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Basically, if none of the conservative parties reunited, they'd be stuffed.

Also heard today that some years ago Barnaby voted against the vaccination that prevents cervical cancer because it meant girls could be more 'promiscuous'. WTF?
 
Basically, if none of the conservative parties reunited, they'd be stuffed.

Also heard today that some years ago Barnaby voted against the vaccination that prevents cervical cancer because it meant girls could be more 'promiscuous'. WTF?

Conservative logic there......
 
So what do our resident Aussies think of the current government? I'd love to hear what you have to say about Turnbull and Co.

The worst Government in living memory and honestly it's appalling they're still hovering between 46-48 in the polls while under Gillard, Labor dropped to 38. It shows the insane double standard Australia holds Labor and the Greens to compared to the Liberals. Honestly the fact in 2018, that Pink Batts became a talking point AGAIN shows how absurd this country treats Labor policy to Liberal policy. Pink Batts scheme was in the end massively successful as well and actually brought regulation to the industry, but hear the media talk about the reality of the NBN or the people dying on the WftD scheme? nope.

What are your thoughts on Barnaby Joyce?
The Nationals are the biggest political scam artists in the country and Joyce perfectly represents that.
 
If you haven't watched it, you really should see Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell. It is on fire! Very gunny, abd absolutely skewering both sides of politics. It's up on ABC iView, you should really watch it.
 
How so though?

They claim to be a rural, pro-farmer party but they're in fact anything but.

The Nationals fight against Environment and Climate Change action severely damages farmers who have to deal with worse water supply, erosion, harsher climate and they constantly vote with the liberals in cutting support and welfare not only to Australians, but Rural areas which have the highest suicide and unemployment rates.
Lets not ever forget the NBN sabotage that has basically permanently relegated Rural Australia to a global backwater that will always have worse Internet than Developing Nations.
The Nationals are essentially a fake party designed to just funnel rural votes to the Liberals.

The Greens have far better pro-Farmer policies, so does Katter's Australia party.
 
They claim to be a rural, pro-farmer party but they're in fact anything but.

The Nationals fight against Environment and Climate Change action severely damages farmers who have to deal with worse water supply, erosion, harsher climate and they constantly vote with the liberals in cutting support and welfare not only to Australians, but Rural areas which have the highest suicide and unemployment rates.
Lets not ever forget the NBN sabotage that has basically permanently relegated Rural Australia to a global backwater that will always have worse Internet than Developing Nations.
The Nationals are essentially a fake party designed to just funnel rural votes to the Liberals.

The Greens have far better pro-Farmer policies, so does Katter's Australia party.

Oh wow so the Nationals really couldn't give a damn about Farmers and rural people. Check
 
Barnaby resigned as deputy PM.

More accurately, he'll step down from the leadership at Monday's party room meeting. Still stuck with him on the back bench, though.
 
Barnaby resigned as deputy PM.

More accurately, he'll step down from the leadership at Monday's party room meeting. Still stuck with him on the back bench, though.


And there you go. What goes on in people's bedrooms affects how they perform as politicians.

It would be nice if one's private lives didn't affect their ability to perform in office. But that's idealistic isn't it?
 
Barnaby resigned as deputy PM.

More accurately, he'll step down from the leadership at Monday's party room meeting. Still stuck with him on the back bench, though.

Good riddance.

Next steep will be he leaves parliament at the next election either jumping or loosing pre-selection.
 
And there you go. What goes on in people's bedrooms affects how they perform as politicians.

It would be nice if one's private lives didn't affect their ability to perform in office. But that's idealistic isn't it?

It is not about his behaviour in the bedroom but instead is about his hypocrisy and his perceived nepotism. Plenty of politicians have had affairs while in office without them having to resign. However none of those politicians made derogative remarks about others’ morality as Joyce did about gays and teenage girls.
 
It is not about his behaviour in the bedroom but instead is about his hypocrisy and his perceived nepotism. Plenty of politicians have had affairs while in office without them having to resign. However none of those politicians made derogative remarks about others’ morality as Joyce did about gays and teenage girls.

Yeah he has done that..... Oh well. He's going to sit at the back now with Abbott.
 
It is not about his behaviour in the bedroom but instead is about his hypocrisy and his perceived nepotism. Plenty of politicians have had affairs while in office without them having to resign. However none of those politicians made derogative remarks about others’ morality as Joyce did about gays and teenage girls.

but it's not the just the hypocrisy - he's done a good job on rorting the system (getting her cushy well paying jobs, tax payer funded trips where get to spent time with her etc)

As put elsehwere, it's not the rooting, it's the rorting.
 
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