At least he’s safe from a spill for the simple reason that nobody wants the job. And at least he can content himself that he’ll be able to run a better campaign than Rishi Sunak, who announced the election in the rain and managed to get himself photographed standing under an exit sign.
Source: The Strangest Things About The Liberal Party This Week! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Can he overcome his acute unlikability? If he is to have any chance of winning the next election, he must undertake a personality makeover. The only state that shows any endorsement of him is Queensland. That’s understandable, given his petulance of the authoritarian leader. It’s a Trump style that Australian conservatives seem to be adopting en-mass.
National Security was also blown up in the News Corp media when the US was considering banning Tik Tok because of its connections to the Chinese Government. Foreign Affairs Shadow spokesman James Paterson was reported widely claiming ominous national security consequences with respect to election interference if Australia did not follow suit.
It did not occur to anyone in the mainstream media, it seems, that the ever-present threat to Australia’s national security on the matter of election interference has for decades been the dominance in Australia of the foreign owned News Corp by the American Rupert Murdoch.
Source: Is Peter Dutton or News Corp leading the Coalition? – Pearls and Irritations
The Liberal Party has been replaced by a neo-conservative one, actively supporting rich individual identities against a collective one, and old-style Liberalism no longer has a voice.
Labor, as is usual, has come to power during a crisis and is managing its wimpy grip on power, unable to make the hard decisions it knows it promised less Dutton denies his support yet again. There is little or no difference between the Liberals and the National Party, who seem irrelevant as a political force in doing anything that benefits our democracy.
Dutton regularly proclaims what he opposes, but what he will do in terms of new policies mostly remains a mystery or alternatively will not work.
Source: What does Dutton stand for? – Pearls and Irritations
Israelis around the world having been army-trained and have gained a reputation for being greater criminals than any Palestinian families out of Israel. They are often single and known around the world for being involved in varied criminal. Drugs, Prostitution, and simply muscle for hire. But that is something you would never hear from Dutton it would upset the the Israeli (Jewish) Lobby.
With the current arrivals from Gaza – some 340 or so have managed to drip themselves from the Palestinian territories – the bedwetting fantasies of terror being induced by the opposition seem absurd and callous. But absurdity is a proven calculus for electoral success – at least sometimes.
Source: A Copper’s Skewed Logic: Politicising Palestinian Visas – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Yes, I know people tell me that I shouldn’t call Dutton by that name. It has been pointed it’s upsetting and cheap and commenting on a physical resemblance that he can’t help is not fair. However, I simply reply by reminding people that Voldemort is a fictional character and therefore won’t actually be upset by the comparison…
If you look at the position Dutton takes on just about any issue, it’s worth asking who is actually going to be swayed into voting for him based on what he’s said.
Source: I’m Not A Racist Butt… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Now, I know that some of you are thinking that – after the years from Abbott to Morrison – it’d be a much bigger shock to find that there wasn’t a liar in the Lodge, but that’s not what I’m finding so perplexing about the latest attempt by the Coalition to gain some political traction.
Source: Peter Dutton’s Unequivocal Position! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Dear: Good evening. Yes, it’s a shameful decision and a weak decision. I mean we’ve never turned our backs on the United States. Whenever they’ve asked us to be involved in any war anywhere we’ve always done what we were told and anything less is, well, pretty weak, frankly.
Dear: It’s just typical of you lefties! You have nothing to offer so you attack the person. It’s pathetic! It’s weak, just like the PM is weak. You resort to name-calling like when Albanese said: “Sit down, Boofhead!” to Mr Dutton. I mean, he was terribly upset and it took great courage to sit down after that. Mr Dutton is a lovely man and insults hurt him…
Source: Peter Dutton And Albo’s Special Sort Of Weakness… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The consequence of neutering the ABC and allowing the consolidation of private media has resulted in the media chaos we now experiencing. Privatization has been sold as the big dream but it has only resulted in Oligarchs, a Plutocracy, and a concentration of interests that doesn’t allow diversification to thrive or a political party to serve all citizens the best.
Australia can’t be a functioning democracy unless voters understand policy platforms on offer and the stakes. Unless we properly control dis- and misinformation in the civic space, we have little chance to vote well. Albanese must find a backbone for his own sake as well as the nation’s.
Australians had the opportunity to accept our invitation in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’. Only they had the power to decide whether to accept or reject constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by voting “Yes” or “No” on a representative body enshrined in the Constitution.
