing delays to environmental approvals have significantly reduced the scope of the transformative nation-building project, while simultaneously blowing out the cost from $9.3bn to $31.4bn.
There are no guarantees the line will even cross into Queensland, with the $14.6bn in confirmed funding now restricted to south of the border.
Environmental approvals, required before construction could begin in Queensland, are “years away”, a Senate committee was told last month. The Albanese government is increasingly reluctant to commit to the project’s end point or a timeline for when it could be finished.
When construction started in 2018, the train line was due to be completed by 2027 and was going to run 1600km, from Tottenham in Melbourne to Acacia Ridge in Brisbane.
Two disjointed sections, totalling about 300km, between Parkes, west of Sydney, and North Star, near the Queensland border, are effectively completed, but sit isolated from the rest of the upgraded line further south.
Further funding is locked in for a 650km stretch from Beveridge, 40km north of Melbourne, to Parkes, with an estimated completion date of 2027.
Rail advocates and industry sources in Queensland fear it will never make it into the state, casting doubt on the public-private partnerships intended to fund a significant portion of the Queensland section and spooking the investors planning interacting infrastructure.
Formally, following the 2023 review of the project by former government and business executive Kerry Schott, the government said it would eventually build the line from Beveridge to Kagaru, 70km from the Port of Brisbane.
But after the review, the signed public-private partnership contract to deliver the section from Gowrie, near Toowoomba, to Kagaru was terminated. Inland Rail chief executive Nick Miller last month told a Senate committee the government was “committed” to that route.
But several people close to the project interviewed by The Australian doubted it would ever progress east of Toowoomba because of the high cost of tunnelling through the Great Dividing Range and fierce local opposition to trains passing through rural and residential areas closer to Brisbane.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/advocates-say-melbournebrisbane-inland-rail-project-will-never-be-completed/news-story/8847914c33c7f5edcae7f92eeb928854?amp
Drug Dealer Quality Assurance, bought for the stupid and deluded by the Queensland Labor Government.
In Qld Labor la la Land, all the kids are off their face or wish they were, so this is good policy.
LOL.
Fake, dangerous drugs brought to you by the LNP and their enablers.
Albanese’s attempts to appease Dutton land Labor in a quagmire of its own making. Amy Remeikis, The Guardian
Dutton is playing Labor like a fish with Labor attempting to be as close as they can to Liberal cruel asylum detention policy.
As we know Labor wants to copy all Coalition policy. No light between them.
‘PM’ Dutton in charge.
Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has blamed a “Peter Dutton-Adam Bandt alliance” for the government’s failure to rush through “draconian” deportation legislation in the parliament last week.
But Greens senator David Shoebridge, who has described the laws as “draconian”, said the Labor government was alone in supporting the laws without scrutiny, arguing it was “everybody in the parliament except for Labor” who wanted further examination of legislation “that looked like it had been drawn in crayon without any rational basis behind it”.
The Coalition supported a Greens motion in the Senate to send the deportation legislation to a Senate inquiry, despite having voted with the government to pass the legislation through the House of Representatives, after Labor failed to produce reasons for the bill’s urgency.
The inquiry will report back on the bill on 7 May, the first day parliament resumes following the autumn break, although there remains the possibility parliament could be recalled earlier to pass the bill if the government loses a coming high court challenge.
The deportation bill gives the immigration minister the power to direct a non-citizen who is due to be deported “to do specified things necessary to facilitate their removal” or risk a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison or up to five years.
It also creates a power to designate another country as a “removal concern country”, which will impose a bar on new visa applications from non-citizens outside Australia who are nationals of a country that does not accept removals from Australia.
The legislation has alarmed human rights and refugee advocates who warn it could have far-reaching unintended consequences, including reversing protection findings of someone previously found to be a refugee.
Shoebridge, the Greens new home affairs spokesperson, said Labor had “jumped the shark” with the laws, which he said went further than anything an Australian government had previously put forward.
“We have a very unfair asylum system, you know, arbitrary time limits, negative inferences, it’s a very unfair process,” he said.
