Josh Frydenberg. Out of his depth.

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Monique Ryan has done more than any Liberal member could have done.

The teals have been great in my opinion - especially compared to the sooky la la’s they replaced.

yep! i’ve taken an interest in the activities of most teals and monique has been the standout along with pocock as an independent.

she’d be a major loss to parliament as well as the body politic should she suffer due to the change of boundaries.
 
Monique Ryan has done more than any Liberal member could have done.

The teals have been great in my opinion - especially compared to the sooky la la’s they replaced.
Of course! Just remind me, what has she done for her constituents in Kooyong?
 

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Of course! Just remind me, what has she done for her constituents in Kooyong?
Let’s start with general competence.

I would argue that the teals have done a reasonable job to keep the government in line. They have pushed back as much as they can noting that Labor does not actually need them in the lower house.
 
Let’s start with general competence.

I would argue that the teals have done a reasonable job to keep the government in line. They have pushed back as much as they can noting that Labor does not actually need them in the lower house.
That's fine, but she represents the people of the Kooyong electorate. I will repeat, what has she done for them so far? They will be the ones deciding if she gets voted back in.
 
That's fine, but she represents the people of the Kooyong electorate. I will repeat, what has she done for them so far? They will be the ones deciding if she gets voted back in.
Representing the views of your electorate doesn't mean just building new carparks or upgrading sporting facilities every 4 years. Its about pushing as hard as you can for views you said you would in parliament to achieve outcomes for all Australians on renewable energy, establishing integrity in government after 8 years of the Libs corruption etc.
 
That's fine, but she represents the people of the Kooyong electorate. I will repeat, what has she done for them so far? They will be the ones deciding if she gets voted back in.
Represented their values and beliefs in the parliament and beyond - ie. acknowledged that the environment and social justice are actually a thing.

What did Frydo do?
 
but she represents the people of the Kooyong electorate.
And that would be me.
what has she done for them so far?
Has represented my views in Parliament on the needs and urgency on the climate, political corruption and social issues.
From what I've heard, Monique Ryan is no certainty to retain Kooyong, not because of the redistribution, but because she isn't particularly liked and has not done much.
We must have a very different social and business network. The only ones who have complained, also viewed Josh as a future Prime Minister. Must be the same people who first alerted you to 'Woketoria'
 
And that would be me.

Has represented my views in Parliament on the needs and urgency on the climate, political corruption and social issues.

We must have a very different social and business network. The only ones who have complained, also viewed Josh as a future Prime Minister. Must be the same people who first alerted you to 'Woketoria'
Ryan has been a very good MP and has also engaged with the community much more than her predecessors.

Kooyong residents rarely received any engagement from Mr Frydenberg. Most of his communications were the disingenuous, cheap and nasty letters or flyers in the last few weeks before each federal election, including the 2022 shockers from LNP-friendly charities that featured Karen [?!?! - you can't make this stuff up], then CEO of Guide Dogs Australia and Cate with no surname, who turned out to be the wife of the dishonest and shameless self-promoter Luke Sayers. Otherwise, two-thirds of f*** all unless there was an election coming up and Josh wanted your vote.

The only exceptions that come to mind are anti-lockdown tosh that cluttered mailboxes a few times during 2020-21.
 
Josh tested the water last week or so and realised he didn't have the support so then issued a statement suggesting the talk was scuttlebutt

It's quite amusing
Who is really to know what exactly went on, but Frydenberg leading the antisemitism schtick on Sky News coinciding with the electoral boundary redraw smelt a little funny to me. I am assuming he and his mates were going to make a play but the public backlash was too great.

As an aside, I did find it funny James Campbell on Insiders linking Frydenberg with October 7th and needing a strong foreign policy leader :straining:
 

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Ryan has been a very good MP and has also engaged with the community much more than her predecessors.

