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u4486662 wrote:notorganic wrote:rusty wrote:notorganic wrote:I missed this #TeamAustralia guff. Anyone got a tl;dr for me? Yeah Tony said something, and the lefties went apeshit with it. It's so typical of lefties to zero in on something innocuous and innocent the PM said like saying "team Australia" rather than focus on the major issues, such as Australians going to ME to learn how to cut peoples heads and importing those skills back here. Can someone that isn't a lobotomised Tory cum-guzzler explain it for me? Tony Abbott said on a radio interview that "you don't migrate to this country unless you want to join our team" It was in relation to new national security laws regarding counter terrorism. His statement was not really that bad to be honest. Relateable to his comments about the ABC being on everyone's side except for Australia?
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Carlito
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And to think the libs used to shout down labour for gaffes . Also can any one in government stop repeating themselves
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notorganic wrote:u4486662 wrote:notorganic wrote:rusty wrote:notorganic wrote:I missed this #TeamAustralia guff. Anyone got a tl;dr for me? Yeah Tony said something, and the lefties went apeshit with it. It's so typical of lefties to zero in on something innocuous and innocent the PM said like saying "team Australia" rather than focus on the major issues, such as Australians going to ME to learn how to cut peoples heads and importing those skills back here. Can someone that isn't a lobotomised Tory cum-guzzler explain it for me? Tony Abbott said on a radio interview that "you don't migrate to this country unless you want to join our team" It was in relation to new national security laws regarding counter terrorism. His statement was not really that bad to be honest. Relateable to his comments about the ABC being on everyone's side except for Australia? 
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Quote:Blackest day in Australian sport really a black day for Labor, says Tony Abbott Prime minister accuses the previous government of using the nation’s sporting elite to give it a political distraction Share 1163 inShare 0 Email Australian Associated Press theguardian.com, Monday 18 August 2014 12.04 AEST Jump to comments (240) Tony Abbott Tony Abbott stands with wife Margie after completing the Pollie Pedal in Sydney on Sunday. Photograph: Nikki Short/AAP The so-called blackest day in Australian sport was really a black day for Australian politics, Tony Abbott has said. The prime minister stepped up his criticism of the previous Labor government’s response to claims of doping in the country’s most popular sporting codes. “I’m not saying everything’s perfect when it comes to sport and performance-enhancing drugs,” he told Macquarie Radio on Monday. “But far from being the blackest day for Australian sport, it was a black day for politics, it was a black day for the Labor party.” Labor chose to blacken the name of the nation’s sporting elite to give itself a short-term political distraction, Abbott said, describing it as a “silly, squalid, sordid” thing to do. “It’s pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.” Eighteen months later, a lot of decent people were still struggling to restore their reputations, he said. “It was just really appalling that people could stoop to this level,” he said. Labor ministers Kate Lundy and Jason Clare were flanked by sporting chiefs when they released the findings of an anti-doping investigation in February 2013. Richard Ings, the former boss of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (Asada), labelled it the blackest day in Australian sport. Justice John Middleton has reserved his decision in a federal court case over whether the investigation of Essendon by Asada and the AFL was lawful. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/18/blackest-day-in-australian-sport-really-a-black-day-for-labor-says-tony-abbott?CMP=soc_567 This guy :lol: -PB
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mcjules
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paulbagzFC wrote:This guy :lol:
-PB He's going to keep trying until something sticks :lol:
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Whenever I hear an interview with any of the senior Coalition cabinet members I can already predict how things go; Step 1: Always bring up the mess Labour left us with Step 2: Deflect our own issues by referring to Step 1 Step 3: Sidestep what the interviewer is saying, respond with "we were given a mandate by the Australian people" Step 3a: If Step 3 doesn't work, use the term " thumping mandate" or "we have stopped the boats" (even if the discussion is about the budget) Step 4: Get the Country "back on track" Step 5: Say that any meetings with cross-benchers have been fruitful Step 6: Close interview No joke, listen to any interview with Pyne, Bishop, Hockey, Cormann, Dutton or Abbott from the last 3 months (or in the coming 2-3 weeks or until the Budget issues have been resolved) and it will all be the same rhetoric and buzzwords. Only one who isn't complete knob on the mic is Turnbull. -PB Edited by paulbagzFC: 19/8/2014 02:10:50 PM
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"The debt and deficit disaster as far as the eye can see", "The world's biggest carbon tax", "The mother of the GP co-payment tax Jenny Macklin", "Madame Speaker, the question includes many falsehoods" Peta Credland is a very one-dimensional, repetitive writer Edited by marconi101: 19/8/2014 02:41:28 PM
He was a man of specific quirks. He believed that all meals should be earned through physical effort. He also contended, zealously like a drunk with a political point, that the third dimension would not be possible if it werent for the existence of water.
