42 days to go Friday Night

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42 days to go until the election and I think week 2 was a clear winner for the ALP.

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Shorten clearly won the debate last Friday Night 

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And despite a few hiccups ( Feeny you idiot ) are clearly beating the libs on policy.

The polls though close are in labor’s favour

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The coalition train seems to have come of the tracks.

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They are running around putting out spot fires like changes to super,the medicare rebate freeze and Mr potato head Dutton. 

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So I an pretty optomistic and happy this Friday. I know there is still a long way to go but i,m going to enjoy it while I can. 

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Who wants to join me?

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882 thoughts on “42 days to go Friday Night”

  1. Election 2016: Bill Shorten parks his bus in Malcolm Turnbull’s Wentworth heartland
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-bill-shorten-parks-his-bus-in-malcolm-turnbulls-wentworth-heartland-20160522-gp0s5h.html#ixzz49QdkmXWD

    Another point of difference – Shorten is 49 years old, fit, very fit, and seems to be thriving on his campaigning. (He has said a few times he is enjoying the campaign.)

    Turnbull, however, at 61, looks haggard and old. He’s not going to do the Bondi-Clovelly run, it would kill him.

    Turnbull was born on 24 October 1954. That makes him 64 this year. When he became PM last year he was the third-oldest man to be sworn in. John McEwen was the oldest, 67 when he stood in for three weeks after Harold Holt disappeared in December 1967. William McMahon had just turned 63 when he took office in March 1971.

    Turnbull was 60, just a few weeks away from his 61st birthday.
    http://australianpolitics.com/2016/02/25/youngest-and-oldest-prime-ministers.html

  6. I thought devout Christians were not allowed to tell lies, but that doesn’t seem to worry ScoMo.

    The treasurer Scott Morrison is speaking to Ray Hadley. ScoMo is riffing with Hadley about the dangers of a Labor government. The talkback king says he would be “filthy” if Labor wins because he would have to front Chris Bowen as treasurer.

    Adam Bandt would be deputy treasurer, says ScoMo.

    Sarah Hanson-Young would be running refugee policy

    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/may/23/australian-election-2016-turnbull-shorten-coalition-greens-labor-politics-live

    A Bible verse for ScoMo –
    Proverbs 13:5
    A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.

    • He gives Hadley a lot of I/Vs knowing he will not get anything other than a friendly time. But Hadley is unhappy about losing some of the tax perks of super. He won’t actually campaign against him, but he makes sure Morrison gets “… a lot his listeners are very unhappy.”

      ScoMo’s in a nice little wedge. He’d like to help out Hadley and friends but he’d be overruled by Cabinet. The reforms are probably some of the input Martin Parkinson has given towards budget repair.

  8. Unintentional polly watch (of the worst kind). Went to the shops this morning to go to supermarket. Got off the bus and spotted Senator Zed Seselja and three suited goons, handing out Liberal stuff and generally schzmoozing the public.

    Crossed the street to avoid them. He will most likely be re-elected. What a farce Senate representation is here in the ACT. Two senators for a population of 400,000.

  9. Not many posts today, which may be due to the Telstra-NBN crash. Frustrating but possibly good news for Labor in keeping Fraudband in focus.

    At Portland we have long had a very mediocre ADSL connection. It’s barely faster than dial-up. But one virtue seems to be that we’re outside the areas affected by the crash. There are plans to bring in “NBN” to Portland via wireless, which is a long way short of the real thing. Even then it’s a bit hit or miss depending on your address. I’m in an area not covered in the near future.

    peere are enough voters seriously pissed off about Malcolm’s patchwork quilt of a system. It blew up enough of a smokescreen for voters to not understand how they were dudded. Now they will get some idea. Not the least concern is the sellout to Telstra, the very reason the NBN was created to avoid.

    • I don’t even know what that “peere” was supposed to be. (I’ve had some keyboard misses which may or may not be related to the crash. I likely intended “I hope there…”

    • GD 1

      This is very informative. Where is your closest NBN connection? (Has it reached Warrnambool yet?) Doesn’t Portland (Victoria) have a population of around 10,000. Wireless to a population of 10,000 doesn’t make sense I presume we are talking about the same Portland?