Kooyong residents rarely received any engagement from Mr Frydenberg. Most of his communications were the disingenuous, cheap and nasty letters or flyers in the last few weeks before each federal election, including the 2022 shockers from LNP-friendly charities that featured Karen [?!?! - you can't make this stuff up], then CEO of Guide Dogs Australia and Cate with no surname, who turned out to be the wife of the dishonest and shameless self-promoter Luke Sayers. Otherwise, two-thirds of f*** all unless there was an election coming up and Josh wanted your vote.

The only exceptions that come to mind are anti-lockdown tosh that cluttered mailboxes a few times during 2020-21.

But Josh works so hard
 
The best indicator of Josh’s workload is the legislation and reform he introduced as treasurer, probably the most important portfolio there is.

If anybody can name a single item of any significance, I’d like to hear it.
He did TRY and destroy Industry Super funds for his mates at Macquarie & AMP. Points for trying.
 
Oh and my apologies, there was his effort on proxy advice, again on behalf of mates.

This one from Joe Aston can never be shared too many times.



Josh Frydenberg sustains full-body gravel rash​


Josh Frydenberg’s reprehensible regulatory ambush of the proxy advice sector was disallowed by the Australian Senate on Thursday morning, with independent Rex Patrick leading the entire crossbench to quash the new rules.

This vindictive regime, which the Treasurer snuck into the Corporations Act in the week before Christmas, was in operation for just three days. The dolt from Kooyong even established a whole new capability inside the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to police four companies that employ 30 people and generate $5 million of revenue, and it has been decommissioned after 72 hours on the beat. For bureaucratic superfluity, it is certainly Frydenberg’s personal best, but it may even be a world record.

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Embarrassing defeat: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Alex Ellinghausen

The contempt he showed for his own parliamentary colleagues by using deferred powers to spirit these regulations into law is genuinely shocking. Liberal MPs can now plainly see there are no lengths Frydenberg won’t go to, no goose chase too outlandish, for his personal lawyers at Arnold Bloch Leibler and their clients way out on the wacko fringes of the Australian sharemarket.

The Treasurer diverted the entire government down sideshow alley to pursue the revenge fantasy of a law firm. This manifestly takes precedence over Liberal ideals in his hierarchy of actions.

You could say the same for the so-called free marketeers of the Senate who voted to keep the regulations, including the tinder-dry Dean Smith, James Paterson of the Institute of Public Affairs or the intergalactically dim Andrew Bragg. How do they call themselves defenders of small business or liberal markets?

Indeed, only a Treasurer who had pissed away $20 billion of public money in unintended fiscal stimulus via JobKeeper could waste this much time and energy on something as small as kneecapping four little proxy houses that irritate his mates.

Frydenberg’s humiliation is total. His complete lack of political judgment has been exposed for all to see. He would be profoundly embarrassed, were he capable of embarrassment.

There he was whispering down the phone to Pauline Hanson in the dying minutes, begging for her vote (that’s nothing – he was in Darwin lobbying crossbench senator Sam McMahon last week). When it was clear he’d lost One Nation, he had Senate leader Simon Birmingham attempt a procedural motion to delay the disallowance vote then, when that failed, a motion to allow debate so the Coalition could filibuster to the end of the sitting week. Over this!

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, “settling other people’s scores as if they were his own”.


Why did this matter so much? Because it was about so little. Because Frydenberg has no other agenda. There is no other economic legislation in the Parliament!

The Morrison government really is stupendous. The decks don’t need to be cleared when they’ve been deserted for three years.

Even in defeat, the Treasurer was embarrassing himself. His was the press release of a student councillor, labouring the same old tropes about big super and the Greens, like Alec Baldwin at the end of Team America spluttering “ah, it’s global warming and, er, ah, corporate America” before Kim Jong-il put him out of his misery.

Frydenberg can memorise artless debating points but his advocacy disintegrates when it collides with any policy complexity or requires any verifiable detail. Because he is lighter than helium.

Undergraduate antics might work on breakfast television or FM radio, where Frydenberg is most at home, but they failed him in the Senate. Even the loopiest corner of the crossbench could see right through him.
 
Yep, we’ve seen it all before. Aston again.

