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SadKangaroo wrote on May 28 th, 2022 at 10:42am: Frank wrote on May 28 th, 2022 at 10:36am: SadKangaroo wrote on May 28 th, 2022 at 10:07am: Not even a week in and he's already #DuttoFromMarketing.
They're trying too hard to soften his image because, and I don't know how this is even possible, he's even less popular than Morrison.
All you closeted homosexuals so obsessed with toughness, strength and alphas, you're a small small minority of those who see anything admirable in him in terms of leadership.
He'll be a great campaigner from Opposition, there's no doubt about that, but the last time we had that person at the helm of the Liberal party it proved those skills were great during an election campaign if all you care about is winning, but they don't translate to good leadership and the cost of winning was putting the country a decade behind.
Like Abbott, Dutton won't last long in the leadership should the people fall for the spin.
But look at the pathway they've signalled with Dutton at the helm.
They can't win office again without getting the seats back they lost to the teals.
Dutton in leadership leaves no doubt in anyone's mind that they'll not attempt to do that by becoming more moderate and entice those who would vote for teals to come back to the fold. No, they're going hard right.
And with the Nat's now being unmuzzled because they're technically not in Coalition until they sign a new agreement when forming the next Government, they're not going to be pro-action on climate change any time soon.
So we're going to have 3 years of basically coal lobbyists running the Libs with them publicly lying about climate change and fighting everything Labor will attempt to do to address it.
They'll continue lying about their record, and the state of the economy and put the blame for all of it, even the parts they claimed were "not my job" when they were in power, it will all be Labor's fault.
Pepper your angus friends, Dutton the front bottom will lead the Libs to hunger for a return to power so much that they'll happily destroy the country to get there. Action on climate. I hear it parroted but what it actually demands is unclear to even the parrots. Like net zero by [your arbitrary date half a dozen parliamentary terms from now here], climate action is shorthand for "strike some attitudes while simultaneously pouting, wringing hands and preening virtuously, repeating banalities". That's way too long a description of the psychology, so just parrot climate action, net zero. The country wants meaningful action on climate change that won't kill the economy. It's possible, but the Libs were paid not to do it, and it cost them government. They've made it clear with Dutton's appointment, they're not going to back down and accept what the country voted for, so they'll spend the next 3 years burning the place down. Hopefully not as literally as their last time in office. lol, energy security IS economic security Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany’s renewables energy transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world. “Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and build clean grids from the outset,” thanks to the Energiewende, wrote a New York Times reporter in 2014. With Germany as inspiration, the United Nations and World Bank poured billions into renewables like wind, solar, and hydro in developing nations like Kenya. But then, last year, Germany was forced to acknowledge that it had to delay its phase-out of coal, and would not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction commitments. It announced plans to bulldoze an ancient church and forest in order to get at the coal underneath it.
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