tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post6646110017133647683..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: The smell of keroseneAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-34855721533410507092015-07-28T12:25:24.471+10:002015-07-28T12:25:24.471+10:00Long story short. Bronwyn Bishop knows all of the ...Long story short. Bronwyn Bishop knows all of the skeletons in Abbott's closet personally. Abbott knows all of Bronwyn's skeletons in her closet personally. So neither of them will rat on the other because if one goes, the whole edifice with it's roccoco facade, crumbles immediately and completely.Hillbilly Skeletonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-80650156098171587692015-07-25T20:51:43.007+10:002015-07-25T20:51:43.007+10:00I met her during her run for leader of the Liberal...I met her during her run for leader of the Liberal Party. Utterly graceless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-43983887087129033842015-07-22T16:39:06.282+10:002015-07-22T16:39:06.282+10:00Andrew,
I agree with you but how does Labor "...Andrew,<br />I agree with you but how does Labor "tell her to get fucked" without being kicked out on en-masse?<br /><br />As long as the old bitch has got Abbott's protection it's unlikely anything will change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-84955745415291599812015-07-22T14:50:30.749+10:002015-07-22T14:50:30.749+10:00Are the people of Mackellar lapping Bronnygate up,...Are the people of Mackellar lapping Bronnygate up, or has she finally fouled her chances at the next election? Time she went, should have long ago. Thank you Andrew Elder, I have found a sound & reasonable site of explanations. The media is not doing its job properly.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16123465652887180636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-67641119759685918672015-07-20T19:49:59.369+10:002015-07-20T19:49:59.369+10:00This was my (anon) comment days ago - and how I re...This was my (anon) comment days ago - and how I read it all in context of Shorten's week. But actually - hats off yet again to Andrew Elder for spotting an even bigger and longer term dynamic in full play. <br />The leaking of the finances of Bronster has left Abbott as emperor with no clothes - he is too weak to sack her and needs to maintain her cover in parliament. It is very weak look for someone like Abbott who claims tough tallk ad naseum - it looks like he will tolerate, indeed, buy, her protection at any cost. And it won't go away soon, it will linger for on as an open sore. A stitch up of highest order - the country owes someone, somewhere in the background a drink on all of us for letting this story out of the bag to white ant Abbott.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-8121964825506232212015-07-20T17:39:08.771+10:002015-07-20T17:39:08.771+10:00Barely a skill with the advantages that they have ...Barely a skill with the advantages that they have in the media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-66914139668007724742015-07-18T22:30:07.560+10:002015-07-18T22:30:07.560+10:00One has to wonder why someone of Bishop's unel...One has to wonder why someone of Bishop's unelectability can be selected to stand for election, and this goes for both major parties but the LNP in particular is always the main offender.<br /><br />Surely in Bishop's seat of Mackellar, which is a northern Sydney affluent and predominantly right wing constituency, they must have at least one better candidate than this harridan.<br /><br />It seems that the way to go in this kind of electorate is to find a dog turd, put a blue tie and LNP sign behind it, and bingo, Madam Pooh Pooh is re-elected.<br />Dave Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613111054135459691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-14799535699144858832015-07-18T20:54:53.836+10:002015-07-18T20:54:53.836+10:00"Partisan" doesn't begin to describe..."Partisan" doesn't begin to describe the way she (with Abbott) has trashed Australian democracy.<br /><br />Thanks to Bob Ellis for reminding us of how she almost hijacked a plane in 1994 so she could strut her stuff in an Anzac Day parade.audioiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749850258643202118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-44429397003035178772015-07-18T20:20:11.792+10:002015-07-18T20:20:11.792+10:00Yeah, it's a pity that Hartcher has only start...Yeah, it's a pity that Hartcher has only started excoriating Abbott. He spent 2010 to 2013 excoriating Gillard while waving Abbott and his weirdo goons through.mattoxicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-79108586192973290122015-07-18T20:08:18.324+10:002015-07-18T20:08:18.324+10:00I'm stunned - no, actually I'm not really ...I'm stunned - no, actually I'm not really - but Bishop came out fighting saying this has taken the focus off Shorten. Isn't there a convention that the speaker refrai... sorry, I'll shut up.mattoxicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-2250197602067870662015-07-18T17:25:16.794+10:002015-07-18T17:25:16.794+10:00Her female friend being" ms ethnic chip on th...Her female friend being" ms ethnic chip on the shoulder "Mirabella really?<br /><br />That speaks VOLUMES<br /><br />Greatly appreciated Andrew.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-68956860903964821112015-07-18T14:32:56.960+10:002015-07-18T14:32:56.960+10:00What with the Peter Slipper precedent/ 'End of...What with the Peter Slipper precedent/ 'End of Age of Entitlement'/ Brandis' get out of jail free card, this is pure gold - surely a fact in the leaker's mind?<br />Sure, Slipper had obvious criminal intent - a contrived effort to defraud taxi slips (no pun). But the venom with which Pyne and Abbott pursued Slipper sets the only acceptable path forward for the ALP here - it has to be attack dogs or alas, I will be forced to call out the ALP as bunch of soft cocks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-17992983989142705182015-07-18T13:19:25.351+10:002015-07-18T13:19:25.351+10:00That's why she prefers the chopper, haha. Is...That's why she prefers the chopper, haha. Is she addicted to the smell of kerosene ? (Just humour).