    • Only just got your post, Trev. Problems with WordPress downloads at times.

      In answer to your queries, I was in Warrnambool before my earlier marriage ended. I left there for Portland at the beginning of 2014. I haven’t kept fully in touch with Warrnambool since then. Under the original NBN, Warrnambool was pretty low in the pecking order. I think about 2019 at earliest, which was frustrating with Ballarat soon to get it at that time. I’m not sure what changes they’ve had since, or whether Warrnambool’s moved up the priority list. That’s quite possible because with the surrounding district, there’s a market of about 45,000 to 50,000, although the city is about 35,000.

      What was frustrating was that a lot of local infrastructure (even with the later date) was gearing up to setting use in the high-speed system. The council, the hospitals in the area, the TAFE and Deakin University were all keen for the NBN, particularly with the high volume of upload and download capacity. It’s possible they’ve moved up the pecking order, but it’s a bit of a waste without the premises connections. Warrnambool’s phone exchange was burnt out at the end of 2012, leading to huge problems. It is possible that the rebuild might’ve been more with fibre structure, which would be some help.

      Yes, Portland is as big as you thought, probably about 11 or 12, 000. It doesn’t make much sense, or serve a lot of advantage, to have an NBN wireless system because you lose the major advantage of bandwidth. I suppose the political advantage is the ability to say, “Look, we’ve got the NBN! Ahead of time!”, which is a con and probably useless with that sized population.

      And if it’s wireless, I cannot for the life of me figure out how my street, 2km from the town centre, cannot be included, but that is what the computer searches show.

  10. Well pubbies I have just been told by a older couple that I should stop bludging on welfare, get of my lazy arse and get a job. I am a dsigrace .
    NowI admit I was looking a little shabby but all I was doing was waiting outside the noosa centrelink office for a old mate that had to go there to change his details as his wife died not long ago .

    I,m going out too look for a job now.

    • ” I,m going out too look for a job now………I may be gone some time…”

  11. Just watching a bit of a doco’ on SBS. about a fool of a king ; Ludwig of Bavaria in the nineteenth century…What a f#ckin’ wanker and a waste of human resources. No wonder there was a bolshevik uprising in that part of the world..if the Czars were as useless as he was!

  12. This mish mash of a NBN. is an act of betrayal upon the entire country that in another age would have cost Turnbull his head!….It is so bleedin’ obvious , after all that rubbish of “faster, cheaper etc.” that Turnbull sold us out to Murdoch and Telstra.
    Here in the mallee of SA. we have been taken off the wireless network and dropped into the lap of Telstras mobile broadband network…truly a hit and miss affair. We used to have a “Gateway” modem with three aerials that picked up the wireless signal and when it started to play up, we thought and were told that the modem was knackered…and it would be replaced with a you-beaut 4G. Advanced modem….which in reality turned out to be nothing more than “a mobile phone with a shit screen” quote- unquote. and because the mobile signal is so piss-weak out here, we had to purchase a booster and couple up to a splitter for the ethernet cable as the wi-fi signal was not strong enough or consistent enough to stand alone in the house.

    Of course we weren’t told any of this and i only found out after checking forums on why I could not get a decent broadband with this new 4g. system.

    I was just then on the blower to a mate in Darwin and he too has the 4G. Advanced and he too is frustrated with what he still believed was the wireless broadband…and HE is in Darwin very central!…So this problem is all over Aust’…except perhaps in Point Piper et al.

    That bastard Turnbull has betrayed and sabotaged the national infrastructure vital to this nation, all for a foreign national…THAT is treason!

