Da Poliitics

The execrable leader of the conservative opposition party Peter Dutton not only didn't win the recent federal election, he presided over the loss of many conservative seats, generally to the Labor Party (I have emailed the returned to office Prime Minister, suggesting that with his huge majority, the party name should be changed back to the Australian spelling, Labour). Dutton also lost his own seat, lol. An inglorious end to an inglorious political career of a liar and charlatan. 

But who is to replace him? Two members of the opposition party have stuck their hands up. Both were in parliament during the unforgivable Robodebt scandal (Not so different to England's Post Office scandal), and as far as I am aware, neither spoke up against it.

There is one Angus Taylor, another 6O year old rich old bloke, a boarder at The King's College Paramatta, and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, a path not uncommon for conservative politicians bred from landed gentry. 

He has been named as being responsible for poor economic policies presented by he party at the election. 

And then there were the Watergate and Grassgate scandals. The former being him being associated with an extraordinary amount of money being paid under the government water buy back scheme for the company's water irrigation water allowance. The latter as a part owner of a company that illegally poisoned  a large area of protected native habitat and grassland. Profit, profit, private company profit. He will do anything to ensure his ilk will make huge profits. 

For some reason, I apply carping more to women than men, and no doubt this is sexist. Sussan Ley is not the most carpy woman in politics. I think that honour goes to Victorian politician Georgia Crozier. 

Sussan is not an extremist in our conservative party. She was once a punk rocker and an airline pilot. Wow, she was born in Nigeria, lived in the United Arab Emirates and England and arrived to live in Australia in her teen years. She's been around, and that is a good thing, but has she blotted her copybook?

Oh yes, as the BBC explains. Just another snout in the taxpayer's pockets. However, par for the course, with such a large margin for Labor, she won't win enough seats at the next election to rule. Women seem to be always put in untenable leader positions as men fail. Nevertheless, I prefer her over more of the same, such as Angus Taylor.

Whatever, I am not keen on any government having such strong numbers in parliament. I like a strong opposition party. Maybe Ley is the person to modernise the party of fat old rich men.