Is this Asylum vote the end?

Does anyone else think there is a possibility that a lefty Labor back-bencher with nothing left to lose (not necessarily this MP) might cross the floor for the Malaysia solution vote?

I mean they would be heroes of the left, but they would get disendorsed by the ALP because they impose brutal discipline. In they were going to lose their seat anyway and would rather go out with a bang would it be worth their while?

I reckon it might be? But then again all lefties are hypocrites who want to hang on to power by any means so they can keep the cash coming in and keep the "greedy capitalists" out of power.

So i guess the chance is minimal. I mean who on the left is really going to show backbone and principle? If they had those qualities they'd be o the right, right?

In any case I dont see Crook voting with them, unless he has a fetish about being tarred and feathered and ridden out of his WA country constituency on a rail. So the ALP's majority is in danger if they proceded. If they lose the vote, doesn't the govt have to resign under westminster?

Oh right, no that would involve lefties respecting the rules and the ancient conventions of the constitution. My bad

Abbott is apparently thinking of trying to woo the independents. I dont think this is a good idea. They cant be trusted and have shown that they care about nothing other than their own hides.

Oakshott and Windsor would have preferenced the coalition ahead of labor on their how-to-vote cards, and then "preferred" labor in parliament.

That is straight up deception and it may well reveal curruption.

The coalition won that election. The people in the independent's electorates would have voted coalition if they knew how the independents were going to behave. The preference of the people of Australia and of those in these electorates was clear and was totally disregarded by the independents.

I want to know why.

We know one thing for sure: that the Tamworth Two sided with the government because they felt there were more likely to sit for a full term than the Libs, by Windsor's own admission. STOP. REWIND. Windsor openly admitted defying the will of the nation in order to remain in the manner to which he had become accustomed for as long as possible. He knows he is toast at the next election after what he did.

As for Oakshott. What does he get if he runs the full three years. He gets set up for life. He wants his pension, and he only gets it if he sits as an MP for two full terms. Thanks a bunch Oakyboy. Now we all have to work our fingers to the bone and watching Labor waste our tax money on one ill-fated misguided project after another, just so you can avoid work at all.

But Oakshott and Windsor are honourable men. NOT!!!!!

The anti-curruption enquiry into Oakshott allegedly helping a local company dump toxic waste needs to be prosecuted to the hilt. He should be forced to resign so there is no longer a labor majority. Then an election will be called and the Australian people will finally have their voices heard, dispite the best efforts of the Labor party and their self-serving mates.

There can no negotiation with liars and cheats

TRUE SHIT

Speaking of pretentious people and things, has anyone seen Red Hill yet? I saw in the The Age (i occasionally flick to the front page of the site to get a feel for just how moronic leftards are being on any given day) that the movie tanked on it's opening weekend. I thought, hey i'll give an "Aussie western" set in the high country a chance. Anyone who is expecting True Grit will be bitterly disappointed, as was I. This was True Shit.

I'll begin at the beginning, which was terrible. A strange snarling presence in nearby picturesque hills is sensed by horses in a field, and spooks them. But the director didn't want to scare horses so he filmed a flock of cockatoos flying away with neighing sounds overdubbed to give you the "vibe" of a stampede. Lame does not begin to describe. Incidentally the origin of this snarling turned out to be a panther let loose in the Australian Alps, who made an appearance later on, but had nothing more than a metaphorical relation to the storyline. It was part of the opening scene, and yet it had no impact on the plot whatsoever. This was really, really bad writing.

The hero of the film is a city cop about 25 who moves to the country. He gets' a gruff and nasty reception from the local country cops. They and all the country people in the film are portrayed was either violent rednecks or weak morons. The reason for the move is because the hero's wife needs quiet surroundings because of a troubled pregnancy. After this point is established, the wife and the pregnancy have nothing whatsoever to do with the story. The hero sees his wife for 2 minutes at the start and 2 minutes just before the end. at these times their dialog is nothing more than cooing noises. Basically female characters did not exist in this film and those that do are sheltered from being part of the story.

That wouldn't matter so much if the hero was not also sheltered from being part of the story. The hero does not actually do anything for the entire film that actually affects of diverts the flow of events, he just sorta watches it all happen. He watches as the "bad guy" slaughters a bunch of cops in a remote town one after the other. This execution process is dragged out for 2 hours. There is basically enough action for one 30 min cop show. Typical of most Aussie scripts there is really really poor timing and contempt for the audiences desire to actually be entertained.

