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| George Christensen: 'We needed some Trump' in our political leadership – politics live | George Christensen: 'We needed some Trump' in our political leadership – politics live |
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| 9.27pm GMT | |
| 21:27 | |
| Australia: It is time to stop your sobbing | |
| Chrissie is the only answer to this. | |
| 9.19pm GMT | |
| 21:19 | |
| Julie Bishop: the world is certainly a different place | |
| Q: Is the world a less secure place now with Donald Trump as president? | |
| It is certainly a different place because any US presidential election has implications for the globe. But this is a momentous change and we see it as an opportunity for Australia to work very closely and constructively with the new president and his Administration to ensure that we maintain US presence and leadership in the Asia-Pacific. That is in our national interest. | |
| 9.14pm GMT | |
| 21:14 | |
| Friends, welcome to a post truth world | |
| Cory Bernardi has taken to Facebook to bag out establishment parties (like the one he is a member of). He helpfully provides a link to the his Australian Conservatives movement. | |
| Friends, the stunning election victory by Donald Trump last night is validation of all I have been warning about for many years. | |
| The movement against the establishment political parties, who have consistently and wilfully ignored the mainstream majority in favour of their own power and self-interest, is moving across the globe. | |
| We need to change politics and unite Australian Conservatives to make that change for our Nation. If you want to be part of the movement please register your interest at Australian Conservatives. | |
| 9.06pm GMT | |
| 21:06 | |
| Let's see ... what do we need now? More hate speech? | |
| Tony Burke finished with a point to bring it home in Australian terms. By linking it to the push to change section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. | |
| I’ve gotta say, it’s an extraordinary time for Australia to be thinking more hate speech would be a good thing. | |
| There is a question that’s always there for Australia: are you the ally that an American administration might want or are you the ally that an American administration in fact needs? We are well engaged in our region. We are a smart, sensible nation. And we should call out bigotry and appalling behaviour whenever we see it, and should do that fearlessly. | |
| This Trump thing does force Australia to consider what it is that we want to be. A section of America has spoken about what it wants. What is it that Australians want? | |
| Updated | |
| at 9.30pm GMT | |
| 8.56pm GMT | |
| 20:56 | |
| Tony Burke: in this country, boasting about sex assault would end your career | |
| Labor’s Tony Burke has appeared on Sky News with some thoughtful comments. He makes the point that we have to work on the basis that the alliance is unchanged and deeper than any one administration. | |
| But his main message is we cannot change who we are. | |
| A lot of people I guess feel today like they’re waking up with a pretty bad hangover trying to piece together what on earth happened the night before. | |
| In terms of what happened in the campaign itself, I think we’ve got to make sure that as a country, we don’t change who we are. We shouldn’t be so desperate in terms of trying to win favour from the new president-elect that we undermine our values. | |
| We shouldn’t be a country that forgets that in this country if you boasted about sexually assaulting women it would mark the end of your political career. Over there, it’s just marked the launch of one. | |
| These are differences where we should not give ground. Lots of titles go with being president of the United States – being called leader of the free world is not automatic. A world where women are assaulted, people with disability are ridiculed and people are discriminated against based on their faith or the colour of their skin is not a free world. | |
| Lots of analysis will happen now about what were the economic issues, what were the issues about anti-establishment, but race and prejudice were part of it. We should not gloss over that or pretend that they weren’t: they were. We should call that out. And we should make sure that we don’t in any way change who we are. | |
| Updated | |
| at 9.28pm GMT | |
| 8.39pm GMT | 8.39pm GMT |
| 20:39 | 20:39 |
| Cory and George warn the Trump revolution is coming | Cory and George warn the Trump revolution is coming |
| Good morning. | Good morning. |
| This morning there is a lump in the gut of the body politic. It is still digesting the words, “President Trump”. | This morning there is a lump in the gut of the body politic. It is still digesting the words, “President Trump”. |
| The Daily Telegraph editor Christopher Dore channelled the zeitgeist, from both sides of the divide. | The Daily Telegraph editor Christopher Dore channelled the zeitgeist, from both sides of the divide. |
| Front page of The Daily Telegraph. #Elections2016 #USElection2016 #auspol pic.twitter.com/hmv3GJXDo7 | Front page of The Daily Telegraph. #Elections2016 #USElection2016 #auspol pic.twitter.com/hmv3GJXDo7 |
| The LNP MP George Christensen is the oracle this morning. He says the Trump victory marks a fundamental realignment of world politics. | The LNP MP George Christensen is the oracle this morning. He says the Trump victory marks a fundamental realignment of world politics. |
| Perhaps we needed some Trump in our political leadership when Ford announced [they were closing] while Julia Gillard was PM and under the Liberal National Coalition that Holden announced it was going. | Perhaps we needed some Trump in our political leadership when Ford announced [they were closing] while Julia Gillard was PM and under the Liberal National Coalition that Holden announced it was going. |
| We are starting to see that rise in this country, we saw the start at the last election. We have already seen a taste of it and there will be more to come in elections to follow. | We are starting to see that rise in this country, we saw the start at the last election. We have already seen a taste of it and there will be more to come in elections to follow. |
| The Liberal senator Cory Bernardi was cock-a-hoop. Here are his main points. | The Liberal senator Cory Bernardi was cock-a-hoop. Here are his main points. |
| Best get cracking. Speak to me in the thread or on the twits @gabriellechan or on Facebook. Mike Bowers is lurking, @mpbowers. Normally an early coffee is against my religion but I think I will crack before 8am today. I blame Donald Trump. | Best get cracking. Speak to me in the thread or on the twits @gabriellechan or on Facebook. Mike Bowers is lurking, @mpbowers. Normally an early coffee is against my religion but I think I will crack before 8am today. I blame Donald Trump. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 8.52pm GMT | at 8.52pm GMT |