Peter Dutton - How Long?

[Gethelred]

Mr 17% 'has hardly put a foot wrong'. The delusion continues.

 

[fs88]

Mr 17% 'has hardly put a foot wrong'. The delusion continues.

"Yes he was inhumane as Immigration minister but he didn't harm any whites so that's okay"

 

[Father Jack]

Brandis thinks that keeping the Climate Wars going by completely misreading the national mood on renewable energy is a good thing because it might provide some short term electoral advantage amongst the more brain dead members of the electorate, which I guess makes sense considering that's where all their support lies these days.

It is much more instructive to examine the early political decisions the opposition has made. There have probably been four key decisions so far, each of them correct. First, the opposition was right to oppose the 43 per cent emissions reduction target. In saying that, I don’t deny for a moment that the Liberal and National parties were way behind the game on climate policy over recent years. I don’t doubt that the interventions of people like Matt Canavan were electoral poison in the cities. But frankly, the Coalition is so brand-damaged in this area that it is never going to win an argument with Labor (let alone the Greens or the teals) about the environment.

So, what it has to do is change the conversation, from global warming to the effect of more ambitious emissions-reduction targets on household budgets. Dutton will want the cost of living to be the big issue at the next election because whenever that is the issue, the public blames the government. One of the principal contributors to the much higher cost of living in three years’ time will be energy prices. It would have made no political sense for the opposition to wave the 43 per cent target through and share the responsibility for the higher costs that result.

 

[Sun Ra]

 

[Chief]

" I don’t doubt that the interventions of people like Matt Canavan were electoral poison in the cities."

All Canavan does is post troll Tweets about renewable energy while getting his "miner" cosplay on. (Not "minor" - that has never been insinuated and Canavan has never answered any questions about it.)

 

[kranky al]

" I don’t doubt that the interventions of people like Matt Canavan were electoral poison in the cities."

All Canavan does is post troll Tweets about renewable energy while getting his "miner" cosplay on. (Not "minor" - that has never been insinuated and Canavan has never answered any questions about it.)

Canavan ??

More like Canesten…

 

[Gough]

Poor old Duts, caught on air when the announcement of Gorbachev's death came though and forced to give a junior Queensland policeman's point of view of 80s geopolitics.

 

[Gethelred]

Poor old Duts, caught on air when the announcement of Gorbachev's death came though and forced to give a junior Queensland policeman's point of view of 80s geopolitics.

Please tell me there's footage.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Delusional.

 

[Festerz]

 

[Gough]

Please tell me there's footage.

F***ing clueless.

 

[Gethelred]

F***ing clueless.

He actually did about as well as could be expect until right before the very end of that.

"The lessons of the 80's" indeed!

 

[Gough]

He actually did about as well as could be expect until right before the very end of that.

"The lessons of the 80's" indeed!

The pivot to Putin was shit, any conservative worth their salt is digging up the fetid corpses of Reagan and Thatcher this morning.

 

[Gethelred]

The pivot to Putin was s**t, any conservative worth their salt is digging up the fetid corpses of Reagan and Thatcher this morning.

That's the thing, I don't think he's conservative. I think conservatism gets him what he wants.

 

[Crankyhawk]

F***ing clueless.

I don't know, it wasn't too bad, knew he didn't know much about Gorbachev apart from "someone who has a different style to current leadership" then used it to get the easy score of kick putin.

 

[Gough]

I don't know, it wasn't too bad, knew he didn't know much about Gorbachev apart from "someone who has a different style to current leadership" then used it to get the easy score of kick putin.

I'd have hoped someone who wants to be PM would have a better grasp than clueless on Gorbachev and his legacy than what Dutton displayed there. I could have ad libbed a lot better than that.

 

[Crankyhawk]

I'd have hoped someone who wants to be PM would have a better grasp than clueless on Gorbachev and his legacy than what Dutton displayed there. I could have ad libbed a lot better than that.

I think that a) Dutton will never be PM and b) I think he would be pretty dismissive of foreign policy, delegate it to which ever minister and generally not give much of a shit about what other countries do unto each other (short of invasive war eg Putin). Foreign affairs generally doesn't win votes in Australia, i think people more concerned with hip pocket or health care/ domestic issues. Why care about the outside world?

 

[Gough]

When Tony Abbot became leader of the oppostiton common consensus was you can't be serious and look what happened.

 

[Xtreme]

When Tony Abbot became leader of the oppostiton common consensus was you can't be serious and look what happened.

Dutton will be Australia's next PM. Albo's only hope would be to unveil Hulk Hogan at his next press conference Shaq style!

 

[geoffjennings79]

So the Yeppen flood plain had a major upgrade courtesy of the Federal Government in partnership with the Qld government across 2014 and 2015 - when the current Leader of the Opposition was a member of the Federal Government.

Strange he is not aware, as a partisan Queenslander, that there are two places with almost identical names in his own state. Particularly as Yeppen has suffered significant flooding as recently as 2017:

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/rockhampton/rockys-yeppen-flood-diversions-get-high-tech-upgrade/news-story/77967d41ce3680e7a37361a4bcdff9d5

Oh, and look, Landry is quoted and featured in the article too.


It's almost as if Dutton doesn't give a sh1t for places where flood waters can be lapping at your door - whether they're in the Pacific or only 600km north of his own seat.

 

[FredLeDeux]

''Mr Speaker'' I guess when you have spent your whole life saying one thing, takes a little time to adjust. But looking at he kept saying it like was doing it on purpose from then on.

He's just got into the habit of using the expression as a space-filler, like "aaah" or "um", it's a sign of his inability to string two coherent thoughts together.

 

[Xtreme]

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[moistie]

Our next Prime Minister

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Got to give it to you, I laughed. At least you're consistent.

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[Festerz]

How to look like a sexist prat on the world stage...

 

[Crankyhawk]

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