I don’t think Penny Wong is the go, much as I would like her to be, primarily because she’s in the senate, but also because in terms of electability, I can think of at least 3 issues for her, when it comes to the general Australian public, and I’m sure you know what they are...

Oooh I think this is one of those things that’s very different if you come from WA or Victoria. I’m originally Melbournian, and the state/federal divide (and tbh the anti-NSW/Sydney sentiment) has never been quite so stark. Scotty from Marketing and the Feds are generally seen as actively undermining and hampering…

No wonder he loves Glad Bag so much. Peas in a pork barrel. 

It drives me nuts that for some reason people are obsessed with charisma but only when it’s a Labour candidate. Like I fully understand wanting to feel impressed/inspired by a potential leader and Labour’s men are not really up to that job, but god. I’ll take anyone who isn’t a smug, smirking boy’s club Liberal right…

Albo has even less charisma than Shorten and that is an extremely low bar to clear. Can we please have Penny Wong as Labour Leader and next Prime Minister?!?!?

He is so genuinely incapable of any kind of empathy or accountability, it’s actually fascinating to watch. Any time the opportunity for him to cosplay as an actual leader presents itself, he has a huge tantrum and starts bringing up murdered protestors. Incredible.

Trying to explain why they have their eyes closed, Gaetz says it’s cuz he was “staring straight into the son.” Not “the sun”, mind you, but the son. We’re gonna need to get a whole team of psychoanalysts working on this shit.

No doubt. But perhaps child welfare as well? I don’t get it. Gaetz had a girl friend (sure Marsha) with a younger brother. The girlfriend is no more but the little brother forgot to go home? For years?

Whatever do you mean? I am sure it is perfectly normal for a 38-year-old single man to claim a nineteen-year-old as his “son” (whose biological parents are still alive, close by, and very much still in the picture) that he told people was a campaign aide or whatever for years.

It is straight up creepy - not even vaguely so. This kid has been co-habiting with Gaetz since he was 12??? Red flag on the play.

Comparing them to car accidents may be a rhetorical flourish. But the fact that we are even engaged in this conversation is appalling in itself. If not by number, then by how we now shrug them off and move on with our days. And that many are never even reported in the national media. We are becoming inured. 

ScoMo has always been a PR disaster as far as I’ve ever seen, I can’t think of one thing he’s been able to do and come off looking like a remotely intelligent or well-meaning human being.

There are all sorts of different, unconventional familial relationships, and I’m not one to police them, nor one to tell people how they can or cannot define their relationships. But, since Matt Gaetz only revealed this adult, Nestor, as his son as a shield in an argument about whether Gaetz, a white man, and other…

Wow. I’m sorry your male legislators are such shitheads. In the US we just got rid of our main problem, the nazi at the top, but that didn’t do anything to get rid of the remaining problems, like Sen. Johnson of Wisconsin, who said that he wasn’t afraid of the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol, killed people,…

Because I can’t edit the first comment:

Defunding the police would not defund the types of cops who respond to active shootings, just the ones that shoot mentally ill people in crisis (AKA, take some of that police money and provide to social workers/mental health professionals because they are much less likely to murder someone in crisis). But I’d wager…

I’m trying to pay attention but I didn’t know so much of this, it’s been such a flood of information, look away for a second and you can fall so far behind.

There was a good piece on the Conversation about Scomo and his slogans before policy schtick. Only works for so long, then eventually people start to twig there is nothing more to him than the slogans.

I mean, captured alive after killing a cop should answer the first part of your question.
Wait for a couple days for the second part.

They already are. At least the coverage of them is anyway. Once a bunch of gun humping lunatics made it practically impossible to do anything about this legislatively after 20 first graders were murdered in their own goddamn school, it became abundantly clear that this shit is never going away.