Menzies House

Cory Bernardi tells Malcolm Turnbull to either quit advocating gay marriage or quit frontbench

Via ABC

 

Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has called on former Liberal leader and current Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to stop publicly advocating gay marriage or quit the ministry.

"If Malcolm Turnbull wants to talk about fringe issues outside party policy, he should resign from the frontbench," Senator Bernardi told the ABC.

"Our longstanding party position is that marriage is between a man and a woman.

"Our frontbenchers need to reflect that in any comments they make.

"When you are a frontbencher there is no room for a personal view."

On the weekend, Mr Turnbull said the Coalition should allow a conscience vote on gay marriage, which he would "certainly" vote for.

Well done, Cory Bernardi.

 

 

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The Thing About Kevin & The Shitsville Express

The last few months have been a hellish roller coaster ride, writes Assistant Managing Editor Timothy W. Humphries

Funnily enough, I remember during the 1980s a particularly colourful roller coaster ride at Dreamworld. Its gone now. However It used to slide in and out of view as our family barreled down the Pacific Highway to visit relatives on the Gold Coast.

I would argue we have entered a Dreamworld type era of twists and turns in Australian politics. Both sides of politics are setting themselves up as the answer in a political climate best described as 'disillusioned'. 

A Cat at a Dog Show

Certain gay rights advocates are calling for what they call ‘marriage equality’, or same-sex marriage, writes Justin de Vere 

National governments in New Zealand and France, as well as certain other countries and states, have recently passed laws legalising this. In doing so, the governments of these places now consider a marriage of a man and a woman to be the equivalent of a similar ceremony ‘marrying’ two men or two women.

The desire for marriage equality, while superficially a call for justice and an idea whose time has come, is actually a hurtful, destructive, selfish desire which speciously defies logic, abuses ordinary people’s sense of justice, and will cause damage to an ancient social custom that predates government and civilisation and has nothing to do with homosexuality. The politicians who would effect this change would do so not in the best interests of the country they serve, but in the short-term interests of the party they serve.

Read More: http://justindevere.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/a-cat-at-a-dog-show/

Turnbull—square peg in round hole

Perhaps Malcolm Turnbull’s self-appraisal sets him distant, if not at odds with his Party colleagues? Maybe he views them as less sharp and less accomplished in commerce by comparison? Undeniable, however, is his unrelenting quest for success—Turnbull style.

Malcolm’s form has a repeating factor—what he wants and who he wants to be is variable. The goal posts are movable. Hardly the cohesiveness and consistency suited for political policy and the Me, before Us presents as a constant in the man’s character.

Where would Malcolm be today had Kerry Packer not leapfrogged his legal career to various boardrooms of mercantile moguls? Turnbull showed his appreciation by dumping on Packer over a business deal in 1991. Acrimony between the two was palpable.

Turnbull later told Sydney newspapers that, “He [Packer] did threaten to kill me. And I said to him: ‘Well, you'd better make sure that your assassin gets me first because if he misses, you better know I won't miss you.’ He could be a complete pig, you know. He could charm the birds out of the tree, but he could be a brute.”

Abbott's traitor within - sack him now!

Turnbull re-launches campaign for Australian Republic

It's been more than a decade since the Republican movement was defeated at a referendum, but now a revival is underway to put a Republic back on the national agenda.
This time around Australia's Republicans, including Senior Liberal Malcolm Turnbull, have vowed to engage with the public.

Read more: Via ABC News

GC.Ed.@L.

The Grubby NBN Debate

The NBN debate has reached a new low, with Malcolm Turncoat and Minister Conartist calling each other names. If you think about it, they're both right. About each other! TWH.AMEd.

Read More: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/technology/pollies-nbn-feud-descends-into-name-calling/story-fn5kftjr-1226636060725

Death again, by a thousand fools!

Jim reminds us yet again about political ineptitude via knee-jeck reaction. This one by Malcolm Turnbull may be forgotten by many, but not those who curse and cuss when they have to buy a light bulb at triple cost, half the light and shorter life span. Another Turnbull flub! GC.Ed.

Compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs – twirly bulbs – can provide the same amount of light as incandescent light bulbs, using one quarter of the energy. A belief, as strong as any religious one, is that they will make a difference to dreaded carbon emissions, and perhaps to the household budget.

Under the grip of worldwide mania, a wild-eyed messianic Malcolm Turnbull persuaded his brain challenged mates in the Liberal Party to make their use compulsory.

There was not the slightest evidence that their use would have an effect on Global Warming, or Son of Global Warming, or Climate Change but there was just a chance that it might – and that was what did it.

The Precautionary Principle.

The Precautionary Principle?

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

 Put it another way – it means ‘just in case’.

The principle is applied everywhere now, but it started as a Green mantra to chant in debate as a substitute for thinking.

Which coat Malcolm Turncoat, or wastecoat?

Further to the Menzies House Post “ABC not biased—Turnbull” January 8, many are puzzled that Turnbull remains in the Liberal Party and why the Party allows him to continue, considering his regular undermining of leader Tony Abbott.

The reason Malcolm doggedly hangs in like a cloying fart might be explained in my synopsis predicated on a furtive imagination rather than facts. Mere musings, in fact. You decide.

Turnbull: Pro carbon tax and close friend to Goldman Sachs had already been mentioned as a political friend to GS as the then Leader of the Opposition and was expected to become Prime Minister.

The tip-off: Turnbull calls banker friends to tell them the good news. Banker friends are grateful for the inside track and buy up big in carbon schemes.

The glitch: Abbott rolls Turnbull for Liberal leadership and the news goes viral among the international banking clique. Lines to bankers and traders crash!

Turnbull’s mobile goes into melt-down as North American banker mates ignore 2am local time.

“What the god-damned hell happened down there Malcolm? You told us the prime minister job was in the bag! We’re in this big time because of you—billions. You better do something quick or your gonna be chopped liver on rye, and no dill pickle that you like—do you hear me?”