Last update 26/2/2012
“The government lacks legitimacy, not because it lacks a majority but because it lacks integrity.”
Don't Let Julia foolya.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/gillard-rules-out-replacing-rudd-20100510-umhz.html
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-gets-creative-in-ducking-the-leadership-question-20100518-va4d.html
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-gets-creative-in-ducking-the-leadership-question-20100518-va4d.html
Julia quotes to prove Ms Gillard is a liar
"A challenge for the Labor leadership is "not within cooee of my day-to-day reality".
"You may as well ask me whether I'm anticipating a trip to Mars."
"There's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor Party."
"Steven Spielberg rang me from Hollywood and asked me to star opposite Brad Pitt in a movie, would I do it? Well, I'd be a little bit tempted but you know what, I don't reckon Steven Spielberg is going to give me a call." No leadership, no calls from Spielberg, got it. "
"I know we’ll be welcoming Jessica [Watson] back to Sydney this weekend after her round the world epic feat. I tell you, I think there’s more chance of me going round the world sailing solo a dozen times than this chatter in the media becoming anything more than that."
“There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead”
‘‘I’ve agreed with Mr Wilkie that we will work with states and territories to deliver this reform,’’ she said.
‘‘But I’ve also agreed with him that the commonwealth will act if the agreement of the states and territories is not forthcoming.’’
And of course one from the smiling idiot next to her.
"Well certainly what we rejected is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax from the Liberals in their advertising. We certainly reject that."
W. Swan, 15th August 2010
"A challenge for the Labor leadership is "not within cooee of my day-to-day reality".
"You may as well ask me whether I'm anticipating a trip to Mars."
"There's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor Party."
"Steven Spielberg rang me from Hollywood and asked me to star opposite Brad Pitt in a movie, would I do it? Well, I'd be a little bit tempted but you know what, I don't reckon Steven Spielberg is going to give me a call." No leadership, no calls from Spielberg, got it. "
"I know we’ll be welcoming Jessica [Watson] back to Sydney this weekend after her round the world epic feat. I tell you, I think there’s more chance of me going round the world sailing solo a dozen times than this chatter in the media becoming anything more than that."
“There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead”
‘‘I’ve agreed with Mr Wilkie that we will work with states and territories to deliver this reform,’’ she said.
‘‘But I’ve also agreed with him that the commonwealth will act if the agreement of the states and territories is not forthcoming.’’
And of course one from the smiling idiot next to her.
"Well certainly what we rejected is this hysterical allegation that somehow we are moving towards a carbon tax from the Liberals in their advertising. We certainly reject that."
W. Swan, 15th August 2010
LIAR!
JULIA GILLARD 2005
The Labor Party is the party of truth telling. When we go out into the electorate and make promises, do you know what we would do in government: we would keep them. When we say them, we mean them. That is the difference between you and us. If I were minister for health in an elected government, it would be my duty to implement lock, stock and barrel—word for word—exactly what we had promised in the election campaign. That is your obligation.
A vote for the Greens is a vote for LABOR
"ONCE WE GET IN, WE'LL CHANGE EVERYTHING"
''A number of people have described me as an economic conservative, ''When it comes to public finance, it's a badge I wear with pride.''
Memo to Krudd, Eating earwax should cease by the age of 7
The Spin of the 2007 Election
What went so horribly wrong when Australia elected Kevin Rudd? So many promises, remember people? So far Labor has signed Kyoto, Apologised to the Aborigines and that is it. Remember this slogan Voters of Australia?
Education Revolution
Let us look at "Kevin 07" and these promises. An education revolution? Throwing money at schools for a few buildings is hardly a revolution. And what about a laptop for high school students? Has your child got one yet? There has been no revolution to speak of yet, but maybe it will happen with "Kevin 010"
A National Plan to fix our hospitals
A National Plan to fix our hospitals. It must be one of those "top secret plans" because nobody has seen it yet. Has YOUR local hospital benefited from Labor's National Plan?
Decisive action on climate change
Copenhagen and ETS. You have got to be kidding Ruddy.
Balance and fairness in the workplace
This is where Rudd won the election. We will dismantle work choices. Have you, the voters of Australia looked into what Labor has done to dismantle work choices since 2007?
http://news.theage.com.au/national/labor-broke-work-choices-promise-actu-20090113-7g14.html
Maintain our National security
well at least Labor has increased the workload for our Navy, now that people smugglers see us a soft touch. Our National security has NOT been maintained. The legacy of Howard is gone and Rudd & Co have no solution. Remember how inept our government looked at the handling of the Oceanic Viking incident? There will be more of this in 2010 and we wait with baited breath on how Ruddy will handle this.
A strong economy that delivers to working class families.
well we did have a strong economy, now we are going to be 300 billion in debt. We as a nation have not had such a huge deficit since World War II. Thats $13,636 for every person on the Australian continent. All this in 2 years people. There is no doubt we would of got through the GFC without going into debt. We had a strong economy, a budget surplus and our banks were in good shape. yet Labor has once again got this nation in debt. Is this "The debt we had to have" ala Keating.
Working class families sure seem to be having a ball under Ruddy.
Working class families sure seem to be having a ball under Ruddy.
Dear readers try not to puke reading this garbage.
Rudd’s Campaign Launch Speech, 14.11.2007
Mr Howard has already presided over ten interest rate rises in a row. Six interest rate rises since the last election when he pro mised working families they would remain at record lows. A broken promise now costing first homebuyers nearly $3000 a year more on an average mortgage.
He has ignored 20 separate Reserve Bank warnings on Australia’s skills shortages and infrastructure bottlenecks. And now with this latest irresponsible and desperate pre-election splurge, Mr Howard is putting his own interests ahead of working fa milies by risking further increases in their mortgage rates.
I have no intention today of repeating Mr Howard’s irresponsible spending spree.
> Unlike Mr Howard, I will heed the warnings of the Reserve Bank.
> Unlike Mr Howard, I will not place in jeopardy households already struggling with mortgages.
> Unlike Mr Howard, I don’t stand before you with a bag full of irresponsible promises that could put upward pressure on inflation.
Today I am saying loud and clear that this sort of reckless spending must stop. I am determined that any commitments I make are first and foremost economically responsible
Mr Howard has already presided over ten interest rate rises in a row. Six interest rate rises since the last election when he pro mised working families they would remain at record lows. A broken promise now costing first homebuyers nearly $3000 a year more on an average mortgage.
He has ignored 20 separate Reserve Bank warnings on Australia’s skills shortages and infrastructure bottlenecks. And now with this latest irresponsible and desperate pre-election splurge, Mr Howard is putting his own interests ahead of working fa milies by risking further increases in their mortgage rates.
I have no intention today of repeating Mr Howard’s irresponsible spending spree.
> Unlike Mr Howard, I will heed the warnings of the Reserve Bank.
> Unlike Mr Howard, I will not place in jeopardy households already struggling with mortgages.
> Unlike Mr Howard, I don’t stand before you with a bag full of irresponsible promises that could put upward pressure on inflation.
Today I am saying loud and clear that this sort of reckless spending must stop. I am determined that any commitments I make are first and foremost economically responsible
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Rudd promise of declaring war on the homeless problem Jan 2010
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/russ-losing-obscene-homeless-crisis/story-e6freuy9-1225815429824
Quote "we can do better, we must do better" would apply to everything his government has done so far. But hey, it's all about working families people! And the homeless are right up with defence people as "who gives a shit" from our illustrious leader.
Quote "we can do better, we must do better" would apply to everything his government has done so far. But hey, it's all about working families people! And the homeless are right up with defence people as "who gives a shit" from our illustrious leader.
Rudd to go after WMD's! April 2010
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/rudds-mission-is-almost-disarming/story-e6frezz0-1225815335747
There is no stopping this man. After fixing the worlds climate problems at Copenhagen, Ruddy is now going to be the great man of peace and disarm the world. Methinks he has Obama peace prize envy. People waiting for a hospital beds and struggling pensioners will be rooting for you Kevvy. Could be time for another international gathering with chairman Rudd
firing up the 747 to head off for another photo op.
There is no stopping this man. After fixing the worlds climate problems at Copenhagen, Ruddy is now going to be the great man of peace and disarm the world. Methinks he has Obama peace prize envy. People waiting for a hospital beds and struggling pensioners will be rooting for you Kevvy. Could be time for another international gathering with chairman Rudd
firing up the 747 to head off for another photo op.
Stay tuned for more stories, political humor and ruddy stuff
Kevin Rudd writes a children's book.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/kevin-rudd-writes-book-for-kids/story-e6frewt0-1225815527931
One does have to wonder where an elected representative has the time to write a children's book, let alone our Prime Minister? Well done Kevvy, now you add that accomplishment to Kyoto and the apology as your legacy so far. When the next book is written, I suggest a title like this.
One does have to wonder where an elected representative has the time to write a children's book, let alone our Prime Minister? Well done Kevvy, now you add that accomplishment to Kyoto and the apology as your legacy so far. When the next book is written, I suggest a title like this.
Or maybe even something like "Kevvy and the 747, inseparable best friends"
Rudd and the Australian Military.
Never in Australia's history has a Prime Minister shown so much contempt for his military. It's a known joke that when Labor get in, the Armed forces get shafted. Ever since Keating got elected and scrapped pensions for Defence personnel, the military suffers cutbacks to entitlements and benefits that stagger belief.
http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/27996.html
Ruddy has carried on that tradition by raising the retirement age to 60 but not allowing the super entitlements to follow.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/defence-super-rip-off/story-e6frezc0-1225815313157
These are the only government employees that suffer from this, and Rudd couldn't care less. And why would he? how many government pensions will Rudd receive when he retires to the UN?
Now the Defence force has no pension, no extra retirement benefits that everyone else gets and no help for those families who partners are killed in Action.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/campaign-on-war-pensions-neglect/story-e6freuy9-1225780622939
Another broken promise from Ruddy and co. But that is the caliber of the man, a Coward. when given the choice of abusing a Female RAAF flight attendant because his chicken is cold or say an SAS soldier, who would Ruddy choose?
The Work Choices scare tactics, Krudd and Gillard sucker punches the Nation!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/wage-cuts-for-low-paid/story-e6frezc0-1225824114766
Well, come on now. Who voted for Labor based the Scare campaign on work choices? No worker will be worse off says Julia. Now "Working Families" really do now understand how it was a throw away catch phrase and the average worker will be worse off under Labor. It is plainly obvious that many of us were swept up in the glitz of the "Kevin 07" campaign. John Howard was looking tired, arrogant and conceited. Kevin and co looked fresh and new, full of promise and ideas.
Face it Australia, we made a grave mistake. A big man admits his mistakes and so should a big country. NSW has made the same mistake since 1995 and only know when the state is on its last legs that we look to the Libs for answers.
It will only get worse if this travesty of a government is voted back in.
Well, come on now. Who voted for Labor based the Scare campaign on work choices? No worker will be worse off says Julia. Now "Working Families" really do now understand how it was a throw away catch phrase and the average worker will be worse off under Labor. It is plainly obvious that many of us were swept up in the glitz of the "Kevin 07" campaign. John Howard was looking tired, arrogant and conceited. Kevin and co looked fresh and new, full of promise and ideas.
Face it Australia, we made a grave mistake. A big man admits his mistakes and so should a big country. NSW has made the same mistake since 1995 and only know when the state is on its last legs that we look to the Libs for answers.
It will only get worse if this travesty of a government is voted back in.
The boat people keep on coming courtesy of RUDD!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/christmas-island-just-one-boat-away-from-limit/story-e6freuzr-1225825857695
Scroll back to the top logo on this website.
Quote "Maintain our National Security" Unquote.
Gee wizz Kruddy, keep up the super job mate. One wonders if the spin doctors of labor will go on stress leave
trying to work out how to put this into a positive light.
"Working boat people" ???............nope
" Boat people watch"???...........naaa
"A national plan to fix our borders"???.........def not
" Blame Howard"???? BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ruddy's hands are tied though, with the UN watching , what can a poor PM do?
I suggest he hire some ex Liberals as advisers and jump aboard "me too" which served him so well in 2007.
Scroll back to the top logo on this website.
Quote "Maintain our National Security" Unquote.
Gee wizz Kruddy, keep up the super job mate. One wonders if the spin doctors of labor will go on stress leave
trying to work out how to put this into a positive light.
"Working boat people" ???............nope
" Boat people watch"???...........naaa
"A national plan to fix our borders"???.........def not
" Blame Howard"???? BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ruddy's hands are tied though, with the UN watching , what can a poor PM do?
I suggest he hire some ex Liberals as advisers and jump aboard "me too" which served him so well in 2007.
"More than ever, Australia needs a government that will help the nation fulfill its promise rather than a government which makes promises it cannot fulfill."
Kevin Rudd, career politician and worlds biggest Hypocrite !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Nations kids get under Rudd's skin.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/teen-who-skewered-rudd-on-national-tv/story-e6frewt0-1225830037339
Well well well. Looks what happens when Ruddy has to answer serious questions from the generation who got him into power. Christ, he looked absolutely out of his depth without pre arranged media questions or his spin team there to guide him. These teenagers asked what we are ALL asking. Failed election promises were the key in this, and Ruddy looked like his was about to blow his top. How dare this girl asks such silly questions as where are the laptops etc. Every day, this PM looks like a man on death row. He is not a shadow of a PM that Howard was and he knows it. Out of his depth when asked tough questions by teenagers and here's a tip Ruddy, many more tough questions are coming from us all.
Well well well. Looks what happens when Ruddy has to answer serious questions from the generation who got him into power. Christ, he looked absolutely out of his depth without pre arranged media questions or his spin team there to guide him. These teenagers asked what we are ALL asking. Failed election promises were the key in this, and Ruddy looked like his was about to blow his top. How dare this girl asks such silly questions as where are the laptops etc. Every day, this PM looks like a man on death row. He is not a shadow of a PM that Howard was and he knows it. Out of his depth when asked tough questions by teenagers and here's a tip Ruddy, many more tough questions are coming from us all.
“There will be no change to the superannuation laws one jot, one tiddle,”
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/punished_for_doing_the_right_thing_for_old_age/
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The great batts insulation fiasco of Labor
Take your pick of googled websites on this massive failure of Garrett. Remember Mr Rudd? "The Buck stops with me"
You and your henchmen couldn't scream loud enough to have Amanda Vanstone sacked over the Ms Rau incident when in opposition. Nobody died there Krudd, and compensation was paid to Ms Rau with a sincere apology. But that wasn't good enough for you, it wasn't good enough for Mr Midnight Oil either when Howard offered sincere regret over the stolen generation. Now the failed insulation scheme has been scrapped for no other reason that it was managed by incompetence. Otherwise it would still be going, wouldn't it?
No apology, nothing but spin, spin, spin. Krudd and Garrett's biggest problem is they never had any real experience in government and have shown total ineptitude in everything they do. Sack him KRudd or sack yourself. People have been jailed for less.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/garrett-dumps-insulation-scheme/story-e6freuy9-1225832171373
You and your henchmen couldn't scream loud enough to have Amanda Vanstone sacked over the Ms Rau incident when in opposition. Nobody died there Krudd, and compensation was paid to Ms Rau with a sincere apology. But that wasn't good enough for you, it wasn't good enough for Mr Midnight Oil either when Howard offered sincere regret over the stolen generation. Now the failed insulation scheme has been scrapped for no other reason that it was managed by incompetence. Otherwise it would still be going, wouldn't it?
No apology, nothing but spin, spin, spin. Krudd and Garrett's biggest problem is they never had any real experience in government and have shown total ineptitude in everything they do. Sack him KRudd or sack yourself. People have been jailed for less.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/garrett-dumps-insulation-scheme/story-e6freuy9-1225832171373
Rose Bay traffic sign stops traffic to declare: Kevin Rudd sucks
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/rose-bay-traffic-sign-stops-traffic-to-declare-kevin-rudd-sucks/story-e6freuzi-1225833264067
The sign says it all. Are you listening Kevin?
The sign says it all. Are you listening Kevin?
Kevin Rudd says he's dropped the ball
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/kevin-rudd-says-hes-dropped-the-ball/story-e6frezz0-1225834944205
So what Krudd is saying that everything on this website is true! Geez Australia, sorry about the last couple of years,
but I pinky promise to do better if you elect me again. Peter Beattie would be nodding his head with approval.
You were elected on a swag of promises and policies that you have failed in nearly every sense and you expect us the voting public to go a soft and cuddly because you admitted your government is incompetent?
How dare you say you have passed on economic credentials. You blew a large surplus and got us into record debt. And it isn't over yet is it Mr Rudd? lots more debt to come I reckon. I truly hope Australia does NOT give the matches to the monkeys again or it will be more than Garretts batts that will be burning. STRUTH!!!!!!!!!!
So what Krudd is saying that everything on this website is true! Geez Australia, sorry about the last couple of years,
but I pinky promise to do better if you elect me again. Peter Beattie would be nodding his head with approval.
You were elected on a swag of promises and policies that you have failed in nearly every sense and you expect us the voting public to go a soft and cuddly because you admitted your government is incompetent?
How dare you say you have passed on economic credentials. You blew a large surplus and got us into record debt. And it isn't over yet is it Mr Rudd? lots more debt to come I reckon. I truly hope Australia does NOT give the matches to the monkeys again or it will be more than Garretts batts that will be burning. STRUTH!!!!!!!!!!
Gillard admits failure, Krudd says otherwise
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/gillard-admits-failure-on-childcare-delivery/story-e6frg6n6-1225836279479
Well who's right Mr Rudd? Julia Gillard who can do no wrong, says Labor has failed to deliver on childcare, but YOU says the commitments have been met.
Do you even care or is this another admission of failure from your government? What is going on here? is this the Government of Australia or a prolonged
Chaser skit? Either you have or you have not delivered on this promise which was heavily promoted by Kevin07. Not a day goes by in the press that some sort
of Labor failure is not reported. I fear there will be many more yet. We the public can't wait to see how the hospital pledge turns out.
Well who's right Mr Rudd? Julia Gillard who can do no wrong, says Labor has failed to deliver on childcare, but YOU says the commitments have been met.
Do you even care or is this another admission of failure from your government? What is going on here? is this the Government of Australia or a prolonged
Chaser skit? Either you have or you have not delivered on this promise which was heavily promoted by Kevin07. Not a day goes by in the press that some sort
of Labor failure is not reported. I fear there will be many more yet. We the public can't wait to see how the hospital pledge turns out.
Gillard says a bit of waste and mismanagement is Ok....WTF!!!
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/abbott-urges-schools-to-expose-ripoffs-20100326-r0lg.html
You have got to be kidding Julia! This is OUR money, coming out of our wages, the taxpayers remember.
So what sort of figure would you classify as a "bit of waste"? How about the 500 million that state Labor blew on
Transport failure. A wee bit or a wee bit more? Oh yes, I forgot that that is a state issue, sort of like Health.
If the minister for potplants, Garrett can be downgraded for a bit of waste and a bit of mismanagement, I guess YOU
should be inline for the same treatment then shouldn't you? How much debt does Australia now have, I know we have zero surplus thanks to a bit of waste and a bit of mismanagement . Unbelievable!
Just had to edit this as I have been reminded of this by someone.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193374.htm
When in opposition on 08, The Ivory tower sitting Gillard brought in mousepads and pens to highlight the then government on Wasting taxpayers money. Oh Julia, were you not scathing on a bit of waste and bit of mismanagement. How much was it Julia, that got you roaring like an elephant? 121 million was the figure I believe. So Ms Gillard, consider yourself lucky that Tony Abbott can't drag into Parliament House the sheds your "education relolution" built. I'm damn sure it would blow out of the water $121 million. But then he can bring a slip of paper showing 42 BILLION that was wiped off our books. He can bring in the BILLIONS more we are in debt. He can bring in Garretts disasterous Batts bungle and the 100's of millions it will cost to fix. According to the link , oh so clever Julia comes up with all sorts of smug ideas for the use of the mouse pads. Well here's one Julia, stick em in the roofs as insulation. Judging by your record so far, it'll cost 121 million just for the management fees alone! And there is less chance of the roofs catching fire than the minister for potplants effort so far!
