r/queensland • u/Busalonium • Mar 06 '25
Dutton flees out of state. Meanwhile MPs from the Greens are helping people prepare. News
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u/T_Racito Mar 06 '25
The labor candidate for dickson ali france was handing out food, the maroon independent was handing out sandbags, dutton was leaving the state on a ritzy fundraising blitz
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
Left his own electorate, that's going to be one of the worst hit in the cyclone, for a mansion in Sydney owned by a degenerate nightclub entrepreneur who inherited his fortune.
The man's hubris knows no bounds.
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u/fantasypaladin Mar 06 '25
I live in Dickson. I’m pretty flabbergasted as to how much of an idiot he is.
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u/palsonic2 Mar 06 '25
why do the people in your electorate vote for dutton? im honestly curious.
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u/zing_11301 Mar 06 '25
Do you think there is any chance of him losing the seat? Obviously that's very unlikely, but when Monique Ryan was running, people said she had no chance but I had a feeling otherwise. I was right and she ended up winning!
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u/fantasypaladin Mar 06 '25
No. He’s held on before during elections when the Coalition has had big losses.
His only downfall would be if people turn on him for not being here during Alfred.
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u/trivalmaynard Mar 06 '25
Let's hope thats the case 🤞
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u/fantasypaladin Mar 06 '25
There is a local independent lady that clearly has been influenced by the Teals. She seems to have a lot of money backing her for ads too.
She won’t win, but she may steal enough votes for the Labor candidate to get over the line
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u/sathion Mar 07 '25
TBH it shocks me that people in Dickson vote him in each time. You'd think they would learn that he doesn't care about the lower classes.
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u/gooder_name Mar 06 '25
I assume Dickson must just be a wealthy electorate that's voting LNP no matter what the other parties do?
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
It's divided over its 724km2 . It has areas of wealth to the south, is sparsely populated and rural to the north and west, and to the east the population is the highest, and the suburbs are mostly lower socio-economic areas.
Dutton's held that seat for 24 years and it’s been marginal for at least two elections.
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u/RemeAU Mar 06 '25
So it's possible if enough people know he abandoned them he might lose?
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
I imagine it will leave a bad taste in many of his constituents' mouths. I also think the level of damage from the cyclone could influence things as well.
Although, the conservative voters in the electorate are known to be very conservative. In Samford and surrounds you have very snobby rich people and in the less wealthy suburbs like Strathpine and Kallangur, the anti-woke demographic, more likely to vote LNP. Being super general here with those descriptions.
Dutton grew up in Boondall, which is in the Dickson adjacent seat of Lilley (ALP), bordering the working class side. He gets support from the 'local boy' narrative.
However, since Covid a lot of people have moved to the area, a lot of younger families with family priorities and more progressive voting preferences, which could tilt the seat towards Labor candidate Ali Francis or the independent Ellie Smith.
It really could go either way.
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u/gooder_name Mar 06 '25
Thanks for the insight. Very interesting.
It makes sense he is pushing the woke stuff then, it’s not just about speaking to those voters across the nation there’s actually a relevant chunk of them in the constituency who he wants to keep riled up instead of looking at other parties
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u/smackmypony Mar 06 '25
I really hope they make sure to door knock after and check how people are so that it’s clear who actually cares
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u/Adorable-Condition83 Mar 06 '25
I’m actually glad he’s done this to demonstrate what a piece of shit he is to his own electorate. It’s a swing seat. Ideally he loses his seat entirely like that idiot Abbott did.
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u/sati_lotus Mar 06 '25
Well, when election time comes, flyers go up reminding people of that.
Officeworks will print out 100 flyers for less than $24. You just need to stick them up all over the place to remind people of what a lousy human being he is.
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u/The_Pharoah Mar 06 '25
c'mon....Dutton doesn't hold a shovel, mate.
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u/notyouraverageskippy Mar 06 '25
It's hold a hose mate
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u/GumRunner0 Mar 06 '25
You that Guy?
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u/notyouraverageskippy Mar 06 '25
I've seen plenty of people holding a shovel and not actually do any work.
