The Australian election.
Is everybody shocked but not surprised by the result, like me?
What have I been saying? They don't like Shorten. They don't believe in Labor's half baked pretend progressive policies.
People these days will vote for a genuine idiot rather than a smart phoney. It's global.
Add to this the fact that rural reactionary voters are now a block that produce the outcomes. Just like Trump and his southern cult. Queensland, any populist in a storm. Vote against their interests? Of course, like Trumpsters.
The ALP should have put Albanese in last time, a real progressive. Instead the unions and the factions put in Shorten, a pure union right winger. Well, there's the result. Now they'll replace him with a wishy washy. Back to conservative policies, fully again.
And PM Blow Jo or Slow Mo, or whatever they call him, is prattling on about faith and miracles. Wonderful. A total F-up all round.
If you give up your principles, you're finished. True of people. True of political parties. No wonder the Conservatives are singing Bob Hawke's praises since he died. They have a lot to thank him for.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.so true.....at least i think it's true. Ive been to a commiseration party and I'm pissed as fart. I've been so depressed. I will have more to say when sober
MsDemeanour
Level 8
May 19, 2019
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I really, really hoped it wouldn't turn out how it did. However it is a good reason to learn how to live without a government. Farmers gave up on politicans and councils and have been helping each-other for quite a while.
DragonDust
Level 6
May 19, 2019
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@David1955 Well to be more accurate I'd like to take this as sign to be more active rather than allowing ourselves to be helpless to our governments whims. ABC TV news is way different from their articles but people don't read. Governments can act and should, but I think more citizens need to do their part to make an educated push.
I am just glad the bookies took a hammering. About time that happened!
Geoffrey51
Level 8
May 19, 2019
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Well we can always have a Royale Commission into how Australian voters were influenced by American news, views, evangelicals, Trumpian right wing morality and of course that wannabe American when it suits him, Murdoch.
@Coffeo, @Triphid, @irascible.
FrayedBear
Level 9
May 19, 2019
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Yes, by all means a Royal Commission. I'm sure the government will be happy to call one. Or maybe not.
@Coffeo More jobs for the boys to spout hot air, listen to no one and be paid large sums of money to boondoggle round the world.
Not a snowball's chance in a Bushfire of that ever happening in our life-times I'm afraid simply because the Libs-Nats are just puppets of the likes of Murdoch (Turdoch) and the Seppo ( Yank) fiddling with everyone's government systems.
And under Shorten there was very little hope that the Election would swing in Labor's favour BUT at least there was a modicum of good came out if, A) Tony, the Rabid Rabbitt, Abbott got the Royal Order of the D.C.M. (Don't Come Monday) at last, and b) Shorten has quit and it looks very much like we will get either Albo or Plibisek ( can't quite remember how her name is spelt btw) as the New Leader, I think BOTH have them have the things Shorten seemed somewhat bereft of, i.e. Balls, imho.
Royal Commissions are but therapy for Government. Terms of reference are set to bring about sanitised outcomes. And any positive recommendations are rarely complied with.
@Dooley Sad isn't it? More jobs for the boys.
@FrayedBear Yep public is placated and the silks get the cream.
@Dooley Got to feed those cocaine habits and sexual perversions, you reckon?
Certainly shocked and, admittedly, a little surprised. Also horrified at the gullibility, stupidity, and selfishness of so many Australians.
Coffeo
Level 8
May 18, 2019
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I am old enough to have been around in 1975. This is just as disappointing. We will now see the Christians mount an attack on the same sex marriage result under the guise of freedom of religion. To early to see what the senate will be like. It saved us from the worst excesses of Abbot and Hockey but we may not be so lucky this time around. I am appalled.