Britan GONE from the EU.
The polls were tight but all the pundits and betting agencies were so sure the punters would do as they were told and vote to Stay.
Wrong
Remeber back to the Qld Election. All the pundits said the LNP would be returned Easily?
Wrong. Labor won a tight contest . Silly Punters said the media.
Now one week to go till our Federal election and most of the polls have labor just ahead or at worst 50/50 we are still being told the punters will fall into line and Saint Malcom will win .How stupid are they.How do they know just by talking amongst themselves. The “talk in the pub” is a common term I hear some right wing Broadcasters use.
How would they know? They wouldn’t have been in a working class pub in years. Unless to visit the toilets maybe.
One week to go and nothing is settled .I am not saying labor will win, nor am I saying they will lose, but with things so tight it amazes me that these so called experts pitch out such confident predictions. I look forward to some humble pie eating if Labor do win but I guess the chances of that happening are the same as Syd winning a dog show .
Not impossible but highly unlikley.
Bar is open
and Jukebox is free
One week to go
THE PUB 
Bugger the guillotine, too quick. Their greatest punishment would be to made to live on the dole and deal with Centrelink for the rest of their lives.
Kaffeeklatscher,
I’ll go out in the pouring rain and blunt the blade if you like.
Don’t forget to bring the rust.
But srsly, for what he did to the NBN Truffles deserves to go down in history as one of the nation’s greatest disasters and traitors .
He does indeed, Kaffeeklatscher.
I’ll add some tetanus bacilli and a rare but effective Amazonian poison to the mix.
I will strew rose thorns in his path.
I did not see the Sales interview of Turnbull on 7.30 tonight but i understand she gave the most hard-hitting, incisive, aggressive foot-rub he has ever had.
She let him waffle on and on. Should be worth another 1% to Labor 🙂
Yeah, he could only bound after it.
Sure did Had him shaking in his seat. The smile never left PM’s face. Such a great mutual adoration society I haven’t seen in years,
My cousin aged about 72, who has boasted for the best part of 50 years that he has never voted for ALP and never will has just confided in me that he has some tumours in his bowel and needs a lot of hospital treatment. He is going to vote ALP this time because he is worried about medical and hospital bills.
He is a strange bloke, hates spending his money on anything, especially himself, but is a generous donor to charity.
i am so sorry this has happened to your cousin. i hope his tumours turn out to be non-worrisome ones and he recovers quickly.
Me too.
Sometimes it’s worse to have a dear one ill than being ill yourself.
Kambah Mick,
I wish your cousin a great recovery, and hope his conversion lasts.
From over the road but as a Boomer I agree. The children of full employment, affordable housing and free varsity ‘edumacation’ were indecently keen to deny that to the next generation.
For example, Bruce Chapman?
The new Lord Mayor of London rocks.
And it’s goodnight from moi.
in defense of the babty boomers
It is the undoing of the benefits of the Baby Boomer generation that is causing all the problems. As a late baby boomer I am completely dismayed that the younger ‘get rich have it all asap generations’ failed to protect the social structures we fought so hard to put in place. Try getting your hands of your zimmer frames (the conservative generation before us) and out of your iPod screens.(the me me me generations after us), and fight for the social wage we demanded and fought for and won.
I am a bit ambivalent about my cousin. Of course I am sad to hear of him being ill, possibly seriously so, and I do like him and have done so since I was a kid and he was like a big brother. But. For over 50 years he has been more than an enthusiastic voter for the LNP, and often a vocal critic of what he used to refer to as ‘socialised medicine’. Thus he was more than happy to deny the benefits he has suddenly decided are so important to him to others who may even have been in a much needier situation than he finds himself in. He is a good man, a generous man to all, a great worker within his community and a good man to his family, but politically he was a ruthless savage.
Maybe I will feel different about this in a week or so when it has all sunk in, but my personal philosophy has always been “live by the sword, die by the sword”, and I am a little disappointed he has gone to water on beliefs he held so strongly for so long. It is a hard night.
