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The national interest demands a double dissolution : Comments

By Syd Hickman, published 30/12/2015

The Coalition will probably win around 100 seats in the Reps, up from 90 now. That will leave the ALP in pathetic shape, sharing 50 seats with Greens and Independents.

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A Double Dissolution in early 2016 would be seen as a tactic to avoid a Budget due in May: the election proper is due August/September and that is when it should be held.
Posted by wantok, Monday, 4 January 2016 11:08:30 AM
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579,

Possessive: <Treasury's>, not treasuries. <Its>, not it's.

Plural: <degrees>, not <degree's>. <Policies>, not <policie's>, or <policy's>.

BTT: Turnbull can hold an election any time he likes this year. Obviously, he won't hold one before March, six months before the three-year term. He could hold one before the Budget, say in April, or he could hold off until September. It's entirely up to him.

[579, <It's> is an abbreviation of <It is> in that case.]

Why should he risk a DD, which is just as likely to return an even more diverse and fractious Senate ?

Not that I would mind, being a Xenophon supporter :)

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 8:37:15 AM
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Good to see Loudmouth speaking up for the English language. I've often felt like it but chickened out. Managed decay of language is a stratagem for muzzling public challenge to BS. George Orwell didn't dream up Newspeak from thin air.

Watch for the overuse of undefined terms like "left", "right", "racism", "anti-Semitism", "bigotry", and think about the agenda behind them. Other horrors include "to" for "too", "too" for "to", "tow the line", "lead" for "led", and the endless stream of malapropisms and muddled sentence-construction. Ignore obvious simple typos. To see a forest of chimp-level language, go to http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/ and run a mental editor's pencil through the items. Writing at the very least a rough semblance of English simply requires taking a modicum of care.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 3:21:02 PM
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