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SIAbbott Turnbull Renaissance
Ah… memories!

Remember how they moved the Budget forward so that the timetable for a DD would fit the Constitution?

Remember how important it was to “reform” the Senate so that cross-benchers couldn’t dominate it?

Remember how vital the ABCC bill was? And how the journos told us that this time Turnbull had a sure-fire election issue? Yep, the Great Reckoning of 2016 was going to be on industrial relations: unarguably a Coalition winner.

(This was after the election was also centered on States rights, income tax, education funding, negative gearing, boats, and of course, terrorism. Turnbull had shown us all “how it’s done”).

Remember how “bold”, “brilliant” and “decisive” Turnbull was? Or so we were informed, breathlessly.

The long election campaign was going to do Bill Shorten slowly. He’d run out of steam by the end of it. Not to worry that the Coalition ran out of steam instead, and Turnbull had to chip in $2 million to buy the party the last fortnight’s worth of telly. “Jobs and Growth” hammered at us from all directions, on all channels, day and night and night and day: that did the trick.

They might have used the $4 million the NSW Electoral Commission was withholding, but Baird would have had to say where their real money came from first (and with so many apartments going up all over and above Sydney, and tunnels beneath it, admissions like that might have caused embarrassment in certain circles).

Remember Mediscare? How absolutely ridiculous it was to say that Turnbull intended to hive it off, bit by bit! Another Labor lie! Geez, that’s all they do! Malcolm got the AFP onto them. But even they yawned.

And at last we’d get some sense on Climate Change! Malcolm had already shown in 2009 that he was prepared to die in a ditch for that. He was sure to do it again, just as soon as he finished slagging off South Australian windfarms, and thenVictoria for closing down dirty brown coal.

We were going to have an exciting Innovation Nation. We’d all be writing apps, or something. With the CSIRO now leaner and meaner after mass retrenchments, how could we fail? When asked by Andrew Bolt to name three things that Turnbull had done, Eric Abetz famously answered: “Innovation, Innovation, and Innovation.” That really meant something to Australians.

While it might look like nothing’s fucking happened in the over a year since Turnbull came along to turn this somnolent nation out of it antipodean torpor with pure excitement, that’s wrong. Hartcher told us Malcolm was really doing: “Simply governing”. “Governing’s” not sexy. “Governing’s” not exciting. But “governing” is what brilliant minds like Turnbull’s do best. A tactical thrust here on State income taxes, a feint there on 18C or The Plebiscite. A bold advance by massed union-bashing tanks to crash through a weak Bill Shorten, flattening a Labor party riven with factionalism. Malcolm would show them The Turnbull Method, and it wouldn’t be pretty. Kath Murphy assured us he was holding back the brilliance, all the better to deploy it with devastating effectiveness: once he’d gotten an opportunistic” and “cynical” Shorten out of the way, and dealt with the Monkey Pod in swingeing style.

“Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Malcolm was the fairest, after all.”

Turnbull Mirror

Malcolm has so many brilliant things to say at any one time, he occasionally appears to be tongue-tied. But that’s an illusion. He simply has trouble figuring out the very best way of putting {whatever-it-is-he-has-to-say} to the simple folk, the little guys like youse and me, so they can share in the inspiration. The hesitancy and what looks like waffling are Malcolm choosing his words carefully.

And there are so many words! There are enough thoughts, bon mots, insouciances, anecdotes and sheer inspirations inside that pumpkin head of his to keep Australia in words for 300 years. We’ll never run out of ’em. If only we could get the Chinese to buy them all, we’d wake up rich and stay that way!

Now that Australia has a sensible Senate with no crackpots, lurk merchants, incoherents, con men, thieves, sleeve-tuggers, gun nuts, tree clearers, religious cranks, CSIRO bashers, spivs, shonks, homophobes, pedophile obsessives, Hansonites, Trump supporters, refugee tragics,  or unelectable slime-bags with less than 100 votes, “simply governing” has become so much easier. Now that Malcolm has his own healthy Reps majority of “1”, and every morning every one of them has to be marked off the roll by Head Prefect Christopher Pyne, can there be any doubt that The People have flocked to his side? Now that Abbott has accepted his lot in life as the Human Doorstop, we’ll have no more aggro from that poisonous little corner, thankyouverymuch. We’ll soon be rid of Gillian Triggs, too. So there.