TLBD. The other day I had to string a clothesline in our carport in an attempt to dry some washing on a cold and wet day. When I came home later that evening there was an owl sitting on one of my shirts, resting and observing. It was surprisingly fearless.
What kind of owl, Mick?
Not sure, mate. I don’t know my owls very well at all. Not a Boobook which are common around here, smallish regular looking brownish owl.
kambah mick,
It is surprising sometimes what a good kick of reality does to people’s ideas.
Or Abbott, for that matter. “Protest votes” are a) misdirected, and b) potentially dangerous.
Mission accomplished, or the biggest morning-after-the-poll hangover ever?
The twits are too quick for me… #greatescape
“There is no escape.”
“Cooler!”
etc.
On the bright side, they already have a tunnel.
_Had_ a tunnel.
Discussion ABC RN BCC. The vote leaving EU is not going to solve the problems that are making people angry, Nothing to do with EU.
Have concerns for when the voters wake up to this., Problems within their own country,
Good morning Dawn Patrollers this first post-Brexit day.
Never mind Shorten and the CFMEU what about this shady mob’s influence over Turnbull!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/samesex-marriage-secret-moves-within-coalition-to-hobble-plebiscite-20160624-gprerl.html
Hartcher does the Liberals’ bidding here about Shorten’s union ties.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/bill-shorten-still-owes-it-all-to-the-unions-20160624-gpr19r.html
Now for the difficult bit Boris.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/brexit-boris-johnson-calls-for-calm-after-uk-votes-to-leave-european-union-20160624-gprlrv.html
David Wroe looks at the different types of fallout from Brexit.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/brexit-australia-will-be-hit-as-world-will-become-more-fragmented-less-safe-say-experts-20160624-gpr9jb.html
Michael Pascoe really lets fly at the UK and the xenophobic impulses that led to the vote.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/brexit-bugger-britain–its-the-world-that-counts-20160624-gprgy2.html
The political earthquakes that will hit the EU after the Brexit vote.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/brexit-result-an-earthquake-in-the-politics-of-europe-20160624-gprani.html
The SMH editorial on the Brexit vote and how it highlighted disunity everywhere.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/a-disunited-kingdom-and-the-european-disunion-20160623-gppzo6.html
Paul Bongiorno as usual writes a good piece on the travails of Turnbull.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2016/06/25/malcolm-turnbull-faust-among-equals/14667768003405
Paul Kelly on the potential dire consequences of Brexit. Google.
/opinion/columnists/paul-kelly/brexit-win-for-xenophobia-and-economic-resentment/news-story/e79d8e98afbbd3914846d4d65db2c8f4
Adele Ferguson thinks that Labor this week will pull the bank baiting ace out of its sleeve.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/dull-boring-campaign-could-be-geed-up-by-some-bankbaiting-20160624-gpqu9g.html
Lenore Taylor questions Turnbull’s ability to offer stability with his government.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/24/election-2016-malcolm-turnbull-eu-refendum-liberal-party-marriage-equality
Section 2 . . .
Ross Gittins wants a grown-up debate on where we are headed economically. Don’t hold your breath Ross!
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/election-2016-lets-have-a-grownup-debate-about-where-were-headed-20160624-gpqwwt.html
The racism that underlines our inaction on climate change.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2016/06/25/naomi-klein-the-racism-that-underlies-climate-change-inaction
Currency traders shut up shop on the UK Pound yesterday o[setting a lot of people.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/brexit-mayhem-as-australians-rush-to-buy-pounds-20160624-gprfuv.html
How the Internet of Things (IoT) has been changing the world. Google.
