i for one am excited to determine the fate of the australian building and construction commission

it really is the Tone News Network

turnbull pisses off murdoch-> murdoch retaliates -> turnbull loses -> australia wins

leigh sales: [difficult question]
malcom turnbull: jobs and growth and jobs and growth and jobs and and and growth

half of sky news is sorta nice to beige now hmmmm

have no access to sky news, but a channel that appears to give shows to people like andrew bolt and alan jones can go fuck itself

Turnbull refuses to remove the GST on womens sanitary products. Might I remind the men in the audience that razors are GST free.

Apparently "we cant afford" the revenue loss. Its only 30 million fricking dollars.

I don't even use a razor because i'm unkempt. Women don't get to so easily say, 'Ah, no need for pads for me!'.

it's hard to see how any prospective leader wouldn't score a net win by removing gst from sanitary products. this more than anything indicates just how fucked up aust political discourse has become in the last 15 years.

Apparently some time in the recent past Shorten gave the govt shit for NOT removing it. Now he's all 'well we arent gonna lie about what we can and cant afford in this budget, so too bad, its not happening'

At least he's honest?

Doesnt affect me personally anyway (implanon is the best) but yeah, its a womens vote winner and he's a twat.

I'll prob still vote labor anyway. Im still registered in melb ports and Danby's unfuckwithable and has been in the seat for like 30 years or something insane.

its a womens vote winner

but what about meeeeeennnnnn

danby's telling everyone who'll listen that the greens hate jews, which seems to be provoking caulfield/balaclava into asking what the actual facts are

in fact all i ever hear about danby is that he's vaguely pissed off about something or other, never that he's done a or b or c for the electorate

I'm in Mayo, hoping like hell we'll finally see the back of safe-seat-warmer Jamie Briggs

Yeah Danby is odd - my other half does some work for him (poster design) and its all this weird anti-Iran shit.

hmm

danby's telling everyone who'll listen that the greens hate jews

my local Labor member was recently bleating that a vote for liberal was a vote for the dismantling of capitalism, because they hadn't explicitly ruled out preference deals with Greens yet

fuck it what's truth any more

he and other local once-admirable ALP members were on community radio this week saying it's unfair how the Greens only campaign & try to get members up in selected electorates, whereas Labor have to campaign across the whole of Australia

The ALP can go fuck itself. It has sold out so many of its once-values, and now it bleats about a party that's actually willing to NOT make some compromises for power. The whingeing torture/rape camp-enabling pricks can see the results of their lack of spine in their shrivelling support, but they still don't see how to stop it.

he and other local once-admirable ALP members were on community radio this week saying it's unfair how the Greens only campaign & try to get members up in selected electorates, whereas Labor have to campaign across the whole of Australia

― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:21 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the greens can't sponge off the coffers of massively wealthy corporate donors but hey

It has sold out so many of its once-values, and now it bleats about a party that's actually willing to NOT make some compromises for power.

this exactly is the problem. i don't even know why the alp exists now. it cherry picks policy positions from the liberals, from the nationals, from the greens etc., and then it moans that the greens are interfering or whatever. if the alp hadn't abandoned its fucking base the greens wouldn't have scooped it up. and as far as the lnp goes, stop being pricks to foreigners in rickety boats and we'll stop accusing you of being like the lnp.

fuck.

stop actively promising to carry out almost all the policies of the LNP and we'll stop etc etc

basically James OTM

I'm in Mayo, hoping like hell we'll finally see the back of safe-seat-warmer Jamie Briggs

that would be quite good but do you really want a Xenophon nutbag

my local Labor member was recently bleating that a vote for liberal was a vote for the dismantling of capitalism, because they hadn't explicitly ruled out preference deals with Greens yet

well I suspect this was a poor Beige Curtain-esque zinger attempt

can I just say: I have concerns about the Di Natale/Bandt-turtleneck Victorian hipster wing of the Greens (Di Natale did impress me and made me overlook the very odd way he took over as leader but recent developments have raised eyebrows) and the unreconstructed shouty stans of the NSW Greens

basically this isn't your dad's Bob Brown Greens and they should have gone with Ludlam as leader

in summary: Vote 1 Bullet Train For Australia Party

Ludlam didn't want, nor believe himself to be qualified, to be Greens leader, and was not in contention.

having seen him on kitchen cabinet tonight i don't know how he'd cope with all the attention tbh

Do like lydlam a lit, and yes the greens arent perfect, but i go along with maybe 80% of their policies, and given that the environment and treatment of refugees are my main concerns, theyre the only party with anything useful or sensible to say

Ludlam, not lydlam, sorry, ipad fingers

the fact that he considered himself not worthy probably makes him more worthy, will have to have a look out on the Kitchen Cabinet appearance however

Larissa Waters would be good too

expect the big news story tomorrow morning will be Greg Hunt getting blocked by Ellen on Twitter, I would put money on it as nobody has been racist for several hours

as nobody has been racist for several hours

actually laughed out loud at this

I adore ScottyLud but yeah hes not leader material.

https://twitter.com/petermadden2u/status/742211894908321793

australia has reached a new low

pasting the full tweet here before the fucking savage deletes it:

Though Orlando is abhorrent, it doesn't change the real & present dangers of the gay marriage agenda to Aus children.

a person actually said that, in real life, without irony or satire or apparently self-awareness

"person"

good point well made

"what a dickhe-- ah, family first candidate, that explains it"

FUN FACT: The Coalition is preferencing for the Senate, ahead of any other party, in New South Wales, Tasmania, the Northern Territory & the Australian Capital Territory... Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party.

aw, and I was looking forward to not numbering every single box, for the first time ever (have always done it so as to put Fred or Elaine last)

fuckheads

htv cards should be banned outright

they're by the corrupt, for the imbecilic

They should just force everyone to vote BTL fully so this stupid fucking preferencing shit is done with once and for all.

oh my god did you hear that LABOR IS ADOPTING GREEN POLICIES**

** - well apart from that "not sending asylum seekers to inhumane island prison camps" policy

ikr, it's like labor doesn't have an identity

at least I get the chance to vote for someone, with mostly sensible policies, called Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow

Yeah, there was a great interview on abc local radio in Adelaide Witt the guy whose garage it was.

Anyway normal service is resumed Bob Katter wants to preserve Australians' god given to wade in tropical creeks unmolested by homosexual Muslim crocodiles.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/20/katters-australia-party-push-to-legalise-crocodile-hunting-after-queensland-attacks

knob batter

when the country collapses under the weight of its own personal debt crisis, stuff like that will be a hilarious account of how complacent and fucking stupid we were in the lead up

can't wait to be more racist

and here's two white guys to explain why we should be allowed to be more racist

and here's a white guy from the party to do some press

and here's the white guy who got done for being a monstrous lying fucking bigot falling victim to a cruel law that gives innocent people respite from having to deal with racial attacks all fucking day restricts his freedom of speech

and here are some examples of 18c cases that went literally nowhere robbed white supremacists victims of the right to be racially charged aggressive fucks speak

there are too many days when i really fucking hate this country

i mean white malcolm turnbull announced it alongside white george "people have the right to be bigots y'know" brandis, what the galloping fuck were they thinking

freedom, glorious freedom

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/08/article-1218971-06BFBBB1000005DC-135_634x341.jpg

at last we can do all the racist things we already did, but with even more permission