  13. It was quite funny really. I was just sitting there on a bench outside and the sat down as well. It is terrific weather here at the moment and being a friendly sort of fella I just said nice day,pity the poor buggers that have to work on a day like today. Bad move on my part. The old bloke goes So you don,t work. Nope i replied cherrily .I was just about to say i was lucky enough to retire but didn,t get the chance. Bludger he snarled, why don,t you get a job.” Because I don,t want to” was my reply, instantly getting more wrath from him ,then the wife chimed in with the disgrace comment.. Stunned I was. Maybe they had their pension knocked back or something but they were one cranky couple. I just said Righto, and got up and went for a stroll around. My mate thought it was hilarious when I told him about it and then he got cranky with me for not stringing them along further

    • It’s funny how people jump to conclusions.

      I used to get ‘But you don’t look like you are on a pension’ when I was a single mum on welfare. I’ve never been able to work out how I was supposed to look.

    • Yeah but you just reinforced the perception that anyone on “centerlink’ is a bludger…Christ, Joe!..here WE are trying to redress that perception and just when you get a chance to put a deluded in his place, you “take a walk’!…Now..There they go and tell all their network what their experience with those ‘dole bludgers’ and how the LNP. is sooooo right in cutting welfare!

      Next time you see the old bastards, at least sink the boot in!

    • Lovely comment on Turnbull and the dog –

      sebastian johann 11m ago
      while Bill Shorten Meets struggling families, Malcolm is greeting rich women carrying their $1500 designer dogs. Says it all

  15. leonetwo

    I should have said I was on a disability pension because of my drug habit. That would have gone down well.

    • You should have told them you’re currently on parole on an aggravated violence charge. And then ask the lady if she’d like to repeat what she just said to you.

  16. https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/laundy-goes-in

    http://www.centraltelegraph.com.au/news/revealed-seeneys-role-in-lnp-leadership-coup/3024710/

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/electoral-comm-defends-decision-to-withdraw-funding-from-libs/7435900

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/former-liberal-treasurer-calls-for-donation-overhaul/7435856

    http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/content/s4467236.htm audio interview spokesman for Newspoll (Galaxy), David Briggs

  17. I thought at the time the best thing to do was get up and leave before I either burst out laughing or abused them back. But you always do think of the best retorts after the event.

  18. The complaint about Pat O’Neill’s campaign billboards came from homophobic Australian Liberty Alliance candidate Bernard Gaynor.

    Why would anyone take anything that loon said seriously?

    Federal election 2016: Pat O’Neill army uniform billboard not ‘controversial’

    There’s nothing new about this. Last year at the Canning byelection Malcolm Turnbull appeared on a how-to-vote card with (now Canning MP) Andrew Hastie in his SAS uniform and I don’t think there was a controversy at that time.
    “We just don’t see this as overly controversial

    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-pat-oneill-army-uniform-billboard-not-controversial-20160522-gp19m0.html#ixzz49SgCfvn3

  20. Has anyone heard the libs speak about BOO UNIONS since the election was called?
    Isn’t that the reason for the DD election?

  21. joe6pack

    Don’t worry that will be front and centre soon. Thanks for your tales of your adventure today, had me giggling to no end.

    • Nice to see First Dog getting a bit of a thumping in the comments. Labor voters have had enough .

    • If you do, would Mrs Joe6pack please be kind enough to take some photographs and post them here?

  26. mrs 6pack will not be doing that. She is quite disgusted about the whole thing and some choice words have been spoken about people assuming things. Lucky for the old couple she was not there or they may have felt the wrath of 44kgs of abuse back.

    In thier defence i was a little shabyy. I had just finished mowing the yard when I was informed I had to drive our friend to centrelink. The vitriol was what got me

    • Last Thursday I was driving someone down to Portsea who expressed disgust at the amount of money wasted on dole bludgers was sending Australia broke

      In a nice tone of voice I silenced her with a few factoids
      1. Newstart is 6% of GDP
      2. Aged pension is 12% of GDP
      3. Superannuation tax concessions cost more than Aged pension
      4. 20% of Australian workers are unemployed and under employed ie there are 11 qualified applicants for every position filled

      failed to mention

      1a, 20% of the money spent on Newstart is actually paid to the multi nationals who administer Job Network

  28. From the AFR’s live election blog

    http://www.afr.com/news/politics/election/election-2016-live-political-donations-budget-spending-in-spotlight-20160522-gp177g.html#live_1009521681

    Young Nats ‘shocked’, ‘disappointed’ by Barnaby Joyce’s comments

    01:51 PM Primrose Riordan

    NSW Young Nationals Chair Jessica Price-Purnell said she was ‘shocked’ and disappointed after Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce was quoted as saying the junior wing of the party had ‘bullshit ideas’.

