Posted 3 years ago
With a reported 100,000 mortgages in dire straits, and probably more by next year, punters may not look so favorably upon Scomo and wake up to the fact he and coalition are stuffing up the economy big time.Beg to differ - if Eden-Monaro is a big swing to the Coalition they'll just find it way too tempting; cement the LNP in office for another three years, why not?You're insane.
ScoMo may have looked terrible during the bush-fires but things have moved very, very fast this year and I think they've come out of the COVID thing looking much better than they did out of the bush-fires. China is a worry and that situation is likely to deteriorate - maybe extra reason to look at an election in case that goes critical.
Don't forget a double dissolution could be called over the block of some triviality twice in which case they don't have to worry about timings. Hell, if the public mood is overwhelmingly in favour of the Coalition then maybe they'll come back with a much more friendly Senate, you never know.
We won't be voting this year or before October next year unless there is some massive scandal that brings down the government.
No - that strategy has lots of precedents. Go to a poll to get a mandate from the public on how the government is going.Beg to differ - if Eden-Monaro is a big swing to the Coalition they'll just find it way too tempting; cement the LNP in office for another three years, why not?You're insane.
ScoMo may have looked terrible during the bush-fires but things have moved very, very fast this year and I think they've come out of the COVID thing looking much better than they did out of the bush-fires. China is a worry and that situation is likely to deteriorate - maybe extra reason to look at an election in case that goes critical.
Don't forget a double dissolution could be called over the block of some triviality twice in which case they don't have to worry about timings. Hell, if the public mood is overwhelmingly in favour of the Coalition then maybe they'll come back with a much more friendly Senate, you never know.
We won't be voting this year or before October next year unless there is some massive scandal that brings down the government.
With a reported 100,000 mortgages in dire straits, and probably more by next year, punters may not look so favorably upon Scomo and wake up to the fact he and coalition are stuffing up the economy big time.Finally something that we agree on!
Whitlam, Hawke and Howard actually had major policies though.No - that strategy has lots of precedents. Go to a poll to get a mandate from the public on how the government is going.Beg to differ - if Eden-Monaro is a big swing to the Coalition they'll just find it way too tempting; cement the LNP in office for another three years, why not?You're insane.
ScoMo may have looked terrible during the bush-fires but things have moved very, very fast this year and I think they've come out of the COVID thing looking much better than they did out of the bush-fires. China is a worry and that situation is likely to deteriorate - maybe extra reason to look at an election in case that goes critical.
Don't forget a double dissolution could be called over the block of some triviality twice in which case they don't have to worry about timings. Hell, if the public mood is overwhelmingly in favour of the Coalition then maybe they'll come back with a much more friendly Senate, you never know.
We won't be voting this year or before October next year unless there is some massive scandal that brings down the government.
Whitlam did it; Hawke did and Howard did it too.
Whitlam, Hawke and Howard actually had major policies though.You could argue the same thing regarding the Labor Party - I can't recall a single policy announcement that Albo has made since the stonking election loss last year. Although in fairness COVID has blown everything else off the front page.
Scummo's government doesn't have major policies, they are just managers. Calling an election to seek a mandate only works if they have policies to put before the Australian people instead of just pleading not to get fired.
Howard is a poor precedent to rely on as far as calling an early election goes, because he didn't. The shortest of his four terms was still 2 years and 7 months (2 years and 215 days to be precise) which means it was within the normal election window rather than an early election. Equivalent would be Scummo calling an election next December.The excuse being GST, yes - but it was still a very early poll.
Nobody (in the banking system) will call in debt until there is some economic recovery. Otherwise, each lender will fall like dominoes when their net assets become negative!This is where some Liberals have been even more irresponsible than the Labor Party - Member for Bennelong John Alexander calling for superannuation to be freed up to allow investment in housing purely on the basis of his scare-mongering that house prices will crash "the worst in 130 years" without radical intervention (ie new credit). It's really only a disaster if you are a big-time gambler on the property market like this bloke, and frankly I don't think the government should lift a finger to bail those people out - if you're speculating in that way you need to be responsible for your own actions and not expect a bail-out (although it seems to be the norm to expect it now-days!).
Also the idea that a Superfund will somehow rescue the borrower is fantasy. Remember the GFC in 2008? The funds went into lockdown.
This is beyond a joke; a foreign state launches repeated cyber-attacks on our highest levels of government and institutions and we're not going to take any action about it? No wonder they think we're a walk-over that will eventually succumb to their sphere of influence and abandon all our democratic traditions and ties.Good to see Trump is in our corner as we go out in front taking on China. Meanwhile! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-buy-us-farm-products-to-help-him-win-re-election-bolton-book-says-2020-06-17?mod=economy-politics
Heresay from a nobody.This is beyond a joke; a foreign state launches repeated cyber-attacks on our highest levels of government and institutions and we're not going to take any action about it? No wonder they think we're a walk-over that will eventually succumb to their sphere of influence and abandon all our democratic traditions and ties.Good to see Trump is in our corner as we go out in front taking on China. Meanwhile! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-buy-us-farm-products-to-help-him-win-re-election-bolton-book-says-2020-06-17?mod=economy-politics
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