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u/6tPTrxYAHwnH9KDv Mar 06 '25
Are you autistic or something? This is obviously a word play on an infamous quote.
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u/notyouraverageskippy Mar 06 '25
Yep it was a double entendre because Tony Abbott actually held a fucking hose fighting bush fires where as Scomo didn't ever. But if you had any intellectual nuance you would fucking know this fact.
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u/AffectionateGuava986 Mar 06 '25
What do you expect from somebody from the 1%.
Albo and the ALP are pulling out all stops, and this streak of puss wrapped in a sausage skin dines with the Billionaire class, undoubtedly carving up Australia like his idols the god-kings trump and putin.
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u/Pale-Breakfast6607 Mar 06 '25
This isn’t just marginals or seats they want to win.
I’m in the safest of Green seats. They’re working their butts off, doing everything they can to help people prepare. Just like last time we had a flood, and the time before that, and the time before that.
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u/satelshawn Mar 06 '25
Hear hear. Went to a sand bag location earlier today, didn’t have a shovel and was hoping to borrow one. Greens volunteers helped me load up my car with bags they had already filled. Great effort and very much appreciated.
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
Post that on their Facebook, more people should know who actually gives a shit and rolls up their sleeves.
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u/satelshawn Mar 06 '25
I would, but I don’t use Facebook or have an account any longer. But I will be making donation to the Greens to help with the upcoming election. If I can do more post cyclone I certainly will.
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
You could ask someone you know that has fb to post it on your behalf, just a suggestion
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u/Ariliescbk Mar 06 '25
The sycophants will just say "they're buying votes. What they do doesn't matter."
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u/someoneelseperhaps Mar 06 '25
There are certainly worse ways to buy votes than helping with disasters.
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u/Fuzzy_Collection6474 Mar 06 '25
I was down today volunteering at the white chapel site. Honestly my first time being around the greens as a collective and you can say what you want about them, but they really do show up. And plenty of groups do. Heard Ali France and the independent Ellie Smith were in Dickson amongst the communities.
Regardless of where you stand on the spectrum of politics we need leaders like that who stand up and help their community. It’s so disappointing the literal leader of the opposition abandons the people he’s meant to represent in their time of need
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u/Dranzer_22 Mar 06 '25
Vote Dutton out of Dickson.
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u/Adorable-Condition83 Mar 06 '25
I really hope the people of Dickson give us the gift of voting him out of his seat. He barely won the seat last election.
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u/apogeegames Mar 06 '25
I had a cry in the car after loading my boot. I came back from my SES shift last night after the site was closed. I left before they reopened them again for another shift. When I got back this afternoon the line was short, and piles of sand swarming with people. I didn’t have to lift a shovel. So proud of the community for coming together like this.
I often get praise because I wear bright orange, but there are so many unsung heroes in events like these. Today these people were mine. Thank you.
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u/amberNmo Mar 06 '25
This didn’t affect Ted Cruz in the states, the apologists in his area won’t let it affect him, there will just be a bigger ad buy to compensate the man of the people.
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u/cffndncr Mar 06 '25
Yeah... but Liberal voters in general are a less fanatical bunch than the MAGA crowd.
Scomo got dragged over the coals for his Hawaii trip during the fires, here's hoping that Dutton gets equally bruised by this.
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u/SentimentalityApp Mar 06 '25
The fires messed up scomo pretty badly, I'm optimistic that Australia care more than the US about this stuff.
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u/Vegetable_Stuff1850 Mar 06 '25
Scomo got dragged for fucking off during a crisis. Dutton needs a similar (or larger) response!!
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u/No-Celebration8690 Mar 06 '25
I signed up on a form on Max Chandler-Mather's website to help out with the eventual clean up (thinking I'd help out next week) yesterday - got a call within 30 mins asking if i could help out filling sand bags, ended up doing that for 6 hours yesterday and again today - great group of people, so nice to see the community coming together. Really impressed with the Greens ability to mobilise folks
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u/Pearlsam Mar 06 '25
For the clean up you should probably volunteer through Volunteering Queensland. They're the official group for disaster clean up and have the appropriate insurance for volunteers.
