The Coming Federal Election.

[Random Rooster]

Can big Clive be our very own Trump?

Well Trump today blamed Ukraine for the war and signalled that a fresh round of "elections" for Ukraine may be in order.

So if Clive isn't available i think Paddo will be perfect for the job!

[Paddo Colt 61]

If you're right, I think Sal's gonna be homicidal. Am I gonna cop it.

Whatever, American Intelligence and the MIC (military industrial complex) are having a rough time. Trump seems to be a revolutionary.at times, unfortunately Right Wing, even Fascist, and that means big problems coming up. But for now the Empire is being unmasked.

I'd argue that this is on topic, The Ukraine and Trumps stunts will be relevant for us and our election the way things are going.

[Random Rooster]

Labor are running an ad to put a 'Mediscare' label on Pistol Pete. Only thing is they've edited and cut n paste (quite roughly) it to misrepresent his comments in an old interview when he had some carpet on the dome.

They make it look like he is saying "Medicare is dead" when it is part of a longer sentence where he goes on to say "if not made sustainable". He then goes on to state the Coalitions plan for making it sustainable.

Blatant skulduggery. Can't they focus on their "achievements " rather than craft sneaky lying ads? Oh thats right...

First i heard of Labor fast tracking Gazan citizenships to win elections was here at the Chookpen!

Yes Jack politicians tell lies- all of them. They see it as part and parcel of the job. As a mate of mine always says " i vote for the party whose lies will less affect me the most"



Dutton wrongly says Labor is fast-tracking citizenship for Gazans to win votes

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused Labor of fast-tracking Australian citizenship for people who fled Gaza to win votes in marginal seats at the upcoming election, even though nobody who has fled the war-torn strip since 2023 is eligible for citizenship.

Dutton made the series of unfounded claims about Gazan visa holders at a Sky News summit on antisemitism on Thursday, following reports the government planned to grant 12,500 people citizenship in a series of 25 ceremonies that the Home Affairs Department will hold across Australia by March 4.

In an interview with Sky host Sharri Markson, which was broadcast live, Dutton suggested the Labor government was “giving a nod and a wink to a particular part of society” by speeding through new citizens who could swing the election result in marginal seats contested by the Greens.

“Let’s be frank about the motivation,” Dutton said. “Why would you bring people in from a war zone, without the requisite checks on a tourist visa, without precedent? Why would you do that?

“And, knowing that it’s territory controlled by a listed terrorist organisation, why would you expressly push people through the process to receive citizenship in advance of an election, which is pending?”

A Home Affairs spokesperson said applicants must be lawful residents of Australia for four years before they could apply for Australian citizenship, precluding any people who arrived in the country later than 2020, including the Gazans who arrived after October 2023.


Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke labelled Dutton’s comments “outrageous” while Rasha Abbas, who directs the agency assisting Palestinians fleeing the war, said just one family from Gaza had been given permanent visas on serious humanitarian grounds, but not offered citizenship. The rest are on temporary visas.

“This is not true. It’s all untruth,” Abbas said of Dutton’s claims. “There are laws around these things. There has been no citizenship granted to any of the Palestinians. There has been no change to the citizenship process. There is no bypassing of any security checks, they are done multiple times. Why are we singling out Palestinians?”
Home Affairs sources said no Palestinians had been granted citizenship in the cohort of 12,500. The dominant nationalities were Indians, followed by New Zealanders.

Home Affairs said the department-held events were intended to supplement ceremonies in council areas where there were large numbers of approved applicants, to help clear citizenship backlogs.

But Dutton said it was “quite remarkable” with an election coming and implied the government had sidestepped proper security processes.

“I just question whether there has been any slackening of the process, whether there has been any compromise on the security checks, and whether it’s in our country’s best interests for people to receive citizenship before the proper security checks have been undertaken,” he said.

Markson asked Dutton: “So you do hold serious concerns that the Albanese government is fast-tracking citizenship for a particular cohort?”

“Yes,” Dutton replied. “We’d heard this, and the Daily Tele has broken that story today.”

While The Daily Telegraph on Thursday reported that Home Affairs was hosting large citizenship ceremonies, it made no claims about any groups being fast-tracked.