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-72456321514194288322015-07-18T12:40:27.436+10:002015-07-18T12:40:27.436+10:00Bishop (the elder) was always woefully incompetent...Bishop (the elder) was always woefully incompetent choice for speaker, a tin pot ideologue with manner as brittle as glass. It was never going to work. And presto, she is undone by her own actions on the parliamentary record. <br />As to why leaked now - this was of course intended to be Shorten's crucifixion fortnight, years in the making from Abbott- as it sort of was, except Ole Bronnie came thundering to the rescue, albeit unwittingly, and has blown that off the front cover. <br />That would seem great timing for a spot of mischievous leaking that completely threw off Abbott's cheap, but heavily invested, strategy to destroy Shorten. It was also week where Turnbull gave a media speech that rebuked the shallow security fraudulence of Abbott, clinging on in post 'budget emergency' failure, in narrative of alleged grave terror threats.Hmmm, should I join the dots, that some internal Libs are not happy, indeed, are appalled by the myopia and tackiness of Abbott, who endlessly throws traditional Conservatism under the bus for cheap politicking....surely timing is everything in any theatre or comedy, is it not?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-54139478946829349762015-07-18T10:31:16.615+10:002015-07-18T10:31:16.615+10:00P Hartcher wrote an excoriating piece about TA tod...P Hartcher wrote an excoriating piece about TA today. Do you see any connection with your theory that certain people are getting at Abbott through BB?<br /><br />I am all ears Andrew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-45281267232374989342015-07-18T07:16:12.868+10:002015-07-18T07:16:12.868+10:00Has anyone else ever noticed Bishop's uncanny ...Has anyone else ever noticed Bishop's uncanny resemblance to one of the Blue Meanies in the film "Yellow Submarine"? If the cap fits...vadinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-75507228696045727042015-07-17T14:01:31.988+10:002015-07-17T14:01:31.988+10:00Concise no bullshite article Andrew. There are man...Concise no bullshite article Andrew. There are many independent, non MSM aligned jurnos on the net and like the great investigative work of Peter Wicks, you are up there with them.<br />Great work, keep giving it to the Tory bastardsDavidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-84378255997417703622015-07-17T13:03:20.053+10:002015-07-17T13:03:20.053+10:00I share your pain Dave. All I'll say about the...I share your pain Dave. All I'll say about the overseas jaunt is this (an attempt at explanation, not excuse): I eat when I'm stressed, and my guess is that she and her staff came to a similar decision.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-22058018594254594682015-07-17T12:45:10.129+10:002015-07-17T12:45:10.129+10:00If Turnbull became leader, what would change? He&#...If Turnbull became leader, what would change? He's a control freak too, and there are no great reserves of moderates waiting for their chance at a ministry to turn things around. <br /><br />The right already regard Morrison as the heir apparent. Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-40171260290965113162015-07-17T12:42:32.200+10:002015-07-17T12:42:32.200+10:00Nobody respects her. Rightwingers lay it on with a...Nobody respects her. Rightwingers lay it on with a trowel but everyone else barely tolerates her. Labor will be ready for govt when they start telling her to get fucked.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-34435407811114869152015-07-17T12:14:44.129+10:002015-07-17T12:14:44.129+10:00#ChopperBishop "I love the smell of Kero in t...#ChopperBishop "I love the smell of Kero in the morning" #Burglar @ChopperGateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-14743626740464325842015-07-17T11:46:28.904+10:002015-07-17T11:46:28.904+10:00A plied to her beehive - something like this?
htt...A plied to her beehive - something like this?<br /><br />http://www.afr.com/content//afr/photogallery/brand/david-rowes-cartoons-20141024-11beym.html<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-19119217249936774482015-07-17T11:24:39.870+10:002015-07-17T11:24:39.870+10:00I met Bishop the elder many years ago. Small pers...I met Bishop the elder many years ago. Small person inferiority complex writ large; the woman was as pushy as all get out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-72568836734275516782015-07-17T11:11:35.907+10:002015-07-17T11:11:35.907+10:00Andrew, thank you again for doing what the MSM fai...Andrew, thank you again for doing what the MSM fails to do. <br />Not really much point in reading any of the dross from main stream political journalists these days. <br />What I would like to know is do the rorters actually pay the dosh back out of their own pockets?<br />How would you know? Take the word of an Australian politician.<br /><br />"Yes m'lud the cheque is in the mail as we speak"<br /><br />Excuse me for pausing while that squadron of pigs passes overhead. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-11006473375595251542015-07-17T11:05:13.859+10:002015-07-17T11:05:13.859+10:00Thanks Andrew - insightful analysis.
Whilst I wou...Thanks Andrew - insightful analysis.<br /><br />Whilst I would rather write about policy, however another dynamic related to the Liberal leadership is that if Malcolm Turnbull is ever to become a Liberal Prime Minister, this will most likely need to occur by 3 December 2015 (the last day of Parliament in 2015). <br /><br />Beyond that it will be too close to the election. <br /><br />If Abbott wins - he will be safe for at least the next 18-24 months by which time Morrison will have entrenched himself as the heir apparent.<br /><br />If Abbott loses - Turnbull won't be hanging around - again - for the scraps of opposition leadership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com