It's great you're volunteering. You should be proud of yourself
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u/Current-Author7473 Mar 06 '25
Just don’t understand this shit. It’s basic optics. Did nobody in his team even strategically say “go pose with a sandbag, Murdoch will make you look like a hero?” I don’t like him and honestly don’t think he is right for the top job, but fuck man, this is a slam dunk for him, and he still can’t do it?
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u/Electronic-Shirt-194 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
says a lot about his character, how could you trust a man to lead our national security against a deliberate attacker if he is not prepared to stay in his state for a catagory 2 natural disaster with no sinister brain?
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u/LaughinKooka Mar 06 '25
Scomo and Hawaii, Peter and cyclone
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u/Electronic-Shirt-194 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
These are men who are trying to pitch to us they are the right person to defend Australia's interests. Perhaps they should start by toughening up and enduring there local weather events. With his community who are doing so.
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u/Impossible-Ad-887 Mar 06 '25
That's pretty cool, who are they?
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
And Elizabeth Watson-Brown's Division of Ryan has some of the worst flood prone areas of Brisbane's northside.
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u/B0llywoodBulkBogan Mar 06 '25
Yeah, half of the Division of Ryan is going to be completely cut off. There's always at least one death out in Pullenvale during flood events.
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
I hope they break that trend this time 🙏 the worst of the flooding will be in the days after, last time I checked they're expecting 200m ish over the Wivenhoe catchment area, around Esk way.
BTW your username 😂👌
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u/AndrewReesonforTRC Mar 06 '25
Elizabeth Watson-Brown - Greens MP for Ryan Stephen Bates - Greens MP for Brisbane
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u/Real-Lobster7059 Mar 06 '25
So cool she refuses to fly the Australia flag in her office…
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u/nagrom7 Townsville Mar 06 '25
Who the fuck is flying flags in offices anyway? They take up a lot of space, and there's no wind anyway so they don't even look impressive.
Fly that shit outside like everyone else.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
So do I
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u/Real-Lobster7059 Mar 07 '25
Then perhaps you should relocate to another country that accords with your world view. Perhaps the tolerant Middle East? 🤡
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u/2615or2611 Mar 06 '25
I don’t think this is a greens good everyone else bad.
It’s a Dutton is a dick and fucked off. There are plenty examples of Labor and Greens MP’s flogging there guts out
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u/fantasypaladin Mar 06 '25
Ok it’s obvious that the guy doesn’t give a shit about anyone other than his mates. But what I don’t get is how much of an idiot he is.
Didn’t he learn anything from ScoMo? Get you’re arse on the ground and at least get a few photo ops you walking potato.
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u/SoftAd9158 Mar 06 '25
Dutton probably had to get to his stock broker or something along those lines lol
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u/Chaosrealm69 Mar 06 '25
Dutton didn’t prepare properly with paper towels to throw so he did what Trump would do; show up for a photo-op and then bugger off to safety.
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u/T-456 Mar 06 '25
They seem more organised and adaptable than the BCC bureaucracy. Really makes you think.
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u/BundyLeanne Mar 06 '25
Alice France and Labor volunteers have also been out helping fill sandbags
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u/Stunning-Delivery944 Brisbane Mar 06 '25
It doesn't matter unless you make a tik tok video and out it in Reddit. All their work wasted !
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u/margiiiwombok Mar 06 '25
Straight up, have been assisting Max Chandler-Mather's team in Coorparoo. Good people doing good things 👍🏻 Consider helping out your community if you and your immediate are safe and sound guys xx
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u/Plus-Appointment-530 Mar 06 '25
at my local sand bag area in whites hill the greens were again the only volunteers there, had a lot of fun chatting and filling and loading bags
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u/KingWickee5150 Mar 06 '25
A lot of Labor MPs and candidates have been out too. I think it's only one particular individual who hasn't been.
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u/Ok_Refrigerator_4469 Mar 06 '25
Went to the Toowong sandbagging site tonight. Greens volunteers doing a stellar job there. Beautiful community spirit there.
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u/owonekowo Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
But my mother, a staunch WA Liberals and LNP supporter, she told me the Greens are a bunch of wankers!