/technology/how-boffins-have-changed-the-world-and-made-internet-of-things-a-reality-20160623-gpqdqq
Peter FitzSimons on the Footy Show dinosaurs and their ilk.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/the-fitz-files/with-friends-like-these–sam-newman-pours-petrol-on-eddie-mcguires-fire-20160624-gpqwhr.html
Mike Seccombe tells us how the establishment of the Parliamentary Budget Office has been an outstanding success.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/06/25/the-success-the-parliamentary-budget-office/14667768003408
Catholic schools go political again and send letters home urging parent to not vote for The Greens.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/election-2016-catholic-schools-urge-parents-not-to-vote-for-greens-20160624-gprbvs.html
Keenan’s outrageous betrayal of his role in dissing Anne Aly.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/michael-keenans-accusations-of-anne-aly-are-an-outrageous-betrayal-of-his-role
Karen Middleton says that political parties are finding donors harder to come by.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/06/25/parties-find-campaign-donors-harder-come/14667768003414
More shocking stuff from the Royal Commission and the ADF.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-senior-staff-ignored-shocking-abuse-royal-commission-told-20160623-gpqsfm.html
Is it possible that there will be criminal charges resulting from the operation of detention centres?
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/immigration/2016/06/25/criminal-charges-possible-detention-centre-operations/14667768003417
Peter Martin writes about the Scope BusinessDay
Section 3 . . .
Peter Martin writes about the Scope BusinessDay economic outlook being quite a bit less positive than that in the budget.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/scope-economic-survey-worse-on-most-measures-how-the-businessday-forecasting-panel-sees-201617-20160619-gpmmua.html
The New Matilda wonders why the Murdoch press is so keen to hammer Islamic clerics over their stands on homosexuality yet ignore the same hateful stuff from rabbis.
https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/24/we-call-out-homophobic-clerics-but-what-about-the-rabbis/
The tales of three deaths illuminate Victoria’s inquiry into end of life choices.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/06/25/victorias-end-life-choices-inquiry-and-tale-3-deaths/14667768003413
Cameron’s teflon cockiness has worn off.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/david-cameron-resign-teflon-cockiness
And now Woolworths cops it from the Fair Work Ombudsman over its rampant exploitation of trolley workers.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace-relations/rampant-exploitation-of-woolworths-trolley-workers-revealed-20160624-gprari.html
Jacqui Maley on the cynicism and stupidity of the SSM plebiscite.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/antigay-marriage-cause-doomed-and-scott-morrison-knows-it-20160623-gpq9g0.html
Trump’s political suicide mission.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/donald-trumps-political-suicide-mission-20160624-gpqxny.html
Section 4 . . . Cartoon Corner
Ron Tandberg – don’t mention the banks!
Mark Knight catches Boris pulling up the drawbridge.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/bdfb69a2bae5e4421f07a7038b3359f0?width=1024&api_key=zw4msefggf9wdvqswdfuqnr5
David Rowe and the UK swimming pool.
And David Rowe drops in on Eddie McGuire and his mates on a typical Saturday.
Bill Leak’s head injury is still giving him some problems.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/10a61eb8dfe9d9fa8ba74f013587b35b
Ron Tandberg and the right wing rump of the government.
lizzie over the road posted this eerily familiar description of ‘Dave’
Remember as the pound plunges and the markets slide that this entire referendum was called by David Cameron to fend off Nigel Farage and his own Tory ultras. There was no public outcry for a ballot – but for the sake of a bit of internal party management, he called one anyway. He gambled Britain and Europe’s future to shore up his own position. With all the confidence of a member of the Etonian officer class, he thought he’d win. Instead he has bungled so badly that the fallout will drag on for years, disrupting tens of millions of lives across Europe.”
“All this from a man who sauntered into the job of prime minister “because I thought I’d be good at it”. He rarely showed any reason for such self-confidence. His plans to modernise the Conservative party crumbled upon first touch with the banking crisis, which forced him and Osborne to reheat the Thatcherite economics they’d imbibed as students. The “big society” turned almost immediately back into the “small state”. At No 10, he launched an austerity drive that was meant to be over within five years, but is now scheduled to go on for double that. Other prime ministers handed power for a long stretch come up with ideas, policies, a style of governing that defines them: Thatcherism, Blairism. What was Cameronism, apart from a hectoring manner at PMQs and an inability to keep on top of detail?”
