Newspoll may be spinning on its wheels, but the Age/Herald has come through with the third Resolve Strategic poll of federal voting intention since the election, three weeks after the last. This one has Labor on 39% (steady), the Coalition on 30% (down two), the Greens on 12% (up two), One Nation on 5% (down one), the United Australia Party on 3% (up one) and independents on 9% (up one). Resolve Strategic doesn’t publish its own two-party numbers, but a fun new tool from Armarium Interreta allows you to punch in primary vote numbers and get a two-party result based on preference flows from the May election, which suggests a Labor lead of about 58-42.
Anthony Albanese’s combined very good and good rating is 60% (steady) compared with 25% for poor and very poor (up one), and he leads 53-18 on preferred prime minister (53-19 last time). Peter Dutton has a positive rating of 30% (up two) and a negative rating of 41% (up one). The poll also had questions on the budget and tax, the most interesting of which finds 34% supporting and 13% opposing the repeal of the stage three tax cuts, with fully 53% “undecided/neutral”, and on the Optus security breach. The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday from a sample of 1604.
Good morning Bludgers!
I was hoping we’d get a new thread for the Resolve poll. And here it is. 😀
LOL Taylormade
A key figure in the Victorian Liberal Party has sensationally resigned claiming party leadership turned a blind eye to alleged criminal behaviour.
sprocket_,
Can you put the John Black research back up here? Thanks. 🙂
And I can guarantee you it’s on the top of the pile of ‘clippings’ for the government to read today.
I reckon they dodged a bullet by not listening to the Break Your Promise Banshees.
Alleged criminality!?! In the Victorian Liberal Party!?!
Lol Taylormade.
Morning all. With the Liberal vote down 2% in the Resolve poll it is going to be a real challenge for the Murdoch press to spin the result. I’ll have a go:
“Labor continues to deceive voters as massive debt remains unpaid”, reports the Daily Rupert.
With Dutton’s popularity down from 19% to 18% it looks like his honeymoon period is over 🙂
https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/political-cost-of-tax-cut-tampering-irreversible-20221011-p5bote
Good morning Bludgers, another poll Rex will not be happy with. Yes, despite most of the media trying to prop up Dutton including Andrew Probyn on the ABC, the Albanese Government maintains its big lead.
Victorian election – how funny it would be if Andrews actually increases his majority, despite almost 3 years of the Melbourne media trying to destroy his government
These poll results shouldn’t be surprising when you think about it. The government has performed very well. And the absence of Morrison and his acolytes parading around in high viz is still a relief.
sprocket_,
In answer to John Black’s question about what Labor can do to win back the second income quartile voters? Engage in a massive Affordable and Social Housing program. I saw a news segment on Channel 9 last night where one of those type of families was interviewed. Their biggest complaint was not having a stable roof over their heads for their young family. They were sick of moving from rental to rental. So if Labor could just figure out a way to break the nexus between property investors buying multiple homes to rent and get them into the hands of young couples and families instead, then I think that would go a long way to making these people vote Labor again.
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Alleged criminality!?! In the Victorian Liberal Party!?!
Lol Taylormade.
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Seems to be far worst than any accusations against Labor and Andrews
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/liberals-top-lawyer-quits-over-party-s-legally-risky-decisions-20221011-p5bowh.html
The resignation will add to the instability of Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s election team just weeks before the state election.
“On prior occasions I have raised with you concerns regarding the operations of the Secretariat [Liberal Party head office], some of which have resulted in regulatory investigations that may be considered criminal in nature,” Lloyd wrote to Victorian Liberal Party president Greg Mirabella on Monday evening in an email obtained by The Age.
Five party sources from the parliamentary and organisational wings of the party, speaking anonymously to detail legally sensitive matters, said Lloyd was furious that the party’s top brass had proceeded with legally risky decisions she had either advised could be illegal or not been consulted about.
The sources said two of the actions Lloyd raised concerns about were potential donation law breaches stemming from a donations drive badged as “Ditch Dan”, which raised more than $500,000 for the Liberals in late August, and the apparently illegal mailing out of postal vote applications.
