Gee Golly Gosh, even the Greenies Dumb Doc Dick is outsmarting poor little dead man walking Shorty who has only a short time remaining in politics.

SHY's people smugglers are already selling tickets for one way trips down south.

As Shorty treads water and displays his inability to all he is making totally unfunded ruddiculous "promises" to all and sundry.





Meanwhile, in Victoria: smarter Greens bad news for Labor
The Australian John Ferguson Victorian Editor Melbourne  Rick Wallace Journalist Melbourne May 16, 2016 12:48PM

   
Sarah Hanson-Young and Richard Di Natale at the Adelaide Central Market.

The Greens are getting much, much smarter politically and this is unequivocally bad for Bill Shorten.

It’s just over four years since Bob Brown resigned as leader of the Greens and it must be said the party has prospered without him.

Same can be said of Christine Milne, who maintained the hard as carbon but not nearly as flexible position that characterised Brown’s lengthy tenure.

Every day was a war.

Not for incumbent leader Richard Di Natale; he is so relaxed about the campaign that he went surfing last Friday and told the party at the weekend conference in Melbourne that there was no need to fear its media opponents, having a lighthearted crack at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.

“Every time you criticise the Greens, our vote goes up, our membership goes up so we’re looking forward to the next editorial,” it was reported.

This of course doesn’t take away from the fact the party would be an economic disaster were it to be forced into a position of true legislative and policy power.

While Brown and Milne virtually guaranteed the Greens would be a relatively small force, Di Natale has opened the way for broader popularity, which is problematic for Labor.

The reason that Shorten has ruled out a coalition with the Greens is twofold.

First, it would be an act of economic vandalism.

Second, Labor needs to fight the Greens on the ground in key Melbourne and Sydney seats.

He is forcing voters to make a choice and trying to distance himself from the Gillard era.

Problem is, Shorten helped Gillard get elected.

Labor’s short-term challenge is the July election, but its longer term challenge is keeping the Greens at bay in inner city seats.


Shorten today pledged a further $59 million in assistance for the car industry, adding to the hundreds of millions already poured into the manufacturing sector.

He made the announcement in the relatively safe Labor seat of Corio, held by Labor with a margin of just under 8 per cent.

The big question in Victoria and South Australia is how the manufacturing sector will weather the car shutdown storm.

This is core Labor business.

Although Shorten will be most interested in the neighbouring Liberal seat of Corangamite, which backs onto Geelong, the once proud Ford heartland.

Ford’s manufacturing is withering on the vine.

The effects of the manufacturing slowdown, however, impact on Adelaide’s northern suburbs, Melbourne’s southeast and outer north.

Despite the looming shutdowns, the Victorian jobs market has been relatively robust. At least until now.

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