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We're not all equal in politics. Littleproud should know this

When Australia’s Politicians don’t have a clue about Civics they shouldn’t be in the job

If Littleproud wants an equal voice in the Parliament for all Australians, Tasmania should lose two members of the House of Representatives and lose 11 senators. South Australia should lose 10 senators. To be consistent Littleproud should be either advocating that or acknowledging that in the Australian constitutional compact there is a deliberate recognition that smaller entities require greater representation.

But the founding fathers specifically excluded one of those smaller entities – the First Nations or Indigenous people. The constitution stated they were not to be counted in the censuses which determined representation in the Parliament.

That was partly rectified by the 1967 referendum. But there was still no recognition and no mechanism to prevent Indigenous people being ignored or mistreated, even if they got to vote in their state of residence. And the poor treatment continues to this day.

The logic of the constitution calls for that recognition as does a sense of fairness and a practical need to do something about entrenched Indigenous inequality that might work when all else has failed: listening. People in the small states should especially support that. Or agree to back their extra senators.

Source: “Nationals… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Dutton Demands Labor Explain Why David Van Allegedly Assaulted Amanda Stoker — The Shovel

Amanda Cash is up in arms

In a fiery interview this morning, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says it is incumbent on the Labor Party to explain why Liberal Party Senator David Van allegedly squeezed the bottom of his Liberal Party colleague Amanda Stoker at a Liberal Party social event in 2020.

Source: Dutton Demands Labor Explain Why David Van Allegedly Assaulted Amanda Stoker — The Shovel

Far-Right grifter found guilty of running fake charity

Active during last year’s devastating Northern Rivers floods, conspiracist influencer David Oneeglio has been found guilty by the Office of Fair Trading of requesting donations without approval, writes Tom Tanuki.

Source: Far-Right grifter found guilty of running fake charity

Fresh allegation against Senator David Van

Here’s looking at you Jeff Kennet. Lidia Thorpe wasn’t abusing her privilege

Liberal Senator David Van faces a second allegation he sexually harassed a fellow senator.

Source: Fresh allegation against Senator David Van

An inquiry of self-limited curiosity – Pearls and Irritations

Statue of lady Justice and Australian flag.

Senator Linda Reynolds is suggesting that she might seek to take her complaints of ill-treatment during the controversy of the Bruce Lehrman rape allegation to the new National Anti-Corruption Commission. That would include, we gather, allegations that Senator Katy Gallagher was briefed by the alleged victim and her boyfriend before the allegations had been made publicly. Apparently, some on the Labor side of politics (we assume the late Senator Kimberley Kitchen, regularly given to this sort of treachery) had tipped her off about Labor’s knowledge of the allegation – one Reynolds had been aware of, at least to a degree, for nearly a year.

Source: An inquiry of self-limited curiosity – Pearls and Irritations

The Opposition – full of grumps and fantasists – » The Australian Independent Media Network

What was shocking was their willingness to re-visit those days, where the Communist word caused heartburn, and we stood behind LBJ. This time around it was Donald Trump providing us with a shield. Risky!

And we must remember Trump’s record of favouring white supremists. Was there a whiff of the White Australia Policy in our rush to condemn the Chinese? Is there a whiff of post-colonial racism in our demonisation of a document titled “Statement from the Heart”?

Source: The Opposition – full of grumps and fantasists – » The Australian Independent Media Network

FROM CRIKEY… – Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire |PETER PANS BUDGET

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Peter Dutton says “any sensible government must consider small ­modular nuclear as part of the ­energy mix”, even though nuclear power is banned in every state and territory, small nuclear power plants create long-living radioactive waste, and we are quite literally one of the sunniest and windiest countries on earth with enough renewable energy to power resources to power our country 500 times over. The nuclear argument gets dusted off and wheeled out every five years or so, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last year, and “we have this economic analysis of whether nuclear power stacks up and every time it’s rejected”, as the AFR ($) reported.

Source: FROM CRIKEY… PETER PANS BUDGET

National Times – Coalition relied on a “shadow workforce” in the… | Facebook

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LNP were the greatest bunch of liars we have experienced as a government employed to serve the Nation. They should never be allowed back. A Public Service on Contract is a Service always under a precarious employment future and readily manipulated to serve the government rather than the people.