“We’ve never yet said, ‘Well, if you continue to fear persecution, even though the government doesn’t believe you, we’re going to whack you on a plane and return you against your will to potential jail and persecution in Iran and if you don’t do it, we’re going to put you in jail for a mandatory minimum of one year.’
David Shoebridge on Labor’s ‘Trump like’ immigration proposals – podcast
“And we’ve never yet said, ‘If you don’t sign a passport application for your kids, and take them back as well, we’re going to put you in jail.’ Even under the Coalition we never got there.”
Shoebridge said the inquiry into the legislation would examine the “god-like” powers the bill gave the minister to send people to jail if they did not comply with an order and the “blacklisting” of countries as designated nations.
gympiesays:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 5:02 pm
Drug Dealer Quality Assurance, bought for the stupid and deluded by the Queensland Labor Government.
In Qld Labor la la Land, all the kids are off their face or wish they were, so this is good policy., so this is good policy.
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“In Qld Labor la la Land, all the kids are off their face or wish they were”
From my observations it is many of the adults in Qld that are seriously deluded not the kids. Who can blame the kids from wanting to escape reality when their reality is seriously deranged adults like “Gympie” living amongst them. Though what really surprises me is you are not on something. The level of delusion you are showing is often chemically induced.
‘Irene says:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 5:13 pm
Albanese’s attempts to appease Dutton land Labor in a quagmire of its own making. Amy Remeikis, The Guardian …’
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OTOH, Bandt’s attempt to appease Dutton is working excellently well!
Rex Douglas @ #154 Sunday, March 31st, 2024 – 2:46 pm
Unmitigated bollocks. Or, more kindly put, simplistic nonsense.
Fubar
Your mean spirited criticism of the SA Voice votes comes as no surprise.
However, I hope you are equally as sour when the next local elections come along in Perth.
Despite long experience at having local elections for municipal councils and the like, and despite pre postal voting, it is a struggle to get 15-20% of rate payers out to vote. And, rate payers have a vested monetary interest and it still does not prompt them .
I again smell rank hypocrisy from your corner yet again…..
Entropy @ #192 Sunday, March 31st, 2024 – 5:15 pm
I note also that gympie has not mentioned that the woman who died from a drug overdose on Friday on the Gold Coast was 43 years old. Hardly a child. As were her compadres in drugs around about the same age. But it suits the LNP narrative to call them ‘kids’, doesn’t it gympie? 😐
gympie, will you ever tell the truth here?
Entropy:
“From my observations it is the adults in Qld that are seriously deluded not the kids. Who can blame the kids from wanting to escape reality … ”
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Exactly what I’m talking about, spent the best years of his life playing at politics while everyone else bought a surfboard, no idea.
Labor in a nutshell
Irene,
Do you know it makes your posts easier to scroll through when they are very, very long? 😉
C@tmommasays:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 5:27 pm
Entropy @ #192 Sunday, March 31st, 2024 – 5:15 pm
gympiesays:
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 5:02 pm
Drug Dealer Quality Assurance, bought for the stupid and deluded by the Queensland Labor Government.
In Qld Labor la la Land, all the kids are off their face or wish they were, so this is good policy., so this is good policy.
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“In Qld Labor la la Land, all the kids are off their face or wish they were”
From my observations it is the adults in Qld that are seriously deluded not the kids. Who can blame the kids from wanting to escape reality when their reality is seriously deranged adults like “Gympie” living amongst them. Though what really surprises me is you are not on something. The level of delusion you are showing is often chemically induced.
I note also that gympie has not mentioned that the woman who died from a drug overdose on Friday on the Gold Coast was 43 years old. Hardly a child. As were her compadres in drugs around about the same age. But it suits the LNP narrative to call them ‘kids’, doesn’t it gympie?
gympie, will you ever tell the truth here?
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I fear “Gympie” may suffer from a little recognised syndrome called “veraphobia”. Judging from his complete aversion to facts and verifiable sources.
gympie @ #197 Sunday, March 31st, 2024 – 5:29 pm
Sounds like most of the Coalition MPs. And hey, do you remember Wyatt Roy from Queensland? Also, how long has James Paterson been in the Senate for now? Pretty good innings for the 36 year old. What was he doing during his youth?
But then you only like telling half the story, gympie. The half that supports your narrative.