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Wither the Liberals, the Nationals and the Coalition : Comments

By Scott Prasser, published 23/5/2022

The issue is whether the fissures which the recent election loss have so exposed, can be contained within the Liberal Party's current 'broad church' of agreed beliefs and values.

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Now that it has happened, we all must hope for a Labor majority government to save us from the excesses and lunacy of the Greens and the Teals.

The election has rid the Liberal party of their biggest problems, the wets, Sharma, Wilson, Frydenberg, Zimmerman etc. It is now up to a Dutton-led party to repair the damage of the Turnbull/Morrison years and regain its conservative supporters.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 23 May 2022 9:17:10 AM
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Where were these so called "Liberal Party progressives" to be found when push came to shove... where... in bed with the reactionary right of the Coalition, dutifully voting with the likes of Joyce, Christensen and Canavan that's where they were to be found. The Nationals may well be overwhelmingly popular in the village of Hicksville (pop 30) where they get every vote, even those of the sheep and cattle, but where it really counts with the majority, they are on the nose, and got what they deserved!

As for the Liberal Party founder 'Pig Iron' Bob Menzies, he espoused 10% unemployed, to suppress wages, and he viewed working women as an to be underpaid cheap labour. Yes, the Liberal Party should bring back the Bob philosophy, and wind back the clock to 1952!
Posted by Paul1405, Monday, 23 May 2022 9:57:37 AM
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"Yes, the Liberal Party should bring back the Bob philosophy, and wind back the clock to 1952!"
Thought they had....
Posted by ateday, Monday, 23 May 2022 10:32:46 AM
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Cry over the defeat of a coalition of grubs, never!
Unfortunately though, one species of grub usurped by another holds no solution to endemic problems of a systematic plunder by the leaning tower of “ bumbledom” .

Remember “robodebt”? Too many haven’t forgotten obviously, the event exemplifying the core values of politicians. The ruthless and wrong plunder was early called for what it was, but pleas for mercy were ignored.

The results, a successful class action:

Key points of Robodebt Class Action
The Representative Applicants commenced the Robodebt Class Action on 19 November 2019. On 16 November 2020, the scheduled first day of trial, the Representative Applicants and the Commonwealth agreed a settlement.

Since the commencement of the class action, more than $1.7 billion in financial benefit will have been provided to approximately 430,000 group members.

The benefits to Group Members include the following elements:

*…The Commonwealth will pay $112 million in compensation to approximately 400,000 eligible individual Group Members, including legal costs;

The Commonwealth is repaying more than $751 million in debts collected from Group Members invalidly and will continue to provide refunds;

The Commonwealth has agreed to drop claims for repayment of approximately $744 million in invalid debts that had been partly paid back, as well as dropping claims for $268 million in invalid debts where no repayments had been made.

Gordon Legal is proud to have achieved this historic result which resolves the claims of hundreds of thousands of people who were issued with Centrelink debts calculated wholly or partly on the basis of averages derived from ATO income data…*

Have things improved? Definitely not. Now it’s the plunder of a home, engineered by the same ruthless warriors of power and prestige.

Good riddance I say.

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Monday, 23 May 2022 10:42:06 AM
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Those libs who lost their seats didn't demonstrate a courage of conviction to show their alleged progressive colours? And paid a price in urban seats for a party that had moved too far to the right!

As for labor they won with the lowest primary vote since Adam wore nickabockers! Elbow won because he is not Scomo! And because he came with a bag of progressive policies, policies reflected by the teals?

The libs may compound their distruction a la the Australian Dems by choosing leader leaning too far to the right? And down to them!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 23 May 2022 11:22:59 AM
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OMG, if the loony right think they will make wider appeal by being even more loony, then heaven help the conservative side.
This is Australia, not the USA, so dream on if you think Australia is going to be more like the yanks.
If they want to sell God, deny global warming, and even bag legitimate MPs who were elected, then they obviously have a poor insight on how Australian politics works and have evolved in recent decades.
It is amazing how out of touch Sky Tv after 6pm is with reality. LMAO.
Posted by Chris Lewis, Monday, 23 May 2022 12:51:02 PM
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