Now that the Press Gallery’s prediction has come true, and the Ship Of State sails in the right direction, we can get some wonderful, brilliant, exciting things done. Let’s not forget the scribblers were right about Tony Abbott… both times (and all the times in-between). And they were right about Malcolm Turnbull as he dazzled them with charm, brilliance and wit. It’s so so wonderful to have a policy-driven 4th Estate that eschews the temptations of ball-by-ball politics, governance as a horse race and rank partisanship in political coverage, not to say their utter rejection of hero worship. No “Labor Split!” click bait for them! Most of all it’s wonderful to have a press corps that is never wrong, by its own modest (and frequent) admission.

Malcolm is setting us up. He’s getting his ducks all in a row so he can shoot them down with one brilliant bullet. He’s feigning weakness to lull his enemies into a false sense of security. Then he’ll Strike. Etc.Etc.

Pity his enemies now appear to have been those with whom he once travelled in fellowship: gays, Climate scientists, alternative energizers, the Jews in his electorate, IT professionals, human rights advocates and leather coat manufacturers (by the way, what did happen to the leather coats?). More fool them. They fell for Malcolm, hook line and sinker. The only ones who’ve stuck with him are the Gallery and Lucy. Even the cat has left the building.

Any day now we’ll see the Master Plan, from The Master Planner.

  • We’ll learn how Malcolm’s NBN is the best in the world.
  • How Teh Evil Unions have been doubling construction costs so that Bob Day can not pay them even more than he not paid them before. Bludgers.
  • Why 18C is threatening the very fabric of our society.
  • How reducing pensions will toughen up octogenarians and make them more self-reliant.
  • We’ll be ahead of the World in emissions reduction (what am I saying? We’re already out in front! Greg Hunt’s job is done, and he’s done a real job on the environment, that’s for sure).
  • The gulaged in Nauru and Manus will shout with joy as “humanity breaks out” (Kath has a such a way with words, doesn’t she?).
  • Gays and lesbians will fall in love with him all over again, after a peaceful, tender, informed Plebiscite debate has blessed their unions with the traditional generosity towards sexual matters commonly found in key sections of Catholic Church, the Anglicans, the Salvos, the Marists and the Yeshivas, all of whom suffered the little children to be brought to them. And boy, did the little children suffer! The $7.5 million funding to be given out to spread this calming gospel is worth every cent, but only Malcolm Turnbull saw that. After all, the Plebiscite was an election promise, and the Coalition never breaks election promises. Some things remain sacred. Even when Tony Abbott thought of them first. That’s why Malcolm got rid of him. If Labor forces Malcolm to go back on his word (but not, funnily enough, on theirs), you can bet he’ll tell us “They broke a nation’s heart”.

All Malcolm needs now is for the “opportunistic” Opposition to stop Opposing. That’s so 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 (and in the last three they weren’t even the Opposition!). Even Tony agrees. And for the Senate to stop obstructing. And (I nearly forgot) for Tony Abbott to give up the guerilla warfare habits and backstabbing proclivities of a lifetime. Should be easy. The course ahead will then be clear to all, not just the political savants in the Press Gallery. Just all of them stop disagreeing with Malcolm for Chrissake!

Sleepers wake! Our never-been-so-exciting time in the sun is upon us! Certainty has triumphed over brutishness. Civilization over anarchy. We’re playing by Point Piper Rules now. Watch – and weep, doubters – as the well-oiled wheels turn.

Malcolm, the Renaissance Man, is still on his way, but will arriving any day now. When he does, at least there’ll be no need for this type of unpleasantness…

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862 thoughts on “Memories…”

  5. From the NT News’ “Only in the NT” section. I hope the ‘copyright’ part refers to the Jabiru/Sunset logo !

    An unofficial “campaign” dubbed “CU in the NT” has caught the eye of tourism boffins.

    Stickers legal threat

    Tourism officials probe ‘CU in the NT’
    GOVERNMENT tourism boffins will send a sternly worded letter — and if necessary take legal action — over lewd travel merchandise which they say could breach copyright>/blockquote>
    http://www.ntnews.com.au/lifestyle/tourism-officials-probe-cu-in-the-nt/news-story/e21711a95fff6d0ed74b24fcf57f1b1c

  6. Turnbulls stupidity in claiming that Australia was founded on Freedom is the sort of fatuous claim that is losing him support among the better educated part of the electorate. The lesser educated portion never supported him because he is not Tony.
    In a desultory fashion I have been researching my family tree. Although there were about a dozen convicts of the same surname, none appear to be closely related, but nothing is definitive. But when, no doubt, Malcolm would claim that Freedom was ours, in 1852 two of my surname, a boy of 14 and a girl of 13 not apparently related to me were subject to a Police search and a warrant for their arrest for absconding from their place of work without permission of their employer.
    That is the kind of freedom that Malcolm can admire.