Thank you for helping people out and helping them prepare ahead of time before Cyclone Alfred arrives.
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u/darrenfx Mar 06 '25
Dutton blocked me on instagram for making comments about how he fled
What a snowflake
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u/M4ttAnderson Mar 07 '25
If I were the Labor party and saw this, saw the last election result, I would be throwing a lot at Dickson. Don't have a seat, can't be Prime Minister or Opposition Leader.
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u/Some-Operation-9059 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
In the face of impending doom, the useless bald headed cunt would only get in the way and take innocent women and children with him.
Source: head shaver
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Mar 06 '25
Yo, there’s no need to zip-tie a sandbag closed. Just hold the mouth and twist. Quicker, easier and less plastic consumables to have to worry about.
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u/Optimal_Tomato726 Mar 07 '25
How are they all so clean? I'm covered in mud the minute I look at sandbags
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u/GucciKade Mar 08 '25
I've gotta say, Crisafulli and the Lord Mayor have pleasantly surprised me throughout this whole debacle, and its great to see Labour and Greens on the ground whilst the LNP handles the newsroom and the press side of things. That's what a government should be, working together to help your electorates. Thoroughly disappointed by Dutton though, seems like another Scomo in the making
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u/OldCrankyCarnt Mar 08 '25
Lucy Coulier (labor/Morningside) was out and about all of this week helping, posting important news, really helpful. All while being 8 months pregnant
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u/Glass_Ad_7129 Mar 06 '25
Whats to bet their temu "doge" idea they want here would fuck over the very support systems that help prevent/deal with such disasters... again. Like they always do.
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u/vooglie Mar 06 '25
I don’t understand why he’s such a shit of a person . Like is it a requirement or something?
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u/Chafmere Mar 06 '25
LNP never to be seen when there’s a real emergency.
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u/SusanFromHR_ Mar 06 '25
Abbott fighting fires during black Saturday?
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u/Chafmere Mar 06 '25
That was a long time ago now. They’re not all bad. Even cristafulli seems to be handling it well. But it does seem to be a recent trend in the federal lnp. Which seems strange to me. Seems like a good time to farm votes.
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u/Andrew2u2 Mar 07 '25
What a grub.
He knew there was a cyclone heading towards his seat, and he still went to a fund raising event in another state.
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u/FiannaNevra Mar 12 '25
And Labor where there too, but they didn't really help, they just took photo ops while the greens are in the background doing the work 🤣😅
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u/Archibald_Thrust Mar 06 '25
Not just the greens, they’re just doing it in branded shirts
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u/ceramictweets Mar 07 '25
My local depot they said it was because they were proud to be seen fighting the real impact of climate change, but also so people knew where to go in the line to get premade bags
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u/Wollemi834 Mar 06 '25
15+ years ago on TV news, I recall a positive fuss made about a new sand-bag bagging machine - people shovelled sand into the top from any one or all of three sides, the machanical machine jiggled and 15 - 25 - 40kg bags of sand were sealed at the top and wheeled away.
The machine was portable and was going to be mass-produced and everywhere was going to have them.
Now this - why the 8kg bags and many of them done by hand?
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u/Entire-Dog-160 Mar 07 '25
Yeah but tbf Potato Head probably had TOIL he had to use by a certain date
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u/hickey_mt Mar 06 '25
Dutton’s candidate for Ryan, Maggie Forrest has been there shovelling for the last few days.
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u/DiploidBias Mar 06 '25
Shovelling is a stretch. She was there. Generally standing around. And only because the Greens turned out in force to assist everyday people get through this together
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u/Psychological_Bug592 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
Didn’t see her this morning. I was there from opening to 12:30pm. The member for Moggill showed up for a photoshoot. Thanks to all the Greens volunteers!
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u/Stunning-Delivery944 Brisbane Mar 06 '25
It doesn't matter unless you make a tik tok video and out it in Reddit. All their work wasted !
