@piersmitchem
Compare this to Dr Ryan’s response. Hardly a wonder you got 6.3% of the primary vote and half your volunteers jumped ship to her.
There’s a time/place for a mature, adult discussion. Edgy tweets designed to provoke ruin that. Do better.
@paulsakkal
cracked the shits that, at 72 years old and having never spent a day off the backbench, his local branch thought it was time for younger, female and more ambitious representation.
what a sook
Jez, you're a 50 year old man who refuses to work, mooches off your parents, and uses all that spare time to cosplay as a unionist and revolutionary.
So no, you're not evil, you're actually just a bit of loser.
An “evil figure”?
For fighting for the unemployed?
For calling out genocide?
Or for constantly reminding you that you got 808 votes in the 2022 federal election and a big twitter following doesn’t equal electoral success?
@DrVicFielding
This is literally the unconfirmed speculation an under-fire prosecutor, who has absolutely no way of proving it.
The tweet is deceptively worded. Do better.
@hammer_mo
@Bren4Bassetlaw
*bloke gets dumped by misinformation after participating in charity fundraiser 11 years ago* you: “think about all the reasons as to why this might be your fault”
@KosSamaras
For the people in the comments somehow struggling to get this: you can object to and ferociously disagree with someone’s opinion and still want to defend them from being doxxed and abused bc they’re Jewish.
Not sure how this is difficult to understand. Well said Kos.
In the comments, we've got hard-right cookers calling him woke and braindead twitter drips/Danstans calling him a christo-fascist.
Fairly decent indication that JP's right in that sweet spot known as the sensible centre.
#SpringSt
Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto plans to draw on his modest, working class background and immigrant family values to deliver policies to shape the Victoria he believes voters want >
@RedBrickStros
@reaganbush84fan
Ah yes, because a candidate explicitly stating he doesn’t want your support isn’t a significant and noteworthy thing at all
@JosephK_OK
@Mon4Kooyong
Imagine thinking remote communities are the furthest thing from the world of a former Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs, whose mother was an NT Minister for Community Service. Ripper take from you.
Andrews/Allan give us the most state debt in Aus, 30 bil in infrastructure blowouts, 2 bil NOT to have Comm Games and then cut upgrades to Western Suburbs when they run out of cash...
And all this strange mob can do is attack the Libs.
Must be closet Dan fans...
#SpringSt
The Australian Christian Lobby CEO Michelle Pearse on stage at
@CPACaustralia
promoting gay conversion therapy, an inhumane practice that has no basis in science and has been outlawed in Victoria and WA.
Christian fundamentalism is on display today at CPAC.
@Mon4Kooyong
Not such a happy day for the middle-class parents facing school fee increases, the three thousand public servants losing their jobs and the much-needed infrastructure being cut in our working class West.
Amelia is the party’s future. A fantastic choice, and great to see how well Rochelle did as well.
Liberal preselections in Kooyong are reflecting our modern Australia.
Camenzuli is literally some random punter whose entire claim to fame is cracking the shits with the NSW executive and going to court.
He’s done nothing to earn an ounce of credibility.
Quick reminder: Loudness of voice ≠ value of ideas
You have to be kidding me. This is not a Green or Labor MP. This man purports to be a Liberal. Hugging John Kerry, one of the most destructive left wing forces in the world right now. I am not in the party, but this man can be.
What a joke.
#auspol
#nswpol
Random that
@annikasmethurst
interviewed a few of the 15 or so entitled geriatrics who walked out, but didn't mention the low-hanging fruit: Peter Killin.
THIS is what the pro-Moira movement is. It's not for women, it's simply a front.
#SpringSt
Just like Trump GOPers and the Tories' 'New Conservatives', populist Fake Liberals like Camenzuli know they don't really belong, so they scream and shout at real liberal-conservatives like
@Matt_KeanMP
to cover up for it.
