Two fairly marginal new items of poll news:
• Nine Newspapers has been ekeing out further detail from its three Resolve Strategic polls so far this year, today reporting that the two-party result among men was 50-50 in last week’s poll (which had a super-sized sample of 3083), after the Coalition 58-42 from the combined January and February polls (the latter of which produced a markedly stronger result for the Coalition than any other poll published this year). Labor also surged from 55-45 behind to 52-48 ahead among the 35-to-54 age cohort. Yesterday’s report revealed only that the result in “marginal electorates” was Labor 27%, Coalition 38%, Greens 13% and One Nation 7%, as compared with national results of 29%, 37%, 13% and 7%, but in the absence of any indication as to how marginal was defined, it’s hard to say what this might mean. Hopefully a future report will provide breakdowns for Western Australia and South Australia, with only the three largest states featured in the pollster’s regular monthly reporting.
• The News Corp papers today report further detail from yesterday’s RedBridge Group poll, which found 25% wanted a Labor majority government and 31% a Coalition majority government. Twenty per cent of Labor voters wanted them to govern in minority, 14% with the support of the Greens and 6% with the teals (evidently the question was an either-or on this count). Twenty-eight per cent of the small sample of respondents aged 18 to 34 felt the best result would be a “Greens-Labor coalition” (which the report is possibly conflating with a Greens-supported minority government).
Candidate and seat-level news:
• Sarah Elks of The Australian reports Labor is “throwing firepower at Peter Dutton’s electorate of Dickson”, and notes that “the Coalition dirt unit has been busy circulating material about Climate 200-backed independent candidate Ellie Smith’s history of environmental activism”. However, an LNP strategist is quoted saying Dutton had “nothing to worry about”.
• It appears Kate Hulett’s hopes of following her near-success as an independent in the state seat of Fremantle by running for the federal seat could fall foul of Section 44. The West Australian reports Hulett “contacted the British Home Office to renounce her citizenship but was told there was a wait of six months, sparking concerns she might not be eligible to run”.
• Pauline Hanson’s daughter, Lee Hanson, will be One Nation’s lead Senate candidate in Tasmania.
How (and why) are people still getting caught out by S 44?
Difference between State and Federal legislation? I suspect Kate hadn’t thought about running in the Federal election but reconsidered it after she did so well in the State election.
Happy end of Daylight Savings everyone! (well for those in the sophisticated states anyway 😉 )
From the previous thread:
steve davissays:
Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 2:00 am
Dutton thought this would just be a referendum on Albanese. He was wrong.
It is Peter Dutton who appears hesitant and reactive. The Prime Minister projects confidence and Labor seemed to head into the campaign with at least an element of a message.
This is big coming from Simon Benson( The Oz).
It’s actually turning into a referendum on Peter Dutton.
This is a fascinating story of Australian persistence, resilience and scientific brilliance that presages a future only read about before in science fiction novels…being able to design living organisms.
Key Points:
* Scientists have been trying to create multicellular life from a fully human-made genome since 2006
* International teams have painstakingly built 16 synthetic yeast chromosomes from scratch
* Sydney DPIRD scientist Dr Hugh Goold had just completed the 16th and final chromosome
* The groundbreaking synthetic organism called “Yeast 2.0” will be completed in New York
* The underlying science paves the way for, one day, fully customised plant and animal cells
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/hugh-once-delivered-cheese-to-the-queen-now-he-s-built-the-key-to-synthetic-life-20250326-p5lmmi.html
‘ Star Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian was named in a $650,000 settlement former political staffer Rachelle Miller reached with the Commonwealth over discrimination and harassment claims.
Miller worked for then-cabinet ministers Alan Tudge and Michaelia Cash from 2016 to 2018 but disclosed in 2020 that she had an affair with Tudge and complained the two, along with Cash’s one-time staffer Kapterian, had discriminated against her and failed to provide a safe work environment.’
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/star-liberal-candidate-named-in-discrimination-settlement-20250404-p5lp8e.html
The liberal party candidate in majority of Liberal party and non liberal party held seats will need a primary vote of 43%+ to be safe or win a seat
It doesnt look like the federal liberal party will gain many seats, but they could lose up to 9 or more seats
To Labor and non Labor party candidates
Global Tariff shit show.
I will be blunt..… when you are in an existential crisis .. you do anything to survive.. if that means you eliminate the source.. you do it.. you put a bullet to the mad cows head.. it will happen.. it happened to Popes that were past their use by date.
