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You're preaching to the choir on this one.

I think Dastyari is a slimy little git, who sold his soul to the Chinese. If we had a Federal ICAC, I think he'd be in prison already. I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said about him. All I did was comment on the electoral mechanisms for his replacement.
 

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Elite Crow said:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...e/news-story/34cc0b4e031c1a03c789f4f1575fcca5

Bicks care to post this, let’s see if our lefty friends actually read it and can defend Labors and the ABCs actions
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Labor and friends serve up another helping of bile and hate


The debasing of our national political debate continues, the ABC is complicit and the Bennelong by-election has proved to be a case study of how this plays out. Labor’s so-called star candidate, Kristina Keneally, has embraced a now familiar tactic of the left: claiming victimhood while spouting vicious and baseless attacks on her opponents. Her willing accomplice has been Bill Shorten.
We know Shorten was knocked off balance by the controversy over senator Sam Dastyari’s personal payments from a Chinese benefactor while spruiking Chinese foreign policy and tipping off his benefactor to the possibility of surveillance by intelligence agencies. Dastyari’s forced resignation during the Bennelong campaign showed how his double-dealing had hurt Labor and exposed the lack of action by Shorten. So Labor’s “China-phobic” attacks on the Coalition were a transparent attempt to deflect the heat.
All voters could see what was going on. Yet surely most of us were surprised that when placed under this sort of pressure by the obvious misdeeds of their own colleague, the knee-jerk reaction of Shorten and Keneally was to make the most vile accusation against Turnbull. Short of behaving in a racist fashion, seeking to dishonestly tar someone as racist has to be about as reprehensible as you can get. Turnbull was right to point out his own granddaughter was a Chinese Australian.
The Opposition Leader might have done better to say he had learned the lessons from Dastyari’s diplomatic two-step and taken steps to ensure it would never happen again. He might then be taken seriously on the challenge confronting both sides of politics over accepting Chinese donations too willingly and perhaps having been too unquestioning about allies and former colleagues profiting as lobbyists for Chinese interests. It should go without saying that our national interest takes precedence over that of any other nation and that the focus is on China only because of its economic weight, strategic posture, intense lobbying activity and the Dastyari disaster. Race has precisely nothing to do with it. Still, it has become common for the aggressive left — particularly when losing policy debates on border protection or indigenous affairs — to use the slur of racism to silence or intimidate anyone who disagrees with it. In its world of identity politics and virtue signalling, political views are indistinguishable from individual identity, so anyone holding an opposing view becomes a worthy target for character assassination. It is a depressing descent from political debate into personal abuse. Sadly it is facilitated, if not encouraged, by much of the media debate. On ABC television news this week a reporter told us “both sides” were “playing the race card” in Bennelong. Say what?! Labor played the race card, as evidenced above, and the Liberals defended themselves. And just this week we saw the ABC continue to promote people who spew hate at their ideological enemies (yes, this invariably means leftists attacking people on the right of centre). Sami Shah is a Pakistani-Australian comedian given a plum ABC radio job in Melbourne. “Does Peter Dutton wake up every morning with a hard-on for abusing refugees?” is the sort of thing he tweets. “It’s not Peter Dutton’s fault. His grandfather was an arsehole,” is another in his Twitter feed that is peppered with all the standard anti-American and anti-Israeli fare. The ABC also has promoted Benjamin Law despite — or perhaps because of — his tweeting about how he would like to “hate-f..k” politicians opposed to same-sex marriage. If this is the hate and abuse that wins promotion at the public broadcaster — if this is the invective that is deliberately amplified through publicly funded platforms — what hope do we have of improving the national debate, let alone our political outcomes?
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CrowsB4hoes said:
KK started her campaign complaining about the closed down Medicare and Centrelink centers ... that were closed by Labor.
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For someone who had her own show and scrutinised other politicians, you would think she’d have her s**t together.
 

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Elite Crow said:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...e/news-story/6e1b31e2e621696485302e2c33dbfabc

**** I hate these scumbags.

Bicks please post.

For a party that always tries to come off as the good guys, every election they play dirty and try to trick people.
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What else would you expect from a candidate that was formerly promoted by Labor jailbirds Eddie Obied, Joe Tripodi and Ian McDonald, and a party leader backed by the CFMEU.....they're experts at getting down in the sewer and wallowing in the s**t.......Robo calls disguised as Community Service Calls, how f*****g low can they go? It's in Labor's DNA so I suppose it really shouldn't come as a total surprise..
Labor has made its final bid in Bennelong with a robocall disguised as a community service call urging recipients to vote but without indicating it was being made on behalf of the party. The call recommended a visit to the website electionday.com.au which goes straight to NSW Labor and promotes how-to-vote information for candidate Kristina Keneally. The recorded message does not indicate the call is on behalf of Labor.
A spokeswoman for Ms Keneally’s campaign said the robocall complied with electoral laws.
The recorded voice message warns a failure to vote could result in a fine and that all boxes on the ballot were required to be filled in
Voters in Bennelong have been subjected to thousands of phone calls from both sides during the campaign, with some reports of several calls a night to a single household in the electorate becoming a source of annoyance.
Earlier this month, the Liberal party enlisted NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian for a robocall, believing she had more resonance with the community than even Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has made several visits to Bennelong.
Meanwhile, as voters go to the polls in a by-election caused by the dual citizenship debacle, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten insists he will take no responsibility if the scenes are repeated next year.
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CrowsB4hoes said:
Tony Bourke on ABC still going on about the Chinese vote.

Like it matters?
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Bernardi candidate going OK with around 5% of the vote but unlike One Nation his preferences going to the Libs almost completely.

That little weasel Chris Pyne spouting s**t as well as Burke.
 
Bicks said:
Bernardi candidate going OK with around 5% of the vote but unlike One Nation his preferences going to the Libs almost completely.

That little weasel Chris Pyne spouting s**t as well as Burke.
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He’s right on all but one thing

He won’t be under pressure because the rest of the Labor party don’t have the balls to take him on.
 
This is a massive win for Turnbull.

Anthony Green said in by elections, the sitting MP in government would average a 4% swing against. JA is down 5% and he’s a bloody dud against the candidate hand picked by Shorten and will get Sam’s Senate spot on Monday.

Basically no swing against due to Turnbull.
 
CrowsB4hoes said:
This is a massive win for Turnbull.

Anthony Green said in by elections, the sitting MP in government would average a 4% swing against. JA is down 5% and he’s a bloody dud against the candidate hand picked by Shorten and will get Sam’s Senate spot on Monday.

Basically no swing against due to Turnbull.
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