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.
Moving articles about Beersheba and the light horse brigade in the Weekend Australian. Very sad.
Turnbull should have gone to the service and left the crap here behind.
Shorten and co will gave a field day next week creating havoc. Aren’t we all over it yet?
We dont having an acting PM Yvonne, how can he nick off anywhere? Or do we? Its lunchtime, everything could have changed. Or did they all just go home for the weekend? Probably why he shouldnt go is not having a definite 2IC left in charge, after the last week, he could come back and they would have sold the furniture.
Julie Bishop
Come on Australia, wake up! There are very dark forces at work here that go far beyond the deep state. Don’t you realise this has NOTHING TO DO with Barnaby Joyce? He is just collateral damage. IT’S REALLY ALL ABOUT Malcolm Roberts. Those climate change commies from the United Nations who want to impose a new world order were always out to get him, because he was trying to open the eyes of Australians! And they have succeeded. They have infiltrated our most powerful institutions, even the High Court! We are under siege! Rise up! We need Malcolm Roberts or the takeover of Australia cannot be stopped!
roflmao
also, sniff” lizard people “
Quite right, wraith. I should have mentioned our reptilian overlords.
🙂 Yes, the conspirators have won out.
So have the likes of ISIS by scaring our representatives into building a spanking new fence around OUR parliament. It’s a white flag and removes the enjoyment that kids used to get by walking over the top of the place and having a good roll down the hill. I want to see someone with gumption down the track have the cojones to remove it.
“No judgement and no answers, chaos engulfs the Turnbull government”, writes the Mark Kenny in todays SMH, Mr Insider, and who could argue. Two shocking Lib/Nat government’s in a row, the other being the goose Abbotts who had even less answers. A time in the “political wilderness” coming up for the Lib/Nats. To paraphrase the late Gough Whitlam “Well may you say God Save the Queen but nothing will save Malcolm Turnbull”.
http://tinyurl.com/ya97smw3
Sportsbet have thrown in the towel and payed out 3000 pre-post punters who backed Winx in the Cox Plate, and the race hasn’t been run yet. She has her rivals scared and only 5 runners will contest the Plate. I’ve never seen a bookie pull up short. I’m wondering if they’ll still be taking bets on her today.
Well someone has $100k on her.
What a turn up for the books if she gets beaten though!
She didn’t. Someone has walked off with a fattened wallet. Her price was so short I passed her by. If I were one of the owners I’d put her out to pasture right now. She has nothing left to prove, and I think she’d be too valuable to let her keep racing.
I heard that overseas as her next gig Wiss.
I’m with you on this. She’s reached the top. Always better to retire on top. But owners’ ego comes into play.
She’s a mare – they will make zillions out of her at stud.
sadly unlikely to be in Hong Kong as the new Aussie quarantine laws will make it unattractive to send horses here.
Waller was on the tele talking multiple starts in the UK, which is a great plan i think.
The record at stud for great race mares rather than good ones is patchy.
I recall George Brandis saying earlier that Scott Ludlam should pay back his parliamentary salary:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/16/george-brandis-attacks-scott-ludlam-and-says-he-could-be-forced-to-repay-debt
I wonder if he’s going to repeat his earlier insistence in the cases of Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash?
I wonder if Malcolm Turnbull will declare “Good government starts today”, like his predecessor.
Piers Morgan, of all people, seems to have figured things out:
Scream all you like, snowflakes, but if you don’t get your s**t together soon, Trump’s going to be your President for another seven years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5016619/PIERS-MORGAN-Scream-snowflakes-Trump-win-again.html
Am loving POTUS Trump Dwight, he made it clear he is not a Politician and thank god someone has at last come along who tells us like it is. Another fabulous 7 for POTUS and FLOTUS Trump!
Tells what like what is?
Everyone is underestimating Malcolm. He is as cunning as a sh*thouse rat and tough as nails and undoubtedly ruthless behind that folksy façade. He rolled Abbott, for crying out loud! And saved the Libnits from annihilation, an extraordinary achievement. You don’t get a result like that in this country without the help of the people that really matter. Never mind the seething masses with their short memories. In the long game this imbroglio is a positive for the Libs. What people will remember, vaguely , at the next sheep muster is the coppers going after Bill Shorten.
It’s all about perception and association however misguided. And there are forces with an agenda working on those perceptions all the time.
And they are good at it. They got Abbott elected to do the dirty work.
Did I say they are good? They are bloody miracle workers.
Too long, JB.
Correct Bald…all it will take is a good terror scare campaign, a boat or 2 on the horizon and a terror attack close to our shores and the Looters will be able to renew their looting licence with ease.Labor has no answer for this stuff and Stan Laurel remains hopelessly inadequate like my prostate. Labor needs to change leader…..possibly Albo although he is not much betta.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they were thinking about a change Bassy.
Just have to work around the rules that Krudd instigated to ensure his eternal tenure!
