Yes, stop Morrison from being the next bludgeoning marriage consoler counsellor. "Stop the bludgers"? Where are they? Most of the people I know are either dead from overwork or working their arse off without being able to make ends meet. If there is one bludger on this good land of Australia it is Tony Abbott who is hell-bent on destroying the working social fabric of this country. Further more he is the one who milked the government for his little personal enterprises like promoting HIS book and "charitable" pedalling... Yep, the biggest bludger in this country is TONY ABBOTT... 

News limited goes beyond the limit of decency yet again... but we should not expect anything more from the bastards who write crap for the merde-och press... And please, boffins with a pen, stop writing puns in headlines as if it's news... It's not. It shows your gross infantile character that is still in nappies...

Finally one barnacle has been removed from the Abbott Government, and just in time for Christmas: Arthur Sinodinos is gone as assistant treasurer, writes Mungo MacCallum.

After months of procrastination, Arthur Sinodinos has been informed that his resignation as assistant treasurer has been accepted, whether it was offered or not. And to seal the compact, the resignation was leaked immediately, just in case there could be any second thoughts.

The embattled senator, it will be recalled, was invited to the ICAC to shed some light on the shenanigans involving Australian Water Holdings (AWH), the dodgy company promoted by disgraced entrepreneur Nick Di Girolamo and his ally Eddie Obeid. The Commission was particularly interested in the fact that large sums of money had been remitted from the firm to the federal Liberal Party, and felt that Sinodinos, in his joint role of AWH director and Liberal Party Treasurer, might be able to help.

But alas, Sinodinos knew nothing - an important qualification for a front bench position within the Abbott Government. And he is convinced that, in the end, he will be vindicated and indeed reinstated. He may be right: the only certain things against him are plausible denial and insensate greed, the latter from the hope and expectation of a multi-million dollar windfall from a shonky deal he was pushing on behalf of AWH. As far as his political colleagues are concerned, these are certainly not serious offences - indeed, they are more matters for congratulation.

But in the meantime Josh Frydenberg takes over as back up for Joe Hockey, recently crowned in the polls as the worst treasurer in a generation: something of a poisoned chalice, but a chalice nonetheless - prospective ministers can't be choosers. And Sussan Ley gains promotion, but mainly through headlines reporting her as a second token woman as female company for Julie Bishop - Abbott has played the gender card again. There is some movement among the junior ranks, but at the top it looks more like a case of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. The big loser is David Johnston, dumped in spite of Abbott's fulsome (in the correct sense of the word) praise just a fortnight ago. Kevin Andrews and Peter Dutton have been moved to Johnston's political death zone of Defence and Scott Morrison's demolition area of Immigration respectively and Morrison himself gets Social Security with an opportunity to prove that he can be as brutal with welfare recipients as he has been with refugees. And so the ship founders on.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-22/maccallum-sinodinos-and-the-reshuffling-of-deckchairs/5982908