Three items of electoral relevance to emerge amidst the New Year news and polling drought:
• Paul Sakkal of The Age reports Stephanie Hunt, corporate lawyer and former legal adviser to Julie Bishop and Marise Payne, will seek Liberal preselection for Goldstein, which Tim Wilson hopes to recover after losing to independent Zoe Daniel in 2022. Wilson remains the front-runner, in the estimation of a further report in The Age today.
• Lydia Lynch of The Australian reports Margie Nightingale, former teacher and policy adviser to Treasurer Cameron Dick, is the front-runner to succeed Annastacia Palaszczuk in her seat of Inala, the by-election for which is “tipped to be held in March”. Palaszczuk’s former deputy chief-of-staff, Jon Persley, had long been mentioned as her likely successor, but he has withdrawn from contention, saying the party’s gender quota rules played a “big factor” in the decision.
• Sue Bailey of the Sunday Tasmanian reports that veteran former Liberal Senator and conservative stalwart Eric Abetz will seek state preselection in the division of Franklin for an election due in June next year, assuming Jeremy Rockliff’s government is able to keep the show on the road that long.
Scott says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Under the leadership of Peter Dutton and David Littleproud the federal lib/nats have been in disarray
2022 federal election lib/nats 78 seats
since the 2022 federal election federal Lib/nats have lost 3 seats
liberal party seat of Aston – where Peter Dutton captain pick was the candidate
Liberal party member resigns due to the party position on the voice
National party member resigns due to the party position on the voice
And yet the incumbent ALP alternative gets less appealing by the day
I believe Ramadan coincides with Easter this year – in March, good time for a conservative culture war.
Torchbearer @ #1398 Thursday, January 11th, 2024 – 6:45 pm
Easter. “Christian (therefore Western and Aussie) values are being attacked by wokeness etc.”
Scott slaughtered a chicken yesterday, examined the entrrails and knows that Peter Dutton will be rolled on October 3 2024. He has foreseen it.
Ch 7 news near the end reported rumours that Michelle Obama might go for Presidential pre-selection due to the threat posed by Trump. Would this be a plausible scenario or just rumour mongering?
Asha says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 6:49 pm
You have me mistaken. I haven’t uttered a word of support for Bandt.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9419-federal-voting-intention-january-8-2024
Turns out ‘Australians also do not take kindly to Labor engineering a housing crisis and forcing their fellow countrymen to live in their cars and tents, by pursuing the largest immigration program in history.’
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/01/coalition-leaps-ahead-of-labor-in-first-poll-of-2024/
This is only going to get worse for Albanese and Labor – right up until the election. It’s looking more and more like a Liberal tidal wave as Australians reject Labor as an experiment that went horribly wrong. Labor looking likely to lose 15-20 seats across the country at this rate. They are only serving the business/property lobby at this point – suppressing wages and trashing Australian living standards as fast as possible.
One way or another Labor cannot and will not ever control Australia’s borders. Letting in 500k+ net migrants in the space of a year and nearly 900k in two years, straight into a housing/rental crisis and then gaslighting Australians by saying that they’ve ‘halved’ the migrant intake to ‘normal levels’ when normal is nowhere near 250k+ net per year. We can handle under 100k net migrants with the infrastructure and housing we are not building. We are not building anywhere near enough homes. The ’10 billion housing Australia super fund’ is all smoke and mirrors. It will do less than nothing to help with the housing crisis in this country. Not when you’ve got the demand taps stuck on full stream. The rental next to me had over 70 people through it and was snapped up in under a day.
Albanese and his cronies will forever be remembered as the sociopaths who in the shortest space of time smashed Australian living standards back a decade or more. All to save their precious headline GDP number that doesn’t matter a stuff if you’ve been in a per capita recession and will continue to be in one for the foreseeable future.
Until we are able to break the two party system and vote Sustainable Australia Party, we will never be able to reverse the situation Labor and to lesser extent, the Coalition, has got us into.
I mean, what Dutton is doing is red meat for the base. It’s January. Most voters aren’t paying close attention because Summer holidays. Only the more politically engaged are. So, this will rev up the base and the RW culture warriors and, if he’s lucky, might get some on the left to over-compensate in response and therefore open a debate over which side is more “in-touch” with Australian values.
Lars, your prediction of an Albo removal via challenge by Jim Chalmers mid year, followed by a 2024 early election has been bookmarked
Dutton’s boycott call on Woolworths is some crazy shit. Labor should be dining out on this all year, asking when the boycott will end, questions like that.
It wont be that popular with the 200 thousand people who work at woolworths either.
What’s next? A boycott on Bunnings for lack of Christmas cheer?
citizen @ #1404 Thursday, January 11th, 2024 – 6:49 pm
Michelle Obama has never publicly expressed any real interest in running for POTUS nor has done anything to signal such an interest. It’s an idea/rumour that makes the rounds from time to time but never seems to have any substantive meat to it. Next we’ll hear the “Hillary’s totally running again” rumour do its rounds again.
FUBAR: “They said that about Howard, Abbott, and Morrison.”
Howard became Leader of the Opposition in 1985.
