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Reply #105 - May 5^th, 2025 at 8:38pm

Labor - any party in government - needs a strong, credible, forceful opposition.

Taylor or Tehan will not be credible.

History is instructive. Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs. This is another pivot time when a party either renews itself (unlikely) or withers and dies and another party emerges from the ruins.

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Reply #106 - May 5^th, 2025 at 8:41pm

Frank wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:38pm:

Labor - any party in government - needs a strong, credible, forceful opposition.

Taylor or Tehan will not be credible.

History is instructive. Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs. This is another pivot time when a party either renews itself (unlikely) or withers and dies and another party emerges from the ruins.

Unfortunately the Libs will be back - All we are seeing is a reaction to Trump and this generation of extreme nutty rightism. Things will return to our normal soon enough. Remember the jokes about Labor holding meetings in a phone box only a few years back.

The more healthy alternative would be for one of the smaller parties to take over from the Liberals and engage in sane politics. Would be a nice change.

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Reply #107 - May 5^th, 2025 at 8:49pm

Frank wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:38pm:

Labor - any party in government - needs a strong, credible, forceful opposition.

Taylor or Tehan will not be credible.

History is instructive. Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs. This is another pivot time when a party either renews itself (unlikely) or withers and dies and another party emerges from the ruins.

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Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs.

Menzies lost a vote in his conservative party (United Australia Party) so spat the dummy and done a dirty deal in the gutters of the lane behind the conservative party meeting. They wouldn't let Menzies be the leader so he spat the dummy and started his own party. Nothing impressive about that.

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Reply #108 - May 5^th, 2025 at 8:56pm

Dnarever wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:49pm:

Frank wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:38pm:

Labor - any party in government - needs a strong, credible, forceful opposition.

Taylor or Tehan will not be credible.

History is instructive. Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs. This is another pivot time when a party either renews itself (unlikely) or withers and dies and another party emerges from the ruins.

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Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs.

Menzies lost a vote in his conservative party (United Australia Party) so spat the dummy and done a dirty deal in the gutters of the lane behind the conservative party meeting. They wouldn't let Menzies be the leader so he spat the dummy and started his own party. Nothing impressive about that.

Became the longest serving PM.

Good move.
He knew when it was time to leave and start afresh.

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Reply #109 - May 5^th, 2025 at 9:18pm

Frank wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:56pm:

Dnarever wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:49pm:

Frank wrote on May 5^th, 2025 at 8:38pm:

Labor - any party in government - needs a strong, credible, forceful opposition.

Taylor or Tehan will not be credible.

History is instructive. Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs. This is another pivot time when a party either renews itself (unlikely) or withers and dies and another party emerges from the ruins.

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Have a look how and why Menzies started the Libs.

Menzies lost a vote in his conservative party (United Australia Party) so spat the dummy and done a dirty deal in the gutters of the lane behind the conservative party meeting. They wouldn't let Menzies be the leader so he spat the dummy and started his own party. Nothing impressive about that.

Became the longest serving PM.

Good move.
He knew when it was time to leave and start afresh.

One of Australia's worst PM's he held Australia back for decades. He was all about the reds under the bed scare campaign. People really bought it back them - can anyone believe that? He believed Australians were stupid and proved it to be correct. Yet on today's standards his policies would be closer to Labor than the extreme Libs. He would be horrified by the cesspool that his party has become.

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Reply #110 - May 6^th, 2025 at 5:52am

Someone posted on Farcebook a picture of St Jacinta of The Outback - and asked if you would vote for her for PM.

Good old racist/misogynist me said YES - absolutely.

Some of you mob of morons need a Cranial/Anus Inversive Restorative Resection and topical treatment for Optical Rectalitis - that dire condition in which you look at the world through your arse and see nothing but sh

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tty things. ... then there is the accompanying co-morbid condition - Realitus Inverticus - a form of vertigo of the mind that obscures and obstructs the mental acuity of the patient and creates blindness to the realities of life alongside an inability to differentiate between ballscat and truth- often associated with uncontrollable Diarrhoetic Politicalspeak.

These conditions can be exacerbated by the over-use of bleach to the seeing and hearing organs, which may result in permanent and irreparable harm to the mind within. Unconfirmed reports that anal bleaching clears the eyesight of some sufferers have been discounted, following rigorous testing using increasing doses of bleach, by the Royal Australian and NZ College of Realists and Social Restorative Surgeons.

At a certain level of bleach infusion, the subjects invariably said that no result was forthcoming and their outlook remained full of sh

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** it is to be noted that some subjects in the test developed a new form of hip-hop dancing.

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Labor majority government Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1438 Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #111 - May 6^th, 2025 at 9:51am Is the next Liberal PM even born yet?
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 142004 Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #112 - May 6^th, 2025 at 11:10am Have they come up with a replacement for Dutton yet?
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 76115 Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #113 - May 6^th, 2025 at 11:25am greggerypeccary wrote on May 6^th, 2025 at 11:10am: Have they come up with a replacement for Dutton yet? yes, it'll be a corrupt slug
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Reply #114 - May 6^th, 2025 at 11:34am

John Smith wrote on May 6^th, 2025 at 11:25am:

greggerypeccary wrote on May 6^th, 2025 at 11:10am:

Have they come up with a replacement for Dutton yet?

yes, it'll be a corrupt slug

If they're smart, they'd try to figure out a way of getting Basil Zempilas out of the state seat he's just won and into a safe federal seat.

I don't like Basil at all - he's just a slimy media attention whore - but I reckon he could be the guy they're looking for.

They have nobody in the current pool of federal members.

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Belgarion Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5559 Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #115 - May 6^th, 2025 at 12:24pm One of the Libs many blunders in the campaign was keeping Price and Hastie out of the limelight. Either of those two would do an excellent job however petty jealousy will ensure they don't get the chance.
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Labor majority government Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1438 Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #116 - May 6^th, 2025 at 1:54pm Hastie doesn't want that poisoned chalice. Hope it's Angus , seeing that cert 4 drongo getting his arse handed to him by Albo and Chalmers daily would be very entertaining
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59800 Here Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #117 - May 6^th, 2025 at 3:14pm Labor majority government wrote on May 6^th, 2025 at 9:51am: Is the next Liberal PM even born yet? You think Liberals are born ?
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59800 Here Gender:	Re: Who is replacing spud? Reply #118 - May 6^th, 2025 at 3:15pm Quote: Who is replacing spud? Who cares ?
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Reply #119 - May 6^th, 2025 at 3:45pm

Belgarion wrote on May 6^th, 2025 at 12:24pm:

One of the Libs many blunders in the campaign was keeping Price and Hastie out of the limelight. Either of those two would do an excellent job however petty jealousy will ensure they don't get the chance.

Bullshit....Hastie has already ruled himself out and Price is in the Senate....Try again!!!

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