Australian Politics (6 Viewers)

[rasengan90]

I wish Julia Gillard had kept her Welsh accent. Even a Welsh accent would have been better than that screech she does now.

 

[Will Shakespear]

The Greens are shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic.

no Brown = no Greens

y/n?

 

[Lentern]

no Brown = no Greens

y/n?

I suspect something like that. No definite, competent, long term successor to Brown I think=no greens. I suspect both Milne and Rhiannon consider themselves natural successors to Brown. I for a while thought Organ was best poised to do it, but he seems so damn dedicated to his electorate and won't run for the senate which is really dinting his fender.

 

[atreus]

Fuck you man, Turnbull is a fox.

She is a feral bush pig. She looks like that dude, what's his name, fucking Midnight Oil - only with hair.

Doesn't Turnbull look like that douche Andre Rieu?

Other look-a-likes in Federal Parliament:
Jenny Macklin--- Angela Merkel
Kevin Rudd--- Mr Sheen
Dick Adams--- Santa Claus

 

[rasengan90]

Kevin Rudd is the Milky Bar kid.

 

[Gerald10]

FDR looks vaguely like turnbull. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/fdr.jpg

I think the Greens are stronger with a good leader like Brown - he is replaceable. But regardless as long as they hold firm on their idealogies and don't stray and become ridiculously alarmist they have a future in Australian politics.

 

[Lentern]

FDR looks vaguely like turnbull. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/fdr.jpg

I think the Greens are stronger with a good leader like Brown - he is replaceable. But regardless as long as they hold firm on their idealogies and don't stray and become ridiculously alarmist they have a future in Australian politics.

I think they need to conduct extensive research into what killed the dems. A stable, intelligent leader with skilled access to the media and a widely known philosophical platform is essential. I attribute the death of the dems to the fact that post Stotty nobody knew who the leader was or what he or she stood for(I mean the average voter btw don't now come and say "it was andrew bartlett and he...")

 

[Gerald10]

I agree wholeheartedly - but I think with a charismatic leader, someone even better than Brown, the Greens have a chance of becoming a real force in Australian politics. Though that would require a perfect storm (not unlike in NSW) where the left is forced away from labour.

 

[Lentern]

I agree wholeheartedly - but I think with a charismatic leader, someone even better than Brown, the Greens have a chance of becoming a real force in Australian politics. Though that would require a perfect storm (not unlike in NSW) where the left is forced away from labour.

Obviously if they had someone better up their sleave it would be great for them but I think it's crucial whoever succedes Brown has got more standing than anyone else in the greens. Nobody in their right mind would think they had more authority in the greens than Brown right now which is very good for the party, But I can't imagine someone managing to gather the neccessary authority in the limmited time frame to be the successor you're talking about. A Garrett defection might do the trick but I can't really see who else could pull it off.

 

[Iron]

Hey Lentern! Learn to speak English!
Go back to where you came from!
Have you actually got a driver's licence!?

/smokes on e,scalator

 

[Rafy]

Get Julie Bishop out of Treasury. Should be Hockey.

I suspect they know this. Despite all the focus recently on the economy, Bishop is nowhere to be seen.

 

[Lentern]

Hey Lentern! Learn to speak English!
Go back to where you came from!
Have you actually got a driver's licence!?

/smokes on e,scalator

Just quote the least intelligible part and I'll get Sir Humphrey to start translating it.

 

[Rafy]

Newspoll: 58-42 2PP

Voters give a thumbs-up to Rudd cash handout | The Australian

 

[blue_chameleon]

Newspoll: 58-42 2PP

Voters give a thumbs-up to Rudd cash handout | The Australian

Pretty predictable really, people being short-sighted.

Think of the childrens!

 

[Lentern]

Newspoll: 58-42 2PP

Voters give a thumbs-up to Rudd cash handout | The Australian

Rafy why do you check these so often? Has a Newspoll six months or more out from an election even been within cooee of the election result?

 

[withoutaface]

Rafy why do you check these so often? Has a Newspoll six months or more out from an election even been within cooee of the election result?

Because it's interesting to see how political events sway public opinion.

 

[katie tully]

Because it's interesting to see how far up the Governments ass everybody is, until polling day.

 

[Lentern]

Because it's interesting to see how political events sway public opinion.

But they don't. YouTube - Opinion Polls: Getting the results you want

 

[spiny norman]

Rafy why do you check these so often? Has a Newspoll six months or more out from an election even been within cooee of the election result?

Regardless, they do have some bearing. You can't say Nelson's poor poll rating wasn't a major contributor to his being tossed as Opposition Leader.

Seeing Turnbull drop to 20% Preferred Prime Minister must surely leave a number of Liberal supporters worried. Including him, as that really is heading toward Nelson levels.

 

[Graney]

I have no doubt Turnbull will come good in time. It would be hard for anything to stick, to any prime minister in the term and period in history Rudd's been in office. Plug away. Stay the course.