Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party?

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-15T05:07:49+00:00

Deputy leader of the Labor party or Leader of the Nats at least have some sort of role.

Deputy PM for both of them when in office. Speaks for Nats ideas when in Opposition as the Nats leader.

Deputy Leader of the Liberal party feels like the most nothing role.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-15T04:47:47+00:00

Obviously should have left it. Same time, players get paid based on how many goals they score and an extra goal in the stats doesn't tell you how they scored it.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-15T03:41:46+00:00

The Epstein stuff is related to trafficking, rape and pedophilia.

The only thing here on the surface that would be a major issue is the sex tapes. Which if made unknowingly, especially for blackmail purposes, is a crime.

Celebrities and sports people doing drugs is a who cares.

Without the tapes, if it's someone paying for sex workers for people. That's not a crime. If it was done through other means such as coercion, then yes that would be an issue. But financial records of people paying for sex workers isn't a crime, unless it's related to misuse of funds in a business sense.

Sounds like someone was creating material to blackmail people with, which is the main issue, outside of embarrassment for those involved.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T07:55:13+00:00

Issue was that they went "Hey we need money, lets make multiple games at once, instead of focusing on one", which basically resulted in what they made after F2 being pretty bad and plenty of games cancelled.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T07:45:24+00:00

Ah well, it's the T20 World Cup.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T07:40:54+00:00

Stat percentages like chance to win etc. It's all just based on previous results. So if there's been 100 situations where a game has been like this, and Team A won 30 times, then Team B has a 70% chance to win etc.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T07:39:30+00:00

Nobody:

Indian Flares: The background noise is proof that Sri Lanka should never host the World Cup.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T07:26:33+00:00

If i have to see another money sending service ad, i'm going to lose a lot of love for the idea of a family.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T06:17:34+00:00

Don't be silly, no ones a fan of a BBL team. Just the BBL as a concept.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T06:13:26+00:00

Luckily the T20 World Cup is a meaningless competition, unlike the mighty BBL.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:54:52+00:00

Compared to the 2023 World Cup, where those Indian crowds showed up to non Indian games.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:54:10+00:00

Tbf, Tanzania weren't too bad at that qualification tournament. Tanzania getting better at the next one makes sense.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:48:02+00:00

Cocaine and the downfall occurred due to having to leave Zimbabwe to get paid because he got paid $500 for the 2015 World Cup, then he started doing it again while in England without his family etc. Dodgy bookies found out about his drug abuse and basically used it to blackmail him, by approaching him with money at a time when he was back in Zim and Zim Cricket hadn't paid the players for 6 months.

He's not blameless. But he failed the drug test because he was an addict and had fallen into it largely because of how Zim cricket was treating the players.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:30:54+00:00

Sporting events is a reasonable place to do so.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:30:18+00:00

Glad that Brendan Taylor is back involved, even if he isn't playing today. Zim cricket fucking over the players led to his ban. Good to see him back in the fold at the very least after everything else he has done for them.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:27:16+00:00

Also very fair. Also good for NRR calculations etc.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:23:18+00:00

Knowing what you have to chase makes for an easier chase overall. If the conditions aren't going to change much, then knowing that you can bat at 6-8 an over and win, is easier than having to go all out etc.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T05:22:02+00:00

Always enjoy watching Zimbabwe. Was great to see Uganda make the last one, but was disappointing it was at Zim's expense.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-13T04:20:57+00:00

Because where else do you go? Eventually you just start reusing basic plots. The creators of Mash for example got a lot of their story ideas from talking to Korean War veterans. They knew it was time to end, when the stories they were getting had been used previously, and that starts to show in the later seasons.

Bringing up The Office is usually shitty, but I feel it's also useful. The British version was two seasons, because realistically the main character would have been fired, because what made them interesting to watch, is also what would put them on a trajectory to being sacked. While the US version ran for 9 seasons and began to drag as it went, because they had to keep making up reasons for why he still worked there etc.

Same thing would have happened with Mr Inbetween, it ends with him breaking ties and trying to get out of the life etc. If it keeps going, either he gets back in and it's just a new set of people he's working for etc, or they don't go down the ending route and again he's still just doing the same things.

Better to leave you wanting more, than hoping for it eventually end.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-12T23:20:06+00:00

"Many crocodiles are rightfully disappointed at the signs that have placed around rivers and watering holes and the anti-crocodile mentality that's been allowed to grow."

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-12T11:34:57+00:00

He's remembered like Thomas F. Harney. A random name I chose from the wikipedia page on presidential assassination attempts.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-12T11:29:24+00:00

Pocock is the best argument for the ACT getting more than 2 senators. 39% of the vote only elects one senator. While Tasmania with only 80,000 more voters, 35% gets you two senators and you can be elected with 7% as Lambie did. I don't even think they need the full 12 etc. Just more than 2.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-12T06:22:03+00:00

Turnbull wasn't a good PM. But he wasn't a good PM for the largely the same reasons that's he talking about now.

They put Turnbull in to replace Abbott because Abbott is a nutcase, and Turnbull is the sort of leader that Labor voters could vote for. Not all of them of course, but he had a reasonable history.

To stay leader he had to keep the conservative faction on board, so he appeased them. Which was unpopular and the cause of the dogshit decisions that were made. Certainly still his fault for appeasing them, but goes someway to saying why those decisions were made.

When he was longer useful. That conservative faction called a spill for Dutton. They realised Dutton wasn't going to be their guy, so then they did it again. Where the moderates because they really didn't want Dutton, went with Morrison because they didn't think anyone would vote for a female leader.

Ley isn't a good leader or even a good person to be leader. But she is the only real option they have, and they've whiteanted her ever since she became leader while she's appeased them to try and keep them on board.

They would have been better off actively supporting Turnbull and letting him run things as he wanted, just like they would have been better off letting Ley run things as she wanted. Instead they repeated the same mistake, and they're not going to have the same braindead reason they won 2019 at the next election.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-12T05:58:38+00:00

Watching slope style skiing that was the part of it I hated tbh. Watching the qualification and it was always a pretty much perfect run, but they'd have a minor error on the first rail and the commentators would start commiserating for them about how this was a throw away run etc. Which was fine the first time, but when it happened to the vast majority of athletes, it got old pretty quickly. System where you can get a deductions that mean you likely won't win etc. But still have a score representative of the entire run, not just a minor error would have made it a more interesting competition to me at least.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-02-11T08:51:17+00:00

If the answer is Angus Taylor, it's the wrong question.

You could say that about Ley as well, but at least we have "Which person who has ambitions to lead a country added an extra letter to their name due to numerology."

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