Albo is streets ahead of the Libs. They are cutting each other up over "zero emissions" legislation. Australia recognised Palestine the other day, pissing off Trump, and Albo is in London at present trying to make some sense of AUKUS.

Maybe this will explain where we are at: As the government rejects Trump's UNGA rhetoric, Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie sounds decidedly Trumpian

Thanks.

Hastie has resigned from the front bench - he can do more damage to Ley, the leader of the opposition, - if he is not bound by the conventions of being a shadow minister.

Andrew Hastie’s resignation over immigration couldn’t be worse timing for Sussan Ley

The Liberal Party has to sort out whether it is conservative or liberal. This is the process in play here at present.

Is Hastie someone to cheer for or not? Lol

All-round military hero, climate change denying anti-immigration anti-gay who wants us to prepare for war with China.

So yes, let's hope the Libs choose him and push themselves even further from the middle ground they need in order to get elected.

:up:

I heard pollsters Tony Barry and Kos Samaras speak at a conference I attended the other day. Samaras' view was that the Liberals are doomed for the foreseeable future if they continue to borrow from the Howard playbook or flirt with Trump-style posturing. Law and order and anti-migration are on the nose, The voter demographic is now much younger, and compulsory voting pushes the discourse toward the centre and probably toward smaller parties offering more nuanced responses to social issues. Samaras argued that voters here are receptive to complexity and disdainful of the simplistic simplifications of populists.

You have got to be behind her if you are going to stab her in the back.

Hmm.. hyperbole? Figure of speech? Assuredly. Let's just hope, in these days of increasing political violence, it's not a slow day down at whatever the equivalent of Secret Service is around those parts, though. :grimace:

Not trying to be a dill, just looking out..