A recent opinion poll gave us the surprising news that people saw Peter Dutton as decisive and a strong leader…
This is understandable because Petey is very good at making decisions. If you remember when there was all that debate about the Voice, he decided that he needed more detail and then when he got more detail he decided that it wasn’t enough detail and that he’d be campaigning for “No”… but not because he was racist. No, he just thought that the Voice shouldn’t be ensured in the Constitution and he decided that there should be a second referendum before deciding that there didn’t need to be another referendum because he decided that it wasn’t necessary to give Indigenous people a Voice because they could just get elected to Parliament like Jacinta and then they could become part of the Canberra bubble which was one of the reasons that he decided that the Voice wouldn’t be representative.
Of course there are plenty more examples of Dutton’s decisiveness.
I mean, he was decisive when he said that we’d have SMR rather than large scale nuclear before telling us that we’d have large scale nuclear. And he decisively talked about not having a 2030 emissions target before being decisively pulled back into line by his party.
He was decisive when he called for a cap on international student numbers before being decisive in having his party vote against it in Parliament.
He decisively announced that we needed to cut net immigration to “around 160,000” before decisively refusing to commit to any target because if there’s one thing that a strong leader does is refuse to make commitments or stay around to answer questions about why you’ve changed your mind. No, a strong leader will tackle the journalist head on and say something like, “You’re from the ABC, aren’t you? I can tell by the way you expect me to explain myself when it’s you who has the agenda and I don’t have any, apart from getting elected!”
And then there was the time that he decisively announced that he would oppose changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts and followed this by decisively telling people that he’d re-introduce the tax cuts for higher income earners, which he followed by refusing to commit to any tax cuts… Although this is one area where we can expect decisive leadership after the election when he announces that Labor has stifled initiative and we must give people an incentive to take on the sorts of jobs that pay $300,000 plus… ones like being government minister or being a consultant to a firm who you used to deal with when you were a minister.
And when he was a minister, he was capable of making decisive decisions about things before he had all the facts… in some cases before he had any of the facts, like when he accused Senator Hanson-Young of being paranoid for thinking that she was being followed on Nauru just because security guards were following her, or when he suggested that it was concern for a small boy that led PNG soldiers to fire shots at the asylum seekers.
Yes, we should admire a decisive, strong leader; the sort who doesn’t think about a course of action before taking it – or even after – and who doesn’t listen to any criticism. Someone who knows that they’re right, just by the very fact of being who they are!
Of course, if a Labor or Greens leader were to change their mind so much, they’d get a reputation for being weak and unable to follow through, but that would be because they lacked the decisiveness of a Liberal who changes their mind with purpose and strength. That may seem unfair but then we have to remember that while Labor have been paying back debt with their last two Budgets, it’s the out of control debt that’s now a problem and why we’re being told that we need the Liberals to get this back under control.
It’s just the way things are!
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And of course the reason that we know how “decisive’ he is is because of the airtime he is given my mainstream media.
It doesn’t matter whether what he proposes/opposes is good or bad, it’s reported and people suck up up in a frenzy because that’s all they are told.
Is there a way to see his “decisiveness” for what it is? Yes, but it doesn’t involve Albanese or the Labor party being better at what they do.
Just give Petey a Groucho Marx moustache and a cigar and let him launch into Groucho’s Whatever it is I’m Against it
I don’t know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I’m against it
No matter what it is or who commenced it
I’m against it
Your proposition may be good
But let’s have one thing understood:
Whatever it is, I’m against it
And even when you’ve changed it or condensed it
I’m against it
I’m opposed to it
On general principles, I’m against it
The man who put dick into Dixon
There is only one DECISION to make, and that is to vote this idiot bastard out.
My Friday morning coffee with a couple of mates became a bit ‘political’.
One mate said he could not think of a single thing the Albo government has done for him.
He’s a pensioner, do did not see the tax cut, nor see the wage increases but he did get a power bill which showed him in CREDIT after the government subsidies were taken into account.