“You’ll be reminded endlessly over the next few days how tight this referendum was – that half the country didn’t vote for this. Quite right – and also serious evidence of the weakness of the prime minister. At the last referendum over Britain’s future in Europe, in 1975, Harold Wilson secured a whopping majority. Never a man to ask a question of whose answer he wasn’t absolutely certain, he got a landslide. But when Cameron was handed the full resources of the British state to run this campaign, he still couldn’t count on anything more than a small lead in the polls. A born member of the governing class, he simply wasn’t able to govern.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/david-cameron-resign-teflon-cockiness
Oh Good Lord!
After Brexit, U.K. Residents Google ‘What Is The EU?’
And other sad things.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/brexit-what-is-the-eu-google_us_576d2dfee4b0dbb1bbba3911?section=australia
On the Liberal campaign launch –
Spenser, tick. Long johns, tick, heavy coat, tick, knee high ugg boots, tick. We’re almost ready to go to the footy and it’s only 2 minutes away from our fire. Won’t be staying for all the Seniors game.
Wishful thinking? Maybe not ……
Malcolm Turnbull may lose seat even if Coalition wins the election
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/malcolm-turnbull-may-lose-seat-even-if-coalition-wins-the-election-20160624-gpquy8.html#ixzz4CXqllRjP
I will need at least this outfit today:
Yet another Liberal scandal and AFP referral for the MSM to ignore.
Labor refers Gambaro, Evans to Australian Federal Police
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/labor-refers-gambaro-evans-to-australian-federal-police-20160624-gpri05.html#ixzz4CXtlXSxC
Just a reminder:
Kaffeeklatscher,
That article is a ripper:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/david-cameron-resign-teflon-cockiness
I hate to say this, but young Zac is never going to find work. He might be able to overcome his lack of education, but he’s never going to get rid of that rude, ignorant, arrogant attitude. Would you employ him? I wouldn’t.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/25/down-and-out-in-petrie-where-young-people-need-more-than-just-promises
Can we just admit that we have a number of people of all ages, not just ‘youth’ who are unemployable, and no amount of government funding or election campaign ‘plans’ is going to change that.
There is a solution though. This is where giving everyone a guaranteed minimum wage, a basic income payment, call it whatever you like, comes into play. Instead of wasting millions of dollars and countless work hours on programs to ‘help’ losers like Zac find work, which will all fail, just give everyone a minimum wage payment, and spend all that time and money on more worthwhile causes.
Give us a break!
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-afp-claims-release-of-nbn-documents-could-endanger-national-security-20160624-gpqzc1.html
Lenore does M R-D
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/25/too-many-variables-and-too-many-disaffected-but-narrow-coalition-win-likely
The Regrexit shows just what can happen when the right wing of conservative parties get together with the right wing of the media.
Monkey Pod and News Ltd perhaps?
Fox News reported the UK had voted to leave the UN.
Fox News Reports UK Has Left The UN After EU Referendum Vote
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fox-news-eu-referendum_uk_576cea04e4b08d2c5638e59b?edition=uk&ir=Canada§ion=ca_canada&
Government Refuses To Release Secret Modelling On Uni Deregulation
https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/no-modelling-for-you?utm_term=.mk0Jma1rm#.lxb8GAJgG
When is Labor going to release those costings? Will Shorten take advantage of tomorrow’s Queensland launch and do it then? Time is running out.
Did I miss the LNP launch already?
“I know what your thinking. Has it been seven weeks, or only six? Well to tell you the truth, in all this ‘excitement’ I’ve forgotten myself. So you have to ask yourself one question: do you feel lucky? Well do you, punk?”
The Brits are like the dog that chased the car and caught it.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160624/its-impossible-not-to-feel-ashamed-to-be-british
ICYMI: Yes Minister — Why Britain Joined the European Union
Angela is not happy:
http://www.thelocal.de/20160624/merkel-brexit-has-cut-into-european-unity-eu
“Did I miss the LNP launch already?”
