Would it really surprise you though if this government did it?
honestly, yes. the other reason why i donāt see it is money. the libs are fine spending taxpayers money but i suspect a split campaign will really drain there funds. itās known the libs have financial issues (at one stage they had to mortgage the melbourne HQ to make ends meet) and donors only have so much money
Random Twitter posts from random people going into conspiracy theories. There hasnāt been any split elections since the Senate only election of 1970 and Antony Green has gone to long lengths saying a split election when a House election is due has never happened and would create a massive sign that the Government is desperate to cling on.
It probably started with someone pointing out that technically, legally, there could be split elections, but yeah, practically itās not going to happen.
What is Antony Green hinting at? If ScoMo visits the GG this Sunday and asks for the parliament to be dissolved, his government will go into caretaker mode. Can Josh Frydenburg deliver his Budget next Tuesday night as scheduled?
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no. when an election is called, parliament is dissolved. the only thing that comes to mind is that the knifes are out and morrison wants to call it before the party room can get togerther
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That tweet seems to be in a response to the question about when counting in SA was expected to be finished.
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Look I donāt think it would happen either but if any leader was to do it it would be Scott Morrison.
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I did get a giggle about all the speculation that one word tweet from Antony got - even the AEC got involved!
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Morrison has a history of lying when under political pressure, with many of his scores of documented lies coming in moments of stress ā for example: lying that heād told Anthony Albanese he was going to Hawaii, lying about his claim that vaccination rollout āwasnāt a raceā, and lying about harassment claims within Sky News when under pressure in relation to workplace issues in Parliament House.
The disgrace of his friend and mentor Brian Houston, a relationship both Morrison and Hillsong were once happy to promote, is another moment of political pressure that has once again prompted a prime ministerial lie ā the most blatant of all.
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My guess is heāll argue semantics in that he doesnāt regularly attend Hillsong for church services.
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Hopefully Labor and the Liberals suffer a massive swing against them. Minor parties are the way to go.
They arenāt able to form governments so itās a wasted vote. They have niche and fringe issues as their platforms.
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While I disagree with the false equivalency (despite Laborās flaws, theyāre so much better than the LNP), remember we have preferential voting in Australia so there arenāt really wasted votes.
Put whoever you think is best first, but whichever of the major parties you rank higher than the other is who youāre preferring to be in government.
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Thatās actually how I first interpreted what he said, when he said heās been going to a local church in his community for the past 15 years I assumed he was meaning as for the church that heās actually a member of. Of course it was stupid not to clarify this since it was so easy to prove that he had been at Hillsong in the past few years but itās not his regular church and it was only as the guest appearance type things.
I wouldnāt say itās a wasted vote. It makes the big parties listen to the smaller parties.
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