say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss, we won t...

[wesw]

gee, you guys sure have a screwed electionsystem over there....,

...and too many poisonous things....,

and cane toads, and mouse plagues....,

sure it s beautiful and all, but....

kangaroos? really?

do they at least taste good?

save the dingo!

vote Kasich!!!!

and you know that all those wild camels are gonna attract A-rabs.......

[Gob]

Hard to tell, but I think our Wes is referring to this;

Australia is to have a new prime minister after Tony Abbott was ousted as leader of the centre-right Liberal Party by Malcolm Turnbull.



In the dramatic late night party leadership ballot, Mr Abbott, who had been plagued by poor opinion polls, received 44 votes to Mr Turnbull's 54.

Mr Turnbull said he assumed that parliament would serve its full term, implying no snap general election.

The new leader will be Australia's fourth prime minister since 2013.

The prime minister-elect is expected to be sworn in after Mr Abbott writes to Australia's governor general and resigns.

Earlier on Monday Mr Abbott had dismissed rumours of a leadership challenge as "Canberra gossip" - only to be voted out by his fellow Liberal MPs.

They also voted for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to remain deputy leader of the party.

Speaking after the result was announced, Mr Turnbull praised his predecessor for his "formidable achievements" as prime minister.

The new party leader said Australia needed to have "the economic vision, a leadership, that explains the great challenges and opportunities we face".

He said he would lead "a thoroughly Liberal government, committed to freedom, the individual and the market".

This is how it works...

Australia is to have a new prime minister after Tony Abbott was ousted as leader of the Liberal Party following a hastily arranged drinking competition.

Cabinet minister Malcolm Turnbull is said to have requested the drinking competition following doubts about Mr Abbott’s ability to successfully drink enough beer to remain a credible Australian Prime Minister.

“It became clear to me that I had to act after I saw Tony drink a small glass of sherry instead of several pints of the old amber fluid,” said the new Prime Minister.

“I thought it was a bloody disgrace to the proud ideals of Australian democracy and so I acted.”

Mr Turnbull becomes the fourth Australian Prime Minister since 2013 after Kevin Rudd ordered a glass of beer instead of a pint and Julia Gillard was outed as a woman.

Australia has a long and proud tradition of choosing its leaders through drinking competition after Guinness world record beer drinker Bob Hawke (who drank 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds in 1955) became Prime Minister and declared that ‘any of you pack of galahs want to run my bloody country better top that.’

Mr Turnbull became Prime Minister by drinking nine pints of Fosters and still being able to drive, whereas after his eighth pint Tony Abbott vomited copiously, sexually assaulted the cat and started a fight with his own shoes.

Here is former Prime Minister Bob Hawke showing his mettle.

[wesw]

that s great and all but...,

....does kangaroo taste good?

[MajGenl.Meade]

that s great and all but...,

....does kangaroo taste good?

[Lord Jim]

Wrong creepy fast food mascot:

Jack in The Box kangaroo meat legend half true



The urban legend that Jack in the Box had a mix up in their meat shipments and served kangaroo meat burgers all over America, is not true. However, there is some factual basis to the story.

In 1981, horse meat and kangaroo meat was labeled as beef chuck at a Foodmaker processing plant that among other companies, provided hamburger meat and taco meat to Jack in the Box restaurants. The meat labeling mistake came from the Australian meat distribution company called ProFreeze.

The kangaroo meat never actually made it to the burgers or tacos of Jack in the Box customers, [yeah, that's their story...] but the story some how got into the news, and the rumors started spreading.

http://www.examiner.com/article/jack-th ... -half-true

[Gob]

that s great and all but...,

....does kangaroo taste good?

My dogs enjoy it.

I once sent AndrewD some kangaroo jerky, and some other native species jerky, (Possum? Crocodile? Wallaby?)

He said he liked it

[MajGenl.Meade]

..and that was the last we heard of him. Odd that

[Gob]

I only got 50% on the gaffometer, you?

[Crackpot]

I got 60%.

[Lord Jim]

5/10 · Scored 50%
Result: More training needed, you barely had this quiz covered

[Long Run]

The urban legend that Jack in the Box had a mix their meat shipments

Same type of rumor hovered around Bob's Burgers for a period of time, only it was contamination of human flesh that was part of the libel.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I've eaten many a wild animal. I would try kangaroo meat.

[wesw]

....so, gob, does this change in leadership change anything in australia and is that a good or bad thing, for Australia, and the world as a whole?

and yeah, I know that there is a joke there, but I m curious about Australian politics and policy.

hey! there s a sentence that you don t often hear...

[Gob]

....so, gob, does this change in leadership change anything in australia and is that a good or bad thing, for Australia, and the world as a whole?
..

Abbot was not an effective or liked PM, he was mainly in the post through his tenacity and long history with his party. Turnbull is a canny and rich man, less hard right than Abbot, and probably better for the county.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull

[Gob]

Australia: Coup capital of the democratic world

[Lord Jim]

I was going to make that exact point...

It seems to have become a theme in recent Australian politics, that when the leader of the party in power becomes personally unpopular...

The Long Knives come out, and they get rid of them, and they replace them with someone else...

If you do it early on, (as has been done here) then perhaps you will not pay an electoral price for it...(one could argue this is like the Major for Thacher trade; Major won the next election)

But if you do it too close to the next election, (as the Aussie Labourites did trading out Gillard for Rudd, after Gillard had deposed Rudd in a previous coup) it looks like a desperate, cynical attempt to win the election, (which of course is exactly what it is) and the electorate will punish you for it...

So, the lesson here is that if you need to remove your Party Leader, (who also happens to be your Prime Minister, and the Leader of your Government) try not to make it look like you're doing it for narrow, self-serving political reasons...

Even though of course, that is really why you're doing it...

[oldr_n_wsr]

LordJim, you are one political junkie. (and I mean that in a good way). Who else in the USA knows that much about Aussie politics.
I read this stuff and my eyes glaze over. Tories, lories, blah blah blah.

[Gob]

Life imitating art?

Tony Abbott indulged in wild night of partying after leadership spill

The former Prime Minister reportedly went straight to the pub with his loyal staffers after losing the Liberal leadership to Malcolm Turnbull, celebrating his freedom with a wild night of partying.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Abbott even danced with his shirt off, although one witness said it was a short-lived manoeuvrer, that “it came off, but it was back on pretty quickly”.
A marble coffee table in the PM’s suite was apparently smashed during the wild night and staffers even took souvenir shards.

A fellow partygoer, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure Jamie Briggs, appeared the next morning in a wheelchair, although he insists he was injured during a morning jog.

[Lord Jim]

LordJim, you are one political junkie.

guilty as charged...

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Abbott even danced with his shirt off...

Okay, now how am I supposed to unsee that?

I guess I'll shove pencils in my eyes and hope for the best....