Let me take you back. Way, way back to the evening of December 2, 2017. The Prime Minister and his deputy stood arm in arm at the West Tamworth Leagues Club. Joyce had just won the New England by-election by a thumping margin and Turnbull declared he was “putting the band back together.”
Ah, good times.
Alas, rock stars and politicians are, if nothing else, a difficult and unpredictable lot. Velvet Underground reformed and got halfway through a European tour in 1992 before the band’s two enormous egos, Lou Reed and John Cale, remembered why the band had split up in the first place. The two men hated the sight, let alone the creeping presence, of one another. The tour and the reunion ended abruptly, and Reed and Cale went their separate ways.
The Turnbull-Joyce combo did not come to grief because of crippling personality conflict. although it may do so at some time in the near future. But back then the band had only broken up when Joyce discovered his unfortunate New Zealand-news. We subsequently learned the High Court did not so hold and Joyce was off to a by-election that on the parliamentary numbers at least, threatened the Turnbull government’s majority.
Full column here.
George, this is not helping. Numbnut might be his middle name.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/18/george-christensen-reported-to-police-over-gun-photo-aimed-at-greenie-rivals#img-2
I know MtK….the man is an idiot. I wonder if anything will come out of the police report
Nothing will come out of the Police report Penny because he has not committed any offence. Reporting it is puerile to say the least. Should we report the Greens for suggesting imprisonment and torture for those who do not believe in AGW?
Christensen is an idiot, pure and simple. However, it doesn’t seem as though he’s committed an offence against anything but good taste.
The fact that the Nats think the guy is a suitable ambassador for them speaks volumes about the Nats in general and Barnaby in particular.
It wasn’t supposed to help, it was a trigger, and di Natale bit.
What it was, was disgusting. Are we Americans now? Christensen is an idiot of the Barnaby ilk. “oh I was joking” the fat idiot says.
NOT BLOODY FUNNY
So di Natale bit and George has convinced all but 5% of Australians that he is a complete moron?
OK I admit to understanding the anticipated return from such a strategy, but yes, if you put it like that it is a strategy.
George likes Whips too MTK, quite a kinky lad he is. Cheers
That’s why the great quivering lump of lard got into politics Henry. He heard about the Government Party Whip and thought “Be still by beating heart, I have to get my hands on that bad boy!”
Thanks, my chuckle for the day.
Anyone who doesn’t see that it was a joke is maybe a bit too ideological. And anyone who thinks it was funny has a few issues too.
Sure, pop out into the street waving a replica handgun and calling out “Greenies, make my day”
See how you go telling the coppers and the beak they haven’t got a sense of humour.
Exactly JB but according to the cops & Razor, it’s patently clear that law-enforcement is au fait with gun-toting porky gits making public threats as long as they’re just joking. 🔫
We shall see.
He was at a range Bella. He is licensed I assume. If not he would have been under the watch of a range official. He is not saying anything. He is pointing a gun down range. He later attached a comment to the picture. Again not illegal. This is a beat up by the Greens and as usual they have totally misread public opinion. The majority public either don’t care or think it’s a joke. Bella the Japanese people on the whalers probably felt threatened by Sea Shepherd but you didn’t seem worried then.
So, if in the same setting, a man of Middle Eastern appearance posed with a pistol and then added a similar comment, say, “come on infidels, make my day”, that would be OK?
Whatever his intention Christensen is inciting. There is considerable tension and bad feeling between groups. He has a gun in his hand and is aiming it. He is expressing a willingness to use the gun.
At the very least he should be interviewed by the police and the public should be informed of that.
Why should he be interviewed by the police if he has committed no offence? Wouldn’t that be the police playing politics?
Committed no offence. Don’t count on it Razor. We shall see.
rubbish. ridiculous conflation as usual. The only misreading here is yours. you continue to support divisive dangerous idiocy purely to support a similar dangerous divisive ideology. You continue to fail this Nation.
Brilliant point TV.
You’ve got us all stitched up, Trivalve! But correct, and I’ve always had issues…
The whips are cracking around Parliament House, Mr Insider, and I don’t mean in the Madame Lash sense as we see Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has put his ministerial colleagues on notice that if they sleep with their staff, it will no longer be kept quiet. I still cant see how this “activity” is going to be detected unless they call in “Sex Busters” to look for evidence. I bet there is a lot of sniggering around Australia this weekend at Turnbull’s silly ban. Maybe Staffers could wear Badges like “Don’t Shag Me Senator”
https://tinyurl.com/ycunqd69
I wonder whether the Speaker of the HoR or the Pres. of the Senate are exempt from the sex ban HB, or are they able to have a bit of rumpy pumpy with The Usher of the Black Rod, as and if the opportunity presents itself?
