The Down Under Lounge

[Australis]

Yeah, I know. It needs to be done, but... so tired...

 

[Australis]

It seems Senator Ian McDonald is losing it. He wants to keep the MPs Gold Pass.

"It always gets an energetic response from a small section of the community — a small section who complain a lot, but never offer themselves for election to parliament because they have never had the energy, the dedication and the commitment to do the hard yards and get elected in the first place, and to then do that work for something less than $50 an hour for all hours of the day and night, often at least six days a week, often for up to 48 weeks a year, in a job where there is no privacy, no down time,” he said.

Citing previous prime ministers who'd made cuts to the gold pass scheme, from John Howard to Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, Macdonald warned that trying to pander to public sentiment didn't save their political skins.

“If you govern by what is popular instead of what is right, I fear for the future of this country,” he said.

“If we are to follow the populist approach, why bother with at all?

“Perhaps Hitler and Stalin or Idi Amin had the right idea: do not bother about a parliament and you do not have to bother about those pesky parliamentarians at all.”[\quote]

Seriously?

 

[Mr Soak]

Ian Macdonald invokes Godwin's Law. Ian Macdonald automatically loses.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It seems Senator Ian McDonald is losing it. He wants to keep the MPs Gold Pass.

He took his cranky pills.

 

[Miss Chicken]

A small plane has crashed into a shopping centre in Essendon . First reports said it was an air ambulance heading for King Island but that has been denied by the ambulance service.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...mbulance-crashed-at-dfo-near-essendon-airport

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

A small plane has crashed into a shopping centre in Essendon . First reports said it was an air ambulance heading for King Island but that has been denied by the ambulance service.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...mbulance-crashed-at-dfo-near-essendon-airport

Just wait till the nutters start on this.
Was the pilot brown?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Latest reports are that the pilot was a 60 year old and a very experience pilot. The four passengers were American golfers travelling to King Island.

Even the Reclaim Australia crowd who normally shout terrorism at a drop of a hat didn't do so this time.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Latest reports are that the pilot was a 60 year old and a very experience pilot. The four passengers were American golfers travelling to King Island.

Even the Reclaim Australia crowd who normally shout terrorism at a drop of a hat didn't do so this time.

That's who I was expecting to chime in on this......

Well well we can have a day without unreasonable fear.

 

[Marc]

abetz once again shows what an utter shit stain he is.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...-in-government-buildings-20170228-gumun6.html

Claims the rainbow flag represents a hostile nation that's declared war on Australia.

turds like him are a damn good argument for term limits

 

[Miss Chicken]

We need thousands of people to send him rainbow flags, like thousands of people sent him their job applications at one stage.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

He's not worth the postage.

 

[Mr Soak]

Go home, Abetz. You're an embarrassment to reality.

 

[Australis]

... and probably drunk again.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

And Christensen has left the Liberals. Wonder who next will jump the ship?

And good grief Abetz sees gays as enemy combatants. That's just all kinds of messed up.

 

[Australis]

I think you'll find he's in the Nats and he's quit his position as Chief Whip so he can "better represent my electorate".

Abetz is just an idiot. Sadly an idiot with influence.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think you'll find he's in the Nats and he's quit his position as Chief Whip so he can "better represent my electorate".

Abetz is just an idiot. Sadly an idiot with influence.

But Abetz FFS.... Calling lgbt people enemy combatants..... What will he want them labeled seditious people next? Terrorists?

 

[Miss Chicken]

It seems that back in 2004 some gay guy went to some uninhabited island in the Coral Sea, planted a rainbow flag, declared an independent nation for gays and declared war on Australia.

Eric Abetz seems to have taken the whole thing seriously.

I have a longing to watch the old movie 'The Mouse That Roared' again.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It seems that back in 2004 some gay guy went to some uninhabited island in the Coral Sea, planted a rainbow flag, declared an independent nation for gays and declared war on Australia.

Eric Abetz seems to have taken the whole thing seriously.

I have a longing to watch the old movie 'The Mouse That Roared' again.

Oh I love that movie....... Thank you now you have me wanting to watch it too..

Abetz is a fucking idiot

 

[Mr Soak]

Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands.

So? It's a bullshit thing for a politician to get angsty over.