Tag PM Malcolm Turnbull
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Scott Morrison elected next prime minister
Update: P Scott Morrison has been elected Liberal Party leader in a 45-40 vote.
August 24, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Aspiration? Don’t hold your breath
Ziggi Browning, Mullumbimby. Govcorp Inc is media blitzing their latest advertising trademark Aspiration™ in their latest effort to sell us their trickle-down economics theory. That’s right sheeple, you should all aspire to rise through sedimentary layers of society. With a... Read More →
June 26, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t get it
While desperately playing down the significance of his own 30th Newspoll loss on the unconvincing basis that he wished he hadn’t mentioned Tony Abbott’s, our leader has taken what he apparently considers the high road.
April 16, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 12 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Timorous Turnbull and the Newspoll fallout
So the 30th Newspoll has finally dropped, and as he waits for the mushroom cloud to dissipate, just what will Malcolm Turnbull do to manage the fallout?
April 9, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 5 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Turnbull’s business tax-slash fails
Malcolm Turnbull spent the last week of the current parliament howling at the moon – baying about just how wonderful his corporate tax cuts would be, the remorseless logic of the laws of supply and demand, the purity of Economics 101.
April 3, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 8 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Turnbull turns a trick on Trump’s tariffs
Yet another triumph for our indefatigable prime minister. Now he has saved the nation – maybe the world – from the scourge of The Donald’s dastardly tariffs on steel and aluminium.
March 12, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 11 -
Thus Spake Mungo: A clash of pig-headed egomaniacs
Incredibly, it is being counted as a win for Malcolm Turnbull. He has got rid of his errant deputy – Barnaby Joyce will retire to the backbench, just as the Prime Minister advised him to.
February 26, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 4 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Turnbull’s economics 101
Our mild-mannered prime minister has become an uncompromising economic fundamentalist. ‘The law of supply and demand,’ he proclaimed, ‘cannot be suspended.’ Well, up to a point, Mr Turnbull; actually it is not a law but something of an ideal.
February 13, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 8 -
Thus Spake Mungo: PM refuses to share the love after marriage bill victory
Malcolm Turnbull may not have wished to appear churlish last Thursday after the final vote on the same sex marriage bill, but he had no choice: that was his job.
December 11, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 2 -
Thus Spake Mungo: PM eats shit sandwich over banks
Morrison and Turnbull looked like a couple of miscreants being forced to share a particularly smelly shit sandwich, and what’s more to pretend that it was all their idea
December 4, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 3 -
Thus Spake Mungo: PM lurches from crisis to crisis
So Malcolm Turnbull’s big idea to end the dual citizen crisis is to ask (or perhaps tell – it is not clear which) his troops, and presumably the rest of the parliament, to explain openly and concisely whether they believe they are compliant with the constitution or not.
November 13, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 4 -
NBN shambles on Turnbull’s head: workers
Malcolm Turnbull’s NBN is a shambolic mess, not just for consumers struggling for a connection, but also for the workers forced to deal with the disaster, the Communications Union said today.
October 24, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Abbott’s vaudeville act keeps party in chaos
Tony Abbott’s bravura performance as a stand-up comic at the Flat Earthers Twilight Home Laugh In, or whatever it was called, deservedly received rave reviews – the consensus was that he was a raving ratbag.
October 16, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 1 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Malcolm’s choice – Blackout Bill or the Abominable Abbott
ABC news flashed the headline last Thursday: ‘Abbott head-butted by SSM supporter.’ For a delirious moment I thought that Malcolm Turnbull had finally run out of patience with his sniping, undermining, wrecking tormentor…
September 25, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 7 -
Thus Spake Mungo: PM’s kinetic energy won’t keep the lights on
Malcolm Turnbull is doing something about the energy crisis he has manufactured. Or at least he is trying to do something about it. Or perhaps he is actually just talking – well, screaming and ranting – about trying to do something about it.
September 18, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 4 -
Thus Spake Mungo: PM’s energy policy loses power
Malcolm Turnbull assures us that he is concentrating on energy and its three pillars – cost, security and environment. Well, at least the first two…
September 11, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 2 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Malcolm ducks for cover over marriage equality
It was a relatively peaceful week for Malcolm Turnbull. He had a few things to do: he re-announced a feasibility study into his over-the-horizon plans for Snowy 2.0 and spoke severely to electricity retailers who promised him that they... Read More →
September 4, 2017 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Titanic Tony set to sink Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull was off in Hamburg, schmoozing his fellow leaders in the hope of getting something – anything – done about North Korea, terrorism, trade, Donald Trump – something – anything.
July 10, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 7 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Finkel panders to ‘technology agnostic’ Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull likes to describe himself as a technology agnostic. As with many of his other utterances, this is not to be taken literally; our prime minister is not wrestling with the problem of whether technology actually exists or not. After all, Turnbull is the master of innovation.
June 12, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 2 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Turnbull’s budget act may prove a hit
And with one bound, our hero was free. Well, perhaps not completely; it will take more than one agile budget to loose Malcolm Turnbull from his self-imposed bondage. He remains chained hand and foot to the right over climate change and same sex marriage…
May 15, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 1 -
Trumbling on
Adrian Gattenhof. Mullumbimby. While prime minister Trumble paced the ‘sidewalk’ waiting on Trump, Trump was celebrating the scrapping of Obamacare. Thereby Trump consigned the poorest and sickest Americans back to the die-in-the-gutter health system that seems to be the default setting... Read More →
May 11, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Turnbull and Trump speaking the same bullshit
Even as he prepared to remove the velvet glove from his iron fist, Malcolm Turnbull spoke more in sorrow than in anger : ‘the market is not working as it should,’ he mourned.
May 1, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 2 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Trump’s Syria sojourn and Turnbull’s timebomb
Another distraction, but what a distraction. Donald Trump’s impulsive missile strike on the assets of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad threw a huge dead pig into the international ring, even more rivetingly as no-one – least of all Trump himself – has any idea how it will eventually play out.
April 10, 2017 | Mungo MacCallum | 2 -
Lismore business owner implores PM for grants, not loans
Lismore business owner Stephen Kreig put the hard word on prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday, calling for government grants instead of low interest loans to help flood ravaged small businesses rebuild.
April 3, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 13 -
What Lismore mayor wants to spell out to the PM
Lismore mayor Isaac Smith has one four letter word that he wants to tell prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is visiting the flood ravaged city this morning.
April 3, 2017 | Chris Dobney | 3
