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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: SydneyRover on May 21, 2022, 11:30:37 am
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Oz labor looks in a better position than the lib/nat coalition, greens and new climate change independents are doing really well. Possible clear majority or minority government for labor.
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I wonder if they need photo ID to vote in Oz?
https://mobile.twitter.com/srpeatling/status/1527907231454621696
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what happened to our exclusive Antipodean Correspondant
where is SYD to share his "gas" on the election
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Trump 18 months ago.
Morrison gone now.
Who's the next right wing populist to get chucked out? Bolsonaro maybe?
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Trump 18 months ago.
Morrison gone now.
Who's the next right wing populist to get chucked out? Bolsonaro maybe?
Hopefully Johnson. Exile him in in tje city of Port Stanley, his dad too.
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The Times finds an original way to headline the event without blaming morrison, aboriginals will celebrate but republicanism was way down the list.
''Anthony Albanese: Aboriginals celebrate and royals quake as Australia elects republican''
paywall
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aboriginals-celebrate-and-royals-quake-as-australia-elects-a-republican-leader-j55bphc3z
Albo is from a single parent family, public housing background and left faction of what could be fairly described as a centrist party in UK terms.
He's a nice bloke and leader of the house of reps in Julia Gillard's minority government so he knows how to negotiate although as PM that won't be his main job in the new government.
This result with around 10 'Teals' so far - climate change independents taking liberal (tory) seats including the treasurer's and the seat of Menzies (founder of the liberal party) and greens doing really well is a seismic shift in Oz politics.
(Think morrison think tony abbott)
Morrison was seen to have and did have a problem with women, a patriarchal patronising mid last century view coupled with a happy clappy membership of hill song, his support for the now disgraced ex-leader Brian Houston was obviously a mistake. He took the liberal party too far far to the right and paid the price. There were many other problems forming cracks in the dam wall, action on climate change, pork barrelling, slow vaccine roll out, failure to 'be there' for the bush fires and floods, his refusal to bend to the will of the people and get same sex marriage done in a timely manner and point blank refusal to set up a federal corruption commission etc.
Interesting times and joy to the world
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what happened to our exclusive Antipodean Correspondant
where is SYD to share his "gas" on the election
sorry sid i didn't realise you made the original post :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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no problems, thank you kind sir
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Media Watch - a weekly round up of all news on all platforms by the ABC around 15 mins.
Not sure who can access this but it is instructional on how murdoch runs his empire.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/election/13895010
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''The Murdoch Media’s Masterplan Didn’t Work on Australia’s Voters This Time''
''There was nothing subtle about Murdoch’s efforts and strategy to win Morrison a second term. In editorial after editorial, News Corporation writers defended his conservative coalition, while attacking independent candidates in traditional right-wing constituencies, particularly where former Liberal Party members had broken away from the Morrison Government for its inaction on climate change and women’s rights.
In the final stretch of the election campaign, The Australian’s top opinion columnist Greg Sheridan wrote that “the most destructive, harmful and dangerous vote anyone can make in the forthcoming election is for a teal independent or the Greens… They are both a direct threat to our national security”
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/23/werlemans-worldview-the-murdoch-medias-masterplan-didnt-work-on-australias-voters-this-time/