Gazza asks just what the hell was Kate Lundy doing yesterday?

It verges on the corrupt.

Are we allowed to be shocked but not surprised?

harvyk1 said :

harvyk1 said :

….rather than the solider standing there with an AK-47 “suggesting” which way you should vote like they do in SOME other countries….

PS there really needs to be an edit button for posts.

There is if you pay for a premium subscription, she said, smugly.

Shouldn’t this be illegal and couldn’t it be considered as child abuse

Look its dodgy at best, but the uproar over this is ridiculous. Government “bribe” voters with their policies all the time. So what a federal government was throwing money in if Labor won the election. Not a huge amount difference if say Local labor made the announcement and said they’d do it, then got federal funds to pay for it…

Tax cuts and cash handouts are all bribes of sorts. More annoyed its about health rather than say something like money for a road.

Perhaps blatant more than underhanded, but it sure sucks.

Staggering.

Just imagine if this voided the election and we had to do it all again.

It really was a stupid move….and what was more stupid was listening to them try and defend it.
They still think they have done nothing wrong…..now that’s just amazing

Its not really “underhanded”. I think blatant is more the word we are looking for. Certainly a clumsy attempt.

What about figure-fudging fraud? Do we get more of that conditional only on re-electing the nincompoops?

Absolutely staggering. The only thing that compares with it is when the Fraser (Liberal) government promised a motor racing circuit before the 1980 election and then – when voters turfed out the Liberal local member John Haslem and replaced him with Labor’s Ros Kelly – the re-elected Fraser government reneged on the promise.

At least this time Labor was upfront enough to put conditions on a promise before the election.

“vote for us or watch the children suffer”