Evan @ #NaN Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 – 7:10 am
Yep, the Baying Banshees of Break Your Promise Labor! will not be happy. 😀
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Voters have swung toward Labor to back its handling of more than a dozen major policy challenges ahead of the October 25 budget, with 36 per cent naming the party as best to handle the economy compared to 30 per cent who prefer the Coalition. Writing about the latest RPM data, David Crowe tells us that the support has lifted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Labor to a strong lead in the electorate across issues ranging from the nation’s finances to foreign affairs and climate change, while the Coalition leads on national security by a fraction of a percentage point.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-leads-coalition-on-climate-change-economy-new-rpm-data-shows-20221010-p5booh.html
Shane Wright reports that, before heading to Washington on Tuesday night for the autumn meeting of the IMF, Jim Chalmers says he is prepared to make last-minute changes to this month’s budget to avoid inflicting financial pain on the country as the International Monetary Fund warns the global economy is on the cusp of a recession.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chalmers-warns-we-won-t-be-immune-as-world-teeters-on-brink-of-recession-20221011-p5bovq.html
The heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank warned of a rising risk of a global recession as advanced economies slow and faster inflation forces the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates, adding to the debt pressures on developing nations. The IMF calculates that about one-third of the world economy will have at least two consecutive quarters of contraction this year and next, and that the lost output through 2026 will be $US4 trillion ($6.4 trillion).
https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/6-4-trillion-hole-imf-world-bank-warn-of-global-recession-20221011-p5boql.html
Chris Richardson hopes budget night will be filled with broken promises.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-hope-budget-night-will-be-filled-with-broken-promises-20221010-p5bon2.html
John Lord hopes for a budget that will marry economics with the common good.
https://theaimn.com/a-budget-that-will-marry-economics-with-the-common-good/
The dilemma over stage e tax cuts is entirely of Labor’s creation. Its flirtation over the past week with amending the tax cuts and breaking its election promise only exposes the depth of Labor’s confusion. Labor cannot take political ownership of the tax cuts but cannot amend the tax cuts in its first budget. This is Labor’s self-created absurdity, says Paul Kelly.
https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/imperative-for-tax-reform-is-here-will-pm-meet-it/news-story/1e013e881d73cd32771d0f6278fb8be8
Paul Bongiorno writes that the stage-three tax cuts spark a bigger question about trust in government. He says, “Albanese is right not to rush to break his promise, but he would be wrong not to re-evaluate it in light of what happens in the months ahead.”
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/10/11/paul-bongiorno-tax-cuts-trust/
Michael Pascoe reckons the Coalition still hasn’t learned its integrity lesson.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/10/12/michael-pascoe-coalition-integrity-lesson/
The AFR says that, while there was agreement at The Australian Financial Review Energy & Climate Summit that the energy transition has more momentum than ever, it is clear that households will pay through the nose for the Coalition government’s decade of policy bungling.
https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/heavy-costs-of-botched-energy-transition-20221011-p5both
How hard the big baseline buffers of large emitters are squeezed will be the symbolic and substantive signal of the government’s climate ambition says one of the designers of Australia’s scrapped carbon tax, explains former head of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Blair Comley.
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/safeguard-mechanism-needs-teeth-to-take-bite-out-of-emissions-20221010-p5boos
In the year since the government announced the AUKUS arrangements – especially that they involved Australia’s acquisition of a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines – the relevant communications on this centrepiece have veered from the boastful to the oracular. Ostensibly, they emanate from the inner sanctums of Defence and National Security, or those recently within them and should, therefore, be authoritative, coherent, and unambiguous, but they aren’t. Indeed, what is to hand is an unedifying spectacle of the pursuit of something unfeasible and internally contradicted which defies reconciliation, laments Michael McKinley.
https://johnmenadue.com/the-incoherent-narrative-of-the-aukus-nuclear-powered-attack-submarines-ssns/
Paul Sakkal reports that the Victorian Liberal Party’s in-house lawyer has resigned, sending a damning email saying she could no longer work with the party’s campaign leadership team, who she accused of ignoring her legal advice that some of their decisions may have broken the law.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/liberals-top-lawyer-quits-over-party-s-legally-risky-decisions-20221011-p5bowh.html
“After eight years of Andrews, are Victorians sick of the bloke?”, asks Shaun Carney.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/after-eight-years-of-andrews-are-victorians-sick-of-the-bloke-20221011-p5boxm.html
Almost 200,000 people who spent years fighting to clear welfare debts they didn’t owe will have any active Centrelink investigations wiped. The federal government will scrap the cases of robo-debt victims still under review, with any potential debt no longer being pursued.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/robo-debt-cases-to-be-dropped-for-nearly-200-000-australians-20221012-p5bp14.html
Geoff Chambers reports that former Victorian Supreme Court judge Paul Coghlan – who locked-up notorious gang bosses, serial killers and paedophiles in a 53-year legal career – has joined the Office of the Special Investigator, which is “progressing a significant number of investigations” into alleged war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/war-crimes-probe-loads-up-with-top-guns/news-story/22ce1322d041d63fca3b858e8080b265
According to Mike Foley and Nick Toscano, Australia’s large gas producers face price caps or export limits as pressure mounts on the federal government to fulfil its election promise to bring down energy costs and boost manufacturing, after Treasurer Jim Chalmers ruled out any new taxes or power bill subsidies.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chalm-offensive-treasurer-puts-gas-companies-on-notice-over-energy-prices-20221011-p5bow1.html
James Massola writes that Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has declared “I will not be campaigning No” in the upcoming referendum over constitutional recognition and a Voice to Parliament for Indigenous Australians. And The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age can reveal Thorpe tweeted Senator Pauline Hanson asking for help to stop constitutional change in March 2017, three years before the Victorian senator entered federal parliament.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-will-not-be-campaigning-no-thorpe-rejects-campaign-against-the-voice-20221011-p5bove.html
A Michael West Media investigation revealed that FinTech companies in Australia are scraping and selling users’ sensitive banking data. The problem is more widespread than that, reports Callum Foote. Cybercrimes are at record levels. And banks are now no longer automatically repaying customers who have been defrauded. It’s time to read the fine print because there is another way that customers are being screwed over.
