Gee Nhoj, you sure have the old boys running scared.
I like it!

Foxy, I didn't like that Tassie PUP politician because she reminded me strongly of Pauline Hanson. Both seem naive to me.

I can't see the PUP ever becoming a fox.
They are just another flash -in -the- pan political party...

I don't know about PUP but is so refreshing not to have the incompetent handbag brigade destroying the nation.

Crikey Haz, I’m not recommending big Clive. Like I said in my last post – I’m not sure about him.

But I’m just thinkin that the entrenched dinosaur parties are so fundamentally flawed and compromised that he would surely have to be a least a tiny bit better!

He certainly ain’t no greenie, but he’d surely have to be a more environmentally-friendly option than the pro-massive-immigration highly antienvironment and TOTALLY antisustainability Liblabs!

Luddy, mate! I don't think there has ever been anyone in federal parliament who would have a bigger conflict of interest than Clive.

I don't know what makes you think he would be anything less pro immigration than the majors. I reckon he is for anything he, or his mates, could make a quid out of.

I have been mightily amused at this enemy of my enemy attitude of the greens has led them to embrace a rapacious mining magnate, almost a caricature of their sworn enemy of development & productivity.

I reckon we have been subject to that old Chinese curse about living in interesting times, so we had best sit back & try to enjoy the ride, [as long as it isn't on a push bike that is].

Yeah you’re probably right Hazza. I can’t see PUP being any less pro-immigration or manically pro-growth.

But hopefully they’re a little bit less beholden to the enormous bribery exerted by big business, for which the Liblabs are only too willing to bend over and take it where the sun don’t shine!

Although, Clive being of that big business ilk, it is probably a forlorn hope! ( :>(

Dear Susieonline,

I think I am tending to agree with foxy on regarding Jacqui Lambie, the PUP Tassie Senator elect. When she first spoke on Q&A I looked at my wife and said something to the effect of 'what on earth do we have here?'. It wasn't so much her accent but just her grasp on issues that seemed so deficient.

However it doesn't take much nous to realise she is probably reflecting any normal person in that situation; fronting a studio audience, being asked to be articulate on a range of topics without having spent years within the political system, and not being coached by major party spin-doctors to within an inch of her life.

I quickly warmed to her and while I think our politics may well have difficulty in aligning I certainly think she may be made from sterner stuff than many of today's cookie-cutter pollies.

I especially loved this quote from her when talking about suicide rates among our servicemen and women;

"If they can't do the job, as of July 1, I will be part of holding that balance of power, and I can tell you now, those politicians up there, they're going to stop living off the Anzac legend and start living up to it,"

Our two major parties have made sure the so called house of representatives isn't all that representative at all. Jacqui Lambie however is direct representation of part of Australia that rarely gets to elbow their way into our politics. Neither a lawyer nor a university educated union official who I have little doubt will pull up her party's leader if he gets too controlling.

I hate the fact that Clive has been able to buy his way into our political system with such ease but I am also prepared to celebrate the fact that by doing so he has opened the door to the Jacqui Lambies of this world, we could probably do with a few more of them.