The weekly campaign YouGov poll provides no relief for the Coalition, who are down two on the primary vote to 31%, maintaining a descent from 37% in mid-March. Less than half of this has bane gained by Labor, the latest result having them up half a point to 33%. The Greens are up a point to 14%, while One Nation enjoys a remarkable three-and-a-half point fillip to 10.5% — their best result in any poll since the 2022 election. Labor’s lead is out from 53-47 to 53.5-46.5 on two-party preferred, using a formula that allocates them 80% of preferences from the Greens, 33% from One Nation, 59% from independents and 49% from others. Anthony Albanese is down one on approval to 42% and steady on disapproval at 49%, while Peter Dutton is down four on approval to 36% and up four on disapproval to 54%. Albanese’s lead as preferred prime minister is out from 48-38 to 50-35. The poll was conducted Thursday to Tuesday from a sample of 1500. We should be seeing something in the way of MRP polling from YouGov over the weekend.
UPDATE: In response to a commenter’s query, some further context for the One Nation spike. “Independent” is down from 9% to 5% in this poll because respondents must now choose a specifically listed independent from their electorate rather than “an independent” in abstract. Presumably a lot of the 4% who made this category their proxy for “none of the above” are now with One Nation, who are fielding candidates everywhere except the three Australian Capital Territory seats. Trumpet of Patriots is unchanged at 2%, though they are only contesting two-thirds of the seats and will duly have disappeared as an option for a third of the respondents, and “Other” is up from 3% to 4%.
BW, the French have a lot of history in that part of the world – especially around that time. Ask the Greeks.
Political Nightwatchman; Oh yea, i fail at research, but yea didnt seem right come to think of it.
TK
True. My point was that most Australians would probably think that Australia carried the can in Gallipoli when the three big players were Turkey, Britain and France in that order.
US Cartoons:
Don’t have confirmation, but it appears the moron PP celebrated for booing at the dawn service has subsequently arrested for doing a “Roman salute”.
So if there was any doubt as to the kind of person PP supports…
In a knee jerk response to a person being murdered by a person on bail, the NT Government is tightening bail laws.
The practical problem?
NT watchhouses and jails are at capacity already.
Two middle-aged billionaires went to the White House. A ‘WWE-style shouting match’ broke out
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/two-middle-aged-billionaires-went-to-the-white-house-a-wwe-style-shouting-match-broke-out-20250424-p5ltzv.html
Repeated..
Confessions, I’m told he has a job in the Court of King Caractacus.
BW, not to mention the Irish.
William Bowe
ALP PV went up from 33 to 33.5%. it is not 33% as you indicated.
World News & Politics Patrol:
Trump: Russia not taking over Ukraine is a concession: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5265907-trump-russia-ukraine-peace/
In rare rebuke of Putin, Trump urges Russia to ‘STOP!’ after deadly attack on Kyiv: https://apnews.com/article/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-fb61625d2dee8b1917bb3522e73c2166
Kremlin claims sending peacekeepers to Ukraine will lead to World War III: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/04/24/7508985/
UK bans console controllers being shipped for Putin’s forces to pilot drones: https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/24/uk-bans-console-controllers-shipped-putins-forces-pilot-drones-22963949/
India Warned of ‘Act of War’ By Pakistan As Relations Collapse: https://www.newsweek.com/india-tells-all-citizens-leave-pakistan-tensions-rise-2063530
Pakistan closes airspace to Indian airlines: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pakistan-closes-airspace-for-indian-carriers/articleshow/120595911.cms
China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-negotiations-us-tariffs-121115185
Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying ‘as a state, it works great’: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-politics-1.7516951
Pete Hegseth’s Signalgate Scandal Somehow Just Got Worse – The defense secretary went out of his way to use Signal on the Pentagon premises: https://newrepublic.com/post/194337/pete-hegseth-signal-computer-pentagon
Trump Store Now Selling ‘Trump 2028’ Hats: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-store-now-selling-trump-2028-hats-2063775
Support For Trump Among Latinos Plummets As Many Feel Betrayed Over Scope of Immigration Crackdown: https://www.latintimes.com/support-trump-among-latinos-plummets-many-feel-betrayed-over-scope-immigration-crackdown-581596
UK visa applications fall 40% in 2025; student dependant visas down 85%: https://www.business-standard.com/immigration/uk-visa-applications-fall-40-in-2025-student-dependant-visas-down-85-125041400369_1.html
Lest we forget
Fascinating gender breakdown for the YouGov poll, will women break the 20% barrier for the Greens?