https://michaelwest.com.au/scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-in-assault-on-privacy/
David Stephens describes the small but significant metaphorical explosions have reverberated recently around the building that some Australians know as our most sacred site, the Australian War Memorial.
https://johnmenadue.com/startling-events-at-the-australian-war-memorial/
Key upper house crossbench MPs will support a “prompt” inquiry into Dominic Perrottet’s stamp duty reforms in a bid to allow a parliamentary vote before the election.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/crossbench-mps-back-a-short-sharp-inquiry-into-perrottet-s-stamp-duty-reforms-20221011-p5boyq.html
Anthony Whealy and Max Douglass write that, when it comes to money and politics, Australia is now an electoral straggler at the federal level. It has fallen significantly behind the states and other comparable advanced democracies. It maintains no caps on donations, an unsophisticated and ungainly public funding system, and, unlike many of the states and both territories, no caps on electoral expenditure.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2022/oct/11/political-spending-has-become-an-arms-race-in-australia-we-should-cap-it-for-democracys-sake
In a well-written contribution, Dr Samantha Saling tells us why ‘invisible’ GPs are quitting in droves. Shae does not paint a pretty picture!
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/why-invisible-gps-are-quitting-in-droves-20221010-p5bonv.html
To hold on to even a shred of authority, AGL chair Patricia McKenzie had little choice but to fight tech billionaire Michael Cannon-Brookes over the composition of the power giant’s board, writes Elizabeth Knight.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/agl-chairman-fires-up-to-avoid-becoming-cannon-brookes-fodder-20221011-p5bowz.html
Campaigners are calling on the federal government to stop Santos from releasing untreated coal seam gas wastewater into a Queensland river that provides critical habitat to two species of threatened “bum-breathing” turtles. The oil and gas company has approval to dig an additional 6,100 gas wells near Roma, in the state’s south west.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/12/government-urged-to-reject-plan-to-release-csg-wastewater-near-bum-breathing-turtles-queensland-habitat
After years of Coalition cruelty toward asylum seekers, it’s time for Australia to be progressive and show overdue compassion, writes Jane Salmon.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/hey-albo-it-is-time-to-fly-beyond-l-nps-immigration-mistakes,16852
Putin has mastered the art of atrocity, but it won’t win him this war, declares Mick Ryan.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/putin-has-mastered-the-art-of-atrocity-but-it-won-t-win-him-this-war-20221010-p5bop6.html
Jenna Price lets fly at the danger to pedestrians no one cares about.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-danger-to-pedestrians-no-one-cares-about-20221010-p5bop1.html
A spacecraft that ploughed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of kilometres away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said yesterday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes but NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the impact altered the asteroid’s orbit by about 32 minutes.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/nasa-asteroid-strike-successful-results-in-big-nudge-leaving-long-tail-of-debris-20221012-p5bp1d.html
Commanding no loyalty, with no winning moves, Liz Truss is facing her endgame, says Henry Hill.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/10/liz-truss-loyalty-conservative-leader-endgame
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From the US
So Thorpe has tried to torpedo the Voice before. By appealing to Pauline Hanson FFS!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-will-not-be-campaigning-no-thorpe-rejects-campaign-against-the-voice-20221011-p5bove.html
The internet is forever, ‘fess.
Though it looks like Lidia Thorpe has been pulled into line by The Greens’ leadership according to a statement she released yesterday.