The Coalition languished in opposition until 1996 …
Interesting article:
https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/sites/sciencespo.fr.ceri/files/Etude_216.pdf
Provides a lot of reasons as to why the French want to retain New Caledonia and French Polynesia, but none of them seem to relate to the local people being desperately keen for the French to stay in charge.
I’ve always strongly felt that Dutton is a proto-fascist and this boycott call is right out of that playbook:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-boycott-of-jewish-businesses
Many of the hundreds of thousands with Woolworths shares will also not be happy about this.
Lars Von Trier says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:18 pm
Scott slaughtered a chicken yesterday, examined the entrrails and knows that Peter Dutton will be rolled on October 3 2024. He has foreseen it.
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No Lars von Trier
October 14th is the date which i stated , i did outline the 3 phrases before hand
sprocket_ says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:21 pm
Lars, your prediction of an Albo removal via challenge by Jim Chalmers mid year, followed by a 2024 early election has been bookmarked
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I thought Dutton would be gone by now after Aston. Maybe I’ll strike out in 2 out of 2 sprocket. Cest la vie.
Scott says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:27 pm
Lars Von Trier says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:18 pm
Scott slaughtered a chicken yesterday, examined the entrrails and knows that Peter Dutton will be rolled on October 3 2024. He has foreseen it.
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No Lars von Trier
October 14th is the date which i stated , i did outline the 3 phrases before hand
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The phases of the moon do not lie. The Greeks and the Romans swore by it.
It seems like the majority of people enjoy continually kicking our indigenous culture in the balls and stepping on its throat.
Just change the date and we can celebrate all our resident cultures. It’s not hard.
@meher:
“ So you’re basically saying that all the woke types around the world who bang on and on about “colonialism” being the most appalling thing in human history have got it all wrong. ”
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many … many straw men were slaughtered to make that ‘point’.
Whilst accepting the basic premise that colonialism was shite … and the French were especially shite at it … the antidote to the legacy of colonialism is self determination. … It seems patently clear to me that the pro independence movements in France’s various colonial possessions have long since hit their high water marks and are rapidly receding. they are basically now a rump of intellectual boomers that have long since disconnected from the younger generations.
It is not surprising really: as French citizens they get everything that comes with that enfranchisement. Not only are these possessions highly subsided by Mother France – hence guaranteeing levels of education, health and other social services not even dreamed of in comparable post colonial communities – but most importantly, ready access to the employment and education opportunities of not just France itself, but the whole of the European Union. Millennials in Tahiti, New Caledonia, Reunion etc must be thinking that they have won one of life’s great lotteries.
So, Dutton wants to cancel Woolworths? Didn’t anyone give him a trigger warning (don’t watch the news today Pete or you might get emotional and feel hurt).
JahlinWoodicsays:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:16 pm
Scott says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Under the leadership of Peter Dutton and David Littleproud the federal lib/nats have been in disarray
2022 federal election lib/nats 78 seats
since the 2022 federal election federal Lib/nats have lost 3 seats
liberal party seat of Aston – where Peter Dutton captain pick was the candidate
Liberal party member resigns due to the party position on the voice
National party member resigns due to the party position on the voice
And yet the incumbent ALP alternative gets less appealing by the day
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Actually i doubt that you ever voted for them. So instead of becoming less appealing they have remained the same for you. That is assuming that you can vote?. As i suspect you are only PSH’s sock puppet and therefore not eligible to vote as an entity anyway.
https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/nonsequitur/s-3050096
Also good to see Woolworths get held accountable for umm… not stocking up on some Australia Day kitsch? Yeah, that’s the thing that Woolworths needs to be taken to task for.
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Will we see a Liberal-led Senate inquiry into this significant retailing transgression?
Rex Douglas says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:33 pm
“It seems like the majority of people enjoy continually kicking our indigenous culture in the balls and stepping on its throat.”
Well, that’s just fucking stupid.
Those who are unhappy with the 26 of Jan will never be happy because celebrating modern Australia will always represent the negative things that upsets them. No date will make everyone happy.
nath @ #1410 Thursday, January 11th, 2024 – 6:51 pm
Don’t you watch the TV ads with a Bunnings worker wearing a Santa hat explaining to the camera what Christmas is and what barbecues are, like we’re from Mars?
Yes Wat, but if they drop off from that high bar then bang, a boycott will be slapped on them for harbouring atheistic tendencies.
Oliver Sutton says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:23 pm
FUBAR: “They said that about Howard, Abbott, and Morrison.”
Howard became Leader of the Opposition in 1985.
The Coalition languished in opposition until 1996 …
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Until Howard lost the 1987 election – remember Asian Immigration and Incentivation anyone – then replaced by Andrew Peacock for the 1990 election loss, Hewson for the 1993 loss then a mercifully, for the LNP, brief stint by Downer as Top Dog to then Howard to win in 1996
Andrew_Earlwood says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:34 pm
“ It is not surprising really: as French citizens they get everything that comes with that enfranchisement. Not only are these possessions highly subsided by Mother France – hence guaranteeing levels of execution, health and other social services not even dreamed of in comparable post colonial communities”
Good to know.
