The left are still crying about their big loss ......

[Black Orchid]

Sounds more like what GetUp did spending tens of millions targeting LNP members. Shorten is somewhat blinkered. Nothing new.

[Serial Brain 9]

Sounds more like what GetUp did spending tens of millions targeting LNP members. Shorten is somewhat blinkered. Nothing new.

and not forgetting the unions tens of millions of dollars.

I don't even know what Shorten is on about.

Does anyone?

wheres the evidence of his ramblings?

Not to mention the Labor/Greens party getting a free hit every time they go on MSM - Particularly the ABC.

[The Mechanic]

What a cracker

[The Mechanic]

Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
·
May 22
Has anyone got a white jacket handy ....

Quote Tweet

Margo Kingston
@margokingston1
· May 22
I believe #ausvotes was won by fraud & that our democracy is broken - including MSM, with a few sensational exceptions. I will delete Twitter & msm politics coverage for 6 months to think about the way ahead. I realise giving up isn’t an option; for me despair is the alternative

[sprintcyclist]

Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
·
May 22
Has anyone got a white jacket handy ....

Quote Tweet

Margo Kingston
@margokingston1
· May 22
I believe #ausvotes was won by fraud & that our democracy is broken - including MSM, with a few sensational exceptions. I will delete Twitter & msm politics coverage for 6 months to think about the way ahead. I realise giving up isn’t an option; for me despair is the alternative

That gives me a warm fuzzy

[The Mechanic]

Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
·
May 22
Has anyone got a white jacket handy ....

Quote Tweet

Margo Kingston
@margokingston1
· May 22
I believe #ausvotes was won by fraud & that our democracy is broken - including MSM, with a few sensational exceptions. I will delete Twitter & msm politics coverage for 6 months to think about the way ahead. I realise giving up isn’t an option; for me despair is the alternative

That gives me a warm fuzzy

Mark Latham’s Twitter account has a lot of little gems like that ... lol

[Black Orchid]

Worth a full read.

So it is only fitting, now, to acknowledge the electorate’s wisdom. The so-called elites didn’t make it easy for them. There was precious little interrogation of wild Labor propositions, such as claims a shift to 50 per cent renewable energy would deliver reliable and cheaper electricity; that the cost of climate action was irrelevant; and that Labor’s climate formula would reduce floods, droughts, cyclones and bushfires.

The tax debate seemed to be conducted in a world of Norman Lindsay economics where $387 billion could be drawn from taxpayers, investors, retirees and companies without any individual ill-effects or economic risks.

While highly paid economic and political commentators examined this plan and asked, “Why not?”, voters looked on with more caution and asked a collective, “Why risk it?”

Let’s be frank, the political/media class tends to be like an evil inversion of the three wise monkeys — see no sense, hear no sense, speak no sense.

In the only other election voters were given a clear choice between cautious and reckless climate action they emphatically elected Tony Abbott in 2013 to axe the carbon tax. While many Liberal MPs forgot this history, the revolt over the national energy guarantee, the resultant leadership change and recalibration under Scott Morrison was enough to deliver a similar choice (and result) this time.

Working Australians cannot afford to make careless financial decisions. They work hard to provide for themselves and ensure their children may do even better, and they place a higher priority on getting ahead than indulging in ego-driven virtue signalling.

Shorten and Labor rail against the big end of town but they have fundraisers in billionaires’ mansions and their climate policies appeal to those who invest in subsidised renewable energy projects or who can afford to put solar panels on their beach house and swap their Audi for a Tesla.

Hence Labor and its activist allies did damage in Warringah and Wentworth and triggered scares in Higgins and Kooyong but were shunned in regional and suburban Australia. Hawke and Paul Keating knew all this but Labor burned this legacy in the summer of 2009 when Kevin Rudd and his young economics adviser Andrew Charlton wrote their strident global financial crisis piece for The Monthly, repudiating aspirational politics and announcing the end of “extreme capitalism” while declaring the need for social democrats “to save capitalism from itself”. This was their excuse to massively lift spending and borrowing, to embrace Wayne Swan’s redistributive agenda and to accept the inevitability of higher taxation to follow. The budget and the ALP have yet to recover.

All this has been evident for years, but while the Coalition indulged in policy and leadership shenanigans, distracting from the fundamentals, the ephemera of fortnightly opinion polls often disguised it. In this column I have ­always argued that the fundamentals are what matter to voters and, thankfully, they have proven this to be true again.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquir ... ace864c2ef

[Serial Brain 9]

Worth a full read.

So it is only fitting, now, to acknowledge the electorate’s wisdom. The so-called elites didn’t make it easy for them. There was precious little interrogation of wild Labor propositions, such as claims a shift to 50 per cent renewable energy would deliver reliable and cheaper electricity; that the cost of climate action was irrelevant; and that Labor’s climate formula would reduce floods, droughts, cyclones and bushfires.

The tax debate seemed to be conducted in a world of Norman Lindsay economics where $387 billion could be drawn from taxpayers, investors, retirees and companies without any individual ill-effects or economic risks.

While highly paid economic and political commentators examined this plan and asked, “Why not?”, voters looked on with more caution and asked a collective, “Why risk it?”

Let’s be frank, the political/media class tends to be like an evil inversion of the three wise monkeys — see no sense, hear no sense, speak no sense.

In the only other election voters were given a clear choice between cautious and reckless climate action they emphatically elected Tony Abbott in 2013 to axe the carbon tax. While many Liberal MPs forgot this history, the revolt over the national energy guarantee, the resultant leadership change and recalibration under Scott Morrison was enough to deliver a similar choice (and result) this time.

Working Australians cannot afford to make careless financial decisions. They work hard to provide for themselves and ensure their children may do even better, and they place a higher priority on getting ahead than indulging in ego-driven virtue signalling.

Shorten and Labor rail against the big end of town but they have fundraisers in billionaires’ mansions and their climate policies appeal to those who invest in subsidised renewable energy projects or who can afford to put solar panels on their beach house and swap their Audi for a Tesla.

Hence Labor and its activist allies did damage in Warringah and Wentworth and triggered scares in Higgins and Kooyong but were shunned in regional and suburban Australia. Hawke and Paul Keating knew all this but Labor burned this legacy in the summer of 2009 when Kevin Rudd and his young economics adviser Andrew Charlton wrote their strident global financial crisis piece for The Monthly, repudiating aspirational politics and announcing the end of “extreme capitalism” while declaring the need for social democrats “to save capitalism from itself”. This was their excuse to massively lift spending and borrowing, to embrace Wayne Swan’s redistributive agenda and to accept the inevitability of higher taxation to follow. The budget and the ALP have yet to recover.

All this has been evident for years, but while the Coalition indulged in policy and leadership shenanigans, distracting from the fundamentals, the ephemera of fortnightly opinion polls often disguised it. In this column I have ­always argued that the fundamentals are what matter to voters and, thankfully, they have proven this to be true again.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquir ... ace864c2ef

Nailed it!

[Serial Brain 9]

I think Sprint will enjoy this one



Check teh guy out towards the end - Possibly LEFTWINGER

[sprintcyclist]

I think Sprint will enjoy this one



Check teh guy out towards the end - Possibly LEFTWINGER

Thanks, will see it later