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The horrible Australian federal election

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Joan Mon 26-Aug-13 13:05:05

I can't stand it any more. The press is entirely in the hands of Rupert Murdoch who is using his newspapers to shamelessly bad mouth Labour (the ALP) and promote the Tories (The LNP). The hateful rhetoric is all around, and the truth is well hidden. Was it always this awful? Maybe the older I get the less I can handle it. Anyway, I've written an allegorical poem/song.

Eloethan Sun 08-Sept-13 22:54:07

And that is what is laughingly called "democracy".

Faye Mon 09-Sept-13 00:45:53

Apparently the National Broadband that the Labor Party were proposing was a threat to Murdoch's Foxtel's interest.

I am now waiting to see who is the new Labor leader, hoping it is not Bill Shorten who was one of the faceless men who originally was involved in sacking Kevin Rudd from the Prime Ministership and replacing him with Julia Gillard.

Bill Shorten who is being considered as the next Labor opposition leader left his wife for the Governor General's daughter who was also married but pregnant to Shorten. The Governor General Quentin Bryce is much more interesting and very glamorous seventy year old woman.

Joan Mon 09-Sept-13 01:40:05

Neither Bill Shorten nor Anthony Albanese have said they'll do it yet. I like Albo, but he doesn't look too good on camera, which shouldn't matter but it does.

Mind you, Abbott is an ugly bugger on both the inside and the outside. I wonder how long before the velvet glove will come off: in the last month he's been uncharacteristically nice.

There is always the chance Abbott'll get rolled eventually in favour of the much more presentable Turnbull, who does not have Abbott's history of aggression and nastiness. Time will tell.

Meanwhile all Abbott's anti-environment and anti-boat people plans will get stuck in a hostile Senate. Honestly Machiavelli would feel quite at home in Canberra these days!

thatbags Mon 09-Sept-13 07:36:33

A view from Sydney.

Greatnan Mon 09-Sept-13 08:22:07

Melanie Phillips, Britain's most right-wing journalist, is a devout admirer of Abbott!

bluebell Mon 09-Sept-13 08:47:24

GN - well that says it all!

Faye Mon 09-Sept-13 10:06:49

baggy I am not surprised that Rudd could be seen as a Narcissist. His solution for asylum seekers when he became Prime Minister again shows he has no empathy. He previously acted as though he was a caring person but this time around he thought he might get more votes by outdoing Abbott regarding refugees. He lost my vote for the Labor Party and lost the votes of many other people too. This election they didn't even get my second preference for that reason. Abbott would never get my vote for the Liberals, he is an idiot!

thatbags Mon 09-Sept-13 11:06:20

Not a great choice then, faye! Ah well, even a spoiled ballot paper is a vote.

Faye Mon 09-Sept-13 11:37:50

Baggy I voted Greens, I would never waste a vote. smile

JessM Mon 09-Sept-13 18:59:06

I always thought rudd got away with a lot as a baby faced man, who looks quite benign. He sounds from that article, like a complete nightmare to work with. Interesting that Gillard did not bad-mouth him. I wonder if the campaign would have gone better if they had not stabbed her in the back when they did.

Joan Mon 09-Sept-13 23:04:52

I think it is true that disunity caused the fall - you know, all that in-fighting. But the nature of the Left is to fight: working class conservatives are usually ones who accept what's dished out to them: working class lefties are usually the ones who refuse to put up with injustices; instead they fight back. We just can't help it. And alas, that fighting spirit has been turning in on itself when the party cannot agree on various issues.

Maybe this devastating loss will make the ALP all realise who the enemy really is.

Joan Mon 09-Sept-13 23:14:06

Oh, and here are the cross bench Senators:-
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/senate-who-new-crossbenchers