So fucking cringe
The problem with
@Matt_KeanMP
, is that he pretends to be able to speak for conservatives.
On the (far right) of this photo he's in fact an absolute progressive leftist who is in the wrong party.
The Liberals don't need his help.
COP28 is a joke. Kean is the punchline.
#auspol
On whether he was disappointed by the hecklers at today’s conference, OL John Pesutto says he “felt a lot of love” today.
“I was very moved by the two standing ovations that occurred during the start and end of my speech.”
@abcmelbourne
The chair of Transgender Victoria, Rochelle Pattison, wants to become the Liberal Party’s first transgender MP and win back former treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s old federal seat of Kooyong.
What a disgrace.
I look forward to Fed Greens anti-racism spokesperson,
@MehreenFaruqi
, swiftly and unequivocally condemning this vitriolic hate speech
Stop what you’re doing and listen to the despicable remarks of
@Greens
MP
@jennyleong
, in which she accuses Jews of having “tentacles” which they use to try and influence power.
Leong has plumbed new and dangerous depths by using one of the oldest and darkest antisemitic tropes
@lion_politics
"America First" is code for cowardice, appeasement and weakness towards enemies of the West.
In practical terms, it's indistinguishable from the anti-Western far left.
@mm_schira
@spenderallegra
What about people who are asset rich but cash poor? Or those who would be unable to service a SECOND mortgage on top of the ones they have? You’ve just insulted workers, young people like me, immigrant families and others who are scrounging to get onto the ladder. 1/2
Labour is self-destructing according to the latest 1News Verian poll, down 4 to below 30%. On these numbers National and ACT could comfortably form a coalition government with 65 seats. NZ First is within closing distance on 4%.
@piersmitchem
I’m making a statement on your poor display of character, Piers. Kinda hard to not be an ad hominem in that case.
Tbh, I don’t really support the length of this protocol, nor am I a monarchist. But there are better ways of putting that view than you have. 1/2
Solidarity with all affected by the latest rounds of horrific violence.
The only way to peace is for the Apartheid Israeli regime to end its occupation
is it just me, or is it kind of fucked up to use a stock photo of an emotional joel fitzgibbon to lead the story about his son dying?
Feel deeply for him and his family. An awful tragedy.
#auspol
@albieamankona
Willing to bet that 90% of the white progressives behind this would be calling for public hangings if the Lord’s Prayer blasted through the Waterloo speakers
@BMDD10
@msanto92
@DanielAndrewsMP
@VictorianLabor
@9NewsMelb
For several reasons, this is such a shocking tweet.
1. That was’t money taken directly from the public, it was taken from the party coffers.
2. Mantach had to pay it back
3. He literally went to jail for it.
So, unless you’re advocating for the same outcome here, chill
@DrVicFielding
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee also heard from
@SenatorRennick
that “gas doesn’t trap convection” and therefore climate change isn’t real.
Does that make it true? Absolutely not.
Just because someone says something, doesn’t mean it should be treated as fact
Just a thought:
If Peta Credlin was the reformist genius the hard right thinks she is, wouldn’t Abbott have been PM for more than five minutes?
#springst
#auspol
First national poll of 2024.
#Morgan
ALP 29 L-NP 39 Green 13 ON 5 IND/Other 14. Their 2PP L-NP ahead 51-49 (+1). My 2PP conversion by last election prefs L-NP 51.0 (+2.3)
@KosSamaras
Kinda sad that we've become polarised to the point at which a scientifically uncontroversial statement (lockdowns exacerbated mental health issues, esp amongst young people) made by a frontline medical worker is somehow grounds for him to be set upon.
Saw
@JohnPesutto
in the street and confronted him.
Asked him if he would apologise for defaming me without proof. Told him he had decimated my life. He laughed and turned away.
A few days ago I used the phrase “legalize housing” and I saw that people had questions.
The reality is, many cities and neighbourhoods don’t allow you to build the kinds of homes that are going to help solve the housing crisis.
