Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read this

[fairdinkum]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Hang on FD, I do some part time work at 109 Pitt Street Sydney. Recognise the address?

Who's on the second floor?

I originally typed 'any number of union headquarters' but edited it so as to minimise the risk of collateral damage to good folk like Contra Mundum.

I would also hope, despite your lurch to the Libs over the past 12-24 months, that you would be spared.

 

[Dry Rot]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

I originally typed 'any number of union headquarters' but edited it so as to minimise the risk of collateral damage to good folk like Contra Mundum.

I would also hope, despite your lurch to the Libs over the past 12-24 months, that you would be spared.

Thanks FD, but our second floor is the grand HQ of a body called HSU East. I'm ****ed....

See the HSU raid? That's our foyer. Heard something very interesting in the lift from them the other day.

 

[Dry Rot]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Bring back the DLP ...oh that's right they haven't gone away

10 years is a lifetime - plenty of time for the ALP to reinvent itself.

Oddly enough, I can remember their bus side advertising on buses outside my school during the '69 election. Always thought they were a bit odd.

 

[King Elvis]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Don't be a tease - what'd you hear?

 

[Dry Rot]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Don't be a tease - what'd you hear?

Saw a stout middle aged guy with a wheelie bag and a younger guy.

End of work, tried and happy to get out of there. Didn't try to listen, but I thought I heard the older bloke say ".....sideline the administrator..."

 

[bombermick]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

The current ALP is a joke, but Bernardi represents everything that's wrong with the current Liberal party.

I don't think Abbott will be a complete disaster, but the level of "talent" in both parties almost brings a man to tears.

 

[Inferno]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

I don't think Abbott will be a complete disaster, but the level of "talent" in both parties almost brings a man to tears.

The problem isn't so much Abbott as it is the people around him. Abbott at least has a brain, which is more then you can say for most of the Coalitions frontbench.

 

[Paradigm]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Anyone think voting ALP ? Get back on your meds

 

[bombermick]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

The problem isn't so much Abbott as it is the people around him. Abbott at least has a brain, which is more then you can say for most of the Coalitions frontbench.

True, which is why Turnbull MUST get a more senior job than Communications in an Abbott government.

Too late to parachute Costello back into the job of money man?

 

[King Elvis]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Costello is only ~56; would be brilliant if he came back.

Best hope in the short-term is Turnbull/Sinodis.

 

[Contra Mundum]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

The current ALP is a joke, but Bernardi represents everything that's wrong with the current Liberal party.

I don't think Abbott will be a complete disaster, but the level of "talent" in both parties almost brings a man to tears.

and remember Andrew Elder was a Liberal staffer: http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/

 

[Cap]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Costello is only ~56; would be brilliant if he came back.

Best hope in the short-term is Turnbull/Sinodis.

Whilst i agree, I'm not sure it would achieve much, Turnball is probably more like Rudd (or vice versa) than anyone is willing to admit.

What would be good, would be 2 new relevant parties emerge cleaning out the rubbish that pulls the 2 existing parties down.

 

[Contra Mundum]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Anyone think voting ALP ? Get back on your meds

Hard to argue but if you are going to be persuaded by an article by Cory Bernardi you must be on some serious psychotropic s**t

 

[skipper kelly]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

I'm just waiting for Dan to produce "the best Australian budgets of the past 100 years" ranked first to last.

Did Peter Costello barrack for Essendon?

 

[skipper kelly]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Bring back the DLP ...oh that's right they haven't gone away

10 years is a lifetime - plenty of time for the ALP to reinvent itself.

1 month is a lifetime in todays politics.

 

[Clay Davis]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Did Peter Costello barrack for Essendon?

Haha, yes.

 

[skipper kelly]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Haha, yes.

Well there's our Number 1.
Costello 2000/2001

 

[King Elvis]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Whilst i agree, I'm not sure it would achieve much, Turnball is probably more like Rudd (or vice versa) than anyone is willing to admit.

Rudd was a career politician, driven by ego and power.

Turnbull was successful in the private arena, intelligent, capable and (while I'm sure ego is a factor) appears to be in politics because he wants to make a difference.

Turnbull would be great - economically savvy with a social conscience; it's what the Australian public want, not a bunch of ******** slaves to outdated ideology.

And vote DLP

And Corey Bernadi is a disgrace.

 

[Clay Davis]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Well there's our Number 1.
Costello 2000/2001

I guess in Dan's eyes this budget is like the Swans 2005 premiership.

 

[Slax]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

True, which is why Turnbull MUST get a more senior job than Communications in an Abbott government.

Too late to parachute Costello back into the job of money man?

Whilst I don't think it will happen its never too late when you've got a government as unpopular as this one. Just look to Qld and Campell Newman

 

[skipper kelly]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

I guess in Dan's eyes this budget is like the Swans 2005 premiership.

Yeah, about 98th in the list.

 

[Pessimistic]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

Costello is only ~56; would be brilliant if he came back.

Best hope in the short-term is Turnbull/Sinodis.

How would Costello be good ? There's no assets left to sell -maybe NBNco

 

[11sjw]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

10 years time there'll be other idiots that get microphones shoved in front of them like Toni Collette that will state "I'll slit my wrists if current coalition PM gets back in," Like she did pre 2004 Federal election. Pity she didn't have the knackers to follow through.

Reference to it here http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/page_7/6163613/hooray-for-hollywood.thtml

 

[King Elvis]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

That's all he did, sell assets?

 

[JoondalupJ]

Re: Anyone thinking voting ALP in 10 years time when you are "bored" with the Coalition should read

http://www.corybernardi.com/2012/05/priorities.html

It is with morbid fascination that most Australians watch the political death throes of Julia Gillard. The press gallery can smell blood as she lurches from one crisis to the next.

That governments and prime ministers will face challenges during their time in office is unquestioned. However, for any leader to demonstrate such consistently poor judgment as Julia Gillard has is almost unparalleled in our political history.

Gillard is the subject of mirth within the Australian electorate. But she is not the subject of the regular lampooning afforded to almost every politician; she has entered into a realm all of her own.

People no longer pay attention when she speaks. The most ardent political junkies hit the mute button at the mere threat of her droning and insincere words.

Even the most partisan Labor supporters find it difficult to justify how it came to be that their once great Party became captured by such a caricature of a leader.

The answer was suggested to me by a reformed Young Labor apparatchik. He put forward an interesting theory that Labor's woes are structural and caused by their two warring factions: the left and the right.

He posits that the Labor right have become a formidable campaign machine and run the modern day Labor Party.

They are very effective in political messaging, exploiting their opponents’ weaknesses and winning election campaigns; so much so that campaigning has become their only raison d’etre. Accordingly, the right have no real policy passion or agenda save the desire to get into power for power’s sake

The other side of Labor is the left faction which comprise political refugees from the socialist movement and the Fabian Society. They still believe in the failed social democratic experiment where government knows better than the individual, the family and the business owner.

The left have little, if any, practical understanding....................READ THE REST HERE

Have a look at who wrote it. Fair dinkum. The assasination of Gillard is a pet project and hobby of right wing w***ers like our Liberal Senator. HA ha ha ha ha ha .