A total of 54,000 full-time equivalent workers were consultants, contractors and labour hire staff, while 144,300 public servants were actually employed in the APS. Labor says the blowout in external contractors was because the Coalition was pretending to cap APS numbers to look like it was clamping down on public employment expenditure. Minister for the Public Service Katy Gallagher said the results of the audit painted a true picture of the APS workforce under the former government.

Source: National Times – Coalition relied on a “shadow workforce” in the… | Facebook

“The… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | LNP

The Liberal Party’s failure in the boardroom

“Yes” to the Voice referendum will be more than symbolic – it will be a foundational moment for our country, as will the “Yes”, in a referendum further in the future, to Australia becoming a republic. The right-wing conservatives of the Liberal Party are typically staunch monarchists and they’ll be celebrating the coronation – chanting and proclaiming at related events. But the Liberal Party has demonstrated its members and MPs are not nation-builders. The party is not modern, not inclusive and certainly no longer “the party for business”.

Source: “The… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours The party is over.”

Stuart Robert to resign from federal parliament, causing byelection

Liberal MP Stuart Robert was a frequent target of Labor during his time in politics.

Another Hypocritical Pentacostalist is gone.

Former cabinet minister Stuart Robert will resign from federal parliament within weeks, causing a byelection in his Queensland seat and putting an end to a controversial political career.

Source: Stuart Robert to resign from federal parliament, causing byelection

Matthew… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Matthew Guy says some ‘dangerously politically stupid’ Sky News hosts are damaging the Liberal party

“Sky after dark is more akin to the One Nation party than the Liberal party. In fact, I think they’re incredibly damaging to the Liberal party,” Guy told 3AW host Neil Mitchell in a podcast.

Source: Matthew… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | – his first interview since the November election,

Dutton hands Coalition to Nationals

Dutton hands Coalition to Nationals

The fast-tracking into shadow cabinet of first-term Country Liberal Party senator from the Northern Territory Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who is a member of the Nationals’ party room in Canberra, is the latest development in the gradual deconstruction of the Liberal-dominated Coalition.

No wonder Nationals leader David Littleproud could hardly contain his glee when he responded to Price’s promotion. He painted it as evidence the Nationals are better at identifying the sort of people who have the life experience to bring something special to Canberra.

Source: Dutton hands Coalition to Nationals

 

Central Land Council’s 90 members said Senator Price neither speaks for them nor listens to them.

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She has been given a Voice that simply isn’t recognized by Indigenous Australia it simply LOUDER

Senator Price does not speak for us or most Aboriginal people:

Women promoted in Liberal frontbench reshuffle – Michael West

Dutton, Price and the Cabinet are all at odds with each other. Dutton left the Cabinet’s meeting on the Voice in a quandary when he said he wanted local voices on the ground and a National Voice legislated but “Not in the Constitution”. He agreed that Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders had a special place in history. However after he left he told the mainstream media he was against a National Voice and that the Voice was solely a local and State matter as far as the LNP were concerned, throwing a cat among the pigeons.

Price and Dutton seem to be on the same page and agree to local voices legislated, but not a National Voice. Somehow by magic, those many diverse local and state voices would still be heard in the Capital. Price is the example as to why a single Indigenous MP isn’t representative of the First Nation people. She remains a lone spokesperson for herself. It seems she’s been appointed to Cabinet to support Dutton’s argument against the notion of a National Voice by becoming Dutton’s idea of a National Voice. She’s the Voice he supported behind closed doors and lead the Cabinet to believe he was in favor of then did a presser to publicly say didn’t. Are we confused enough by the worst Opposition leader yet? The Liberal has appointed 2 more Nationals to his front bench turning the LNP into and NLP.

Watch these twits confuse not only each other, but the Public as well, and betray the true history of Australia and it’s First Nation’s Peoples.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has unveiled his reshuffled frontbench, with Jacinta Price the new opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman.

Source: Women promoted in Liberal frontbench reshuffle – Michael West

Secrecy is our enemy: whistleblowers must be defended – Pearls and Irritations

Informant reports a scandalous fact.