Nope. It’s tomorrow. Fizza is doing it somewhere in Craig Laundy’s electorate of Reid, which is extremely marginal. The redistribution made it more Liberal-friendly and Fizza will be desperate to hang on to it. With any luck Craig will be unemployed on 3 July.
Turnbull has been to the western suburbs of Sydney more times in the past few weeks than in his whole life, I think. He will be relieved when the campaign finishes. No more slumming it out west and no more need to pretend to like using public transport.
It’s worth mentioning that Fizza has lived his whole life in a tight little area in the eastern suburbs except for the time he spent at Oxford on that damned Rhodes scholarship. Even when he was at uni he had a flat close to his father’s Point Piper home. What an unadventurous type he must be. We sometimes accuse people who have lived all their lives in the one little country town of being insular or isolated, but Fizza has lived his whole life in a very small part of Sydney. Smaller than a lot of those country towns, when you think about it.
(No attempts at quoted tweets – I’m sure you can join the dots.)
This was supposed to be a regular comment, not a reply.
A barrel of wiffle dust to aisle 3, please?
David Pope on Brexit. Says it all really.
And Alan Moir has a late one on Boris and Brexit.
That does it. I’m almost convinced that recreational fishermen have fish-scales for brains!
Not really, but I’ve just spent 15 minutes being shouted at because the ALP are apparently in cahoots with the Greens to encircle the whole country in marine parks and fishing exclusion zones that will not only prevent commercial, but recreational fishing as well. Nothing at all like the policies I’ve been reading from the ALP, but what do I know? I’ve just been reading and talking about ALP policies with folk for a few weeks now *sighs*
The reason being that a 2013 hysteria piece from The Australian that was put out on recreationalfishing.com.au in the last couple of days and now has the rec.fishers in hysterics about being prevented from enjoying their favourite pastime. Not even pointing to the policies that the ALP have made available seems to be getting through.
I’m starting to suspect that this could be the start of the ‘dirty war’ that we have been expecting as the polls shift ever-so-slightly towards the ALP…
‘Scuse the rant. I love my fisherman mate, but there are times when I start to wonder just which of us is supposed to be the hysteric *sighs some more*
Keating enters fray to support Albo and bash Greens
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/paul-keating-launches-withering-attack-on-pathetic-greens-20160625-gprqr1.html
Adam can’t resist usual Fairfax tosh, that it can be seen as Keating’s blessing for Albo to challenge for the leadership after the loss. I don’t anyone’s yet preparing for a loss, Adam.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/06/25/the-success-the-parliamentary-budget-office/14667768003408 worth a read
http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/scope-businessday-economic-survey-cut-negative-gearing-not-company-tax-economists-say-20160624-gpqx5k.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-25/european-union-tells-britain-to-leave-quickly-after-brexit-vote/7542948
http://labornotes.org/blogs/2016/06/south-korea-independent-labor-leader-faces-eight-years-jail
A variety of views on Brexit
It will take an age to recover from this victory for the exit fantasists
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-will-take-an-age-to-recover-from-this-victory-for-the-exit-fantasists-zzfpxsc66 The Times is normally paywalled, but not this
Brexit: New Labour should have listened to ‘racist’ immigration concerns years ago
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brexit-new-labour-should-have-listened-racist-immigration-concerns-years-ago-1567237
Brexit earthquake has happened, and the rubble will take years to clear
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/brexit-earthquake-has-happened-the-rubble-will-take-years-to-clear
David Cameron is finished. His failure over Europe will define his place in history
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/david-cameron-is-finished-his-failure-over-europe-will-define-hi/
Kelly O’Bigmouth starts to get nervous
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-under-fire-kelly-odwyer-scuttles-twitter-joke-while-peter-costello-rushes-to-her-aid-20160625-gprqtb.html
Does this really sound like a party that is likely to win?
A little song for Waffles & Co