One week after the election, in what can only be described as an act of betrayal Jcinda Price has quit The National Party to joint the Liberals. Returned to the Senate as candidate for the CLP in the Northern territory, the endorsed CLP candidate must be a member of the National Party. Price claims she can be "more effective" as a Liberal than a national, HOW? The truth is Price used the National's as a vehicle to further her own political ambitions. She will nominate for deputy leader under Angus Taylor, on the far right ticket, against the more moderate right winger Susan Ley. Advice to Ley, withdraw, let Taylor and Price head the opposition, backed up by Mad Mat Canavan as Nationals leader, and with that threesome of political galah's in charge, thing will only go pear shaped, take a tilt at the leadership then.

Could Labor ask for anything better, than having 'Sqizzy' Taylor as Noalition band master, with Priceless and Mad Mat Caravan blowing the TRUMPets from far right field. Then of course there is the alternative, Squeaky Lie and Davy Littlechance, all promising to put a nuclear reactor in your backyard! Going to be fun for the next 3 years, could be 6, maybe 9, etc etc.

What's the point?
If she resigns then another politician will take her place
- a very expensive and inefficient pest-control method!

Bonger 1405.

You got no takers cause you rub da salt into the wound bro. You be a “ tanner “, dat his job bro.

But I’ll join ya.

And here’s a song to suit, ( don’t get lost in the words).

http://youtu.be/KxU42omseUs

This one make more sense me thinks bro!

http://youtu.be/gUjcjUF-urU

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Dear Paul 1405,

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You ask :

« Should Liberal Senator Jacinda Price Resign From Parliament? »
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a highly controversial indigenous politician, a Warlpiri woman of the Alice Springs region, and a senator of the Northern Territory, but she is largely rejected by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as not representing their interests.

She was elected by mostly (if not exclusively) non-Indigenous Australians to the Senate of the Northern Territory in 2022 and has the right to continue in that office for 6 years until 2028.

Australia is a free liberal democracy. I don’t see why she should resign, even though I don’t share her enthusiasm for Trump-style politics.

As a member of the Country Liberal Party, she can sit with whichever party room she chooses.

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Hi BP,

As I understand it the CLP in the Northern Territory is much like the LNP in Queensland, and members are also members of their respective National and Liberal parties. In the case of Jacinda Price her membership was with the National Party from which she resigned to join the Liberal Party. To answer my own question, the answer is no. I believe when a person is elected there is no binding contract, or obligation, to represent the particular party, that the candidate was a member of at the time, even though many would argue that its was that party affiliation that got that person elected in the first place. No, a politicians obligation is to their constituents, first and foremost, party comes a distant second. Price saying she can be "more effective" sitting with the Liberals, is somewhat cynical, more to further her personal political ambitions, me thinks.

Hi again BP,

Just a correction, you said; "She was elected by mostly (if not exclusively) non-Indigenous Australians to the Senate of the Northern Territory in 2022 and has the right to continue in that office for 6 years until 2028."

That's incorrect, Territory Senators, 2 for each, ACT and NT, are only elected for 3 years, not 6 as is the case with those from the states. price was again reelected in 2025. There is a case for the territories to return 4 Senators on 6 year terms inline with the states who have 12 each.

The only interesting thing about Australian politics is Senator Matt Canavan's challenge for the leadership of the Nationals. It's a pity that the membership can't make a decision as much as it is a pity that the Liberals were landed with Dutton for the same reason.

There is just too much wrong with our system: idiotic compulsory and preferential voting; politicians ONLY electing someone to lead the country; 6 year terms for the nincompoops who can get into the Senate with none of the requirements that apply to the Lower House candidates; politicians being allowed to make a career of politics.

Of the 150 seats in Parliament, only 50 of successful politicians received 50% or more of the votes. In most seats, votes went to a shower of odds and sods candidates who were never going to make a difference, and who never campaigned because they couldn't afford to. Useless!

67% (a fair majority) voted for the Uniparty. The 34.7% for Labor, 32.2% for the Coalition indicates the Labor would have won if the remaining 33% didn't have candidates who will never be in government to vote for. ‘Others’ 13.1%; Greens 11.8%; One Nation 6.3%; Trumpet of Patriots 1.9%.

To my mind, all these minor parties are nothing more than an expensive and irritating nuisance, the few of whom manage to get themselves into the Senate being there for a well paid job only, and the chance to sound off every now and again.

Life would be much simpler and better if there were two very different parties who were interested in Australia and Australians rather than themselves.

Simplification is necessary for Australian voters who are unable or to, or too lazy to take politics seriously. There is Left and there is Right, despite the waffle about nuances. We need one party of each, and first past the post voting.

At least Mr. Trumpet has decided to get out of the game. The rest should realise that time is up for them too. Australians are just not interested.

JacinTa - not JacinDa - and what she does or doesn't do is unimportant. Had she not been half-aborignal she would not have received the sickening adoration that she has.

All she did for the Voice was to make dinky-di aborigines hate her more than they already did. It was the voters who did what had to be done to the Voice, not some glory-seeking politician.