    But Mr Joyce has since clarified to Young Nationals federal president Ruby Cameron, who also works for Michael McCormack, and Ms Price-Purnell that he was referring to his dealings with the youth wing during Queensland’s National Party premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s time in office and not the current party.

    At the time, the Young Nats in Queensland were seen as highly conservative.

    In the article he said of the Young Nats: “they’re real zealots and they drive me f…ing crazy. They come up with bullshit ideas, which, if you progressed them, would definitely get you kicked out of power”.

    Ms Price-Purnell said she and Ms Cameron has spoken to Mr Joyce and his office and he had explained he was not talking about the current youth wing.

    “We were disappointed at first but we are more than happy to accept his explanation that is wasn’t about us. It was certainly a shocking thing to read,” Ms Price-Purnell said.

    Last year at their annual conference, the NSW Young Nationals passed a motion supporting same-sex marriage and a free vote for the partyroom. Mr Joyce has not been a supporter of same sex marriage.

    Ms Price-Purnell said the Young Nats saw it as their role to encourage the party to have difficult conversations, which she said was respected by the Nats leadership.

    “We push conversations…That’s what we really pride ourselves on is pushing those difficult conversations,” she said.

    …………………..

    (its a follow up from a quote in this http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/cross-country-20160510-goqh5v.html)

  29. Heh, several years ago I had walked my chihuahua to the local supermart. I was wearing a tracksuit I should have discarded some time ago. On coming out the shop and untying Tiffany I was staggered that two different people offered to go and buy me a bag of dogfood! Tiffany was nice and trim but no way starved. Guess the old ratty tracksuit made people take pity on me and they thought Tiffy was underfed (as if!)

    Clothes do make the man, to some extent at least.

  30. Cormannator interviewed by dog fancier Kenny, a tight run race between “jobs and growth” and a claim about Labor and a supposed $100 billion extra spending (taxes). Will be fünfhundert Milliarden by campaign’s end.

  31. Political Animal,

    Apparently it never occurred to you that they intended the dog food for your good self. Remember how a few years ago the Libs were trying to infer that some members of the community were so poor that they were reduced to having to buy tins of dog food. 😉

  32. Looking as though you had the arse out of your trousers and not looking as though you yourself were overfed, would have been a dead give-away, I reckon.

  33. Oh dear

    Another private economic consultancy is planning to release modelling of Labor’s negative gearing policies, warning the ALP’s proposals will “create market chaos” and be “difficult to police.”

    …

    It was prepared by Brian Haratsis, MacroPlanDimasi’s executive chairman and a member of the Property Council of Australia.

    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/23/labors-negative-gearing-policy-would-push-up-rents-leaked-modelling-shows

  36. Draft report intended to discredit Labor on negative gearing linked to Scott Morrison meeting

    Research intended for use in a bid to discredit Labor’s negative gearing campaign was commissioned after a meeting between Scott Morrison and a close friend and senior figure in Australia’s property industry.

    But the draft report contains a series of factual errors and makes bold claims of a “resale price cliff” and “social dysfunction” that have alarmed some in the real estate industry to whom it has been circulated
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-draft-research-intended-to-discredit-labor-on-negative-gearing-linked-to-scott-morrison-ally-20160523-gp1c04.html

  44. Just got back from the town hall meeting with Bill Shorten.

    Excellent reception for Bill and standing ovation afterwards. But of course most where probably Labor voters but still a very good reception.

    Most topics where covered Health, Education, NBN etc. NBN policy to be released later so no news to offer.

    All in all a good time was had by all.

  45. Just watched Q&A and it only had Pyne and Albo on. Be thankfull that Bill won the leaders job. Albo is too soft and lacked killer punches as he let Pyne get away with telling lies without correcting him.

