Oliver Pocock

"It smells funny in there."

Now's the perfect time to send in a short email to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (em@aph.gov.au) by this Saturday and telling them that this not only a great idea but it'd be even better if we did a 50% increase and didn't have to think about this again for 50 years.

In this same vein, I'm *very* curious as to the response we'll see from the EU, who it's been reported was being heavily lobbied by the Pentagon to stop its plans to diversify defence spending away from the US, presumably with threats of bigger and bigger tariffs which are now blanks.

Sky News Australia, which has made its bread and butter shrieking about the ABC for years, has just announced it's re-brand to... News 24.

Well, if you can't beat 'em...

Someone get Linton Besser on the blower.

#AusPol #MediaWatch

This may be a silly question, and if it is I apologise, but with this model is there a margin of error for the number of seats predictions?

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Matt presumably upon refreshing the ABC News website this evening.

The Avenue formerly known as Prince

Hi, The Guardian, can we chat?

So... I don't mean to tell you how to write your stories, but if you have to put a quote in the article where Hanson said "I am not going to apologise" then it *wasn't* an apology, conditional or otherwise.

Please, be better. #AusPol

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Angus Taylor unleashes the Cerberus, doom and damnation to follow. More at 11. #AusPol

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) LIVE: Angus Taylor unveils new shadow cabinet following leadership spill | ABC NEWS

Angus Taylor and Jane Hume up now on ABC News announcing the new Coalition shadow cabinet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPkb...

#AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

That leads to a fracturing of their vote share, as everyone starts breaking out life boats while the ship continues to sink.

Some will end up with One Nation.

Some will end up with community independents.

Some will end up with other minor fringe parties.

#AusPol #4Corners

You want to know why conservatives in Australia (and, in the broad strokes, the world over) are going backwards?

At the same time as voters stopped having things to conserve due to the centralisation of wealth, conservative politics started focusing exclusively on niche issues.

#AusPol #4Corners

I'm sure there must be a point in trying to read the entrails of conservative politics and the self-implosion of the Coalition... God knows what it is though.

#AusPol #4Corners

*looks at watch*

"Yeah, I can wait for the next train..."

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Probably would have helped if anyone had read that 2025 Election Review that's currently under lock-and-key at some lawyer's office.

This isn't even about them ditching Ley as leader (though I'm sure that will have pissed off whichever women were still in the room after WFH fiasco during the election).

But going deeper down the right-wing rabbit hole locks in the death spiral. Next comes the splat.

#AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

Based on today's events, and to borrow a phrase from the mad monk, I'm ready to declare the Liberal Party of Australia "dead, buried and cremated".

Sure, it may sit there in the corner rattling and gurgling for a little bit longer, but make no mistake, it's dead.

#AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

Press conference by Taylor/Hume delayed again by another 90 minutes, presumably because they are apparently trying to figure out what to do with the car now that they've caught it. Not a strong start. #AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

That just shows how on top of things you are. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Tim.

'Hi Angus. Here's a present to congratulate you on white-anting me out of the leadership. Please ignore the ticking...' #AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

She stared them down from a position of them calling for her sacking to a position of signing her farewell card, and that's the sort of steely resolve she'll be remembered for as an answer in your local pub's trivia night.

I'm sure Tim Wilson thinks he is making a point banging on about union corruption and trying to present an image of business as normal, but from my point of view it makes him look oblivious to the fact that the house he's standing in his burning down around him. #AusPol #LibSpill #NSWPol #VicPol

I felt a great awkward shuffling in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in mild bemusement before breaking out into raucous laughter.

I respect Patricia Karvelas, but I'm going to vehemently disagree with the point just made that Taylor has played his cards close to his chest.

He's basically spent the last 9 months walking around with a bloody billboard behind him reading "I can't wait to be king!"

#AusPol #LibSpill

Can you imagine if he loses? The value of 'Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.' memes will go through the roof.

Maybe the Future Fund should look at a quick investment?

#AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

ABC News is reporting that Angus Taylor has resigned from the Shadow Cabinet, but is *not* calling for a leadership spill against Sussan Ley.

Apparently more resignations are expected in the coming hours to put mounting pressure on Sussan to call on the spill herself.

#AusPol #NSWPol #LibSpill

With another Liberal leadership spill apparently in the offing, a strong performance for Don't Know, the Member for Who Cares. #AusPol #LibSpill

Also, if I was the Liberal Party, I wouldn't be giving lectures about what it means to be a good Australian citizen right now.

According to them the bar is set at politicising tragedies, dithering over knifing your boss and ditching political alliances like Henry VIII did wives.

#AusPol #NSWPol