I have no guilt about being white.

:prepares for the lynch mob:

Its been pretty bad at time but nowhere near as bad as labor.  Our economoy is ticking along nicely, surpluses are in sight and our borders have been secured.  The libs also passed gay marriage which after six years of leftist unrule, was looking like it would never happen.  By far the biggest achievement was the emptying of our detention centres and stopping the drownings at sea.  The bloodshed caused by labour and the greens will never be forgotten and future generations will look back on that government with great shame.  Only a loopy deranged ideologue would describe the left side of government "objectively better", unless of course you correlate success with debt and deficit and drownings at sea.

I don't think we need senate to pass a motion on such a nonsense issue though

Senator Anning's motions were even more ludicrous, but they got vote down unanimously. Talk about wasting tax payer's money on raising absolute pointless exercises in governance. 

I think Senator Hanson was right to raise concerns against the inherent bias, marginalisation and demonisation of white people.  This is pure racism.  I read an article today that sought to justify it by arguing that due to the historical inequity whites had to experience the same thing in order to atone for the past.  What the fuck?  Like we cant all just move on?  I guess we'll have to start sending Germans to the gas chamber soon.

The government will always say they need to be more involved with every sector, whoever is in power. The pollies are a bunch of cowards.

But you are correct and I am getting destroy with paperwork at the moment.

There you go I fixed it for you

The government can't get through one week of parliament sitting without numerous blunders, I'll say it again it's breathtaking. 

hah it's been much worse no way it was better than labor nerrrrrr.  morrissons dick is way bigger than shortens ner ner ni ner ner
Nothing really to do with the government, global markets improved and so did ours.  the main reason deficits are in sight is because of restrained government spending , nothing to do with "international markets"and our borders have been secured. At a pretty devastating cost in both money and humanity, unfortunately Labor are continuing this policy under labor and the greens you had thousands of people die at sea and tens of thousands locked up in detention. blood on their hands doesnt adequately describe, more like dipped in blood head to toe.   only people with mental and intellectual defects think people who travel here illegally , come from war torn countries and cant speak English present a financial windfall for the country they inhabit. 
Our detention centres are pretty full actually, no evidence that the drownings have stopped, nothing gets reported. Good transparency no the detention centres have been virtually emptied and closed down. of course your feeble mind cant handle the fact that the coalitions policies have been tremendously successful so you resort to petty conspiracy theories and paranoid government cover ups to make sense of it.

Nobody (sane/rational) is saying you should feel guilty about being white though, nor would anything come from being white in terms of legalities etc.

The whole notion of "white privilege" and trying to hold that against someone in some form of guilt is utter gobshite, but likewise, the perceived "snowflakeness" being exhibited by people in reaction to the failed senate motion, is equally gobshitey.

-PB

Barry Cassidy's week in review/trailer for Sunday is always bleak every week, somehow this week when you tally it all up, its a fucking laughing stock (the current Government).

Seriously hope they lose Wentworth and they go into meltdown (although it means we wont get the General Election till as late as possible).

-PB

Where have you been?  Plenty of people are saying whites should feel shame and guilt for having white skin.  In terms of legalities this is distinct possibility in the future, particular if gender quotas we now see in boardrooms and parliament morphs into racial quotas.  Labor even proposed a week or so ago quotas for gays and transgender.  Very dire indeed.

It's not even about the legalities, it's about the fact that racial minorities are using their skin colour to obtain privilege and preference to access better educational opportunities, jobs, promotions and government funding, legislated or not.  This is deeply unfair, causes great angst and only directly benefits those who receive the racial dividend , the benefits do not flown down to the broader minority communities, so when those people fail to land jobs and promotions they blame racism, whereas the real reasons are more likely due to being under-qualified and lacking skills.  I'm sure there is some bias towards racial minorities, but this is more than offset by the bias in favour of them because they tick the diversity box.

I am for equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome (aka communism). I understand basic gender quotas, but any movements towards quotas based on other grounds is rampant identity politics. If we were to quota employment to every different sub-section of humanity we would be risking quality of work/production and social mobility. 

