Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 4^th, 2018 at 7:34pm:


If they take on an old racist codger who gets off by pissing on chickens, would that get your vote?

Gosh the dumb gecko troll is Xed out again.   Gecko troll how do you do it ?


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Dnarever wrote on Feb 4^th, 2018 at 7:49pm:


'The low life side of politics' is redundant because it applies to both Labor and Liberal. Don't even try to tell me that one is worse or better than the other. Labor is full of useless Union hacks and Liberals useless former staffers, never done a real day's work in their life. Of course you have exceptions lik Mike Kelly (Labor) and Jim Molan (Liberal) but unfortunately they're the exception, not the rule.

matty wrote on Feb 4^th, 2018 at 9:55pm:


Yes many of them are career politicians. There are often a lot of lawyers on both sides and as with Gillard they often have bad form for something.

Unfortunately the only real qualification for politics is a campaign budget via a party the bigger the party the bigger the budget. In a marginal seat it can easily cost hundreds of thousands to win just to run you need a big deposit which you only get back after enough votes (to stop everybody running).

matty wrote on Feb 4^th, 2018 at 9:59pm:


Poor DrooLiar , always the last to know , brings a tear to the eye 

RightSaidFred wrote on Feb 5^th, 2018 at 6:00am:


Good post, spot on. And with those in Labor who are lawyers, they're mostly Union lawyers.

juliar wrote on Feb 5^th, 2018 at 9:46am:


juliar, I don't want a Labor government either (although I don't want this current one either) but the Libs need to stop with the emperor's new clothes mentality.

stunspore wrote on Feb 4^th, 2018 at 8:52am:

Correct ... she's in the 3-year group for South Australia:

Anne Ruston (Lib)
David Fawcett (Lib)
Lucy Gichuhi (Lib)

Alex Gallacher (Lab)

Skye Kakoschke-Moore (NXT)

Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens)

She would most likely be third on the Liberals' Senate ticket, which would be an unwinnable seat. The Liberals got 32.58% of the primary vote at the last election. That would give 2.28 quotas with six members up for election. That is unlikely to give three seats.

On the other hand, Labor are likely to gain a seat because they would be defending only one seat and they got 27.32% of the vote, or 1.91 quotas. Two seats would be likely, possibly at the expense of Hanson-Young.

If the 2016 election results were repeated, the likely Senate result in South Australia would be: Liberal 2, Labor 2, NXT 2. Gichuhi would lose her seat (as would Hanson-Young). Labor and NXT would gain a seat each.

If there's a swing to Labor, Labor would get two quotas and would have a surplus to distribute to the Greens. If that happened, Hanson Young (Greens) could take the final SA seat if she outpolls the second NXT candidate. If that happened, the results would then be: Liberal 2, Labor 2, NXT 1, Greens 1.

The only other minor party that would have a chance in SA would be Bernardi's Australian Conservatives, but I don't see them getting enough support to take a seat unless they outpolled the Greens and NXT's second candidate.