Paul Krugmann substack ..
https://substack.com/home/post/p-160404589
Remember you can’t go wrong if you…
don’t be a chump, vote NO to temu trump!
Even Da Boyz are starting not to like Peter:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-dad-vote-crucial-to-labor-s-polling-rebound-20250403-p5lp1n.html
More from Krugmann… & it’s 100% on topi with this blog, because it reinforces why Dutttons support of Trump will result in a landslide to Labor..
Some people were surprised that this time around Trump didn’t offer a job to Robert Lighthizer, possibly the most prominent protectionist intellectual in America. After all, Lighthizer is widely respected for his trade policy expertise even among people who think his advice is all wrong. But actually knowing something and having an independent reputation are disqualifying in this administration and the G.O.P. more generally. This is why we have a Fox News host running the Pentagon. It’s why Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, asked to defend the tariff plans, replied, “You have to trust the President’s instincts.”
Which brings me back to my original point: There can’t be any secret agenda behind the Trump tariffs, because there’s nobody around Trump with the knowledge or independence to devise such an agenda. This is all about Trump’s gut feelings. A White House official told Politico that he likes the “shock and awe,” and that
Each country needs to panic and call. … Trump wants to hear you grovel and say you’ll cut a deal.
Since most of our trading partners aren’t in a groveling mood, trade war seems inevitable.
You might imagine that Trump will back off if his tariff gambit goes as badly as seems likely. But I don’t think he will, because his team of sycophants will tell him things are going great.
I love the smell of napalm burning economies in the morning [/Marlon Brando].
I predict 100 seats to the anti darkness coalition
And the audio version of Paul Krugman’s views on tariffs in general, and the world economic order arising out of Bretton Woods and GATT – and why and how Trump, and it is Trump, is destroying it.
https://youtu.be/DhabG-dyQu0?si=0WBjJOzJdZshXpU6
I recently purchased a DVD copy of ‘Apocalypse Now’. I think it’s about time to watch it again with my son.
Missed in the Dutton football incident at Cazalys Oval is that he was there to announce a downgrade to the toilet and changeroom facilities to make them unisex. Women are mightily peeved off with losing toilets right now, and with the poor sentences being handed out to creeps who install hidden cameras, I don’t know how he can think this is a good idea electorally? This is a safety issue. Women do not feel safe in unisex toilets.
And it won’t attract women to sport either, it will drive us away. Crowds too.
The betting markets have turned towards Labor – with the big mover being an ALP majority. A few weeks ago, $15 an ALP majority was readily available.
Sceptic says:
Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 6:40 am
You tip a handsome split ….100:50
I’m hoping for something like 90/20/40. I reckon 40 is way more than the Reactionaries deserve to hold. They are betrayal and they are abject stupidity.
But they will hold on to their die-hard base. Perhaps the Nationals will emerge as the largest Party.
The Liberals certainly deserve to lose all their seats.
So the policy drop for the Sunday papers..
ALP – $4,000 rebates on solar battery installation
LNP- cutting student visa numbers, increasing their fees, to ‘free up housing’
No regrets in buying a Tesla battery to go with the solar panels – works like a dream with nothing from the grid except in the middle of winter. Great app to track usage of appliances and off grid mode in case of blackouts.
I doubt Elon Musk had anything to do with the engineering of this.
Rather than Apocalypse Now, I think the best Hollywood movie analogy for what’s going on is Return of the Jedi: specifically, the scene in which the Emperor is zapping the bejesus out of Luke while Darth Vader watches on passively. Until he suddenly turns on the Emperor.
Darth Vader was not at all a nice character, and nor are the Republicans in the House and the Senate. And, the Wall St Journal tells us, they are currently watching passively at what Trump is doing. But they have the power to end this instantly if they choose. Trump is only able to determine tariff levels through emergency powers that were conferred on Presidents some decades ago. Congress can take them back whenever it wants.
I think it will probably take less than a month. There is a lot of analysis of the state of the financial markets and the macroeconomy to be found on the internet at the moment, but what I haven’t seen much commentary about the large number of US businesses – large, medium and small – which depend upon being able to import components from Asian countries. Rumour has it that the numbers of these businesses is very large. And Trump’s ludicrous formula for calculating his tariffs doesn’t end up just targeting China, but pretty much all Asian countries. These components are unobtainable within the US and, because they command only low prices in global markets, it is highly unlikely that they ever will be.
Therefore, a lot of businesses in the US that depend upon Asian inputs will no doubt be looking at their future prospects and, come Monday, many will start shutting their doors. It could quickly become an avalanche.