It's pretty obvious Julia has different views of "a bit of waste and bit of mismanagement"
Liberal= obscene waste and chronic mismanagement
Labor = Stimulus package
HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have got to be kidding Julia! This is OUR money, coming out of our wages, the taxpayers remember.
So what sort of figure would you classify as a "bit of waste"? How about the 500 million that state Labor blew on
Transport failure. A wee bit or a wee bit more? Oh yes, I forgot that that is a state issue, sort of like Health.
If the minister for potplants, Garrett can be downgraded for a bit of waste and a bit of mismanagement, I guess YOU
should be inline for the same treatment then shouldn't you? How much debt does Australia now have, I know we have zero surplus thanks to a bit of waste and a bit of mismanagement . Unbelievable!
Just had to edit this as I have been reminded of this by someone.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193374.htm
When in opposition on 08, The Ivory tower sitting Gillard brought in mousepads and pens to highlight the then government on Wasting taxpayers money. Oh Julia, were you not scathing on a bit of waste and bit of mismanagement. How much was it Julia, that got you roaring like an elephant? 121 million was the figure I believe. So Ms Gillard, consider yourself lucky that Tony Abbott can't drag into Parliament House the sheds your "education relolution" built. I'm damn sure it would blow out of the water $121 million. But then he can bring a slip of paper showing 42 BILLION that was wiped off our books. He can bring in the BILLIONS more we are in debt. He can bring in Garretts disasterous Batts bungle and the 100's of millions it will cost to fix. According to the link , oh so clever Julia comes up with all sorts of smug ideas for the use of the mouse pads. Well here's one Julia, stick em in the roofs as insulation. Judging by your record so far, it'll cost 121 million just for the management fees alone! And there is less chance of the roofs catching fire than the minister for potplants effort so far!
It's pretty obvious Julia has different views of "a bit of waste and bit of mismanagement"
Liberal= obscene waste and chronic mismanagement
Labor = Stimulus package
HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rudd outdoes himself on the boat people.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/boat-arrivals-spill-into-sydney/story-e6frewt0-1225846389175
This would have to be the most blatant policy failure in Australia's history. And it doesn't look too good that only a few years ago we had a strong border protection policy in the the Pacific solution. Rudd stated that he would maintain border security. Something that was on his campaign slogan. Epic fail Rudd, this is one thing you can't spin to us, the results are out in the open.
This would have to be the most blatant policy failure in Australia's history. And it doesn't look too good that only a few years ago we had a strong border protection policy in the the Pacific solution. Rudd stated that he would maintain border security. Something that was on his campaign slogan. Epic fail Rudd, this is one thing you can't spin to us, the results are out in the open.
President Obama slams Krudd over internet filtering.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/stephen-conroy-and-us-at-odds-on-net-filter/story-e6frg1ac-1225846711798
This should result in an about turn for another stupid Ruddy policy. If Obama things it stinks then Rudd will can it.
Can this illustrious leader of Labor do anything right? Rudds first term has achieved a sorry to the Aboriginals.
can't wait for the second term from Doctor death.
This should result in an about turn for another stupid Ruddy policy. If Obama things it stinks then Rudd will can it.
Can this illustrious leader of Labor do anything right? Rudds first term has achieved a sorry to the Aboriginals.
can't wait for the second term from Doctor death.
Labor the hypocrite party of choice.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/tony-abbott-should-be-making-policy-not-running-says-julia-gillard/story-e6freuyi-1225846897015
The hypocrisy of Labor knows no bounds. Ms Gillard is all high and mighty as is our health minister Roxon about how Tony Abbott should be making policy not running. Where oh where does Mr abbott find the time to do this? What did Wayne Swann say? Gee I wish i could surf but I'm too busy being the treasurer etc etc.
Well, where were you guys when your own PM, the Ruddster was writing a childrens book while being PM? Tony Abbott can't do a marathon and be oppostion leader yet Ruddy can take all the time in the world and write about dogs and cats, while the roofs burned, the education revolution wasted millions on sheds and the boat people are lining up like the first fleet to sail to AUS. Pull your heads in Labor and look in your own Kirribilli Back yard before you mouth off on Abbott.
The hypocrisy of Labor knows no bounds. Ms Gillard is all high and mighty as is our health minister Roxon about how Tony Abbott should be making policy not running. Where oh where does Mr abbott find the time to do this? What did Wayne Swann say? Gee I wish i could surf but I'm too busy being the treasurer etc etc.
Well, where were you guys when your own PM, the Ruddster was writing a childrens book while being PM? Tony Abbott can't do a marathon and be oppostion leader yet Ruddy can take all the time in the world and write about dogs and cats, while the roofs burned, the education revolution wasted millions on sheds and the boat people are lining up like the first fleet to sail to AUS. Pull your heads in Labor and look in your own Kirribilli Back yard before you mouth off on Abbott.
Still room on Christmas Island. Translation.........I GIVE UP!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/still-room-on-christmas-island-says-rudd/story-e6freuzr-1225849363837
Well, despite the influx of even more boat people, Ruddy says there' still more room. So instead of tightening up our borders, his response is we've got plenty of room, sort of like a sleepover.
This is a blatant admission of defeat. No if's or buts. If I was a terrorist, I would be paying the boat smugglers to get to AUS as he or she would have an excellent chance of getting in. Repeat after me 100 times Kevvy. "Maintain our national Security" You remember mate, one of your throaw away slogans in 07, like "working Families" or "Fiscal conservative"
If your reading this Kevvy, How about a hint on the next elections slogans? Man, they'll have to be good to top the whoppers of "07".
All the recent interceptions, all the media hype, the increased boat people activity can be linked to one thing. And that is the Oceanic Viking incident. The absolute inept handling of this incident by Krudd sent a clear message to people smugglers that Australia had softened it border stance and the Australian Government had a new weak policy in place. Since that incident, the influx has gone through the roof. Rudd's spin that it is global factors is garbage. Stop comparing the influx to Howard's reign, YOUR the government and have been since 07. The buck has now firmly stopped with you, or is that yet another catchphrase while crossing your fingers?
Well, despite the influx of even more boat people, Ruddy says there' still more room. So instead of tightening up our borders, his response is we've got plenty of room, sort of like a sleepover.
This is a blatant admission of defeat. No if's or buts. If I was a terrorist, I would be paying the boat smugglers to get to AUS as he or she would have an excellent chance of getting in. Repeat after me 100 times Kevvy. "Maintain our national Security" You remember mate, one of your throaw away slogans in 07, like "working Families" or "Fiscal conservative"
If your reading this Kevvy, How about a hint on the next elections slogans? Man, they'll have to be good to top the whoppers of "07".
All the recent interceptions, all the media hype, the increased boat people activity can be linked to one thing. And that is the Oceanic Viking incident. The absolute inept handling of this incident by Krudd sent a clear message to people smugglers that Australia had softened it border stance and the Australian Government had a new weak policy in place. Since that incident, the influx has gone through the roof. Rudd's spin that it is global factors is garbage. Stop comparing the influx to Howard's reign, YOUR the government and have been since 07. The buck has now firmly stopped with you, or is that yet another catchphrase while crossing your fingers?
How our “best and brightest” were conned. Best Blog ever!
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/column_how_our_best_and_brightest_were_conned/
Nothing needs to be said other than this wonderful column by Andrew Bolt is why Doctor Death aka the Ruddster is now known throughout the land as "Prime minister BLAH BLAH"
I reprint the story here for all to read, it's that good!
April. The month our 1000 “best and brightest” should remember with shame.
It was two years ago that these 1000 - glorying at being hailed as our finest minds - gathered in Canberra to show just what fools they really were.
You’ll laugh, but most really did think Kevin Rudd had summoned them to his 2020 Ideas Summit to help him design “a strong successful future for our country”.
They really did think that they would produce a report, stuffed with brilliance, that would guide their new Prime Minister through the next decade.
Many were even so arrogant as to believe they really did deserve to map our fate, despite being unelected, unrepresentative and, as it turned out, utterly unknowing - these hand-picked stooges of the most shameless spinner of our political history.
“We do represent the entire community,” burbled Sam Mostyn, a former Labor apparatchik now inserted in a dozen taxpayer-financed boards.
World Vision chief Tim Costello was so flattered by his own invitation that he even mistook Rudd’s hand-picked clique for a real Parliament: “Rather than certain groups, powerful groups, setting the agenda, the direction, it’s actually throwing it over to us.”
Oh, you “best and brightest”. You court toadies, main-chancers, string-pullers, scavengers, dupes and wheeler dealers. Look around you now, two years later and point.
Point out which of your ideas ever saw the light of day. Point out a single one that’s been adopted, to the country’s great good.
Anyone at all? Can you name a single idea from that summit that has made the slightest difference? Can you even name one that hasn’t?
Rarely, if ever in our history, has so much talk produced so little action.
Do you remember that orgy of summiteering two years ago?
Rudd had five months earlier won an election on the promise that he “had a plan for the future”.
He didn’t, of course. Still doesn’t. So he immediately called an ideas summit to get one. Or a seeming one.
But he didn’t call just one summit. In fact, he had state summits, regional summits, MPs’ summits, a Jewish summit and more than 500 school summits, in which thousands of school children were enlisted like so many Rudd Guards to help their Dear Leader.
It was almost sinister, how eagerly so many people volunteered themselves as extras for Rudd’s political theatre.
And then, in April, came this ultimate summit, for which Rudd anointed 1000 Australians as his “best and brightest”.
Except, of course, he’d rigged the selection so that, a handful of token conservatives and business heavies aside, they were in fact 1000 of our “Left and lame”, unlikely to cause much trouble by thinking for themselves.
That’s why fully 118 came from a single Left-wing activist group, GetUp, whose former spokesman is now Rudd’s press secretary.
That’s why the heads of all the biggest green groups were invited, along with all the leading climate alarmists, from Tim Flannery to Gaia worshipper Clive Hamilton.
Dozens of serving and former Labor politicians were also invited, of course, including Joan Kirner, who as premier of Victoria sent our state broke.
Union heavies came, too, along with more than a dozen past or present ABC staff, from David Marr to Geraldine Doogue, and the obligatory handful of “stolen generations” propagandists.
And to make sure the media coverage was kind, Rudd invited the heads of almost every big media organisation - people who should have kept their distance and declined this “honour”.
Result? This farcically rigged assembly produced precisely the group-think you’d expect.
Of the 100 summiteers brought in to discuss global warming, not one was an identifiable sceptic. Of the 100 asked to discuss a republic, only one was a monarchist.
And of the 100 invited from the arts industry, not one protested at the comical stampede for the golden feeding trough, as these prize oinkers, led by Cate Blanchett, demanded “targets to double artists’ income”, “mainstream recognition”, a “Prime Minister’s Prize”, the donation of all “surplus government space”, and “1 per cent of each government’s portfolio funding”, so that, say, the Health Department would have to give artists fistfuls of cash meant to cure the sick.
This great gathering demonstrated three maxims too rarely appreciated.
First, a crowd is more stupid than a single wise man.
Second, crowds aren’t creative.
Third, ask the intelligentsia to run a country and they’ll always demand more power and more of your cash.
And so this particular crowd of brilliant minds didn’t even predict, for instance, the financial crash that was just a few months away.
It had no idea that a key election issue two years later would be cutting immigration, not boosting it.
And it recommended another 20 government bureaucracies, with power even to make bosses have you exercise at work.
So what did they actually propose, these 1000 of our “best and brightest”?
Rudd, in his official response to the summit’s report last year, claimed they’d given him “over 900 ideas”, kindly failing to add that many were plain crazy.
The “best ideas”, he claimed, “continue to have a strong impact on the Government’s thinking and strategy”, and had “subtly changed priorities”. “Subtly” is to explain why you haven’t noticed.
But examples, please, Prime Minister!
Rudd gave four. First, he said, he’d agreed to a review of the tax system (already planned by Labor anyway) - a review he’s since pigeonholed.
Second, he’d made “critical partnerships” with the states on education and health - partnerships you may have missed, since they clearly don’t include the brawl he’s now having with the states over hospitals.
Third, he’d designed a great green tax to help stop global warming - a tax that was already Labor policy, is blocked in the Senate, and is now so unpopular that Rudd barely dares discuss it.
And fourth, he’d made a promise to halve homelessness - only to have it promptly rise instead.
Pathetic isn’t the word for this.
But Rudd did also promise to take up another “nine practical initiatives proposed by the Summit”.
This time the word is “feeble”.
For instance, he’d create a force of civilian experts for overseas emergencies; a new “Indigenous Cultural Education and Knowledge Centre”; a “Golden Gurus” mentoring plan; more scholarships for students and courses to give workers “green skills”.
None of these is in place. Nor would you notice or care if they were.
But wait! The Government has now given money for two other 2020 “ideas” - a new ABC children’s channel, which is actually an old plan, and the development of a bionic eye, which had been invented already.
And that’s it. That’s all you got out of all those summits, all that talk, all those egos, all those reports.
It’s worse than a joke. It’s a charade. A con. A fraud.
Those 1000 of our “best and brightest” were used by Rudd - just as I predicted from the start - as political props.
They were used to make him seem consultative, popular and backed by all the country’s smartest people.
And when those smartest people produced the ideas they thought he’d asked for, he shoved them where the sun doesn’t shine. Which, to be frank, is where most belong.
So how do they feel today, Rudd’s 1000 patsies? Still bright? Still our best?
Nothing needs to be said other than this wonderful column by Andrew Bolt is why Doctor Death aka the Ruddster is now known throughout the land as "Prime minister BLAH BLAH"
I reprint the story here for all to read, it's that good!
April. The month our 1000 “best and brightest” should remember with shame.
It was two years ago that these 1000 - glorying at being hailed as our finest minds - gathered in Canberra to show just what fools they really were.
You’ll laugh, but most really did think Kevin Rudd had summoned them to his 2020 Ideas Summit to help him design “a strong successful future for our country”.
They really did think that they would produce a report, stuffed with brilliance, that would guide their new Prime Minister through the next decade.
Many were even so arrogant as to believe they really did deserve to map our fate, despite being unelected, unrepresentative and, as it turned out, utterly unknowing - these hand-picked stooges of the most shameless spinner of our political history.
“We do represent the entire community,” burbled Sam Mostyn, a former Labor apparatchik now inserted in a dozen taxpayer-financed boards.
World Vision chief Tim Costello was so flattered by his own invitation that he even mistook Rudd’s hand-picked clique for a real Parliament: “Rather than certain groups, powerful groups, setting the agenda, the direction, it’s actually throwing it over to us.”
Oh, you “best and brightest”. You court toadies, main-chancers, string-pullers, scavengers, dupes and wheeler dealers. Look around you now, two years later and point.
Point out which of your ideas ever saw the light of day. Point out a single one that’s been adopted, to the country’s great good.
Anyone at all? Can you name a single idea from that summit that has made the slightest difference? Can you even name one that hasn’t?
Rarely, if ever in our history, has so much talk produced so little action.
Do you remember that orgy of summiteering two years ago?
Rudd had five months earlier won an election on the promise that he “had a plan for the future”.
He didn’t, of course. Still doesn’t. So he immediately called an ideas summit to get one. Or a seeming one.
But he didn’t call just one summit. In fact, he had state summits, regional summits, MPs’ summits, a Jewish summit and more than 500 school summits, in which thousands of school children were enlisted like so many Rudd Guards to help their Dear Leader.
It was almost sinister, how eagerly so many people volunteered themselves as extras for Rudd’s political theatre.
And then, in April, came this ultimate summit, for which Rudd anointed 1000 Australians as his “best and brightest”.
Except, of course, he’d rigged the selection so that, a handful of token conservatives and business heavies aside, they were in fact 1000 of our “Left and lame”, unlikely to cause much trouble by thinking for themselves.
That’s why fully 118 came from a single Left-wing activist group, GetUp, whose former spokesman is now Rudd’s press secretary.
That’s why the heads of all the biggest green groups were invited, along with all the leading climate alarmists, from Tim Flannery to Gaia worshipper Clive Hamilton.
Dozens of serving and former Labor politicians were also invited, of course, including Joan Kirner, who as premier of Victoria sent our state broke.
Union heavies came, too, along with more than a dozen past or present ABC staff, from David Marr to Geraldine Doogue, and the obligatory handful of “stolen generations” propagandists.
And to make sure the media coverage was kind, Rudd invited the heads of almost every big media organisation - people who should have kept their distance and declined this “honour”.
Result? This farcically rigged assembly produced precisely the group-think you’d expect.
Of the 100 summiteers brought in to discuss global warming, not one was an identifiable sceptic. Of the 100 asked to discuss a republic, only one was a monarchist.
And of the 100 invited from the arts industry, not one protested at the comical stampede for the golden feeding trough, as these prize oinkers, led by Cate Blanchett, demanded “targets to double artists’ income”, “mainstream recognition”, a “Prime Minister’s Prize”, the donation of all “surplus government space”, and “1 per cent of each government’s portfolio funding”, so that, say, the Health Department would have to give artists fistfuls of cash meant to cure the sick.
This great gathering demonstrated three maxims too rarely appreciated.
First, a crowd is more stupid than a single wise man.
Second, crowds aren’t creative.
Third, ask the intelligentsia to run a country and they’ll always demand more power and more of your cash.
And so this particular crowd of brilliant minds didn’t even predict, for instance, the financial crash that was just a few months away.
It had no idea that a key election issue two years later would be cutting immigration, not boosting it.
And it recommended another 20 government bureaucracies, with power even to make bosses have you exercise at work.
So what did they actually propose, these 1000 of our “best and brightest”?
Rudd, in his official response to the summit’s report last year, claimed they’d given him “over 900 ideas”, kindly failing to add that many were plain crazy.
The “best ideas”, he claimed, “continue to have a strong impact on the Government’s thinking and strategy”, and had “subtly changed priorities”. “Subtly” is to explain why you haven’t noticed.
But examples, please, Prime Minister!
Rudd gave four. First, he said, he’d agreed to a review of the tax system (already planned by Labor anyway) - a review he’s since pigeonholed.
Second, he’d made “critical partnerships” with the states on education and health - partnerships you may have missed, since they clearly don’t include the brawl he’s now having with the states over hospitals.
Third, he’d designed a great green tax to help stop global warming - a tax that was already Labor policy, is blocked in the Senate, and is now so unpopular that Rudd barely dares discuss it.
And fourth, he’d made a promise to halve homelessness - only to have it promptly rise instead.
Pathetic isn’t the word for this.
But Rudd did also promise to take up another “nine practical initiatives proposed by the Summit”.
This time the word is “feeble”.
For instance, he’d create a force of civilian experts for overseas emergencies; a new “Indigenous Cultural Education and Knowledge Centre”; a “Golden Gurus” mentoring plan; more scholarships for students and courses to give workers “green skills”.
None of these is in place. Nor would you notice or care if they were.
But wait! The Government has now given money for two other 2020 “ideas” - a new ABC children’s channel, which is actually an old plan, and the development of a bionic eye, which had been invented already.
And that’s it. That’s all you got out of all those summits, all that talk, all those egos, all those reports.
It’s worse than a joke. It’s a charade. A con. A fraud.
Those 1000 of our “best and brightest” were used by Rudd - just as I predicted from the start - as political props.
They were used to make him seem consultative, popular and backed by all the country’s smartest people.
And when those smartest people produced the ideas they thought he’d asked for, he shoved them where the sun doesn’t shine. Which, to be frank, is where most belong.