I hope I’m wrong, but everything around me is saying that today Australia will reject that invitation. It will choose to leave our hand outstretched.
Unlike elections, the thing about referendums is that there really is no hiding the truth.
The very essence of a psychopath is lying, A psychopath will lie without guilt, or any remorse to get you merely as an object to do what he wants you to. Donald Trump is one Tony Abbott is one and so is Spud. History has shown that psychopaths with the backing of the “For Profit” mainstream media can shift nations. It’s impossible for a psychopath and a media system operating in unison can possibly deliver anything for the common good of a nation. Empathy and information were simply steamrolled while the world watched Racism rise and at one and the same time was being denied. How the fuck does that work Dutton is no David Copperfield Australia.
‘No’ voters have not only denied First Peoples a means to improve their systemically disadvantaged lives they have also endorsed Dutton’s Trumpification of Oz politics where truth, integrity and fidelity are entirely dispensable.
Source: A farce only a monster could love – » The Australian Independent Media Network
This is the Department Peter Dutton controlled I meant didn’t wasn’t it? He had is finger on the pulse of Home Affairs and Immigration didn’t he? Or wishing it was on the pulse of two opers a major decision saying Yes rather than Nope for spud. All forensic examinations by experts reported that these departments were dead and should have been buried. The cause MURDERED by the LNP due to lack of care and policy.
What a fabulous trove The Pezzullo Papers are. The hundreds of recently disclosed text messages sent by the Home Affairs Secretary Mr Michael Pezzullo to a person described as a “Liberal Party powerbroker” are morbidly fascinating. Poor Pezzullo – in a few days he attracted as much public commentary, most of it unflattering, as platoons of traditionally reticent departmental Secretaries would cop in their lifetimes and afterwards.
there is more than enough evidence that the regulation of official behaviour by values and principles, including “stewardship” for Secretaries, and a code of conduct, has been insufficient. Thus, the relevant provisions in the Public Service Act should be thoroughly re-thought with a view to making the rules less ambiguous, possibly more prescriptive and better able to support a non-American kind of public service. ( The Steve Bannon Principle a Partisan Public Service)
Mr Pezzullo’s present prominence is a reminder of the credit he’s been given for his hand in the creation of the Home Affairs portfolio. This may be his gravest mistake as the portfolio contradicts just about every sensible principle of organisation design that can be imagined. It’s as if it had been set up to be the tragic failure it has been. And it’s not as if it is too big – there are many bigger agencies. Nor is too powerful – there are many more powerful, such misplaced concerns likely being agitated by Pezzullo’s pushfulness and willingness to attract attention and create enemies. The real problem is that the portfolio is organisationally nonsensical. Therefore, the Government should take the chance to:
We can analyse and cast blame all day long, but if we have Hanson and Bolt and various others celebrating the defeat with the sort of hyperbolic nonsense about apartheid, then it probably doesn’t actually help Dutton win support for the next election. His cunning plan may hurt Albanese, but it will also leave him in a limbo with nowhere really to go. Will he support a legislated Voice that isn’t in the Constitution? Will he support “practical solutions”? Will he call for the army to go Alice Springs?
If you’re trying to understand what it means “to go to hell in a handbasket” simply take a glance at recent history and government ruled by the LNP, particularly in the past decade. Then listen to Peter Dutton try to tell you that a deficit of a trillion dollars is really nothing when it was 3rd of that under the ALP. Who saved the country from the GFC. Listen to Peter Dutton tell you the ‘working poor” are better off today because unemployment is down and casualized labor up. That the “pink bats” scandal was the worst and bigger than any ever seen under the LNP. How many more fingers do you need to count the 5 deaths than those because of offshore detention, Covid, and Robocop? Listen to him Ley and Cash tell you the ALP was never as united as the LNP are today and why Fraser, Hewson, and Turnbull all jumped ship and left the party. Then evaluate what it means to go “to hell in a handbasket” with a media-driven Trump-like PM called Scomo who is still sitting on the back bench smelling like rotting fish
The Voice may not be perfect, it may not answer all the questions but it’s a start and just like most other changes we have seen in our lifetimes, won’t lead us to hell in a hand basket.
Source: To Hell in a Hand Basket – » The Australian Independent Media Network
THE HOST of ABC TV’s Kitchen Cabinet, Annabel Crabb, took to Twitter/X at the weekend to denounce what she perceives as an ‘orgy of outrage’ from users at the appearance of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on her show.