  9. It is politically incorrect to say it, BUT, that Patterson drone looks scarily like the guy who sings “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” in Cabaret.

    • A penance in the Godwin swear Jar! Yes thought much the same myself. And he seems to have the same facile way of absorbing half-baked slogans and ideas.

  10. Hillary Clinton has won Dixville Notch New Hampshire 4 votes for clinton 2 for Trump, 1 for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 1 for Mitt Romney (write in vote)

  12. Very sensible

    Laws to ban large mining companies from using 100 per cent fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) workers have been introduced to Queensland Parliament.

    The Strong and Sustainable Resource Communities Bill 2016 would require large resource projects to consider locals for jobs, and ensure local businesses could win contracts and be part of the project’s supply chain.

    The Palaszczuk Government committed to changing the laws before the last election.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/fifo-laws-tabled-queensland-parliament-mining-companies-hire/8006132

  13. Just a strange and passing thought …
    Have just seen a picture of Boromir (from Lord of the Rings) holding his hand in a similar way to a certain political canditate … and the only thought that strayed through my brain was “Boromir bought it in the end”

    I tell you, this particular US election is seriously doing dreadful things to my sense of humour.

  15. Hillary Clinton has won Dixville Notch New Hampshire 4 votes for clinton 2 for Trump, 1 for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 1 for Mitt Romney (write in vote)

    I thought the first place to vote at midnight was called Hartsfield’s Landing! Chuckle chuckle – I know Leone will understand!

    Some background on the midnight voting in these few tiny towns in New Hampshire, from the perspective of the Primaries earlier this year..

    http://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/466073545/3-tiny-new-hampshire-towns-vote-at-midnight-do-they-predict-anything

    • Everything about this election seems like fiction, Hartsfield’s Landing would have fitted right in.

  16. Gippy Laborite

    Looks like you’re in for a busy 24 hours. Trying not to think about it, but have everything crossed for the good gals and guys.

  18. Well tomorrow I will be situated in the Election Bunker at Chez BK for the duration of the US election count. Some years ago the family (justifiably) took the piss out of me for my unerring focus on election counts and put a sign on the door behind which I had US cable TV, desktop and laptop all set up.
    The tradition persists.

  20. I’m looking forward to the next 24 hours too, the results will be nail-biting at the very least.

    I’ll probably be watching the Huffington Post election results come in, since they were very helpful for the 2012 results. What I particularly liked was how each state had a chart that compared the 2012 results at the county level to the 2008 results which then showed the swing for that state very simply.

    It’d be great if that sort of easy-to-read chart was available in Australian elections, but with the ABC defunded so badly it’s unlikely to happen this decade.

  21. Nice to see the polls settling in around the 53-47 area. I reckon if any of them get out to 54-46 there’s going to be some kind of crisis in the Liberal Party. I think I’ve argued before that they can’t get rid of Turnbull. That was primarily because they lose any pretence of ‘moderate’ standing if they dump the guy who represents ‘progressive politics’ (even if it is a mirage). But I guess if they’re out to 54-46 they’ve lost any ‘progressive’ support anyway. At that point they’d have to admit that nothing is working and it’s not going to get any better the way things are.

    They’re either too stubborn or too stupid (or too compromised maybe) to actually give progressive politics a go. So what they do if they lose touch in the polls that badly should be interesting, anyway.

    At 53-47 I should think they’ll carry on as they have been so far. They’ll think that’s manageable.

  22. What I find interesting about the polls in Australia is the sheer lack of them.

    Ipsos, Galaxy, Morgan, Reachtel. Barely a peep out of them for 5 months. Even when this government is literally a heartbeat from losing its majority in the lower house, even when the government parties have increasing instability and hostile whispers of a Rudd style insurgency, nothing.

    It’s starting to whiff a little bit like a protection racket for Turnbull. A lot of people saw Rudd, then Gillard, then Abbott face ends to their prime ministership due to the slow, steady strangulation by opinion polls. So, simply removing the polls altogether may make Turnbull feel safer?

    I don’t know, but it’s annoying.