The arguments against meritocracy stem from those (1) without significant merit and thus can't handle other people's success (or they're naturally non-competitive), and/or (2) are blinded by social justice and want everyone on 'equal' footing

"Causes great angst"?  Who the fuck for?  Self-absorbed narcissists with low self-esteem and a penchant for blaming others for their woes in life?

You are fucking kidding.  

Like a white person would choose to be black just so they can gain an 'advantage ' in life.  You are off your chops.

It causes angst for those who miss out on jobs and promotion because of skin colour namely white and Asian people. Also within the employment space, those who have been unfairly rewarded due to skin colour, namely non white people, are never truly accepted as having deserved the role, instead there’s an undercurrent, perhaps an unconscious one, that they arent really up to the job and are only there because of AA policies. Mostly it causes angst for the minority communities because they feel that they cant make it on their own, and need the paternalistic intervention of white people via AA policies to be professionally successful. I believe divertsity policies and the rest are extremely demeaning towards minority communities and in fact racist towards whites and non whites for different reasons. Look at the recent court challenge against Harvard Univeristy students by Asian students who have missed out on enrolment due to race quotas, and tell me there is no angst.

Yep it really is.

I'm no fan of Phelps but to me there's no point in voting for a 'small l' Liberal party candidate that's just going to get drowned out by the hard-right powerbrokers in the government. The only way to send a message is to send in independents that aren't beholden to them to bring them back to the centre.

Hung parliament. What a swing against the Libs!

Bahahaha fucking scorched.

Can't see a no confidence vote getting up though, so unless ScoNo folds to pressure of not getting a fone I can't see us going to the polls until next year, although pundits and bookies are now calling pre-Xmas

-PB

Yeah not going to happen. Sending Dutton to the High Court? I think it's possible.

Fuck forgot about that haha, has been so long ago is the list of government missteps.

Wonder of Abbott will come back for another tilt?

-PB

Interesting to see the reactions of the election result. I honestly think the media reads too much into it and goes off in all different tangents about why the electorate went this way or that way. Most people, even in upper crust electorates like Wentworth, are politically clueless and dont really have well developed opinions or understanding of this or that candidates or party’s policies. You have a guy like Sharma who is a nobody against someone who is well repsected and basically a b grade celebrity like Phelps preaching a message of borgeois moral values.. For the people of Wentworth its probably a vanity thing, their choice in the last election was between the prime minister or some no name Labor hack, and their choice in this election
is between some no name Liberal hack or the amazing fabulous Dr Kerryn Phelps. So part of it is probably revenge, the other part is they probably feel entitled to be represented by someone who doenst live in a house less than their own. The worst thing was the Libs thought that trotting out someone genial and affable like Sharma would work well against someone like Phelps who breathes fire and screams “Look at me”.

Fuck me, if an electorate like Wentworth with highly educated people (nearly 50% have a bachelor's degree or higher) don't know what they're voting for, we should probably toss out democracy all together.

I can't work out who's reaction is better, Rusty's or Chris Kenny's :laugh:

Jesus hold your horses, Sharma has increased his primary vote to 42% and Phelps’s has collapsed to 29%.

Sharmas gonna nab this.

Highly educated people dont necessarily have highly educated beliefs. Nor does it mean they give a shit about politics. The wealthiest, most elite divisions in Wentworth still voted Liberal.

Where's that?

-PB

He's looking at raw AEC figures. Trust Antony Green and pretty much everyone else (including the Libs that conceded defeat).

"It is the biggest by-election swing against a government in the nation’s history."

lol

-PB

Well when you try to sell out the nation (moving isreali embassy) to appease the jewish community of Wentworth after you just dumped Turnbullshit.

1his is why people donkey vote ffs .

The TPP is now less than 1%, with thousands of postal votes to count. Fuck it would be stunning if it happened , I would pay money to see the look on the look on Dr Phelps right now

Hating the player not the game?

-PB

She’s a smug vindictive bitch and a clandestine Greenie for sure