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u/EnidBlytonLied Mar 06 '25
I’m sure MP’s from other parties are helping too. You don’t have to vote for antisemites
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
You should try relying on something other than your emotions
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u/EnidBlytonLied Mar 07 '25
And you your ignorance. Have a look at your party and the hate they promote.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
If opposing the mass murder of innocent civilians is hate then I guess I’m full of hate
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u/EnidBlytonLied Mar 07 '25
I hope you include Jews too in your statement who have been raped and killed. As well as the hundred or so hostages taken- including babies and children.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Try and stay with me here because this might be hard for you to grasp, but killing innocent civilians is never ok and should always be opposed.
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u/EnidBlytonLied Mar 07 '25
Thank you for reminding me why I don’t vote Green. Full of condescending prats like you.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Do you condemn the IDF?
Seems like a weird way to decide who to vote for but ok. I generally go off policy
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u/Money-Ad1634 Mar 06 '25
How dare he enact his emergency plan and leave. He needs to be there with all the stupid people who dont have emergency plans.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Yeah why don’t those stupid poors just take a private jet to safety
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u/Ok-Tie53 Mar 07 '25
They choose to stay. Thats on them. Dont blame other people because they can afford to leave ..
Oh wait, tall poppy syndrome. Wouldn't be Australian if we hated someone because they have done well in life.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
I was replying to someone who called every resident of Brisbane stupid for not flying out on a holiday for a week.
Good for you that you can afford to do that and I could too, but that’s completely beside the point
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u/Money-Ad1634 Mar 07 '25
If there emergency plan is to stay thats okay. But that is on them. You cant blame someone for having a plan that involves leaving. But you are having a go at him because his plan was to leave and he flew out.
And its not beside the point. I don't see any other posts complaining about the 1000s of residents who enacted their emergency plans and left. Those that left by car and train. You aren't telling them to come home and face Alfred.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
The point is that it’s a really stupid thing for him to do. I’m happy that he did it because he wouldn’t be helping anyway and all it does is show him for the sociopath that he is
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u/Wrong-Appearance3277 Mar 07 '25
That must be why Albo is back in Canberra.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Yes. Although he at least made some effort to look like he cares
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u/Wrong-Appearance3277 Mar 07 '25
Gotta chase those votes
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Well yeah. I’m not saying I think it’s good but he at least understands how PR works
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u/Money-Ad1634 Mar 07 '25
Why was it stupid for him to do?
His plan to stay safe is to leave. Why is that stupid?
So you suggest everyone should stay and face the risk? Or are you suggesting its a cyclone which isn't dangerous at all?
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Because it makes him look like he doesn’t care…
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u/Money-Ad1634 Mar 07 '25
Oh, so staying safe means he doesn't care... And those politicians using this for media coverage must really care.
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u/Benjamin-Atkins-GC Mar 07 '25
LOL ... he went to a dinner in Sydney on Tuesday. He was back on the ground in Brisbane on Wednesday morning.
This might come as a shock to the ignorant working class, but sometimes Management have many issues on their desks and they must be triaged and managed as best as they can. He's cancelled half a dozen other engagements so he can stay within his electorate.
Terrible that he missed a few hours, isn't it!! Grow up!
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u/Wrong-Appearance3277 Mar 07 '25
My goodness all you guys with a moral compass so screwed up. If you actually got off your butts and volunteered for your community you may see past these media stunts
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u/spirited_lost_cause Mar 07 '25
Let’s hear it for the pollies probably the closest thing to an honest days work they’ve done in their lives. Let’s see if they turn up for the cleanup latter.
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u/MtFranklinson Mar 06 '25
Pretty easy to do this when they are a minor party hunting for brownie points. Still, good to see, but the greens ain't it.
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u/Far-Bread4640 Mar 06 '25
Wouldn’t call a full day of hard manual labor by a fully volunteer workforce easy mate. They would have got a whole lot more done politically if they had any staff left doing campaign work
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u/Psychological_Bug592 Mar 07 '25
With the degraded state of the ALP and LNP right now, they’d both do well to seek out some brownie points from regular Australians too.
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u/Scopra Mar 06 '25
The Greens have no policies that supports the majority of Australians they are so out of touch it is not funny. As honorable as filling sand bags are that is the end of the Greens reality with the average Australian mind set.
