And what gives you the right to make that judgement as to whether the egging (assault) was “what was deserved”? Assault is never right. Are we living in a third world barbarian country now?
The only people who should be blamed are the people who voted for Anning in the first place, but you know what, if Labor and Liberal parties weren’t filled with political hacks whose interest is in their own parties and self-interest rather than what is best for the entire country in the first place, this boom in minor parties wouldn’t be happening. Both Labor and Liberal have no one but themselves to blame for playing the political game and taking the people of Australia for granted.
Gets trotted out a lot but discounts the 250,000 who voted above the line for One Nation in Queensland which saw them get two senators elected. He’s only there as next in line after Roberts was kicked out.
I was just checking back through the 2016 Federal Election thread (here), and noticed that around a similar point in the campaign (roughly 50 days out from the election), Turnbull had already called the election and all the major networks had announced their coverage.
Seems ScoMo is really playing this one out in comparison. No official announcement as of yet, would the NSW Election be a factor in this?
I would say this would have been a major factor. Based on the performance of the LNP there too I’d say we’re likely to hear fairly soon of a date. There’s not much time left as it is, if it’s May as has been speculated there’s only a couple of weeks left. I know it’s not Australia but Brexit/Theresa May is likely to be big news for this next week but after that does/doesn’t go through it will go back a couple of pages in the news again.
The front page of The Australian today says Liberal strategists are planning a federal election on May 11, the day before Mother’s Day. That means he must call the election by April 7.
Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff James Ashby said in a statement that One Nation has asked Al Jazeera to show complete transparency and release the full context of conversations, and the party has referred the matter to ASIO and Australian Federal Police.
This sort of publicity doesn’t seem to lessen One Nation’s popularity with its constituents. If anything, their supporters see it as an unfair attack and it reinforces why they vote for the party.
What law was broken? They were courting foreign interference by meeting with the NRA. It seems One Nation should be investigated. These One Nation people are useless. Im guessing Sky will have Pauline on tonight to defend all of this.
This Teena McQueen person is a disgrace. Train wreck on QandA and paid contract at Sky to spout extremist views. Just another RWNJ that has been cultivated by Sky News. She is one of Paul Murray’s favourites. That guy is the worst judge of character ever.