So how do they feel today, Rudd’s 1000 patsies? Still bright? Still our best?
Labor starts Tony Watch. THE most important agenda facing us all!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/new-labor-website-dishes-up-dirt-on-tony-abbott/story-e6freuzr-1225851130075
The pillars of successful government have started a website to dig up dirt on Tony Abbott. You did know that another boat load of asylum seekers turned up while you were getting this taxpayer funded site up and running? And you'd think with the the utter dismal failure of Fuelwatch and Grocerywatch that Labor would be hesitant to get mixed up with websites again. But hey, this isn't a policy site, it's a spin site, so Labor should really should nail this one. Another success for Krudd and the gang.
Kyoto, the Apology and TONYWATCH. You brilliant Rhodes scholars you!
Oh and it was Krudd who said "The Australian people are sick and tired of Mr Howard abusing the office of Prime Minister to run a personal smear campaign against his opponent, rather than debating the policy options for Australia's future." Hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The pillars of successful government have started a website to dig up dirt on Tony Abbott. You did know that another boat load of asylum seekers turned up while you were getting this taxpayer funded site up and running? And you'd think with the the utter dismal failure of Fuelwatch and Grocerywatch that Labor would be hesitant to get mixed up with websites again. But hey, this isn't a policy site, it's a spin site, so Labor should really should nail this one. Another success for Krudd and the gang.
Kyoto, the Apology and TONYWATCH. You brilliant Rhodes scholars you!
Oh and it was Krudd who said "The Australian people are sick and tired of Mr Howard abusing the office of Prime Minister to run a personal smear campaign against his opponent, rather than debating the policy options for Australia's future." Hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The backflip kings, must be an election coming.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/asylum-claims-frozen/story-e6freuzr-1225851764879
The unnamed Labor MP who stated that " This won't lose us the election" was obviously not informed on the great Rudd backflip. What an absolute transparent attempt Kevvy. The Australian people see through this and you. And what happens after the election? Back to normal weak Labor policy. I will term a phrase for this Krudd. Let's call it " Panic Policy" The spin team contacted you in panic at the backlash and viola! Instant policy change. And Krudd and the Gang have the gaul to attack Abbott on policy on the run or backflipping! Can this inept weak government get any hypocritical?
Quote " there is still plenty of room at Christmas Island" unquote. Mere days later this is proven as a lie. And the majority of Labor MP's were caught out on the press release. If that isn't a sure sign of policy on the run, I don't know what is. Can you, the Australian people trust such a deceitful man whose record or failures will never be surpassed?
Edited.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/easy-money-in-a-desperate-trade/story-e6freuy9-1225852509157
Well it's official. No Hawker Briton spin, no Krudd lies. Straight from the horses mouth.
""Before, the reasons it stopped was John Howard absolutely, he deterred some boats by force and Nauru Island where they [boat people] knew they could get stuck for one or two or three years.
Now [with] new laws it's easy and quick, maybe weeks or a few months. You can call people on the mobile, you stay two or three weeks at Christmas Island then they call others."
Wake up people! Krudd is no Prime Minister. He was a junior bureaucrat who was polished by a spin team. In opposition it's easy to Blah Blah because your not running the country. As a Goss's chief of staff, he didn't take the can if things went wrong. As PM and supposedly the man in charge, he has FAILED. Gough Whitlam, you may now hand over the throne of worst government ever.
More Julia waste, spin and Bulls***t.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_saps_who_paid_now_see_what_rudd_did_their_dough_on/
Well, we're going to have a Batts enquiry, now a BER enquiry. Hey Julia, Can we have some more enquiries while your at it on other Labor Failures?
Enquiry into Fuel watch
Enquiry into Grocery watch
Enquiry into Border protection
Enquiry into failed Copenhagen summit.
Gee whiz Julia, that just about covers ALL of you and Krudds 2007 election slogan!
Education revolution? You have got to be kidding. More like education revulsion.
And what about getting mums and dads to watch the tests when the teachers strike? THAT'S revolutionary
Julia! $600,000 sheds and parents teaching in between running the canteen.
Throw your hands up in the air Mums and Dads of Australia.
VIVA LA REVOLUTION LA GILLARD STYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, we're going to have a Batts enquiry, now a BER enquiry. Hey Julia, Can we have some more enquiries while your at it on other Labor Failures?
Enquiry into Fuel watch
Enquiry into Grocery watch
Enquiry into Border protection
Enquiry into failed Copenhagen summit.
Gee whiz Julia, that just about covers ALL of you and Krudds 2007 election slogan!
Education revolution? You have got to be kidding. More like education revulsion.
And what about getting mums and dads to watch the tests when the teachers strike? THAT'S revolutionary
Julia! $600,000 sheds and parents teaching in between running the canteen.
Throw your hands up in the air Mums and Dads of Australia.
VIVA LA REVOLUTION LA GILLARD STYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kevin Rudd: working for me's a dog year
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/is-kevin-rudd-too-hard-to-work-for/story-e6freuzr-1225853812539
Now anybody who has been in the workforce knows that the sign of a bad company is a high turnover rate. It could be anything from a bad boss to low pay to even bad working conditions. When it happens to the Federal Government, you know something is rotten to the core. Rudd claims he was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. We're just wondering Kevvy when your going to bloody well start? If your staff can't stand working for you, how are we the people supposed to work with you? Fair working conditions, be a good boss, kill of the Nasty work choices? How about you stop pissing in our pockets, and practice what you preach? I don't recall John Howard having this issue.
On a side not, I urge readers to read some of the online comments from people at the Daily Telegraph website. No matter how badly Krudd or his minsters stuff up, there are always die hard Laborites willing to back him.
How can a government work so hard and still make a country go backwards? NSW Labor has their hand up "ooh ooh, I know the answer!
Now anybody who has been in the workforce knows that the sign of a bad company is a high turnover rate. It could be anything from a bad boss to low pay to even bad working conditions. When it happens to the Federal Government, you know something is rotten to the core. Rudd claims he was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. We're just wondering Kevvy when your going to bloody well start? If your staff can't stand working for you, how are we the people supposed to work with you? Fair working conditions, be a good boss, kill of the Nasty work choices? How about you stop pissing in our pockets, and practice what you preach? I don't recall John Howard having this issue.
On a side not, I urge readers to read some of the online comments from people at the Daily Telegraph website. No matter how badly Krudd or his minsters stuff up, there are always die hard Laborites willing to back him.
How can a government work so hard and still make a country go backwards? NSW Labor has their hand up "ooh ooh, I know the answer!
Krudd raids the Future fund, Fiscal conservative my A**!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/kevin-rudd-raids-future-funds/story-e6frgczf-1225851598579
Oh wasn't this one kept quiet by Mr " I'm a fiscal conservative"!
It's not enough that you and your cronies wiped the surplus and got Australia into record debt not seen seen since the second world war, now your raiding the Future Fund that Howard set up for our kids future. All I can say is this is obscene and disgusting! Pretty soon Rudd and co won't have anywhere to get extra funds except from "working families". What is even more obscene is Gillard saying the following. Quote-""The Rudd government took the decision that, after more than a decade of neglect of universities by the Howard government, that in the midst of a global recession it would invest in our higher education to help keep Australians in work."
What neglect Julia? Are you serious with this crap? Since the Global Recession is over, I guess Labor should now leave the fund alone. And that's not going to happen anytime soon is it! Why is it that every bad decision made by Labor, they have to trot out the same response. Julia, in one breath you blame Howard, in another you use his vision in the Future Fund to spend like a druken sailor? WTF? Although it was a global recession, Australia was always going to be mildly effected because of the Howard years. Good surplus, no debt, low unemployment, Australia's large resources, Low interest rate, stable Banks. Yet Rudd and co seem to think they were the great saviors of keeping us out of recession. As was said to the Australian public in 2007, now is not the time to hand over the economy to a L plate government. Well we did, and the car wreck of our economy is the result. With an L Plate, you need a good instructor and this mob couldn't instruct a 2 year old to crap in a potty!
Oh wasn't this one kept quiet by Mr " I'm a fiscal conservative"!
It's not enough that you and your cronies wiped the surplus and got Australia into record debt not seen seen since the second world war, now your raiding the Future Fund that Howard set up for our kids future. All I can say is this is obscene and disgusting! Pretty soon Rudd and co won't have anywhere to get extra funds except from "working families". What is even more obscene is Gillard saying the following. Quote-""The Rudd government took the decision that, after more than a decade of neglect of universities by the Howard government, that in the midst of a global recession it would invest in our higher education to help keep Australians in work."
What neglect Julia? Are you serious with this crap? Since the Global Recession is over, I guess Labor should now leave the fund alone. And that's not going to happen anytime soon is it! Why is it that every bad decision made by Labor, they have to trot out the same response. Julia, in one breath you blame Howard, in another you use his vision in the Future Fund to spend like a druken sailor? WTF? Although it was a global recession, Australia was always going to be mildly effected because of the Howard years. Good surplus, no debt, low unemployment, Australia's large resources, Low interest rate, stable Banks. Yet Rudd and co seem to think they were the great saviors of keeping us out of recession. As was said to the Australian public in 2007, now is not the time to hand over the economy to a L plate government. Well we did, and the car wreck of our economy is the result. With an L Plate, you need a good instructor and this mob couldn't instruct a 2 year old to crap in a potty!
Just for Julia, who when in opposition, was scathing of waste.
National Broadband Network. Another disaster in waiting
http://www.shareswatch.com.au/blog/opinion/the-national-broadband-network-from-debacle-to-disaster/
Kevin07, with his promise of a National Broadband Network costing now only costs 43 Billion dollars, and with NO Business case set up! I felt sick reading this. How did a union hack end up running communications? And where is the 43 Billion coming from? It will have to be borrowed of course. The surplus is blown, the budget is in the red, the Future Fund is being raided as we speak. And if the price to connect to this NBN is too high, people will not join. The family budget these days has to stretch even more to cover the cost of higher living expenses, mortgage, electricity, to name a few. This has been poorly though out from the start. It needs to be scrapped until a proper business model is in place. But politically, with so many Kevin07 policies either sick, dead or dying, he can't afford another one to bite the dust. So the end result will be MORE billions wasted. Kevvy old boy, it isn't monopoly money old chum. It came out of OUR wages. If you can't be a "Fiscal Conservative" then resign and bloody stop using it like chicken feed!
Kevin07, with his promise of a National Broadband Network costing now only costs 43 Billion dollars, and with NO Business case set up! I felt sick reading this. How did a union hack end up running communications? And where is the 43 Billion coming from? It will have to be borrowed of course. The surplus is blown, the budget is in the red, the Future Fund is being raided as we speak. And if the price to connect to this NBN is too high, people will not join. The family budget these days has to stretch even more to cover the cost of higher living expenses, mortgage, electricity, to name a few. This has been poorly though out from the start. It needs to be scrapped until a proper business model is in place. But politically, with so many Kevin07 policies either sick, dead or dying, he can't afford another one to bite the dust. So the end result will be MORE billions wasted. Kevvy old boy, it isn't monopoly money old chum. It came out of OUR wages. If you can't be a "Fiscal Conservative" then resign and bloody stop using it like chicken feed!
Krudd Government promise to build 260 new childcare centres scrapped
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/rudd-government-promise-to-build-260-new-childcare-centres-scrapped/story-e6frf7jo-1225856942306
Ho hum, another day, another promise down the Krudd drain that is his promises. Seriously, I can't have ONE day of buying the daily paper without some Krudd stuff up, Illegal boat, scrapped promise or failed policy. How can people continue blindly support a party that constantly fails? Why isn't the media drilling Krudd and his merry gang of failures? l The media and the Krudd sorely liked to grill Howard on every policy, despite a track record of success. Krudd now has a track record of failure par excellence. Can somebody email me a Kevin Rudd success that benefited the nation? So far google hits have eluded me.
Ho hum, another day, another promise down the Krudd drain that is his promises. Seriously, I can't have ONE day of buying the daily paper without some Krudd stuff up, Illegal boat, scrapped promise or failed policy. How can people continue blindly support a party that constantly fails? Why isn't the media drilling Krudd and his merry gang of failures? l The media and the Krudd sorely liked to grill Howard on every policy, despite a track record of success. Krudd now has a track record of failure par excellence. Can somebody email me a Kevin Rudd success that benefited the nation? So far google hits have eluded me.
The Insulation scheme joind Fuelwatch and Grocerywatch
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/shonky-home-insulation-scheme-scrapped/story-e6frea6u-1225856883216
Yet another Krudd promise bites the dust. And with good reason as this scheme was ill advised from start. It was given to a minister who's previous experience was screaming his lungs out and dancing like a pole was lodged where it shouldn't be.
The scheme will be remembered for the deaths of 4 young men, the burning down of over a hundred houses, the 1000's of houses whose roofs were electrified and the lost jobs. But at least it lasted longer than Fuelwatch and Grocerywatch.
Labor will hope that this now all goes away and people concentrate on his hospital takeover. Be afraid people, be very afraid that this inept, dangerous government is now getting into the healing business. Stay tuned for a hospital blog soon.
Yet another Krudd promise bites the dust. And with good reason as this scheme was ill advised from start. It was given to a minister who's previous experience was screaming his lungs out and dancing like a pole was lodged where it shouldn't be.
The scheme will be remembered for the deaths of 4 young men, the burning down of over a hundred houses, the 1000's of houses whose roofs were electrified and the lost jobs. But at least it lasted longer than Fuelwatch and Grocerywatch.
Labor will hope that this now all goes away and people concentrate on his hospital takeover. Be afraid people, be very afraid that this inept, dangerous government is now getting into the healing business. Stay tuned for a hospital blog soon.
Australia's Hospitals, get this right or else Mr Rudd.
So far with Kevin07's election promises, the plan so far has been to give a minister a bucket of taxpayers money and implement the policy as fast as possible. This had lead to policy failure on a grand scale that no Liberal or Labor government in history can compare to. The problem is that the Rudd government has no skills or experience in government. This was part of the charm of the 07 election. Rudd and his team were fresh, new and with policies that seemed to speak to the public. I remember at the time when I voted that if he could fulfill his policies that he would rise to be a great PM. As did most who voted for Labor. The problem was, and Howard and Costello stated this, that the current Labor party were running on L plates. With no experience on how to run a portfolio when in government, even Rudd has never run a ministry, there would be a few stuff ups. But few could of entailed how badly each policy would fail. Die hard Labor supporters are now trotting out tired old reason on what Howard did, instead of looking at their party, which has been in Government for over 2 years.
Cut out the spin, the reason and the justification and look at the facts which are undisputable. Howard left with Zero debt, Large surplus, Low interest rates, low unemployment. These are the facts that no spin will change. Now Labor has embarked on it's 2007 election promise. It's only not 100% and not mid 2009. Had Rudd gone to the 2007 election with the hospital policy he is now touting, I doubt the voting public would have been so enthusiastic. 30% GST is gone, which will impact other areas beside health. We the people will feel the brunt of that loss, though higher taxes, pure and simple.
Health is a traditional strength of Labor but there are signs of how Rudd will go.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/federal-election-2007-news/alp-defence-policy-aimed-at-family/2007/11/12/1194766590340.html
This is the 2007 election promise to build 12 defence health centres to provide free health care to defence families. So far 7 have been built, all up north. The majority of defence personnel are located in areas where health centres will not be built.
The majority of defence personnel have not benefited from this. At the time it was assumed that all defence families would be able to receive health care. And this is a trial, it is not set in stone yet. Defence personnel already feel that they have been lied to.
And it gets worse.
http://www.nolamarino.com.au/view/speeches/defence/
Here are some extracts worth reading.
A Rudd Labor Government will progressively extend free health care currently provided to ADF personnel to ADF dependent spouses and children.
Labor will begin this with a $33.1 million investment starting at 12 Defence Family Health Care Clinics, with a focus on remote bases locations and major regional centres.
Instead of honouring this promise to invest $33.1 million to start those 12 Defence family healthcare clinics, with a focus on remote base locations and major regional centres, defence families in these limited locations are now having to source their own doctor and dentist. The commitment to provide Defence healthcare clinics in Townsville and Darwin has also been scrapped, with the two Defence family healthcare clinics promised at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville and Robertson Barracks in Darwin replaced by a plan in which defence families will have to access health department GP super clinics in Darwin and Townsville. I also note that the government's plan mentions only five of the 10 rural and remote Defence locations. I can only conclude that this means it will not deliver on its promise to Defence personnel in Townsville, Edinburgh, Elizabeth North, Amberley, Williamtown and Darwin.
Labor promised his $33.1 million investment starting with those 12 Defence family healthcare clinics, with a focus on remote base locations and major regional centres. The fact is that only $12.2 million over four years is now allocated for a pilot program, and this is $20.9 million short of the election promise. This means that only $2.4 million is allocated for the 2008- 09 year. We have only four to five months left out of the year. This is forced savings indeed. Labor's plan for Defence acknowledged that posting ADF personnel to remote locations may mean that those families can face significant difficulties obtaining access to general medical and dental care for dependants. I assume the government means those Australians living in metropolitan areas and not those living in regional and rural and remote areas, struggling to access the sort of health care that Australians elsewhere enjoy. I also note that the allocation of $2.4 million limits dental care to $300 per dependant and the families must source their own doctors and dentists.
Oh and did you know that the defence mimister at the time was implicated in corruption regarding defence health?
http://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-payments-to-labor-mp-listed-in-liu-files-20100202-nb49.html
"Mr Fitzgibbon resigned from Cabinet last June after it was revealed his brother, NIB Health Funds chief Mark Fitzgibbon, had used his office to lobby for defence health contracts."
Now lets look at the GP superclinics that Rudd was supposed to build.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/rudd-fails-to-deliver-on-35-gp-super-clinics/story-e6frg6n6-1225808834233
Policy failure on Health in its purest form. I, like all Australians, hope that the health reforms Australia desperately needs comes to fruition. I have serious doubts that This government can do it. The track records of all policies so far is not endearing to us all. Time will tell as health reform will be a long road. Quick fixes are doomed to fail, something Rudd should know all too well by now.
One thing we all should remember. This is a man who closed 2200 hospital beds while in government in Queensland.
That's right 2200. And this man goes on about a historic 1300 new beds from the future health reform. Only 900 more needed and we're back to were he started in QLD before he was appointed the name "Dr death". And it only costs us 30% of our GST. Simply marvelous Kevin!
2007 Election promises taken off Labor website.......why?
A quick check of the Labor website reveals the 2007 election promises have been removed. Now why would you do that?
If a party had successfully followed up on it's election promises, I thought they would be in big bold words spashed all over their official site. I guess the reason would be that Labor doesn't want a record of failure still available on their site. With an election looming, most tech savvy people will be going to the site for a look. And hey! look at all those failed or scrapped election pledges! Can't have that says Hawker Briton, so off to the deletion bin. A copy of the Labor website with the pledges has been archived at the National Library of Australia but it seems to be very difficult to find.
No matter, here are the promises from both parties.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/79181
Check out Labor's Pledges, all centred around Krudds infamous pledge.
"Today I am saying loud and clear that this sort of reckless spending must stop. I am determined that any commitments I make are first and foremost economically responsible"
Sure glad he followed THAT one up and stopped the reckless spending!
If a party had successfully followed up on it's election promises, I thought they would be in big bold words spashed all over their official site. I guess the reason would be that Labor doesn't want a record of failure still available on their site. With an election looming, most tech savvy people will be going to the site for a look. And hey! look at all those failed or scrapped election pledges! Can't have that says Hawker Briton, so off to the deletion bin. A copy of the Labor website with the pledges has been archived at the National Library of Australia but it seems to be very difficult to find.
No matter, here are the promises from both parties.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/79181
Check out Labor's Pledges, all centred around Krudds infamous pledge.
