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Palmer For PM, And A 100 Seat Win: The Delusion Continues
PUTATIVE Prime Ministerial candidate and mining billionaire Clive Palmer has resurfaced today, sharing more of his insights into the prospects of his United Australia Party at the coming election. Palmer says the UAP will win 100 seats. I say he’s … Continue reading
Delusional: Now It’s Prime Minister Clive
THE STORY gets ever more bizarre with mining magnate Clive Palmer’s grand plans to enter federal politics; now he says he is “running to be Prime Minister,” but there is little indication he has any concept of what is involved … Continue reading
“Slippery” Peter Slipper To Face Criminal Charges
ONE issue we’ve kept an eye on over the past year or so at The Red And The Blue is set to explode, with news that LNP traitor, former speaker and overall grub Peter Slipper is to face criminal charges; … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Elections, James Ashby, Liberal Party, LNP, Peter Slipper, politics, Speaker, travel expenses
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LNP Debacle: It’s Time For The Liberal Party To Claim Queensland
The cesspool into which Queensland’s LNP has descended is a complex ecosystem; populated by diverse organisms, its murky depths are the backdrop to an unedifying brawl over the spoils of power. There is one solution, and one only: reformation of … Continue reading
To See A One-Term Government, Look North Of The Tweed River
Shenanigans in Queensland in the LNP and its new-ish government are a one-way ticket to oblivion; if nothing changes, Labor is two years from a stunning return to power in the Sunshine State, and the LNP’s antics, left unchecked, cast … Continue reading
The Horror Of Craig Emerson: Idiot Of The Week!
One of the most bizarre — and ridiculous — press conferences of recent times took place in Canberra today; this cretinous, toe-curling, blood-curdling horror movie makes Craig Emerson The Red And The Blue‘s Idiot Of The Week. And it’s only … Continue reading
67-33 To LNP: Queensland Galaxy Poll Another Portent Of Labor’s Looming Extermination
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for the Labor Party, a new Galaxy poll in Queensland has that state’s LNP government leading the ALP by a 67-33 margin after preferences. This isn’t just any state poll. This is a … Continue reading
Swan vs Palmer? My Money’s On The Magnate
As an aside to the shenanigans in Canberra this week, billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has said he wishes to stand against Treasurer Wayne Swan in his electorate, presumably to get even; Swan says Palmer has never been closer to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Clive Palmer, Elections, Intellectual Pygmy, Liberal Party, Lilley, LNP, politics, Wayne Swan
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Quirk Wins City Hall In Brisbane; ALP Survives South Brisbane By-Election
After yet another trip to the polls today for the good burghers of Brisbane, the Council result went — as expected — to Graham Quirk and the LNP in a landslide; in the by-election to replace Anna Bligh in South … Continue reading
Council Elections In Brisbane: It’s Quirk By A Landslide
Voters in the City of Brisbane go to the polls tomorrow to elect a Lord Mayor and Council to serve for the next four years; barring any major surprise, incumbent Liberal Lord Mayor Graham Quirk appears set to be re-elected … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Brisbane City Council, Campbell Newman, Elections, Graham Quirk, Liberal Party, LNP, Lord Mayor, politics, Ray Smith
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