We’re working with cities to change that.
Simon Kennedy has won Liberal preselection for the prized Sydney seat of
#Cook
, easily defeating controversial mayor Carmelo Pesce. This means the Liberal Party’s three most recent MPs in Cook did not live in the seat before nominating for it. So much for locals.
#auspol
Stamp duty is the most distorting of all Australian taxes and adds to housing unaffordability and housing stress. If NSW labor is a responsible eco manager, they should improve on the coalition’s policy and start moving all NSW homes off stamp duty, like Labor has done in ACT.
I applaud
@JulianLeeser
for standing up for what he believes in and what’s right.
He has been a longtime supporter of the voice, and Dutton’s position has caused him many sleepless nights, I’m sure.
The momentum is building for
#Libs4Yes
- we will win this referendum.
#AusPol
Opposition leader John Pesutto has been booed at the party’s state council meeting today. His appearance has split the 400-strong crowd. A standing ovation by some, boos and calls of “shame” by others.
#springst
Remarkable numbers in the ABC News/Washington Post poll. Here's the highlight:
1. 44% say they've gotten worse off financially under Biden (most since 1986).
2. 37% approve of his job performance - 56% disapprove.
3. 30% approve of Biden's performance on the economy.
4.
@kevinbonham
I don't think the last election was about how good Albo or Labor are but that Scomo's style and his schizophrenic policy positions and creation of Net Zero alienated Liberal voters.
I don't think anyone can save Labor.
If Dutton takes strong centre right positions he wins.
@janeb69
@DrVicFielding
@KosSamaras
Ah yes, the lifelong Labor man whose wife is literally a current Minister in the Vic Gov is, of course, toeing the Liberal line
What a shit take.
I’m proud to be flying the flag for the ‘Yes’ vote - but the kind of authoritarian progressivism on display here is:
1) unhelpful in convincing swing/soft no voters
2) resemblant of the politics of hate overtaking the US rn
#Libs4Yes
@andysthoughts00
If you right of politics and you oppose The Voice there is only one reason why you do.
You can wax lyrical on all the reasons you like.
You know why. We all know why.
Can't say I've agreed with much of Andrews' tenure, but (as all civil people should) I wish the bloke well.
Lib/Lab/other, anyone who puts their hand up and takes on the privilege of serving their state deserves to be acknowledged.
I hope he enjoys retirement + family time.
You just know there’s a Brunswick share-house popping off with middle-class arts degree outrage rn
Whilst I’m sure they’ll find something from Gramsci or Bakunin to give them a thin veneer of ideological justification, the fact remains:
VS are actually just cunts.
In the eyes of the right, expressing basic solidarity to a people resisting oppression is seen as a crime. The world they want is one where those in power, whether in Israel, Australia, or anywhere else, can carry out their crimes with complete impunity.
Did bro just use San Fran fucking Cisco as a positive housing case study?
Genuinely had to do a double take and check if this was the Maoist parody account
In San Francisco a rent stabilisation board determines how much landlords are able to increase the rent. This year the limit is 3.6%. Rent caps are used around the world and are desperately needed in Oz. Check out all their decisions here:
lotta shit in today's statement, but ofc the Greens take issue with a good bit
imagine believing that we should forever confine those in need to decaying old towers that underutilise the land they sit on (and are thus a barrier to MORE of these homes being built)
#springst
In a worsening housing crisis, developer Dan’s big plan is to knock down our housing safety net – all 44 public housing towers – without any guarantee that the new homes built on those sites will be public housing.
BREAKING: Just days after Warrandyte by-election Independent candidate Maya Tesa announced that, if elected on August 26th, she would repeal the Andrews Government's Ban on Gas, the Victorian Liberals copied the policy!
