Australian Elections
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Sharky for PM... I mean I like his anti corruption policy and approach... But then there's everything else... On the plus side he'll chuck a big chunk of money into research into a cure for the HIVJerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 7:21 pm The aussies should burn the political class and install a benevolent dictator to rule for life
Some sort of semi reformed criminal would do a better job than anybody that the people could elect
Maybe Tim Sharkey (even though he's a kiwi lol)
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We do have a benevolent dictator named Rupert Murdoch!Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 7:21 pm The aussies should burn the political class and install a benevolent dictator to rule for life
Some sort of semi reformed criminal would do a better job than anybody that the people could elect
Maybe Tim Sharkey (even though he's a kiwi lol)
Sharkey is known as a pimp from Pattaya who likes wearing cowboy boots
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Oh well a change of government , I was showing a few people clips of Albo and Scotty outside the polling booths , no teams of army guards with guns just a couple of security guards in the background , now that's a great country to be a citizen off even though they abandoned us expats in a pandemic.
They couldn't understand the concept of PMs being so unafraid.
Cheers to all who voted.
They couldn't understand the concept of PMs being so unafraid.
Cheers to all who voted.
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
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All I care about is the AUD to the USD and maybe some other currencies.
I don't know anything finance. I'm a little worried to tell you the truth. I don't know what affect his policies will have on the dollar. But we are currently sitting at 70 cents to the USD, so only time will tell. I want that AUD back up over 80 cents!.
I don't know anything finance. I'm a little worried to tell you the truth. I don't know what affect his policies will have on the dollar. But we are currently sitting at 70 cents to the USD, so only time will tell. I want that AUD back up over 80 cents!.
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There's so much at play around curreny, but it's the Libs who often want it lower.Private Nuts wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 9:43 pm All I care about is the AUD to the USD and maybe some other currencies.
I don't know anything finance. I'm a little worried to tell you the truth. I don't know what affect his policies will have on the dollar. But we are currently sitting at 70 cents to the USD, so only time will tell. I want that AUD back up over 80 cents!.
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I doubt Scomo and his Lib team would realize that it was a vote AGAINST Scomo rather than a vote FOR Albo, Labour and their policies.
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They may just be stupid enough to make Dutton their next party leader.
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I disagree. Even if they don’t admit it, they know all those independent votes in nsw, vic and wa were because people wanted to send a message they don’t want either party, and they most definitely do not want Scotty. He knows it. That’s why in his final week he pleaded like an alcoholic partner finally being dumped “I can change”Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 5:14 am I doubt Scomo and his Lib team would realize that it was a vote AGAINST Scomo rather than a vote FOR Albo, Labour and their policies.
The cry among different politically interested groups of society was to vote independent - those protesting the choices to close borders, ‘anti vaxxers’, women who can’t stand ScoMo, even those who wanted action on the climate. This drive to vote independent is what has stopped labor having a majority in parliament
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The AUD is largely a proxy for commodity prices. Labor has a record of bigger budget deficits and more debt so I would expect higher interest rates than would be otherwise.Private Nuts wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 9:43 pm All I care about is the AUD to the USD and maybe some other currencies.
I don't know anything finance. I'm a little worried to tell you the truth. I don't know what affect his policies will have on the dollar. But we are currently sitting at 70 cents to the USD, so only time will tell. I want that AUD back up over 80 cents!.
I had to laugh last nite when I saw Frydenberg and Scomo patting themselves on the back for 'having one of the strongest economies and lowest unemployment coming out of covid'. There was no mention of that unspeakable...gov't debt or borrowing $$ to do it. They threw the kitchen sink and then some to achieve that imo. Then again, OZ had one of the lowest govt debt in the western world so they were actually able to do it by issuing govt bonds without raising too many red flags. Nevertheless, as interest rates rise with inflation, I fear the interest burden on that debt will bear heavily on the younger generation for a long time.
I'm not saying they shouldn't necessarily have done that to save jobs, businesses etc but it came with a cost that hardly ever got mentioned in the election narrative and made them look like good economic managers. And with very low interest rates it made sense. However, I think Albo has admitted that his govt's policies would involve a blowout of the budget.
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https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9Im3 ... hfNJ3yDSc-Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 5:14 am I doubt Scomo and his Lib team would realize that it was a vote AGAINST Scomo rather than a vote FOR Albo, Labour and their policies.
It was great to see a church going religious man hug his wife and two daughters in his final speech and say how important family are, while not giving a shit about how much he has bought turmoil to the lives of another family and two young girls who were born in Australia.
I based my vote on how he ignored the hundred thousand plus Australians who signed a petition wanting them to stay.
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