Source: Turning politicians into celebrities won’t excuse their crimes
He is a carrier of PTSD and as such entitled not to be blamed for passing it on so generously, to so many others in an even more intense way like 10 years and more of detention. Dutto is one of the lucky ones immune from future debilitating breakdowns. Peter Dutton truly believes by passing PTSD on to others they to0 should understand and become more like him.
The ABC’s Annabel Crabb has taken on the role of his publicist and try to show us just what a ‘nice guy’ spud, the ex-cop, turned $300 multi-millionaire now is. She tried ever so hard to contact Stuart Robert, Lind Reynolds, and others to her show their nicer sides too. However, they were far more camera-shy due to their PTSD and no longer believed in miracles due to their condition. Annabel’s producers promised however to keep on trying.
Apparently, Pete has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
At least, this was part of the insightful discourse to which the national broadcaster subjected viewers on its latest Kitchen ‘Counter-Information’ Cabinet episode, featuring the culinary skills of hard-hitting host, Annabel Crabb, and the Liberal Opposition Leader.
Source: Dutton reveals PTSD battle on ABC’s ‘Kitchen-Counter-Information-Cabinet’
“The National Indigenous Australians Agency has written to Coalition senator and no campaign leader Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to flatly deny her claims that it told her the Uluru statement from the heart was a 26-page document, again confirming it is a one-page document…
Source: (1) “The… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
There’s something quite terrible about what’s happening in Australia. If I can sum it up it goes something like this:
There’s a suggestion that the Indigenous population will be given a Voice to Parliament but unless I know what they’re going to say I don’t think that they should be allowed to speak.
Paladin majority owner Craig Thrupp defended the transfers which are under investigation by the anti-corruption watchdog.
Source: Paladin majority owner paid $1.2 million to his mother who was working at Home Affairs
Don’t wait for Peter Dutton to tell you what Peter Dutton thinks, he’s still waiting on his “Advisors”, they’re feeding him the bullets. Meanwhile the real history of the Dutton years in Australian politics will be that new lows can always be found and regardless of the question, No is always the answer.
So incensed was I with the Leader of the Opposition’s response to the Royal Commissions report into the Robodebt Scheme that for a brief moment, I actually felt sorry for him.
However, in an equally brief deliberation, I realised that it was us, the people, that my sorrow was better directed. We deserved more than what Peter Dutton gave us. The Leader of the Opposition’s standing is fundamental to our democracy because he leads the alternative Government and therefore represents its philosophy and policies.
But alas, when responding to matters of importance, he attacks with all the ferocity of an angry Abbott or a lying Morrison. Let me explain his reaction to the Commission’s report in four instances.
Source: A Robodebt response from a leader full of loathing – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“We were just doing the job you voted us to do” Isn’t this the politicized excuse of all corrupt governments?
Opposition leader Peter Dutton claims the Robodebt royal commission was politicised from the very beginning and apologised to people impacted by the illegal debt collection scheme.
Source: Claims govt milked political advantage from Robodebt – Michael West
The recent proposal for legislation to require social media companies to crack down on misinformation and disinformation has some positives but it’s also something that needs careful consideration. For a start there’s a big difference between misinformation where a person is just repeating incorrect information because they believe it to be true and disinformation….
So leaving aside the areas of dispute, it does seem strange when Sussan Ley gets up in Parliament and asks if the Voice will be able to advise the Reserve Bank… I mean, leaving aside the whole idea that the Reserve Bank is independent and doesn’t even have to listen to the government and the Voice is a voice to Parliament and the Executive and it doesn’t mention the Reserve Bank anywhere in the Referendum so you might as well ask, “Will the Voice be able to give advice on what shows I should watch on Netflix?” or “Will the Voice be able to give me advice on whether I should add any extra letters to my name in the hope that it gives me extra ssuccesss?”
But apart from Sussssann’ss absurdity, there does seem an underlying element of the Voice being just a bit too uppity. You know, stepping outside their area. You know, giving advice to more than just, well, things that should concern them… You know… like well, I’m not racist but we know that some of those people, you know… And, you know, if they were to express an opinion, you know… I mean, as if they’d know, you know… As if it’d be worth listening too…
Well, I’m not racist but…
And as for Peter Dutton, well, he’s a swell guy who just wants what’s best for everybody and the idea that foreigners could come here on boats and disrupt the whole way of life for those living here is something that only convicts from a couple of centuries ago should be able to do. As for African gangs, that wasn’t racist because we all know that African gangs are scarier than Caucasian gangs… Don’t believe that leftie stuff about Dutton! He’s a swell guy with a great sense of humour… Don’t you remember his great joke about Pacific Island people having no sense of time with water lapping at their door? Not racist at all.