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paulbagzFC wrote:lol dem boatz.
-PB Like Rusty said, we need to focus on the major issues!
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paulbagzFC wrote:Whenever I hear an interview with any of the senior Coalition cabinet members I can already predict how things go;
Step 1: Always bring up the mess Labour left us with
Step 2: Deflect our own issues by referring to Step 1
Step 3: Sidestep what the interviewer is saying, respond with "we were given a mandate by the Australian people"
Step 3a: If Step 3 doesn't work, use the term "thumping mandate" or "we have stopped the boats" (even if the discussion is about the budget)
Step 4: Get the Country "back on track"
Step 5: Say that any meetings with cross-benchers have been fruitful
Step 6: Close interview
No joke, listen to any interview with Pyne, Bishop, Hockey, Cormann, Dutton or Abbott from the last 3 months (or in the coming 2-3 weeks or until the Budget issues have been resolved) and it will all be the same rhetoric and buzzwords.
Only one who isn't complete knob on the mic is Turnbull.
-PB
Edited by paulbagzFC: 19/8/2014 02:10:50 PM Qanda last night . For an example .
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MvFCArsenal16.8 wrote:paulbagzFC wrote:Whenever I hear an interview with any of the senior Coalition cabinet members I can already predict how things go;
Step 1: Always bring up the mess Labour left us with
Step 2: Deflect our own issues by referring to Step 1
Step 3: Sidestep what the interviewer is saying, respond with "we were given a mandate by the Australian people"
Step 3a: If Step 3 doesn't work, use the term "thumping mandate" or "we have stopped the boats" (even if the discussion is about the budget)
Step 4: Get the Country "back on track"
Step 5: Say that any meetings with cross-benchers have been fruitful
Step 6: Close interview
No joke, listen to any interview with Pyne, Bishop, Hockey, Cormann, Dutton or Abbott from the last 3 months (or in the coming 2-3 weeks or until the Budget issues have been resolved) and it will all be the same rhetoric and buzzwords.
Only one who isn't complete knob on the mic is Turnbull.
-PB
Edited by paulbagzFC: 19/8/2014 02:10:50 PM Qanda last night . For an example . Didn't see it lol, will have to give it a watch. -PB
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notorganic
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The outrage being thrown at Clive Palmer for saying that The Chinese shoot their citizens seems a bit odd.
He does so many outrageous things, why are people upset at the one factual thing he says?
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notorganic wrote:The outrage being thrown at Clive Palmer for saying that The Chinese shoot their citizens seems a bit odd.
He does so many outrageous things, why are people upset at the one factual thing he says? Tiananmen Square never happened! -PB
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notorganic
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Don't even have to go that far back.
The way that Australia behaves towards China is bizarre. Will be interesting to see how that attitude changes once the Chinese become self sufficient and our flagging export industries implode.
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notorganic wrote:The outrage being thrown at Clive Palmer for saying that The Chinese shoot their citizens seems a bit odd.
He does so many outrageous things, why are people upset at the one factual thing he says? It was a bit crass (that was the outrageous part) but it was mostly accurate (not having a justice system is debatable). I have rolled my eyes at the Liberal party MPs condemning it when they've been subtly provoking them since they've been in office. notorganic wrote:The way that Australia behaves towards China is bizarre. Will be interesting to see how that attitude changes once the Chinese become self sufficient and our flagging export industries implode. China are a long way from that even being possible. Even if they're capable of it it's not in there interests to do so. Their interest in Australia goes beyond just mining. They're buying up farm land and other resources as well. Saying that I agree that their interest in us may be less intense in the future.