    Surely the ALP could be be better prepared when they go on these shows and have a set spiel to nail the LIBS when they come out with the bull that Labor left them a mess.

    Labor never seems to tackle this and the number of times it is said it has got to register with voters.

    • The Labor MPs who go on Q&A are often the ones who can’t handle Jones and the Lib MP. I suppose the strong ones are not invited.

    • Agree that Albanese was a bit too laid back although I think he answered the questions more comprehensively than Pyne and did get a few points in. They really need a short sharp narrative to hit back at the “Labour mess” wouldn’t take more than 20 words – highlights of term (considering the paucity of this past lot – the bar is not that high!) and the fact that this government has trebled the spending. I also think that the budget “surplus” furphy needs to be addressed but the ship might have sailed on that one. Also when they talk about spending big on Medicare – might hit back at what the cost will be to the public purse if preventative medicine does not happen and medical issues then are more serious down the track.
      One thing I did notice last night is that the messages/tweets sent in were mostly against/critical of this Government – that was good to see. Pyne is a good “performer” – shame some people are taken in by it.

    • Doesn’t explain why we didn’t even get the speeds the Liberals promised, does it?

      So, what’s the timeline on the NBN boil down to? Something like this:

      – Labor promise NBN delivering 100Mbs minimum, and provide costings
      – Labor actually start rolling it out, to general delight
      – Libs say it costs too much, and nobody needs that much speed
      – Libs provide alternative, 25Mbs and cheaper roll-out
      – Public collectively go, “oh, all right, have it your way then”
      – costs blow out
      – broadband speeds barely reach 6Mbs
      – ongoing costs of replacing copper wires create further blowouts into future
      – FTTN revealed to involve further massive costs to connect it to home
      – NBN Co and Libs seek to hide all the details of this fiasco
      – AFP raids – apparently politically motivated – during campaign
      – Pyne,says, “Ah, you all wanted too much anyway”

      Honestly….

  48. I note the Coalition have started upping the “If you see something, say something” ad campaign on terrorism. Trying to capitalise on a perceived ‘strength’. But it’s a pretty weak tactic, seeing as nobody’s talking about terrorism at the moment.

    And their old favourite. They’ve made claims about Labor’s negative gearing policy that were clearly unsubstantiated, just brainfarts designed to give them a semblance of opposition to the idea. Only real estate agents backed them, up against pretty much a consensus of economists saying the changes won’t impact house prices or rents. So they shop around for anyone willing to be complicit with them and cobble up a ‘study’ that – lo and behold! – backs up every single one of their talking points.

    In other words, this collection of venal, self-serving chair-warmers expect us to believe that those things they said – that they couldn’t even argue effectively at the time – were prescient, far-seeing, as the studies roll in months later backing exactly what they were claiming. Little tip, guys – this stuff works a lot better if you arrange for the ‘analysis’ to be written up before you start making the claims. That way you might be able to claim some authority instead of looking like you’ve browbeaten some professional saps to repeat your slurs. Dumbclucks.

  49. Pyne and his damn internet speeds.

    I just checked mine, using the government website.
    https://www.mybroadband.communications.gov.au/default.aspx

    I have ADSL2, equipment in excellent condition and a Telstra landline recently checked and repaired, so everything is as good as it can be. It hasn’t rained in weeks either – rain can bugger up my connection and my speeds.

    So –
    Download speed – a lousy 6.87 Mbps
    Upload speed – .93 Mbps
    Latency – 46 ms

    Not great. It used to be better, but since Netflix arrived my speed has dropped. That might be coincidence, might not be. All I know is I now have trouble viewing videos, where I didn’t even a few months ago, I get a lot of buffering where I used to have none, and trying to watch a movie via the PS4 can be difficult,and it used to be perfect.

    There’s no NBN here, we were supposed to get the NBN right about now, but then came Turnbull. Now there isn’t even a date available.That might be a good thing. I’m not interested in Turnbull’s FFTN mess.

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