This situation will be intolerable for a large number of Republicans in the House and Senate, notwithstanding their fear of being “primaried” (horrible term) by MAGA candidates. So, unless I’m wrong and the impact of the tariffs on Asian countries will be less than I have suggested, many of these individuals are going to have to grow a spine over the next few weeks.
They already have a cheerleader, albeit one of highly dubious reputation.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/05/business/musk-tariffs-us-europe/index.html
Note Musk’s care only to attack Navarro and not Trump. He’s clearly trying to point to a way in which other Republicans can also criticize the policy without being seen to be attacking Trump.
That’s how this will go down. “Trump’s idea of targeting tariffs at countries who themselves impose tariffs and other trade barriers on US goods is fantastic, but his advisors have let him down and what we’ve ended up with is dangerous and destructive.”
I don’t think it will take on. As Klugman has pointed out, what was announced by Trump is just plain bonkers. I think it was David Frum who compared it to the scene in Woody Allen’s early movie Bananas in which, after taking leadership in a revolution, the new President of the banana republic announces that his main policy would be that all citizens would be required to change their underwear once a day and that, to allow this to be enforced, they would henceforth also be required to wear their underwear outside their other clothing.
Speaking of visas, and Elon Musk.
An acquaintance had a US trip planned to attend a scientific conference. His partner is a Chinese national, Australian permanent resident with a degree from a US university.
Her US visa has to be validated, in person, at the US consulate in Sydney – prior to leaving. And the Sydney consulate visa staff have been sacked by DOGE, and the requirement can’t be processed.
So the trip looks like being cancelled.
$4.50 for a Labor majority is still cheap. Minority Governments are rare. The swing is obviously on and by May 3 the Reactionaries will be fighting for bare political survival.
Howard’s beloved broad church is in threat of going up in flames according to the ABC.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-06/dutton-liberals-campaign-concerns-after-trump-tariffs/105142210
This makes sense and would be a coating over the top of the swing back to Albanese and Labor. Once the Liberbal’s broad church is gone you then see little more than a far right iteration of David Clarke’s vision for the party and could attract little more than 45 ish seats in the reps.
I doubt that would happen but I still think Labor 80-83.
William Bowie is of course very cautious as is Kevin Bonham.
Funny antidote about Kevin- a few weeks before the Tassie election the squeeze insisted we go down to see something which I’ve forgotten. On the last day she wanted to go to the botanic gardens and Kevin had slung himself over the branch of one of the towering Norfolk pines that border government house- phone in hand and awaiting any car movement up and down the driveway which might signal the premier driving up. That’s dedication
My observations fwiw are that Albanese is very comfortable right now. John Howard who I had very little time for ( squandered the mining boom, his treasurer sold out gold reserves for a pittance, was anti union, took the liberal party to the right despite talking about broad churches and is remembered for the one decent thing he did on guns) Howard though said the times will suit me and this applies right now to Albo. I thought a Trump win would assist Dutton but it seems it hasn’t. In fact counter intuitively Trump’s bear garden has assisted centre left candidates. Albo also seems to have grown into the persona of good bloke who you’d like to have a beer with while Dutton is coming across as a dark presence. The weak leader thing that the LNP thought would be a winner has not stuck to Albo while Labor’s branding of Dutton as reckless and a risk is adhering. I always thought that the thin talent available to the LNP would be a big minus during an election campaign. Labor has Chalmers, Bowen , Butler and Clare, Gallagher all out there firing away. The LNP has Angus , Sussan and Bridget – nuff said!!! Problem for the LNP is also that voting starts soon so a good start is essential and Dutton is a having a shocker so far.
This is an interesting factoid which Bruce Wolpe highlighted in his opinion piece the other day:
Sentiment among Australians has hardened rapidly against Trump. Resolve Strategic polling for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has revealed 60 per cent of Australians say Trump’s election victory has been bad for Australia – up from 40 per cent last November. He is failing Down Under, too.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-trump-20250404-p5lp3v.html
Labor is giving $4000 of taxpayers money for millionaires and billionaires for a battery subsidy.Thats per property or is it capped?
Also it’s labor not caring about the renting and the homeless crises they have caused as they are bringing in record numbers of international students.
Despite lies from labor for years they will not reduce the numbers.
Good policy from the liberals to free up housing labor do not like the average Australian they also think they are racist for not supporting the voice.
Labors actions for years towards the poor under multi millionaire Albanese says it all.