"Today I am saying loud and clear that this sort of reckless spending must stop. I am determined that any commitments I make are first and foremost economically responsible"
Sure glad he followed THAT one up and stopped the reckless spending!
Problem with change and the disasterous results.
Political parties come in and out of power all the time. It can be for a number of reasons, whether it be incompetence, arrogance or the public feels it's time for a change. Paul Keating was voted out due to perceived arrogance, Others like Kim Beazley didn't get elected due to a perceived softness as was John Hewson. Mark Latham was in with a chance right at the end until the infamous handshake. We dodged a bullet then that's for sure. Howard was in power for 11 years. He accomplished this by eliminating 96 Billion in Debt left from Keating. He cleaned up the waterfront, minimised waste and set the change for reforms across the board. HE was a formidable leader and Labor knew it had little chance to dislodge him. They had a succession of leaders with Beazley, Crean, Latham and the Rudd. Then came a feeling in the air in Australia that it was time for a change. Howard was coming across as a little bit too arrogant and self assured as our PM.
All it would take would be very unpopular policy to be introduced and Labor knew its fortunes could change.
Then along came workchoices. It was ill advised and not properly explained. The Australian Public didn't like it and the Liberal party failed listen to voice of discontent. Anybody who actually researched workchoices would of found it wasn't that bad, but it did need some changes so people were not disadvantaged. The along came the Famous Labor spin team and the union scare tactics. Gillard herself said no one will be worse off under OUR policy, which of course turned out to be not true. Australia was ready for a change and the workchoices scare campaign was the catalyst for the election victory of 2007. Most Australians were not too concerned. Howard left no debt, high surplus, low unemployment and low interest rates. Compared to the mess Keating left, we were in good shape. What better time for change and handover to a fresh new image that was Krudd. When you change anything in your life, there should be a good reason. You should never change for the sake of change. Could you image changing your partner of 11 years just for the sake of change?
Ask yourself this? If Howard had scrapped workchoices, would Rudd have got in? Would we still have a surplus and zero debt? We wouldn't have any hospital agreement because the states have now proven that it is not about health it is about money. Howard was not the type to throw buckets of cash unless there was real change. The so called health reform is nothing more that changing the balance figures. Rudd on the other hand is a cheque book PM. Problem you say? where's my cheque book. The results are plain to see except from certain media types, who continue to be in denial and continue to spuik Krudds brand of government. You change when things are bad, not when things are good, simple as that. And when you change to an untried government with no experience in running ministries let alone a country, you are left with a mess.
But this time it's a mess that makes Keating's effort look positively brilliant.
All it would take would be very unpopular policy to be introduced and Labor knew its fortunes could change.
Then along came workchoices. It was ill advised and not properly explained. The Australian Public didn't like it and the Liberal party failed listen to voice of discontent. Anybody who actually researched workchoices would of found it wasn't that bad, but it did need some changes so people were not disadvantaged. The along came the Famous Labor spin team and the union scare tactics. Gillard herself said no one will be worse off under OUR policy, which of course turned out to be not true. Australia was ready for a change and the workchoices scare campaign was the catalyst for the election victory of 2007. Most Australians were not too concerned. Howard left no debt, high surplus, low unemployment and low interest rates. Compared to the mess Keating left, we were in good shape. What better time for change and handover to a fresh new image that was Krudd. When you change anything in your life, there should be a good reason. You should never change for the sake of change. Could you image changing your partner of 11 years just for the sake of change?
Ask yourself this? If Howard had scrapped workchoices, would Rudd have got in? Would we still have a surplus and zero debt? We wouldn't have any hospital agreement because the states have now proven that it is not about health it is about money. Howard was not the type to throw buckets of cash unless there was real change. The so called health reform is nothing more that changing the balance figures. Rudd on the other hand is a cheque book PM. Problem you say? where's my cheque book. The results are plain to see except from certain media types, who continue to be in denial and continue to spuik Krudds brand of government. You change when things are bad, not when things are good, simple as that. And when you change to an untried government with no experience in running ministries let alone a country, you are left with a mess.
But this time it's a mess that makes Keating's effort look positively brilliant.
Greatest moral challenge of our time....delayed!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/kevin-rudd-delays-emissions-trading-scheme-until-kyoto-expires-in-2012/story-e6frg6xf-1225858894753
Ruddy has delayed the ETS to 2012. What is ironic is this man lambasted Howard for delaying an emission trading scheme
until 2011 if elected. Mr " I didn't realise it would be so hard in government", Rudd was brutally critical of Howard during the election on his scheme which it turns out, Rudd is more and more copying! Howard must be laughing as even over 2 years past the election, Krudd and co are still doing the "me too" policy attitude. If I was Howard, I would be checking his house for bugs and watch for vans with aerials parked outside his home. The election is looming and Rudd needs some policies and with that bastard Abbott not releasing any polices until he is good and ready, Rudd must be in panic!
All jokes aside, this is another election promise fizzle that Rudd will look to blame anyone but himself. Copenhagen was a failure, the Australian people do not want a "great big new tax" and the senate told him where to go. I find this quote very funny " Tony Abbott's alternative policy would cost more, achieve less and had not been funded."
Hey Krudd, your policies so far have cost ALOT more than you stated, achieved sweet bugger all and are funded by borrowing , seeing as you already blew the surplus! Talk about the word hypocrite!!People in glass houses mate, I sure hope you have lots of band aids for the shards of glass in your skull!
I guess the greatest moral challenge of our time isn't that great as it can be delayed a couple of years. Onto the next "Top Priority" policy please Krudd.
What is hilariously funny is the now minister for Climate buildings Penny Wong, was always annoyingly demanding Abbott release his his Climate change policy. "Tony Abbot has 7 days to release this or Tony Abbott has 21 days to do that.
Well Penny, you have 3 years to come up with a new policy, and judging by your governments track record, you'll need every minute and STILL come with a dud!.
Penny Wong - Minister for Climate buildings
Peter Garrett- Minister for potplants inside
Ruddy has delayed the ETS to 2012. What is ironic is this man lambasted Howard for delaying an emission trading scheme
until 2011 if elected. Mr " I didn't realise it would be so hard in government", Rudd was brutally critical of Howard during the election on his scheme which it turns out, Rudd is more and more copying! Howard must be laughing as even over 2 years past the election, Krudd and co are still doing the "me too" policy attitude. If I was Howard, I would be checking his house for bugs and watch for vans with aerials parked outside his home. The election is looming and Rudd needs some policies and with that bastard Abbott not releasing any polices until he is good and ready, Rudd must be in panic!
All jokes aside, this is another election promise fizzle that Rudd will look to blame anyone but himself. Copenhagen was a failure, the Australian people do not want a "great big new tax" and the senate told him where to go. I find this quote very funny " Tony Abbott's alternative policy would cost more, achieve less and had not been funded."
Hey Krudd, your policies so far have cost ALOT more than you stated, achieved sweet bugger all and are funded by borrowing , seeing as you already blew the surplus! Talk about the word hypocrite!!People in glass houses mate, I sure hope you have lots of band aids for the shards of glass in your skull!
I guess the greatest moral challenge of our time isn't that great as it can be delayed a couple of years. Onto the next "Top Priority" policy please Krudd.
What is hilariously funny is the now minister for Climate buildings Penny Wong, was always annoyingly demanding Abbott release his his Climate change policy. "Tony Abbot has 7 days to release this or Tony Abbott has 21 days to do that.
Well Penny, you have 3 years to come up with a new policy, and judging by your governments track record, you'll need every minute and STILL come with a dud!.
Penny Wong - Minister for Climate buildings
Peter Garrett- Minister for potplants inside
"There will be no changes to Superannuation laws, not one jolt, not one tiddle"
PART 2
http://www.news.com.au/money/superannuation/self-managed-super-funds-face-ban-on-exotic-assets/story-e6frfmdi-1225860459074
Well. here we go again with a possible double election pledge failure. Scroll back up and this election pledge has already been broken. So hey, why not break it even more. It's not like keeping election promises is one of Krudds forte's.
As one person has mentioned, the real reason these assets would be removed from self managed fund is because these assets don't earn income along the way therefore the government collects no tax. Tradition investments earn 15% tax, so why wouldn't Kruddy have a little bit of a jolt, a little bit of a tiddle at this idea?. Heads up to the morons tinkering with this. Self Managed super means exactly that. SELF MANAGED. How it is managed is none of the damn governments business. if you don't get your cut because of the investments chosen then stiff shit. This is only a recommendation so far and I hope Krudd tosses it, but Rudd say he wouldn't touch Super and he did, time will tell if he does again.
Well. here we go again with a possible double election pledge failure. Scroll back up and this election pledge has already been broken. So hey, why not break it even more. It's not like keeping election promises is one of Krudds forte's.
As one person has mentioned, the real reason these assets would be removed from self managed fund is because these assets don't earn income along the way therefore the government collects no tax. Tradition investments earn 15% tax, so why wouldn't Kruddy have a little bit of a jolt, a little bit of a tiddle at this idea?. Heads up to the morons tinkering with this. Self Managed super means exactly that. SELF MANAGED. How it is managed is none of the damn governments business. if you don't get your cut because of the investments chosen then stiff shit. This is only a recommendation so far and I hope Krudd tosses it, but Rudd say he wouldn't touch Super and he did, time will tell if he does again.
Ken Henry Tax review. Proud of what exactly?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/rudds-reform-a-minor-tweak/story-e6freuzi-1225861326956
So this was the big bad tax review that was labelled as the biggest shakeup sine WWII. What a big dissapointment , typical of Krudd. Alot of hot air, grand statements but little substance. In 138 recommendations, Ruddy and Swan will implement bugger all. What a waste of taxpayers money. What was in this review that could not be handled in the budget statement. All this has done is make Krudd look even more foolish than he really is. Taxing the Mining industry is appalling
Rudd Swann and all the idiotic Labor supporters have it in their heads that they alone are responsible for saving us from the GFC. Their egos couldn't possibly conceive that the mining industry sales to china and Howards legacy were responsible. Oh no! it was the Rudd and Swan super pollies with oodles of cash to splurge around. Now ask this, if a second dip arrives and the world enters another GFC, especially with what is happening in Greece, how is Australia poised to enter another GFC? This time no surplus, lots of debt, the Labor inflation Genie is scrathing at the cork, billions and billions in debt and wasted, and now we are going to tax the crap out of the very companies that got us through. I sure hope peoples super funds haven't invested too much into mining companies, otherwise your going to be in for a nasty surprise.
This is the biggest load of stupidity any politician born under the Southern Cross has come up with ever! It is painfully obvious that increasing the GST would of been political suicide. So to pay for all those school sheds, to pay for the Plasma TV's, to pay for Batts fiasco and lost billions in ALL Labor programs, we tax the miners. Why should they pay up for Krudds brand of stupid government. The "reckless Spending" he was so worried about when in opposition has come home to roost, except it's HIS reckless spending that has buggered up everything.
To sum it all up and trust me, there is more to come on this issue, Rudd and Swan are "proud of their achievements"
If that isn't a wake up call to Australia to ditch Dumb and Dumber then I don't know what is.
So this was the big bad tax review that was labelled as the biggest shakeup sine WWII. What a big dissapointment , typical of Krudd. Alot of hot air, grand statements but little substance. In 138 recommendations, Ruddy and Swan will implement bugger all. What a waste of taxpayers money. What was in this review that could not be handled in the budget statement. All this has done is make Krudd look even more foolish than he really is. Taxing the Mining industry is appalling
Rudd Swann and all the idiotic Labor supporters have it in their heads that they alone are responsible for saving us from the GFC. Their egos couldn't possibly conceive that the mining industry sales to china and Howards legacy were responsible. Oh no! it was the Rudd and Swan super pollies with oodles of cash to splurge around. Now ask this, if a second dip arrives and the world enters another GFC, especially with what is happening in Greece, how is Australia poised to enter another GFC? This time no surplus, lots of debt, the Labor inflation Genie is scrathing at the cork, billions and billions in debt and wasted, and now we are going to tax the crap out of the very companies that got us through. I sure hope peoples super funds haven't invested too much into mining companies, otherwise your going to be in for a nasty surprise.
This is the biggest load of stupidity any politician born under the Southern Cross has come up with ever! It is painfully obvious that increasing the GST would of been political suicide. So to pay for all those school sheds, to pay for the Plasma TV's, to pay for Batts fiasco and lost billions in ALL Labor programs, we tax the miners. Why should they pay up for Krudds brand of stupid government. The "reckless Spending" he was so worried about when in opposition has come home to roost, except it's HIS reckless spending that has buggered up everything.
To sum it all up and trust me, there is more to come on this issue, Rudd and Swan are "proud of their achievements"
If that isn't a wake up call to Australia to ditch Dumb and Dumber then I don't know what is.
Onya Therese, Give Krudd a hand , he needs it!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/therese-helps-kevin-run-the-country/story-e6frewt0-1225861024609
I will be trawling the online blogs, to read the outrage Labor supporters must be showing on an unelected person giving advice. After all, Janet Howard was simply crucified if she even hinted on talking to John on political matters. But with the Labor party, the word Hypocrite comes in brackets after the party slogan. Whether it be Julia in opposition blasting Howard on Waste then showing what REAL waste is. Whether it is Roxon blasting Abbott on running then remaining silent when Krudd spends months writing a childrens book. Whether it is Swan crapping on about inflation genie then doing everything possible to let him out of the bottle. Or whether it is Krudd blasting Howard on reckless spending then showing how to blow billions in the blink of an eye. The Labor party are masters of hypocritical behaviour. Now the PM's wife is allowed to influence policy while a Liberal PM's wife MUST keep her mouth shut. Here's a hint Therese, either Kevvy's not listening or your advice isn't working, because we the people agree with your hubby when he stated he must do better.
If I were you, I'd be watching my assets Mrs Rudd, otherwise Kevin might ask for a loan or two.
I will be trawling the online blogs, to read the outrage Labor supporters must be showing on an unelected person giving advice. After all, Janet Howard was simply crucified if she even hinted on talking to John on political matters. But with the Labor party, the word Hypocrite comes in brackets after the party slogan. Whether it be Julia in opposition blasting Howard on Waste then showing what REAL waste is. Whether it is Roxon blasting Abbott on running then remaining silent when Krudd spends months writing a childrens book. Whether it is Swan crapping on about inflation genie then doing everything possible to let him out of the bottle. Or whether it is Krudd blasting Howard on reckless spending then showing how to blow billions in the blink of an eye. The Labor party are masters of hypocritical behaviour. Now the PM's wife is allowed to influence policy while a Liberal PM's wife MUST keep her mouth shut. Here's a hint Therese, either Kevvy's not listening or your advice isn't working, because we the people agree with your hubby when he stated he must do better.
If I were you, I'd be watching my assets Mrs Rudd, otherwise Kevin might ask for a loan or two.
Swan gets upset over Hadley, calls deaths "events"
http://au.biz.yahoo.com/100503/2/2cnvc.html
Well Mr Swan and Ray Hadley certainly had a good old stoush on the radio didn't they?
Here's what Swan said over the failed Batts scheme and BER rorting. "There will be issues when you have tens of thousands of projects happening out there where events have happened," he said.
So Hadley called him over it , reminding him 4 deaths are not " events"
Swan quickly backpeddled saying "Don't put words into my mouth about the deaths."
Well Wayne that is how most people would think. You don't call the tragic loss of 4 lives events. The billion wasted can be called "Events" but not the other. Sometimes Labor should realise that spin is a very bad idea when the media doesn't comprise of a gushing Mel and Koshie.
Well Mr Swan and Ray Hadley certainly had a good old stoush on the radio didn't they?
Here's what Swan said over the failed Batts scheme and BER rorting. "There will be issues when you have tens of thousands of projects happening out there where events have happened," he said.
So Hadley called him over it , reminding him 4 deaths are not " events"
Swan quickly backpeddled saying "Don't put words into my mouth about the deaths."
Well Wayne that is how most people would think. You don't call the tragic loss of 4 lives events. The billion wasted can be called "Events" but not the other. Sometimes Labor should realise that spin is a very bad idea when the media doesn't comprise of a gushing Mel and Koshie.
Another interest rate rise. Howards fault now Krudds too!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/money-matters/interest-rates-up-025-per-cent/story-fn300aev-1225862108274
What was it that Krudd smugly said while trying to get elected in 2007?
"Mr Howard has already presided over ten interest rate rises in a row. Six interest rate rises since the last election when he pro mised working families they would remain at record lows. A broken promise now costing first homebuyers nearly $3000 a year more on an average mortgage."
How many is that now Krudd? 7 interest rate rises in a row. And now with the inflation genie wearing a Kevin 07 T-shirt
there will be more. You crapped on about broken promises mate, now your promises are crap as well. Now with the nations Billions of dollars in debt thanks to your reckless spending which you promised to reign in, our interest rates will climb and climb. Just like a typical Labor government. For those who lived with the Keating years of high rates, we are getting very nervous. How many broken promises can one man accomplish yet still be popular? I guess Krudds new polling answers that question. Working families my A**
What was it that Krudd smugly said while trying to get elected in 2007?
"Mr Howard has already presided over ten interest rate rises in a row. Six interest rate rises since the last election when he pro mised working families they would remain at record lows. A broken promise now costing first homebuyers nearly $3000 a year more on an average mortgage."
How many is that now Krudd? 7 interest rate rises in a row. And now with the inflation genie wearing a Kevin 07 T-shirt
there will be more. You crapped on about broken promises mate, now your promises are crap as well. Now with the nations Billions of dollars in debt thanks to your reckless spending which you promised to reign in, our interest rates will climb and climb. Just like a typical Labor government. For those who lived with the Keating years of high rates, we are getting very nervous. How many broken promises can one man accomplish yet still be popular? I guess Krudds new polling answers that question. Working families my A**
PM's rating dives faster than a Krudd promise
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/unpopular-pm-kevin-rudd-takes-poll-pounding/story-e6freuzr-1225861778972
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/simonbenson/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/rudd_hits_new_lows/#commentsmore
Lets see Rudd’s approval rating for the past 12 months: 71% 62% 66% 56% 57% 55% 52% 53% 46%.
You could probably match the rating with a failed policy or broken promise.
Didn't Kevvy take notice of the Rose bay sign "Kevin Rudd Sux" Mr Rudd, you cannot break so many promises
cause so much heartache, creat so much debt and remain at 71% The electorate is speaking loud and clear, that WE have had enough! We want you to stand up for something! We want the Spin to stop, the reckless spending to halt and for you to follow your 07 promises. Seeing as your ego has no intention of doing so, we will vote you out unless you pull your finger out. You outed one of the best Prime Ministers this country has ever seen based on spin and lies. Hopefully, Australia has learned a valuable lesson and never fall for an American style election campaign again. The only thing missing from your TV appearances in 2007 was a saxaphone!
If you think 46% is as low as you'll go, think again! Call an election quick Krudd before you hit the low 20's and Joolyia taps you on your shoulder. But don't worry mate, the BER has tainted her spin machine as well. John Howard was a statesman, your a snake oil salesman and we all got sick from it. Please head off to the UN asap and take Swanny the Treasurer from hell with you.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/simonbenson/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/rudd_hits_new_lows/#commentsmore
Lets see Rudd’s approval rating for the past 12 months: 71% 62% 66% 56% 57% 55% 52% 53% 46%.
You could probably match the rating with a failed policy or broken promise.
Didn't Kevvy take notice of the Rose bay sign "Kevin Rudd Sux" Mr Rudd, you cannot break so many promises
cause so much heartache, creat so much debt and remain at 71% The electorate is speaking loud and clear, that WE have had enough! We want you to stand up for something! We want the Spin to stop, the reckless spending to halt and for you to follow your 07 promises. Seeing as your ego has no intention of doing so, we will vote you out unless you pull your finger out. You outed one of the best Prime Ministers this country has ever seen based on spin and lies. Hopefully, Australia has learned a valuable lesson and never fall for an American style election campaign again. The only thing missing from your TV appearances in 2007 was a saxaphone!
