What is it about the green-tinged side of politics that they just seem to attract the vilest people? If they’re not being wracked by allegations of bullying and even rape, or posting photos of children with creepy sexualised captions, they’re robbing stores or proudly posing for selfies with vicious anti-Semites.
The Teals, by virtue of being old money one suspects, are slightly better at keeping things under wraps. Mostly.
Nicolette Boele, the teal independent challenger for the Liberal-held seat of Bradfield, has apologised for making a sexualised comment to a 19-year-old apprentice hairdresser.
Ms Boele was banned from her local hairdresser after she told the teenage female staff member after having her hair washed, “that was amazing, and I didn’t even have sex with you”, 2GB’s Ben Fordham reported on Tuesday morning.
OK, well, that doesn’t exactly sound like a hanging offence , compared to ol’ mate Doyle on your side of the ditch. Still, even that lame attempt at crass humour would see the sky falling in if it was a middle-aged, white male coalition polly. That Boele was banned from the salon also suggests more than just a creepy joke, surely?
In any case, Boele has bigger problems. Notably, accusations of push-polling.
Climate 200’s best hope of taking a Liberal-held seat is being forced to defend her credibility after the progressive fundraising body claimed it was not engaging in “misleading push polling” for labelling Bradfield teal Nicolette Boele as a “clean-energy executive” and “local mum” in a “message-testing” blitz to voters […]
In Monash, where Climate 200-backed Deb Leonard is having a second tilt at the marginal seat, Thursday’s message from the same pollster spruiked that she was a “community lawyer, small-business owner and working mum”, before asking if voters had heard of her.
‘Push-polling’ refers to the gambit of attempting to manipulate voters in the guise of ‘opinion polling’. The ‘poll’ is framed in ways that attempt to shape voter perceptions, as in the infamous ‘Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a communist?’ phone calls from the Nixon congressional campaign in 1946. Push-polling is such a deeply deceptive tactic that it is banned in some Australian jurisdictions.
High-profile Liberals Dan Tehan and Julian Leeser are fending off cashed-up campaigns backed by Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate 200, which is supporting 35 candidates in the May election […]
The Liberals have zeroed in on Climate 200’s “misleading” use of “push polling” by pollster uComms, most recently on Thursday in the seat of Monash, but also last month in Bradfield.
“Teal politicians talk a big game about integrity and transparency, but their actions tell a different story,” Liberal campaign spokesman James Paterson said.
If the Teals are deceptive, though, they’re nothing compared to the gibbering, anti-Semitic insanity of the Greens.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has bizarrely suggested Israel is to blame for Hamas’s brutal executions of Palestinians who had risen up against the terror group’s stranglehold of the Gaza Strip.
You know you’re an anti-Semite when everything is ‘da Joos’ fault. Even Muslims murdering and torturing each other.
Hamas has begun to crack down on thousands of Gazans who protested against the group last week, executing at least six and publicly beating others, according to Israeli media.
One of those murdered was Odai al-Rubai, 22, who was beaten and tortured for four hours before being dumped, dying, on his family’s doorstep.
“He was dragged by a rope around his neck, beaten with clubs and metal rods in front of passers-by,” a Gaza City resident told Israel’s Ynet TV.
Now look what the Jews made them do, screeches Bandt.
When the Australian asked Mr Bandt if he condemned Hamas’s actions and if the International Criminal Court should investigate, the Greens leader did not reference the terror group by name and instead attacked the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The killing of civilians is devastating, never acceptable and should always be investigated by human rights organisations,” he said. “For all killings to finally stop, and for Palestinians and Israelis to have a just and lasting peace, the occupation of Palestine and the invasion of Gaza need to end.
“Australia needs to move from words to action and put pressure on the extremist Netanyahu government to end the occupation of Palestine, which is the root cause of the conflict, and end the invasion of Gaza.”
So, nothing about Hamas at all. The Greens are absolutely disgusting.
‘Hold my shandy!’ says Anthony Albanese.
Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese declined to endorse any part of a 15-point plan on anti-Semitism developed by the leading Jewish community organisation and endorsed by the coalition.
The three-page letter lists various actions by the government to curtail anti-Semitism in the community. It referenced legislation to criminalise doxxing, hate symbols, and Operation Avalite to investigate anti-Semitic crimes. But Mr Albanese failed to commit to any of the ECAJ’s 15 key points.
He knows where his voters come from, after all.
