BF2S Forums Australian politics thread.

I found a turd in a swimming pool once. A shocking discovery. I’m not sure how it got there, but there was no question as to why it remained. Nobody would take responsibility for cleaning the wretched thing out of the water.

I took responsibility. I didn’t want to, because, you know, turd in a swimming pool.

But if civilization is to survive there are certain unpleasant realities that must be faced. Michael Herr, the great chronicler of the Vietnam War, once wrote than you are as responsible for everything you see as for everything you do.

I had seen the turd, floating there, and I could not unsee it. Half a drum of chlorine later (and one leaf net tossed into the bin, never to be used again) I had discharged my responsibility to civilisation.

When will Tony Abbott do the same?

When will he reach into the cesspool of the Liberal Party and fish out the floating turd of Scott Morrison’s discursive bowel movement in all but comparing asylum seekers to pedophiles? What’s that, Scott? Asylum seekers such as Frank Lowy, Les Murray, Judy Cassab, Professor Gustav Nossal or Victor Chang?

Oh, no, not them. They’re good refugees. Long settled in and a credit to the community.

No, Morrison just thinks anyone attempting to flee war or persecution now must be somehow suspect, in a way that anyone attempting to flee war or persecution then wasn’t. It couldn't possibly be about race. Not with Victor Chang in there. So it must surely just be a now and then thing.
And it would be a good thing if the community was alerted should some of these potential ne’er-do-wells move into a street nearby.

Because, you know, refugees and child rapists. He’s only saying what everyone thinks.

It would be enlightening, I suppose to hear more from Morrison, or his yammering parrot, Senator Abetz, on exactly how such a scheme might work.

Flyers on telephone poles, perhaps?

Or maybe something more community minded. Like a giant bonfire with a flaming cross in their front gardens. It would have to stay lit until they proved themselves decent refugees, like the ones we got from Europe, or at least useful refugees, like Doctor Chang. It would be sort of a like a modern version of the eternal flame.

Or, Tony Abbott could just man up, hold his nose, and fish the turd out of the swimming pool.

Sup3r_Dr4gon wrote:

Just had our state election here in WA, and the ALP got demolished. I can't remember the exact figures, but the Liberals can now govern in their own right (as opposed to having to rely on the Nationals to form government), the Nationals won more seats but are no longer the kingmakers they were in the last election, the greens were voted out completely, the number of independents were reduced and Labor lost something like 1/3 of their seats.
And of course, everyone's blaming Gillard.

A sign of whats to come in the federal election?

I think the Labor hate is felt more strongly here however, what with the mining and carbon tax being a declaration of war on our state, and Canberra plundering WA of it's GST revenue. Well, that's how the Libs put it, anyways....

Last edited by Spark (2013-03-12 07:36:08)

Spark wrote:

Well at least we know what the Daily Tele thinks...

Ty wrote:

Loved it.

"So... your organisation is quite comfortable trashing basic journalistic standards like fairness and accuracy is it?"

Nothing more needs to be said. I could hug Leigh Sales.