Tony Abbott has warned cabinet ministers they face consequences if they are caught leaking, as he sought to draw a line under government divisions on same-sex marriage and urged colleagues to stay on-message.

The prime minister emphasised the need for cabinet discipline during a meeting of theCoalition joint party room meeting on Tuesday.

But the cabinet did not resolve a clear way forward on same-sex marriage when it met on Monday night, and with no cabinet meeting scheduled for next week there is the potential for the issue to drag on.

The comment about cabinet ministers facing consequences was interpreted by some MPs as an attempt to appease backbenchers who have been dismayed about the public divisions at the highest levels of government about the form and timing of a community vote on same-sex marriage...

read more: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/18/tony-abbott-warns-ministers-they-will-face-consequences-if-caught-leaking

At least Hitler had a few glorious years in the sun...

Since his appointment by Uncle Rupe as Turd-in-Chief, Turdy Abbott has shown within a few days  — actually since 1981 when he got his Rhodes Scholarship processed by a CONservative jury for being a promising turd — he has shown he is worse than Colonel Cathcart...

Remember Catch 22? Cathcart is described as "industrious (meaning busy-body), intense (meaning mad), dedicated (meaning obsessed) tactician (fucupper, breaking china like an elephant) who calculated day and night in the service of Himself."

Cathcart knew he was smoking cigarettes with a cigarette holder... while carrying his own sarcophagus and had valorous opportunism in his budgie holder... Turdy knows nothing...

Angry farm organisations have learned they will be caught by changes to federal environmental laws aimed at stopping “environmental saboteurs” using the courts to delay big projects, but agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce says some individual farmers may not.

After the surprise announcement of major changes to federal environmental law on Tuesday, the Abbott government spent much of Wednesday making conflicting statements about which part of the laws it intended to abolish.

But by the day’s end it confirmed it would try to repeal all of section 487 of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act – contrary to an answer given by the responsible minister, attorney general George Brandis, just hours earlier, and contrary to confidential speaking notes mailed to all MPs that morning.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/19/farm-groups-fear-coalition-move-to-restrict-environment-challenges

Pomposo, — insolent and loud
Vain idol of right-wing crowds
Whose very name inspires a spew
Whose every word is to screw you
Who, cursing flattery, is the tool
Of every fawning, farting fool
Who wit with jealous mayonnaise
And sickens at another's praise;
Who, sneakily seized of learning's Rhodes
Now damns all porkies but his own...