Shorten is their Achilles heel for sure
If Stan cant get preferred PM against Malcolm who is leading the worst govt since Federation he needs to zip or whatever Krudd calls it.i
Ever wonder what would happen if Wile E. Coyote caught the Roadrunner?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1in2DEUeU
(Caution – bit of language).
JB: (previous blog)
I read the article ex Workers World – don’t worry, my polite sensitivities can handle it.
I used to work with a friend of Morgan Tvangirai’s – an architect in Melbourne on a 457 visa at the time. Interesting man – he is a world expert on eco architecture and a Zimbabwean citizen. (Got the idea of natural air-conditioning by studying how termite nests ventilate!)
Anyway, his stories of what was going on in Zimbabwe were hair-raising. What your article omits to mention is that the seized ”white” farmlands that were given to the populace, and that had kept the nation fed, turned into wastelands, and food shortages were the order of the day – Still are. He told me of how paying for a very meagre dish of something to eat took about an hour to count out the banknotes. A wheelbarrowful. Not joking.
It’s not a happy place – what was once a beautiful place is now devastated. Make of that what you will. Admittedly it’s his country (Mugabe’s) and if his people are content that’s all that matters I guess!
And the Zimbabweans will point to targeted sanctions causing those outcomes as well as interference from the West trying to bring down the government. I think Parenti’s assessment is probably accurate.
For all his faults Mugabe is still highly regarded by a great many black Africans.
Things do seem to be on the up in Zimbabwe.
“For all his faults” – wow, the ultimate understatement JB!
His people are too scared to do anything other than like him. Open protest results in beatings, imprisonment, death even.
That’s the rich 5% whitie line Boady. Rich off cheap African labour and pillage of their resources. . Theres plenty worse than Mugabe who never get a mention because they “play the game.”
Mugabe still gets a standing ovation in most black African nations if only on principle.
It would appear that many Zim people aren’t too afraid of beating, imprisonment or death?
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Protests+against+Mugabe+images&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijsY3uuZnXAhXDpJQKHRAUAb8QsAQIJw&biw=1366&bih=623
My GP is ex Rhodesian military. He frequently sends me articles about the goings on back there. Even after the hyperinflation and abandoning their own currency they seem to have learned nothing and are now issuing “bond notes” for everyday settlements.
Hyperinflation has many reason Boa – Dwight could correct me on this but it normally requires two currencies in circulation to do it.
With regards to the farmers, the same happened it Kenya and a few other countries – a very wealthy few occupying vast holdings and leading a very priviliged life style while the majority wallowed in poverty but got control of the political process.
There is a lesson here for a few countries as the gap between the elite and the rest widens.
Sadly the story of most of Africa, JS.
In fact British colonialist, Cecil John Rhodes, is considered by many as the father of apartheid.
The British Empire – when most of the atlas was shaded pink. They stuffed up plenty of them!
For one brief time around 1900, South Africa was heading for universal suffrage.
The Colonial Office put a stop to it with a statement along the lines that they were not setting up a colony of equals.
It would be fascinating to find out the real story.
In the main the Brits did a better job than the other European powers but it is a very low base comparison.
The French colonizers did a much better job in Africa….
Curious as to which Countries Penny?
I was joking JS. It’s all on a par really I guess, but at least the French put a but of infrastructure in Morocco and taught them how to make wine
JS, normally it starts when the central bank starts flooding the market with too much money., usually to pay their own bills. Then, more of the same. Shortages of basic commodities in Zim, plus the flight of foreign capital just accelerated the process. I have a Z$10 trillion note in my desk at the office, along with a Weimar 100-billion mark note. I hand them to my political economy students when discussing hyperinflation.
Thanks Dwight
Strange that, in spite of all the money printed in the last few years, inflation has not kicked off except in asset values.
Mostly in major currencies, JS. US, Euro, Japan. All that QE going on. Prices are being kept down by low manufacturing costs. Even the “China Price” is no longer the floor. The Indian or Indonesian price is now keeping inflation at bay.
a chap behind the paywall quoted Keating as saying the Turnbull had courage but lacked political judgement.
i think that’s about right, he seems to have learned nothing from his first experience as a Leader of the Opposition.
He suffers from the smartest man in the room problem that infected Rudd. They confuse intelligence with political ability.
in Rudd’s case i think the intelligence is his assessment and not actual.
i rather liked Tim Blair this morning on Rudd.
“For further personal attacks on individual Labor politicians – specifically attacks on Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan and Mark Latham – please buy a copy of Kevin’s book, Not For The Tremulous, Squeamish or Cardiovascular Compromised: An Intensely Personal and Revealing Reflection on Existence, the Political Arena, Life’s Spiritual Meaning and Why I Always Use Seventeen Words When Three Will Do.”
Malcolm is a seventeen word man as well.
They mocked Tony Abbott for his three word slogans, but at least he got the message across.
Come back Goblin Grech, all is forgiven…
Here’s a three worder for you for Malc, “dead man walking”.