As we sit and wait for news of the fate of the seven dual citizens as they traipse from their parliamentary offices with the woebegone air of condemned men and women to the High Court this afternoon, it is worth reflecting on the sort of week the government has already had.
There is a prescient sense of deja vu about it. The Turnbull government often has good Tuesday afternoons but come the weekend, the control of the agenda has been lost, a scandal has emerged, or infighting on the backbenches has turned into a donnybrook. The familiar theme is, in any one week of the Turnbull government, one step forward and three back.
Indeed it has happened so often the thought occurs that possibly Malcolm Turnbull isn’t very good at being prime minister.
Full column here.
Well, 5 of 7. Next, the Acme by-election.
And there was I thinking we’d seen the back of Windsor. (K)not!
And Antony Green has gotten an early xmas pressy and he can pseph like mad.
Windsor has announced he won’t run.
Sad Cafe
So if Barnaby’s standing uncontested he gets the seat without the cost of a by election? And personally I wouldn’t trust Windsor. He’s a prick.
Who is or who’s. Or is whose correct?
Whose jacket is this?
Who’s going out to dinner tonight?
That’s the way I see it, Milt
Whose is possessive “Whose purse is it?:”
Who’s is always an abbreviation for Who is or How has.
Google whose.
Should be who has
“Who’s” is definitely the abbreviation for “who is” JS…..
But surely not “”how has”!
Surely that would be “how’s” – although that would rather read as how is.
According to the web it is Boa – it was news to me also.
an example Boas
Who’s been here?
ie Who has been here?
Yep JS. Above there as an spell error – that read ”how has” instead of ”who has”
Apostrophes indicate that something’s missing.
Barn’by
Bring on the apostrophe Nazis!
What really gets to me is the ubiquitous appearance of “your” when it should be “you’re” !
Cripey, see what I’ve started for youse lot.
The use of the word youse was forbidden in my house Milt!!
We hadn’t been in this country long when my kids reeled it out for the first time. Sheesh that bowled me over!
Good call, Boa they should be out in the paddock.
All it means that the vote for the minor parties will increase.
As a member of the minority group in this country that cannot get a dual passport, I object strenuously. It is outright discrimination that I have to go down with the ship as it slowly sinks.
Have a plebiscite and ban them I say. Equal rights for all.
Nonsensical? Why? Everybody has to be equal in this day and age.
Quite right Jack. I’ve long thought and said that Turnbull is not really a politician by nature, while Abbott despite his failings is. Turnbull is obviously smart enough to play the law game and also to make lottsa money but politics is a different animal. The police raid was another example of overkill. Most people had enough information re Shorten and AWU and Getup to make up their minds or just get a trace of a whiffy smell. Seed sown, leave it at that – but no.
On recent developments whose our new DPM, Julie Bishop? Not a good look for the nats.
Since Howard’s first go at the unions (R,Commission) heaps more have followed…a lawyers feeding frenzy of $130million for not ONE conviction. Don’t you think it is time the Looters gave up and stopped giving OUR hard-earned to their mates just for five minutes?
Milton, I think the police raid debacle is a prime example of a party exercising excessive eagerness and is akin to the obvious consequences of what occurs when one leans too far sideways from a ladder.
She had a stapler Carl, a stapler!!
Since Craig Thomson left, there’s no one in Canberra who could organize a “date” in a brothel.
Hehe. Good one Dwight!
I think it’s a root in a brothel Dwight….
Only an idiot like Thompson would be thick enough to use a credit card at a brothel.
Cash rules the day – so I am told.
I’d think twice about asking for a “date” in a brothel Dwight.
Malcolm Roberts gone; a village in Queensland is about to get its idiot back.
So how did Caravan escape?
Mad Malcolm is standing in the Qld state election I think.
They’re welcome to him!
Yes, Ipswich is the village in question…
I was from near there UQ and they are not in short supply in that large village.
Ain’t that the truth, if its Queensland, how would you tell who is the village idiot…
Well , looks like another general election is on the cards and the sooner the better …
OK. Weird. REALLY weird!
I was thinking in exactly the same terms of Turnbull as Wile E. Coyote and Bill Shorten as the Road Runner around 2pm yesterday as I drove back from town.
Telepathy or just that old thing about great minds?
Williams, Thompson, Jackson we all know how that played out and in Jackson’s case is yet to play out.
Prefer to wait and see what comes to light, no doubt anything incriminating (if it existed) has long gone and stuff ups aside Shorten as PM is a horrendous thought.
Malcolm doesn’t have the mongrel, Abbott has too much and has been taking a leaf out of Rudd’s book on destabilisation, if Albanese had his bum on the opposition seat it would be game over.
As for the indigenous question I think Paul Kelly’s article a fair one.
Footy tips Jack
Did you miss the $80 million Royal commission? Talk about grasping at straws. Sheesh.
Oh, you mean the one where Bill couldn’t remember, or wasn’t sure or he had no idea?
Short memories, must have a shore shore short memory.