Mmm indeed Carl, that Usher of the Black Rod position sounds a bit kinky to me. Cheers
I’d suggest this is the start of a scorched earth policy HB. Some on the Labor side will be a bit worried about this. Remember you heard it first from old Razor last week.
Indeed Razor lets hope so and thank you for the hot tip you always seem to have your finger on the pulse of the Nation. Cheers
No wonder Morrison and Turnbull were screaming and foaming at the mouth about Emma Alberici’s piece which exposes the lies of their$65billion unfunded gift to big business. A heap of economists have responded and can find no incorrect facts in this piece. This is the best proof you will ever see about the Looters con job about tax cuts to big business. If they make this an election issue they are toast. This is the problem when you have politicians with no economics qualifications/degree trying to con you. Alberici has the same economics degree as Judith Sloan.
https://johnmenadue.com/emma-alberici-theres-no-case-for-a-corporate-tax-cut-when-one-in-five-of-australias-top-companies-dont-pay-it/
Yeah, right. The original column was badly flawed, and the edits to it just papered over the cracks.
Dwight as a freidman zealot how can you support tax cut that would add to the nations deficit while sending money out of the country due to most of the benefits going to overseas investors. Treasury’s own data suggests it will cost the country 63 cents for every $1 dollar of tax cuts. Employment will not be boosted economic activity will not be boosted and the US Congressional Budget office says Australia’s effective corporate tax rate is 10.4% at present, still lower than the US even after the deficit increasing trump tax cuts. You are supporting and ideology over economics. No surprises.
Can you just once in your life have an argument without the undergraduate name calling?
You bloody undergraduate.
Alan Joyce made quite a good job of patiently explaining basic tax accounting on RN the other day
….whilst his screw has DOUBLED
* mic drop* bassman yeah✌
Creative accounting, it’s called……
Qantas hasn’t paid corporate tax in 10 years so Alan Joyce can’t seriously partake in any discussion on basic tax unless it’s about tax avoidance. He excels in that department.
I think even the ABC have acknowledged it was crap Bassy.
No the ABC after the Government again used it’s position to silence any critics removed it.
I see media watch even stuck it to her last night. You know one of the issues with the article was she appeared to not understand the difference between income and profits?
Economist Saul Eslake on @albericie’s tax-cut analysis:
“I didn’t detect any factual errors and the quotes she attributed to me were accurate and in context.”
Ditto Craig Emerson a Ph.D in Economics and The Kook
Bass, check out Emerson’s dissertation and get back to me.
I can’t believe the ABC caved in to pressure from Turncoat to bury Alberici’s story. Goes to show how close to the truth it is.
Freedom of the press has been reduced yet again by this unaccountable government.
Hear Hear Bella, Hear hear.
rather concerning
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11995384
Not really. The Chinese just haven’t told the Kiwis they are a semi-autonomous province now.
those poor sheep
They effectively own, Samoa, PNG, most of Micronesia and various other Islands in the Southern Hemisphere smoke. Why not NZ?
and australia is succumbing
We’re trying not to smoke but they understand there is more than one way to skin a cat.
Yep, infiltration by stealth. We’ll wake up one day and everything will be in Mandarin with English subtitles. The news readers will refer to the Prime Minister Mr Chin, and we will scratch behind our ears and ask each other “How the %&%$ did that happen? One minute I’m watching MKR and the next I discover I’m Chinese.”
Acute insight as usual old bean!
It might just be me, but you’d think if a billion-dollar tax hoover names you an economics correspondent, you might actually know something about economics, or corporate accounting—or tax. A bit embarrassing.
billion-dollar tax hoover needs a tax cut to fix that I guess
PM Chauncey at his best..Mr Jericho does not concur
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2018/feb/18/turnbulls-attack-on-emma-albericis-tax-cut-analysis-doesnt-add-up?CMP=soc_568
butt twunch…h/t John Birmingham
Couple hours darkness last night. Ergon blames the high voltage lines south of Cairns. That big storm has been working north for days. Have to check out the rest of my emergency gear.
Gets dark here every night
Jack, are you onto ‘Babylon Berlin’?
I wasn’t but I am now.
Love the pics of the sheep http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5403557/Earthquake-hits-South-Wales-4-9-Richter-scale.html
I just hope they can rebuild…..
I have a hat upstairs commemorating the great tsunami of April 2007. One of my colleagues measured it at 1.5 cm as I recall.
That’s a small hat, Dwight! I hope the overdraft is in keeping.