Friday 29th of March 2024

and on the election hustle and bustle malcolm visits a cemetery...

malcolm visits a mortuary...

Musician/songwriter and well known as the front person for ‘Rocky and The Two Bob Millionaires’, Rocky Dabscheck has a bit of fun with Malcolm Turnbull on the campaign trail. 

 

Monday — M.T. at a hospital 

M.T. …… “There’s never been a more exciting time to be diagnosed with a serious illness. You are creating jobs and growth for our health sector.” 

Tuesday — M.T. at a nursing home

M.T. ……. “There’s never been a more exciting time to be so old, frail and decrepit that you can’t look after yourself. You are creating jobs and growth for our aged care sector.” 

Wednesday — M.T. on Manus Island

M.T. …….“There’s never been a more exciting time to be an asylum seeker in one of our detention centres. You are creating jobs and growth for our border protection sector.”

 

 


Thursday — M.T. at a Centrelink office

M.T.  …….  “There’s never been a more exciting time to be unemployed. You are creating jobs and growth for our employment placement sector; and our public servants.”

 



Friday — M.T. bumping into ex P.M. Abbott somewhere in Sydney on the campaign trail

M.T.  …….  “There’s never been a more exciting time to be an ex P.M. You are creating jobs and growth for our logging industry, providing paper for all the books published about your demise." 

Saturday — M.T. at an outback Indigenous settlement 

M.T. ………  "There’s never been a more exciting time to be an Indigenous Australian. Think of the jobs and growth you first Australians are creating for many white people via our intervention policy.” 

 


Sunday — M.T. relaxing in a trendy café in his electorate, sipping on a latte as he watches Australia play France in a soccer friendly

M.T. ……..

There’s never been a more exciting time to have a coffee and pastry, read the Sunday papers and watch the Socceroos. Think of the jobs people like me create for small business owners.

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Interviewer…….  “That’s OK. Well Prime Minister. How do you think the campaign is going?"

M.T. ……… 

“Wonderful. There’s never been a more exciting time to say “ jobs and growth,’ and I’ve been able to say “ jobs and growth’ ad nauseam all week. I’m very excited."

read more: https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/malcolm-turnbull-on-the-campaign-trail-with-rocky-dabscheck,9085

 

malcolm is confused about his attempt at confusing us...

The Conversation's Dominic Kelly analyses the deep-rooted connections between the Liberal Party and the IPA and their current tiff over superannuation.

IN THE LATEST in a long line of hyperbolic statements, Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) director John Roskam recently likened the Turnbull Government’s language on superannuation to that of two self-declared socialists: U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Roskam believes that Malcolm Turnbull – he of the $200 million net worth – would rather attack the wealthy than cut Government spending.

Though not formally linked to the Liberal Party, the IPA is generally sympathetic to its aims and has shared many key personnel over the years. The dispute over superannuation is an interesting development in a relationship that can alternate between constructive and tense.

Shared history

A group of prominent Melbourne businessmen founded the IPA in 1943 in the wake of the United Australia Party-Country Party coalition’s devastating election loss.

Inaugural chairman G.J. Coles (founder of the Coles supermarket chain) outlined the IPA’s approach.

He said it

"… did not wish to be directly involved in politics but it wanted to help create a modern political faith, which would be constructive and progressive and which would receive a large measure of public support."

Coalition claims that its superannuation changes will only affect wealthy are 'simply incorrect', IPA says https://t.co/2sz1eRheN9 #ausvotes

— ABC News (@abcnews) May 31, 2016

Concerned the Labor Party was leading Australia down a path of central planning and socialism, the IPA set out to develop and promote an alternative vision. To that end, it published a 70-page pamphlet titled 'Looking Forward: A post-war policy for Australian industry'.

One person paying close attention was Robert Menzies, who in 1944 described the pamphlet as:

"… the finest statement of basic political and economic problems made in Australia for many years."

Many of the policies outlined in 'Looking Forward' were incorporated into the platform of the Liberal Party, founded the following year.

Though the IPA and the Liberal Party were characterised in their early decades by a mildly Keynesian, interventionist approach to the economy, since the 1980s both have switched to a more hardline neoliberal philosophy — embracing free markets, lower taxes and trickle-down economics.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-liberal-party-the-ipa-and-australias-agenda1,9082

 

We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.


~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author 

a soft-sell self-coup...

self-coup (or autocoup) is a form of putsch or coup d'état in which a nation's leader, despite having come to power through legal means, dissolves or renders powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assumes extraordinary powers, not granted under normal circumstances. Other measures taken may include annulling the nation's constitution and suspending civil courts. In most cases, the head of government becomes a dictator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

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We can be assured here that little Malco, our new Napoleon, has worked the numbers to get "legitimately" elected by a fake induction of double dissolution based on a false premise that "only unions are corrupt". The royal commission into unions was a complete farce, but actually not. It was a tragedy — an exercise in abuse of powers by the rabid right wing of this what-used-to-be-fair country.

Not only that, the Greens and some other "independent" senators (including Xenophon), voted in favour of killing the only chance to stop little Malco becoming a rabid dictator with a "mandate". These senators were happy to bastardise the constitution for their own hypocritical gain, but in retrospect, they might be the only one to loose... Xenophon included...

 

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mopping up the crossbenchers for an exciting time ahead...

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By contrast, every parliamentary vote for the Coalition is a free vote, technically at least. We haven’t seen a massive culture of crossing the floor in recent parliaments but it will be interesting to see what happens when the underlying dynamic has changed and individual votes matter. My judgment is Coalition MPs who worked hard in their electorates to keep their seats in the middle of an anti-government swing, keeping doubts they had about the national campaign to themselves, will be in no mood to play lemmings, lining up meekly at the cliff face, once the new parliament rolls around.

So back to the sum of the parts, the prime minister (whether he governs in minority or majority) will have to approach the new parliament in a spirit of genuine collaboration, courting crossbenchers while finding the time to duchess his own people and keep them happy.

I haven’t even arrived yet at the Senate (I suspect we’ll all need a stiff drink before contemplating that) and, of course, there’s the task of managing the conservative faction, a group who still view Turnbull as the enemy. Colleagues this week are saying the prime minister must include more up-and-coming conservatives to stabilise his own fortunes and the broader fortunes of the government. The names around in dispatches are Zed Seselja and Michael Sukkar.

So where have we landed? Turnbull’s task is, quite simply, enormous. Not impossible, but enormous.

The prime minister has spent much of the past 12 months telling us all there’s never been a more exciting time to be alive.

How right he was.

read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/08/isnt-this-an-exciting-time-to-be-alive-malcolm-turnbull