8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (3)
#6319429 at 2019-04-26 05:41:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition
Liberal party strikes deal to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer
United Australia party leader has previously likened Scott Morrison to Heinrich Himmler
The Liberal party has agreed to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer in a deal nutted out by party figures on Wednesday night.
Sources say how-to-vote cards that see the Liberals preferencing the United Australia party are ready to print, with Palmer to be placed ahead of the Labor party in lower-house seats and in the Senate.
The deal could prove critical to the outcome in a host of marginal seats across the country, and improves the chances of Palmer reclaiming a spot in the Senate where his resurrected party could hold the balance of power.
Palmer is No 1 on the Senate ticket in Queensland, where the party's following is strongest, but the UAP is also seen as a strong chance of picking up a Senate position in Western Australia and in New South Wales, where former One Nation senator Brian Burston leads the ticket.
A Newspoll published this week showed that, after a $30m advertising blitz, Palmer was recording between 5% and 14% of the primary vote in a host of marginal seats.
Liberal party state branches met last night to endorse the deal struck by the federal executive, with due diligence underway into candidates running under the UAP banner in all 151 lower house seats.
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, was asked on Tuesday to justify a potential preference deal with Palmer, who has previously compared Morrison to Heinrich Himmler.
"I did see some comments he made about an approach when we made a criticism some years ago," Morrison said. "Look, I'm not going to be held back by that, nor am I here to offer any defences of Mr Palmer.
"He's big enough to do that for himself. Parties will have discussions before close of nominations and the preference tickets, which will be issued next week in the normal course of events."
Pre-polling for the election, where as much as 40% of voters are expected to cast their vote, begins on Monday when details of the preference arrangements will become clear.
While Palmer is unlikely to have sufficient volunteers to staff major pre-polling booths, there has been some speculation that Palmer may pay people to staff booths as he did at the 2013 election.
At that election, Palmer secured 5.49% of first preferences nationally, winning 11% of the vote in Queensland and 4.9% of the national Senate vote.
This saw Palmer elected as the MP for the seat of Fairfax, and two senators, Jacqui Lambie and Glenn Lazarus, elected. In 2014 at the rerun of the Senate election in WA in 2014, the party's Zhenya Wang was also successfully elected.
Lambie and Lazarus quit the party in 2014 and 2015 respectively, and Palmer deregistered the Palmer United party in 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/25/liberal-party-strikes-deal-to-exchange-election-preferences-with-clive-palmer
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#6319395 at 2019-04-26 05:35:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition
Photographer hurt in scuffle at Fraser Anning press conference
A 19-year-old man has been detained by police after a fight broke out following a press conference with far-right senator Fraser Anning in Cronulla mid-morning on Friday, where the controversial figure again called for a ban on Muslim immigration.
News Corp photographer Dylan Robinson was left with a torn shirt after a verbal exchange between St George Shire Standard journalist Eliza Barr and a man, believed to be a supporter of the senator, became physical.
Video footage shows Barr and Robinson walking towards the parking area outside the park before the 19-year-old man tries to knock Robinson's camera out of his hands.
He then throws several punches before another man breaks up the scuffle.
Robinson does not punch back, but takes photos of the man as he walks away.
The 19-year-old was then searched by police and placed in the back of a police van.
"A man has been arrested following an altercation in Cronulla this morning," a police spokesman said.
"Officers from Sutherland Police Area Command were called to Dunningham Park, Cronulla, about 10am.
"A 19-year-old man is alleged to have become involved in a physical altercation with a female journalist and a male cameraman during a press conference with a federal senator.
"The man has been taken to Sutherland police station."
In the press conference, Senator Anning was introducing his candidate for the seat of Cook, Peter Kelly. Cook is the electorate of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Prime Minister Morrison said there was "no place in Australian politics" for the violence seen in Cronulla on Friday.
"I find it absolutely appalling …. [Senator Anning] is placed last on my ticket and our party's ticket," the Liberal leader said.
Senator Anning, 69, called for a ban on "bringing any more Muslims or Sudanese into the country" during his media conference.
He was pressed by journalists over his claims that locals were being "bashed and attacked".
"You live in a make-believe world," one of the senator's supporters yelled at journalist Barr as she asked whether locals would back CNP candidate Peter Kelly given they'd lived through the 2005 Cronulla race riots.
After the press conference, the 19-year-old man allegedly levelled sexist and abusive comments at Barr including the phrase "nice tits".
Photographer Robinson followed him and attempted to take his photo before the young man pushed the camera away and lashed out at Robinson.
A spokesman for Senator Anning said that the senator would be holding a press conference in Brisbane at 3.30pm on Friday to discuss the events.
The media union later stated: "It is unacceptable in a democracy for journalists to be physically threatened or assaulted in the course of doing their job."
Cr Kelly is an army veteran who worked as an adviser to former NSW One Nation senator Brian Burston, and won a seat on Ku-Ring-Gai council in the 2017 elections.
His campaign at the time included an endorsement from Prince Omar Kiram, cousin of the Sultan of the self-styled Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah.
Cr Kelly was called on to explain his qualifications during a public council meeting, after it was revealed his PhD was obtained from a little-known Italian university, incorporated in Florida, USA, and The Gambia, Africa.
Cr Kelly has also claimed the title of "professor" after a brief period of employment at the online, and now-defunct, Poseidon International University, licensed by the government of Panama.
https://www.smh.com.au/federal-election-2019/photographer-hurt-in-scuffle-at-fraser-anning-press-conference-20190426-p51hig.html
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#6233644 at 2019-04-19 02:35:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #4 - Q Goes Down Under Edition
Party-hopping pollies need to respect the will of the voters
Ahead of the May 18 federal poll, voters might want to consider the party-hopping antics of an increasing number of upper house members.
It's a practice particularly common among the minor parties, at a time when the majors are leaking votes their way.
Federally, the resurgence of support for One Nation should have the party's Canberra ranks swelling. Instead, Pauline Hanson's posse has dwindled to a lonesome duo.
Of the class of 2016, Brian Burston resigned and is now parliamentary leader of the United Australia Party. Fraser Anning drifted across to Bob Katter's Australia Party, before registering his own Conservative National Party.
And, Rod Culleton left Hanson's side just prior to his disqualification from the Senate. Only last week he registered the Great Australian Party.
Nobody is suggesting going independent or starting a party doesn't take grit.
But our parliamentarians, regardless of their own motivations, need to accept the will of the people that elected them.
As the saying goes, people expect you to "dance with the one that brought you".
If our representatives keep changing their tune, then it's little wonder people stop listening.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/partyhopping-pollies-need-to-respect-the-will-of-the-voters/news-story/f971c5c5664b94963b27b3082cebc418