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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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Pauline Hanson has hit back at the media who are making the predictable swipes at her. She's racist, ill-educated, prejudiced etc etc. according to the journos.
She's threatening to bypass the journalists and talk directly to voters.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-punching-bag-pauline-hanson-attacks-the-media-after-senate-win-20160706-gpzjpw.html
Posted by Waverley, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 1:07:55 PM
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Your response is called a "Sneery One Liner", Mr Waverly. You do not have the ability to write a 350 word post containing a reasoned a argument yourself, so you hit and run with an SOL. You think it makes you seem clever, although we who have been around know better. It may impress your chardonnay sucking inner city mates, but they are just as hopeless as you are.

If you disagree with my conclusions, try to get some brain cells synapsing and submit a 350 word article explaining why you disagree with me. The fact that few of you hecklers can do that is probably why the Left seems so enamoured of the idea of shutting down free speech. You are unable to string three sentences together to form a paragraph that makes any sense, so the best way to prevent your opponents from submitting heretical thoughts is to demand that the Inquisitors of the motley State and Federal Human Rights Commissions shut us up.

I love SOL artists. I know that they are easy meat and cowards too boot, who are trying to maintain a vision of themselves as the intelligent ones. But they are not going to mix it with their opponents to find out if they have what it takes. Deep down they are afraid that they will come up short of whatever positive self image they have of themselves.

I'll bet your dog does not even like you.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 4:02:42 PM
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I would imagine the tens of thousands of Hanson voted would of gone to Abbott if the regressives had not been so slimy and treacherous. Labour really did very bad however listening to the abc you would not know it. Even with their lives ( what else do to you expect from unionist who rely on lies for a living). The regressives are still in denial putting their flawed narrative on things.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 4:55:45 PM
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I nearly choked on my morning porridge as I read about the Chilcot Report into why we went blindly into a war that was to create such trouble and kill so many.

People are more and more suspicious of the half-truths and downright lies pushed at them. By labor or Lib or whoever. The controversy over the fake trade was interesting. In a time when we get e.g.' The Gruen Report', people are wiser about messages dressed up to convince. Shades of "1984"...

This election seems like a very significant one. Maybe we can't work it all out yet, but look at Cory Bernardi's antics, just for a start. Who knows where that will go!
Posted by Waverley, Thursday, 7 July 2016 9:33:38 AM
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