Barnaby Just Can't Seem To Help Himself

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  1. slipperyfish

    slipperyfish Well-Known Member

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    As the saying goes.......

    “In a free elected democracy, the people always get the government they deserve”
     
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  2. truthvigilante

    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Absolutely Diuretic! It wasn’t just about pissing off and leaving teenage daughters confused, sad and angry about their parents demise while they’re in the most impressionable part of their lives. This guy is wrong on many levels as far as I’m concerned, including his whacky arguments on SSM!
     
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    m2catter Well-Known Member

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    Yeap,
    can't argue against that.....
    Reg.
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Just watched "Insiders". Nikki Savva thinks Barnaby has the skids under him and that he won't lead the Nate to the next election.
     
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    m2catter Well-Known Member

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    This party is so much up my ar.e, can't handle their narrowness and populist views.
    But living in rural WA, there appears only once choice, them or Pauline....
    Enjoy your Sunday,
    Cats
     
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    If it turns out he has been using taxpayer dollars on her or there is something dodgy about the way she was moved on to Canavan's office she might be right. The more information that is emerging the worse he looks. Digging in against a push from the PM's office to move his girlfriend out of his office looks bad.

    It is also pretty ordinary that there were clearly people in the media who knew about this as far back as August last year and sat on the story. This was while barnaby was running around insisting that gay couples couldn't marry 'because Family Values'. The Murdoch press even attacked Tony Windsor for raising the issue during the new England byelection. Clear public interest issue there.
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Nikki, who is one shrewd dame, thinks it's curtains for him because the wife and kids have been jettisoned. Other shining examples of philanderers have survived because the wives have stuck by them. Eg Bob Hawke.
    Once more a leading light of the conservatives has been shown to be a hypocrite.
     
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    I am from “ Katter country” and you just about have to make the sign of a cross here every time you say his name and it is nit even as if he has really done anything for the electorate Townsville is rapidly heading towards third world status
     
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    Ain't tribalism depressing.

    Some of the info coming out now is making me think Barnaby might be in more trouble than I thought, but I reckon it is more likely he will resign than be voted out.
     
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    Yes I was astonished and rather angry to read articles where the press are questioning whether they should be reporting on this issue... report on the damn issue like everything else so we can then all move on like we usually do. What makes Barnaby so special... besides he had no qualms causing a media witch hunt for Johnny Depp over his stupid dogs
     
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    He has also repeatedly used his own family as props for this political positions, including his opposition to the availability of the HPV vaccine. Opposing a drug that could save hundreds of (mostly female) lives a year on the grounds that it might encourage 'promiscuity' is one of the most morally reprehensible things I can imagine. Using his own daughters as part of the argument simply compounds the offence.

    Funny how male promiscuity just gets a pass.
     
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    Hypocrisy seems the order of the day these days. In the church, the police, the courts and politics. Then they wonder why we have no faith in them.
     
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    Ok so this Barnaby business is getting worse by the minute

    I say the fact she wasn't his partner "at the time" is just semantics... he was clearly having sex with her.. she was pregnant fgs. So they created a whole new position for her... if she was ****ing anyone else she would have had to find a job for herself....
    I say we provide government sponsored jobs for all women finding themselves in bed with the boss..could even lift the population growth rate

    Malcolm Turnbull's office has rejected claims Barnaby Joyce breached the ministerial code of conduct when his lover was employed by fellow MPs, arguing Vikki Campion could not be considered the Deputy Prime Minister's "partner" at the time.
     
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    Does PMO's office's explanation pass the pub test? No.
     
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    This person has an interesting read


    https://noplaceforsheep.com/2018/02...-about-it-for-sure-until-yesterday-no-really/
     
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    If this had been known as he said, the by-election might have had a very different outcome.
    Two years! What a sanctimnious scumbag is Joyce! His wife must be so hurt, and furious.
    PS. What were the items Di Hallam removed from his office?
     
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    Sal I feel sorry for his wife, but you know... families break up all the time and it's sad for everyone.. that part I consider private... his wife is just going to have to move on, he is going to have to work through this with his kids...

    What I do however take issue with is
    one... his claims the media should not be reporting on this story and
    two... she gets a cushy higher paying job because the deputy prime minister got her pregnant
     
  18. truthvigilante

    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Look, the way I see it, if he can’t manage his own families affairs without resorting to family and fabric destroying measures, he is not worthy of public office. Look, there is a right way to do things and there is a spiteful nasty way to deal with issues. Barnaby is a public figure, which means we want our society to learn respectful and professional ways to do things. Bonking his secretary and getting her pregnant because he is unhappy with his wife is wrong! Yeah, plenty of people do it but that doesn’t make it right.

    We need higher standards in our society and certainly not just brushing it off as something that happens broadly so doesn’t matter if our politicians do it. These people apparently want to lead a public life to fight for things that hold communities together and should not be taking advantage of their positions to fulfill their own desires and fantasies.

    Just imagine(no don’t imagine the intimate stuff for goodness sake) Kevin Rudd, Johnny Howard or Malcolm Turnbull bonking their secretaries and making little mini me’s! Would Australia accept that this is okay collectively? I mean if it did, we would be absolutely screwed as a people.

    Joyce has got to go the more I think about it!
     
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    you scared me with the mini me's lol

    Yes we do (need higher standards) but let's be real... it still happens and generally I wouldn't spend too much time in breaking someone down because their relationship ended in unsavoury ways... I suppose I've seen too much of it among friends and how destructive it is for families and so don't dwell on it... for those involved it's best to move on as quickly as possible.

    The other stuff though... the I deserve privileged treatment... no reporting and freeloader well paying job for the pregnant mistress...as a voter that really angers me.

    yes down with Joyce
     
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    He's got himself in the poo big time- the rent free flat in Armidale. That's a no no for someone on 400 g's and who has said that inner city people should shift to Armidale where rents are cheaper. ( sorry I've been primed by Ralph Epstein this arvo on 774 )
     
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    I'm out of the loop on the rent free flat in Armidale... sounds like he had much to hide... no wonder he wanted to stop the media reports
     
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    "...
    According to the publication, the property was provided for free by a local businessman named Greg Maguire.

    The Guardian reports that Maguire is a long-term friend of Joyce, who has been involved in New England politics for many years.

    The businessman owns the Powerhouse hotel in Armidale and a transport business in Tamworth.

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    In 2004, the hotel owner was named in a Senate Inquiry as having been the intermediary who tried to convince independent Tony Windsor to retire from politics. The case was referred to the Australian Federal Police but no charges were laid.

    The townhouse where Joyce and Campion are reportedly living was described in a recent real estate advertisement as “quite simply, the most superior residential project ever undertaken in Armidale”.
    https://www.mamamia.com.au/barnaby-joyce-living-arrangements/
     
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    Barnaby... Barnaby... Barnaby...been a very bad boy lol
     
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    Journos (and ALP staffers I suspect) are busily burrowing through Barnaby's expense claims. Turns out he spent an unusually large amount of time in Canberra last year when Parliament wasn't sitting. All at taxpayer expense. Wonder if he had any reason to want to be there rather than home? o_O
     
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    Mine tinks Barnaby better be wearing a cast iron cover over his arse because the. Average Aussie is PISSED

    We care less about him dipping his wick than about the fact he was effectively making us pay for his mistress
     
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