One of the most hated aspects of the Morrison government was the secrecy. Over and again, we continue to shock to revelations of hidden wrongdoing long after their defeat last May.

Source: Secrecy is our enemy: whistleblowers must be defended – Pearls and Irritations

Those that forget their history … – » The Australian Independent Media Network

You can advise Donkey’s but….

Tupperware have realised their lack of innovation and ability to change with the times has caused a serious problem for the company, and they are attempting to address it. The Coalition under Peter Dutton seem to be deliberately digging in to the past and suggesting it is the way of the future. Another large American company tried that in the early 21st Century and went bankrupt. That company was Kodak. Despite inventing the digital camera, they decided there was more money in selling photographic film than digital cameras. There wasn’t.

Those that forget their history are likely to repeat it.

Source: Those that forget their history … – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Stuart Robert stood to gain financially from friends’ company, a parliamentary inquiry has heard

Synergy 360part-owner David Milo, his friend Coalition MP Stuart Robert and another Synergy 360 co-owner John Margerison.

Senior Liberal MP Stuart Robert stood to gain financially out of a consulting company called Synergy 360, which was part-owned by his business partner and chief political fundraiser, and which helped multinational companies win millions of dollars worth of government contracts.

Source: Stuart Robert stood to gain financially from friends’ company, a parliamentary inquiry has heard

Lack of media scrutiny helped the Liberals lose their way

With a compliant mainstream media failing to hold it to account, the Liberal Party is completely out of touch with voters’ opinions and its own failures, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.

Source: Lack of media scrutiny helped the Liberals lose their way

The Voice is not revolutionary or threatening. Why is Peter Dutton and the Coalition opposing the modest change?

The Voice is not revolutionary or threatening. So, why is the Coalition opposing the modest change?

A paternalistic Coalition thinks it knows better than Australia’s Indigenous peoples what is best for them, perpetuating our long neo-colonial legacy of exclusionary governance.

Source: The Voice is not revolutionary or threatening. Why is Peter Dutton and the Coalition opposing the modest change?

Voice to parliament: Peter Dutton’s No a blend of dubious claims and genuine doubts

Anthony Albanese, right, and Peter Dutton now put themselves, and history, to the test.

The opposition leader starts from a position of serious weakness, with a poor personal standing in the community and the Liberals in retreat across the country, but his move is the biggest threat to the Voice since the Uluru Statement called for the reform six years ago.

Source: Voice to parliament: Peter Dutton’s No a blend of dubious claims and genuine doubts

 Crikey-architect behind the Liberal Party’s growing malaise

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On Saturday, Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles observed “there are precious few moments when you get to be in the presence of history”. He’s not wrong, the Aston byelection result was historic. But it was a historic result rendered less surprising though not less significant by the political conditions fashioned by the true architect of the modern Liberal Party’s enduring malaise: Howard.

Source: How the ghost of John Howard haunted the Aston byelection.

Liberals look for answers after Labor by-election win – Michael West

The Liberals are licking their wounds and are trying to figure out what went wrong after unexpectedly losing the Aston federal by-election, despite rising living costs.

Source: Liberals look for answers after Labor by-election win – Michael West

Ante eulogy for a political pornographer – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The measure of Howard the coward is that he can’t admit that he was wrong. Worse still, he hasn’t got the guts to say in his own country that he still believes that his policies are the right ones for Australia. He has to skulk off to Imperial Capital to be feted by the powerful effete

Source: Ante eulogy for a political pornographer – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Liberal Party little more than a factional fight club

The Liberal Party is lost and confused about what it stands for, where it is going and how it will get there. Peter Dutton’s leadership is far from inspiring, writes Belinda Jones.

Source: Liberal Party little more than a factional fight club

Infiltrated by extremists, what will the real Liberals do now? – Pearls and Irritations

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The Labor victory in NSW this weekend has put the Liberal Party on notice. While many local issues were in play, the increasing radicalisation of the party at federal and state levels is making it unelectable. The usual drongos’ voices cry, “Liberals must go further right to win,” but Australia’s superior electoral system will make it hard for a radical right Liberal Party to win government.

Source: Infiltrated by extremists, what will the real Liberals do now? – Pearls and Irritations

More division for Vic Libs as contentious MP survives expulsion bid

Pesutto is not the leader of this Party

Mr Pesutto had refused to entertain whether he would step down if he lost Monday’s vote.

