The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

Eh, you'll get numb to it after 19 months.

Is that when the next one is due?

See, you've got something to look forward to!

https://i.imgur.com/adOd5S0.jpg

Morrison could push the election to November, giving him 15 months in the job, but is very unlikely to split the lower house and the Senate elections in one year. The Senate has to hold their election by May 18th, because of Trumble's double dissolution.

holy shit VG NAILS the thread title

fifth prime minister is a sewing needle

sewing needle would be best prime minister in 20 years tbh

side-note to Adam and Trayce: Hope That I Get Polled Before I Die: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 1982-2002 POLL - Voting, Campaigning, Discussing

oh shit cheers sic

the current prime minister is a shit fucking dickhead

(I have been saying this for most of the last 22 and a half years)

This one is worse because he is prime minister right now.

In other news Harry for Presdetn?

this cockbiscuit wants to let schools boot out gay kids because he's the next toxic bigot rolled out by the toxic bigot party

i have completely run out of things to say, they're subhuman turd scooters

another normal day in australia: the toxic bigot party votes for neo-nazi slogans in the senate

I never expected someone who got elected as the ‘human headline’ to be less of a cockfarmer than a good 50% of parliament.

And the self-proclaimed "centrists" being better on social justice and general not-shitness than the ALP

(which centrists?)

the federal ALP have been in a behaviour and policy nosedive since the NSW ALP govt began a protracted implosion under the weight of its corruption wing in 2005, and the federal party went "hmmm, let's learn exactly nothing from any of this and start copying their moves"

The Centre Alliance

Irritatingly, having been in Mayo electorate forever, we finally got rid of the Coalition and got Rebekah Sharkie in, and now I've just been redistributed into Christopher fucking Pyne's electorate

look at it this way: you get to vote against him

I stayed registered at my mother's address for years so I could go out on election day and vote against Philip Ruddock to cancel her out

so far this week we've had:

** 'it's ok to be white', validated by the Liberal party
** sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to remove it
** moving the embassy to Jerusalem, forgetting that any ultra-Orthodox in Wentworth who'd be impressed have already pre-polled
** insulting the former Kiribati president in typical Liberal fashion
** Barnaby Joyce! Getting back on the (Nationals leadership) horse?
** weird smearing emails to Wentworth voters
** i've probably missed something including whatever dumb shit the prime minister has said

AND IT'S ONLY WEDNESDAY

this Frank Spencer-esque prime ministership is way too hectic, seriously

their “you could end up with labor” scare campaigns are fucking hilarious tbh. nothing could be worse than what’s happening now.

whatever dumb shit the prime minister has said

PM Pentecostal presents science awards by announcing that “the magic of science is belief,” also that murdering natives is science bcz then you can have their land & don’t you forget it!

watch them win a third term

If so it’ll only be because federal Labor is chronically unable to get its shit together or articulate anything like a vision. I reckon Penny Wong should decamp to the Reps and run for leader, she’s one of the few nationally prominent Labor politicians who looks like she stands for any kind of world view.

or, murdoch

Can a prime minister not sit in the senate?

Agree Penny Wong as PM would be awesome.

Huh - turns out that Prime Ministers not being Senators is by convention rather than the Constitution. Did not know that. Might be a tough sell to the electorate.

Yeah that slanderous email re Kerryn Phelps was a bit o_0

I mean "ew she has AIDS" is incredibly childish.

ok great now we're in "labor is anti-semitic" territory

no need to wonder what a Dutton prime ministership would have been like

i am loving that they keep hitting themselves

just when you think they can’t be any more stupid

Every shot of howard is magic why so many tears, old man?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d0924fd6435bc16192d37daf14ef703a417d5014/190_668_4711_2828/master/4711.jpg

they’re sending morrison into wentworth today, because obviously the best way to win over people who liked turnbull is to parade the bigoted fuckwit who took his job

wentworth is swinging already, almost 40-60 2pp in early numbers

we have already opened wine and are ready to enjoy a waterfall of neo-nazi tears

antony green’s about to call it!

he’s called it

EAT IT MORRISON

lmao

WENTWORTH WIPEOUT

keen for a bunch of "ACTUALLY, it was Malcolm's fault" hot takes from the usual gang of idiots

they’re already doing exactly that, attacking malcolm for not gleefully supporting the people who destroyed him just a few weeks ago

it's been a big weekend!!!!!

here’s a photo of tony abbott coming back to a parking ticket at balmoral this morning pic.twitter.com/rpuVQ5jKId

— abraham bloodshack 🏗 (@pleasedontatme) October 21, 2018

~snif~ it’s beautiful

~magic happens~

Former head of a union (odd that nobody ever calls it that) is elected by rich voters, the world is upside-down.

Not exactly a union, more a lobbying organisation for a group of wealthy professionals.

I lived in Wentworth until recently, and it's a bit more mixed than you'd imagine. Up at the Rose Bay/Vaucluse end, yes it's all about extreme wealth, but elsewhere there are plenty of young people renting flats in crappy blocks who are not all millionaires.