When she was accused of Trumpism because she didn't choose who words correctly (fatal for a politician) she spluttered that she didn't mean to, and apologised. She followed Dutton, apologising for, and backing down from, policies that made sense just because Australia's equivalent of 'Pravda' made a fuss.

Price's hopping over to the Liberals because she believes the nonsense that she could PM, just puts her among other Liberals who should quietly retire and make way for conservatives, who would rename the party, and become a genuine option to socialism in our two party system.

ttbn,

You rubbish minor parties and independents as being irrelevant, claiming, "(they are) never going to make a difference", when in fact they do make a substantial contribution to political outcomes through their balance of power positions and the use of preferencing at election time. The alternative is an American style of oligarchy government with the seat of power in the hands of one person and their confidants. Our Westminster system, although not perfect, is far more democratic than the American Presidential system.

Being a conservative all your life, and now in your twilight years, you look back through the lens of your rose coloured glasses, and hanker for those "good old days" when ice creams cost sixpence, and the local picture theatre screened Hopalong Cassidy flicks on a Saturday afternoon, and your way of thinking made you king of the kids. You think some great conservative messiah is going to rise up from the failure and restore some lost Utopia of conservatism, just for you. Back in 2019 you believed Corny Banana was the reincarnation of 'Pig Iron' Bob, now its Mad Caravan as the new messiah. The only problem with an Australian Conservative Party is it would be totally irrelevant to the vast majority, and would end up on the political scrap heap, just like your 2019 mob, and now its Fat Clive and his Trumpet Of Failure Party, on the scrap heap!

Nuremberg Dan,

A bit of Dr Hook is ok, but the other song was total sh!t. Anyway I though you were exclusively a Richard Wagner devotee. After the election result there was no triumphant torchlight procession into the stadium for you and the lads, how unfortunate. What happened!

More unfortunate was your Bugle Of Buillsh!t turned into the Flugelhorn Of Failure. What can we expect next from your political ensemble, the Harpsichord Of Hopelessness?

If your coal fired puter' has sound, then listen to these words of wisdom from your next party leader. its an improvement on what Dud Dutton had to offer, should be more appealing to the punters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA

This came up so just for you from me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q46bolPDdgI

That's like saying Albo & his outfit should resign after going back on all their promises !

There was a flicker of light for the Noalition yesterday, as Mad Caravan failed in his attempt to kick out Davo Littledick from the Cow Cocky Party.

Classic signs of too cocky on this thread. Give it a year I predict !

The Liberal party has shot itself in the foot & if the Nationals are smart they can take the helm !
Labor didn't win, the Liberals lost due to promising totally necessary cut s in the Public Service.
Common sense should have told them you can't win people over especially people as opportunistic as Australians by telling them that their belts will be tightened for them by their merits !

Australians are desperate for an alternative to Labor but the LNP is hell-bent on proving itself as not being that alternative.
Politicians need to frequent Pubs instead of isolated & privileged functions to find out how to run a Nation !
Labor is proof that academic background people with no practical experience & common sense only excel in intellectual spin & jargon however, performing in the field of governing is beyond their reach !

This guy is a classic,

He has been exposed as lying about the vote that gave the Labor Party a crushing victory, claiming there were millions of non citizens voting. BS fella! Now he's claiming; "Australians are desperate for an alternative to Labor", what, an alternative made up of the Old Fart stick in the mud mob. Please! Is this another one of your "RUMOURS"! To make matters worse he believes our political leaders should be taking advice from the low IQ knuckles dragging pissheads down at the pub. This is the same bloke who once complained that his aged welfare increase wasn't enough to get him another Schooner down at 'Gods Waiting Room'.

Indy, produce evidence to support your claim that Australians are desperate for an alternative to Labor?. What we need is to cut aged welfare by $60 billion, and get the malingerer class contributing through a Seniors National Service. I heard a RUMOUR that there are millions of non citizens collecting 2 pensions, one from Aussie, and the other from where they blew in from. We can hear all sorts of rumours if we want to.

2 pensions, one from Aussie, and the other from where they blew in from.
Paul1405,
Whatever pension is paid by the old country gets deducted from the Australian pension.
Millions of ineligible voters ? Crickey ! Where'd you get that from ? One of those voices in your head ?

Indy,

Can you answer the real question, provide evidence that; "Australians are desperate for an alternative to Labor" YOU made that claim. Millions of Australians voted Labor, and millions who didn't, like me, gave Labor their preference, delving Albo a landslide victory.

As for for certain migrants collecting two pensions. At one time 'Ten Pound Poms' from Britain who received a British War Service Pension, also were entitled to the full Australian Aged Pension, as the British pension was not means tested. That would not be YOU, as you told us how YOU shirked military service, when the opportunity presented.

YOU shirked military service, when the opportunity presented.
Paul1405,
So, how did I shirk military Service when I wasn't eligible ? Also, do you actually know the difference between military & National Service ? You don't do you ! The fact is that many of the decent citizens make better citizens than you because they already have a better mentality from the start than the likes of you.
As for Australians looking for an alternative to Labor I suggest you mix with real people instead of bought ones who actually work & pay Taxes instead & hear what they say about this last election.