If you think 46% is as low as you'll go, think again! Call an election quick Krudd before you hit the low 20's and Joolyia taps you on your shoulder. But don't worry mate, the BER has tainted her spin machine as well. John Howard was a statesman, your a snake oil salesman and we all got sick from it. Please head off to the UN asap and take Swanny the Treasurer from hell with you.
The Supertax gains momentum, stocks fall, good one Krudd
http://au.biz.yahoo.com/100505/31/2cpi4.html
So Wayne Swan believes the mining industry is being extreme? Maybe he should call it an "event".
You know, the word he uses to downgrade issues like Billions wasted, 4 deaths etc etc.
BHP down 8% Rio Tinto down 6%. People being told not to invest in mining shares. Future project may be put on hold.
Hey it's all minor according to Swan.
And according to Krudd, the industry will be STRONGER for it?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/rudd-may-give-ground-to-miners-as-industry-holds-crisis-talks/story-e6frez7r-1225862349627
So far 16 BILLION has been wiped from the mining industry market since Rudd figured out how to pay off his
huge debt. And those interest rates continue to rise, while the Banks get a free ride. Thanks for getting us through the GFC miners, now cough up da billions, cuz we did blew dat lot on TV's and Batts an shit.
weez da fiscal conservative kings, but we do need da bucks, cuz der be an election coming bro and KRudd is gunna spin the wheel of handouts.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. God help our mining industry because Rudd and Swan are no help to anybody or anything.
Maybe Western Australia should reconsider the secession of 1933 referendum? Now that would be a great Krudd lecagy!
Now something Labor and it's fan club can't ignore or spin is that other countries will rejoice this decision. Canada has already publicly stated the new tax will make them more competitive. And they won't be the only ones. Cannot people see the stupidity of this tax? Cannot people see that the mining industry has been the cornerstone of Australia's economy for decades? You mess with it and the results will rebound to every corner of this country. Employment, shares, super, earnings but to name a few. And why the hell would you let Krudd anywhere near it? The man hasn't successfully accomplished one policy. He can't insulate a house without burning it down or killing people. He can't even run a friggin website and now the Labor faithful are charging into the heart of Australian ecoonic power, to recoup BILLIONS they wasted. I say a Nationwide protest in every Capital city main street to tell this "Fiscal conservative" to F*** Off is so needed
it's the greatest moral need of our time!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/rudd-denies-abbotts-claim-that-henry-mining-tax-will-kill-boom/story-e6frgczf-1225863739236
“I noticed there are a few billionaires out there in the last 24 hours saying that they are going to have a real problem with this,” Mr Rudd said during a visit to Geelong.
“I'm pretty interested in what working families need for better super to have a decent retirement.”
Krudd you moron, Our super is being hit bigtime and were not F***** Billionaires you idiot! The very next sentence he states "better super", the very one your killing you dork. And oh no he's trotted out " working families" Be afraid, be very afraid.
This man needs a mental health check pronto!
So Wayne Swan believes the mining industry is being extreme? Maybe he should call it an "event".
You know, the word he uses to downgrade issues like Billions wasted, 4 deaths etc etc.
BHP down 8% Rio Tinto down 6%. People being told not to invest in mining shares. Future project may be put on hold.
Hey it's all minor according to Swan.
And according to Krudd, the industry will be STRONGER for it?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/rudd-may-give-ground-to-miners-as-industry-holds-crisis-talks/story-e6frez7r-1225862349627
So far 16 BILLION has been wiped from the mining industry market since Rudd figured out how to pay off his
huge debt. And those interest rates continue to rise, while the Banks get a free ride. Thanks for getting us through the GFC miners, now cough up da billions, cuz we did blew dat lot on TV's and Batts an shit.
weez da fiscal conservative kings, but we do need da bucks, cuz der be an election coming bro and KRudd is gunna spin the wheel of handouts.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. God help our mining industry because Rudd and Swan are no help to anybody or anything.
Maybe Western Australia should reconsider the secession of 1933 referendum? Now that would be a great Krudd lecagy!
Now something Labor and it's fan club can't ignore or spin is that other countries will rejoice this decision. Canada has already publicly stated the new tax will make them more competitive. And they won't be the only ones. Cannot people see the stupidity of this tax? Cannot people see that the mining industry has been the cornerstone of Australia's economy for decades? You mess with it and the results will rebound to every corner of this country. Employment, shares, super, earnings but to name a few. And why the hell would you let Krudd anywhere near it? The man hasn't successfully accomplished one policy. He can't insulate a house without burning it down or killing people. He can't even run a friggin website and now the Labor faithful are charging into the heart of Australian ecoonic power, to recoup BILLIONS they wasted. I say a Nationwide protest in every Capital city main street to tell this "Fiscal conservative" to F*** Off is so needed
it's the greatest moral need of our time!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/rudd-denies-abbotts-claim-that-henry-mining-tax-will-kill-boom/story-e6frgczf-1225863739236
“I noticed there are a few billionaires out there in the last 24 hours saying that they are going to have a real problem with this,” Mr Rudd said during a visit to Geelong.
“I'm pretty interested in what working families need for better super to have a decent retirement.”
Krudd you moron, Our super is being hit bigtime and were not F***** Billionaires you idiot! The very next sentence he states "better super", the very one your killing you dork. And oh no he's trotted out " working families" Be afraid, be very afraid.
This man needs a mental health check pronto!
KRudd warned on Batts danger, sticks head in sand.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/pms-office-warned-of-batts-deaths/story-e6freuy9-1225863894217
Where I work, ANY job with a potential risk undergoes a hazard risk assessment without fail. Everyone is briefed and a chart is used to calculate the risk. If the job falls into the high risk category where death or damage is possibly, the job does not proceed until the hazard is reduced so no injury can result. If the man in charge proceeds despite the job deemed to hazardous, he is accountable and takes full legal responsibility. This I believe is standard across the country. So why the hell did Krudd and cronies go ahead? And why are they now not facing charges? This is their baby, thought up and delivered without any plan, any hazard risk assessment or any thought to the consequences should things go wrong.
This is absolutely disgraceful, a term often used but in this case fully justified. And Krudd took over 12 months before apologising to only one of the victims familiy. And only because he was forced to. The total failure of the Batts fiasco lies fully on the head of Mr "the buck stops with me" Krudd. that's four people who lost their lives Krudd. All because as a junior bureauocrat, you shouldn't be running a lemon stand, let alone the country.
Where I work, ANY job with a potential risk undergoes a hazard risk assessment without fail. Everyone is briefed and a chart is used to calculate the risk. If the job falls into the high risk category where death or damage is possibly, the job does not proceed until the hazard is reduced so no injury can result. If the man in charge proceeds despite the job deemed to hazardous, he is accountable and takes full legal responsibility. This I believe is standard across the country. So why the hell did Krudd and cronies go ahead? And why are they now not facing charges? This is their baby, thought up and delivered without any plan, any hazard risk assessment or any thought to the consequences should things go wrong.
This is absolutely disgraceful, a term often used but in this case fully justified. And Krudd took over 12 months before apologising to only one of the victims familiy. And only because he was forced to. The total failure of the Batts fiasco lies fully on the head of Mr "the buck stops with me" Krudd. that's four people who lost their lives Krudd. All because as a junior bureauocrat, you shouldn't be running a lemon stand, let alone the country.
Krudd in opposition, some great quotes from a great hypocrite!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/federal-election-2007-news/pms-rates-pain-apology/2007/11/07/1194329272454.html
Just like Julia Gillard, who rode the high horse of highlighting waste, now some of Krudd's words as opposition leader come back to reiterate his hypocrisy. I'll cut and paste come and as I find more, I'll add them to this blog.
"Mr Howard needs to accept full, unqualified responsibility for his broken promises ... to keep interest rates low
And how many broken promises have you got in your resume pal. 1 from Howard, at least 40 from you!
"It's a difficult day for working families under pressure," Mr Rudd said.
Gee Krudd, you could be talking about right now not 2.5 years ago.
"(They are under pressure) from rising grocery prices and petrol prices and under pressure also from the increased cost of child care, and that's before you factor in Work Choices (and lost) penalty rates and overtime.
And you were going to fix all that with Fuelwatch, Grocerywatch, 260 new childcare places and scrapping working choices.
Well we all know what happened to the first 3 promises. You did scrap workchoices yet thanks to you and Julia merging awards, people were even more worse off. Good job dickhead.
"Listening to Mr Howard today, it underlines to me the extent to which Mr Howard has lost touch with working families in two key respects — in responsibility for his actions of the past and a plan for the future."
Lets see your actions of the past? The 2007 election slogan " I have a Plan" which NONE of the listed actions happened. And your plan for the future seems to be constantly changing, based on polls.
Just like Julia Gillard, who rode the high horse of highlighting waste, now some of Krudd's words as opposition leader come back to reiterate his hypocrisy. I'll cut and paste come and as I find more, I'll add them to this blog.
"Mr Howard needs to accept full, unqualified responsibility for his broken promises ... to keep interest rates low
And how many broken promises have you got in your resume pal. 1 from Howard, at least 40 from you!
"It's a difficult day for working families under pressure," Mr Rudd said.
Gee Krudd, you could be talking about right now not 2.5 years ago.
"(They are under pressure) from rising grocery prices and petrol prices and under pressure also from the increased cost of child care, and that's before you factor in Work Choices (and lost) penalty rates and overtime.
And you were going to fix all that with Fuelwatch, Grocerywatch, 260 new childcare places and scrapping working choices.
Well we all know what happened to the first 3 promises. You did scrap workchoices yet thanks to you and Julia merging awards, people were even more worse off. Good job dickhead.
"Listening to Mr Howard today, it underlines to me the extent to which Mr Howard has lost touch with working families in two key respects — in responsibility for his actions of the past and a plan for the future."
Lets see your actions of the past? The 2007 election slogan " I have a Plan" which NONE of the listed actions happened. And your plan for the future seems to be constantly changing, based on polls.
KRudd popularity worst in 10 years.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/neilsen-poll-predicts-labor-election-defeat/comments-e6freuzr-1225864320294
Kevin says that the drop in the opinion polls are due to "tough decision" his government has had to make. Kevin, you know
and the Australian people know that this has nothing to do with it. But you do have to say something to the media in the face of appalling opinion ratings. Kevin, you know it is due to the waste, the spin, the failed policies, the backflips, the arrogance and calling every bloody new policy a "revolution" Tell Hawker-Briton that we are sick of "revolutions", especially when they turn out to be nothing more than a dim lightbulb that flickers every now and then. And tell Swanny not to mention Howard and Costello in the budget pre release, saying that there won't be Howard style pre election handouts.
Mentioning Howard and Costello reminds Australia of the times when we had a surplus, border protection , and LEADERSHIP. Get over it Krudd and Swanny, Howard was in power in 2007. it is now 2010. And we were a hell of a lot better off in 2007. The opinion polls reflect that and no Kruddspeak will deflect that.
Labor supporters scream out that the reason that there was a surplus was because Howard was too miserly on our money, yet you scream out no excessive Howard handouts. So who's right big fella?
Kevin says that the drop in the opinion polls are due to "tough decision" his government has had to make. Kevin, you know
and the Australian people know that this has nothing to do with it. But you do have to say something to the media in the face of appalling opinion ratings. Kevin, you know it is due to the waste, the spin, the failed policies, the backflips, the arrogance and calling every bloody new policy a "revolution" Tell Hawker-Briton that we are sick of "revolutions", especially when they turn out to be nothing more than a dim lightbulb that flickers every now and then. And tell Swanny not to mention Howard and Costello in the budget pre release, saying that there won't be Howard style pre election handouts.
Mentioning Howard and Costello reminds Australia of the times when we had a surplus, border protection , and LEADERSHIP. Get over it Krudd and Swanny, Howard was in power in 2007. it is now 2010. And we were a hell of a lot better off in 2007. The opinion polls reflect that and no Kruddspeak will deflect that.
Labor supporters scream out that the reason that there was a surplus was because Howard was too miserly on our money, yet you scream out no excessive Howard handouts. So who's right big fella?
Hotel Australia, where the bloody hell are you?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/asylum-seekers-kept-in-4-star-motel/story-e6freuy9-1225865007556
When Krudd said he would have a more humane border protection policy, I didn't think he meant serving Pina Coladas by the pool lside! Oh Kevin you numpty, please remember "Maintain Border Security" you big fibber you.
When Krudd said he would have a more humane border protection policy, I didn't think he meant serving Pina Coladas by the pool lside! Oh Kevin you numpty, please remember "Maintain Border Security" you big fibber you.
2010 Budget, based on a tax that doesn't exist
Pardon me, but I though a budget, any budget was based on money available, money coming in, what debts need to be addressed etc etc. I didn't realise that you could balance the books based on income that may be coming in! If that's the case then my finances are looking absolutely super based on that lottery ticket I bought yesterday. I wonder if I can head on down to the bank and waive said ticket in the air and say " my deficit will be paid off sooooo much earlier"
Rudd and Swan must be joking? What if the tax doesn't get past the senate? will the deficit remain and will they blame the Liberals for it? My bloody oath they will. If it's one thing the Australian public has learned is that "The buck stops with me" wasn't really meant, sort of like "fiscal conservative"
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/simonbenson/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/rudd_puts_his_faith_in_the_china_syndrome/
In Simon Benson's blog the following paragraph is very telling
"The former Labor party boss Tim Gartrell gloated in 2007 that when they decided to try and cast Kevin Rudd as an economic conservative, it sent the Liberal Party into hysteria. They didn’t know how to respond. Nobody in the Labor Party believed it, and everyone in the Liberal Party knew it to be untrue - but then no one knew very much about Rudd"
Quote- " WHATEVER IT TAKES!"
I guess after 3 years, we now know all about Rudd. The Liberals don't believe it, the Labor party don't believe it, and now the AUSTRALIAN people don't believe it, because we have seen the evidence of nearly 3 years of Krudd waste and reckless spending. The only reason that Swan didn't do the Howard style pre election handouts is because the piggy bank is empty.
I guess now they can be fiscal conservatives! This budget was designed to bring some sort of credibility to Labor after years of disasters, so far only Labor bloggers are cheering, but the cheers are getting smaller. While we're at it, before the last election Krudd was ramping up the Howard/Costello leadership issue. They played heavily on the angle of who will be running the country after the election. Now Australia asks the same question to Kevvy. Seeing as your as popular as herpes, will the "Red Baronet" contest after the election?
So to sum it up, did Swan get it right?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/did-wayne-swan-get-the-2010-budget-right-poll-says-no/story-e6freuz0-1225865634539
Sorry mate, keep on the 'L' plate a while longer.
And lastly my Tax cut. I get $5.77 based on the chart. Seeing as Krudd and Swan like to drag Howard and Costello into debates lets go further back to the 2003 budget.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s854920.htm
Makes for interesting reading. Simon Crean, current minister for trade, then opposition leader, remember Labor went through a few of them before the great Krudd had plenty to say then on small tax cuts. Have a read if you like.
Rudd and Swan must be joking? What if the tax doesn't get past the senate? will the deficit remain and will they blame the Liberals for it? My bloody oath they will. If it's one thing the Australian public has learned is that "The buck stops with me" wasn't really meant, sort of like "fiscal conservative"
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/simonbenson/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/rudd_puts_his_faith_in_the_china_syndrome/
In Simon Benson's blog the following paragraph is very telling
"The former Labor party boss Tim Gartrell gloated in 2007 that when they decided to try and cast Kevin Rudd as an economic conservative, it sent the Liberal Party into hysteria. They didn’t know how to respond. Nobody in the Labor Party believed it, and everyone in the Liberal Party knew it to be untrue - but then no one knew very much about Rudd"
Quote- " WHATEVER IT TAKES!"
I guess after 3 years, we now know all about Rudd. The Liberals don't believe it, the Labor party don't believe it, and now the AUSTRALIAN people don't believe it, because we have seen the evidence of nearly 3 years of Krudd waste and reckless spending. The only reason that Swan didn't do the Howard style pre election handouts is because the piggy bank is empty.
I guess now they can be fiscal conservatives! This budget was designed to bring some sort of credibility to Labor after years of disasters, so far only Labor bloggers are cheering, but the cheers are getting smaller. While we're at it, before the last election Krudd was ramping up the Howard/Costello leadership issue. They played heavily on the angle of who will be running the country after the election. Now Australia asks the same question to Kevvy. Seeing as your as popular as herpes, will the "Red Baronet" contest after the election?
So to sum it up, did Swan get it right?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/did-wayne-swan-get-the-2010-budget-right-poll-says-no/story-e6freuz0-1225865634539
Sorry mate, keep on the 'L' plate a while longer.
And lastly my Tax cut. I get $5.77 based on the chart. Seeing as Krudd and Swan like to drag Howard and Costello into debates lets go further back to the 2003 budget.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s854920.htm
Makes for interesting reading. Simon Crean, current minister for trade, then opposition leader, remember Labor went through a few of them before the great Krudd had plenty to say then on small tax cuts. Have a read if you like.
Asylum boat no 124 arrives under Krudd, but spin the budget news please!!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/budget/pms-office-wanted-boat-arrival-press-release-to-spruik-border-protection-spending/story-e6frgd86-1225866094500
Well Kruddy is having the Gold medal year of champions after siev 124 was picked up by the Navy. That border protection pledge gets to be a sicker and sicker joke from this government of spinners. Speaking of spin, Sarah Adams put her foot in it with the email asking for the new budget spending on border protection be included in the press release.
My son says ROFLMAO, which i'm told means "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off". Busted big time Labor! SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN! Poor Julia must be spinning to point of throwing up. " Another boat, another policy failure" but whe are buying a new custom vessel!!
To end this on another point for those who wish to know the National Debt.
“Total Commonwealth Government Securities
on Issue - $139,182m
consisting of:
Treasury Bonds - $117,645m
Treasury Indexed Bonds - $10,815m
Treasury Notes - $10,700m
Other Securities - $22m
As at 7 May 2010
Updated weekly
Face value amounts rounded to the nearest million”
http://www.aofm.gov.au/
And of course this will have to be updated every week. In the boat watch section of this website, I'm having trouble keeping up with the updates of new arrivals .Oh Kruddy, why did you ever think you could be Howard lite? Your more like Whitlam extra dry!
Well Kruddy is having the Gold medal year of champions after siev 124 was picked up by the Navy. That border protection pledge gets to be a sicker and sicker joke from this government of spinners. Speaking of spin, Sarah Adams put her foot in it with the email asking for the new budget spending on border protection be included in the press release.
My son says ROFLMAO, which i'm told means "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off". Busted big time Labor! SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN! Poor Julia must be spinning to point of throwing up. " Another boat, another policy failure" but whe are buying a new custom vessel!!
To end this on another point for those who wish to know the National Debt.
“Total Commonwealth Government Securities
on Issue - $139,182m
consisting of:
Treasury Bonds - $117,645m
Treasury Indexed Bonds - $10,815m
Treasury Notes - $10,700m
Other Securities - $22m
As at 7 May 2010
Updated weekly
Face value amounts rounded to the nearest million”
http://www.aofm.gov.au/
And of course this will have to be updated every week. In the boat watch section of this website, I'm having trouble keeping up with the updates of new arrivals .Oh Kruddy, why did you ever think you could be Howard lite? Your more like Whitlam extra dry!
The super tax lies and spin, Krudd and unions outdo themselves.
Well, it’s really ramping up, the whole campaign to sell the super tax to Australia.
And as usual, Labor begins the scare tactics, the spin and the outright lies. First off we have the unions denying they’re trying to bring class warfare in to the debate.
