The week in Australian federal politics was headlined by the triumphant return of ‘Bad’ Malcolm Turnbull.
Australians had become accustomed to the pinkie-extended punctilios of Pleasant Malcolm and it has become clear they don’t much care for them.
So with nothing left to lose, Bad Malcolm got a run and delivered a withering character assessment of the Opposition leader. It was a terrific spray, no doubt, so full of harsh burns Bill Shorten may well still be plastering himself in aloe vera.
Bad Malcolm left his best line to last: “This sycophant, blowing hard in the House of Representatives, sucking hard in the living rooms of Melbourne — what a hypocrite.”
Understandably, lovers of the pugilistic arts weren’t about to get too excited. Should the People’s House ever become the House of Stoush with ‘Truffles’ Turnbull and ‘Wee Billy’ Shorten coming to blows, it would make last week’s Danny Green-Anthony Mundine fight look like the Thriller in Manilla.
Full column here.
He’s done it again Mr Insider, yes the great name mangler, White House Press Secretary the amazing Sean Spicer, fresh from mangling our own PM’s name (Milton Trumble) has now mangled Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s calling him “Joe” Trudeau. He’s certainly the “Barry Ballsup” of the Trump Administration imho, bless him.
http://tinyurl.com/guklc5f
@ Dismayed
“I have done so many times JB only to be attacked again and then be accused again when I respond in kind. My days appear numbered. Groupthink wins again. Give em heaps.”
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Days numbered? Please no. Not over that self absorbed fool woman. Some of us actually see it too. Im sick to death of her. Constant attacks on South Oz, for no reason other than her own spiteful, very very spiteful nature. She doesnt live here, wtf is it to her? Nothing other than trying to be a wanker and upset people. Then, when you put it to her that she has no idea, she plays the victim and cries. Shes obnoxious and snobby and thinks she has good breeding, thats a damn joke! The only answer is, dont read it, and dont reply to it. This is now my modus operandum. The scroll ball past the empty headed up herself idiot.
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Your only option is to ignore her. If you dont, well, then its on you.
Cheers Wraith.
Garn Wraith ya big powder puff, tell us what you really think!
Hark! It’s them bugles again! That would be Sir Wodney Wazor to the wescue!
Not sure where you got all that from Wraith but I hope you feel better for unloading.
Uncalled for Wraith, Yvonne isn’t obnoxious, nor is she a wanker nor does she insult people foe merely having an opinion different to her own.
Dismayed calls people liars and insults on a regular basis, at best he’s rude tending to downright obnoxious as I’ve pointed out to him before, guess you should ignore my posts too, I’m done.
Thanks Tracy. I might take long service leave for a while – read some good books etc.
Doing the Overland Trek here soon – have a rellie from the UK coming out to do it. Should be fun. Will keep us out of mischief, that’s for sure!
You see it your way, I see it mine. My experience of Yvonne has been different to yours.
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But its okay for you to called Dismayed obnoxious because you dont like his work?
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Pity Tracy, I have no argument with you nor wish any, but for Yvonne, she hasnt been nice to me right back from when Plumber was kicking me with his boots, she was dead happy to join in, sooo, yeah. It hasnt changed. Now she just takes every chance she can to say something derogatory about South Australia. Why? Dead set pettiness?
Sorry, I love where I live, and Im dead sick of us here being used as political footballs in this silly game. And Im dead set sick of Yvonnes mouthing off, about SA, and the things that go on here, because she just wouldnt know, oh and Milton, and others, every chance they get.
Would any of them understand we are all supposed to be one country?
Perhaps I bottled it up a bit long before letting go.
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If you want me to ignore your posts from here on, I will. Good luck to you and the ferrets.
Wraith thanks again for your advice. Please don’t allow yourself to get fired up. The cons need to have an enemy, someone to blame for their own failings. Me is this case. Again thank you for your advice. Take care.
Wraith he has been obnoxious in the way he words his posts. In fact he starts most of his posts by calling people names prior to them even reading them. I’m not talking about replies to people here but actual starts of threads! The one sin above all is that he is completely without humour!
South Australia is a great state Wraith. Yes we are indeed one nation and South Australian people are, well, they are um, well, just a little bit different. In a nice way of course.
Hoping to get over there in August for a degustation get together of epicures and foodies from around the nation.
Very excited. I’ve heard the local cuisine is to die for.
http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/threecrows.htm
First BLS
Yvonne
Tracey
Congratulations dismal you slimy troll, You have achieved your goal of destroying this blog
I’m out too
robin. Your choice your loss. Take responsibility for your own actions.
#illdiswithyou
Yep bugger it I’ll go as well.
Gawd…..this has been happening for years, make a statement that you’re leaving means nothing really. I’ve quietly disappeared at times because something has annoyed me, but nobody has ever really noticed. We can choose to contribute or not, but an awful lot of people have left over the years and it has carried on regardless.
Everyone should just settle down a bit.
Gee Penny, I don’t know how the boys would go without Yvonne to back them up.
Right now, the rest of the country thinks SA is inhabited by a bunch of Greenie fools Wraith.
Very shortly their unemployment is going to sky rocket because of the lack of reliable power and then they will come screaming to the rest of us for help.
As far as I am concerned, they have bought it on themselves through lack of planning and can sort their own mess out..
As to Yvonne – she expresses her opinion, rarely attacks and you do not have to read her contributions.