  24. Hell, the ABC must have brought Georgina Downer as job lot. After getting schooled on Q&A she no shame and has now turned up on the Drum. I have turned it off in disgust and there is no need to send in a complaint as they don’t even send me the standard complaints reply letter anymore

    • Being groomed for a political career, I’d say. Her minders are trying to do better after Ms Downer lost preselection to Freedom Boy last election.

      Their ABC is going to provide a lot of free publicity and air time, and we will pay for it all via our ABC funding.

  25. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/backpacker-tax-in-disarray-as-senators-plan-amendments/8006164

    http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/radio/2gb-broadcaster-alan-jones-forced-off-air-indefinitely-over-health-concerns-20161108-gskjbd.html

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/png-acting-speaker-dies-ahead-of-parliament-sitting/8005710

    https://historynedblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/when-history-goes-bad-on-the-dangers-of-going-viral/

    http://www.vice.com/read/green-party-us-foreign-jill-stein

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/surge-in-early-voters-gives-clinton-edge-over-trump-cjx080nr2?shareToken=05d8da8bf4ab4ab0e365c775828bc2fa The Times is normally paywalled, but this link with a “share token” from the business editor should work, maybe try opening from the tweet first?

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/markets-bet-on-clinton-win-l05qvqpxn?shareToken=852d940c97279952894baac783363ecc

  26. BK

    Geez, just imagine the damage I could do to all that grass with a whipper snipper. 🙂 Seriously, well done to all involved.

    Now, don’t tell anyone, but when we return from town tomorrow, I’ll be checking in here a lot more often that usual to see how the voting is going. Shhhhhh.

    • Apparently it is his back. An old rugby injury he says. I dare make no more comment but it involves no sympathy.

    • Also today voters on Prince Edward Island voted to dump first past the post and replace it with mixed member proportional representation.

  33. Tomorrow – I’ll be taking little interest in the presidential elections. I really, really don’t care about that at all and I’m not going to pretend to be interested.

    So what will I be doing? I will be attending to a long list of things I have to do, and I’ll be spending some time keeping an eye on what’s going on in our own parliament. I’m sure the sneaky buggers in government will try to get some nastiness up and running while everyone is looking at the other side of the planet, or will try some stunt or other.

    I’m much more interested in what’s going on at home because that affects me directly. Whatever the Americans might door not do does not affect me. The Australian alliance with the US (which quite frankly I could do without) will continue, the Yanks will still keep sending marines to Darwin, keep on bombing the Middle East, keep on creating more refugees for us and the rest of the world to deal with and Australia will still leap to attention whenever the US demands something of us. This election hype is all a bit of a yawn for me.

    Tomorrow night I’ll be escaping all the media yammering and going to see Dr Strange.

  34. What happens when two colossal egos collide?

    This.
    Kevin Rudd accuses Malcolm Turnbull of lying over asylum seeker ‘begging’ claims

    “Mr Turnbull’s record on this matter is as truthful as his statements during the notorious Godwin Grech affair,” he added, in a reference to the affair that triggered a collapse in Mr Turnbull public approval when he was opposition leader in 2009. “Both rest on absolute falsehoods.”

    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/kevin-rudd-accuses-malcolm-turnbull-of-lying-over-asylum-seeker-begging-claims-20161108-gskoai.html

    Just going by Fizza’s attempts lately to rewrite history I’m inclined to accept Kevin’s version.

  35. Leone,

    There are many, many things I dislike about Rudd, but his handling of the Grech smear was brilliant.

  38. That’s some awesome news about the Prince Edward Island plebiscite. Even if it probably won’t result in many changes in the short term, since it seems that the Liberal party there is very strong and looks like it’s going to easily win the next election, it could be a step in the right direction for electoral reform in Canada as a whole.

    As far as I recall, election reform in Canada was stunted pretty badly by an experiment with Preferential Voting in Manitoba in the 1950’s-60’s and that resulted in a mess, so that’s probably why they still have this ridiculous First past the Post voting, which has proven to be highly unstable and not very democratic in Canada’s 3-party system (4 in Quebec, and increasingly concerning for the Left now that the Canadian Greens have around a 10% foothold in most places).

    Maybe with this step, they can move toward something better than FPTP.

  39. Kirsdarke,

    FPTP voting was, is, and always will be, a stupid way of deciding an election.

    Preferential voting is a bit better. However, the older I get, the more I think proportional voting is the way to go.