People on here putting up posts suggesting Trump should be assassinated they are nutjobs.Keying Teslas are we?
Trump is in the business of getting the USA into the real world of paying its way,spreading democracy,securing its borders,protecting its citizens via drug crackdowns and hunting down mass illegal immigration and its rampant crime .
Also dealing with parasite countries who do not pay for their own defence and screw the USA by unfair trade restrictions.
Welcome to the real world federal labor does not like Trump but the traitor is the person they worship that’s the dictator in China.No comments on him from the federal labor government on his mass human rights abuses.
Check out the Labor governing state of Victoria to see where the rest of Australia is heading.Massive debt and crime and corruption.
I’d take the $4.50 offered by sports bet. When Sportsbet begin lowering into the $4ish range from as far out as it was before you know it’s the start of the shorting season. As Fogarty said
“better get while the gettins’ good”
Americans were already talking about or making plans to leave the US prior to Trump’s inauguration. After Trump was sworn in and the executive orders started coming thick and fast, many Americans started leaving. With the deportations and declining economy I’m betting more and more will leave for better prospects in other countries.
From the Land of Crumbling Democracy: Great Escape Edition
Political and economic uncertainty as well as fear of Trump orders are driving Americans to seek other citizenships. Trump 2.0 has turbo charged an already surging number of Americans seeking 2nd passports.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/31/why-are-so-many-americans-applying-for-second-passports
A professor at Yale with expertise in fascism is moving to Canada which he dubs ‘the Ukraine of the north’ because he sees the US hurtling headlong towards fascism.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america
Meet the Americans moving to Britain.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/meet-americans-moving-britain-134236603.html
Meet the Americans moving to Mexico.
https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/national/fleeing-trump-four-americans-who-chose-mexico/article_50e7c772-f3b6-5419-b3dd-819ee5bb1a9c.amp.html
A surge in American emigration is reshaping the global landscape. Driven by factors such as escalating living costs, healthcare expenses, and the pursuit of improved work-life balance, more Americans are considering leaving the US for good and want to relocate overseas.
https://harveylawcorporation.com/why-more-americans-are-leaving-the-us/
Flight of the Trumpugees: the wealthy Americans fleeing the US to Europe.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/03/17/flight-of-the-trumpugees-the-wealthy-americans-fleeing-the-us-for-europe/
The Daily Mail shitrag says wealthy Americans are fleeing in droves and are headed to…Notting Hill. They’re calling it the Donald Dash.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14463777/Donald-Dashers-rich-famous-fleeing-US-horror-President-Trump.html
Far from Trump’s vision of wealthy migrants buying a ‘gold’ card, wealthy Americans are buying an escape plan.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/gold-card-residence-abroad/682103/
Hollywood exodus: American celebrities leaving the US under Trump 2.0
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/20/celebrities-leaving-us-trump
A recent poll of US scientists shows 75% are considering moving to other countries after Trump and Musk cut research funding.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-of-scientists-says-large-majority-weighing-leaving-us/ar-AA1BOmDG?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
Americans are headed for the exits, leaving the country at risk of a brain drain.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191421/trump-emigration-wave-brain-drain
American doctors are fleeing to Canada. Why this is good for Canada, and continues the brain drain risk for the US.
https://nationalpost.com/health/america-canada-brain-drain
American exodus: why are Americans fleeing the US?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/american-exodus-why-are-people-fleeing-the-u-s/ss-AA1Auy5z?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds
The great American exodus. A recent survey finds 5% of respondents actively seeking to leave, 2% have already started formalities, and American applications for British and Irish citizenship are up 26% and 46% respectively.
https://unherd.com/2025/03/the-great-american-exodus/
Another study finds 2 in 5 Americans say living in the US is no longer enjoyable. Talk about a statement of the obvious.
https://studyfinds.org/living-in-america-not-enjoyable/
The number of American investment migrants has increased by 1000% in the 5 years to the end of 2024, representing a migration boom of America’s wealthiest citizens.