"Independents inspire good policy. If this is what I can
SMH: 'Environment groups losing faith with NSW government after coal call'
Dr Brad Smith, Nature Conservation Council,
“This recommendation is an absolute disaster for the climate, energy affordability and the credibility of the NSW government when it comes to emissions
Just found out that the Vic gov insures the Puffing Billy.
Not saying they shouldn’t necessarily… but they can’t cover a private coal-fired tourist train and let small live music venues go under - can they?
Add your name to SAVE LIVE MUSIC
Hey, have you called Penny, Albo or your local ALP MP today?
The indiscriminate mass murder of Palestinians by Israel has not stopped, so we can't stop either.
Penny (08) 8212 8272
Albo (02) 6277 7700
If you call please reply to this tweet ❤️🇵🇸
Devastating. The pride of having the first indigenous Minister for Indigenous Australians now erased by the party's failure to listen to him.
#AusPol
#VoteYes
There’s a lot of love out there tonight for Puffing Billy! Just to clarify, my comparison was a clunky way to say that the state gov should insure our live music culture too. Wasn’t meant to be a dig at Billy.
@piersmitchem
You’ve tweeted without grace several this morning, seemingly to get a few retweets, gain some relevance and provoke a few monarchists. If you really want to have an adult discussion about the issues (as you claim) coming at it like this isn’t the way to do it. 2
This isn’t a rant by the ‘anti-Liberal wokearati’, it’s the view of a sensible mainstay of Australia’s law community.
More proof that the Voice isn’t radical. It’s a mainstream (dare I say, conservative) institution.
#Libs4Yes
@LeiblerMark
@yes23au
@andysthoughts00
Mark Leibler (
@LeiblerMark
) has responded to yesterday's announcement from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that his party will not support a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament and the executive government. Read more:
The NSW Liberal Party just lost an election because Matt Kean took them to the Left Woke Green of politics.
Yet now they are considering Mark Speakman, who is worse than Kean, as leader?
In the Cabinet debate on energy, Speakman wanted to immediately end coal and gas in NSW.
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House
@SpeakerJohnson
responds to an appeal to provide more aid to Ukraine from the former Australian prime minister and
#wsjceocouncil
attendee Tony Abbott:
"Please don't go home for Christmas without at least giving the Ukranians what they need to fight for their freedom."
I just had a 10 minute conversation with one of Tony Burke's staffers who said yes you're right, most of the world agrees with you, we have gotten thousands of emails and calls about this, it is awful what is happening in Gaza. Thank God for some humanity. Changes nothing though.
Next time Marque Lawyers proclaims their unwavering commitment to [insert popular rights cause here], remind them that their organisation wants to stand with people who abuse jews, call for genocide and support Hezbollah and Hamas.
Liz Truss has written for Fox News ahead of her CPAC speech tomorrow. Says the "administrative state and the deep state" "sabotaged my efforts in Britain to cut taxes, reduce the size of government and restore democratic accountability"
Fiona Patten says she will oppose
@AdemSomyurek
’s motion to have Red Shirts referred to IBAC. Says he’s vengeful and attention seeking and if someone else moved the motion, she might back it.
#springst
How I'd Vote in Every Country (but it’s clearly not actually every country)
🇺🇸: Democratic
🇨🇦: CPC
🇬🇧: Tory
🇦🇺: Liberal
🇳🇿: National (maybe ACT swing)
🇫🇷: Renaissance
🇩🇪: CDU/FDP swing
🇳🇱: VVD/D66 swing
🇮🇪: Fine Gael
🇮🇱: Yesh Atid
Tip for conservative culture warriors: Being louder and more in people’s faces won’t “win the culture war”, it will do the opposite. If you want to actually change your cultural position, especially with the youth, try being more appealing and not being seen as repulsive freaks.
Dear Liberal Party,
To win election.
Cut our taxes by half.
Make super voluntary.
Remove excess red tape from business.
Cut ALL subsidies and grants to foreign companies and large green energy scams.
Cut foriegn aid to countries that hate us.
Win election.