What absolute rubbish. Labour and the union have always condoned this classic technique.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/union-denies-tv-ad-campaign-a-class-attack-against-resources-bosses/story-e6frg9df-1225867473172
Then why use the word Billionaires in every ad campaign? Why say it's time they put something back? News flash Krudd and Howes, they have been putting something back for decades, more so that Krudd and the unions ever have.
It’s called JOBS you morons. It's also called a surplus. i know that word is something Labor wouldn't understand, not ever having delivered one. And they have paid much much more tax than Krudds
stated 9 Billion. It was more like 80 billion! There you go Paul Howes, how about you use the "billion" word in that context? But you won’t see THAT in any Union or Labor add. Spin and mis-truths the order of the day. Want the facts without Union and Labor spin? Research is the key. Lets just say W.A and Queensland are terrified of this as their economies rely in mining. Rudd’s budget relies on the tax, seeing as he blew the surplus and the record debt. Even now, Labor may be realising the damage they are causing?
http://www.couriermail.com.au/money/treasurer-wayne-swan-says-mining-super-tax-could-be-refined/story-fn36wah0-1225862254807
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/19/2903646.htm
I think Krudd and Swanny’s biggest problem is that they though the mining industry would roll over to an unfair tax. The panic is setting in , especially with the morally corrupt unions arching up. Watch Howes favourite word, Billions really come to play as Billions are wiped off shares, Super and future projects.
From the business spectator website
Australian currency and share dealers are being hit by a wall of selling from European and Japanese investors as it becomes clear that the government’s horrendous mining tax mistake is affecting the sovereign risk of Australia.
Australia’s currency and shares would have been expected to decline in line with the drop in commodity prices, but we are seeing panic selling of considerable proportions.
At this point I must add that the Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan vigorously disagrees with my stance on the mining tax and last night personally took me to task – which is his right – and I describe that development in a separate article.
Unfortunately the situation facing Australia gets even worse than a bear raid on our currency and share markets. I have been talking with some of the most senior bankers in the country and they say that the European sovereign risk crisis is going to make it more expensive for banks to borrow the vast sums overseas that are required to service Australian home mortgages and business loans.
Perhaps unfairly, the irrationality of the mining tax has lumped Australia into the high sovereign risk basket in the eyes of those overseas institutions who lend to our banks. In particular, the Japanese banks who have been prepared to borrow yen at token rates and lend to Australian banks in Australian dollars, have taken a beating which they may take years to forgive.
At the beginning of this month the Australian dollar was trading around 92.65 US cents. It has fallen an incredible 9 per cent in just under three weeks. Losses in yen have been worse. Over the same period the much maligned euro has fallen just over 6 per cent against the American currency.
The Australian share market has fallen much more steeply than the US share market and our declines have been much more akin those experienced on European exchanges, confirming that were are seen as a crisis country.
The government clearly not only did not understand the effect of the tax on the mining industry but had no concept that when you take such an action at a time when the globe is extremely nervous, there is grave danger that it will trigger a bear raid on Australia shares and currency and endanger our bank borrowing. And that’s what has happened.
Bear raids can fade, especially when there is a degree of irrationality. We are not in the same position as the PIIGS. But once a bear raid gets under way it is multiplied by heavy shorting and panic selling and it can take shares and currency very low. In Australia’s case we are probably overdue for a swing back, but if that swing back does not hold and we start sliding again, then we will fall even further. Remember that unhedged overseas investors are not only being hammered by the fall shares, but the currency as well. Our share market is one of the worse performers in the world to unhedged overseas investors.
The cabinet needs urgently to drastically change the RSPT. Changing it will not repair the damage because confidence has been lost, but it will stop an all-out collapse. Superannuation savings in Australia have already been hit. Another big blow would be devastating.
SPIN DOESN'T CUT IT IN THE REAL WORLD , something Krudd and Howes should understand.
Maybe Australia should be demanding why The Minister for Trade ex leader Simon Crean had to ask China on how to implement the tax? Policy on the run yet again!
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201005/2903208.htm?desktop
From Andrew Bolt.
AWU boss Paul Howes not only tells a falsehood about Tony Abbott, but ignores the truth in what he actually said:
In a spectacular own-goal, Peter Dutton was caught out buying up BHP Billiton shares at the same time Abbott was telling everyone that those shares would soon be worthless.
Abbott did not say BHP Billiton shares would be “worthless”. But he did warn they’d be worth less - and Dutton has sure found that out. His $2000 plunge, at what he thought was the bottom of the market, has now lost him $131 on current prices. Howes’ line comes, ironically, in a piece devoted to painting Abbott as deceitful and untrustworthy. And in which Howes defends a tax that has savaged the superannuation savings, I would guess, of most of his members.
Kevin Rudd’s tax is South Africa’s gain. Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly, gloats on South African radio:
South Africa is really the beneficiary, along with Canada and Brazil, of the punitive taxes that have been introduced by Australia. Australia seems to have shot themselves in the foot when it comes to mining taxes.
There has been a howl of protest with this new super profit tax, which takes 40% of the profits away from the mining industry. Now, people are sharpening their pencils and saying should we mine and go ahead with our project in Australia or maybe we can go ahead with the one in South Africa or elsewhere because of the different situation…
We always used to say that Africa has got a bad mining code and a lot of the people don’t want to put their money there, but now we are seeing Australia in a situation were people are saying there is sovereign risk. They used to apply that only to South Africa.
UPDATE
China should gain at our expense, too:
CHINESE investors seeking resource security could emerge as major beneficiaries of the Rudd government’s resource super-profits tax, according to the president of the Australia China Business Council in Western Australia. Mr Calder said the lower returns on offer to investors under the proposed tax would deter foreign and local investment, but the reduced profitability may be acceptable to Chinese investors with downstream processing operations. Under the new tax regime, China would also face less competition for projects from rival sources of capital.
And as usual, Labor begins the scare tactics, the spin and the outright lies. First off we have the unions denying they’re trying to bring class warfare in to the debate.
What absolute rubbish. Labour and the union have always condoned this classic technique.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/union-denies-tv-ad-campaign-a-class-attack-against-resources-bosses/story-e6frg9df-1225867473172
Then why use the word Billionaires in every ad campaign? Why say it's time they put something back? News flash Krudd and Howes, they have been putting something back for decades, more so that Krudd and the unions ever have.
It’s called JOBS you morons. It's also called a surplus. i know that word is something Labor wouldn't understand, not ever having delivered one. And they have paid much much more tax than Krudds
stated 9 Billion. It was more like 80 billion! There you go Paul Howes, how about you use the "billion" word in that context? But you won’t see THAT in any Union or Labor add. Spin and mis-truths the order of the day. Want the facts without Union and Labor spin? Research is the key. Lets just say W.A and Queensland are terrified of this as their economies rely in mining. Rudd’s budget relies on the tax, seeing as he blew the surplus and the record debt. Even now, Labor may be realising the damage they are causing?
http://www.couriermail.com.au/money/treasurer-wayne-swan-says-mining-super-tax-could-be-refined/story-fn36wah0-1225862254807
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/19/2903646.htm
I think Krudd and Swanny’s biggest problem is that they though the mining industry would roll over to an unfair tax. The panic is setting in , especially with the morally corrupt unions arching up. Watch Howes favourite word, Billions really come to play as Billions are wiped off shares, Super and future projects.
From the business spectator website
Australian currency and share dealers are being hit by a wall of selling from European and Japanese investors as it becomes clear that the government’s horrendous mining tax mistake is affecting the sovereign risk of Australia.
Australia’s currency and shares would have been expected to decline in line with the drop in commodity prices, but we are seeing panic selling of considerable proportions.
At this point I must add that the Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan vigorously disagrees with my stance on the mining tax and last night personally took me to task – which is his right – and I describe that development in a separate article.
Unfortunately the situation facing Australia gets even worse than a bear raid on our currency and share markets. I have been talking with some of the most senior bankers in the country and they say that the European sovereign risk crisis is going to make it more expensive for banks to borrow the vast sums overseas that are required to service Australian home mortgages and business loans.
Perhaps unfairly, the irrationality of the mining tax has lumped Australia into the high sovereign risk basket in the eyes of those overseas institutions who lend to our banks. In particular, the Japanese banks who have been prepared to borrow yen at token rates and lend to Australian banks in Australian dollars, have taken a beating which they may take years to forgive.
At the beginning of this month the Australian dollar was trading around 92.65 US cents. It has fallen an incredible 9 per cent in just under three weeks. Losses in yen have been worse. Over the same period the much maligned euro has fallen just over 6 per cent against the American currency.
The Australian share market has fallen much more steeply than the US share market and our declines have been much more akin those experienced on European exchanges, confirming that were are seen as a crisis country.
The government clearly not only did not understand the effect of the tax on the mining industry but had no concept that when you take such an action at a time when the globe is extremely nervous, there is grave danger that it will trigger a bear raid on Australia shares and currency and endanger our bank borrowing. And that’s what has happened.
Bear raids can fade, especially when there is a degree of irrationality. We are not in the same position as the PIIGS. But once a bear raid gets under way it is multiplied by heavy shorting and panic selling and it can take shares and currency very low. In Australia’s case we are probably overdue for a swing back, but if that swing back does not hold and we start sliding again, then we will fall even further. Remember that unhedged overseas investors are not only being hammered by the fall shares, but the currency as well. Our share market is one of the worse performers in the world to unhedged overseas investors.
The cabinet needs urgently to drastically change the RSPT. Changing it will not repair the damage because confidence has been lost, but it will stop an all-out collapse. Superannuation savings in Australia have already been hit. Another big blow would be devastating.
SPIN DOESN'T CUT IT IN THE REAL WORLD , something Krudd and Howes should understand.
Maybe Australia should be demanding why The Minister for Trade ex leader Simon Crean had to ask China on how to implement the tax? Policy on the run yet again!
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201005/2903208.htm?desktop
From Andrew Bolt.
AWU boss Paul Howes not only tells a falsehood about Tony Abbott, but ignores the truth in what he actually said:
In a spectacular own-goal, Peter Dutton was caught out buying up BHP Billiton shares at the same time Abbott was telling everyone that those shares would soon be worthless.
Abbott did not say BHP Billiton shares would be “worthless”. But he did warn they’d be worth less - and Dutton has sure found that out. His $2000 plunge, at what he thought was the bottom of the market, has now lost him $131 on current prices. Howes’ line comes, ironically, in a piece devoted to painting Abbott as deceitful and untrustworthy. And in which Howes defends a tax that has savaged the superannuation savings, I would guess, of most of his members.
Kevin Rudd’s tax is South Africa’s gain. Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly, gloats on South African radio:
South Africa is really the beneficiary, along with Canada and Brazil, of the punitive taxes that have been introduced by Australia. Australia seems to have shot themselves in the foot when it comes to mining taxes.
There has been a howl of protest with this new super profit tax, which takes 40% of the profits away from the mining industry. Now, people are sharpening their pencils and saying should we mine and go ahead with our project in Australia or maybe we can go ahead with the one in South Africa or elsewhere because of the different situation…
We always used to say that Africa has got a bad mining code and a lot of the people don’t want to put their money there, but now we are seeing Australia in a situation were people are saying there is sovereign risk. They used to apply that only to South Africa.
UPDATE
China should gain at our expense, too:
CHINESE investors seeking resource security could emerge as major beneficiaries of the Rudd government’s resource super-profits tax, according to the president of the Australia China Business Council in Western Australia. Mr Calder said the lower returns on offer to investors under the proposed tax would deter foreign and local investment, but the reduced profitability may be acceptable to Chinese investors with downstream processing operations. Under the new tax regime, China would also face less competition for projects from rival sources of capital.
Kevin's Twitter account, the world loves Krudd!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/kevin-rudd-accused-of-artificially-boosting-twitter-following/story-e6frf7jo-1225867004641
Seems that 3/4 of Kevin's twitter account are from overseas. Maybe future asylum seekers are keen Rudd fans?
And why not when you can stay in 4 star hotels!
And of course don't forget all those facebook friends too, although some are not so glowing of Krudd's performance so far.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/I-HATE-KEVIN-RUDD/178771074607
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1605077355&v=info&ref=profile#!/group.php?gid=276572711332
Seems that 3/4 of Kevin's twitter account are from overseas. Maybe future asylum seekers are keen Rudd fans?
And why not when you can stay in 4 star hotels!
And of course don't forget all those facebook friends too, although some are not so glowing of Krudd's performance so far.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/I-HATE-KEVIN-RUDD/178771074607
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1605077355&v=info&ref=profile#!/group.php?gid=276572711332
Bob Hawke, vote of no confidence on Krudd?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/broken-hearted-bob-hawkie-raises-spectre-of-a-julia-gillard-challenge-to-pm/story-e6frg6n6-1225867015334
Poor old Kevin, you know things are bad when Bob Hawke thinks you suck. As the polls slide faster than a Krudd promise, Hawke is broken hearted on Labor's demise. Guess what Mr Hawke, we're all broken hearted on the abysmal perfomance on Kevin07! We're all broken hearted on the the fact we're back to record debt, increased union influence, massive waste and mismanagement and more broken election promises than you, Keating and Howard combined. Be broken hearted for US the Australian people Mr Hawke, not Krudd and his union thugs.
Poor old Kevin, you know things are bad when Bob Hawke thinks you suck. As the polls slide faster than a Krudd promise, Hawke is broken hearted on Labor's demise. Guess what Mr Hawke, we're all broken hearted on the abysmal perfomance on Kevin07! We're all broken hearted on the the fact we're back to record debt, increased union influence, massive waste and mismanagement and more broken election promises than you, Keating and Howard combined. Be broken hearted for US the Australian people Mr Hawke, not Krudd and his union thugs.
UK Labor says "Sorry we're broke" Lesson for Australia Labor.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/17/liam-byrne-note-successor
Don't think it could happen here? probably not because Rudd's huge ego would ensure a note would never be left saying "Sorry, blew the lot". But let's imagine a note Kevin might leave to the Liberals if he loses the election.
"All yours Tony, good luck paying it back this time, John only had 96 Billion to pay back. Your stuffed mate!"
Kevvy.
Don't think it could happen here? probably not because Rudd's huge ego would ensure a note would never be left saying "Sorry, blew the lot". But let's imagine a note Kevin might leave to the Liberals if he loses the election.
"All yours Tony, good luck paying it back this time, John only had 96 Billion to pay back. Your stuffed mate!"
Kevvy.
"Whatever it takes" Richardson says Labor stuffed
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/labor-powerbroker-graham-richardson-concedes-defeat-for-kristina-keneallys-labor-government/story-e6frewt0-1225870012070
The article might be about NSW Labor and how they're on the way to the biggest election defeat in Australia's history, but Ex senator Richardson also has a word on Krudd. "The gloss has gone" doesn't even start to describe this fools inept running of this country. And make no mistake, Kevin has to call an election before NSW and will the state take out their frustration on the Federal Labor party. I think they might, as spin knows no borders. Both State and Federal Labor are grossly guilty of it and the people of NSW are in a vengeful mood. The only thing that might save Kevin is people are still making their mind up about Tony Abbott. Many people have made their mind up about Krudd and the polls reflect this.
But that won't stop the Labor spin machine and Howes and his Union thugs running scare campaigns and trying to convert their opinion as fact. Labor are good at fiction, just look at Krudds kiddies book.
This is classic Labor tactics, try to go the underdog when things don't look rosey. Forget it Richo, I would say rabiddog instead of underdog, seeing as your old party has savaged the nation at state and federal level.
The article might be about NSW Labor and how they're on the way to the biggest election defeat in Australia's history, but Ex senator Richardson also has a word on Krudd. "The gloss has gone" doesn't even start to describe this fools inept running of this country. And make no mistake, Kevin has to call an election before NSW and will the state take out their frustration on the Federal Labor party. I think they might, as spin knows no borders. Both State and Federal Labor are grossly guilty of it and the people of NSW are in a vengeful mood. The only thing that might save Kevin is people are still making their mind up about Tony Abbott. Many people have made their mind up about Krudd and the polls reflect this.
But that won't stop the Labor spin machine and Howes and his Union thugs running scare campaigns and trying to convert their opinion as fact. Labor are good at fiction, just look at Krudds kiddies book.
This is classic Labor tactics, try to go the underdog when things don't look rosey. Forget it Richo, I would say rabiddog instead of underdog, seeing as your old party has savaged the nation at state and federal level.
Krudd, the man of the people.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/rudd-needs-his-dunnycleaning-mates--and-thats-the-bottom-line-20100516-v670.html
Has this man no shame? It seems Kevin Rudd simply must associate himself to every voter as "One of you" type of
politicians. He is pre briefed on the people he is addressing, then says he is with them because of Blah Blah Blah.
Some extracts form the link.
Speaking to some voters in the Bennelong electorate, he said it was like coming home, as he used to spend a lot of time visiting an Aunt who lived in the Ryde area
Speaking to a Breast Cancer group, he said his mother had breast cancer so he knows what it is like.
Whilst visiting some hospital he announced that it was like coming home, as at age 17 he was a hospital wardsman in that very hospital
This is pure bunkum from our PM. He does not care one but about the people but he does care about their vote! And Kevin certainly needs votes as his record is looking very one term. Kevin, you will never be a man of the people as you have live of the public teat all your life.
The mining tax, Uni students know much more than the ATO.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/mining-tax-report-not-a-student-paper-say-authors/story-e6frgczf-1225870573980
http://www.theage.com.au/business/mining-companies-lying-or-ignorant-swan-20100524-w819.html
This cannot be a Government can it? Someone is having a good chuckle over this. A Government would not forsake the figures of the ATO and hedge it's figures on a Uni Student for North Carolina USA? What next Krudd and Swanny?
A paper on the positives of the batts insulation from some high school kids from Helsinki? Or maybe a paper from Uni students from Mexico on the positives of the BER? Spin Spin Spin yet again!
http://www.theage.com.au/business/mining-companies-lying-or-ignorant-swan-20100524-w819.html
This cannot be a Government can it? Someone is having a good chuckle over this. A Government would not forsake the figures of the ATO and hedge it's figures on a Uni Student for North Carolina USA? What next Krudd and Swanny?
A paper on the positives of the batts insulation from some high school kids from Helsinki? Or maybe a paper from Uni students from Mexico on the positives of the BER? Spin Spin Spin yet again!
Kevin loses it again. Temper Temper Krudd!
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1057657/rudd-yelled-at-editors-liberal-senator
This is very believable, because Kevin has a reputation of not being a decent guy away from the cameras. What was it Kevin, that got you so mad? Were the media actually going to bring you to account on all you failures, lies and deceit?
Will you retreat to Mel and Koshie as your only avenue to spread "Ruddspeak" ?
Meal cold from the RAAF , yell at the air hostess.
Hairdryer not packed in a warzone- Yell at aides.
Media not playing ball- yell at journos.
Next in line For Kevvy? Australia making you a one term loser, yell at Jasper and Abbey!
This is very believable, because Kevin has a reputation of not being a decent guy away from the cameras. What was it Kevin, that got you so mad? Were the media actually going to bring you to account on all you failures, lies and deceit?
Will you retreat to Mel and Koshie as your only avenue to spread "Ruddspeak" ?
Meal cold from the RAAF , yell at the air hostess.
Hairdryer not packed in a warzone- Yell at aides.
Media not playing ball- yell at journos.
Next in line For Kevvy? Australia making you a one term loser, yell at Jasper and Abbey!
Great Ad fellas. Treat Krudd like the joke he is
With the Labor ads all doom and gloom on Workchoices, despite Tony Abbott clearly stating it is dead, the Liberals have the right idea in their campaign. Labor is a joke and needs to be treated as such. The Labor people will have to be negative won't they? it's not like they have anything positive to place in their ads. Border control? Nope. Batts insulation ?Nope.