Source: More division for Vic Libs as contentious MP survives expulsion bid

Robodebt crooks are getting away with murder

As the dust settles on the Robodebt Royal Commission, an examination of how the scheme was orchestrated clearly shows its architects should face prison time, writes Paul Begley.

Source: Robodebt crooks are getting away with murder

Moira Deeming: Opposition Leader John Pesutto moves to expel controversial MP over neo-Nazi rally links

Moira Deeming invited campaigners to areas in Parliament House that are restricted to the public.

LNP Vic divided by the extreme Right wants to jump Left on one leg

The Age last year revealed the Victorian Liberal Party’s powerful administrative committee voted for Deeming to run in the federal seat of Gorton at the 2022 election, but was deemed too risky by Scott Morrison’s office to run as part of his team.

Source: Moira Deeming: Opposition Leader John Pesutto moves to expel controversial MP over neo-Nazi rally links

Michael Pascoe: Peter Dutton’s venality and other tax jokes

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Peter Dutton’s response to the tweaking is deeply, terminally flawed. It speaks to a darkness at the heart of the modern federal Liberal Party, a darkness that seeks to double down rather than save itself.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Peter Dutton’s venality and other tax jokes

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet set to kill off the Liberal Party in NSW at the state electionKangaroo Court of Australia

Dominic Perrottet, Gladys Berejiklian and John Barilaro

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s brothers are still fugitives in hiding from a corruption inquiry and the NSW Liberal Party still has 20 seats to fill with candidates with the state election only 4 weeks away on the 25th of March.

Source: NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet set to kill off the Liberal Party in NSW at the state electionKangaroo Court of Australia

Negative nellies – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In the world of Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, the Albanese Government’s ‘Voice’ process is a stunt to get re-elected. This is the same Susan Ley that added the extra ’s’ to her name in her 20s because

“I read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality,” she told The Australian.

“I worked out that if you added an ‘s’ I would have an incredibly exciting, interesting life and nothing would every be boring. It’s that simple.

“And once I’d added the ‘s’ it was really hard to take it away.”

In the Morrison Government, as the Environment Minister

Ley approved a Coalition decision to scrap 176 out of 185 recovery plans designed to prevent the extinction of threatened species and habitats, including the Tasmanian devil. This was despite a government call for feedback, which received 6701 responses, all disagreeing with the proposed removal of the recovery plans.

 

Source: Negative nellies – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Victorian politics: Conservative Liberals plan to roll party president Greg Mirabella

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America has arrived in Australia in the form of the LNP

A group of conservative Liberals are war-gaming to roll party president Greg Mirabella and the more moderate members of the powerful administrative committee, prompting fears of a conservative takeover of the Victorian division.

 

Source: Victorian politics: Conservative Liberals plan to roll party president Greg Mirabella

Dutton and the DeLorean – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When Dutton opposes, he is using the same process as Trump – promising to make Australia great again by returning to undefined ‘conservative’ values. As we’ve seen in the USA, the armed followers of Trump’s returning America to greatness agenda mounted a deadly coup on the US Congress while Trump and his assortment of hangers on and media supporters did nothing. Unfortunately, those that should have done so, the leaders of Trump’s political party, his Vice President and Congressional Leaders as well as the media should have stood up to him far earlier – but didn’t. The ‘Convoys to Canberra’ and similar activities demonstrate that the same forces have infected the Australian political system and the Coalition has and continues to provide tacit approval.

Source: Dutton and the DeLorean – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Child poverty, $3.5 billion for tanks, and a government that does not care – Pearls and Irritations

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Hawke promised to rid us of child poverty but then we have had 20 years plus of the LNP

The insanity of all this defies logic. We can see venal capitalism making obscene individual profits for a tiny handful. We see governments, at the behest of the United States, spending unimaginable millions on weaponry that will make us all that little less secure and we have a generation of our youth, being cast adrift for the sake of what amounts to small change.

