From The Australian comes a loon pond spray to remember:
Malcolm Turnbull’s dispatch of Tony Abbott from the prime ministership settled a score that had been festering from the moment Abbott became opposition leader. They are very different people.
Unlike conservative Abbott, Turnbull appeals to the fashionable Left. He is a postmodern kind of guy, more at home in inner-city cafes than in budgie smugglers and firefighting uniforms.
In no time, Turnbull has signalled his soft liberal credentials. Tax increases for the rich are back on the table. The Renewable Energy Finance Corporation has been given an immediate reprieve with a new board and new ideas for wasting money.
Climate change policies are receiving fresh attention. The Bureau of Meteorology has been freed of accountability and can now peddle its dubious data without scrutiny.
University spending cuts have been deferred and fees have escaped competitive tension. Industrial relations reform will be, at best, marginal. Turnbull will take a softer line with the Islamic community and intends to pursue a UN Human Rights Council membership from 2018. Another tilt at the UN Security Council is a 2030 ambition.
The republican movement can expect royal treatment and, subject to a pesky public vote, same-sex marriages seem likely to be fast-tracked.
What’s not to like?
Not much, actually:
- freedom is for us all, Maurice, including pooftas, not just those you deem worthy;
- tax increases for the rich are in fact the removal of egregious tax concessions that are rorting the country and its younger generations;
- yes, climate change needs to be addressed, based upon science produced by the mild-mannered and apolitical elbow-patched scientists at the BOM who are only looking at the data and are bewildered by loon pond drivel (yes, I know them);
- university competition reform has been rolled back because it was going to backfire in higher not lower prices for consumers, and
- the Islamic community may actually have a chance to root out its radical elements in co-operation with government rather than put a fire under the crazies as a nut job Christian-crusader PM alienates them all to save his own sorry arse.
You should form your own party as soon as possible, Maurice. It’ll help cleanse the Liberal Party of its bat shit crazy element and the crash into lunatic obscurity can’t come soon enough.