Budget surplus? Nope. the list can go on and on and on. So they only thing Labor can do is attack Abbott and be negative to the Liberal party, not praise their own accomplishments, which are thinner than Rudd's credibility. Keep them coming fellas, More jokes please, just use Krudds achievements so far, plenty of material there!
Budget surplus? Nope. the list can go on and on and on. So they only thing Labor can do is attack Abbott and be negative to the Liberal party, not praise their own accomplishments, which are thinner than Rudd's credibility. Keep them coming fellas, More jokes please, just use Krudds achievements so far, plenty of material there!
The most disgusting Government act in decades
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/cash-grab-for-profit-tax-ads/story-e6freuzr-1225872745100
Rudd and Swan are using "Emergency powers" to use our money on a Ad Campaign against the miners!. Lets look at Kevin 07 and another of his famous promises.
Mr Rudd told the ABC he would ban all publicly funded advertising within three months of an election. This, he said, was “an absolute undertaking from us (the ALP). I believe this is a sick cancer within our system. It’s a cancer on democracy.” He was later asked whether he would deliver on a promise to return decency and probity to public administration, and whether he would he resign if he didn’t deliver.
“You have my absolute, 100 per cent guarantee,” he replied. “And each of you here can hold me accountable for that.”
By Kevin's own words, I now await his resignation. Seeing as Bob Carr is meeting with Kevin right now, maybe Krudd should ask Bob on how to back out of a promise to resign?
Just like Bob Carr, who would resign if he didn't halve the hospital waiting list but didn't, you have no intention of being held accountable and resigning. Yet another throw away Kevin 07 catchphrase like fiscal conservative. Think about it Kevin, you could head over to the UN without being a failed one term wonder, you'll have a big taxpayer funded pension, the missus millions will buy plenty of hairdryers. Maybe not such a bad idea mate. Julia will happily take over. Notice how she is distancing herself more and more from Kevin 07?
His government gives itself permission to use taxpayers money to fight the miners, who are winning the war over the tax. And Krudd needs the tax desperately. Not just to balance the budget, but to balance his credibility. He cannot back down otherwise his term as PM is over. So now he resorts to acts so low that even Labor supporters must question the blatancy of this act. This story has left many speechless. How can he do this and not look like a mad power drunk desperate fool?
This act will be the defining moment of Kevin07 and his cronies. Absolutely disgusting Mr Rudd.
Word is also getting out that this spending blitz was already previously budgeted, so Krudd never had any intention of keeping his 2007 promise. So this is now an official LIE! But, but Kevin said he would never intentionally lie?
Wake up Australia to man who Mao would have a beer with anytime.
John Howard = Reckless spending
Kevin Rudd= National emergency
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FAIL!
Rudd and Swan are using "Emergency powers" to use our money on a Ad Campaign against the miners!. Lets look at Kevin 07 and another of his famous promises.
Mr Rudd told the ABC he would ban all publicly funded advertising within three months of an election. This, he said, was “an absolute undertaking from us (the ALP). I believe this is a sick cancer within our system. It’s a cancer on democracy.” He was later asked whether he would deliver on a promise to return decency and probity to public administration, and whether he would he resign if he didn’t deliver.
“You have my absolute, 100 per cent guarantee,” he replied. “And each of you here can hold me accountable for that.”
By Kevin's own words, I now await his resignation. Seeing as Bob Carr is meeting with Kevin right now, maybe Krudd should ask Bob on how to back out of a promise to resign?
Just like Bob Carr, who would resign if he didn't halve the hospital waiting list but didn't, you have no intention of being held accountable and resigning. Yet another throw away Kevin 07 catchphrase like fiscal conservative. Think about it Kevin, you could head over to the UN without being a failed one term wonder, you'll have a big taxpayer funded pension, the missus millions will buy plenty of hairdryers. Maybe not such a bad idea mate. Julia will happily take over. Notice how she is distancing herself more and more from Kevin 07?
His government gives itself permission to use taxpayers money to fight the miners, who are winning the war over the tax. And Krudd needs the tax desperately. Not just to balance the budget, but to balance his credibility. He cannot back down otherwise his term as PM is over. So now he resorts to acts so low that even Labor supporters must question the blatancy of this act. This story has left many speechless. How can he do this and not look like a mad power drunk desperate fool?
This act will be the defining moment of Kevin07 and his cronies. Absolutely disgusting Mr Rudd.
Word is also getting out that this spending blitz was already previously budgeted, so Krudd never had any intention of keeping his 2007 promise. So this is now an official LIE! But, but Kevin said he would never intentionally lie?
Wake up Australia to man who Mao would have a beer with anytime.
John Howard = Reckless spending
Kevin Rudd= National emergency
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FAIL!
Labor acts on whaling for votes only.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/rudds-move-to-take-japan-to-court-on-whaling-suggests-an-election-ploy/story-e6frgd0x-1225872543725
The 2007 election promise to take Japan to court to stop scientific whaling in the southern ocean has never been acted on, like so many of Kevin 07 promises. Now with an election looming and Kevin desperate to appear like he has actually achieved anything, is now trying to boost his fortunes by taking action. Lets be honest, if Kevin's popularity was still high, if the Australian public were not so pissed off with Krudd, would he pursue this promise now? Distraction is the key here, with the mining tax, Asylum seekers, deficits and opinion polls all choking Kevin, he trots this out now to be a "man of action".
Why now Kevin? That's what the Australian people want to know? You've had since 2007 to implement your promise.
it's like groundhog day isn't it? 2010 election is coming and they're talking up workchoices, despite it being dead, union scare campaigns all over again, now 2007 election promises are either being re-newed or acted upon. All we need is whingeing Wendy to make an appearance! One wonders if those actors used in the 2007 ad campaign are better off? If I were a betting man, I would contact the actors and see how they are fairing under the Dream team.
The 2007 election promise to take Japan to court to stop scientific whaling in the southern ocean has never been acted on, like so many of Kevin 07 promises. Now with an election looming and Kevin desperate to appear like he has actually achieved anything, is now trying to boost his fortunes by taking action. Lets be honest, if Kevin's popularity was still high, if the Australian public were not so pissed off with Krudd, would he pursue this promise now? Distraction is the key here, with the mining tax, Asylum seekers, deficits and opinion polls all choking Kevin, he trots this out now to be a "man of action".
Why now Kevin? That's what the Australian people want to know? You've had since 2007 to implement your promise.
it's like groundhog day isn't it? 2010 election is coming and they're talking up workchoices, despite it being dead, union scare campaigns all over again, now 2007 election promises are either being re-newed or acted upon. All we need is whingeing Wendy to make an appearance! One wonders if those actors used in the 2007 ad campaign are better off? If I were a betting man, I would contact the actors and see how they are fairing under the Dream team.
Did Kevin mislead Parliament? Bloody oath he did!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/another-fine-mess-for-kevin-rudd-all-of-his-own-making/story-e6frg6zo-1225873223153
Tony Abbott states that
"Our share market is under pressure because the government has totally mismanaged its proposal of a big new tax on mining". So Abbott asks the PM if he will drop the tax based on the following; "the collapsing dollar, the falling stock market, the suspension of projects and the evaporation of jobs".
The Ruddster stands up in Parliament and says
WRON WRONG WRONG !!!!!!!! Rudd blames the falling shares prices on Greece and not his great big new tax. And that Abbott has failed to show any data to support his stance.
The next paragraph is from the link provided.
Quote “Unfortunately the following day another piece of "factual data" surfaced in the form of Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig's statement that he was exempting the government from its own lily white guidelines on taxpayers' advertising to allow a $38m assault on the mining industry.
Among the reasons specifically cited by Ludwig for the exemption was the following: "I have also accepted the Treasurer's advice that, as the tax reforms involve changes to the value of some capital assets, they impact on financial markets."
So, the day after Rudd tells parliament Abbott's claims the mining tax is affecting financial markets are garbage, his government uses the same rationale to justify rorting its own advertising standards.” Unquote
So Krudd lied to parliament! He says the tax is having no effect on markets, then uses the effect of the tax on markets to justify using 38 million of taxpayer money to “educate” Australia, therefore breaking his own guidelines. Can you believe this crap? I for one will no longer consider this man to be our Prime minister. I will consider him to be a fraud, who lied his way into power with the help of the unions
Tony Abbott states that
"Our share market is under pressure because the government has totally mismanaged its proposal of a big new tax on mining". So Abbott asks the PM if he will drop the tax based on the following; "the collapsing dollar, the falling stock market, the suspension of projects and the evaporation of jobs".
The Ruddster stands up in Parliament and says
WRON WRONG WRONG !!!!!!!! Rudd blames the falling shares prices on Greece and not his great big new tax. And that Abbott has failed to show any data to support his stance.
The next paragraph is from the link provided.
Quote “Unfortunately the following day another piece of "factual data" surfaced in the form of Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig's statement that he was exempting the government from its own lily white guidelines on taxpayers' advertising to allow a $38m assault on the mining industry.
Among the reasons specifically cited by Ludwig for the exemption was the following: "I have also accepted the Treasurer's advice that, as the tax reforms involve changes to the value of some capital assets, they impact on financial markets."
So, the day after Rudd tells parliament Abbott's claims the mining tax is affecting financial markets are garbage, his government uses the same rationale to justify rorting its own advertising standards.” Unquote
So Krudd lied to parliament! He says the tax is having no effect on markets, then uses the effect of the tax on markets to justify using 38 million of taxpayer money to “educate” Australia, therefore breaking his own guidelines. Can you believe this crap? I for one will no longer consider this man to be our Prime minister. I will consider him to be a fraud, who lied his way into power with the help of the unions
Simon Benson's Book, Krudd looks after no1.
Simon Benson’s book, Rudd is no1, just ask him.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/rudd-broke-secret-pact-with-iemma/story-e6freuzi-1225873194674
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/keating-savages-nsw-labor-rights-lack-of-ideology/story-e6frgczf-1225873742445
A book from respected political journalist Simon Benson exposes Krudd for what he is. A man who is purely interested in himself first, the Labor party second, the Unions third and of course, the poor bloody “working families’ Last! He willingly interfered with NSW politics and Then Premier Morris Iemma in demanding they delay selling off of NSW Power so it didn’t hurt him in the polls. Then in typical Krudd fashion, abandoned Iemma to his fate. He couldn’t have cared less about the citizens of NSW, it was all about him. Well Kevin, the chickens are coming home to roost on your deceitful head. A Federal election is looming and NSW will absolutely punish you for not only Federal Labor’s failings, but NSW Labor as well. Don’t you wish NSW would go to the polls early so all that frustration can be take out on Tripodi, KK and the rest of the rabble? Seeing as you stuck your big ego in once or twice already.
Maybe you can do it again and ask puppet girl if she would accelerate the NSW election early? After all Kevin, it’s all about you isn’t it mate?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/rudd-broke-secret-pact-with-iemma/story-e6freuzi-1225873194674
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/keating-savages-nsw-labor-rights-lack-of-ideology/story-e6frgczf-1225873742445
A book from respected political journalist Simon Benson exposes Krudd for what he is. A man who is purely interested in himself first, the Labor party second, the Unions third and of course, the poor bloody “working families’ Last! He willingly interfered with NSW politics and Then Premier Morris Iemma in demanding they delay selling off of NSW Power so it didn’t hurt him in the polls. Then in typical Krudd fashion, abandoned Iemma to his fate. He couldn’t have cared less about the citizens of NSW, it was all about him. Well Kevin, the chickens are coming home to roost on your deceitful head. A Federal election is looming and NSW will absolutely punish you for not only Federal Labor’s failings, but NSW Labor as well. Don’t you wish NSW would go to the polls early so all that frustration can be take out on Tripodi, KK and the rest of the rabble? Seeing as you stuck your big ego in once or twice already.
Maybe you can do it again and ask puppet girl if she would accelerate the NSW election early? After all Kevin, it’s all about you isn’t it mate?
Brilliant!
Julia to brainwash our kids!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/schools-hit-by-class-war-coalition-objects-to-labor-lessons/story-e6freuzr-1225875238155
Well this took longer than I thought. Comrade Julia will be instigating a draft national course with the theme to include the studying the formation of the Labor party and union minutes! Of course the Liberal party will not be mentioned , despite it being the more successful party in running Australia. Now get this.... Julia has since accused the the coalition of "All talk and no Action" on this issue . Are you that arrogant Julia that you can accuse the coalition of something YOUR party has refined to an art form? What's next Jools? Accusing the coalition of a bit of waste and a bit of mismanagement?
Looks like it will be up to parents to counter educate their kids on the dribble that will be Julia's bold new plan. Don't worry about it Julia, years from now your parties performance will be in the history books on how not to govern a country.
Well this took longer than I thought. Comrade Julia will be instigating a draft national course with the theme to include the studying the formation of the Labor party and union minutes! Of course the Liberal party will not be mentioned , despite it being the more successful party in running Australia. Now get this.... Julia has since accused the the coalition of "All talk and no Action" on this issue . Are you that arrogant Julia that you can accuse the coalition of something YOUR party has refined to an art form? What's next Jools? Accusing the coalition of a bit of waste and a bit of mismanagement?
Looks like it will be up to parents to counter educate their kids on the dribble that will be Julia's bold new plan. Don't worry about it Julia, years from now your parties performance will be in the history books on how not to govern a country.
Krudd is angry? So are we Kevin, so how about buggering off?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/rudd-running-on-anger/story-e6frewt0-1225875931363
Well so much for the polished version that was trotted out in 2007. Kevin 07 is having anger management issues. With W.A and his home state of QLD pissed off with Kevin over his stupid tax that is costing jobs, Kevin is making the lost hair dryer and cold food on a RAAF flight spats look like a 3 year old having a tantrum. This man is supposed to be cool, calm and collected, like a Prime Minister should be. I could not imagine John Howard behaving like a kid who had his milky bar stolen. An angry man makes poor decisions, and maybe Kevin's been angry since he realised that being PM is a tough gig.
John Howard made it look easy and Mr fiscal conservative who never held a portfolio ever while in government is not happy that the Australian people are holding him to account. Guess what Kevin? We're not only angry, we're FURIOUS with your performance. One hopes that QLD, who delivered this nutbag to the Australian people are the ones who's votes help get rid of "Dr death"
Well so much for the polished version that was trotted out in 2007. Kevin 07 is having anger management issues. With W.A and his home state of QLD pissed off with Kevin over his stupid tax that is costing jobs, Kevin is making the lost hair dryer and cold food on a RAAF flight spats look like a 3 year old having a tantrum. This man is supposed to be cool, calm and collected, like a Prime Minister should be. I could not imagine John Howard behaving like a kid who had his milky bar stolen. An angry man makes poor decisions, and maybe Kevin's been angry since he realised that being PM is a tough gig.
John Howard made it look easy and Mr fiscal conservative who never held a portfolio ever while in government is not happy that the Australian people are holding him to account. Guess what Kevin? We're not only angry, we're FURIOUS with your performance. One hopes that QLD, who delivered this nutbag to the Australian people are the ones who's votes help get rid of "Dr death"
Psssst. Hey Garrett, the ETS is delayed.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/garrett-was-left-out-of-ets-loop/story-e6freuzr-1225875842622
Poor old minister for potplants. Having to read about a decision that his portfolio covers in a newspaper. The "Gang of four" are now running the country. Any decision made will be notified to other ministers in due course.
So if I were a Labor minister who's last name was not Rudd, Gillard, Swan or tanner, I would be reading the papers daily, checking the net, online bloggs and ease dropping around the halls of parliament. you never know when you might find out what's happening in your portfolio!
Poor old minister for potplants. Having to read about a decision that his portfolio covers in a newspaper. The "Gang of four" are now running the country. Any decision made will be notified to other ministers in due course.
So if I were a Labor minister who's last name was not Rudd, Gillard, Swan or tanner, I would be reading the papers daily, checking the net, online bloggs and ease dropping around the halls of parliament. you never know when you might find out what's happening in your portfolio!
Miners spread misinformation......oh really Swan!
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/miners-could-pay-58-per-cent-tax-swan-20100607-xo63.html
Well the Mining tax sure has been dominated the headlines lately. Claim and counter claim on levels of tax paid and to be paid etc etc. The mining bosses came out and admitted they exaggerated the tax threat. So quick as a flash, Labour and it's supporters came out swinging. Labour bloggers and of course Krudd, all harping how their figures are right and all opponents are in the mining bosses pockets. A certain blogger on a daily telegraph, who is most cut throat on any criticism on the tax sprouted to all that the mining giants were lying, misleading and spreading misinformation. Then out comes the Goose and admits that the miners may actually pay 58% tax.................You could of heard a pin drop on social network sites from the labour faithful! Oh dear ladies and gentlemen, YOUR party is speading as much if not more misinformation.
yoo hoo?? Any Labourites out there care to comment? So far the silence is deafening.
Well the Mining tax sure has been dominated the headlines lately. Claim and counter claim on levels of tax paid and to be paid etc etc. The mining bosses came out and admitted they exaggerated the tax threat. So quick as a flash, Labour and it's supporters came out swinging. Labour bloggers and of course Krudd, all harping how their figures are right and all opponents are in the mining bosses pockets. A certain blogger on a daily telegraph, who is most cut throat on any criticism on the tax sprouted to all that the mining giants were lying, misleading and spreading misinformation. Then out comes the Goose and admits that the miners may actually pay 58% tax.................You could of heard a pin drop on social network sites from the labour faithful! Oh dear ladies and gentlemen, YOUR party is speading as much if not more misinformation.
yoo hoo?? Any Labourites out there care to comment? So far the silence is deafening.
Who will replace Krudd?? Not the "Gang of four" I think!
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/malcolmfarr/
With Kevin "fiscal conservative" Rudd a dead duck as nobody trusts him on anything he says or does, the knives are out.
Labour would love to replace him ala NSW style, but look at the alternatives. Swan, Gillard and Tanner. All three are firmly attached to Krudds failures. They all have failures in their portfolios and all got together to make decisions that turned out to be disasterous. So who is left? It would have to be Steve Smith or Greg Combet. Both are free of the Gang of fours failures and actually seem to be honest pollies.
Krudd will not survive which will mean the end of this website, which will be worth it.
The mans anger isssues, lying and insecurities have ensured Tony Abbott will have a great chance of being the next PM.
Something Krudd acknowledges . One would love to be in a room with Morris Iemma and Nathan Rees when The Ruddster gets the knife.
With Kevin "fiscal conservative" Rudd a dead duck as nobody trusts him on anything he says or does, the knives are out.
Labour would love to replace him ala NSW style, but look at the alternatives. Swan, Gillard and Tanner. All three are firmly attached to Krudds failures. They all have failures in their portfolios and all got together to make decisions that turned out to be disasterous. So who is left? It would have to be Steve Smith or Greg Combet. Both are free of the Gang of fours failures and actually seem to be honest pollies.
Krudd will not survive which will mean the end of this website, which will be worth it.
The mans anger isssues, lying and insecurities have ensured Tony Abbott will have a great chance of being the next PM.
Something Krudd acknowledges . One would love to be in a room with Morris Iemma and Nathan Rees when The Ruddster gets the knife.
Krudd to give lions share of mining tax to QLD and WA, Stuff the rest!
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/wa-to-get-lions-share-of-tax-says-rudd/story-e6frg2r3-1225877446787
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/queensland-to-get-lions-share-of-spending-on-roads-and-rail/story-e6frfku0-1225877551376
Kevin 07 is on the road, desperately trying to sell the RSPT to QLD and WA, Seeing as they will be hit the hardest by the tax. So what does Kevin say to appease those states? By saying that they will receive the lion’s share of the wealth created by the tax. Will it compensate the loss of jobs, super and flow on effect from the tax?
