Peggy Grande: Australia election shocks the ‘experts’ – Once again they underestimate conservative message

[Dashinka 24,751]

Sound familiar?  I guess the collusion allegations will soon follow.

 

Peggy Grande: Australia election shocks the ‘experts’ – Once again they underestimate conservative message

 

 

I’ve been in Australia this week and was fortunate to watch Scott Morrison be elected Prime Minister of Australia while here. President Trump promptly tweeted his congratulations -- but here is why we as Americans should care far beyond that kind nod of support for our close allies Down Under.

As we have seen recently all around the world, the progressives and the leftist media had determined ScoMo, as he is affectionately called by his supporters, to be dead on arrival. In fact, they had called this election “unwinnable”.

 

Bill Shorten, his opponent and leader of the Labor Party, had campaigned on a platform of adding a death tax, raising corporate tax rates, removing investment property tax deductions and increasing regulations to stop climate change, including a 49% renewable energy target by 2030 in Australia.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peggy-grande-australia-election-experts-conservative-message

 

[Lil bear 4,308]

12 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Sound familiar?  I guess the collusion allegations will soon follow.

 

Peggy Grande: Australia election shocks the ‘experts’ – Once again they underestimate conservative message

 

 

I’ve been in Australia this week and was fortunate to watch Scott Morrison be elected Prime Minister of Australia while here. President Trump promptly tweeted his congratulations -- but here is why we as Americans should care far beyond that kind nod of support for our close allies Down Under.

As we have seen recently all around the world, the progressives and the leftist media had determined ScoMo, as he is affectionately called by his supporters, to be dead on arrival. In fact, they had called this election “unwinnable”.

 

Bill Shorten, his opponent and leader of the Labor Party, had campaigned on a platform of adding a death tax, raising corporate tax rates, removing investment property tax deductions and increasing regulations to stop climate change, including a 49% renewable energy target by 2030 in Australia.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peggy-grande-australia-election-experts-conservative-message

 

Headlines and  content rhetoric far from realities. 

 ScoMo is far from the “conservative” extremes.  Yes he is from the Australian Liberal party.. sort of like the Republicans here .. but he is far removed from the right wing extreme nationalists who are also evident in Australia ... ( “ please explain” for Aussies in the know ) 

Reality check : 

the election  resulted in a small swing towards the party already holding government .. no landslide , overwhelming change , just the usual swing around 50/50 that happens each election in Australia 

Shorten  isn’t the only one to have  lost the “ election he couldn’t lose”.  Both sides of party politics do it regularly .., part of how the Australian system works , and is different to the US 

[Dashinka 24,751]

1 hour ago, Lil bear said:

Headlines and  content rhetoric far from realities. 

 ScoMo is far from the “conservative” extremes.  Yes he is from the Australian Liberal party.. sort of like the Republicans here .. but he is far removed from the right wing extreme nationalists who are also evident in Australia ... ( “ please explain” for Aussies in the know ) 

Reality check : 

the election  resulted in a small swing towards the party already holding government .. no landslide , overwhelming change , just the usual swing around 50/50 that happens each election in Australia 

Shorten  isn’t the only one to have  lost the “ election he couldn’t lose”.  Both sides of party politics do it regularly .., part of how the Australian system works , and is different to the US 

It think the opinion piece I posted was more of a treatment of the media bias that exists in Australia.  I don't think ScoMo is a right wing extremist, just as I don't think President Trump is an ultraright conservative.  In fact if you look at both of them, they are much more centrist than their main competitor.  But it does seem clear that the majority of the media and pollsters DownUnder thought this was in the bag for Shorten.  The opinion piece also shows that focusing on a extremist leftist positions (global warming, higher taxes, socialism [free stuff with loss of liberty]) don't really sell well to the general public at the actual polls.  Makes one wonder what most of these Democrat nominees are doing with their extremist positions.

[TBoneTX 46,015]

I have to stand on my head in order to read any news reports that come directly from Australia.  Accordingly, I appreciate the northern-hemispheric piece in the OP.

[Dashinka 24,751]

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

I have to stand on my head in order to read any news reports that come directly from Australia.  Accordingly, I appreciate the northern-hemispheric piece in the OP.

Water circles the drain counterclockwise down there as well! 

[Lil bear 4,308]

3 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Water circles the drain counterclockwise down there as well! 

Yes it drains the right way there !! None of this backwards direction! .. oh. and it’s

anti clockwise ... 😬

Edited May 21, 2019 by Lil bear

[Dashinka 24,751]

45 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

Yes it drains the right way there !! None of this backwards direction! .. oh. and it’s

anti clockwise ... 😬

Yes, no worries, anti-clockwise mate!

[Lil bear 4,308]

2 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Yes, no worries, anti-clockwise mate!

Bewdy  blue ! Thanks cobber 

🤪🤪🤪

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

2 hours ago, Lil bear said:

Bewdy  blue ! Thanks cobber 

🤪🤪🤪

English only in the upper forums 😋

[TBoneTX 46,015]

On every trip to Ecu, keep forgetting to check the water-drainage situation...