C@t, the key takeaway from those income tier swings is that the higher rungs have swung away from the LNP.
Labor picks up the 2PP, even if not the primaries, and those mid income seats like Reid and Bennelong benefit by falling into the Labor column. Banks has to be next, and even the shaky Blue Wall in the north/northwest of Sydney and the Shire must have Liberal strategists worried.
‘Ballots have been stuffed’: voting scandal rocks Alaska’s fat bear contest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/alaska-fat-bear-week-voting-scandal
I think I read somewhere that the Victorian Liberals have been using dodgy definitions of what a donation is and is not to get around the rules wrt donations so they can continue to take, especially large amounts of money, in. Trust the Liberals to not play by the rules.
That John Black article is hilarious …
In other words, they cherry-picked the data, not just carefully selecting the source, but also then deleting those bits that didn’t support the conclusion they wanted.
No wonder C@t approves 🙁
Thanks BK. The Rowe cartoon is confusing. Is Rowe suggesting that Chalmers will be the Ambassador to the US? How bizarre.
C@t:
I don’t trust anything Thorpe says. Like most Greens you have to watch what she does as indication of her intentions rather than what she says.
She might now be saying she won’t campaign against the referendum, but that is likely to change as the date moves closer.
sprocket_,
Daryl Melham type required for Banks! But we have to look for local heroes who personify the electorate. Like our candidate for Robertson, a doctor who drove his white BMW 4WD around the electorate to campaign. Whose dad was a local successful small businessman. 🙂
Australia is becoming a Value Added and Professional Business country. Who believes in Social Democracy and supporting those who are less well-off through no fault of their own and if they have made mistakes then we help them put things right again. That’s who we are and our parliament should reflect that.
We’ve still got to get back the 2nd Income quartile demographic though as well.
not good for victorian liberals daniel andrews like qld in 2001 can run on integrity as he cleaned up labor from somyurek is the state director sam mcqueston still living in tasmania good news about albanese poling duttons stratigy does not seem to be working
Chalmer’s is off to the US for the IMF annual meeting.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into a small asteroid called Dimorphos on Sept. 26. DART shortened Dimorphos’ nearly 12-hour orbit by a whopping 32 minutes, NASA officials announced during a news conference on Monday.
Jaeger:
I see. Thanks!
C@tmommasays:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:04 am
Good morning Bludgers!
I was hoping we’d get a new thread for the Resolve poll. And here it is.
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How’s the sculpting going. Finished anything yet ?
“which suggests a Labor lead of about 58-42.”….
Dutton to his troops: “It’s the honeymoon effect, don’t panic, it’s just the honeymoon effect….”
“Anthony Albanese’s combined very good and good rating is 60% (steady) compared with 25% for poor and very poor (up one), and he leads 53-18 on preferred prime minister (53-19 last time). “…
… and some idiots on the Progressive side of politics want him to become a LIAR?
No wonder some parties never manage to break the 14% glass ceiling… The Voters always see what those parties try to hide….
Imagine how well He’d be doing if he cooked Curries…
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UK Cartoons:
Martin Rowson on the pitfalls that lie ahead for #LizTruss
Patrick Blower on #KwasiKwarteng #LizTruss #Kamikwasi #Blundertruss #ToryCuts #Austerity #ToryChaos #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis
Matt on #LizTruss #Kamikwasi #Blundertruss #ToryCuts #Austerity #ToryChaos #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis
Dave Brown’s #KwasiKwarteng #LizTruss #Kamikwasi #Blundertruss #ToryCuts #Austerity #ToryChaos #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis
ChristianAdans on #kwasibudget #ToryChaos
Martyn Turner on #PutinWarCriminal #CrimeanBridge #Putin
@Aaron that’s if anything that Spud has done or said so far could pass as strategy. They are just shooting from the hip cluelessly without aim.
https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/10/12/resolve-strategic-labor-39-coalition-30-greens-12-open-thread/#comment-3992196
Values, promises, words, let’s see the budget, actions … a change from photo-ops without follow ups
Thank you, BK and AZ
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‘VCT Et3e says:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 8:23 am
https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/10/12/resolve-strategic-labor-39-coalition-30-greens-12-open-thread/#comment-3992196
Values, promises, words, let’s see the budget, actions … a change from photo-ops without follow ups’
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I was thinking the same thing, framed as ‘Having delivered on 43%, the NACC Bill, close to two dozen decisions favouring women, and having stuck to S3, this budget will deliver the first suite of losers. It will be interesting to see the polling outcome.’