Dutton then claimed that people from Gaza had been sped through the citizenship process. “There needs to be transparency, if the government is giving a nod and a wink to a particular part of society,” he said.

“They’re obsessed with the Green vote and they’re worried about losing seats. Without being political about it, but let’s be frank about the motivation.”

He questioned why the government would fast-track citizenship for people from a place controlled by a listed terrorist organisation before saying that “a couple hundred votes can swing an outcome, and will in the coming election”.

“There will be a number of seats that are very tight, and that’s not a political statement, it’s a statement of fact. I think they’re reasonable questions for Minister Burke and the prime minister to answer,” Dutton said.

Burke said anyone who had satisfied their citizenship requirements should be able to pledge their commitment to Australia as soon as possible.

“It’s outrageous to suggest that people who have been fully processed and passed every check under law should be prevented from making their pledge of life-long commitment to our country,” he said.

“What sort of person wants to be in charge of Australia but doesn’t want people to take their pledge of commitment to Australia?”

Dutton’s office did not respond to this masthead’s request for comment or evidence to support his claims.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Hmmm...it does yet seem a little strange that Labor seem to be prioritising these 12000 odd citizenships so efficiently with Federal officiating. Their hitherto tune has been to leave it to local Councils and not even mandate them to occur on Australia Day as they should. Suddenly they have a burning interest...im sure there's nothing see here. Or maybe they protest too much...

[Andrew Walker]

Hmmm...it does yet seem a little strange that Labor seem to be prioritising these 12000 odd citizenships so efficiently with Federal officiating. Their hitherto tune has been to leave it to local Councils and not even mandate them to occur on Australia Day as they should. Suddenly they have a burning interest...im sure there's nothing see here. Or maybe they protest too much...

You know Jaxxxx I really do love a conspiracy theory.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

You know Jaxxxx I really do love a conspiracy theory.

Yes...im sure it's "nothing to see here".

Good luck tomorrow by the way, making the trip?

[Random Rooster]

Josh Frydenberg at yesterday’s Sky News Antisemitism Summit, quoted Mark Twain “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed “ then followed it up with “ obviously Twain didn’t watch Sharri Markson “ to a thunderous applause. Well that didn’t age too well!

I guess that’s an example of why Twains quotes are timeless and Sharri Markson report lasted about 2 hours before being exposed as trash

I actually like Josh and thought he would make a great PM - but there’s no need to publicly suck up to News Ltd

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Josh Frydenberg at yesterday’s Sky News Antisemitism Summit, quoted Mark Twain “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed “ then followed it up with “ obviously Twain didn’t watch Sharri Markson “ to a thunderous applause. Well that didn’t age too well!

I guess that’s an example of why Twains quotes are timeless and Sharri Markson report lasted about 2 hours before being exposed as trash

I actually like Josh and thought he would make a great PM - but there’s no need to publicly suck up to News Ltd

Geez mate you have to admire News for backing that Summit though. I watched most of it, it was very raw but God, Australia needed it. No other outlet or institution would have had the guts to do it.

Sharris a bloody Rockstar, she has been phenomenal post 7/10....my vote for Australian of the Year.

[Paddo Colt 61]

Sharri Markson = right wing twit. Absolute lightweight. Trained up on the job no doubt. A Jew in charge of a media investigation of anti semitism is unacceptable especially when the aim is to damage a competent Government.

Jews have little credibility these days. Netanyahu interferes in our politics. The infamous Jewish lobby beats up anything beat uppable. It was excoriated by Mike Carleton some years ago after it forced his sacking by the ABC (as shit scared of the lobby then as they are now). The "anti semitic terror" is a joke - a few illiterate scrawled slogans probably by right wing youth and a burned synagogue possibly the work of Jews here wanting to up the anti. " Yarwei, this graffiti's not working gotta get a bigger bang. And all of you on the Right should remember that our glorious head of ASIO, Mike Burgess, claimed that foreign players were responsible - Mossad? Who gains the most from the fire?

Jeremy Corbin was another victim, possibly the first to be subjected to Murdoch's new definition of anti semite - If you sympathise with the Palestinian cause, you're anti semitic. Murdoch managed to tar the British Labour Party with it.

