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Coalition to pick up seats!

Winning 10 seats from Labor. In their dreams! The more likely scenario is how many seats they will LOSE to Labor!!

The Liberal side of politics in Australia is cactus

Nothing is going for the coalition—especially for the Liberal wing—than ongoing discord, fractious spilling and venting, and a continuation of the implosion that has been a hallmark of this sad cohort for a long time. What an absolute shambles this side of politics has become. 

Noel Pearson comes out with verbal firing

Sorry, Mr Pearson, but I disagree with your thoughts and exposition on this issue. I would have voted ‘yes’ to the voice had it not been for creating a management body to go with it. Our government should be a government for all, and the politicisation Mr Pearson and other prominent Aboriginal leaders have attached to this one group – of which they are members- to make them separate and special to the rest of us is wrong. Had the voice gotten up, there would have been truth in the Animal Farm (George Orwell) statement that “Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others”.

Drefus and Husic both gone from the front bench 

Ex-Minister Husic, who did a good job in his portfolio, has every reason to skip the Caucus meeting and stay away. Not only has this man been a good and representative politician, but in his past generosity, he stood down from ministerial appointment to allow Kristina Keneally his spot. So the factions—and, in my opinion, Anthony Albanese—have given him the shove.

It is interesting that the only Jew in the previous cabinet – Mark Dreyfus – and ex-Ministwer Husic – the only practising Muslim on the front bench – have both been given the heave-ho.