Aus Election 2025

[stevebrooks]

Oh yeah, but i was referring to the Greens. The coalition are fucked. Whichever senator the Greens choose as leader will be better than whoever the Libs land on and yes, the Libs are out of big profile players.

Oh yeah, I get your point there, it's quite possible the Green could recover to go and and be the second Political party in AU, the extreme polarity of "it's labor or Trump," of this election did them no favours, just because you don't have seats doesn't mean you aren't a player, now the Libs are out they need to start working on the environment and climate change as big problems, they could easily pull a lot of votes. The Nationals? They never were a big anything, without the support of the Libs they would have died long ago except for maybe one or two seats, they're a fossil, I mean literally a fossil, a remnant of a bygone age.

[stevebrooks]

They....just don't get it?

Earlier, Senator Canavan told the Today show that if he’s elected as leader, the party will dump its net zero energy policy.

https://www.news.com.au/national/federa ... eed1964858

[stevebrooks]

Ah Sussan Ley, the obvious choice....wait, who?

Asked direct question, deflects, attacks questioner, yep definitely a good fit for Liberal Party leader! Got all the creds right there!

In a fiery press conference, Ms Ley was grilled on whether the Liberal Party will now abandon net zero climate change targets or support for nuclear power.

“We thought it was settled. Is it settled, or not?,’’ Ms Ley was asked.

“It is a position that you’ve mentioned that we have. But there are different views about how we appropriately reduce emissions,’’ Ms Ley replied.

“Now, we need to reduce emissions in this country, and Australia needs to play its part in reducing emissions. That, I absolutely sign up to.

“We also know that, if we don’t do energy policy well, we can crash the energy grid.”

Asked, “You’re prepared to walk away from net zero?,’’ Ms Ley snapped back.

“You’re putting words in my mouth, Andrew,’’ she replied to Nine’s Andrew Probyn.

A simple yes or no question, a multiple paragraph reply that doesn't actually address the question, Trumpland all the way!

https://www.news.com.au/national/politi ... 93dc328289

[two dogs]

Great, we now have someone aspiring to become a future Prime Minister, who added an "s" to her first name, because she believes in numerology!

I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality,

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.

[stevebrooks]

Great, we now have someone aspiring to become a future Prime Minister, who added an "s" to her first name, because she believes in numerology!

I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality,

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.

The fact is Sussan with two ss's is a perfectly fine and valid name, you don't need some sort of bullshit magical thinking to justify having it;

The name Sussan is a variant of Susan, which is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. It comes from the Hebrew name Shoshana, meaning "lily" or "lotus,"

Of course if you are a gullible idiot it helps!

[Hambone]

Ted O'Brien, Member for Fairfax, and now, extraordinarily, deputy LNP leader (who I had the "luck" to drive past on my way to work in Maroochydore before the election while he and his team were ambushing motorists on Maroochydore Road) reckons -

"As we do rebuild as a party, we will hold a very bad Labor government to account," he said.

This only ten days after his own party was judged by the electorate and all but annihilated. A Labor government so "very bad" that they won in a doddle.

If Ley and TO'Bs are their best options then the cupboard, truly is, excruciatingly bare.

[wolty]

Ted O'Brien, Member for Fairfax, and now, extraordinarily, deputy LNP leader (who I had the "luck" to drive past on my way to work in Maroochydore before the election while he and his team were ambushing motorists on Maroochydore Road) reckons -

"As we do rebuild as a party, we will hold a very bad Labor government to account," he said.

This only ten days after his own party was judged by the electorate and all but annihilated. A Labor government so "very bad" that they won in a doddle.

If Ley and TO'Bs are their best options then the cupboard, truly is, excruciatingly bare.

The voters have been hoodwinked!!!! But they aren't dumb!!! It's schrodingers voter......

[stevebrooks]

Oh dear, it's all the liberals fault:

David Littleproud has confirmed the Nationals and Liberals have failed to lock in a partnership agreement, making it only the fourth time the Coalition arrangement has been breached.

Fronting media on Tuesday, the Nationals leader said his party had reached “a position where we will not be re-entering a Coalition agreement with the Liberal Party after this election”.

“The National Party will sit alone on a principle basis,” Mr Littleproud said.

Nah mate, the Liberals were compelled by the agreement to try and push a platform of Nuclear and fossil fuel stone age thinking onto a population that doesn't want that, they don't seem to understand that people living in the suburbs and cities want different things from people living in the far outback where innovations in renewables and energy transition hasn't yet reached, areas that rely on mining and selling off resources is the major employer of people. Dutton was the only possible leader of such a platform and he failed miserably because the entire platform was at fault. This entire article reads like it was the Liberals fault alone instead of them trying to appease these old fossils. Oh well, "live and not learn," that seems to be the vibe of the Nationals at the moment!

https://www.news.com.au/national/politi ... 24a8dabc46

[wolty]

They're both so out of touch with both electorates. They will be consigned to an irrelevant opposition for years. The Libs can kind of see that but I wouldn't trust them anyway.

[pipbarber]

It's a curious development. For the libs to form a majority government they'll need 76 - not including the certain 9 seats the nationals win every election. So that's not likely but they might win 67 seats, one day, and the 9 nationals will join them in a minority government.

It's actually a pretty smart move, in my opinion. The Liberal party can focus on winning back the cities and let the Nats spew their bullshit without the libs having to defend it. But the Nats will jump onboard a minority lib government in a heartbeat.

What labor and the greens need to do is focus on rural Australia. I don't how they'll do that successfully, but it ought to be something that is being discussed.