Talking Politics

[eZyT]

Gold from McGowan. Just cuts through the *smile*.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1476053790180610048

it would be valid, if most returning WAliens flew into Perth over the last 2 years, instead of Sydney.

grubby parochial politics

For all Gladys dreadful taste in men, I think she was one of the few leaders through this that didnt go all parochial and populist and took a measured, National approach.

I dont say this lightly,

but if Gladys, Palascek and McGowan were standing for the same federal seat,

I'd vote for Gladys.

 

[spook]

For all Gladys dreadful taste in men, I think she was one of the few leaders through this that didnt go all parochial and populist and took a measured, National approach.

Gladys was happy to smugly heap sh!t on Victoria during our darkest times. She wouldn't beat Clive Palmer in a Melbourne seat.

 

[Sintiger]

Will be interesting to watch what happens as all reports indicate they actually have a very poor health system in WA.

They have their issues yes. They also have a couple of really well regarded public hospitals.

None of it has really been put to the test to be honest

 

[Sintiger]

it would be valid, if most returning WAliens flew into Perth over the last 2 years, instead of Sydney.

grubby parochial politics

For all Gladys dreadful taste in men, I think she was one of the few leaders through this that didnt go all parochial and populist and took a measured, National approach.

I dont say this lightly,

but if Gladys, Palascek and McGowan were standing for the same federal seat,

I'd vote for Gladys.

I can tell you for a fact that when Victoria desperately needed access to PPE and masks when we had the 2nd wave NSW was VERY uncooperative at the instructions of NSW politicians.

They also sided with their LNP mates rather than the states ( particularly Victoria) on discussions about sharing of COVID costs when they didn’t have the level of costs Victoria had. That conversation has mysteriously turned around …wonder why?

Gladys is no saint, just listen to the ICAC taped phone calls with her ex mate. I’ll give her one thing, she is better than the doofus who replaced her.

 

[AngryAnt]

For all Gladys dreadful taste in men, I think she was one of the few leaders through this that didnt go all parochial and populist and took a measured, National approach.

Disagree on the national approach - NSW never really had that in my opinion, but that's ok.

I've got some sympathy for Gladys, it's tough to be a woman in an elite position, you'll have misogynists (of both sexes) trying to cut you down. Her sex life is her own business, but using a romantic relationship as an excuse to look the other way and enabling corruption, that's not on. She was corrupt.

 

[K3]

it would be valid, if most returning WAliens flew into Perth over the last 2 years, instead of Sydney.

grubby parochial politics

For all Gladys dreadful taste in men, I think she was one of the few leaders through this that didnt go all parochial and populist and took a measured, National approach.

I dont say this lightly,

but if Gladys, Palascek and McGowan were standing for the same federal seat,

I'd vote for Gladys.

As someone who was living on the Central Coast during Glady's last year in office, I 10000000000000000000% disagree.

 

[eZyT]

fair enough, I respect everyones opinion.

and to be clear, I'm not saying she's the Dalia Llama.

Im just trying to express my absolute

at the cynical, parochial, populist crap that Paluscek and McGowan have displayed.

Palusscek's latest stunt to keep Queenslanders safe, PCR testing in NSW,

has been *smile* horribly dysfunctional and destructive and has NO DOUBT,

contributed to the graph in NSW.

I live on the border. I've lived the arse end of her parochial *smile* for years now.

I personally know of half a dozen symptomatic 20 yo's this week who bailed from the 8 hour testing lines (they would have been 2-3 hours without tourist testing), some of who then shopped around for half a day for the opportunity to pay $60 (lets be frank, to a 20 yo, thats a slab) for rapid tests, that seemed to be as accurate as a coin toss (one kid felt crook as, lined up, bailed, got a pack of RA tests, got 2 negs, didnt believe them, then got 2 +, then went and lined up for another day and got a PCR +)

and when there was outcry and this situation was pointed out to her, you know what she did?

removed the need to get the 72 hr test ON THE QLD side (she subsequently removed the PCR on NSW just yesterday)

Gladys shut NSW borders significantly less than anyone, and never baulked at quarantining and paying for the significant proportion of international returns.

