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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 01,00.html

Massive swing to the Coalition in the Gippsland by-election.

Looks like people are fed up with Labor already, no doubt from all the election promises of cutting the cost of living and miserably failing.
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...meanwhile, in what was a three-party race, the Liberals finished in third place.
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which isn't uncommon in an electorate like that. You rarely ever get both libs and nats 1 and 2.
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unfnknblvbl wrote:...meanwhile, in what was a three-party race, the Liberals finished in third place.
Pretty weak damage control.
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Here's some damage control.

This is the first time the libs have contested this seat in 20 years. They've effectively widened their catchment base to get some of the more centrist conservatives and have redirected preferences to the nats.

The nats lost just as much primary vote as Labor in the byelection.

I don't see how anyone can hope to keep the cost of living down after the train wreck the coalition left.
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Ahhh the typical Labor excuse.
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I don't really see how this can be spun against Rudd at all. Labor is in government whether they won this by-election or not, so the electorate wasn't voting for a PM, they were voting for a local member.

BTW, Joe Hockey got up in parliament the other day and said that out of the first 550 questions that Labor has answerered in this term of government, they blamed Howard in 422. The Libs only blamed Labor in 284 of their first 550 questions in 1996. Talk about clutching at straws!
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testicals needs some small victory to cling on to.

meanwhile the rest of us are enjoying having a prime minister we're not ashamed of
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For me the Labour honeymoon was over in early March:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 66,00.html
BRISBANE Broncos today signed up the most powerful player in the country.
And the prized recruitment of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as the rugby league club's first patron did not even tip it over the NRL salary cap.

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"Some people down in Canberra would say 'why are you backing a Queensland team?'," he said.

"Well, you can take the boy out of Queensland, but you can never take Queensland out of the boy.

"That's why I'm very proud to be backing the Broncos."
Since then the Boncos have been referred to as the Ruddcos amongst my friends. The Brisbane Ruddcos has a good ring to it....
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I'll still take that over the cap-cheating rapists.
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:lol: Ruddcos
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westical wrote:
unfnknblvbl wrote:...meanwhile, in what was a three-party race, the Liberals finished in third place.
Pretty weak damage control.
What, unlike your damage control, where seven months after the fact, you still refuse to believe that Australians wanted to get rid of Howard, and so chose the only other option? :lol: :lol:
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pilonv1 wrote:testicals needs some small victory to cling on to.

meanwhile the rest of us are enjoying having a prime minister we're not ashamed of
QFT.

It's good to see the Liberal party make some headway though. Nelson, Turnbill and others are true Liberals - economically conservative, socially progressive. Unlike wretched Howard and other zealots from the religious right of the Liberal Party eg: Tony Abbott.
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I don't know if there's much to be proud of with Rudd, he's a bit of a twat.
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Agreed. It's embarrassing to have him representing the country.
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I can't wait until the nsw state labor government finally gets the boot, what a bunch of fucking lazy corrupt buffoons.

They keep dragging this state down into the shitter, the sooner they're gone the better.
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He's better than fucking Johnny
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mech wrote:I don't know if there's much to be proud of with Rudd, he's a bit of a twat.
lets go back to the 1950's with John Howard then :roll:
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yeah... the country was fucked up like it is right now under Johnny wasnt it? :roll:

least the country 'under Johnny' wasnt going to shit like it is now.....

Fucking Labor muppets...
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:lol: yes Rudd and Labor is to blame for everything that's happening now that started to happen at the end of last year
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mech wrote:I don't know if there's much to be proud of with Rudd, he's a bit of a twat.
I'm struggling to see how he isn't already a major embarrassment.

He's the flimsiest, weakest cocksucker I've seen since Bracks...but with more power.

I hope America dumps us and Asia attacks us to teach us a lesson.
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pilonv1 wrote::lol: yes Rudd and Labor is to blame for everything that's happening now that started to happen at the end of last year
thats so Labor..... blame the party before you just becuase you always seem to fuck things up beyond recogintion....

Its equivilant of a coach who takes over a team and goes 2-14 for the season... bbubububububu it was the previous Coach's team...... Please, The new guy has the power to change things but it eventually shine through that the idiot couldnt coach.... Just like Rudd, can't even suck a dick properly let alone stop the country going to shit....

we'll see next election how brilliant KRudd has done..... anyone willing to put down $100 right now that he'll still be in power in 4 years time?
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Blotto wrote:yeah... the country was fucked up like it is right now under Johnny wasnt it? :roll:

least the country 'under Johnny' wasnt going to shit like it is now.....

Fucking Labor muppets...
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LABOR TO BLAME FOR HIGH OIL PRICES, GLOBAL WARMING AND BIG BROTHER
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pilonv1 wrote:
mech wrote:I don't know if there's much to be proud of with Rudd, he's a bit of a twat.
lets go back to the 1950's with John Howard then :roll:
Never said anything about Howard.
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