Men appearing to be the main driver of the increased Labor Primary vote
Duttton losing everyone, dare I suggest a sub 30 vote for the LNP?
It will be fascinating to see what those primary votes turn into in seats more so than 2PP. Labor still isn’t guaranteed majority imo
#25in25
Dutton in his seat this morning. Will the campaign director ask him to stay there for the rest of the week and send others to save the furniture? But who to send: mad Michaelia, lazy Susssan, I can’t add up Angus, Patterson intoning policy and talking points like a cardinal warming up for the Pope’s funeral or I’ll argue with anyone Jane? On YouGov numbers maybe be best to pull the adds, all stay home and hope for the best. The polls are consistent and the good ship LNP is heading for the rocks and at least 6 more years in the wilderness. By which time they may have worked at least one costed policy.
Tuned into the dawn service in Canberra and whoever is running it has lost the plot.
It’s not an opportunity to push Christianity with hymns and prayers, rather it’s supposed to be an acknowledgement of the dead, the maimed and the emotionally wrecked service people.
No more of these services for me.
Lest we forget
Dawn service is the same as it’s been for years apart sadly bringing in welcome to country and lefties hijacking it mind you lefties for decades have hated Anzac Day for nutty reasons. No surprise.
Dutton needs to spend a lot more time in Perth !Seats being neglected that are winnable for libs.
My father served in WWII and was a lefty.
Rex, a thoughtful piece from Paul Daley along those lines
While secularism is growing in Australia, Anzac commemorations remain fervently Christian | Paul Daley https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/anzac-day-christian-australia-secularism?CMP=share_btn_url
Anzac Day always makes me a bit uncomfortable, I’ve got no problem paying out respects to our veterans and war dead, but over the years it feels that Anzac has grown more cultish, sanitising and even glorifying war and military service
To be fair the tone seems to have been lowered somewhat in recent years, it was downright feverish under the coalition
Thanks, Hh
I hope the Pakistan/India tensions cool down.
‘Support For Trump Among Latinos Plummets As Many Feel Betrayed Over Scope of Immigration Crackdown: https://www.latintimes.com/support-trump-among-latinos-plummets-many-feel-betrayed-over-scope-immigration-crackdown-581596‘
gobble, gobble, gobble.
Australian muslims voting for Dutton.
gobble, gobble, gobble.
Lol L/NP on 31%
I think that’s a bit of evidence that genuine conservatives have dropped off this radical Dutton led outfit.
He’s as much a conservative as I’m the Arch Bishop of Melbourne.
Pageboi
Not surprised others feel the same.
25 in 25…yes, I’m hoping the Reactionaries lose 25 seats this time….to Labor and the Independents.
It is good to see that the Greens are finally supporting military expenditure. Better late than never.
Tuned into the dawn service in Canberra and whoever is running it has lost the plot.
It’s not an opportunity to push Christianity with hymns and prayers, rather it’s supposed to be an acknowledgement of the dead, the maimed and the emotionally wrecked service people.
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I heartily agree, Rex.
There was a funeral for a long time, loved working associate of mine this week. I felt obliged to attend, but it was the service was to be in the form of a full Catholic mass. Not for me, I’m afraid.
Earlier in the year a close family friend died in the UK and her funeral service was a high Anglican affair where less than 5% of the time was directed at celebrating her life, the remainder being religious claptrap. I’m done with these affairs!
Many recent fuberals I have attended have been joyous, though relective, affairs where the life of the deceased was described and celebrated respectfully.
With the Coalition on31 in YouGov, and the abysmal so far trajectory of the Dutton campaign, could they hit sub _._ ?
Bob 7.54am
[and at least 6 more years in the wilderness. By which time they may have worked at least one costed policy.]
Serious heads would have to be giving that thought some consideration. The Liberal “wheels” have fallen off!
“Where to” for the Nationals ?
The technology and energy revolution has so many upsides for farming generally and certainly mining.