But back to the hero. He did have a tiny bit of an arc, because at the beginning he admitted to his commanding officer that he was unable to shoot a kid back in the city who pulled a gun on him, resulting in himself being shot (but clearly surviving). When he justifies his action to his CO saying "maybe he just needed help, not a bullet". The other cop's reply is "We'd be having a very different conversation if you were dead". Actually, they wouldn't be having a conversation at all. But stupid dialog aside, the hero's arc is to try an overcome his inability to shoot people. He achieves this in the end when he all-off-a-sudden discovers he has a quick-draw super-accurate shooting arm. Duh.

But the worst part about the film was not it's poor pacing, irrelevant characters and b-stories, implausible scenarios or character actions. It was it's predictability. About 15 mins into the film we find out, thanks to the cliche of a news report in the background, that an inmate has escaped prison, and is armed and dangerous, and he's aboriginal. It was clear at that point that this person was the "bad guy" but he could never be the real bad guy and the real bad guys would be racist redneck country cops. Of course those cops had conspired to send an innocent man to jail and he was after payback, and the movie would inevitably and predictably just be a playing out of this revenge tail. At some point later on we would find out the real story and realise that the killer was fully justified in murdering every adult male in a country town.

So the real protagonist is the Aboriginal guy, his name is Jimmy. But he is not given an dialog until the very end when he gets one line. He just looks scary and kills people. Is that racist? Probably. Anyway the white hero has nothing do to because the righteous path is being followed by the aboriginal guy as he dispatches all the cops and other bumkins, and if the hero disrupted the carnage then that would be against the flow of the morality tale. In fact the hero aides this process. It is the hero's inability to shoot crims that precipitates this whole chain of events when he fails in his duty to protect the town from the escapee, by putting down his gun when confronted by him on the high road on the edge of town. It doesn't occur to the hero that an armed ex-con is entering the town where his pregnant wife and child are located, bent on slaughter. Or maybe it does, but he has some sixth sense that the man aiming a gun at his head does not want to kill anyone who doesn't deserve it. I mean as if. As it happens the Aboriginal guy does not shoot the hero at this point because the hero manages to clumsily fall off a cliff instead. Talk about a useless cop.

At the end (i presume anyone reading this far does not care about spoilers) the white hero finds out the full story of what the locals did to Jimmy and his wife before Jimmy was sent to jail. He does not find this out from detective work. He just get's lucky and finds a repentant redneck who spills the beans before hanging himself. Once again the hero cop fails to stop someone from dying. Then he calls for backup from a nearby town and tries to arrest the real bad guys. It is at this point he discovers he is a crack shot when he has to kill a couple of yokels, in self defense naturally. But Jimmy the Aboriginal guy is given the honour of killing the head yokel (i'm tellin ya he's the real protagonist) and he does this in full view of the cops just arrived from the nearby town. Of course these cops dont know the full story and respond by killing the Aboriginal guy. The white hero once again just watches on as this all unfolds without any of his input. THE END.

There you have it. Predictable crap. I'm sorry to say it but Australian scripts are piles of shit. NZ films take a massive dump on ours.

Incidentally the movie was worth going to because beforehand i saw a trailer for a remake of True Grit coming out with Jeff Bridges playing the old part of John Wayne. I so badly hope they redo the classic line "If I ever meet a Texan who didn't drink out of horse's hoofprint i'll shake his hand". Now that is a script.

Australian films will never be any good again until we re-adopt the mantra in Mad Max: "We're giving the people back their heroes".

Pride and Shame - election 2010 slight return

We'll we have a result.

I'm proud of the fact that I didn't predict it at first.

I'm proud of the fact that I didn't think Australian politicians could be that undemocratic.

Now I am ashamed, because they obviously can, and are.

Tony Windor and Rob Oakshott are scum. They bring shame on this country.

In the UK when there was a hung parliament after that recent general election the Lib Dems respected the fact that the Conservatives had garnered the bigger slice of the vote, and their leader formed a coalition with the David Cameraons Tories, against the will of many in his party.

That's because the will of the people trumps the will of the parties

AND the will of the MPs.

Or it should.

Not here in Australia. All you have to do is drive a truck load of money up to an independent's electorate and abracadabra, a party that lost the primary vote, has fewer seats and didn't win the 2-pp vote by a significant margin (this stat is a artifact of the seat-by-seat preferential system anyway and not significant) can form a government.

