Nat Wars; The Beetrooter Strikes Back (An $80m production)
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Halting water buybacks is electoral poison for the Liberals - it would jeopardise a bunch of South Australian seats
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Nationals push Murray-Darling Basin plans to House of Representatives, furthering rift with Liberals
With Murray-Darling water-saving deadlines fast approaching, communities throughout the Basin can see a train wreck is coming — and the party holding the portfolio don't want to go with it.
What a substantial, in-depth, well-evidenced response.
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Anyhow, have a Winfield 25.
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Irrationality is what puts people on train tracks and bridges.
Geez I hope you're not feeding vulnerable people this irrationality.
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- Kidding, right?
Well that's what I call grabbing the ball and running with it.
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So will they get away with it on the basis that it's not their party pushing for it?
Get away with what? The motion failed, buybacks won’t be suspended
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Will the Coalition get away with this electorally in South Australia?
The Liberals are the only coalition party of relevance in SA and the Liberals blocked the motion
Why would they be punished by South Australian voters for supporting the popular South Australian position?
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Because if they get back in then the Nats get back in, and the Nats want to do the unpopular thing. Why shouldn't the Coalition be punished electorally for what members of the Coalition tries to do? Why can they handwave it off as 'the other party' so easily?
Why don't the Libs seem to cop any blowback for the nutbaggery of the Nats?
Because they blocked it
Where allied parties don’t act in concert they are entitled to be judged on their own position
Seems pretty reasonable to me
Obviously the Liberals will be held responsible for situations where they are perceived to have rolled over
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It's completely unreasonable and is why the country has gone nowhere on things like climate change policy for the last decade, because the Libs don't get punished for the backwards ideology of their coalition partner.
That would be a situation where they are effectively working in concert
Completely different to what just happened with water buybacks
i.e. each party voting on opposite sides of the chamber
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Well if they're diametrically opposed on such a fundamental issue I'm sure we'll see the Coalition agreement torn up forthwith.
Unlike the ALP, the Coalition tolerates a modicum of internal dissent
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So how is Joel Fitzgibbon going theses days?
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Few years ago now but i remember living back home when this 1st kicked off and joyce was public enemy #1 down there
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INCREDIBLY, damien drum somehow ended up looking the biggest donkey this week
* me, what a cuck
* me, what a cuck
Not voting against ALP policy, that’s for sure
Pretty sure that’s still an automatic expulsion from the party - none of the Coalition parties have a similar policy
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See how you shifted the discussion and you thought no one would notice
The discussion is literally about crossing the floor
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