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"The Liberal Party are looking at police investigation about the Medicare texts".

Yeah. Because the LNP have never acted in dodgy ways to deceive voters. Haha. What rubbish.

The Coalition are about to rip themselves apart. Pass the popcorn.
Where's this story about the "Medicare texts" coming from?

Conveniently seemed to come out around the same time that the LNP started spinning the Medicare scare line.
 
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If you were Labor would you even want control in a hung parliament? Especially with Shorten. Would be much better to sit back and take a big majority next election.
My fun conspiracy theory was about the CFA. A clear own goal poorly explained right before the election in the State where Labor does well; in Shorten's own hometown. News reports suggested Labor weren't focussed on the marginals, and that this was weakening their campaign. I don't trust Mark Kenny, but I think he wrote about a two-election campaign. But now I'm talking about the media bloody deserting us this election, so this no longer feels fun.
 

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I could win this election. Just introduce a 3 strike law and no bail for repeat offenders or anyone who commits a violent crime.
FFS darryn go to bed, you have a bunch of radio interviews in the morning.
 

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"The Liberal Party are looking at police investigation about the Medicare texts".

Yeah. Because the LNP have never acted in dodgy ways to deceive voters. Haha. What rubbish.

The Coalition are about to rip themselves apart. Pass the popcorn.
They both act dodgy, you don't think this crosses the line from dodgy to criminal?

I assume sending communications while fraudulently claiming to be part of a government body is a criminal offense.
 

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"The Liberal Party are looking at police investigation about the Medicare texts".

Yeah. Because the LNP have never acted in dodgy ways to deceive voters. Haha. What rubbish.

The Coalition are about to rip themselves apart. Pass the popcorn.
I think it has to be looked at. Australian politics is shit enough as it is without adding blatant fraud to it. Imagine if it gets the green light and next election we all get to put up with both sides pretending to be people.

Probably the saddest thing is there are plenty of people that fall for it. I used to be proud of our forced voting but some of the shit you hearing at the booths... it's a worry. I'm not talking about a well informed voter who votes differently to me, I mean the ones that have nfi and one headline is enough to to make up or change their mind.
 
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There's no way that's evidence for what I think you were trying to suggest. What is that meant to be?
Where's this story about the "Medicare texts" coming from?

Conveniently seemed to come out around the same time that the LNP started spinning the Medicare scare line.
Apparently it's a news story from today. There isn't much detail but there was an article on news.com.au which showed two people getting texts. Malcolm's speech just said it was 1000s but now it's after July 1 there's no ABC fact check to check it.
 

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They both act dodgy, you don't think this crosses the line from dodgy to criminal?

I assume sending communications while fraudulently claiming to be part of a government body is a criminal offense.
Like pretending to be the CFA and ringing voters?
 

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Kidding, right?
The Greens hate people and would like to end all life on earth to help the planet. The Labor party waste money.
You might like to ask the IMF whether they agree with that. They identified four periods of "excessive profligacy" in our history of government since Federation, two of which were during the Howard/Costello years.

And the IMF is not exactly left-wing, now, is it?
 
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