  40. Kiwi songstress Lorde turns 20 . First half of her post on the prospect. serious lady young Yella..

    A NOTE FROM THE DESK OF A NEWBORN ADULT
    Tomorrow I turn 20, and it’s all I’ve been able to think about for days. I walk around the city, up by the park and by the health food store and down into the subway, this new age hanging in front of my eyes like two of those Mylar balloons that never come down. Can people see it, I wonder, that I’m about to cross over? On the subway I stare at boys I want to kiss and girls I want to hug. Do you see me?
    I’m eating raspberries sitting up in bed, thinking about watching The Crown, and I probably should have written something nicer ages ago but my head is so full of lyrics and drums these days that this is all I can manage. But it feels very important I write to you, for some reason.
    I was 16 when most of us met. Can you believe it? I laugh thinking about that me now – that glossy idiot god, princess of her childhood streets, handmade and ugly and sure of herself.
    All my life I’ve been obsessed with adolescence, drunk on it. Even when I was little, I knew that teenagers sparkled. I knew they knew something children didn’t know, and adults ended up forgetting.
    Since 13 I’ve spent my life building this giant teenage museum, mausoleum maybe, dutifully wolfishly writing every moment down, and repeating it all back like folklore. And now there isn’t any more of it.
    (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
    (*insert that emoji that looks like it’s eating its own face with worry, and also the one with sunglasses, and maybe also the poo*)

  41. @Fiona

    Yeah, I can see the value behind Proportional voting – that if a party gets 10% of the vote, then they should get 10% of the seats.

    However, when things arise like the sheer bloody-mindedness of Greens like Greg Barber and NSW green candidates like Jim Casey who basically want to use their positions in parliament as a destructive force rather than a constructive one, I’m slightly glad of Australia’s preferential system.

    And then there’s the history of proportional voting in Europe, in which if too many partisan parties exist that make parliaments unworkable, it can enable terrible things. The German Weimar elections were proportional after all and didn’t result in a happy ending.

    • Kirsdarke,

      I see your point. Do you think the Hare-Clarke system might give more accurate results?

  43. As if we didn’t have more than enough nutters in the senate, a new mob plan to run next election.

    No jab, no vote: new anti-vax party registered

    The new party is against vaccination and water fluoridation, and intends to run in the Senate at the next federal election.

    A new anti-vaccination party has been registered by the Australian Electoral Commission, with the Involuntary Medication Objectors Party joining the Health Australia Party with policies against vaccination programs and water fluoridation. The IMOP has been started by Michael O’Neill, and its constitution states that it is against compulsory vaccination. Details about the party’s membership are scant, but it seems as if it was founded over a year ago, with formal registration with the AEC just coming through. According to the party’s website, it plans to run in the Senate. The party’s registered address is West Kempsey, which is north-west of Port Macquarie.

    “The Involuntary Medication Objectors Party will be standing at least one candidate in the next Federal Senate election. The party needs your support to turn back this great tide of evil that strikes right at the heart of our hard won freedoms that make us uniquely Australian.”

    https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/11/08/involuntary-medication-objectors-party-registered-by-aec/

    This is them – from a website that pulls these shonks apart.
    http://www.dilutedthinking.com/imop_info.php

    Don’t you just love the way the new party leader tried to declare his business a charity – and failed.

    If you are planning a trip to the NSW mid-north coast then stay away from this place, it’s anti-vaxer HQ.
    https://www.facebook.com/mistymountainhealthretreat/

  44. Since when has ‘stopping the boats’ applied to cruise ships?

    Refugee deported to Nauru had arrived in Australia on cruise thinking he had valid visa
    Legal experts say case of African man, who was secretly deported from Melbourne last week, ‘exposes the lie that the government’s policies are some sort of humanitarian crusade’
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/08/refugee-deported-to-nauru-had-arrived-in-australia-by-cruise-thinking-he-had-valid-visa?CMP=share_btn_tw

  46. @Fiona

    Yes, actually, a Hare-Clark system in the style of Tasmanian and ACT elections can work fairly well. Firstly in that party members aren’t protected by their position on the ballot, so every member is compelled to be their best when in the parliament, and also that there does seem to be what I like to call a “Fruit Loop Check” that means it’s still difficult for fringe party imbeciles to win seats under the system.

    However, I might have to get back to you on that one, mainly because I’m close to studying the NSW 1920, 1922 and 1925 elections which took place under a Hare-Clark electoral system. H-C has worked fairly well for small legislatures, but, I won’t be sure about how it would work in large legislatures of about 90 seats until I take a closer look at them.

  49. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.