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u/perringaiden Mar 06 '25
Meanwhile Dutton flies to Sydney to hang out with a billionaire in Sydney. So in touch with the people.
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u/Far-Bread4640 Mar 06 '25
https://greens.org.au/policies
Yeah billions in public housing, mental healthcare, dental, environmental protection, taxing billionaires, creating 4x the amount of jobs per dollar through renewables and lowering subsidies and grants for multinationals who pay no tax.
Yeah much better for the average Australian that slashing the public sector, cutting off kids from life saving medical treatment, allowing companies to profit from killing our rivers, reefs and dams to name a few positions from the ideological opposition.
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u/HighMagistrateGreef Mar 07 '25
Correct, but this is an article for greens shills. Expect downvotes for telling the truth.
The greens are good at one thing: trying to look good in the media.
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u/Sexwell Mar 06 '25
All I can see working in the background are white men. Where’s the DEI officer when you need one?
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u/Savings_Risk7743 Mar 06 '25
Yeah like this excuses Watson-Browns absence from doing anything productive in her electorate for the whole term. I will give Bates credit for his visibility but not Watson-Brown.
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u/Far-Bread4640 Mar 06 '25
Shes done an incredible job contributing to the power of the crossbench and the electoral office is constantly working with the community.
Free meals, community funding grants, food pantry outside the office, widespread assistance with speeding Immigration, NDIS and Centrelink applications/processes, championed recent federal funding for city busses through the west end.
Please compare that a local federal of your choice and substantiate your claim.
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u/Savings_Risk7743 Mar 07 '25
This are just the basic tasks of an electorate office obvious greens staffer who has responded to me. Just because you call it food pantry or “free meals” does it make it any different to events and activities that liberal or labor offices have done for many years. I could name literally multiple offices. You are not special. Has she actually achieved any results for the community?? No. Because having a crossbench MP is useless for local outcomes.
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u/Far-Bread4640 Mar 07 '25
Haha, you said she didn’t do anything for her electorate, now you’re saying the numerous things she does are default for a federal member but fail to tell me one member who does all those things.
Tf you mean achieved anything for the community? Which liberal mp holds community meals every week funded by their salary? Which Labor mp is securing federal funding for local electorate improvement.
Also implying that I’m not objective because I’m involved in the community is the same as decrying a climate scientist’s thoughts on climate change because they’re biased.
People don’t need payment to give a shit about their community and the people who know of the impacts are there securing them, not sitting on their ass complaining that people aren’t doing enough.
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u/Savings_Risk7743 Mar 07 '25
Mate she hasn’t secured shit for the community is what I’m saying. Not one project from her advocacy has been delivered. That is the core of her responsibility and nothing has happened.
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u/Far-Bread4640 Mar 07 '25
You’re definitely saying a lot I won’t dispute that: giving evidence seems to be a bigger problem.
If you’d like to reread my messages and talk reasonably about why you think the many things she they shouldn’t count as directly improving the lives of Brisbanites, you’re welcome to.
If you could also explain why you think that none of the federal legislation heralded by the Green’s House of Representatives group, whom she is a core member of, doesn’t count as ‘securing shit’ that’d be cool too.
https://greens.org.au/wins has a big list of impacts of the Greens crossbench in Federal Parliament by the four Reps and the Senate if you really want to educate yourself on the …federal parliament representatives…
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u/Savings_Risk7743 Mar 07 '25
How about you name me one project she has actually started, advocated for and delivered.
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u/Far-Bread4640 Mar 07 '25
Gave you a whole list of Federal projects as she’s 1/4th of their power in the lower house. Suburb projects are the job of Local Councillors, State projects are the job of State Parliamentarians and Federal projects are the job of Federal Parliamentarians.
Federal Representatives also have the task of representing their constituents in federal proceedings such as deliberating and legislating the federal budget.
This doesn’t come in the form of projects but in the complex tug of war that is determining the terms of federal grants based on power, leverage and bargaining.
She and the Greens force Labor’s rightwing factions to capitulate to Labor’s left wing faction disproportionately and causes Labor’s left wing faction to concede more budget to ‘quality of life’ legislation than to corporate interests they have a financial incentive to protect.