The Nationals will have decisions thrust upon their “broadacre” shoulders and some National tenets could fall into the street as the reality emerges.
YouGov poll.
It is good to see that more than half of Australian women prefer Albanese over Dutton.
They know how much systematic support the Albanese Government has provided to women over the past three years.
They know that Dutton will systematically do the opposite, starting with gutting working from home and sacking tens of thousands of women workers.
Re the booing at the dawn service. Neo Nazis apparently. Wouldn’t know the kind of courage it takes to serve in a war if it kicked them up the arse.
BK
Yep exactly.
My old man died earlier this week and his memorial will be an upbeat non-religious celebration of his life.
At what point do the Nationals consider a Coalition with One Nation instead of the Liberals?
Rocket Rocket says:
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 6:05 am
aeforecasts.com now has Labor/Coalition at 77/56, and 78/55 on their ‘nowcast’ – King O’Malley also has Coalition at 55.
I think the hardest thing for models or pundits to predict is new independents winning seats. From memory in 2022 most of the Teals were not expected to win by pundits or betting markets.
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The reason why that remains unpredictable are the very tight margins where there are three or even four viable candidates for the seat. There could be a couple of hundred votes between first and third on primary, which will make all the difference when the third candidate’s preferences are distributed. For example Macnamara in 2022.
Dr Bonham on YouGov, and an updated aggregate…
hmmm…
#YouGov ALP 33.5 L-NP 31 GRN 14 ON 10.5 (yep) IND 5 TOP 2 Other 4
2PP 53.5 to ALP (+0.5) by YouGov modified prefs
I get 55.0 (+0.5) by 2022 prefs
Voters are offered candidate names as per ballot.
My last-election prefs aggregate has gone to a conservative 52.7 off that, it’s going to 52.9 effective midnight if no more polls before then
BK 8.07
[Many recent funerals I have attended have been joyous, though reflective, affairs where the life of the deceased was described and celebrated respectfully.]
Not long ago, my lifelong friend was remembered amongst family and a gallery of the deceased’s watercolour artworks,
Beautiful.
mj says:
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 6:11 am
If our elections are becoming more presidential that does not augur well for the major parties this election.
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C@t said that elections are becoming more presidential, not the electoral system.
Good Morning! Here is Your ANZAC Day News and Views Roundup. Lest We Forget.
Liberal MPs using military uniforms in election campaign ads despite repeated pleas from defence department.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/24/military-uniforms-election-campaign-materials-ntwnfb
Whip up a sweet treat or two to commemorate our Anzacs. Two-up is optional but the cup of tea is not.
https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/from-adam-liaw-s-twist-on-tiramisu-to-classic-biscuits-10-anzac-inspired-recipes-to-make-today-20240424-p5fmb1.html
SMH Editorial: In our troubled times, Anzac Day has a profound meaning. As we commemorate the thousands of our countrymen and countrywomen who have given their lives or served in the nation’s armed forces, at home and overseas, there are haunting signs of the 1930s this Anzac Day.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/anzac-day-2025-live-updates-albanese-dutton-attend-dawn-services-amid-federal-election-campaign-20250424-p5lu0v.html
Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease. By Michelle Grattan
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/coalition-campaign-lacks-good-planning/105213810
YouGov says the public have clearly decided they don’t want Dutton. ‘Rate of knots’ crash to new depths for Coalition
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/federal-election-2025/2025/04/25/coalition-election
Peter Dutton desperately flailing and on the attack against the Prime Minister again. Dutton says Albanese ‘trashing his own credibility’ defending fake Nazi meme candidate
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-defends-labor-candidate-who-posted-dutton-nazi-meme-20250424-p5ltzq.html
Australia’s richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has called for a gargantuan rise in defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP at a sunset vigil before Anzac Day as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Defence Minister Richard Marles sat in the audience.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/rinehart-uses-anzac-day-service-to-push-for-enormous-increase-in-defence-spending-20250424-p5lu2u.html
A Coalition plan to drive defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP would create a $100 billion hole in the budget through the first half of the 2030s and make it the second-biggest expenditure for federal taxpayers, eclipsing the age pension and NDIS.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/higher-taxes-needed-as-coalition-eyes-extra-100-billion-defence-spend-20250423-p5ltpb.html
Coalition to ditch Howard-era skilled migration target to reduce total figure by 45,000
Plan would lead to the lowest number of skilled permanent migrants in 20 years, outside of pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/25/coalition-to-ditch-howard-era-skilled-migration-target-to-reduce-total-figure-by-45000
Surging numbers of working holidaymakers must be drastically curtailed for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to achieve his promise of driving down overall migration as the number of backpackers with working visas hits 225,000 for the first time.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-must-target-backpackers-to-deliver-promised-cuts-to-migration-20250424-p5lu0l.html
How can you tell you’re in a teal seat? Dutton is nowhere to be seen. By David Crowe
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-can-you-tell-you-re-in-a-teal-seat-dutton-is-nowhere-to-be-seen-20250424-p5ltxf.html
John Howard says the Liberal Party must be a broad church. Does Peter Dutton agree?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/john-howard-says-the-liberal-party-must-be-a-broad-church-does-peter-dutton-agree-20250423-p5ltrg.html
Senator Jacinta Price’s co-front as the face of the anti-Indigenous Voice campaign — senior Liberal Party figure Warren Mundine — has also appeared publicly spruiking “Make Australia Great Again”.