    Mark Kenny asks what exactly is the point of the Turnbull government.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/malcolm-turnbull-pushes-full-steam-ahead-on-tony-abbotts-agenda-despite-leadership-change-20161107-gsk7rp.html
    There’s no clear air for Turnbull pens Laura Tingle. It’s more like Delhi she says! Google.
    /news/politics/no-clear-air-for-malcolm-turnbull-20161108-gskpt3
    Trump got booed and jeered at his polling booth.
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/lines-at-polling-booths-hint-at-record-turnout-as-us-presidential-candidates-cast-their-votes-20161108-gskyau.html
    Michael Gordon delves into Rudd’s seething comments about his interactions with Turnbull.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/kevin-rudd-accuses-malcolm-turnbull-of-lying-over-asylum-seeker-begging-claims-20161108-gskoai.html
    Culleton’s lawyers fail to delay his bankruptcy trial.
    http://www.afr.com/news/lawyers-fail-to-delay-rod-culletons-bankruptcy-trial-20161108-gskoyz
    Ross Gittins has a very interesting article on economies without growth and how it’s time to flick the switch from quantity to quality.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/an-economy-without-growth-is-far-from-our-biggest-worry-20161107-gsk817.html
    The Senate Committee has issued a scathing report on the Brandis/Gleeson cage match, setting the scene for a censure motion.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/george-brandis-misled-parliament-over-justin-gleeson-affair-senate-inquiry-concludes-20161107-gsk7xc.html
    And this small story well illustrates the difference in values of Trump Republicans and Obama.
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/disabled-boy-kicked-out-of-trump-rally-next-day-he-met-obama-20161108-gsklv4.html
    Paul McGeough explores what might happen if (or, as he writes, when)Trump loses today. It is well worth reading all the way through. I must say McGeough’s contributions though this long campaign have been excellent.
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/donald-trump-will-not-win-the-the-us-election-worse-still-hell-be-a-sore-loser-20161107-gska1r.html
    Paul Kelly writes on vandal Trump and America’s ruin. This is an exceptionally good article. But is hasn’t been well received by readers of The Australian as a perusal of the comments indicate. Google.
    /opinion/columnists/paul-kelly/us-election-vandal-trump-and-americas-ruin/news-story/3187676e19b9226f6fdb8581747cf13f
    Bob Carr looks at a Hillary Clinton presidency.
    http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-conventional-wisdom-about–hillary-clinton-has-it-all-wrong-20161107-gsjuto.html
    Clinton or Trump, either one is going to face recession and a hollowed out middle class writes Greg Jericho.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/08/clinton-or-trump-either-one-is-going-to-face-recession-and-a-hollowed-out-middle-class

  50. Section 2 . . .

    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with an election eve skit.
    http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/jon-stewart-and-stephen-colbert-slam-donald-trump-in-election-eve-special-20161108-gsky2z.html
    What can women salvage from the trauma of the US election campaign?
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/08/trauma-presidential-election-2016-turning-point
    Whoever wins the presidency will face a nation deeply divided.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/katie-robertson/what-i-heard-at-a-trump-rally-speaks-volumes-about-the-state-of/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
    Trump’s three most revealing strategies.
    https://newmatilda.com/2016/11/09/god-mode-donald-trump-three-revealing-strategies/
    The world under Donald Trump would not be a harmonious place writes this News Ltd correspondent. Google.
    /news/world/the-world-under-donald-trump-would-not-be-a-harmonious-place/news-story/ee83270d2856af0cc3c311f020bc9d15
    What on earth is Baird doing with environmental protection?
    http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/gutting-of-nsw-environment-protections-a-risk-as-new-bills-introduced-says-opposition-20161108-gskmim.html
    What is the Turnbull government going to do with this serious environmental and public safety mess created by the Defence Department over many decades?
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/national-crisis-toxins-detected-300-times-above-safe-levels-at-defence-sites-20161108-gsknpo.html
    Ardent Leisure is set to announce the Dreamworld future this week.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/ardent-leisure-to-update-dreamworld-future-this-week-20161108-gsklm1.html
    A professor of human rights says that the plebiscite can now been pronounced dead and can be given the burial it deserves.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/ardent-leisure-to-update-dreamworld-future-this-week-20161108-gsklm1.html
    Rodney Croome outlines the plan for SSM now that the plebiscite is killed off.
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/08/its-time-for-the-next-stage-of-the-marriage-equality-campaign-heres-the-plan
    Scotland is set to intervene in the UK Brexit case. Could be interesting!
    http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2016/11/09/scotland-intervene-brexit-legal-case/

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