What would a Dutton Liberal leadership mean for the Liberals and the country?

[Pakenhamsaint]

All except for the part about never winning government without holding a swathe of inner-city high-income seats in Melbourne & Sydney. The strategy described above does not win the teal seats back. To win government without them for the Libs would be literally unprecedented.

It's not a strategy to get inner seats back.

Its to take the outer ones.

 

[Pie eyed]

Not the High Court either.

Oh dear..

I assume Dutton is on his way to WA to apologise to the poor woman? Or is he waiting for Gina Reinhart's corporate jet to become available.

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Dutton must resign from the Leadership and parliament
Halfwit of the highest order

 

[peetoo]

It's not a strategy to get inner seats back.

Its to take the outer ones.

It assumes the teal ‘movement’ doesn’t make more and more inroads.

Surely the willingness of alp and green voters to tactically vote to punish liberal is setting off alarm bells at their hq

It’s like they are foundering into obscurity, and Dutton is the glaucoma in their eyesight

 

[QuietB]

It assumes the teal ‘movement’ doesn’t make more and more inroads.

Surely the willingness of alp and green voters to tactically vote to punish liberal is setting off alarm bells at their hq

It’s like they are foundering into obscurity, and Dutton is the glaucoma in their eyesight

For as long as they control the mainstream media they are still a force.

Once that is finished - probably when all the boomers are gone and/or Murdoch dies - then it is over for the Liberals.

They would get less than 10% of the popular vote without the media doing their bidding.

 

[Saint]

For as long as they control the mainstream media they are still a force.

Once that is finished - probably when all the boomers are gone and/or Murdoch dies - then it is over for the Liberals.

They would get less than 10% of the popular vote without the media doing their bidding.

The concentration of wealth in the top 10% and the dwindling of religious attachment to probably not much more than 15% means that the two wagons to which the LNP is hitched are getting smaller and smaller. Howard was able to add un-informed voters in the suburbs and this is where Dutton has focused all of his energy, with populist policies the LNP has barely thought through and has no intention of ever enacting. Unfortunately it cost them a hell of a lot of middle class voters in the inner-city.

Building nuclear power is the Australian equivalent of Trump's Build the Wall. It's stupid, makes no sense, and is never going to happen, but it picks up a few votes in people who watch too many Youtube videos. That sums up just about every policy the LNP has put forward since Morrison took over.

 

[QuietB]

The concentration of wealth in the top 10% and the dwindling of religious attachment to probably not much more than 15% means that the two wagons to which the LNP is hitched are getting smaller and smaller. Howard was able to add un-informed voters in the suburbs and this is where Dutton has focused all of his energy, with populist policies the LNP has barely thought through and has no intention of ever enacting. Unfortunately it cost them a hell of a lot of middle class voters in the inner-city.

Building nuclear power is the Australian equivalent of Trump's Build the Wall. It's stupid, makes no sense, and is never going to happen, but it picks up a few votes in people who watch too many Youtube videos. That sums up just about every policy the LNP has put forward since Morrison took over.

Just to pull you up on one thing, Dutton has never released a detailed policy on anything - including nuclear. The Liberals literally have no policies. It is all theatre and rhetoric.

 

[Brian Oblivion]

Just to pull you up on one thing, Dutton has never released a detailed policy on anything - including nuclear. The Liberals literally have no policies. It is all theatre and rhetoric.

They've still got their stupid "raid your super for a home deposit" policy.

 

[Gough]

Just to pull you up on one thing, Dutton has never released a detailed policy on anything - including nuclear. The Liberals literally have no policies. It is all theatre and rhetoric.

The tried and tested vote Liberal because John Howard has fallen victim to the law of diminishing returns.

 

[QuietB]

They've still got their stupid "raid your super for a home deposit" policy.

Still just a Liberal brainfart without any data to back it up as good policy.

For them it is the perfect two birds with one stone brainfart;

1. Nibble away at Super which they hate with the passion
2. Prop up the housing Ponzi scheme for the benefit of their rich voters and tradie base.

 

[Saint]

Just to pull you up on one thing, Dutton has never released a detailed policy on anything - including nuclear. The Liberals literally have no policies. It is all theatre and rhetoric.

True they don't release detail, but that's the point of populist policies. They usually don't have/require detail. They're not aimed at people who care about details.

Most of the policies they're putting out there like Super for housing and Nuclear power and every brown person gets locked up are not about implementation, they're about justifying populist feelings.

Super for housing and Nuclear power are just ways of blaming cost-of-living on anything but the causes most linked to the LNP (rich negative gearers, fossil fuels and low-corporate-overseas taxes).

And of course, migrants are the blame for nearly everything (except when we have a skills shortage every time the LNP are in power)

 

[Brian Oblivion]

Still just a Liberal brainfart without any data to back it up as good policy.