Source: Child poverty, $3.5 billion for tanks, and a government that does not care – Pearls and Irritations

The Amazing Linda Reynolds… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Anyway, the amazing Senator Reynolds has said that she was the victim of a “hit job” by her political opponents because of what she did or didn’t do with regard to the alleged incident. She also told us something that I found strange which was:

“I haven’t been able to speak for the last two years…”

Source: The Amazing Linda Reynolds… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Will the National and Liberal coalition celebrate its 100 year union?

Nobody is Celebrating

February 9, 2023, marks the centenary of the Coalition Agreement, a milestone in conservative politics that we should note – if only because no one else seems to be doing so.

Source: Will the National and Liberal coalition celebrate its 100 year union?

The radical extremist Liberal Party of Australia

 

Tudge knows full well he’s “out of reach”

The party that calls itself Liberal and describes itself as conservative is neither liberal nor conservative.

Source: The radical extremist Liberal Party of Australia

The Leader of the Opposition says … – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When Julia Gillard was Prime Minister, after every government announcement, action, or inaction the first line of most mainstream media articles on the subject – with predictable and monotonous regularity – began with; “Tony Abbott says …” or “The Leader of the Opposition says…”.

We haven’t been subjected to the same tedious announcements as much since the last federal election, but fear not, it is making its anticipated return.

Source: The Leader of the Opposition says … – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Alan Tudge’s Robodebt RC performance akin to pulling teeth

Will Tudge go down as Australia’s worst ever appointed Minister beating Peter Dutton who was voted worst ever Health, Immigration, and Homeland Security?

And at this point, with the discussion of the onus, it is worth reflecting that a pernicious feature of the scheme is that it simply externalised the department’s work to make the government of the day – and numbers in its budget – look better and to garner favourable media coverage. Of course, the stress, heartache and effort borne by welfare recipients targeted by the program well and truly eclipsed any savings in the Government’s budget.

There was not much point in the program at all if it both failed and didn’t win the Government favourable media coverage.

Source: Alan Tudge’s Robodebt RC performance akin to pulling teeth

Linda Reynolds launches defamation action against Brittany Higgins’s partner David Sharaz – ABC News

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Liberal senator Linda Reynolds is suing Brittany Higgins’s partner over tweets he made that she alleges defamed her.

Ms Higgins was working in Ms Reynolds’ Canberra Ministerial office when she was allegedly raped by a colleague.

Subsequent legal proceedings against the accused were abandoned in October and then a planned retrial was dropped by the prosecution.

In fresh court documents lodged in Western Australia’s Supreme Court, Ms Reynolds has accused Mr Higgins’s partner, David Sharaz, of defaming her in two tweets from the account @SharazDavid in January and December last year.

In the writ issued through her lawyer, Martin Bennett, Ms Reynolds alleged the tweets were “falsely defamatory” and thereby caused her “loss and damage”.

The Perth-based senator is demanding Mr Sharaz pay aggravated damages and interest at a rate of 6 per cent since they were published.

Source: Linda Reynolds launches defamation action against Brittany Higgins’s partner David Sharaz – ABC News

Robodebt scheme ‘set off alarm bells from the get-go’, inquiry hears – ABC News

Terry Carney wears a grey jacket over a blue shirt.

“Had there been public ventilation of what the AAT was ruling … there wouldn’t have been an instant change to or abandonment of the scheme but it would have been a lot quicker than the three or four years that nearly half a million people had to suffer the unlawful raising of debts,” he told the commission.

Source: Robodebt scheme ‘set off alarm bells from the get-go’, inquiry hears – ABC News

The Liberal Party’s Tony Abbott reset

Tony Abbott has emerged as a favourite to fill Jim Molan’s Senate seat. Founder and publisher Dave Donovan examines the latest “generational” scrimmage within the Liberal Party.

Source: The Liberal Party’s Tony Abbott reset

The Iraq war, Fallujah and Jim Molan – Pearls and Irritations

November 2004; Soliders with the Iraqi Special Forces attached with the Marines with 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, A city street in Fallujah heavily damaged by the fighting, November 2004

The late Jim Molan will be remembered for many things. Few will remember him for the widespread violence by Coalition troops under Molan’s command during the brutal assault on Fallujah and other Sunni cities during the illegal occupation of Iraq in late 2004.