Morrison loved her, cause she was doing his quarantine duty (he probably also thought he was slightly better looking than darryl McGuire and was in with a bit of a chance, god willing)

ive got a mate who is a very high ranking qld govt official. he shared prawns and xxxx with paluscek at the Christmas party. after the border 'opened', he came down to stay with me. He was gobsmacked/astonished/phenominally frustrated/completely freaked out/overwhelmed and needed 48 hours of assistance, both hospitality and administrative, in order to re-enter his home state of QLD.

this bloke has a mind like a steel trap, and 50 staff. And he was completely and utterly unable to navigate the system.

imagine how the single 80yo trying to see her grandkids, after living in a suburu in the Murwillumbah Showgrounds for 6 months felt?

 

[eZyT]

Gladys was happy to smugly heap sh!t on Victoria during our darkest times. She wouldn't beat Clive Palmer in a Melbourne seat.

If Ivan Milat, Gislain Maxwell, Steve Hocking, Peter Dutton and Clive Palmer were on a ballot,

I'd honestly put Clive last.

and I'd stick the ball of the pen in my arse crack before I marked the 5.

and the 4

 

[Tigers of Old]

Gladys was happy to smugly heap sh!t on Victoria during our darkest times. She wouldn't beat Clive Palmer in a Melbourne seat.

Yep Gladys might have been ok for NSW but she was a nightmare for the rest of the country. Hubris was ultimately her undoing, not her boyfriend.

 

[Sintiger]

I'm not saying she's the Dalia Llama.

Gladys ?

 

[TT33]

View attachment 14321
Gladys ?

Far too pretty to be Gladys
Look at those eye lashes

 

[TigerMasochist]

Far too pretty to be Gladys
Look at those eye lashes

Got a nose like Gladys, false eye lashes perhaps?

 

[tigerman]

Watching John Howard reflecting on the Cabinet Papers from 2001, he waffled for 17 minutes, and is now taking questions.

He reckons the Libs/Nats would've still one the 2001 election even if the Tampa and the children overboard, and 9/11 hadn't occurred.

I reckon they were heading for election defeat, Tampa turned things around for the Howard Government...............................

 

[TigerForce]

Watching John Howard reflecting on the Cabinet Papers from 2001, he waffled for 17 minutes, and is now taking questions.

He reckons the Libs/Nats would've still one the 2001 election even if the Tampa and the children overboard, and 9/11 hadn't occurred.

I reckon they were heading for election defeat, Tampa turned things around for the Howard Government...............................

Never understood why releasing Cabinet papers became law under the FoI Act. Release the truth 20 years later, but what does it do except break curiosities?

 

[AngryAnt]

Never understood why releasing Cabinet papers became law under the FoI Act. Release the truth 20 years later, but what does it do except break curiosities?

I think historians get a lot from it in terms of why decisions were made when, and so on. It's also good for democratic transparency, although I'd argue it's 20 years too late.

Our democracy would benefit from all these decision making processes being transparent - I get there would be some "national security" decisions that would be sensitive.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Wot?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1477811301627805696

 

[tigerman]

If it's good enough for the UK Government to provide free RAT kits (since last April) I can't see why the Morrison Government can't do the same, they're always talking up how rosy things are in Australia compared to the rest of the World.

Morrison will be paying through the nose for the RAT kits because he has been caught sitting on his hands again, just like Australia's initial shortage of vaccines.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Have quite decided that unless it relates to looking after fossil fuels & making sure that they stay in power in order to do that, then this current Government doesn't care about anything else.

 

[Baloo]

Have quite decided that unless it relates to looking after fossil fuels & making sure that they stay in power in order to do that, then this current Government doesn't care about anything else.

Offshore detention centres robbed

 

[tigersnake]

caught sitting on his hands again,

This is the amazing thing for me. Incapable of planning anything, incapable of learning any lessons about anything, just just spout wishful thinking *smile*, then when it inevitably turns to *smile*, react and backpedal and deny and distract. The PM and his government keep exceeding my expectations about how bad they can be.