Does anyone here want to talk about Australian politics?

buttina hurdt

^^

http://inside.org.au/shoulder-deep-in-the-entrails/

i liked this

parents dragging children through a succession of chaotic ''blended'' families
parents dragging children through a succession of chaotic ''blended'' families
parents dragging children through a succession of chaotic ''blended'' families
parents dragging children through a succession of chaotic ''blended'' families
parents dragging children through a succession of chaotic ''blended'' families

i think bettina arnottsscotchfingeruptheanus has confused real life with saturday kitchen

bettina beats us all at our own game

http://bettinaarndt.com.au/aboutbettina.php

Bit of a Bettina Arndt

Her brand new book - What Men Want – is being published in August, 2010.

oh this will be fascinating

http://inside.org.au/shoulder-deep-in-the-entrails/

i liked this

― assiest boy in america (haitch), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 13:57 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Michelle Grattan and Paul Kelly join the crowd, waxy and wrinkled as exhibits in some glass case at Madame Tussauds.

^^ perfect sentence

Her brand new book - What Men Want – is being published in August, 2010.

oh this will be fascinating

― jo jo zeppelin (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:04 (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ways to promote a forthcoming book:

1. Write a controversial column two months earlier

buttina hurdt

A+ lol

Guessing that Bettina's "Sex Diaries" features the not-having kind of sex.

Also...WTF??!!! Cannot believe she's sagely using Whitlam/Greer to bring her stupid argument "home". Yes, Bettina and while we're at let's examine this new trend of women wearing mens trousers and driving their own cars.

Gaaaaaaaahhh!

Love that Shane Maloney piece btw...

My mum went to school with ButtArndt.

Actually, come to think of it that explains a lot.

in any case i look forward to this future of high-powered career women with loose morals

:D

they can only be career women some of the time, clothes don't iron themselves

As long as career doesn't require shoes, being barefoot & preggers

If I start taking birth control pills does this mean I get to be Prime Minister now?

Thanks to King Boy Potato

http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-against-gay-marriage-20100630-zkcj.html

Dozy fucken bitch.

See now, I dont read her saying "I'm against gay marriage" in that article, seems a bit shit stirry to me. Fucking papers.

Labor policy on gay marriage will remain the same under her prime ministership, Ms Gillard told Austereo show today.

"We believe the marriage act is appropriate in its current form, that is recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken steps to equalise treatment for gay couples," Ms Gillard said.

Asked if that was also her personal view, Ms Gillard said it was.

= against

abolish marriage for heteros imo, this is a valuable step towards equality

^^

Abortions for some, tiny Australian flags for others!

http://yfrog.com/0g96erj

(thanks to mr bidness)

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keating will shit this in btw

i better update the address on my enrolment innit

Loving various TV stations insinuating the announcement is late because the PM and the G-G are having girlie-talk.

Talk about your periods here, girls: Better Dead Than Redhead: the 2010 Australian Federal Election thread

Grim.

To give you some idea of how utterly vicious the JobSeeker cut is: rent eats up a full 65% of my reduced payment leaving me with just $130 per week for bills and food. This is what today looks like for millions of people

— Joshua Badge (@joshuabadge) September 25, 2020

Our labor ‘opposition’ makes starmer look like corbyn, but then we have Fitzgibbon to make Albo look less than a complete collaborator.

Feel I need a safe space to experience dread

My wholly unverifiable prediction is that people sharing amusingly-captioned photos of Morrison crash-tackling an 8 yr-old are somehow going to swing the election for the Coalition by playing into some kind of Buffoon Daddy image that the inhabitants of this dipshit colony secretly crave

My other prediction is that the UAP are going to be a much more potent electoral force than anyone is anticipating

Would be glad to be proven wrong on these, maybe 13 years of this shit has trained me to reject any optimistic scenario (I mean to be fair the best possible outcome is an ultra-milquetoast Labor govt, pretty hard to get super excited about this)

Agreed on all, except UAP are a joke even to their constituency. But the "shy tory" vote and the invisible hand of the Boomers will keep the LNP in power for another decade I think.

The ALP did well to avoid their fatal hubris when ahead in the polls, but they've become so centrist there is literally no positive reason to vote for them other than "less worse than the Coalition". There's nothing to believe in any more in Australian politics, just a choice between parties offering the same things while one group openly enrich their power base while the others clutch their pearls.

UAP are 100% clown car shit for sure, but I actually think their dopey messaging is gonna translate to a reasonable anti-major party protest vote. Precisely on account of that Lab/LNP death spiral you mention.

I actually thought Labor went into the last election with a non-terrible policy offering, and they were eviscerated by boomer self-interest, News Ltd, right-centrist media bias generally and Shorten's uncanny lack of human qualities. So I guess I understand their timidity this time. But they are gonna get smashed again.