JS, How is it possible to know someone’s opinion if you do not read them? Only those that believe the coalitions government Lies thinks as you do. Oh you must have missed the fact the AEMO stuffed up and also the Private companies shed more load than required. Why is the AEMO not investigated by the Federal Regulator? The unemployment rate in SA will increase due mostly to the coalition running the automotive industry out of the country. Wraith is correct Australia is a Nation not separate states, has been since 1901. You must have missed that over at the Quadrant.
I believe Nissan, Mitsubishi and Ford all announced the end of local manufacturing under ALP governments, Dismayed.
Wrong. Hockey Ran them out of town. They all wanted to stay. For less than the cost of Kevin Andrews Marriage counselling and untrained chaplains in schools instead of trained professionals they would have stayed. They would have built smaller cars and stayed competitive. Australian government was the lowest co-investor or subsidiser of automobile manufacturing of any country producing cars. The automotive industry was putting close to $20 billion a year back into the country for as little as $200 million investment by the government. Show me a better rate of return on investment anywhere in any industry. We now have the coalition talking about helping manufacturing? Hypocrisy and short sighted political gain against collective bargaining has cost this Nation what would have been an “agile and innovative” industry. Massive job losses and huge loss of revenues, taxation and personal incomes. Have I missed anything?
Reply to dismayed : Mitsubishi announced their local closure in 2008.
Nissan completed local manufacturing in 1992.
I’ll give you Ford who announced their closure in 2013.
However Gillard announced on 23 March 2012 after a $275 million subsidy injection that Holden had made a commitment to stay until 2022. Good return on investment, eh?
Fact is once GM went bankrupt in 2009 Holden were never going to stay in Australia, especially with their sales volumes which had been sliding since 2007.
You can blame the Coalition for this (which you have and I suspect will continue to do so) but I suggest your political prejudices are somewhat skewing the real story.
You are talking idiocy, we had a half hour blackout for some load sharing, hardly a disaster. I see NSW had to do the same during their heat wave. Why aren’t you screaming like a loon about that?
You better believe it JS! I see WA and now Federal Labor are backing away from the 50% renewables rubbish. That’s the thing with the left ideology will win over practicality every time.
I still agree with you Wraith.
JTI do you have all the old blogs from The Australian days filed away and accessable?
Nope. It’s gone.
So all that dismal writing is history
JTI’s previous blogs could hardly be called “dismal” robin you do understand he is somewhat of a satirist?
Surely some uni or primary school wanted my archives, Jack? I had planned to buy a carton of xxxx and a packet of 20 cheap Chinese smokes with that windfall.
And I can breathe and get a good night sleep again!
We all can JB
Robin. Not wrong there. Had dinner with a QC the other night and he thought I could liable for thirty mill in damages at least.
Phew again!
JB – he was obviously giving the old Queen some counselling. I’m hoping your return to good health is a speedy one. Helga sends her love and asks me to tell you that she is still here for you. Yeh, I know another beauty sentence!
Not that sort of QC Milton. You know………… odd.
Nothing that’s been accessible via the net is gone. I can get our junior sys admin, Ed Snowden to bundle up an archive if needed.
Let’s not worry about it. Yes, it still appears on the web but I have no access to the blog engine.
Mark Butler is hopeless:-
1. Electricity prices rose 70% before the carbon tax was even introduced -gold plating of poles and wires
aided by greedy suppliers and the privatisation of power by Liberal governments.
2. Since the 2013 election prices have soared under the Liberals
None of these points are ever made by Butler or Labor for that matter.
Dill Shorten has to go…he is NOT CUTTING THROUGH.
Labor should be at least 20 points ahead in the polls. Not ONCE has
Dill won the poll on preferred PM….time for Jason Clare, Andrew Leigh or Jim Chalmers to step up to the plate.
Actually, watching Dill’s demure and body language as he sits in parliament gives the image of a forlorn
defeated man already!
Labor needs to break from the Gillard/Rudd team…Labor is not laying a glove on the Liberals:-
So much ammunition to use against this hopeless government:-
Debt-half a trillion since Labor was in govt.
A divided party
Turnbull’s reversal on climate
Same sex marriage,
The republic,
A carbon tax……………….all policies Turnbull once embraced.
Nick X must be reading Jack’s blog. He has mentioned my pet hate-Defence spending. Nick wants to cut into Defence to help finance the NDIS
So Bassy, to summarise you reckon the Butler can’t cut it, Shorten is a shy garden gnown, you wanna leave the gate open and spend nuttin on defence.
He’s also a “gnome”.
When did I EVER say spend nuttin’ on Defence Toaster. There ya go verballing me again.
Bassy / Razor
I’d say “there’s never been a more interesting time” to witness an election in Australia.
The tit for tat preference squabble – Libs/ON/Nationals/Greens. It has the potential to see an almighty implosion of the Coalition – feathers flying in all directions!
Right now the biggest potential winner would appear to be PHON. How depressing………
Putting the other issues aside. why would we be granting a concessional $1billion loan to Gautam Adani, a billionaire and one of India’s richest and most powerful men?
coz Gina sez
Well she could probably lend him the dollars.. The government can’t afford it I would have thought!
nuh Gina sez Bananaby…. you cough up
For payback at election time…BIG…corporate donations.
Liked this
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-embarrassment-of-president-trump
I figured that B’man, you sent it twice!!
Should have voted for the macaque. Thanks for the memories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onzL0EM1pKY
Government budget sucks hard.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/15/budget-plan-unrealistic-and-hits-households-hardest-says-economic-thinktank
Looks like the US guys I work with will start carrying in brown paper bags full of greenbacks again.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/14/donald-trump-anti-corruption-rules-dodd-frank-oil-companies