cracka wrote:Jimmy_041 wrote:The hysteria from LWNJs is hysterical
Damned if you do, damned if you dont
What is the context of each article?
by Q. » Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:04 pm
cracka wrote:Jimmy_041 wrote:The hysteria from LWNJs is hysterical
Damned if you do, damned if you dont
by Q. » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:52 am
by Q. » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:56 am
by Jimmy_041 » Sat Dec 28, 2019 12:06 am
by Jimmy_041 » Sat Dec 28, 2019 9:18 am
Working-class Labor voters in the party’s regional Queensland heartland feel they have been left to compete against the demands of the inner-city elite.
That was the message from several pub-goers in the federal seat of Blair, which includes Ipswich, who spoke to The Australian on Thursday.
Ipswich, southwest of Brisbane, has long been the epitome of what Labor stands for — working-class and hardworking.
It is seats such as Blair, currently held by Labor’s Shayne Neumann, that the party needs to maintain connections with to claw back regional Queensland voters, who largely turned away from Labor at the May election.
On a warm Boxing Day afternoon, Ken Bischof, 72, and Roy Stirling, 75, stayed cool with a schooner at the Raceview Hotel in Ipswich. Raised as a self-proclaimed “Labor kid”, Mr Bischof spent more than 25 years in the aviation industry before retiring.
At the May election he abandoned his roots and sided with the Coalition, which he felt better represented his values.
“They have gone away from the working man and have lost their base. Labor is becoming the yuppie, inner-city party and is siding with the greenies,” Mr Bischof said. That was a common view expressed by voters across the Blair electorate who spoke to The Australian.
Blair is Labor’s only regional seat in the state after it lost Herbert, in north Queensland, and Longman, north of Brisbane, to the Liberal National Party.
Labor’s win in Blair came despite a 6.93 per cent swing towards the LNP, meaning longstanding incumbent Mr Neumann scraped home with a two-party-preferred vote of 51 per cent. He has held the seat since 2007.
Mr Bischof said the changing demographics of the area would not help Labor’s cause, with the ageing working-class population making way for younger people and families from the city.
The seat briefly flirted with One Nation in 1998, when Pauline Hanson moved from Oxley and ran for the lower house. She ultimately lost to the Coalition, which held the seat for nine years.
Mr Stirling, a longtime Telstra worker before his retirement, said that, while he supports Labor, he would support Ms Hanson in a heartbeat.
But the younger generation is not as jaded. At the Hotel Metropole, local meatpacker and small-business owner Brock Harders, 26, said he voted Labor at the last election but did not know much about its current leader, Anthony Albanese. “I reckon I’m middle-class. I’m not well off but I’ve got money,” Mr Harders said.
“Labor is younger and for the working class. The guys that are currently there now (the Coalition) are for big business, you know, they are for the guy that is making one million dollars.
“Scott Morrison seems like a chill kind of guy. I’d want to have a beer with him and learn how to get rich. I don't know much about the other one (Mr Albanese).”
At the Prince of Wales Hotel in the heart of the Ipswich CBD, patron Stephen Caldwell, 59, said Labor’s lurch to the left had alienated voters not only in Australia, but also in his native Britain.
“Unless the Liberals make the biggest mistake, they won’t lose the next election because no one is game enough to vote them (Labor) in,” he said.
by Jimmy_041 » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:39 pm
by Q. » Sun Dec 29, 2019 7:25 pm
by Q. » Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:27 pm
by mighty_tiger_79 » Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:33 pm
by Magellan » Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:33 pm
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
by Magellan » Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:41 pm
Q. wrote:NSW police investigation into Cayman Angus over the use of doctored documents used to attack Sydney’s lord mayor has been referred to the AFP.
by Wedgie » Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:53 pm
Magellan wrote:mighty_tiger_79 wrote:ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
If there was an election held this weekend I reckon he’d lose by the length of the strait.
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by Jim05 » Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:02 pm
Wedgie wrote:Magellan wrote:mighty_tiger_79 wrote:ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
If there was an election held this weekend I reckon he’d lose by the length of the strait.
The only people I know who voted for him were senile. Except for a couple dying off I doubt much would change.
by Wedgie » Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:32 pm
Jim05 wrote:Wedgie wrote:Magellan wrote:mighty_tiger_79 wrote:ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
If there was an election held this weekend I reckon he’d lose by the length of the strait.
The only people I know who voted for him were senile. Except for a couple dying off I doubt much would change.
I don’t like the bloke myself but I vote for the party not the leader so Labor will never get my vote regardless of their leader
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
by Jim05 » Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:35 pm
Wedgie wrote:Jim05 wrote:Wedgie wrote:Magellan wrote:[quote="mighty_tiger_79"]ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
If there was an election held this weekend I reckon he’d lose by the length of the strait.
The only people I know who voted for him were senile. Except for a couple dying off I doubt much would change.
I don’t like the bloke myself but I vote for the party not the leader so Labor will never get my vote regardless of their leader
by Q. » Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:59 pm
Jim05 wrote:Wedgie wrote:Magellan wrote:mighty_tiger_79 wrote:ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
If there was an election held this weekend I reckon he’d lose by the length of the strait.
The only people I know who voted for him were senile. Except for a couple dying off I doubt much would change.
I don’t like the bloke myself but I vote for the party not the leader so Labor will never get my vote regardless of their leader
by Q. » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:02 pm
by Jim05 » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:06 pm
Q. wrote:Jim05 wrote:Wedgie wrote:Magellan wrote:[quote="mighty_tiger_79"]ScoMo made a mess of handling the bushfires....
If there was an election held this weekend I reckon he’d lose by the length of the strait.
The only people I know who voted for him were senile. Except for a couple dying off I doubt much would change.
I don’t like the bloke myself but I vote for the party not the leader so Labor will never get my vote regardless of their leader
by Magellan » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:43 pm
Jim05 wrote:I’m not a Morrison fan by any stretch but the LNP best suit me and so got my vote. Perhaps one day a decent alternative will come along but I will never vote Labor
by Magellan » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:52 pm
Q. wrote:Not only is Scotty from Marketing our worst PM, he is now also our most reviled PM.
Check out the video in the link - actually forces a bushfire victim to shake his hand and then turns his back on her when she asks for help. He is a sociopath.
Angry Cobargo residents explode at Scott Morrison as PM tours fire-ravaged towns
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has hastily left a meeting with bushfire victims in the town of Cobargo after angry residents began yelling furiously.
Mr Morrison was touring the devastated region after fire tore through the township on Monday night, tragically killing a father and son.
After taking snaps with a few locals, Mr Morrison was ushered into a waiting car after locals began yelling their disapproval of the PM.
"You won't be getting any votes down here buddy," one resident can be heard yelling.
"Who votes Liberal around here? Nobody."
Another can be heard referring to the recent Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve fireworks display, which the PM watched from his government residence at Kirribilli.
"Go home to Kirribilli. Why won't that burn down?" another local yelled.
"I don't see Kirribilli burning after the fireworks."
Competitions SANFL Official Site | Country Footy SA | Southern Football League | VFL Footy
Club Forums Snouts Louts | The Roost | Redlegs Forum |