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What would a Dutton Liberal leadership mean for the Liberals and the country?
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Cardiomegaly?
Tbh I'm surprised McKenzie believes Rinehart has a heart at all. I don't.
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Nothing like Rudd except the nicknames opponents make up
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Who's next up? Angus Taylor? Sussssan Ley? Dan Tehan? It obviously can't be Cash or Hume since they're senators. If forced to bet, I'd have my money on Taylor.
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Doesn't have a vested interest trying to dig up some dirt now would he?, where's the scrutiny on his agenda? What does he get out of this a spot on the backbench?. You can guarantee if he was a Labor supporter the media would be digging through his past to discredit him. Were just supposed to take his word for it apparently.
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Maybe not in the detail.
But a first-year Labor PM after a long run of Libs... struggling to demonstrate a significant shift to progressivism... undercut by a largely global financial problem that has made living hard for the average punter... being sold as out-of-touch with everyday Australians... getting caught up in controversies real or contrived but convincing to the unengaged voter... with an unpolular opposition leader but not able to pull poll numbers clearly ahead either in terms of personal approval or overall 2PP...
Even if you only pick half those parallels, the scenario stacks up as similar.
I don't think knifing Rudd actually helped ALP in the lead up to 2010 I think Rudd could've got the same minority government result. So I think Albo can do the same.
So whether Abbott would've survived had Rudd stayed on is theoretical, but whether that scenario plays out and Dutton gets another crack remains to be seen.
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Today Labor had a campaign event which I watched on its Instagram live stream. Marles and Albanese really turned up the heat on Dutton. They said to look at his record of cutting Medicare while Health Minister, and asked whether you can afford the cost of Dutton.
It was powerful attack messaging and hopefully a preview of how they will put the ogre under the microscope at the next election.
It was powerful attack messaging and hopefully a preview of how they will put the ogre under the microscope at the next election.
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Imagine his press secretary ringing around trying to find someone to take his place on the Morning Show.....no surprise Bridget McRorts is the only one that would put her hand up.
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It's just not fair when Dutton gets attacked by the <checks notes> Murdoch press.
Even Murdoch needs to remind Dutton every now and then who is actually running the show.
So he paid for them using taxpayers money. Didnt get them as freebies from a private company highlighting conflicts of interest as albanese has with qantas. The problem with albanese and qantas is not the money. Its the conflict of interest which arguably led to qatar being blocked and australians facing massive prices.
Ps. 220 thousand isnt that much for someome in his position. I spend about 150 thousand in a year just on commercial flights for work. Not private flights.
Usually in a political prism, the grift is the evidence. I'll keep the quoted post in mind with reference to Dutton and Gina (he shouldn't be so cosy IMO but a standard is a standard and should be applied identically).
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Yes, I agree.
Getting the exact same benefits that every politician opens them all to accusations of bias. They should give those perks up, and fly on the Government dime only for government business. Otherwise pay for it themselves.
But I can't see that it "arguably led to" the Qatar decision. I asked for clarification from Seeds.
Dutton giving extensive unrecorded facetime to Gina while riding in her personal jet to her private parties, accepting large donations from Gina et al, and then coming out with extensive energy policy that directly benefits her interests is, of course, obvious corruption.
Interested to see how many private jet flights Gina has given to Albo and other Labor pollies.
Albo got stuff from Qantas, they got beneficial Qatar decision. They are either both problematic or neither are problematic, but not one and not the other.
As I have said before in these parts, the airport lounges are as much a part of Canberra culture as the ringing of the bells. I don't see it changing.
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Yes, but one is far more problematic, has much longer-term effects, and far more obvious than the other.
You admit that, yes?
I don't see why the government doesn't rent a room at each airport for politicians to work and hide from the plebs. Or just make it law that x amount of space is to be provided for government travellers.
Easy to fix.
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