Dick Smith would have a good chance

[donnashuggy]

Against abbott wouldn't he?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-08/dick-smith-could-be-forced-to-run-against-tony-abbott/6529668

[bluecat*dancing]

I think that anyone would.....

[myoclon1cjerk]

Not a chance,donna.The voters in those safe Lib seats would still re-elect their sitting member if he was guilty of genocide.Probably with an increased majority.Remember the seat of Bennelong after the invasion of Iraq?

[monman12]

The mind boggles, Dick Smith suggesting changes to controlled and non controlled airspace with respect to radar coverage and suggesting the USA as a model.

I am sure he has flown in USA airspace (as I have as a pilot)  but I think  he might not realise that at any moment in the USA:

NOAA estimates that 5,000 planes are in the sky over the United States. On any given day, more than 87,000 flights travel through US airspace…

Australia wide aircraft airspace density,  by comparison,  is almost deserted, as  is our en-route and terminal radar site density.

Perhaps Smith could try out this (also expensive)  idea:

Australian tycoon Dick Smith has lent his name to a Kiwi aviation campaign encouraging farmers to eliminate wires.

"I'm asking any farmer with a wire that's more than five metres above the ground to get it down as fast he can," Smith told the Taranaki Daily News from Sydney.

[donnashuggy]

but I think  he might not realise that at any moment in the USA:

I doubt it

[karliandjacko]

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@monman12 wrote:

Australian tycoon Dick Smith has lent his name to a Kiwi aviation campaign encouraging farmers to eliminate wires.

"I'm asking any farmer with a wire that's more than five metres above the ground to get it down as fast he can," Smith told the Taranaki Daily News from Sydney.

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Jeepers, they must have high fences in Kiwiland.

[village_person]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Not a chance,donna.The voters in those safe Lib seats would still re-elect their sitting member if he was guilty of genocide.Probably with an increased majority.Remember the seat of Bennelong after the invasion of Iraq?

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Gotta agree with the jerk on this one. Safe Lib seats are just like safe ALP seats; the 'rusted-ons' would vote for their man or woman no matter what.

[donnashuggy]

Good interview on with Richo and Jones on Sky

[lal-au0]

you pay for tv?

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@village_person wrote:

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Not a chance,donna.The voters in those safe Lib seats would still re-elect their sitting member if he was guilty of genocide.Probably with an increased majority.Remember the seat of Bennelong after the invasion of Iraq?

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Gotta agree with the jerk on this one. Safe Lib seats are just like safe ALP seats; the 'rusted-ons' would vote for their man or woman no matter what.

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John Howard lost his seat in the 2007 elections, though - the first PM to do so since Stanley Bruce in 1929.