Quote from: Trevor on August 02, 2022, 08:06:47 AM
well, this has been quite for a while. See Albo is having a wonderful time of things, record ratings for a new PM, lets hope he can stay the course and not be back-stabbed

You're dead set wrong. He's ruined the country in the first two months because the cost of living and interest rates keep going up. 😁

It was heading that way anyway even if Cheif Sharkies Happy Clapper and his Beetrooter were still in power, but the peanut gallery of Sky News fail to mention that.

I wonder how much of an issue power prices would be if successive governments didn't sell the power grid off?

David Littleproud has taken over from Barnaby as Nationals leader. They had a choice of three with Darren Chester throwing his party supplied Akubra in the ring.

Is Captain Potatohead really the best they can do as opposition leader?

Things would have to go very, very wrong for Albo if the coalition have a chance of winning the next election with Dutton at the helm.

Quote from: Trevor on May 23, 2022, 11:30:45 AM
As much as I dislike Barnaby, he was right, they lost no seats and in fact might have gained one or maybe 2 - so something they are doing is ringing true for their electorates

The Nats were always going to get back in as the farmers and farmers kids will always vote for them.

In saying that, they have done a lot for their seats and are always out and about. I said G'day to Barnaby in Bunnings one day and he replied. I thought that was pretty cool.

A Labor win wasn't surprising, but the margin was, as was the ousted PM keeping his seat.

Given their popularity in state parliament, I was surprised there weren't any Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidates. Most of Mark Coultons seat at the state level is SFF held.

It wasn't just an election won by the mob with the better climate action plan like some of the talking heads believe. There are things that the former government have done that quite rightly have put the public offside.

Coverups of rapes in parliament, staffers pulling themselves silly on other members desks, allegedly nasty things done in the prayer rooms, as to which the PM didn't realise was a bad thing until his wife pointed that out.

A half a billion security contract awarded to some beach shack in South Australia is another one, as are two MPs holding an inflated water licence with no water attached to it, awarding Foxtel an unneeded grant to televise more women's sport, buying new submarines without telling the folks that we're building your new ones that they don't need them now, grants to MPs wives that own childcare centres that aren't conflicts of interest, sports roots. We could go on.

Could Albo be the change we need? Quite possibly, but he needs a decent team around him and if he can do that, he should go well.

It'd be a nice change from the revolving door of the last few years too if he can last a term without being knived.

In the last 13 years, we've had 5 different prime ministers. It'd be nice to go into the next election with the same PM that got voted in at the last one. That's surprising an honour ScoMo can have for the time being.

Quote from: Alan59 on May 22, 2022, 10:10:50 AM
Bonus feature was the failure of One Nation and Palmer.Not a sniff of a Senate seat.
Craig Kelly our next PM?Only polled 7% in his seat.Wouldn't get close to being elected to his local council.

That's hardly surprising.

I think the most surprising thing is that the ousted PM kept his seat. Usually that goes out the door with them.

Is it just me or does ScoMos Super House Buying promise only work on paper?

How many would actually be in a position to withdraw their Super to buy their first house, especially after you could withdraw it to get through all the lockdowns?

Some of you lot do realise that Tom would've done the Ford deal if he was still around? 😏

Yasser Shahin didn't do himself any favours either.

Ignoring blue flags, passing cars under safety cars.

Quote from: TheArrow on May 15, 2022, 01:56:40 PM


Edit: I think I spoke too soon, this last 2hrs have been a real challenge to stay interested.

I thought it was quite a nice change to have a race that wasn't so reliant on building your race around a safety car every hour.

I know the older bunch would've got full Woody's over it feeling like an old school enduro, whereas some of us kids would've found it boring because the safety car filled ones are the type of Bathurst enduros we've grown up with.

A couple of downers were that qualifying session. I get the reasons why it was changed, but a 30 minute session for the Top 10 would've been way better and less confusing than what we had. Also MPC seem to have a knack of screwing themselves through attrition or strategy. It's like the only way Audi can win the 12 Hour is in a car run by Joest, Phoenix or WRT.

Can we keep the earlier start time for next year?

Extra night time running is cool as ****.

One of the promises if ScoMo is re elected is that he'll change his leadership style.

That's something you'd expect out of the mouth of a school captain candidate, not a current PM.

I suppose in the next few days, there will be promises of ice cream days, and roller coasters on top of schools.

Quote from: skaifeman on May 13, 2022, 02:33:49 PM
Scotty won't be returning for the 1000:
https://www.speedcafe.com/2022/05/13/exclusive-mclaughlins-bathurst-1000-return-ruled-out/

Listening to him on Enforcer and the Dude recently, it became pretty clear that he'd likely be busy with IndyCar. He certainly didn't sound certain.

Won't happen next year or the year after either.

It's hardly surprising news.

I suspect that next year's reasoning could be a Porsche LMDh drive at Petit Le Man's instead.

The other reason it's closing is that they have to build a certain number and there haven't been that many sold, or even raced.

Quote from: Joe5619 on May 03, 2022, 05:53:47 PM


I saw on the news yesterday that Ford will now convert F150 locally in Australia, I wonder if there is some kind of link here?

That's been in the news for a few weeks with the factory conversions done by RMA.

Whether they could've done them in the volume that they want might be why we have this.

It's history happening in reverse.

A former Ford backed team lost their backing, went to Holden and later on became the factory team, whereas in this instance, former factory Holden team loses backing, and heads over to the blue oval with their backing.

Is it just me, or has there been very little in the way of election ads so far?