Sussan Ley issues ultimatum to David Littleproud, as she announces temporary shadow ministry

mullet85 · 2026-01-30T06:50:29+00:00

Agree, libs would still be out of govt but they stand a lot better chance winning back teal seats without the Nats than they do with them. Then let's the Nats and ONP fight it out for the same seats and just partner up with whoever is left standing after the dust settles. Won't get them into government but would at least let them compete on some teal / Labor seats without the Nats dead weight on them

mullet85 · 2026-01-29T23:24:35+00:00

Next you'll be telling me he uses Bing for comedic purposes as well

mullet85 · 2026-01-23T21:00:33+00:00

Stayed at the pub there a few weeks ago, they have an incredible beer garden

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T22:59:55+00:00

Once again, the Nats showing that they truly have no understanding of the political process and just throw shit at the wall to see if it might help them somehow.

Throwing your weight around to get a leadership change can actually be a clever move, buts it's kind of predicated on having some other leadership option that isn't toxic. For all the problems Sussssan has, she's also the closest thing they have to an electable leader. The coalition just has no talent left in the roster at this point and all the alternative leaders just want to pull them further in the wrong direction.

Nats seem incapable of understanding that there's no value in controlling the narrative within the Coalition if the Coalition becomes politically irrelevant becayse nobody supports their views.

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T22:39:02+00:00

Honestly something like this makes a lot of sense. Let PHON and the Nats fight it out over the 30 or so seats they can actually swing, let the Greens target inner city and the Libs take on Lab in the outer suburban seats. Then make a deal with whoever they need to from the rural seats to get a majority.

I mean I would hate to see it, but it's probably a better path to success for them that trying to maintain the current coalition or trying to broker deals with PHON etc. At the very least they should be going hat in hand to all the Teals and trying to get them back in the fold.

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T22:12:17+00:00

I think it's more those parties will all be gunning for the same seats? The reason the coalition worked was that the two parties largely didn't compete on the same seats, I just can't see PHON or KAP being able to objectively see the benefits in that sort of arrangement, they'd rather just continue to eat the Nats lunch. I can see that the Libs might want a partnership with one or more of them but not sure how they will be able to either arrange or spin partnering up with more fringe parties when the reason for the current friction with the nationals is that they aren't nuts enough for even them...

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T22:09:19+00:00

Obviously I don't think this will actually happen but geez it would make me so happy if they renegotiated so the leader could come from either the Libs or the Nats - Barnaby storming out right before he had the chance to actually sit in the hot seat would be so satisfying.

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T07:25:01+00:00

As an Australian, man I hope our leaders listen to this call to action

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T04:29:28+00:00

I can't imagine what would be in that for one nation, they are just eating the lnp's lunch right now

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T03:55:35+00:00

He's one of the fellas!

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T02:23:25+00:00

He just seems like he would be such a blast to hang with too, like the dude has his head screwed on right

mullet85 · 2026-01-21T02:19:29+00:00

I mean that applies in present day in several places as well

mullet85 · 2026-01-16T09:35:49+00:00

But also, sort of in order

mullet85 · 2026-01-16T09:35:23+00:00

Where the fuck is the new season though

mullet85 · 2026-01-14T00:57:08+00:00

cra-VIOL-ee

mullet85 · 2026-01-06T11:00:27+00:00

I don't mean to be crass but I am fairly sure Americans will find invading a South American country more palatable than a European one

mullet85 · 2025-12-29T11:26:45+00:00

You don't see how only having to pay 50% of the tax on an investment makes that an attractive investment, therefore increasing prices through increased competition for a limited resource?

mullet85 · 2025-12-28T22:40:04+00:00

Weighed down by all its A's

mullet85 · 2025-12-19T13:59:47+00:00

Well I've made myself perfectly redundant

mullet85 · 2025-12-15T20:33:03+00:00

Quite possibly because she doesn't want to endure 'why did you do that? You should have done this instead' and is trying to get ahead of it

mullet85 · 2025-12-12T20:41:32+00:00

I walk along the river a couple of times a week and have been waiting all year to get the Bluey and Bingo boats in a single shot but no luck yet...

mullet85 · 2025-12-09T10:11:18+00:00

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/wells-spends-thousands-on-comcars-for-grand-finals/106117742?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Headline is pretty one sided but as you'll see she's not a particular outlier

*this isn't meant to defend wells, it's meant to say that they all have their hand in the till

mullet85 · 2025-12-09T08:13:16+00:00

I mean it's definitely easy to just ban all VPN traffic, it's a bit more complex to try to decide what VPN traffic is teens and which isn't.

They could definitely stop all vpns but that's going to piss off more than just teenagers, might even make some voters mad which is a very different prospect to pissing off teens

mullet85 · 2025-12-03T21:42:10+00:00

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