For them it is the perfect two birds with one stone brainfart;

1. Nibble away at Super which they hate with the passion
2. Prop up the housing Ponzi scheme for the benefit of their rich voters and tradie base...

........ and leave it to future governments in 20+ years time to have to pay for it with higher
Age Pension payments than would have otherwise been required. Great stuff.

 

[Festerz]

Now it's a matter of personal taste but this portrait by Archibald Prize winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira captures the spirit of the WA mining magnate and conservative icon Gina Rinehart to absolute perfection.



But Gina is upset with it and is apparently lobbying her influential friends, including Liberal federal MPs to have the portrait removed from the National Gallery of Australia.

I assume that Peter Dutton is one of the people being lobbied given his close personal ties to Ms Rinehart so wonder what steps he will take to prressure the government to have it removed.

BTW - Rinehart's portrait is in typically Namatjira style and is just one of many prominent Australians, including former PMs who feature in the NGA exhibition:

Gina Rinehart lobbies NGA to remove portrait

The country’s richest resident has made her displeasure privately known about a portrait at the national institution.

www.afr.com

 

[Brian Oblivion]

Now it's a matter of personal taste but this portrait by Archibald Prize winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira captures the spirit of the WA mining magnate and conservative icon Gina Rinehart to absolute perfection.

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But Gina is upset with it and is apparently lobbying her influential friends, including Liberal federal MPs to have the portrait removed from the National Gallery of Australia.

I assume that Peter Dutton is one of the people being lobbied given his close personal ties to Ms Rinehart so wonder what steps he will take to prressure the government to have it removed.

BTW - Rinehart's portrait is in typically Namatjira style and is just one of many prominent Australians, including former PMs who feature in the NGA exhibition:

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Gina Rinehart lobbies NGA to remove portrait

The country’s richest resident has made her displeasure privately known about a portrait at the national institution.

www.afr.com

It's actually quite flattering - I don't see her problem.

She looks a bit dumb rather than connivingly evil.

 

[peetoo]

Have we seen king Charles official portrait?
It seems Camilla is also on it. oh sorry that's the firrs of hell

 

[peetoo]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68981200.amp&ved=2ahUKEwjasPeNiY-GAxVeTGwGHVj0D0QQ0PADKAB6BAgREAE&usg=AOvVaw00uH1KuZWgUO3oZPejY5Pm

 

[Brian Oblivion]

Have we seen king Charles official portrait?
It seems Camilla is also on it. oh sorry that's the firrs of hell

I like it and I'm not a monarchist. I don't mind Charlie - he's a greenie.

 

[Festerz]

It's actually quite flattering - I don't see her problem.
She looks a bit dumb rather than connivingly evil.

Yes, that does make it flattering.

Regardless, I think she is getting a quick lesson in the Streisand Effect.

 

[masai tu]

Now it's a matter of personal taste but this portrait by Archibald Prize winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira captures the spirit of the WA mining magnate and conservative icon Gina Rinehart to absolute perfection.

View attachment 1989638

But Gina is upset with it and is apparently lobbying her influential friends, including Liberal federal MPs to have the portrait removed from the National Gallery of Australia.

I assume that Peter Dutton is one of the people being lobbied given his close personal ties to Ms Rinehart so wonder what steps he will take to prressure the government to have it removed.

BTW - Rinehart's portrait is in typically Namatjira style and is just one of many prominent Australians, including former PMs who feature in the NGA exhibition:

View attachment 1989641

Gina Rinehart lobbies NGA to remove portrait

The country’s richest resident has made her displeasure privately known about a portrait at the national institution.

www.afr.com

Gina needs to realise that she ain’t no oil painting.

 

[Gough]

Yes, that does make it flattering.

Regardless, I think she is getting a quick lesson in the Streisand Effect.

The Dorian Gray effect is probably more suitable in this case.

 

[Festerz]

The Dorian Gray effect is probably more suitable in this case.

Surrealist Gina

 

[peetoo]

The $300 dollar thing is a nice echo of the $900 dollars to dead people pile on under rudd

Great shame similar happened over and over and over and them some more under the coalition during covid

 

[Gavin Excell]

Has Dutton gone cold on the nuclear option?

 

[Gough]

Has Dutton gone cold on the nuclear option?

Small target Pete. Looks like the Coalition is supporting most of the budget but running with vibe they could do it all so much better.

 

[Saint]

Got an interesting email from my local MP.

The first part complained that Labor's budget had too much new spending. (3 dot points)
The second part complained that Labor's budget didn't have enough new spending in our electorate. (4 dot points).

That's pretty much the whole email.

Also, The LNP response mentions "home grown inflation". Are they just flat out denying that this inflationary cycle is both global, and driven by corporate profits as a result of market capture?

 

[Chief]

corporate profits as a result of market capture?

Cherry Ripe now 44 grams down from 52.

Same outrageous price of $2.50 at Coles.