@fess and C@t:
As fun as it is to take a ticket and line up to give Lydia Thorpe a whack, doesn’t that 2017 tweet to Hanson relate to the idea the Turnbull Liberals were running up the flagpole at the time of taking the Statement from the Heart and watering it down to insert some vanilla, bland and meaningless motherhood statement in the preamble to the Constitution?
BREAKING:
Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, says that the emergency intervention in the bond markets WILL come to an end on Friday
He tells pension funds, which are heavily invested in UK debt: ‘You’ve only got three days left now. You’ve got to get this done’
The unravelling of UK gilts poses a global Risk. There are trillions of $ in derivatives contracts that are built upon a foundation of Gilt collateral. The combo of FX change and Interest rate change has a profound systemic risk and will cascade.
‘Confessions says:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:29 am
C@t:
I don’t trust anything Thorpe says. Like most Greens you have to watch what she does as indication of her intentions rather than what she says.
She might now be saying she won’t campaign against the referendum, but that is likely to change as the date moves closer.’
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I did find it rather funny that Thorpe seems to have had the same sort of approach to Hanson that she does for Bandt.
That said, the invisible signs are that Bandt is managing Thorpe rather more closely than previously.
I predict that the Greens will shortly declare victory over Labor in that they will have forced Labor to support the Voice, Makarrata and Treaty as well as forcing Federal Labor to implement ALL* the reccos of the RRCIADIC as well as forcing Labor to once again commit to the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
*Many of which are the purview of the states and territories, but hey.
Thanks again, BK & AZ.
A-E
Yep. There are three strands to this. The first is the policy. The second is political bedfellows. The third is that Anangu and Hanson seem to have much the same attitude to engagement with Thorpe. That said, none of the three strands relate to Thorpe’s stint as the Greens’ Spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs and Aboriginal Health.
One thing I will give the Greens politicians a tick for: they managed to keep internal the large number of Greens’ who were experiencing confusion and anger about what their leaders were up to with respect to wrecking the Statement from the Heart.
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One thing I will give the Greens politicians a tick for: they managed to keep internal the large number of Greens’ who were experiencing confusion and anger about what their leaders were up to with respect to wrecking the Statement from the Heart.
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You could say the same about Labor and S3, but then we remember that most of the members are just stacks.
Here is the wonderful lady in one of her first screen roles: Isobel Vane in “The Portrait of Dorian Gray.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OVMK8XNd44
Andrew_Earlwood @ #35 Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 – 8:28 am
The signs were there early on that Thorpe is more of a grandstanding opportunist than someone who genuinely wants to see Aboriginal recognition.
Here she is in parliament and nothing has changed except now she’s in a better position to scuttle Aboriginal recognition and the Voice. And that Aboriginal elder from Victoria knows exactly what happens when you dare to disagree with Thorpe.
I will be very surprised if she remains in the Greens partyroom for the entirety of her term. She doesn’t seem to have much of a track record for collaboration and working as a team.
The second and particularly the first income quartiles would in many cases be voting against their own economic interests. Who left them in low-paid, precarious employment in the first place? Who kicks them when they’re down and need help?
Socially conservative? Religious? Fine, be true to your principles, no one’s stopping you.
There’s surely a lot that Labor can work with there.
Confessions says:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 8:43 am
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The signs were there early on that Thorpe is more of a grandstanding opportunist than someone who genuinely wants to see Aboriginal recognition
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It is possible to be both. I have zero doubt that Thorpe wants to see vast improvements in the lot of Australian First Nations. (As I do). The double-edged sword for Indigenous activists is that they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
S777
I am proud to be a voter who votes against my personal economic interests and for the common weal.
Thank God Labor doesn’t have any grandstanding opportunists.
Scott says:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:06 am
LOL Taylormade
A key figure in the Victorian Liberal Party has sensationally resigned claiming party leadership turned a blind eye to alleged criminal behaviour.
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Not just a “key figure”, their lawyer. When your lawyer warns you that you have committed “alleged criminal behaviour” …. you need to listen. the wheels have fallen off.
Boerwar says:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 8:46 am
S777
I am proud to be a voter who votes against my personal economic interests and for the common weal.
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the louder he talked of his honour, the quicker we counted the spoons.
If I have time I will often look for the context of some of the more enigmatic cartoons in Dawn Patrol*. I was intrigued by Rupert and the dinosaur. Here is the context:
‘Rupert Murdoch spruiking the company’s achievements in “working toward a cleaner and healthier world” and “advancing the cause of equal opportunity”.‘
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/news-corp-goes-woke-on-paper-anyway-20221011-p5bow6.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed
* thank you BK