The shame of it.

The poms played by the rules and we didn't. The shame of it. For years i have dispised the English for running Ricky Ponting out with a specialist-fielder super-sub in the Ashes 2005.

But now it is clear, they fight fairer than us. Think about that. Think about it hard.

When in comes to politics the independents are the equivalent of the Pakistani cricket team.

And Julia Gillard and the ALP are the currupt bookies - feeding the problem with their greed, and inborn disregard for honour.

there is no point to sport unless the best team wins. There is no point to democracy unless the people's will is respected. When you break that fundamental trust there is no honour in either, only shame.

Tony Windor, Rob Oakshott : I condemn you. In going against the will of your electorates you have sealed your place in infamy for all eternity. May all the disasters of this next government be blamed upon you, accursed, and bring exile upon yourselves and all your progeny.

You will all have to move to New Zealand to escape the back-turning isolation of the Great Southern Land.

But there are things to be proud of from the Aussie election 2010. Our conservative party is actually conservative. Our leader is a conservative. The people responded will to his conservative message. All good things to be proud off which sadly for the UK they can't boast about there.

But still, the shame of the British being fairer than us is too much to bear. Something must be done. These independents must not only be voted out, but made pariahs in their country communities.

Oh BTW. Did you hear about the broadband "experts" that Windsor consulted who advised him to support the National Porn Network. Turns out that one of them was an out of work telstra techinician. So Windor basically spent 43 billion (minimum) of your money to give his mate a job. There is a word for this. It starts with "c" and ends with "orruption". There is also a word for people like Tony Windsor. It also starts with "c".

One weekend for country people to save the country

The three ex-national independents could give us a decision on monday

Well thanks for that guys. Cheers for being so prompt. I mean really it's not that important. Take your time, eh. It's not like $50m in public servants wages is being wasted every day there is no govt. It's not like the country is defenseless against a possible double-dip US recession. All good. No rush

There is only one thing that can be said for sure at this point. That these three guys will lose their seats at the next election. They have piss farted around to such an extent that, although they complain nobody can be trusted, they are themselves shown to be totally untrustworthy and unreliable.

The electorates in which they sit are conservative electorates. If they side with Labor they are toast. They all know it. But even if they side with the Nationals it's too late for em. Their electorates will vote national or liberal next time. for sure. because it's the only way they can be sure of getting conservative govt.

They only way now to save their own skins is to side with the coalition and before the next election to join the coalition and retain their seats as sitting national or liberal members.

The people in their electorates have been given one last weekend to stand up and be counted by their independent MPs. The must protest outside their electorate offices and in town squares and let these morons know what way the country should go.

The three are behaving in the most disgraceful anti-democratic way and ignoring public opinion in their own electorates.

If they side with labor they will live forever in infamy. They will bring in a mining tax, a carbon tax and greater green restriction of rural development. They will have let rural australia down in a big way. They will be ridden out of town on a rail - in time honoured rural tradition.

I am so angry that TOny Windsor colluded with treasury to mis-represent Coalition costings. A difference of opinion was purported to be a black hole. That "black hole" was no bigger than Labors deliberate fudging of the costing of the mining tax. And pales into insignificance when put next to the huge known unknown of the National Porn Network. $43 billion my arse. That will be $80 billion or i've never downloaded a byte.

Why Windsor want's to do this is unknown to me but it looks he is willing to put personal grudges with Nationals above the good of the nation and the will of his electorate.

Makes me sick.

Get on out there and protest in their electorates I say. There has to be some footage of the actual voters here. The people who's say is actually important. And it has to show that they are pissed off with three hoodlums holding the nation to ransom.

Either we Hasluck or we hasn't

Been a big weekend. Got completely smashed on Saturday night and after watching the election coverage down the pub with some Liberal mates I walked into the city singing at the top of my lungs and rampaged through a famous rock bar entertaining all and sundry with my humourous Mick Jagger impressions and bellowing drunk vocals. I did better than the last federal election because this time I managed to avoid being thrown out of the bar. Great night.

Whilst the result is still undecided it's safe to say the election was a big victory for the Liberals, at least in the moral sense. Labour's discraceful behaviour has been punished, they have lost their majority (and hence their legitimacy as Tony pointed out). To do that to a first term government is almost unprecidented especially one that started out so popular.