Source: The Iraq war, Fallujah and Jim Molan – Pearls and Irritations

Vote No Because Climate Science Isn’t Settled And Greta Isn’t An Expert… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It would be wrong to suggest that the Liberal Party is racist. Ok, they’re being led by Peter Dutton who did walk out on the Apology, but he acknowledged that he shouldn’t have done that because people keep bringing it up and he has to argue that it’s only the African gangs who are calling him racist. And it was the Liberal Party who argued that the Apology wouldn’t solve the practical issues and wouldn’t help to close the gap and that practical solutions like sending in the Army is the way to improve the lives of the ordinary Indigenous man and by helping men you’re also helping women so don’t you dare say that we’re sexist.

Obviously, when you see that the Liberals opposed the Apology and now are questioning the Voice to Parliament on the grounds that they would do nothing to actually improve things and that they’re largely hollow gestures, you have to ask why the Coalition haven’t done a lot more about improving things.

To be fair, the Coalition has only been in power for twenty of the past twenty-six years.

 

Source: Vote No Because Climate Science Isn’t Settled And Greta Isn’t An Expert… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Bail for first ‘ISIS bride’ to face court sparks political furore

Susan Ley was a greater threat to Australian citizens when in the Morrison government. However, she still remains a greater threat than Miriam Rudd is today and we don’t know what she’s been planning as her next move as Dutton’s Deputy. We do however know she’s been planning not on raising children like Miriam Rudd in her very Australian extended family that fought to bring her home.

Why is the media calling this a “political furore” supporting the LNP’s efforts to create one? Miriam Rudd is an Australian citizen accused of a crime but an Australian citizen nevertheless and has the right to be here

“We don’t know where these people have been resettled. We don’t know which communities have been put at risk. We don’t know where they are moving in and out of,” Ms Ley said.

Source: Bail for first ‘ISIS bride’ to face court sparks political furore

The LNP: Do they ever learn? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

after the people of Australia resoundingly voted against the LNP in order to kick that repugnant little war mongering garden gnome, John Howard to the gutter, did the LNP learn a single thing about humility, compassion and not to use war, hate and xenophobic racism as a distraction against their inherent corruption,…

Does Australia really want a repeat performance by these lying, conniving parasites whose only legacy is $1 trillion in debt whilst thumping their chests and cynically bragging that they are the “best economic managers”!!!!?

The resounding answer should be:
NO! NO! DEFINITELY NOT!

Bloody hell!

Source: The LNP: Do they ever learn? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Liberal Party – a broad church or a house divided? – Pearls and Irritations

John Howard

Howard started the ball rolling chasing money held by the religious right.

The results of the ANU’s 2022 Australian Election Study confirm that the Coalition was undone by the pandemic, the economy, and a highly unpopular Prime Minister. However, they also suggest that the Liberal Party’s ‘broad church’ is an increasingly untenable edifice.

Source: The Liberal Party – a broad church or a house divided? – Pearls and Irritations

‘Scandal, disunity and instability’: Liberal review focuses on perceptions but it’s substantive change that’s needed | Paul Karp | The Guardian

Morrison

The review is strong on how internal party processes went wrong but its push for change is not sufficient

Source: ‘Scandal, disunity and instability’: Liberal review focuses on perceptions but it’s substantive change that’s needed | Paul Karp | The Guardian

Anti-China rhetoric damaging to Liberals – Michael West

The Liberals have a history conducting politics at a cultural level Morrison saw  political advantage of dividing the nation during the Cronulla riots and he continued to apply it with “stop the boats”. Multiculturalism was never an LNP value as much as it was a political opportunity. The Lebanese Muslims Chinese Africans Indigenous Australians all felt the two-face sting of the LNP handshake. If and when for a moment they were seen as an economic benefit it came with a smile quite readily followed by a political slap in the face. Dutton was a master at spreading Liberal hate.

The Liberals have been urged to rebuild the party’s relationship with members of Australia’s Chinese community as a key priority in the wake of its election defeat.

Source: Anti-China rhetoric damaging to Liberals – Michael West

Morrison government’s record spend on advertising

Graph showing annual federal government spending on advertising campaigns

Morrison the Salesman

. In the first six months of 2022, the previous government was the biggest advertising spender in the country.

Source: Morrison government’s record spend on advertising