https://theklaxon.com.au/liberals-mundine-joins-price-spruiking-maga/
Coalition vow to end EV lease discount may inflate prices by $15,000
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/coalition-electric-vehicle-fbt-tax-exemption-prices-up-thousands/105210784
Motorists will pay thousands of dollars more for an electric vehicle under the Coalition’s commitment to scrap Labor’s generous tax breaks as the major parties split over the need to financially support petrol power or EVs.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/motorists-have-thousands-of-dollars-at-stake-in-this-election-20250424-p5ltxm.html
Dutton almost had a good policy. Here’s why he probably chickened out.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-almost-had-a-good-policy-here-s-why-he-probably-chickened-out-20250424-p5ltwe.html
A whopping 95 reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM — and still counting
By Michelle Pini
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/a-whopping-95-reasons-why-dutton-is-unfit-to-be-pm–and-still-counting,19670
The cyclone that took the wind out of Peter Dutton’s sails. By Tony Wright
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-cyclone-that-took-the-wind-out-of-peter-dutton-s-sails-20250423-p5ltow.html
Preferences may help decide the Australian election. Here is what could happen in five crucial seats
Ben Raue
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/25/preferences-may-help-decide-the-australian-election-here-is-what-could-happen-in-five-crucial-seats
Preference deals can decide the outcome of a seat in an election – but not always
By Adrian Beaumont
https://theconversation.com/preference-deals-can-decide-the-outcome-of-a-seat-in-an-election-but-not-always-255005
Over five decades, here’s how voters have shifted away from the major parties. By Casey Briggs
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/election-data-rise-independents-major-party-drift/105144918
Seats such as Hawke in Victoria and Werriwa in NSW are prime targets for Peter Dutton’s outer suburban strategy. But Labor believes it can weather the storm
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/25/labor-feared-the-worst-in-the-battle-of-the-burbs-and-discontent-lingers-on-melbournes-outskirts
Barely a week from election day, Peter Dutton still has the air of someone making it up on the fly
Josh Butler
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/24/barely-a-week-from-election-day-peter-dutton-still-has-the-air-of-someone-making-it-up-on-the-fly
Peter Dutton is done with U-turns, Anthony Albanese is over questions about the fall
By Brett Worthington
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/family-violence-electric-vehicles-albanese-fall-election/105210174
Australia needs more than hollow words about a fair go – we need brave policy-makers
Greg Jericho
https://www.theguardian.com/news/grogonomics/2025/apr/24/australia-needs-more-than-hollow-words-about-a-fair-go-we-need-brave-policy-makers
Most GPs won’t exclusively bulk-bill even with record Medicare promise, new surveys suggest
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/election-2025-bulk-billing-incentives-surveys/105188924
Australians tell ABC’s Your Say bulk-billing and dental coverage in Medicare will sway their vote this election. Could this be the cause of the increased Greens’ vote?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/federal-election-2025-your-say-health/105206844
Australia is a leading lithium producer but China’s dominance in refining allows it to control trade.
