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@barbarian Australia is not America, get rid of the happy clappers that seemingly took over the party.
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@mariner4life but recruiting happy clappers has worked at so many levels... Local, State, AND Federal!
It is only when it turned from your bog standard vanilla christianity to an overabundance of Pentecostals that it has seemingly become a problem.
I mean, look at this crazy shit: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/21/nsw-nationals-candidate-tells-congregation-of-her-aim-to-bring-gods-kingdom-to-politics
The National party’s candidate for the marginal northern New South Wales seat of Richmond told worshippers at a Pentecostal church that her “ultimate goal” in politics was to “bring God’s kingdom to the political arena”. The comments by the endorsed Nationals candidate, Kimberly Hone, have emerged alongside a series of old social media posts described by her opponents as “repulsive”, and include a post with a broken Facebook link from 2017 that says “one way to avoid domestic violence is to marry well”.
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interesting comments from one of the candidates to take the Nationals leadership off that stain of a bloke Barnaby
He probably fucked himself with these comments, but i thought they were incredibly honest and full of merit
Basically the views of some of the more "extreme" National party MPs contributed heavily to the losses suffered by the Liberals in the City seats. And if they are going to be good coalition partners, and get back in to Government, they need to recognise that.
Barnaby of course is taking the opposite approach. Because Barnaby only cares about Barnaby.
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@mariner4life prior to the election, the LNP were making scary noises about "hung Parliament" and "minority government"
We had a minority government for a decade; it's called the National Party
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A hung parliament is my ideal outcome. Imagine having a parliament where grown ups need to talk and agree on whether things are a good idea or not to get things done
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@gibbon-rib at this stage, the ALP will need to play nice in the lower house, even if they reach majority, because the senate will probably have enough greens or independents to hold the keys
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This is why I keep calling for Senators to be elected at the same time as State elections. That way they're more likely to do their job.
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The Australian Energy Market Operator yesterday took control of the electricity market with the ability to direct generators to provide electricity and cap pricing. This as the most populous State in Australia asks residents to cut their power use for the third night in a row.
It isn't the fault of the new PM, but this cartoon captures my sentiment well enough:
(for those not in on the joke, a previous Labor PM promised in 1987 that by 1990 no child would be living in poverty).
The sad reality is this was entirely foreseeable when you have a policy free zone, a lack of domestic gas supply and permit dependable electricity generation to become uneconomic.
All in a country with every possible advantage to provide dependable, cheap electricity.
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so turns out Scotty From Marketing may also have been
Scotty From Finance; and
Scotty From Health; and
Scotty From ResourcesThere's jobs for the boys, and then there's just swearing yourself in to jobs because you are a control freak.
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@mariner4life this would be funny as, if true. I mean, there's "I don't hold a hose" and "I'm just a backbencher". Worlds apart, yet still on brand.
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@NTA said in Aussie Politics:
@mariner4life this would be funny as, if true. I mean, there's "I don't hold a hose" and "I'm just a backbencher". Worlds apart, yet still on brand.
Nice confirmation that he was ever motivated by a sense of public service. What a repugnant fluffybunny.
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hopefully I am forgiven for not leaving this in the politics meme thread.
There is one with a shorter intro but it's age restricted
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@antipodean the memes are just writing themselves!
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