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Time to invoke Godwin's law (again maybe, 500 pages is too long to check)  Unfortunate lighting and hair :lol: Edited by mcjules: 20/8/2014 01:26:04 PM
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lol
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Lol
Is that Hermann Goering behind him?
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Clive can say what he wants when he's a private citizen but as an elected member of parliament he really should be more circumspect about what he says about the Chinese. Whether or not what he said is true, and it was mostly true, you just can't behave like that in public. We all have a bit of a chuckle in Australia when someone calls someone else a bastard but overseas, and particularly in Asia, this is seen as a grave insult. It's embarrassing because he's not just some mad nutjob that arsed his way into parliament, they actually hold the balance of parliament.
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Well he is a "mad nutjob" but what I mean is he's not just some lone mad nutjob that will be gone at the next election. Had a quiet chuckle when Barnaby said this sort of thing gives you a bit of an insight to what goes on behind closed doors when they're negotiating with the senate cross-benchers. You can imagine it. Joe "Well we need this measure to go through otherwise XYZ" Jacquie Lambie "Fine but first we need to double the size of our defence force or our grandchildren will be enslaved by the yellow peril that's coming". Paraphrasing here but basically what she said yesterday.
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Can you quote yourself? -----------------------------------//---------------------------- Munrubenmuz wrote:Clive can say what he wants when he's a private citizen but as an elected member of parliament he really should be more circumspect about what he says about the Chinese.
Because there's $151 billion reasons to do so. ----------------------------------//------------------------------ Apparently you can.
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mcjules wrote:Time to invoke Godwin's law (again maybe, 500 pages is too long to check) Unfortunate lighting and hair :lol: Edited by mcjules: 20/8/2014 01:26:04 PM Surely some aspect has been shopped. -PB
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paulbagzFC wrote:mcjules wrote:Time to invoke Godwin's law (again maybe, 500 pages is too long to check) Unfortunate lighting and hair :lol: Edited by mcjules: 20/8/2014 01:26:04 PM Surely some aspect has been shopped. -PB Yeah they probably took out the swastika tattoos.
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paladisious wrote:paulbagzFC wrote:mcjules wrote:Time to invoke Godwin's law (again maybe, 500 pages is too long to check) Unfortunate lighting and hair :lol: Edited by mcjules: 20/8/2014 01:26:04 PM Surely some aspect has been shopped. -PB Yeah they probably took out the swastika tattoos. :lol: Saw it on twitter and they claim it wasn't shopped. It does seem just a little too perfect though.
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mcjules wrote:paladisious wrote:paulbagzFC wrote:mcjules wrote:Time to invoke Godwin's law (again maybe, 500 pages is too long to check) Unfortunate lighting and hair :lol: Edited by mcjules: 20/8/2014 01:26:04 PM Surely some aspect has been shopped. -PB Yeah they probably took out the swastika tattoos. :lol: Saw it on twitter and they claim it wasn't shopped. It does seem just a little too perfect though. 
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mcjules wrote:paladisious wrote:paulbagzFC wrote:mcjules wrote:Time to invoke Godwin's law (again maybe, 500 pages is too long to check) Unfortunate lighting and hair :lol: Edited by mcjules: 20/8/2014 01:26:04 PM Surely some aspect has been shopped. -PB Yeah they probably took out the swastika tattoos. :lol: Saw it on twitter and they claim it wasn't shopped. It does seem just a little too perfect though. There's no way that the hair isn't shopped, surely?
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so, how the fuck did we end up with tony abbott and bill shorten as the leaders of the 2 largest political parties in australia?? how is it that we are scraping the bottom of the barrel for leadership in australia? is aus politics so toxic that anyone with any sense is not willing to put themselves through it?
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