What a great day that will be

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-and-labor-are-preparing-for-the...


Albanese and Labor are preparing for the day after the Voice is defeated

If it wasn’t already clear, Labor’s 49th national conference made it plain: the ALP is now bracing for the Voice to parliament to be lost.

This is not a surprise: the downward trend in support for the Voice has been obvious for months and the most recent Resolve Political Monitor showed that, finally, both the prime minister’s personal standing and that of Labor are now affected.

Two things stood out at the conference: first, the willingness of delegates to privately canvass how Labor will handle the fallout of a loss, and second, Anthony Albanese’s shift in focus in his speeches.

Albanese’s opening conference speech on Thursday contained just two mentions of the proposed Voice but six mentions of the rising costs Australians face, as well as 14 references to affordable housing. And subtly, on Friday, the prime minister promised to “do my best to promote a Yes vote”.

On Saturday – during a set piece on the historic constitutional reform – Albanese rallied the party faithful to the cause. But he also pointedly noted the Voice was not a convenient reform to fight for, but one necessary to pursue as a matter of conviction and that “the idea of a Voice came from the grassroots, it will be decided at the grassroots”.

The subtle distancing of the PM from the proposal is clear.

And Alex Ellinghausen’s extraordinary photographs of Albanese on stage after his speech, alongside Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney, are not subtle: the prime minister’s pain is plain.

Well may they snivel that nothing will save the Labor Party next time around - but nothing will save the voice at all....

Jesus - if only the opposition had something to offer apart from Voldemort and 'Slippery' Ley ...  (the latter bringing a whole new dimension to politics, being a woman) ....

Anyway - The Day After will be fun around here - around these parts we had a druggo getting into an old guy for parking his car badly, and some big young guy confronted the druggo and hammered him - then the cops arrived and off went to druggo for a free ride...

People round these parts don't take kindly to that civil unrest....

Albo's honeymoon is well and truly over.       

I am just wonderin' if the indigenous people will have the guts to riot about their loss. Let us say that the "no" vote wins 70% to 30% -- as a conservative estimate -- will there be masses of antisocial behaviour going on about white people being racist and not giving indigenous people free stuff?

The fools among them will walk right into the trap Albo has set for them and be taken down.... get rid of the riff-raff ....

John Smith wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2023 at 7:13pm:


You'll be crying day and night about the racist country that feeds you so well... better than your wildest dreams... many here would still be wandering the savannahs, or picking dates and olives, or fighting off the cobras to plant rice, or living the third world lifestyle with instant arrest and probable execution for being reported as a dissident or something - short, cheap, and deadly - if they were not here enjoying the fruits of the hard labour of the many before their arrival who built this country (on rock and roll)... and all the infrastructures, social and physical, that make it such a great place.

You professional victims are all the same..... can't wait for the vote....... heh, heh .....

Yeah, yeah, sure, Matty, whatever you say...  Tsk, tsk, tsk...   

Boris wrote on Aug 25^th, 2023 at 8:47am:


opps, someone has already put up evidence showing the largest portion of DV against aboriginal women is from white men
 


it must suck to be as dumb as you