Should Abbott step down?

[mantra]

Neither of the major parties are up to the task and until such time as we embrace an emerging party that actually listens to its constituents and has the best interests of the country and its people at heart, nothing is going to change.

Nothing will change either. Neither of the major parties are going to give up their opportunity for the top job to some little independent or minor party. Any party or person with too much ambition is usually destroyed by propaganda or some other little scheme concocted by Labor or Liberal.

I have never liked Malcolm Turnbull but perhaps he could be the balance between the Libs and the ALP. The Rudd/Gillard government was a shambles. Clive has only ever been there for his own self interests and I won't even touch on the Greens.

Turnbull is probably the best out of a bad lot simply because he's got the experience and is generally moderate in his political stance.

[IQS.RLOW]

Turnbulls simply ALP lire...exactly like Abbott.

The pendulum needs to swing back towards the right massively if the economy and society isn't going to end up crawling up its own arse and chewing through its own bowels.

The left has done so much damage to this country, its a travesty. Now we have an entire voting constituency relying on govt handouts that every party with a view to form govt has to pander to at the expense of the minority that pay the income to support the bludger set which includes every single fucking dickhead with his handout from the dole to university students to pensioners.

The country is fucked because of massive entitlement issues propagated by the left.

I doubt we will recover.

[Rorschach]

Never bluffed my way into anything. Maybe you are older than me there were always recruitment agencies in my day. Oh and the SMH classifieds.

And maybe you're older than me. I had left home and was working at 16 and didn't have the privilege of having mummy and daddy support me until I hit 35. I avoided agencies simply because so many of them conned you in there on the promise of a particular job, but ended up sending you somewhere else or into temping. There's nothing wrong with bluffing your way into a job if you think you're capable of doing it. Confident people, whether they're acting or not, usually gets the job over someone who doesn't have confidence.

Ah no, it was blathering Nazi nonsense, even you can do better than that. Found someone else to hate have we?

It was an analogy - no hate involved. Morrison is doing his job and some people would say he's doing it well, but it doesn't mean that he would be suitable as a PM.

My Mummy and Daddy were poor and didn't support me till I was 35 either dipstick.
If you want to bluff or lie your way into a job fine, I was brought up with better morals.
As for your hate filled Nazi nonesense... puhlease... we know what it is.

[mantra]

My Mummy and Daddy were poor and didn't support me till I was 35 either dipstick.
If you want to bluff or lie your way into a job fine, I was brought up with better morals.
As for your hate filled Nazi nonesense... puhlease... we know what it is.

A lot of younger people live with their parents because it's financially comfortable. There isn't the same urgency to find work, because not only do they have the dole to fall back on, they've got their parents to support them as well. There is nothing immoral about talking yourself up in a job interview, especially if you want and need that particular job.

As far as your prolific use of the word hate - keep your personal opinion of me to yourself. I don't mind Morrison that much, but he's a hard man and tends to treat humans as detritus.

[Rorschach]

As far as your prolific use of the word hate - keep your personal opinion of me to yourself. I don't mind Morrison that much, but he's a hard man and tends to treat humans as detritus.

Really then why do you post hateful nonsense like this bullshit then.
Why refer to him as a Nazi...

[5.56 NATO]

As far as your prolific use of the word hate - keep your personal opinion of me to yourself. I don't mind Morrison that much, but he's a hard man and tends to treat humans as detritus.

Really then why do you post hateful nonsense like this bullshit then.
Why refer to him as a Nazi...

Because it is an A grade , Morrison has shown himself to be an exemplary politician and a thoroughly decent human being who has done a lot for this country in a very short space of time. Manta obviously got off on the sight of boongas drowning at sea and effectively staging a non military invasion of Australia

[Dame Pansi]

No, he shouldn't step down, he should call a DD like he said he would. He's never going to get his abortion of a budget passed so it's DD time.

[Neferti]

Read about what a Double Dissolution means.

A double dissolution occurs when both the Senate and the House of Representatives are shut down (dissolved), in order for a federal election to take place. A double dissolution election is different to regular elections, when only half the Senate seats are contested. In a double dissolution, the Governor-General dissolves both the Senate and the House of Representatives at the same time, meaning every seat in both chambers is contested. This is the only time that all senators stand for election at the same time (see Federal Elections).

A double dissolution can only happen when there is a deadlock between the two houses of Parliament; it usually occurs at the request of the Prime Minister.

Procedure

Section 57 of the Australian Constitution details the conditions for a double dissolution:

The House of Representatives passes a bill and sends it to the Senate.
The Senate rejects or fails to pass the bill, or passes it with amendments to which the House will not agree.
Three months pass from the time the Senate disagrees with the bill.
The House of Representatives passes the same bill and sends it to the Senate again.
The Senate again rejects or fails to pass the bill, or passes the same bill with amendments to which the House will not agree.

More than one bill may act as a trigger for a double dissolution.

Once these conditions (called triggers) have been met, the Prime Minister may recommend to the Governor-General that a double dissolution of the Parliament take place. A federal election then follows for all members of the House of Representatives and all senators.

A double dissolution cannot take place within six months of the end of a three-year term of the House of Representatives.

Read more here: http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-she ... ution.html

[mellie]

Rome wasn't built in a day, at least give Abbott a chance to repair the damage done by a dysfunctional Labor government.


The disaffected rowdy left called from their peanut gallery for Howard to resign shortly after he was first elected also, it's always the same crowd.



I think Abbotts doing fine.

[mellie]

See, the thing is, both Rudd and Gillard cared more about what they were seen wearing and what was being said about them personally by the press than they did their jobs and country, both being quite amateurish, conceited and superficial.
Both had fragile egos.

Gillard has confessed her brutal war with Kevin Rudd was a show about nothing, a political circus “all about ego and personalities”.

- Daily Telegraph

However Abbott doesn't strike me as being the sort of PM nor clown who cares much for tabloid gossip and side-shows,...rather appears to be the type of person who will just quietly go about getting on with the job and let the outcomes of his term in office speak for themselves when the time comes.

And they will.