If I said that about Australia I’d be called a racist and told there are no benefits.
I see we have a new spokesperson for Indigenous Australia, and knows what we feel and think about everything….
AE
“… levels of execution …”
surely not
bc says Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:34 pm
Obviously Dutton’s reaction to Woolworth’s actions is because of the long history of injustice and social exclusion experienced by Australians who want to purchase Australian memorabilia to display on Australia Day.
nathsays:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:27 pm
Many of the hundreds of thousands with Woolworths shares will also not be happy about this.
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Thinking that myself. TPOF would probably say fools rarely differ. Though it is a very good point. As i believe it is what they call a mum and dad share. Due to its popularity with that demographic.
“Woolworths Group is proud to have 372,000 shareholders, many of whom are everyday mum and dad investors.”
Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 6:47 pm
C@tmomma says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 6:37 pm
You think I was referring to the end of their PMships?
“I really can’t help you.”
You can’t help yourself (full stop) ya bogan.
Indeed, Fumbles, it was a Coalition of Chaos from 1983 to 1996.
If Downer was the answer, what was the question?
From Murray Watt. “Our government is focused on supermarket prices. Peter Dutton is focused on the thongs supermarkets sell.”
Will Woolworths continue to sell the Oz and the Murdoch tabloids?
Today’s DT front page at WW proclaimed WOOLIES GOES WOKE (over Oz Day).
Gee, there’s a lotta undeserved love for French colonialism on PB. Did Christine Holgate have something to do with it?
Entropy says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:36 pm
Actually i doubt that you ever voted for them. So instead of becoming less appealing they have remained the same for you. That is assuming that you can vote?. As i suspect you are only PSH’s sock puppet and therefore not eligible to vote as an entity anyway.
Incorrect. Voted Labor since being eligible to a decade or so ago. Buyers remorse on Riverton MLA Dr Jags, and Bigly. The similarly parachuted-in labor candidate for Tangney got my vote but it might’ve been different had there been any mention of the referendum during the campaign.
goll:
“Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition”
Siri, show me ‘nominal determinism’ …
goll says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:43 pm
Calling me a bogan is hilarious. The only tattoo I’ve had was by a surgeon to target his incisions and were removed in short order.
FUBAR:
“Calling me a bogan is hilarious.”
Hey, you’re besties with Gina … by your account. 🙂
Oliver Sutton says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:51 pm
OK, if bogan included cruising around in Bentleys, I can live with that.
Our daughter who was a Deli Chick (that’s what they were known as then) when studying, received some shares as an employee and she keeps them – mainly because it’s pointless selling so few.
citizensays:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:54 pm
“Woolworths Group is proud to have 372,000 shareholders, many of whom are everyday mum and dad investors.”
Our daughter who was a Deli Chick (that’s what they were known as then) when studying, received some shares as an employee and she keeps them – mainly because it’s pointless selling so few.
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They are currently $36.77 each. So you don’t need that many to be worth something now. Though it needs to be above $500 to be considered a marketable package unless you are a trading bot. They seem to be allowed to trade single shares for some reason.
“OK, if bogan included cruising around in Bentleys, I can live with that.”
Indeed it does:
“cashed up bogan
(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cashed_up_bogan
Andrew_Earlwood says:
Millennials in Tahiti, New Caledonia, Reunion etc must be thinking that they have won one of life’s great lotteries.
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I guess the Great Man was wrong when he mocked:
“Oh, yes. There are Polynesians all the way down from Aix-en-Provence. They pop out of the woodwork. They are doing Polynesian dances in the back end of the Loire Valley, in the walled city of Carcassone, in the lovely humidity of Aix-en-Provence. There are Polynesians everywhere.”
Been out all day so just catching up on the excitement – when I read above posts about the Dutton Woolworths boycott I foolishly assumed it was about cost of living or price gouging or something slightly relevant – but a boycott for not stocking cooker flags and useless Australia day tat as, it reflects the quote “woke agenda”.
Seems the culcha war continues with the first shots fired in the battle for Straya Day. No doubt Dutton, after mobilising his army of ugly Strayans during the voice referendum thinks he can count on that 66% in the next battle.
At this rate I think Dutton will out-Trump Morrison before the next election, not by wearing baseball caps and the stupid thumbs up but by cloning all the worst, divisive and reactionary parts of thr MAGA repugs.
JahlinWoodicsays:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:47 pm
Entropy says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 7:36 pm
The similarly parachuted-in labor candidate for Tangney got my vote but it might’ve been different had there been any mention of the referendum during the campaign
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So you are fairly stupid then. As the Voice referendum became Labor policy under Shorten and Albo took it to the 2022 election. It was widely publicised in the 2022 election as Labor policy too. The fact that anyone who is interested enough in politics to comment on political blog but didn’t know about one of Labor’s main policies when they voted last election. Suggest you either have very poor memory retention or you are being very dishonest about this.
Yeah, The Voice proposal was a betrayal against voters’ wishes. If only there was a way that voters could’ve directly had a say of whether or not they wanted it…