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17th September 2015, 01:02 AM | #41 |
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A new leader. For the Liberal Party, I mean. Same thread, different title. We'll all still be whinging about how the government is screwing people over. Turnbull has already announced that he won't be changing Liberal Party policy on climate change, refugees or gay marriage. Those are the only three issues I really care about anyway.
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17th September 2015, 02:11 AM | #47 |
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17th September 2015, 02:18 AM | #48 |
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This is how the Australian leadership spill was explained in animated form on Taiwanese TV
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...879221845&_rdr |
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It's a sign that the government is not making improvements to the existing legislation.
New legislation also includes updates to existing legislation. Both State and Federal Liberal parties have campaigned on legislative reform in the form of reducing red tape. Not to mention the fact that we need new legislation dealing with the Internet, such as updated privacy, property and taxation laws that did not predict the emergence of social media, peer-to-peer networks and e-Commerce. Oh and emergent economic problems such as climate change, foreign ownership of agricultural land, energy, and the decline of the manufacturing sector. So there were plenty of things that Tony's cabinet could have fixed but being typical conservatives they failed to make progress. |
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17th September 2015, 05:03 AM | #51 |
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So apparently the libs have had massive math fail on the free trade agreements.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how...14-gjlv06.html <sigh> |
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A good take on the spill:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-it...18-gjq1d0.html Note the "Credlin special". Perhaps this is one of those "bitter character assassinations" he compained about, but it rings true to me. |
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18th September 2015, 08:29 AM | #57 |
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You must be reading-impaired.
I did not say--and did not imply--that governments always make good laws. Governments have plenty of reason to enact a large amount of new legislation; our current laws are heavily flawed or outdated in may respects. It cannot possibly be a good thing for a government to pass relatively little legislation, because it means that they are either satisfied with the status quo or they are too incompetent to make improvements. |
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Amendments and updates of existing legislation are not evidence that governments make improvements to existing legislation. Your presumption that all amendments to legislation are improvements (or good laws) is not justified.
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it's funny, left wingers like myself could see themselves voting for liberals with him in charge..... but.....a lot of serious liberal voters are hoping mad.
Speaking personally Abbott made my skin crawl... |
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In post #54.
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Hastie wins Canning by-election
As expected, turfing Tony Abbott out and replacing him Malcolm Turnbull has proved to be a godsend for Andrew Hastie who was previously expected to win the Canning by-election only by a narrow margin (if at all). The expected swing of 10% has been reduced to less than 7% and given him a comfortable victory.
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And Abetz is out, and Hockey is out, and we at last have a Minister for Women who is *gasp* a woman!
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Turnbull is a garden-variety Tory who is centrist on more issues than the Abbott types. If the honeymoon period lasts into next year we could get a March election.
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A June election would be ideal. That way the new Senators would take up their jobs almost immediately instead of waiting for a year.
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Abbott will go quietly and won't be back stabbing anyone.....
Did you get that promise in writing? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-2...-spill/6793608
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Early election as soon as this change to Senate voting passes.
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I'm not so sure about that. From the articles I have read about this, it appears that Labor fears that voting reform in the Senate would be more advantageous to the Liberals than Labor.
I can't see it myself but presumably their numbers people have been all over it. |
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