Simon Sheikh
There is fresh evidence Australians are dividing between Labor and the Liberals and that the shift to the political poles is leaving the Greens adrift and losing much of the electoral ballast accumulated over the past five years.
Voting last weekend in the Australian Capital Territory has followed the broad trend set in recent NSW local government elections and recorded in opinion polling.
It could be that the latest third-party bloc, balance of power heirs to the Australian Democrats, is being stranded with reduced influence. Which additionally could mean that in the history of really unfortunate political timing there might be a footnote, at least, for activist Simon Sheikh who is setting out to enter Parliament.
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In the words of Bob Marley, GetUp! – stand up.
GetUp! should stand up and tell Australians who they really are. Are they an activist organisation with a certain political leaning? Are they a pseudo political party aligned with the Greens and Labor? Are they truly independent in their views or do they take advice from particular political identities?
For a long time GetUp! has stood upon the mountain of moral superiority and preached to us ordinary ignorant slobs on everything from economic fairness and workplace relations to the price of petrol and the plight of battery hens.
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Tory Maguire says:
This is a statement from Serena Rogers, Director of Media and Operations at The Australia Institute: Mr Emery criticises The Australia Institute’s paper yet he makes no attempt to outline where he believes we, or our sources, got it wrong. The figures quoted in our paper come from the ATO’s… Read more »
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GetUp Member says:
pa_kelvin…With the greatest respect, if you had a better understanding of what GetUp is about (don’t believe the hype) then you would realise what you said would defeat the whole purpose for their very existence, they would simply be another political party with their snouts in the trough. GetUp have… Read more »
Sophie Mirabella is copping it this morning because unlike Greg Combet (Clark Kent anybody?) she didn’t rush to the aid of Simon Sheikh when he collapsed next to her on the Q and A desk last night.
Visually it didn’t look great. As the Get Up! director slumped forward unconscious the Shadow Industry Minister appeared to recoil. It was certainly an odd moment. Climate Change Minister Combet, who was mid-sentence, expressed the confusion everyone would have felt when Sheikh (who is ok, thankfully) first connected head with desk. “I’m not quite sure what Simon’s doing there. Is he okay? I think… he’s not okay. Simon is not okay,” Combet said, before going to Sheikh’s aid.
Mirabella’s inaction was for a just a few short seconds, but from the reaction you would think the woman had poisoned the political activist’s glass of water.
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Morgan says:
Ms Mirabella not only reacted badly (she didnt put up a reassuring hand on his shoulder, she was pushing him away from her!), she wouldn’t have reacted at all had Mr Sheikh not fallen directly ON HER! I agree with the poster who said Mr Combet truly demonstrated his cool-head… Read more »
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T says:
Watch out all of you folk with bad gramma and comprehension skills, NicoleG is on the prowl. Lucky we have such an amazing person to pull us all up on our comprehension skills. You must be an awesome speller too. Thank God you corrected Carlos, I really had no idea… Read more »
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