By Ian Verrender
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/china-dominates-rare-earths-leaving-trump-with-dud-hand/105213972
US President Donald Trump offered rare criticism of Vladimir Putin on Thursday, urging the Russian leader to “STOP!” after a deadly barrage of attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/trump-urges-putin-to-stop-after-deadly-russian-attack-on-kyiv-20250425-p5lu4v.html
As some polls put the Reform party ahead of Labour and the Tories, it might just be time to think the unthinkable. Nige doubling up, Dicky in No 11 and 30p Lee at foreign? Run for the hills! By John Crace
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/24/nige-doubling-up-dicky-in-no-11-and-30p-lee-at-foreign-run-for-the-hills
Donald Trump wants celebrities to kiss the ring. Bill Maher did: who’ll be next? By Emma Brockes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/donald-trump-celebrities-bill-maher-president
US Senator Elissa Slotkin has a ‘war plan’ to beat Trump: Don’t be ‘weak and woke’
The Michigan senator will give the first in a series of political speeches on Thursday.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/slotkin-has-a-war-plan-to-beat-trump-dont-be-weak-and-woke-00308176
Has Trump Forgotten His Own Power? Does the president remember he’s already freed many people wrongfully detained overseas?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/24/trump-el-salvador-diplomacy-00306478
Apple’s EU fight is transatlantic tension in a nutshell. The tech giant was hit by another European fine. It’s just the latest chapter in the battle over digital regulation ― and maybe a whole lot more.
https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-eu-fight-transatlantic-tension-in-nutshell/
Days before Canada votes in a national election, President Donald Trump is talking again about its status as a 51st state — an Oval Office aside almost certain to boost the three-term Liberals in their quest for a fourth mandate.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-crashes-canada-election-00307243
UK bans export of ‘killer’ video games controllers to Russia. Clampdown comes amid 150 new trade sanctions against Russia.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bans-export-of-killer-video-games-controllers-to-russia/
Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican. A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/womanosphere-conservative-women
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‘goll says:
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 8:08 am
Bb 7.54am
[and at least 6 more years in the wilderness. By which time they may have worked at least one costed policy.]
Serious heads would have to be giving that thought some consideration. The Liberal “wheels” have fallen off!
“Where to” for the Nationals ?
The technology and energy revolution has so many upsides for farming generally and certainly mining.
The Nationals will have decisions thrust upon their “broadacre” shoulders and some could fall in the street as the reality emerges.’
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Huge shifts are afoot, IMO, and these are little appreciated more generally.
Farming is being corporatized off the back of capital structures and off the back of increasing technology.
Family farms are disappearing.
Australian workers who want to buy a house and raise a family cannot possibly compete against backpackers and ‘students’ manage by labour hire firms, and by workers will to do a smash and grab job for cash.
Rural communities can see and feel the demographic impacts. They can also feel the loss of local empowerment.
Young people must migrate internally if they want to have a future.
Others are trapped in multi-generational poverty.
Government services are, as a rule, less responsive, less accessible and of a lower standard in rural and remote areas.
The resulting anger and nihilism is often expressed in rising patterns of street crime and drug use.
High streets of most rural towns are studded with shuttered shopfronts.
Rising climate costs include, in particular, businesses and houses over large rural areas becoming uninsurable. Whole towns are becoming uninhabitable.
The inevitable unhappiness is being skillfully channeled at the inner urbs, the state, and at migrants.
All this stuff is real.
It is easy to snipe in woke war terms from within urban power and wealth centres.
In this context, the Nationals and the Liberals are running the risk of being seen as part of the problem rather than as part of the solution. Of course the same goes in spades for the Greens.
At least Labor is active when it comes to CoL relief.
IMO, this is why Hanson is doing well.
9/11 would of also played a role. But research suggested Tampa won the One Nation voters back for the Liberals. While 9/11 won the swinging voters back.
@Political Nightwatchman
And yet it is still known by the Labor faithful as the Tampa election. Now indisputable that Labor must race the Coalition to the bottom on asylum seekers because Beasley paused for a nanosecond before falling in line
I am also somewhat sceptical of the research you speak of PHON voters have become swingers since Howard tempted them back to the fold by copying Hansen (even before Tampa). It looks like the swing back is on and that will provide ammunition for those in the LNP’s election finger pointing, who will insist a further lurch to the far right is the logical response
BK says:
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 8:07 am
Tuned into the dawn service in Canberra and whoever is running it has lost the plot.
