Interesting honesty unlike the 2019 election excuses for losing the unloseable. The ABC/Guardian ran the excuses then, this time its the Murdoch press & no excuses.
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Interesting honesty unlike the 2019 election excuses for losing the unloseable. The ABC/Guardian ran the excuses then, this time its the Murdoch press & no excuses.
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Ok, now I see where you are coming from.
If Morrison did not have the protection of the Australian MSM it would have been a lot LOT worse for the LNP.
They still got smashed despite that free ride.
Pretty impressive by Morrison to screw up that bad but living in an echo chamber was never going to work long term.
And the LNP exist entirely inside their own echo chamber.
And for the record Labor did learn from 2019 - they went small target and still won despite telling Murdoch to GAGF
Morrison had no seats to spare courtesy of Turnbull, & his win in the unlosable was shortlived. All on the back of Abbott.
Can Albo's victory endure as Abbotts did ?
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You are now off topic, and repeating arguments had ad infinitum. If you continue, you will be threadbanned from this thread, and if I see you making like arguments in other threads you will be threadbanned from those, too.
You have been warned.
With its decommissioning, it’s worth reflecting on this app’s legacy and how many lives it saved thanks to the good work of the former Government - whatever their legacy broadly, we can be glad they were so strong and competent on this point.
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All caretaker, no responsibility: how a dying government slipped freebies to its mates - Michael West
On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison government kept the dollars flowing to select beneficiaries, defying "caretaker" conventions.
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That woman is a bona fide moron.
It is simply impossible to believe so strongly in numerology (the idiot changed the spelling of her own name FFS, because numbers) and be a credible environmental minister.
Sussan (FMD) Ley has all the legitimacy of a three dollar bill.
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That's actually appalling, even as I profess a profound lack of surprise.Staggering what lengths Morrison was stooping to at the end.All caretaker, no responsibility: how a dying government slipped freebies to its mates - Michael West
On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison government kept the dollars flowing to select beneficiaries, defying "caretaker" conventions.
The advantage is threefold:
- you give funds to people who can and will return the favour next electoral cycle, pre-emptively bribing them.
- you prevent Labor apportioning those funds in ways that would adhere to the reason why they were elected, circumventing democracy.
- you can now accuse Labor of making excuses when they correctly say that they cannot provide these funds because of what you did.
This is precisely what was on display during Covid; they lacked the strength of their convictions to let it rip once they saw how unpopular it was, and allowed 1) the states to lead the response, and b) pushed the Jobkeeper/seeker policies through parliament with enough variation to channel more money to the companies rather than the workers, making them the most socialist government since Gough.
They are not conservatives for anything other than their own position and status. The only thing that matters for them is power and wealth.
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Staggering what lengths Morrison was stooping to at the end.All caretaker, no responsibility: how a dying government slipped freebies to its mates - Michael West
On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison government kept the dollars flowing to select beneficiaries, defying "caretaker" conventions.
Not staggering at all, IMO. True to form.
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Staggering what lengths Morrison was stooping to at the end.All caretaker, no responsibility: how a dying government slipped freebies to its mates - Michael West
On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison government kept the dollars flowing to select beneficiaries, defying "caretaker" conventions.
Disgraceful. I hate 'conventions' being part of the legislative process.
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You will be pleased to know that 'by convention':
-the GG can sack the PM.
-the PM can sack the GG.
Whoever gets in first, wins.
Also 'by convention', every Thursday of a sitting week a senior govt Minister visits the GG to explain the legislation they have passed, so that the GG knows what he/she is signing into law.
Without conventions our entire parliamentary process would be unable to function.
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Also, they are very good excuses for right royal pissups.
Internal Liberal Party report - 73% of female voters, under 34 years old in marginal seats, preferenced Labor AHEAD of the Liberals.
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Staggering what lengths Morrison was stooping to at the end.All caretaker, no responsibility: how a dying government slipped freebies to its mates - Michael West
On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison government kept the dollars flowing to select beneficiaries, defying "caretaker" conventions.
Hopefully we can get this taxpayer money back or stop it being paid out.
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Except for voter backlash, there are no consequences for breaches of any of the caretaker conventions.
The list of parliamentary conventions that the Morrison govt have ignored is eye watering.
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Let's not forget Abbott admitting he was once so pissed he slept through a vote on an important bill.
(But you know what? Psycho that he was, at least he admitted to it. Can you imagine Morrison owning up to any failing on his own part?)
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And this is true danger of modern conservatives. They are not only happy to s**t all over traditional conventions, they actively destroy institutions that challenge them.
We are seeing it everywhere with Trump in the USA right now - the millage they made out of opposing #defundthepolice and now they want to disband the FBI. We have seen it in Australia with "unelected officials" and news this week that the Morrison Government told the defence department and other agencies to withhold information from the royal commission into veteran deaths and suicide, and there are numerous other examples.
The UK does not even have a constitution - they whole thing relies on precedent and therefore the Tories could interpret the Brexit vote however they like as long as they retained political power.
Democracy in the USA, UK and Australia is being torn apart from the inside and no one even cares.
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Good post!
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This needs to be on a billboard in every town in the country.
This is not new news
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No, it’s not.
But it should be front of mind every time that corrupt, anti-science whackjob opens her uneducated mouth.
Had the run a proper process….there is a fair chance she would not have got preselected….now she’s deputy leader…they’re not exactly laden with talent
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