The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

imagine being such a hateful bigot that you'll put your own prime ministership in danger just to stop your sister getting married. only the most callous, most revolting subhuman bag of shit.

"uh uh yeah vote for uh us if you're against same sex marriage but uh vote for uh us if you uh are and uh we'll uh have a plebiscite at uh some uh time in the uh future"

"um uh actually uh I'm not uh sure how the uh Australian uh constitution uh works"

"uh I'm so a uh bigot"

fucking gobshite

even by recent standards this is legitimately depressing

the party when this guy dies will make thatcher's death look like tea on the lawn

http://www.afr.com/news/politics/tony-abbott-determined-to-lead-the-whitlam-government-of-our-time-20150813-giy574

If you hang around in Canberra long enough, you start to recognise the point where a government has become terminal, where the death spiral is irretrievable. It's got nothing to do with the polls, or leadership rumblings.

It's the point where the sheer stupidity of its decisions is so obvious, so craven, so contradictory, that everyone involved – ministers, backbenchers, the opposition, the media, voters – just know it can't go on like this.

just imagine

just fucking imagine

btw i feel this qualifies uniquely as zeitgeist more than anything this week

FINALLY THEY GOT RID OF HIM (Hird, not Abbott)

JESUS CHRIST PATO I ACTUALLY THOUGHT YOU MEANT ABBOTT YOU GAVE ME AN ACTUAL HEART ATTACK

relax give it a few more days

#PMScoMo

out of the bigot pan into the bigot pan

AFL gets mad paid/into bed with this guy

http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/2/6/2/c/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gj2ajg.png/1439950781905.jpg

that whole 'you get the face you deserve when you're old' idea is panning out here

well there's just no stopping the #abbottlovesanal momentum, it's going to smash tone and beige in the next round of polls

abc "out of control", reports murdoch tabloid right next to a headline bashing a film about two mums

piers akerman having a go at 12-year-old kids, good times

this fucking country

Border Farce: do the thing. Do not do the thing.

pull the finger out, Tone: the Stasi were more organised than this

uniforms do not maketh the fascist

labor in power: five episodes
the howard years: four episodes
the killing season: three episodes
one term tony: #sixseasonsandamovie

tee hee

As they say, stoked for the madness.

Malcolm Turnbull's wiki page suddenly most viewed page on internet.

Where's Godwin Grech?

Lovely to learn that abbott fell four days short of being able to claim a prime ministerial pension :)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

tony abbott ending career as ever, by ignoring the country and treating 24 million people with contempt

Careful, Tony. There's a boom mic up over there.

Thank u for making my Monday worth getting out of bed for (kinda)

you can tell when shit hits the fan when all the politician photos are "Walking Down Hallways"

i will admit that a country without tony as PM is better than a country with. and last night, despite his smugness, it was unusual to see a leader address the press in full sentences and without repeated slogans and constant pausing.

but as yet this is just same product different salesman. i also think this makes 3 more years of LNP much more likely. #labspill needs to happen too tbh - Albo or Tanya, it's time

If Labor can actually transition to appointing a leader and form an opposition, they have half a chance of recovering for the next election. If they have another messy spill six months before the election (or take Shorten all the way), the electorate will be right not to trust them to govern.

Theyre kind of fucked either way. If they replace Shorten in the run-up it'll make them look pathetic. If they dont, they have no chance.

Shorten just needs to grow a pair and stop being so bizarrely wooden.

I dont care either way, I'm voting green/indy this time round.

What shits me -- who am I kidding, pretty much everything shits me -- is that the Greens these days get waaaay more votes than the Nationals, but because the Nats are in specific rural seats they get more MPs, and then act as though the Greens are the minor, fringe party

proper MMP voting plz guys

Calling this: Labor will struggle because they'll have to defend the inner city safe seats hard with the Greens surging (Di Natale is the modern progressive that we've been waiting for).

otm

RIP Big Man

joe hockey or kevin andrews or eric abetz or andrew bolt or ray hadley or

ray hadley is less big unit and more loose unit

...but not Dutton :(

30 degrees on gf day

Excellent.

well, how 'bout "The Verdict" u guys

I always knew what was needed was a television soapbox for Mark Latham and Jacqui Lambie to go apeshit and here we are off

this concert is astonishing

imagine if ulrich schnauss joined crowded house