Josh Frydenberg’s extraordinary AFL game​


Five weeks have elapsed since the Morrison government was cast from office.

Twenty former Coalition MPs and senators, their 80 electorate officers and more than 400 ministerial advisers are working with headhunters, responding to well-wishers and being weaned off the hardcore drugs of influence and prominence for a gentle rehabilitation into civilian life.

Then there’s Josh Frydenberg.

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The outgoing member for Kooyong, Josh Frydenberg. AAP

An entirely foreseeable report emerged two weeks ago that the former treasurer “has been approached by the AFL as a potential replacement for outgoing CEO Gillon McLachlan”.

Such an absurd rumour would’ve been a non-starter for any media outlet except that Frydenberg quite deliberately gave it legs by granting an interview to sports radio network SEN and declining to contradict it.

Asked directly if he was approached by the AFL, Frydenberg responded: “All I’m saying is that I’m going into the private sector.”

Twice more, he refused to rule himself out of contention for the AFL job.

Dependably, The Australian swept in and bone-idly adopted the ruse as fact.

“Mr Frydenberg has been inundated with private sector offers and was recently approached as a potential replacement for outgoing AFL chief Gillon McLachlan.” Inundated, you hear?!

In the political universe, this is a customary B-grade media tactic: float your wishful idea out there – or better yet, have it floated for you – then faux-modestly refuse to confirm or deny it. The idea takes root.

The whole stunt was unmistakable. It was so Frydenberg and so embarrassing.

We know it was a stunt because he elected not to deny the story even though the story wasn’t true.

It was Frydenberg who approached the AFL Commission expressing his interest in being considered for the CEO position, not the other way around. His interest was received politely. Did the commissioners throw the well-advanced search process out the window and rush Josh into psychometric testing? Of course not. The thought bubble died as it landed.

AFL chairman Richard Goyder is also the chairman of Qantas, so was Australia’s largest JobKeeper recipient. Does the man have no loyalty?!

Robbed of his dignity​


With the taste of defeat on his lips five weeks ago, Frydenberg wondered, “maybe after tonight I get a bit more time to try and be the most extraordinary dad”. All he’s being so far is an extraordinary goose.

It is truly awful to see someone brought so low by addiction. Robbed of his dignity. So willing to humiliate himself for a quick fix. A limelight junkie.

What is Frydenberg doing here? What he’s always done. Everything that always worked for him in public life. But the same shallow nonsense doesn’t carry you through the private sector.

Did it never occur to him that he possesses almost none of the skills required to run the AFL? It is an elaborate mission of cajoling warlords and orchestrating utterly seamless live and broadcast stadia events on a practically daily basis. It’s a U2 world tour every year in five states simultaneously, a meticulous operation that necessitates an exceptionally high attention to detail.

McLachlan was at the AFL for 14 years before the commission made him CEO. The idea that some puffed-up politician can swan into AFL House and say, “It’s all good, I’ve got this, I was Ryan Stokes′ best man,” is perfectly laughable.

Frydenberg may well have been “inundated” with job offers, but there is only one place in the private sector where his principal talents – compulsive networking, trafficking favours, reciting his lines and never staying still – can be employed with equivalent success, and that’s investment banking.

Some offshore banking giant will be distantly persuaded that Frydenberg can groom Australia’s dozy club of non-executive directors as masterfully as he did his Liberal elders. That pitch might just fly.
 
The best indicator of Josh’s workload is the legislation and reform he introduced as treasurer, probably the most important portfolio there is.

If anybody can name a single item of any significance, I’d like to hear it.

There was even a Banking RC and Haynes' gave him lots of options to do something significant.

After promising to deliver the recommendations in full, by the time he left office; over half had been abandoned or not even started.

To his credit he did finish the easier options. But I think that sums up our Josh.

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There was even a Banking RC and Haynes' gave him lots of options to do something significant.

After promising to deliver the recommendations in full, by the time he left office; over half had been abandoned or not even started.

To his credit he did finish the easier options. But I think that sums up our Josh.

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Didn’t they reverse all the recommendations they adopted?
 

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