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

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

heyo you need to ask QGP about the Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow story

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-peter-dutton-says-malcolm-turnbull-will-be-pressured-to-reinstate-tony-abbott-20160615-gpk5uv.html

keep talking dutton, keep talking

heyo you need to ask QGP about the Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow story

oh does QGP have a Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow story?

^ like the opening lines to the worst thought-through knock-knock joke ever

oh does QGP have a Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow story?

yes QGP has a Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow story

[cut to Liberal Party HQ]

'hmmm we got a marginal seat here, labor only has it by 0.2 per cent...'

'get the pizza bloke'

'uh I don't...'

'get him!'

please can we hear the Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow story

wellllllll it involves certain substances if you get me drift

turns out that bloop stanton is better at the Facebook than the inventor of the internet, great stuff

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/a-b-double-d

Ironically, if the Turnbull government is re-elected on July 2, it might not have the numbers it needs to pass the ABCC legislation.

get blunt snoozy close enough then let basque slippery actually win the damn second election

well I knew Malcolm was left-wing but jeez whiz Andrew you were right about this

this morbsian wordplay has finally outpaced me

prime minister bung shaka

prime minister belch snazzy

prime minister basted slurpee has just let 500,000 muslim terrorist refugees in and allowed the greens to squat in mum & dad's investment property

prime minister malcolm 'lives in the 21st century' turnbull will let us vote on marriage equality but his party won't even if we do because hurrrrrrr

also; labor needs to stop over-egging the medicare tilt (we get it, we get it, stop giving the right wing press some ammunition), hype up marriage equality a bit more, really hype up that Brexit is due to a massive gap in opportunity and outcome in pommieland and, oh oh oh, mention negative gearing reform more to get the under-40s hyped up

vote for this: <photo of mal>

get this: <photo of tone>

spoken by b. hunter for the australian labor party canberra

--> labor wins 142 seats

if it's tone eating the onion, they'll get the full senate too

<wink>

--> labor takes all states & territories

the plebiscite still doesn't have proposed legislation or question text or a date, and the crackpots want to rig the count so it structurally favours bigots, and a 'yes' vote would only mean the party will then consider whether they should think about having a vote, and half the party's said they'll ignore it and vote 'no' anyway, but sure good policy why not

vote 'yes' for us to have a think about whether or not 45% of the chamber can be fucked thinking about having a vote on something or other that's ~secret~, trust us

vote 'no' because gay is icky

imagen if we had a vote on if black people are actually people and can vote and such

in 2016, not 1967

where's my fucken referendum on the republic, mal

imagen if we had a vote on if black people are actually people and can vote and such

in 2016, not 1967

LET THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR SAY, if the bigots win then the oppressed are victims only of democracy

DEMOCRACY