We smashed the ALP. Hazzzah!!!

Tony Abbott has entered the pantheon of Liberal gods. Menzies, Howard and Abbott are the leaders that will command the greatest loyalty and respect from their troops forever more. These are the Titans that truly took the nation forward, and continue to do so.

The chants of "Tony! Tony! Tony!" as he was speaking on election night echoed the feeling in my breast of admiration bordering on adoration for our fearless leader who went from being almost universally ridiculed in the media and polticians, even by his own party (and even himself !!) with the nickname "people skills" to showing a real warrior's discipline and if not delivering us victory, then delivering us the most glorious defeat since Gallipoli.

The difference hangs on one seat, Hasluck, where Ken Wyatt hopes to bear the Liberal standard as the first Indigenous elected into the lower house.

Here's the arithmetic:

I am at this point assuming that the 3 independents who are former Nationals would rather drink light beer in a tutu than side with the pack of lazy whingers that are the Labor party. The two deciding factors here will be the mining tax and Abbotts personably macho personality. I cant see Bob Katter respecting arch BS artist Gillard. I really can't. And i can't see any of them selling out their regions by backing the tax. I also think they will work as a block because they are much more powerful that way.

Also if they side with Labor, like the WA libs threatened to do after the election there, there will be a voter revolt expressed in a torrent of emails threatening to next time turf them out by voting for the coalition . Country people hate Labor if when their representatives don't.

So that means we need 73 seats to form government. 73 + 3 = 76 seats, the required majority.

We have 72 basically in the bag at the moment, as long as there is no postal vote flow to labour in the eastern state's closest electorates. Postals make up the majority of votes yet to be cast, and historically i'm told postals have favoured the Libs.

But that's still only 72, so we need Hasluck. Badly. I am told by insiders that the ALP did a huge postal vote campaign in Hasluck. So i'm a little scared.

Still if we lose Hasluck we might be saved if Labor lose Denison to the independent Andrew Wilkie. Wilkie's noises indicate that he does not think Labor has delivered the kind of "stable, competant and ethical government" that he says he wants to support. I think he would side with Abbott on must issues apart from boat people. That would give us a majority of 72 libs and 4 independents.

Having said that the ALP is tipped to take Denison. So this discussion is a bit academic.

It's Hasluck or nothing.

Well not nothing. We have our pride back. Howard's ghost is avenged. Maxine Makew (dont care to spell it right) is a journalist again. And she's leading the ill-disciplined back-biting that will destroy any ALP government that tries to cling to power.

There is one other possibility, although remote, and that's if we fail to win Hasluck and cannot govern even with the 3 independent former-Nationals. That does not mean these 3 will be able to enter into an agreement with the ALP. The mining tax might be a sticking point and if Oakshott is to be believed they'd send the country back to the polls. This is unlikely because that poll result could see the independents voted out for being too smart by half, and Gillard would almost certainly accept any ultimatum put to her by the independents that would allow her to hang on to power, even dropping the mining tax or totally gutting it.

For the ALP to lose would be oblivion. I personally think they would never recover. The myth that they stand up for the little guy would be forever dispelled. They have been so cynical and shifty they would have to rebrand themselves. I honestly dont think that's overstating it. Labor's brand is acknowledged as poison even by them, Gillard used the word "Labor" only twice in her campaign launch.

For us losing is OK. The coalition is back federally. We bring a kind of honest muscularity to political discourse in this country, and good hard-working salt-of-the-earth Aussie men and women love it xoxoxo

The notes that lost the election for Gillo

For Gillard to bullshit the Australian people shows a flawed character.

To be so easily caught out and humiliated shows sheer stupidity.

At the economic debate this week there will be alot of jokes "Is that answer in your notes or off the cuff?". Is it "from the heart?"

Australians absolutely relish exposing the hypocrisy of those who wish to rule over them.

She just lost the trust, the respect and the votes of everyone who was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Australian women deserved better than this. The first female PM is headed for the the exits exposed as a fake and fibber and a lightweight.

And it's all her own fault.


She could have said "no" when the offer to roll Rudd was made. She could have stopped the power of the ALP faction bosses. She could have let labor take it's electoral medicine. She could have returned when her turn came and swept all before her.

But she saw a weak Rudd and she drove in the knife.

Out! out damned spot! - she'll soon have plenty of time to reflect.