bigrich wrote:mchughcb wrote:Wapiti wrote:The real problem is Canavan, Hastie, Taylor and Hume... those self-important elites just cannot, and will not, accept that they have had their day so much so that instead of seeing Australia throw these Labor doughnut punchers out, they seek to destroy One Nation out of sheer jealousy.
And continuously belittle it for being so popular - and in doing so, belittle US.
They do not give a flying f**k about Australia or Australians and trying to destroy a political party making them look like the losers and traitors that they are - and they will still be paid by the taxpayers' blood-tax money to sit in perpetual opposition sniping at the sidelines whilst we suffer.
Basil could read the writing on the wall. The only chance he has at the next election is a coalition with ON in WA. A labor loss offers him that. Hastie is not reading the room .
hastie comes across as a really nasty piece of work . real aggressive narcissist . he's hurting his party with his attack dog attitude to ON . but i don't trust him after he tried putting himself in the BRS witch hunt

Some veterans of that era who leased a place up the road from me filled me in on Hastie and the "two camps" in the SAS that run a very competitive race against one another regarding deployments and results. I'll just say camps because that's how they described it.
Hastie is in one camp, BRS is in the other. It has been said to me, allegedly, that Hastie was one of the most vocal troublemakers that kept this pointless competitiveness going, he was always noted as the one keeping it up. BRS was/is one of the quiet achievers, wouldn't participate in the jealousy crap and some of the stuff they talk about him seemingly just casually being able to do seems superhuman to me. And it really upsetted the "look at me" noisier pretenders that do exist apparently.
Allegedly Hastie backed another trooper for a VC at the time but the "points" system that grades them against didn't agree, instead an SG or MG and seemingly he went ape. But there's more to it than that and I won't allege anything further as that's be stupid.
Then, there was the "kill list" that they all were aware of and the reasons why, for murdering Australian troops for example while pretending to be workers or terps for Aussie bases. Only sit-to-p*ss types have a problem with justice like that.
Suffice to say these blokes all can't stand Hastie, and all back BRS, and all think Hastie is in the perfect place for being a backstabber, the Fed Liberals.