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alsoknownasDean

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Australian leadership spill 2018
« on: August 22, 2018, 03:43:18 AM »
Yes, after another period of poor polls, factional clashes on key policies, and continued sniping by a jilted former PM, we're likely to see yet another sitting Prime Minister booted from office by their own party.

It seems as even though Turnbull won yesterday's spill, the chances of him winning another look fairly slim.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-22/malcolm-turnbull-leadership-crisis-deepens/10149440

Haven't we seen this movie before?

I'd guess that a perusal of the popular betting websites would show odds shortening (ahem) for a 2018 election.
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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2018, 04:04:40 AM »
I can't believe the pollies are dumb enough to do this AGAIN.

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2018, 04:27:20 AM »
I’m looking at this and wondering... don’t they really have anything better to do? Like:

- climate change
- waste crisis
- banking and super sh*tshow
- cladding whoopsie ... like, shouldn’t there be a review and assessment of other building standards
- childcare reform
- school funding reassessment

Not to mention:
- housing affordability
- lack of real wage growth

And instead we have a bunch of incompetents who infight with each other instead of getting ANYTHING done... I wish we had at least one clearly respectable leader, instead of a bunch of professional debaters, on both sides of the political “divide”

alsoknownasDean

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2018, 03:22:30 AM »
Yep, party meeting at midday tomorrow. Dutton, Morrison and Bishop as potential challengers.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-23/malcolm-turnbull-leadership-spill-speech-in-full/10156724

This shitstorm hasn't cleared yet, and depending on s44 advice re: Dutton, may continue for a while.

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2018, 06:23:30 AM »
I am late to this. I live next door to ScoMo's electorate (yes I have that big-coal-loving-climate-change-denying muppet for a rep).

It's all bullshit, Libs are consigning themselves to electoral oblivion.

What a farce driven by that ideological idiot former PM.

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2018, 06:25:22 AM »
Our only hope...

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2018, 07:12:16 AM »
Oh, for goodness sake.

Being on the younger side, I first started taking note of current affairs/politics/news shortly before the 2007 election. After eleven years, we’re now up to PM five (or six, if you count Rudd twice) and I still have no experience of a PM lasting a full term.

But hey, there’s nothing wrong with Australian politics. Everything is working fine.

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2018, 11:20:10 PM »
Our only hope...

She was a happy Kiwi last night when the Wallabies lost for the 16th year in a row.

I put up a post in my High School reunion FB group about things that happened in Yr 12/2003....was going to mention the Bledisloe but it turned out the last time an Australian lifted the Cup was 2002 not 2003   :/

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2018, 02:32:09 AM »
Condolences mate(s). From the other side of the ditch.

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Re: Australian leadership spill 2018
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2018, 05:03:54 AM »
Condolences mate(s). From the other side of the ditch.

And we can't even blame it on Richie McCaw being offside all game...

 

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