Source: How The Voice Will Force Us All To Become Vegans! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
About $375 million in contracts have been subject to scrutiny, all won by clients of a company part-owned by his friend and former fundraiser, Synergy 360, which lobbied on behalf of multinationals looking to win Australian government tenders.
Mr Robert opened doors for their clients and gave advice to them while serving as an MP, an arrangement that first drew calls for Mr Dutton to relieve him of his frontbench duties months ago.
Source: National Times – With Robodebt report looming, Dutton prepares for… | Facebook
Yes, when Peter Dutton says that we don’t want a Canberra voice, I wonder if he realises that one of the voices from Canberra that most people don’t want to hear, is his!
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he has HUNDREDS of Indigenous mates who think The Voice is total bullshit, but you probably wouldn’t know them because they live ages away in another suburb.
Satire, Truth in Humour, Irony, Punching up,
Now before the fact checkers get stuck into the headline, I’d like to withdraw it and admit that the Coalition did not leave a trillion dollar debt, it was, in fact, a mere $889,000,000,000. However, headlines aren’t about accuracy; they’re either clickbait or some sub-editor’s way of making some pun that is neither funny nor actually connected to the topic.
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
“When we talk about the voice, we’re not talking about a voice to be heard. We’re talking about our voice to be listened to,” he said.
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
What is not amusing is Spud’s response to the proposed referendum for an Indigenous Voice To Parliament. Just as Donald Trump gave permission for the worst of American society to be open and proud about how stupid and ugly, they really were Spud’s “No” campaign has given permission for the racists to be openly racist – albeit clothed in the pretense that they actually give a fuck about the welfare of our Indigenous fellow citizens.
Source: The Abominable No Man – » The Australian Independent Media Network
What if the ALP wins and nobody believes it?
The April Fool’s Day by-election in Aston is no laughing matter for Peter Dutton, who has been told the vote is a de-facto judgment on his Liberal leadership.
Source: No joke for Libs with April Fool’s Day by-election – Michael West
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
The LNP went down without so much as a whimper on May 21 2022. It was a defeat one could blame on many factors; race, misogyny and right-wing MPs of the Liberal and National parties. And those same people are still around today. You know who I mean – yesterday’s men who still believe it’s their right to rule.
The Liberal’s defeat could also be blamed on factors such as a lack of policies, flawed leadership, consistent failures while in power, and poor economic management. However, the main reason was that the public had finally caught up with the Americanisation of our politics. Its leader Scott Morrison played a lone hand in a presidential-style campaign.
“Know your place” is a phrase used in the past by members of the Liberal Party when they observed, in their view, members of the Labor Party acting above their station.
The lessons of the last election should have left an indelible scar on those involved in the Luddite politics of the past decade. Have they not understood that the people, in their judgement, said they had had enough of their rancid unempathetic behaviour? Yet they go on unmoved as if nothing transpired while trying to give the Leader with a public image of a racist bigot a personality transplant. Queensland excepted.
But the attacks led by the Opposition leader Peter Dutton could have a fatal effect on the proposal. He knows that history tells us that without the support of the opposition, the referendum won’t pass. That is unless the people vote as they did in the election and decide to confirm their thoughts of May 21 2022, with a resounding yes vote that shatters conservative negativity for decades to come.
Source: Know your place – » The Australian Independent Media Network
LNP POLITICS BEFORE FACTS
But what evidence is there that Labor’s decision to abolish the card has played a role in rising crime in Alice Springs?
Official crime data compiled by the Northern Territory government, meanwhile, shows that almost all types of criminal offences were on the rise before Labor’s cashless debit card changes.
“Pearson said detail would be in legislation made by the parliament but the referendum was about the constitution.
“It’s the parliamentarians who have the responsibility to come up with the detail,” he told ABC Radio.
“The Australian people are being asked to vote on a constitutional amendment. All of the power lies with the parliament and it’s a complete diversion to demand these details.”…
So, this hardworking team – officially known as the Bi-Annual Liberal Strategy and Campaigning Secretariat (BALSACS) – is currently meeting in Biarritz to develop new and innovative strategies to promote Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party.
Source: It’s beginning to look a lot like rictus ─ for Dutton’s Coalition
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