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Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:38 pm
by Simmo79
bitchiest spambot yet

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 1:22 pm
by Cheesie-the-Pirate
Conservatives 168
NDP 102
Liberals 34
Bloc 3
Other 1

Simply incredible results coming out of Canada this afternoon.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:17 pm
by beastjim
When was the last time they had a majority government? Its just about always been minorties over there from memory. Also the complete destruction of the Quebec Bloc is crazy, from 47 seats to 2.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 2:33 pm
by Jeffles
And the Liberals are plummeting too! For a lot of the 20th century they dominated in Canada. Will be interesting to see if the NDP takes their place as a major beyond this next term.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 7:36 pm
by yob
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-na ... 1eiq7.html

Mike Rann not too popular these days.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:52 am
by Jeffles
He was probably after Foley.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:28 am
by Egan
Everyone loving the mass bitch session in Australian politics at the moment as individual members feel free to bitch and whine and the issue of not turning up for HOR votes...

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:56 pm
by yob
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13627337
This week the British conservative blogger Iain Dale was in Australia, and arrived admitting to a sneaking admiration for the robust, adversarial style of the country's politics. "It is very combative," he told ABC's The World Today on Tuesday. "I mean probably more combative than virtually any other Western democracy and I quite like that, I like people to say what they think and Australian politicians by and large, certainly do that."

Then he sat through two Question Times. Afterwards, he told the BBC it was 'an absolutely shameful, horrific spectacle.'
:mrgreen:

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:12 pm
by yob
The government seems to be hard up against it so to speak.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:00 pm
by Egan
Now its a case of pandora's box opening and their being witch hunts on who has the dodgiest members in parliament...

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:45 am
by bazza
Egan wrote:Now its a case of pandora's box opening and their being witch hunts on who has the dodgiest members in parliament...
NSW would have been top contender before March

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:05 pm
by Egan
Pokies Reform? Going to occur or not?

Going to be an interesting year of Federal Politics. Asylum Seekers and their continued arrival isn't really riling the media or public up as much as normal. Or they may all just be discontented at the moment...

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:11 pm
by Jeffles
It won't and Wilkie's won't walk away from Gillard because he hates Abbott even more.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:03 pm
by yob
Once the speaker tilted the balance of power it was always a case of which independent would get rolled, and let's face it, it wasn't going to be B1 and B2.

Re: Politics 08

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:25 pm
by Egan
Jeffles wrote:It won't and Wilkie's won't walk away from Gillard because he hates Abbott even more.
^ I'm not surprised...

A bit annoyed its not going to happen. Bloody lobbyist groups