Friday 29th of March 2024

Gus Leonisky's blog

the old landscape of rich CONservatives have to rethink their compost ...

nothing like a dame...

1. Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch media mogul and prolific tweeter, has made no secret that he preferred Tony Abbott as leader of the Liberal Party. Murdoch's tabloids made no secret of it either. "Malcolm Turncoat," said the Herald Sun, "Smiling Assassin," said the Daily Telegraph after the party room spill.

neo-con, repackaged with elegance...

elegance

Malcolm Turnbull projects himself as urbane, cultured, intellectual, intelligent and a devoted family man who can play the prime minister role. He has also paraded values of respecting science, man of the future and a concerned citizen. He may live at Point Piper but he is a good and decent man. Despite being filthy rich, he is here to serve. These are face-book snapshots that we are invited to like.

But as for depth of conviction? This will only be revealed by actions matching rhetoric. But which rhetoric? The old or the new?

oh boy...

 

trumpology

US presidential candidate Donald Trump appeals to veterans on Tuesday, saying a Trump administration would take better care of them while also building up the US military. In a 14-minute speech that had been billed as a major national security address, the real estate mogul chose to stage the event aboard a decommissioned battleship, the USS Iowa.

old sugar daddy tells Abbott he should have sweetened his first budget with saccharine...

 

not enough honey in the pot...

The Tony Abbott-led government should have done a better job at laying the groundwork for big reforms before it released its first federal budget, the father of the house, Philip Ruddock, said on Thursday.

the cuckoo's nest in an aquarium called orstralya...

in the middle

It is getting difficult to express in a cartoon all the emotions and trends following the removal of Tony Abbott by Turnbull. But I have tried. Better cartoonist can do better.

Here we have to first note the reaction of the Murdoch Press. Mostly negative. Abbott was the Murdoch's chosen puppet — no-one else. Straight away, the Murdoch Press mentions a $4 billion deal to keep the Nationals happy: a bigger hole in a national budget already in tatters. But all is not as it seems.

leading from way behind...

way behind

Indeed, the only concrete policy issue touched on on Monday night was to confirm the Abbott regime's whacky "Direct Action" climate policy. It looks like Malcolm has learned from his mistakes as it was his commitment to an emissions trading scheme (ETS) that allowed Abbott to take his job as opposition leader by one vote.

That is a slight worry – an early example of Liberal Party politics trumping policy from the get-go of his prime ministership. Analyse Turnbull's first public words as PM and they were as much about hosing down his party's right wing as promising the nation better government.

cheers...

cheers !

voting for the Libs in Canning is like committing suicide, slowly...

mandurah mansions

People living in Mandurah are rich. Many are retirees and those who can afford it, have beautiful mansions by the river/lake/waterways. But with Turdy's suicidal disdain of global warming, these mansions will be drowning by 2120. By 2090, the water level, lapping the sea walls, will be destroying their lawns — and this with only a 2 degrees Celsius increase on present average temperature worldwide.

Voting for Tony Abbott will only accelerate this drowning process because Abbott plans to inject more and more extra CO2 in the atmosphere. "Coal is the future of humanity" says Tony...

Good luck to you, waterfront owners. 

the tide of crap from the mmmmm...

mmmmm

Here we see in this morning OZ front page a couple of gigantic opinionated garbage. First the column on the right is denialist poop about Global warming... The personnel quoted is linked to a dubious outfit that has no credibility whatsoever. The Global Warming Policy Foundation is a DENIALIST organisation that uses scientists with confused views all designed to help the coal and fossil fuel lobby carry on as usual... In a couple of years, when the shit hits the fan, they will disappear into thin air, like the garbage they give out. 

Guess what... Lawson, Lord Monckton and all the other fantasists are part of this kennel. Do not believe a word of what is printed here on this subject. It's detritus.

a hat trick...

a hat trick...

No matter how long he stays in office, Tony Abbott is likely to be Australia's last monarchist prime minister. Here's why, writes Tim Mayfield.

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