The negativity coming from Spud’s mouth, the constant carping about how bad the government is, how they are doing nothing about the cost of living crisis needs to be addressed and with the only slightly biased press ignoring all the good stuff done, surely it is up to us, in conversation to point out what has been and continues to be done .
And yes, put up a teal candidate to oppose him in Dixon. Fight him on his nuclear stance, which it turns out is only a political ploy with no intent to actually see it through.
Yeah, we must be thick to doubt the LNP and particularly Dutts, Littleproud, Taylor and O’Brien (and whilst we’re at it, all the other representative gobs). We are told by them they are absolutely clear about their policies and planks which they’re working on, but struggling to find amongst their throwaway lines.
Oh yes, we can rely on their decisiveness, when they can find that too.
Never mind the platforms and planks, it must be very painful for them as they sit on the pickets of the fence 😎
I find it very easy to be decisive about this steaming pile of cow manure. In fact there is nothing that needs to be decided. He is bottom feeding septic tank scum. Always was, always will be and if we thought the LNP had wielded some top class sub-humans before, they are nothing when compared to this thing from the swamp.
Why does divisive Dutton’s gob resemble an emu’s anus?Is it because of the shit he talks?
If Potty Boy Dutton became PM, he would be as bad as Hitler in 1935. Hitler didn’t listen to anybody who didn’t tell him what he wanted to hear.
Ahhh, another typo … I’m pretty sure that headline should be “Divisive Dutton”
Bert:
You can tell him – from this pensioner – that the ALP totally canned the mandatory movement of social security recipients to the Indue card, while Dutton has vowed to implement it nationwide and for all of us. I wonder how he likes the idea of a) the waste of money to administer the scheme and b) having every cent he spends being scrutinised by private-sector bureaucrats and, in many cases, having to be authorised in advance.
Then there is, as you mentioned, the energy supplements. My own power bill is so far in credit that I won’t have to pay anything for at least the next 12 months.
leefe, it was a play on words between decision and divisive.
I am sure the spin doctors are at work here. Yea he is decisive, lets charge for the cliff and dont stop till we all drop….
As Uncletimrob says, our RW MSM and related online messaging or PR system platforms Dutton and the LNP to promote mostly fossil fuel and mining interests ie. nuclear to delay transition, and to run deflection from other serious and centrist policy issues of the day.
Other deflections include the populist claims vs. Woolworths – Coles and cliched ‘cost of living’*, while ignoring other supermarket chains; obviously the LNP is not expecting donations from Coles or Woolies?
*Another RW meme traversing Anglosphere media, a faux free market ‘Kochonomics trap’; half the population probably has a permanent ‘cost of living crisis’, but their solutions would be to cut taxes and budget; ditto fabricated migration &/or population crises, looking for an excuse to implement unpalatable ‘solutions’.
Says P Duddy: “The opposition leader celebrated Australian stoicism in the face of financial pressures in his Christmas message on Tuesday. With everything costing more, many Australians had to make do with less,” Dutton said. “The struggle was acute for so many Australians, and it will be a hard Christmas for many.””
Says the creature from the LNP swamp who owns properties galore and has millions stashed away (no doubt offshore) and says words that are meaningless and make you want to be sick. How about he give up his overly generous pay packet and extra goodies to help out people who really struggle on wages of about a tenth what he sucks from the pig trough for year or two. Chances of that occurring: A big fat zero.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/24/australian-leaders-acknowledge-financial-pressures-and-emergency-workers-in-christmas-messages
Says P Duddy: “The opposition leader celebrated Australian stoicism in the face of financial pressures in his Christmas message on Tuesday. With everything costing more, many Australians had to make do with less,” Dutton said. “The struggle was acute for so many Australians, and it will be a hard Christmas for many.””
Says the creature from the LNP swamp who owns properties galore and has millions stashed away (no doubt offshore) and says words that are meaningless and make you want to be sick. How about he give up his overly generous pay packet and extra goodies to help out people who really struggle on wages of about a tenth what he sucks from the pig trough for year or two. Chances of that occurring: A big fat zero.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/24/australian-leaders-acknowledge-financial-pressures-and-emergency-workers-in-christmas-messages