https://www.finews.com/news/english-news/66830-us-investment-migration-boom-americas-wealthy
Why are record numbers of Americans moving to the UK? A helpful explainer.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-record-number-of-americans-applying-for-uk-citizenship-since-donald-trump-win-election-november-tax-reforms/articleshow/118740356.cms?from=mdr
The case for Americans to Americexit to Australia!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/09/while-trump-is-moving-fast-and-breaking-things-americans-wanting-to-escape-should-come-to-australia
Here are the top 10 countries Americans are Americexiting to. Australia is at No. 4
https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/lifestyle/here-are-the-top-10-countries-americans-want-to-leave-the-us-for/
There is a lot of information on the internet with advice for Americans looking to leave the country. Here’s another with 4 key things Americans need to know about leaving.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/07/travel/video/leaving-the-us-advice-digvid
From the perspective of those who have already left, expats are looking on in horror at what is happening in the US, and wondering what it means for them.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/28/love-it-or-leave-it-american-expats-dilemmas/
Conversely from the perspective of people in other countries looking to travel, many are eschewing America in favour of friendlier, less risky nations. Reasons for looking elsewhere include not feeling welcome or safe in the US, and not wanting to support the economy of a country waging trade wars and bullying other nations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/travel/foreign-travel-to-united-states-trump.html
MAGA migrants find moving to Canada can be a difficult road to take.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/maga-migrants-moving-to-canada-no-easy-road-americans-find-1.7485906
Inside Donald Trump’s self-deportation crisis.
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-self-deportation-app-repatriation
Fleeing to Mexico when America isn’t safe. A trans man talks about his experiences.
https://www.uexpress.com/parenting/parents-talk-back/2025/02/24
Feeling threatened under Trump 2.0 transgender Americans look abroad for new life opportunities.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-03-05/transgender-americans-leave-us-trump-lgbtq-policies
LGBTQ Americans look to Canada as they fear living in a regressive Trumpist country.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lgbtq-americans-canada-trump-1.7469516
sprocket_,
I was planning on going back to the US for Xmas/New Year. No more. The things I have said on social media about Trump would likely get me banned from entering that country now. So I’m not going to waste thousands on a return trip to LAX and back home in 2 ups, that’s for sure!
pied piper says:
Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 7:24 am
Weird. But please don’t stop. You’re campaigning against the Reactionaries. Keep it up.
YES!!! Many commentators have said Democrats should start seriously targeting R+ 10 districts and it looks like they are going to go for it.
Meher baba: I noticed that the highest tariff went to Vietnam where I think the majority of Nike shoes are manufactured. These shoes are a staple of the American wardrobe and I’m pretty sure adding 30+ % to the retail cost won’t be appreciated.
Fess
Crikey, will all the US citizens fleeing still have voting rights? I can see a move to tighten up foreign resident voting by MAGA.
Prince my two main take aways from the Howard years after gun reform and IR assaults were his two great phrases :
‘Broad church’ and ‘If I went under a bus tomorrow’ – the latter a reference to his mind games about Costello being the air presumptive.
Just like the man with the big stick here at PB and his love for ‘ miscellany’.
I’m not embarrassed to said that with out PB I wouldn’t know how to spell miscellany.
There you go entropy, a new word for you to search in your leap frog. As in ‘uncle Lars and I sometimes go for miscellaneous drives on a Saturday night around Bronte in his long wheelbase S class’
The federal lib/nats and propaganda media units still not getting it
Where Labor is releasing policies, Dutton continues to punish people.
Dutton promised to release in days the full costing of how much his nuclear thought bubble will cost households, still nothing about it during the election campaign
Dutton promised to release in days the full costing of how much his Gas thought bubble will cost , still nothing about it during the election campaign
pied piper using the stale old trick of accusing Labor of giving money ‘to millionaires and billionaires’. Dude, no one gives away taxpayers’ $$ to ‘millionaires and billionaires’, like it’s going out of fashion like the Coalition.
Hey, dude, have you even stopped to think before you tap out on your keyboard another one of your mile wide, inch think, sloganeering posts, that Labor are actually motivated with this policy to get as many people as possible to get batteries installed in their homes? Also that, as has been laboriously explained to numpties like you that it actually ends up costing the taxpayer more to try and Means Test these programs? No, I don’t guess that you have. Or, if you have that you don’t care because you just want to keep on pumping out the agit prop for the Coalition.
The Labor Party Dirt Unit providing a steady flow to the media.
What has happened to the much vaunted and storied Liberal Party Dirt Unit? Lift you game, fellas!
On the Bradfield threat from the Teals… where the Liberal candidate had the misfortune to be a staffer for Michelea Cash, who was involved with the disgraced Liberal minister, Alan Tudge…
Star Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian was named in a $650,000 settlement former political staffer Rachelle Miller reached with the Commonwealth over discrimination and harassment claims.
Miller worked for then-cabinet ministers Alan Tudge and Michaelia Cash from 2016 to 2018 but disclosed in 2020 that she had an affair with Tudge and complained the two, along with Cash’s one-time staffer Kapterian, had discriminated against her and failed to provide a safe work environment.
