Merged Australian Politics / Australian election

[psionl0]

Three loopholes remain:

1. There is no requirement to actually fill a vacancy
2. There is no requirement to accept the nominee concerned (used in TAS in 1987)
3. If a senator leaves their party and becomes an IND or a member of another party and then dies/resigns mid-term, it is their original party that chooses their replacement, even if they became an IND or started their own party.

Section 15 of the constitution says that the state government will fill in a casual Senate vacancy. I don't know what would happen if the state government refused to do so.

If the Queensland government refused to replace Bert Milliner (rather than appoint a Labor Senator and restore Labor's balance of power) there would almost certainly have been a high court challenge. It probably wouldn't make much difference but if that had happened then the votes in the Senate would have been tied 29-29 so it couldn't defer the budget. It would only be able to defeat it.

In any case, a Labor Senator can't be replaced with a non-Labor Senator and the important part is "the balance of his term". This means that Gough wouldn't have been able to engage in the hi-jinks that he attempted with Senator Gair.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Tariffs will be threatened.

Threaten away, Donny. No skin off our nose.

Btw, LK, Trump can't spell Australia, and certainly can't find it on a map. I'm sure he thinks we are all Crikey! clones.

 

[EHocking]

He should just accept the result and any punishment, and fade away out of public view. Any further attempts to "clear his name" are just going to make it even worse.

Reminder: Only 8 More Bruce Lehrmann Court Cases Before Christmas — The Shovel

"Bruce Lehrmann court proceedings act a bit like an Advent calendar. Except instead of chocolate, every window reveals another court to appeal to”.

theshovel.com.au

 

[Dabop]

Threaten away, Donny. No skin off our nose.

Btw, LK, Trump can't spell Australia, and certainly can't find it on a map. I'm sure he thinks we are all Crikey! clones.

Australia- thats the country right next to Germany, where there were many 'good people on both sides' 'unjustly accused' right????

My sister brought me a teeshirt from there- 'theres no kangaroos in Australia....'
Or was that Austria????

Exactly like that, even to the colour.... (I hardly ever wear it- a black teeshirt in 40plus summer temps????)

 

[arthwollipot]

I bought a tote bag with that logo on it in a tourist shop in Vienna. I use it as my regular shopping bag.

Apparently there was an American politician a while ago who went to Vienna and asked where all the kangaroos were.

 

[Dabop]

I bought a tote bag with that logo on it in a tourist shop in Vienna. I use it as my regular shopping bag.

Apparently there was an American politician a while ago who went to Vienna and asked where all the kangaroos were.

It was from the one who was formerly considered the dumbest president the US has ever had- old GW... but sadly, he lost that title recently...

 

[arthwollipot]

 

[a_unique_person]

The Murdoch press is all 100% behind Trump still. They are shameless.

 

[a_unique_person]

The Murdoch opinion piece on Venezuela is all "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" fascism today.

 

[arthwollipot]

Albo is softening on the Royal Commission question.

PM doesn't rule out royal commission into Bondi terror attack

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese does not rule out calling a royal commission into the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, but says his immediate priority is the review of intelligence and security agencies.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Norman Alexander]

Doesn't say when, though.

 

[a_unique_person]

MSN

It's a big "Big Win" according to Sky News Australia.

Big win as Trump announces Venezuela will hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the US​

 

[Norman Alexander]

MSN

It's a big "Big Win" according to Sky News Australia.

Yeah that's gonna happen.