It’s not an opportunity to push Christianity with hymns and prayers, rather it’s supposed to be an acknowledgement of the dead, the maimed and the emotionally wrecked service people.
Likewise I attended a marriage last year. It was celebrated in a large chamber decorated with large scale imagery depicting human sacrifice. Not having been in a church since 1969 I felt quite quite overwhelmed and disgusted by the imagery. Do Christians not understand what kind of a cult they belong to?
and Barnyard has escaped out of the naughty paddock to dump on Dutton’s signature policy….
Barnaby Joyce promises no cuts to Department of Veterans’ Affairs despite Coalition commitment
Joyce says there will be “no cuts” to the department of veterans’ affairs under the Coalition’s commitment to cut 41,000 public servants from Canberra over the next five years. He says, “I can promise you that when there will not be cuts in DVA”.
The Coaltion has said there will be no forced redundancies and will look instead at natural attrition (where you don’t refill a role when a worker leaves) and hiring freezes. Joyce says:
“You look for people in retirement, and you do the cogent work of seeing if there can be any greater efficacy in the delivery, in the delivery of the taxpayers money by public servants. Now if, quite obviously, the …reduction in their frontline service means harm to somebody else, then it doesn’t pass the test, does it? “
Guardian blog
Rex Douglassays:
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 8:11 am
My old man died earlier this week…
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Sorry to hear that Rex.
Any person that’s not a leftie is a nazi according to lefties.
Geez the cult of the left knows no shame.
Abc showed the booing was done by a lot of people not one.
Need to get Jacinta price front and centre the libs on woke issues.
Canberra is one big gravy train for the labor parties sponsors the public sector unions.Needs to be slashed .
Labor party a disaster on cost of living mass population importing by labor is driving up rents and also inflation also through their spending.
Post below nutty conspiracy theories by Hamas supporters who vote labor.
PP@647am
Some of your Maga mates at the Melbourne ceremony today, PP?
The same ones from the Kooyong Candidates meeting recently?
Bigly brave men routed by a little old lady….
Boerwar says:
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 7:27 am
TK
True. My point was that most Australians would probably think that Australia carried the can in Gallipoli when the three big players were Turkey, Britain and France in that order.
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I was just in the South Island of New Zealand. There are war memorials everywhere – possibly outdoing Australia. In the central park in Blenheim, there was a large installation of white crosses showing details of people who died in the First World War (including disease and suicide) around the very impressive official war memorial.
I have also visited the Turkish memorials on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Gallipoli campaign has huge significance for the making of the modern Turkish state (at least pre Erdogan). It was the only major battle victory for the Ottomans (as they were then) and on Turkish gave great inspiration to the forces that created Turkey after the war. It was the making of the reputation of Mustafa Kemal as well.
Gosh where is the Fiona Katsauskas comic coming from? Does she honestly believe voting for a Muslim dude will end the war in Gaza. wow, thats a stretch.
PP
Still trying to inject crazy US far right talking points into a very Australian election?
Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying ‘as a state, it works great’: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-politics-1.7516951
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Must be worried about the Liberals plateauing.
Must be time for the rats to flee the sinking ship…..this last week is going to be entertaining!
Bob, funny and accurate descriptions of the Liberals! –
mad Michaelia,
lazy Susssan,
I can’t add up Angus,
Patterson intoning policy and talking points like a cardinal warming up for the Pope’s funeral
I’ll argue with anyone Jane
Commiserations to Rex on losing your Dad. Can’t say I had much time for mine but I know having a good father is a big plus in life. I agree also on religious claptrap, I understand some people need it but at a funeral you want to celebrate someone’s meaning to you and others and the loss not hear about a bunch of nonsense and hail fellow well met type stuff. That said, I do appreciate the rich artistic and design elements the Catholic church bestowed on Europe and especially Italy.
Confessions @ #34 Friday, April 25th, 2025 – 6:45 am
Trump using his now predictable trick of using his bête noir du jour, China, to target and tarnish a subject he wants to make kowtow to him.
*yawn*