Double Dissolution: Have your say

Australia needs Keating. Possibly followed by a Costello. Without a Costello afterwards Australia wouldn't be able to sell itself off and give away our gold in the process.

 

Only problem is, he will say we are all a ........

bunch of blood sucking scumbags that need to pay as interest rates were never designed to be this bloody low for the brain damaged punters, whack it up to 12% you dullards, that will sort the grubs out...

And when I go, don't think your getting your hands on any of it Costello, no no no, not while you have got old coconut there running the show, glued to his seat, bloody intellectual hobo, your nothing but another bag man, you motley dishonest crew.

 

Yeah but you're bonkers.

 

Maybe we are entering a brave new world... a world where Prime Minister Hanson-Young hands out newly printed $100000 Australian notes with pictures of yowies (let's keep it local..) on them to everybody, so they can buy lots of desirable (but ultimately time thieving) imported products from large chains of consumer electronics retailers.

Or donate them to Nigerian senders of questionable emails that only promise them even more.

But, alas, the new Prime Minister will find that some tough decisions (that just go against the grain) will have to be made, such as, (but not limited to), who will get kicked out of this rickety financial boat, and what would happen if suddenly EVERYBODY were required to make some kind, even a little bit, of contribution.

And Matt Barrie's recently widely publicised utopian ideal of an innovation and startup capital in Sydney would be realised just by the repeal of the Lockout Laws (arguably introduced due to too many people not being able to hold their drink and behave well at the same time...).

As opposed to assuming that meetings of all kinds are actually enhanced by the absence of raging hangovers (except, as I understand, possibly incorrectly, in the world of investment banking). Maybe Matt should consider another Australian city, as the income tax rate will still be the same, instead of relocating to another country. And is another goon bag really required after 10pm in certain Sydney CBD areas?

And why is Max "The Axe" Moore-Wilton's resume in the Treasurer pile of the new Prime Minister? Maybe Santa Claus didn't want a full time job. That's gonna get awkward. And how many of the Glen Druery Preference Whispering Party's candidates will make it to the Senate, and will they have the balance of power in a hung parliament?

And where did all the unicorns and rainbows go?

And what happens if Pistol and Boo try to cross Barnaby for a second time.

It's all too much! We live in interesting times.

Roll on July 2.

WHOOPS! I thought the Post Reply Button was Save Draft!

 

You've been spending too much time with Datto and his water pipe.

 

An engaging take on the class based politics behind this year's election.

Prepare for the most class-based election in recent history

 

From theage
Lessons for Malcolm and Bill from Aesop's fables

 

Liberals are infighting again as the monk is stirring the pot. Are more Ruddesque leaks in the pipeline ?
'I don't expect the party to ever go back': Tony Abbott cools leadership ambitions

 

Perhaps you are confused ... Malcolm Turnbull is the "leader" of the Lib/Nat party ... he is not "the" Lib/Nat party ... which means he's the head spokesperson for the other 89 pollies ... which means he cannot just make up a policy by himself and push it through.

I think - after this election - he'll be endorsed by the public, rather than backroom deals, and then the agenda will begin

 

Like Rudd, Gillard, Abbott were endorsed by the public and there were no backroom deals after that.

 

Perhaps. But for a person to replace a first term prime minister, I would have thought they would need to be sufficiently different to the person they were replacing to warrant replacing them. In the case of MT, he had not demonstrated that he is sufficiently different to warrant replacing Tony Abbott. In fact, in some ways he is worse than the person he replaced. It certainly casts doubt on the decision of the party to replace one leader with another leader.

 

Perthguy, assuming that Ed Barton doesn't accuse me of spending too much time with Datto's water pipe again, I would suggest that there's a bunch of both French and Japanese submarine designers who would both vehemently agree and disagree with you at the same time...