…..
The emergence of the claims against Kapterian, an experienced former lawyer and political staffer, come as she faces a difficult fight for the northern Sydney seat of Bradfield against teal independent candidate Nicolette Boele, who has faced her own issues in recent weeks.
Kapterian was accused by Miller of contravening the Disability Discrimination Act, the Sex Discrimination Act, the Workplace Health and Safety Act and the Fair Work Act by discriminating against Miller because of her disability, her gender and family responsibilities, failing to provide a safe work environment and of taking adverse action against Miller because of her sex, disability and family or carer’s responsibility. Miller’s legal documents do not make clear how Kapterian is alleged to have done that.
A Coalition campaign spokesman said: “Gisele was not a party to the proceedings, so it is not possible for her to comment on this matter, settled by the Albanese government in July 2022.
“No findings had been made against any of Ms Miller’s former employers or colleagues, but those who had been party to the proceedings had all strongly disputed her version of events,” the spokesman said.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/star-liberal-candidate-named-in-discrimination-settlement-20250404-p5lp8e.html
sprocket_ @ #30 Sunday, April 6th, 2025 – 7:35 am
Me too.
It isn’t just people leaving America, it’s tourists now rethinking visiting the US. I have no intention of visiting again ever. I would like to return to Canada at some point and am grateful that nowadays you can fly direct rather than having to transit through America which I had to the last time I went.
Princeplanet,
Vans are the new cool kicks. Do you know where they’re made?
Giselle Kapterian, Mean Girl. 😀
The age of the deserter first Ukrainians refusing to fight and sheltered by Labor in Australia,Canada and Dems in USA.Now American lefties are deserting their country even though they says it’s in its hour of need.
Cowardice of the left is highlighted by Albanese who loves dictators,Hamas and labor calls democratically elected trump a “dictator “.
Need to care about the young labor as they will be paying off your debt you are increasing every year for the next ten says your budget and good on Trump for caring about his youth by reducing USA debt as it’s the young who are burdened by debt.
People want shelter labor and affordable rents you have failed them.
Labor represents like the Dems in the USA the elites means testing is not for them.
Thank you, ‘Fess! You don’t know how much I appreciate Sundays off. 🙂
Aussie influencer Holly MacAlpine takes Jane Hume to task for trying to get social media commentary during the election period classed as contravening the Electoral Act.
This is because her and fellow influencer Abbie Chatfield sat down with Bandt and Albo to discuss policies and the like.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHxmXp_yGxJ/
Sprocket nothing wrong with a good old fashioned dirt unit. We are honing a new one locally right now down here.
With all the talk on internal polling here over the last couple of weeks I’d add that they serve as a handy gauge to decide if and when you should deploy them.
I’ve authored several over the last 20 ish years or so. Most never get used which is disappointing but some have and it’s a giddy feeling once you see your hard researched and curated work be poured like 100 octane ethanol over a struggling camp fire.
Dirt files also need a solid slush fund to work. But let’s not go there today !
“I love the smell of napalm burning economies in the morning [/Marlon Brando]. Sceptic 6.40am”
Actually the Apocalypse Now quote “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” that you’re referencing was delivered by Colonel Kilgore, the gung-ho Air Cav officer played by Robert Duvall.
Fess, that Holly MacAlpine post is a cracker – I gave her a ♥️
C@tmomma says: Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 6:53 am
Which version, the original or Apocalypse Now: Redux or Apocalypse Now Final Cut? I’ve seen all three and still have to admit the original is the best.
Protesters gather near the Trump National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on Saturday.
PP 7.22am
[ Labor has Chalmers, Bowen , Butler and Clare, Gallagher all out there firing away. The LNP has Angus , Sussan and Bridget – nuff said!!! Problem for the LNP is also that voting starts soon so a good start is essential and Dutton is a having a shocker so far.]
And Penny Wong!
sprocket_ @ #43 Sunday, April 6th, 2025 – 7:53 am
Did you watch the one with her eye rolling at Dutton continuing to say Mr Speaker with a woman sitting in the chair? Priceless and why the Libs are sinking with women.
Re Democrat tactics. I reckon they should launch a motion in Congress next week specifically to remove the tariffs on Heard and the McDonald Islands. It would be worth doing just to see the Republicans being forced to vote against it.
There’s no better way of lifting one’s political standing than by subjecting your opponents to ridicule.