[Crab]

On a side note WTF is China,s navy doing conducting live fire operations off the Australian coast and causing our aircraft to have to deviate between Australia and NZ ?! This is our friendly trading partner. I think we need to get new friends or is it just murdoch misinformation ?

[Paddo Colt 61]

Possibly the Chinese are aiming to make us as uncomfortable as they are with our regular reconnaissance operations along their coastline. The media is calling the aircraft a "patrol plane" when, clearly, it is a Poseidon spy plane. The question never addressed is why does the Oz navy and Air Force spend so much time annoying our biggest trading partner?

Jeez Mr. C you do find it hard to contemplate another side to issues. You can always be depended on to swallow the tripe that our msm serves up hook, line and sinker.

[Crab]

Possibly the Chinese are aiming to make us as uncomfortable as they are with our regular reconnaissance operations along their coastline. The media is calling the aircraft a "patrol plane" when, clearly, it is a Poseidon spy plane. The question never addressed is why does the Oz navy and Air Force spend so much time annoying our biggest trading partner?

Jeez Mr. C you do find it hard to contemplate another side to issues. You can always be depended on to swallow the tripe that our msm serves up hook, line and sinker.

It was just a question wrapped in an observation and not a gut hooked fish Paddo ..

[Paddo Colt 61]

No you were sarcastically implying that Murdoch journalism is reliable and, unforch for you, the implication coincides with the revelation that News has been using an Israeli nutjob to create division.

His walk around Newtown together with bullying News "journalists" produced no anti Semitism but the bollocking one ratbag hack gets from a cafe owner is fun, it concerns journalistic ethics. Ha!

I now suspect that some of the dumb things you say are just revving up so, going forward Mr.C, I intend to be more circumspect as far as responding is concerned.

[King Salvo]

Capitalist Paddo is clueless as usual. - Still can't believe he was a History Teacher for 50 years - which history though Ancient or Modern though

China is still communist and have never denounced his hero Chairman Mao - Capitalist Paddo doesn't believe the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution ever occurred or up to 80 million perished under Mao's Marxist - Leninism- Stalinist regime - victims of starvation, persecution, prison labour ( Gulags) , and mass executions.

Ditto the Soviet Union under Stalin with his Gulag Archipelago/mass deportations/mass executions/purges/infamous lists of folk to be executed or put in Gulags - Khrushchev denounced Stalin although he was a major part of that regime and they took Stalin from the Lenin Mausoleum late one night and buried him instead.

You could imagine Putin having such Gulags if he could being indoctrinated on Soviet Union Ideology. Putin isolates his opponents and has them eliminated the same as Stalin did - i.e Trotsky.

All West propaganda and what not no doubt according to Capitalist Paddo who is rather too brainwashed by lefty commo socialist bollockism one has to honestly say.

Mrs Salvo's Grandfather was a political commissar in WW2/Great Patriotic War as the Soviets called it - did admit Stalin did these things but for a so called good reason - I couldn't figure out for what reason one could ever do these things for though and Mrs Salvo said not to ask or press the issue any further.

Below Part 1 of a 3 part series on Soviet era Gulags

Gulag - The Story | Part 1: Origins - 1917-1933 | Free Documentary History

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Sharri Markson = right wing twit. Absolute lightweight. Trained up on the job no doubt. A Jew in charge of a media investigation of anti semitism is unacceptable especially when the aim is to damage a competent Government.

Jews have little credibility these days. Netanyahu interferes in our politics. The infamous Jewish lobby beats up anything beat uppable. It was excoriated by Mike Carleton some years ago after it forced his sacking by the ABC (as shit scared of the lobby then as they are now). The "anti semitic terror" is a joke - a few illiterate scrawled slogans probably by right wing youth and a burned synagogue possibly the work of Jews here wanting to up the anti. " Yarwei, this graffiti's not working gotta get a bigger bang.

Jeremy Corbin was another victim, possibly the first to be subjected to Murdoch's new definition of anti semite - If you sympathise with the Palestinian cause, you're anti semitic. Murdoch managed to tar the British Labour Party with it.

The worst type of anti-semite is he that chooses to believe it doesn't exist. I don't know what your legacy is in life or anything about your contribution to Australian society. But your online presence is of a sad, somewhat deranged old man whose tombstone epitaph must likely read..."Murdoch Did It'.