This is beginning to feel pretty grim. It does feel like the Coalition is staging a comeback and it might come down to whether some of the teal independents can win and we end up with a hung parliament.

I find it helpful to expect the worst

It’s what both major parties’ policies are offering, so

Bit in the Guardian this morning saying 25% (!!!) of early voters exit polled in Wentworth (fuckin WENTWORTH!!) copping to voting UAP. That may be unscientific data but my dread is empirically real.

sharma reported “shook”

Yeah, the UAP is going to get a lot more votes than the polls say. But I have a hard time thinking they'll get 25% in Wentworth! I live on the edge of that electorate, and it's basically evenly split between rich people who will reliably vote Liberal no matter what, and young professionals who will vote all over the spectrum, but are hardly naturals for a populist conspiracy theorist party. But who knows anymore.

Appalling automated text message I just received from Clive Palmer’s party. Brazen Trumpian lies like this one should not be part of our political discourse. Shameful attempt to scare voters pic.twitter.com/6kodfSx1cF

— Lily D'Ambrosio MP (@LilyDAmbrosioMP) May 20, 2022

Yeah this sucks but if the major parties were committed to truth in political communication they would make it illegal to lie like this. But they’re not, so they don’t. https://t.co/ULbIJdyzc2

— Tim (non-spooky, non-Halloween version) (@burgotastic) May 20, 2022

idk i am feeling more optimistic than most of you, signs of a labor victory look much better than 2019's signs were and even if the same sort of polling error is repeated that just gets into likely labor minority territory (& at the very least some of the problems with the polls last time have been fixed). still possible that things go very wrong but it doesn't seem overly likely, things aren't too close on paper at least. labor getting 52-53 TPP and somewhere around 80 seats seems pretty realistic, at least i hope

i am not optimistic about labor being very good at all but there is at least the possibility of them being pushed to the left a little by the greens (who they will necessarily need to rely on in the senate to do anything that isn't terrible) & they're absolutely an improvement over the coalition at least. don't think they're quite as useless as say, uk labour or the us democrats yet

also feel reasonably optimistic about the prospect of the greens finally winning another house seat or two, things seem quite good for their chances in a few seats, especially in some of the brisbane seats, so hopefully they'll be able to scrape a victory together somewhere at least

thanks UFO, this country has trained me to live without hope, but I hope you’re right

Final two polls both have it 53-47. I am daring to hope...

I’m not. But good luck Straya.

today has been very very long and slow

Ok bracing for a golden shower of UAP primary votes

congratulations to the future shadow treasurer of Austraalia

“I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality,” she told The Australian.

“I worked out that if you added an ‘s’ I would have an incredibly exciting, interesting life and nothing would every be boring. It’s that simple.

“And once I’d added the ‘s’ it was really hard to take it away.”

no, angus taylor of a million corruption scandals fame is reportedly the likely shadow treasurer

Fantastic. Great move.

It was nice to have eight days of looking like we had the best-case-scenario result, but ABC has called 76 for Labor. Probably close enough to recount preferences in Macnamara, but if they're confident enough to update now, looks like it. (Lab also ahead 50.1% to 49.9% in Gilmore at current count.)

((btw ufo u may have missed my extremely elaborate joke about arithmetic))

you meant shadow treassurer?

Can't talk about a republic now (the Queen hasn't died yet and she's been Queen... well, for quite some time)
Can't talk about a republic now (the Queen has just died, how distasteful)
Can't talk about a republic now (he's only been the King for a few months, give him a chance)
Can't talk about a repub--

Pull the fucking ripcord before kerchunking any Chazcoins ffs

But not before the public holiday!!

Nothing was going to happen before the next election anyway. I'm not exactly optimistic, but Charles is a pretty odious character and if Labor can get a healthy majority next election who knows...

Yes I saw some of the proclamation stuff and thought ugh, this guy? seriously? I would imagine with Liz out of the picture the monarch isn’t a popular notion any more.

labor had previously announced that their plan is to hold a republic referendum during their second term (if they get one) because their focus re: constitutional reform at the moment is the indigenous voice, so it's not anything new that they're not going to have a republic referendum immediately. i do expect that once the voice referendum is out of the way we'll hear more about how they're going to go about holding the republic referendum, deciding on a republic model, etc.

I really hope they don't have anything to say about which republican model and just opt for an up/down vote on whether you want an Australian for head of state or not. Once that's done, the options for which model can be the subject of a further referendum. Putting a specific model forward from the outset just risks the disaster of 1999

when shorten was labor leader he announced plans to do something like that, idk if exactly that is still their policy but i think they're well aware of the failings of the 1999 process at least

my preference would be to remove the governor-general/monarch or any equivalent completely, formally codifying all the unwritten convention of the current constitution, making the pm the head of state, & specifying reasonable procedures to deal with the existing grey areas that the g-g has responsibility over