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Yes, but what did it all mean? : Comments

By Peter West, published 4/7/2016

They want leaders who are above politics. I doubt that we'll get them. Avoid career politicians, and you get so-called celebrities and clowns and such.

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Is it not Turnbull who has got US into a mess?
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 4 July 2016 10:20:54 PM
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Thanks for a fun read and some commonsense.

BTW, Shorten's image makers have him wearing baggy shirts to conceal his remarkable man breasts.

http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/bill-shortens-man-boobs-his-achilles-heel-in-election-campaign/news-story/d2fb214858ba09a3cfa839acb6d1dc0f

Sadly, none of the Labor womyn have risen to defend their leader's right to be perky (or saggy).
Posted by onthebeach, Monday, 4 July 2016 11:05:06 PM
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A telling comment on "7.30" on ABC-TV onMonday night was that comments from Turnbull about "we don't need Pauline Hanson" increased her support ten times.
It's a mistake to try and shut these people up, just because some smarty-pants reporter or politician thinks her attitudes might be racist, sexist, ageist, etc etc. Far smarter to recognise that there are clearly thousands (millions?) of people who think that her points are valid ones, no matter what elitist producers at SBS - or anyone else- think of them.
Posted by Waverley, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 12:25:16 AM
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What I find funny is the media buying into the whole Australia is doomed because there isn't a clear Liberal or Labor win. Most countries around the world do not have two party systems and they work just fine.
Germany has not had a majority government for over 20 years i believe and they seem to be doing okay.

The amusing part is that both houses may actually reflect how we voted, and there may actually represent the will of the people.

All parties just need to suck it up stop blaming others and get on with the job.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 10:01:54 AM
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I disagree with Peter West's contention that the two party system is alive and well.

Today's Australia is just too diverse in it's people's values and attitudes to continue with a two party system. The old idea that Labor represented the working and disadvantaged classes, and the Libs represented the educated middle and upper classes, no longer holds true. Furthermore, the Nationals who used to represent the rural population proves that there was never a two party system anyway, it was always three.

Today's voter demographics are totally alien to the old voting patterns. I myself am a working class trade unionist who normally votes Liberal, but instead voted for Pauline Hanson in the senate and the "Direct Democracy Party" in the lower house. The Labor Party's insistence on homosexual "marriage", it's rabid hatred of it's own people and culture, it's sucking up to every dysfunctional minority to gain votes, it's economic incompetence, it's odd associations with organised crime, it's "refugee" debacle, it's signing away of Australian dominion to international authority, it's three monkey approach to union corruption, and it's never ending political correctness, has lost my vote forever.

Australia is probably going to see four or five main political parties in the future. The Greens are well established and they represent homosexuals, communists, and those who have a deep psychological need to think they are smarter and more morally upright than anybody else. Labor represents everybody who has their hands out for a government job or for government assistance. The Libs largely represent the white working class and nearly everybody else who is productive. While Pauline, Nick, and the Christian parties represent those who think that the Liberal Party is movimg too far left and it is not representing them in the advocacy of their most cherished liberal ideals.

Labor was trashed a few years ago by an electorate who was giving Shorten a message on refugees. Trendy Malcolm and the Liberal Party tacticians just got a message from voters on gay "marriage", Islamic immigration, free speech, political correctness, the Safe Schools program, and the republic.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 4:50:08 AM
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I see, It's all a homosexual, commie, green plot to ruin Australia. And the Libs represent the white working class. Now everything is clear.
Posted by Waverley, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 9:24:34 AM
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