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Aussie Election Results
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 3:17 am
Wait, Australia has PEOPLE on it? Panic
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 3:25 am
(July 3, 2016 at 3:17 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Wait, Australia has PEOPLE on it?  Panic

Yeah, we're not all kangaroos or koalas here.
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 3:31 am
Let me see ... Do I want Malcolm Turnball running the country (AU) or no-one (UK), or D.Trump (US).

I rest my case.
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 3:36 am
(July 3, 2016 at 2:20 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(July 3, 2016 at 2:12 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Australians?

Pretty sure they're all too drunk most of the time to care about anything.


Nah. we can handle our drink, not like the whinging poms...
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 4:07 am
(July 3, 2016 at 3:31 am)ignoramus Wrote: Let me see ... Do I want Malcolm Turnball running the country (AU) or no-one (UK), or D.Trump (US).

I rest my case.

Some case you made. Tongue
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 4:56 am
Never understood the rant against 'career politicians'. If need a pipe fixed, I want a career plumber. If I need an operation, I want a career surgeon. And if I want my country to be run effectively, I certainly don't want neophyte pols at the helm who have no idea what they're doing.

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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 5:38 am
(July 3, 2016 at 4:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Never understood the rant against 'career politicians'.  If need a pipe fixed, I want a career plumber.  If I need an operation, I want a career surgeon.  And if I want my country to be run effectively, I certainly don't want neophyte pols at the helm who have no idea what they're doing.

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What neophyte politicians are you referring to?
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 5:58 am (This post was last modified: July 3, 2016 at 6:14 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
Career politicians can be useful ... until they reach that point in their career where they learn to work the levers of power to their own advantage, or the advantage of their patrons. At that point, they should be thrown out.

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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 6:13 am
(July 3, 2016 at 2:44 am)Irrational Wrote: To those unfamiliar with Australian politics, think of Labour as almost matching the US Democratic Party in terms of policies, while the Coalition/Liberal corresponds to the US Republican Party.

But the Greens might be the closest to Bernie Sanders in terms of policies even though they seem to get a lot of hate here for being "hippies" and such.

I'm a Greens guy and I'd rather Labour over Liberal. Thats all I'll say.

I wouldn't suggest that. I'd suggest that Democratic party is to the right of Liberal.
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RE: Aussie Election Results
July 3, 2016 at 6:34 am
(July 3, 2016 at 4:07 am)Irrational Wrote:
(July 3, 2016 at 3:31 am)ignoramus Wrote: Let me see ... Do I want Malcolm Turnball running the country (AU) or no-one (UK), or D.Trump (US).

I rest my case.

Some case you made. Tongue

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