Australia decides 2019 debate

[Black Orchid]

I don't think either one is worth a pinch. They have both buried Pauline because they are fearful that her views on immigration mirror those of too many Australians and one has aligned himself with Palmer and the other with the loony Greens.

[Black Orchid]

The real winners of last night’s debate between Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten were the people who decided to watch something else.

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Alas, news.com.au has tasked us with following each leader’s election campaign on your behalf, so we were bunkered down at a top secret location in Channel 7’s Perth offices (the cafeteria) watching Scott and Bill trade queasy smirks for an hour.

It started promisingly, with a dramatic intro punctuated by blasts of the famous Inception horn. For a brief, glorious moment our minds wandered.

Was this hellish campaign nothing more than a bad dream, buried within a dream, buried within another dream? Would we eventually wake to a utopia in which John Howard and Bob Hawke co-ruled Australia as joint god-kings in perpetuity?

No. The horns had deceived us, we never really understood the plot of Inception anyway and the intro melted away to reveal this strange image.

Something was wrong. It was immediately obvious, and it distracted us for the whole evening.

Why were the illustrious leaders of our country perched on stools like they were about to play the world’s most overhyped game of celebrity heads?

Just like it’s hard to respect a businessman who rides a Razor scooter to work, it’s damn near impossible to respect a politician sitting on a stool.

And ever the good boy — a year 11 prefect in an adult’s body — Bill approached this debate by diligently answering each question looking down the barrel of the camera.

It was awkward. Mainly because the person he was talking to was directly next to him and he could’ve, you know, just turned to him. Even glanced.

“Mr Shorten you can speak directly to the Prime Minister … you guys are sitting next to each other, you don’t need to look directly down the barrel of the camera,” moderator Lanai Scarr told him.

“Your guys told me to look down the camera. But that’s fine,” he said.

Oh Bill, only losers do what they’re told. Go wild.

https://www.news.com.au/national/federa ... f2952a9fc3

[sprintcyclist]

I don't think either one is worth a pinch. They have both buried Pauline because they are fearful that her views on immigration mirror those of too many Australians and one has aligned himself with Palmer and the other with the loony Greens.

[Neferti]

I think Sky News has a Debate this Friday. Not sure I could be bothered watching it ... just a couple of pollies raving on.

I had an email from a friend on the Gold Coast today and she did watch The Debate. I always thought she was a conservative but we fell out over Turncoat (she liked him), then she started raving on about Adani and now she reckons that Morrison came across as arrogant last night and she says she never thought she would prefer Shorten to anyone in the LNP. She doesn't like Clive and ignores Pauline entirely.

Ah well. Politics is not worth losing friends over.