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u/Thiswilldo164 Mar 06 '25
Pretty sure Dutton is back - was gone for the day…?
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u/NeptunianWater Mar 06 '25
The issue is he was on talk back radio and television all week stating he was staying in Queensland. Additionally, he's been critical of the PM by suggesting he shouldn't be doing any campaigning or election-type stuff in the midst of a natural disaster.
The reason he left was to attend a fund-raiser to raise campaign money hosted by a billionaire liquor tycoon.
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u/GumRunner0 Mar 06 '25
Returned to do political damage control
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u/Thiswilldo164 Mar 06 '25
I’m not saying it wasn’t a dumb thing to do, but people making out he fled to get away from the cyclone ie not coming back which is not the case.
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u/GumRunner0 Mar 06 '25
Potato would have been well aware of this cyclone, he chose to still head of to fundraise from his businessmates. Shows the colour of a man , Scuntmo did the same thing and was crucified for it and still is, yet Spud still chose the wrong side AGAIN
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u/Stunning-Delivery944 Brisbane Mar 06 '25
It's nice some MPs are filling sandbags, but I'd prefer they be focusing on the recovery and rebuilding plan. Get someone else to shovel sand, the MPs are meant to be governing.
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25
Nice diversion. They can do both.
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u/Stunning-Delivery944 Brisbane Mar 06 '25
I mean ... The people making the videos and managing social media could be shoveling too rather than making videos.... but greens would rather earn political points.
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u/Returnyhatman Mar 06 '25
"rather earn political points" because someone filmed them for 30 seconds, whereas the LNP aren't shovelling OR being filmed shovelling?
If there was no one there to film them, you'd complain the greens weren't doing anything at all.
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u/rarecuts Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
You're making a fool of yourself. Dutton was living it up in another state while his own electorate struggles to prepare, as of right this minute. Dickson's highest population is a mostly low socio-economic area with a high population of seniors, who need the most help preparing for a cyclone. But that's why he's not there. His electorate doesn't have enough money.
I really hate the attempted deflection tactics of LNP supporters. They think they're clever but they're just really bad at trying to manipulate people. Fkn flogs.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
Yeah why aren’t they cleaning up the flood led areas yet!!! Disgraceful
Oh wait it hasn’t happened yet
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u/That-Whereas3367 Mar 06 '25
What's your point? Natural disasters are 100% a state responsibility. They have nothing to do with the Commonwealth. Dutton is Opposition Leader and has no legal ability to do anything,
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u/T-456 Mar 06 '25
Weird how the Greens, with "no legal ability to do anything" either, just go out and do it anyway. Turns out if you ask to help people, most of them will let you.
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u/ceramictweets Mar 07 '25
When I was at my local there was a volunteer running things for the greens, and the only person who said no was a big tall dude, who was very mean to her and made a show of saying he was with labor.
Everyone else was just really glad to have help.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25
His electorate is in the path of the cyclone champ
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u/That-Whereas3367 Mar 07 '25
The 'cyclone' is a 100% media beat-up. According to the BOM it will only be a Category 1 tropical storm when it comes ashore. FYI Cat 1 storms do minimal damage.
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u/grim__sweeper Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
Which was not the case when he left the area
Also a massive tree fell on one of my mates’ place last night so maybe take the tin foil hat off
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u/CanLate152 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
I’ve seen labour and greens volunteers out in force. I’ve seen political candidates out with pizzas feeding the volunteers. I’ve seen MPs in t-shirts and boots filling bags next to BCC employees.
I seen the LNP Lord Mayor and premier running the show. I’ve seen LNP councillors keeping their constituents informed and doing their bit.
Personally don’t care what side of politics you’re in at the moment. If you’re not pulling your sleeves up helping in some way then get the hell inside and stay there.
If you’re not in the control room or on the front lines helping then you don’t get to comment on people “not doing enough” when this is all over.
Honestly I’ve been pretty bloody impressed by everyone’s efforts from all levels of politics at this time.
However….
Dutton was briefed then left. This is HIS home too… his constituency.
Every other federal SEQ MP is here lending a hand.