What's happening in Australia?

[pat grimshaw]

This wounded koala is being nursed back to health after a bulldozer incident
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...h-plantations-cleared-record-rates.html#video

 

[ravenstar]

This muppet is fighting for his Political life as Liberal Party Back Benchers move a no confidence motion for scheduled for Tuesday morning. If he loses the position of the Leader of the Liberal Party will be declared vacant and we'll end up with another Prime Minister. Also, if he loses and gets chucked out on his arse he'll be the shortest serving Liberal Prime Minister in History.

 

[pat grimshaw]

This evil thug is slowly having his freedom taken from him.

He rorted the system and ran the state parliament for a decade and set up a merry-go-round of puppets to act as premier.

His system of using pollies to suit his own needs infected the federal political system as well. The previous set of prime ministers performed in a ridiculous merry-go-round. In and out, in and out.

His passport has been taken from him to stop him escaping back to Lebanon (there's a big community of people in Lebanon holding duel passports— they live there but expect Aussies to pay them pensions )

 

[ravenstar]

As he should the crooked bastard. He used the people of NSW as a cash machine for years lining his families pockets.

 

[Telstra]

This 19 year old school student named Carl Salomon got drunk and climbed up on 30 metre floating crane and fell to his death yesterday.

He enjoyed himself the most out of anyone I know according to his friend at the 1.20 mark in this video.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ight-classmates-say-feel-loss-profoundly.html

What a shame big loss, with good looks.
Darwins award for this ?

 

[goldenmoth]

This muppet is fighting for his Political life as Liberal Party Back Benchers move a no confidence motion for scheduled for Tuesday morning. If he loses the position of the Leader of the Liberal Party will be declared vacant and we'll end up with another Prime Minister. Also, if he loses and gets chucked out on his arse he'll be the shortest serving Liberal Prime Minister in History.

Hopefully his fall sends a message that psychotic Neo conservatism has no place in modern day australia. He really has been awful.

It's funny how when he got to power news outlets from all over the world wrote gloating articles about how an old fashioned conservative can succeed even in today's world and his actions should embolden other conservatives but now look at him. What a mess

 

[pat grimshaw]

Regardless of all the emotionalism, blaming and guilt-tripping the bottom line is—

 

[rareboy]

In Canada it is the Liberals who run the surpluses and the Conservatives who run the deficits.

Funny that. Eh?

 

[ravenstar]

Regardless of all the emotionalism, blaming and guilt-tripping the bottom line is—

You haven't taken the graph showing Eleventy Joe's added $68 Billion to the deficiet in just over 500 days of Government there Pat. Wouldn't want to accuse you of cooking the books, so here's a link to the ABC Fact Check against claims by Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen of Hockey's unbelievable spending.

To be fair, Abbott and Hockey haven't got many Public assets left to sell, Howard and Costello sold most of them before 2007 along with a huge percentage of Australia's gold reserves.

Treasurer Joe Hockey is the "Masterchef of cooking the books" according to his Opposition counterpart Chris Bowen, who has repeatedly accused the Coalition of using "voodoo economics" to create a sense of crisis to justify dramatic spending cuts in the May 13 budget.

"Now what's happening here is that Joe Hockey has doubled the deficit, adding $68 billion to the deficit by changes to Government spending and changes to Government assumptions, and now he's asking the Australian people to pay for it", Mr Bowen told journalists in his electorate on April 27.

ABC Fact Check examines whether this statement is correct.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-06/has-the-government-doubled-the-budget-deficit/5423392

 

[Telstra]

I think Jackie Lambie is good for Australian politics.
She is entertaining as well

 

[Taz]

The two of you are cut from the same cloth telly

 

[ravenstar]

I think Jackie Lambie is good for Australian politics.
She is entertaining as well

She's a special kind of crazy really lol. That said, she does have a backbone and isn't afraid to say what she thinks. I like her staunch support of Defence Pay and I also like the way she's walked on PUP. I don't agree with about 90% of what she says, but you can't say she backs down when she truly believes in a something.

 

[Telstra]

At least she is honest, humble and down to earth, thats what i like

 

[pat grimshaw]

OK. Here is Crikey's version of our deficit and that "Depression We had to Have" etc.—

 

[ravenstar]

Also, that only goes up to 2008

 

[goldenmoth]

In Canada it is the Liberals who run the surpluses and the Conservatives who run the deficits.

Funny that. Eh?

Fasinating. What do they spend the money on?

 

[gsdx]

Senatorial expenses and housing allowances, it appears. Other than that, nobody really knows.

 

[Taz]

At least she is honest, humble and down to earth, thats what i like

And incredibly stupid, and ignorant. That's what I dislike.

 

[Telstra]

She is your fellow Tassie.
Anyway, if you watched her on Q&A she is not stupid.
She defends for poor ....

 

[gsdx]

She is your fellow Tassie.

Stephen Harper is my fellow Canuck, and I don't have much good to say about him.

(Off-topic, but interesting: one of my doctors was born, raised, and educated in Tasmania.)