I don’t think so Kevin. Now that Wayne Swan has admitted that miners may actually pay 58% tax , this surely means that future projects will be put on hold and that the tax, though not yet in place, is having an effect on the economy. It is also no co-incidence that a loss of seats in QLD and WA for the Labour party will give the Coalition the Keys to the Lodge, so Kevin must throw more buckets of borrowed cash at those states. And of course what about the rest of the country?
NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and the NT will get sweet bugger all from the RSPT!
But what happens to state royalties? What state royalties will NSW lose from mining and what will NSW gain from the RSPT? This has the hallmarks of the biggest disaster of the entire Labour government to date. And that’s saying something, considering BER, batts, Border protection, Deficit, etc. So far it seems QLD and WA are not falling for it. That’s due to Australia not believing in Kevin 07 and his spin any more. If Kevin had runs on the board, then this PR campaign might actually have some influence. What Kevin and the gang of four fail to realise is that when a party looks to implement a new policy, people will look at their track record first. This is the basis for many decisions people make. We buy from Brand name retailers based on track record. We buy a brand of car or a grocery brands based on track record, value for money and believability of that company.
Kevin and Labour have an abysmal track record, no value for tax dollars spend and no believability. The election is coming and just like 2007, Kevin and the gang will base the campaign not based on their achievements but on the opposition. Tony Abbott is fully aware that Kevin will try to win by destroying Abbott. If he had successes that he could tout, that would be different. Australia needs to remember one thing. In 2007 he trashed on the best Prime ministers of our time based on spin lies, deceit and promising a bag full of promises that he did not keep.
In 2010 or 2011 be will do the same to Abbott. We fell for it once and look where it got us! Do not believe a rehashed 07 campaign, vote on accomplishment and achievement, which will see Kevin 07 off to the UN where he belongs.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/queensland-to-get-lions-share-of-spending-on-roads-and-rail/story-e6frfku0-1225877551376
Kevin 07 is on the road, desperately trying to sell the RSPT to QLD and WA, Seeing as they will be hit the hardest by the tax. So what does Kevin say to appease those states? By saying that they will receive the lion’s share of the wealth created by the tax. Will it compensate the loss of jobs, super and flow on effect from the tax?
I don’t think so Kevin. Now that Wayne Swan has admitted that miners may actually pay 58% tax , this surely means that future projects will be put on hold and that the tax, though not yet in place, is having an effect on the economy. It is also no co-incidence that a loss of seats in QLD and WA for the Labour party will give the Coalition the Keys to the Lodge, so Kevin must throw more buckets of borrowed cash at those states. And of course what about the rest of the country?
NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and the NT will get sweet bugger all from the RSPT!
But what happens to state royalties? What state royalties will NSW lose from mining and what will NSW gain from the RSPT? This has the hallmarks of the biggest disaster of the entire Labour government to date. And that’s saying something, considering BER, batts, Border protection, Deficit, etc. So far it seems QLD and WA are not falling for it. That’s due to Australia not believing in Kevin 07 and his spin any more. If Kevin had runs on the board, then this PR campaign might actually have some influence. What Kevin and the gang of four fail to realise is that when a party looks to implement a new policy, people will look at their track record first. This is the basis for many decisions people make. We buy from Brand name retailers based on track record. We buy a brand of car or a grocery brands based on track record, value for money and believability of that company.
Kevin and Labour have an abysmal track record, no value for tax dollars spend and no believability. The election is coming and just like 2007, Kevin and the gang will base the campaign not based on their achievements but on the opposition. Tony Abbott is fully aware that Kevin will try to win by destroying Abbott. If he had successes that he could tout, that would be different. Australia needs to remember one thing. In 2007 he trashed on the best Prime ministers of our time based on spin lies, deceit and promising a bag full of promises that he did not keep.
In 2010 or 2011 be will do the same to Abbott. We fell for it once and look where it got us! Do not believe a rehashed 07 campaign, vote on accomplishment and achievement, which will see Kevin 07 off to the UN where he belongs.
Krudd gives the UN 559 Million, pretty pricey for a future office!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/rudd_throws_away_another_half_a_billion
This is simply priceless! The mining Tax that isn't will have go up a few points if Krudd keeps acting like a
"fiscal conservative"! Pensioners can't get a decent raise, the Australian Defence force is told there is no money for a pension for you guys, there is plenty of money for hotels for asylum seekers and for new sites for detention centres now that the Labour termed "White Elephant" that is Christmas Island is full. And of course there is ALWAYS a spare half billion lying around to give to the successful body that we can the U.N I give up! Labour isn't a political party, it's a mobile casino that gambles other peoples money of hopeless projects, rorts and slush funds. And then offers hope that you'll win this time if you elect us again. This government is simply stunning it it's reckless spending. Please Kevin, for the love of mike, stop Rat F***king us and follow the 559 million out of the country.
This is simply priceless! The mining Tax that isn't will have go up a few points if Krudd keeps acting like a
"fiscal conservative"! Pensioners can't get a decent raise, the Australian Defence force is told there is no money for a pension for you guys, there is plenty of money for hotels for asylum seekers and for new sites for detention centres now that the Labour termed "White Elephant" that is Christmas Island is full. And of course there is ALWAYS a spare half billion lying around to give to the successful body that we can the U.N I give up! Labour isn't a political party, it's a mobile casino that gambles other peoples money of hopeless projects, rorts and slush funds. And then offers hope that you'll win this time if you elect us again. This government is simply stunning it it's reckless spending. Please Kevin, for the love of mike, stop Rat F***king us and follow the 559 million out of the country.
Is Krudd nuts? The Rat F**k explanation.
"Thank you very much and what a great introduction. It’s good to be here in Press Gallery land and all of its associated provinces. I’m sure we have News Limited land here. We have Fairfax land. We have 2UE land. Latika, I’m watching. And you all look absolutely gorgeous this evening and that is a collective noun, not a personal noun addressed to anyone in particular, Latika. But also my personal favourite, 7.30 Report land and if Kerry O’Brien is here tonight, it’s good to be with you, mate. We’re going to track you down in the morning and watch ABC funding for the year ahead. I’m told that David Marr might be lurking in the background somewhere. Are you here, David? Are you here, David? All the way from Quarterly Essay land. A few people have asked me, for example, what I think about David’s analysis that I am singularly motivated by anger. I’ve told them to get stuffed. Each and every one of them. I am not motivated by anger, I am motivated by incandescent rage. This is an entirely different proposition as many of you would know. And as for David Marr, you’ll be terminated with extreme prejudice.
Speaking of David Marr and that rollicking introduction from Roy and HG, there seems to be a particular interest on his part in my views on the mating habits of rodents. That is, the things that rats do in a non-family values sort of way. In fact, a number of you have approached me for my comments about an account of a conversation which occurred at the time of the Copenhagen Summit, one involving romping rodents. I declined to do so until now because I’m a bit ashamed of the truth. Tonight, however, I know that I’m amongst friends under Chatham House rules and it won’t go anywhere, so I have a confession to make. I did grow up in country Queensland and I can deal with all creatures great and small, ugly and less so; carpet snakes, black snakes, brown snakes, big snakes, small snakes, spiders, cockroaches, the rest, leeches, but there’s one thing I cannot stand. It’s rats. They give me the positive heebie jeebies. Anyone here like rats? I rest my case. I’ve been diagnosed as musophobic which in extreme cases like mine has some severe symptoms. These symptoms are as follows: prolixity; – who was that? I’m not angry with you but I’m sure going to get you; prolixity, insomnia and profanity. That’s what musophobia gives you. So there I was when an off-the-record briefing session there in Copenhagen which is a small town in Denmark – but a briefing session that had been marred from the outset – and the brother of all rats comes galavanting across the room and at first I thought, even though it was in Denmark it could have been a rogue possum but that was wrong, no such luck, it was only a big brown rat. I’m familiar with the species. It was called raticus norvegicas, the famous Norwegian rat, the Norwegian brown as it was called. And then his mate joined in and it was December, with the possibility of an early Spring was looming in that part of Scandinavia and it was a frisky time, therefore, for raticus norvegicas, a time of fun, frivolity and frolicking, in a non-family values sort of way.
So, I was in the middle of briefing some esteemed members of the Fourth Estate on the complexities of the Copenhagen summit, when a pair of romantic rodents decided to go for it, so to speak. Distracted by the spectacle, I made an observation mid-sentence, profane as it was, thanks to the crippling, crippling, symptoms of musophobia but it was an observation nonetheless in which I drew upon longstanding Anglo-Saxon roots to describe the act. The rats, indeed, were at it, so to speak, and hence the explanation for why did I use that particular expression this evening. I saw raticus norvegicas engaged in elicit activity on the ground and that simply interrupted my normal briefing on China’s posture on climate change.
Now, it’s been a big year in the Rudd family. My son Nicholas has got engaged. Jessica, my daughter, who’s with me this evening, has written her first novel, Thérèse has read it and I haven’t but I’m looking forward to reading it when it’s published which I’m told won’t be soon. I told there is a lot of colourful and language in it and I have no idea where Jessica could have heard such language anywhere in her life.
It’s been about 12 months since we’ve gathered here. A lot’s happened in the last 12 months. They say in politics that a week’s a long time in politics. A year is an eternity. What’s the big thing that’s happened between this time this year and last year? This time last year, I had a ute, and now I am uteless. Thank you, Malcolm. I appreciate that. By the way, my adviser, Andrew Charlton, is here this evening. Andrew, since the events of this time last year is still in witness protection. Where are you, Andrew? But if you’re here tonight, Malcolm, I have my telephone and it has a camera and we can record each and every single of those events. So, Malcolm, if you are here with us this evening, make sure you behave.
I have asked Cabinet for some contributions to my address this evening and in case you’re wondering they have provided input into this speech. None of it was up to scratch. As you know, this government is not a one man show. This is not a one man show. I believe in sharing the blame all around, each and every one of my colleagues.
The challenge we have for the future, of course, is how do we deal with the problems of staff. That’s always a problem. I notice there’s been some commentary in the media recently about the quality and the age of my staff. Alistair Jordan, Lachlan Harris, Andrew Charlton. I believe in giving opportunities to all young Australians, which is why I’ve insisted that this Parliament and this government would have constructed a childcare centre here on the premises.
It’s very easy for them then to just nip down to the child care centre for a nap mid-morning. That’s what they do. But, for any of you who may think that these folks are in fact as young as they look, Alistair started work for me when was at the age of 14 and if you use dog years he’s just about to celebrate his 81st birthday. Look at the furrows on his brow and even Lachie, look at the state of his hair. Well, it’s true. Lachlan, stand up. Let’s hang the lantern on the problem. Let’s shine a beacon on that spectre. Lachie will very soon celebrate his 60th birthday in age not in spirit. The thing I stand for most though is getting rid of those truisms of politics. Things like balance and working families and, and great big taxes. So, we stand for ensuring we’ve got the proper balance for all and that means making sure that we get rid of all great big taxes on all working families and that’s the position that we intend to take to the election ahead.
The mining industry are here tonight. I extend my greeting to each and every one of them. I notice there’s a small fire which has been erected down the back. I understand that myself and Wayne Swan and Martin Ferguson will soon be erected above that fire. Can I say, guys, we’ve got a very long memory.
Ebay, I’m told tonight and I say this with due respect to my colleague and parliamentary opponent, Tony Abbott, Ebay I’m told tonight has more bids in for Tony than for me. I am hurt. I’m not angry…much. I’m just hurt. But, the key to it is this. Before the end of the evening Thérèse will kick in from Brisbane. I will make sure we win in the end.
Folks, can I say one or two things about our relations with the gallery, which is simply this. It’s a tough and rough business that we have here in Parliament House. You do your job. We do ours and I think the country is the better for it. But, the last thing I’d say is the number that was mentioned before, 1.5 million, that’s a lot of money and I think we should all put our hands together for the generosity of those who’ve made those contributions to the charities in Canberra and beyond these last several years.
It’s my custom also on these nights to remember one person’s name. I think it’s right because I still think his spirit inhabits this place and that’s Matt Price. All of us enjoyed him. All of us loved him except when he took the mickey out of us totally and all of us miss him. He’s a first class human being. So, for tonight, let’s just bear a though for Matt Price, his widow and his family. Thanks very much folks."
Ok, Krudd and the Labor cronies are well known lovers of Spin. But this is borderline lunacy. Do we have, for the first time in Australias history, a PM who is mentally unbalanced? One cannot imagine Keating, Hawke or Howard coming up with this tripe. The man get more embarrassing every day and our standing on the international stage is being damaged by having this idiot calling the shots. With labor on the nose nationwide and party heavyweights looking at anything to blame it on, they only have to look at the man in charge to see the obvious reason. For those who are worried about Krudd ever turning up at their doorstep, have one the these standing by.
Speaking of David Marr and that rollicking introduction from Roy and HG, there seems to be a particular interest on his part in my views on the mating habits of rodents. That is, the things that rats do in a non-family values sort of way. In fact, a number of you have approached me for my comments about an account of a conversation which occurred at the time of the Copenhagen Summit, one involving romping rodents. I declined to do so until now because I’m a bit ashamed of the truth. Tonight, however, I know that I’m amongst friends under Chatham House rules and it won’t go anywhere, so I have a confession to make. I did grow up in country Queensland and I can deal with all creatures great and small, ugly and less so; carpet snakes, black snakes, brown snakes, big snakes, small snakes, spiders, cockroaches, the rest, leeches, but there’s one thing I cannot stand. It’s rats. They give me the positive heebie jeebies. Anyone here like rats? I rest my case. I’ve been diagnosed as musophobic which in extreme cases like mine has some severe symptoms. These symptoms are as follows: prolixity; – who was that? I’m not angry with you but I’m sure going to get you; prolixity, insomnia and profanity. That’s what musophobia gives you. So there I was when an off-the-record briefing session there in Copenhagen which is a small town in Denmark – but a briefing session that had been marred from the outset – and the brother of all rats comes galavanting across the room and at first I thought, even though it was in Denmark it could have been a rogue possum but that was wrong, no such luck, it was only a big brown rat. I’m familiar with the species. It was called raticus norvegicas, the famous Norwegian rat, the Norwegian brown as it was called. And then his mate joined in and it was December, with the possibility of an early Spring was looming in that part of Scandinavia and it was a frisky time, therefore, for raticus norvegicas, a time of fun, frivolity and frolicking, in a non-family values sort of way.
So, I was in the middle of briefing some esteemed members of the Fourth Estate on the complexities of the Copenhagen summit, when a pair of romantic rodents decided to go for it, so to speak. Distracted by the spectacle, I made an observation mid-sentence, profane as it was, thanks to the crippling, crippling, symptoms of musophobia but it was an observation nonetheless in which I drew upon longstanding Anglo-Saxon roots to describe the act. The rats, indeed, were at it, so to speak, and hence the explanation for why did I use that particular expression this evening. I saw raticus norvegicas engaged in elicit activity on the ground and that simply interrupted my normal briefing on China’s posture on climate change.
Now, it’s been a big year in the Rudd family. My son Nicholas has got engaged. Jessica, my daughter, who’s with me this evening, has written her first novel, Thérèse has read it and I haven’t but I’m looking forward to reading it when it’s published which I’m told won’t be soon. I told there is a lot of colourful and language in it and I have no idea where Jessica could have heard such language anywhere in her life.
It’s been about 12 months since we’ve gathered here. A lot’s happened in the last 12 months. They say in politics that a week’s a long time in politics. A year is an eternity. What’s the big thing that’s happened between this time this year and last year? This time last year, I had a ute, and now I am uteless. Thank you, Malcolm. I appreciate that. By the way, my adviser, Andrew Charlton, is here this evening. Andrew, since the events of this time last year is still in witness protection. Where are you, Andrew? But if you’re here tonight, Malcolm, I have my telephone and it has a camera and we can record each and every single of those events. So, Malcolm, if you are here with us this evening, make sure you behave.
I have asked Cabinet for some contributions to my address this evening and in case you’re wondering they have provided input into this speech. None of it was up to scratch. As you know, this government is not a one man show. This is not a one man show. I believe in sharing the blame all around, each and every one of my colleagues.
The challenge we have for the future, of course, is how do we deal with the problems of staff. That’s always a problem. I notice there’s been some commentary in the media recently about the quality and the age of my staff. Alistair Jordan, Lachlan Harris, Andrew Charlton. I believe in giving opportunities to all young Australians, which is why I’ve insisted that this Parliament and this government would have constructed a childcare centre here on the premises.
It’s very easy for them then to just nip down to the child care centre for a nap mid-morning. That’s what they do. But, for any of you who may think that these folks are in fact as young as they look, Alistair started work for me when was at the age of 14 and if you use dog years he’s just about to celebrate his 81st birthday. Look at the furrows on his brow and even Lachie, look at the state of his hair. Well, it’s true. Lachlan, stand up. Let’s hang the lantern on the problem. Let’s shine a beacon on that spectre. Lachie will very soon celebrate his 60th birthday in age not in spirit. The thing I stand for most though is getting rid of those truisms of politics. Things like balance and working families and, and great big taxes. So, we stand for ensuring we’ve got the proper balance for all and that means making sure that we get rid of all great big taxes on all working families and that’s the position that we intend to take to the election ahead.
The mining industry are here tonight. I extend my greeting to each and every one of them. I notice there’s a small fire which has been erected down the back. I understand that myself and Wayne Swan and Martin Ferguson will soon be erected above that fire. Can I say, guys, we’ve got a very long memory.
Ebay, I’m told tonight and I say this with due respect to my colleague and parliamentary opponent, Tony Abbott, Ebay I’m told tonight has more bids in for Tony than for me. I am hurt. I’m not angry…much. I’m just hurt. But, the key to it is this. Before the end of the evening Thérèse will kick in from Brisbane. I will make sure we win in the end.
Folks, can I say one or two things about our relations with the gallery, which is simply this. It’s a tough and rough business that we have here in Parliament House. You do your job. We do ours and I think the country is the better for it. But, the last thing I’d say is the number that was mentioned before, 1.5 million, that’s a lot of money and I think we should all put our hands together for the generosity of those who’ve made those contributions to the charities in Canberra and beyond these last several years.
It’s my custom also on these nights to remember one person’s name. I think it’s right because I still think his spirit inhabits this place and that’s Matt Price. All of us enjoyed him. All of us loved him except when he took the mickey out of us totally and all of us miss him. He’s a first class human being. So, for tonight, let’s just bear a though for Matt Price, his widow and his family. Thanks very much folks."
Ok, Krudd and the Labor cronies are well known lovers of Spin. But this is borderline lunacy. Do we have, for the first time in Australias history, a PM who is mentally unbalanced? One cannot imagine Keating, Hawke or Howard coming up with this tripe. The man get more embarrassing every day and our standing on the international stage is being damaged by having this idiot calling the shots. With labor on the nose nationwide and party heavyweights looking at anything to blame it on, they only have to look at the man in charge to see the obvious reason. For those who are worried about Krudd ever turning up at their doorstep, have one the these standing by.
Don't forget to have a mini Kevin 07 T-shirt on the little cuties. Hey! if Garlic keeps away Vampires, maybe these will keep away our own Krudd monster?
Is Krudd finished? One can only hope!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/poll-key-as-mutineers-circle-kevin-rudd/story-e6freuy9-1225881627330
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/rudds-polls-suggest-labor-may-be-cactus/story-e6frezz0-1225881530211
As Krudds popularity dives faster than Stuka Dive bomber, speculation is rife that next weeks opinion polls will decide Krudds fate. Gillard does not have the numbers...yet, but Labor in panic mode and looking like to repeat NSW labor in "change the leader" to fool the public, who knows what will happen. If there was a challenger who had the numbers and was popular with the voters, Krudd would be booking his flight to Brussells and checking to the UN Hilton in no time. The recent results in the NSW Penrith by election will rock Labor in this country. Kevin must be nervous. Both State and federal Labor compliment each other. Waste and mismanagement, record debt and arrogance and it is a race to see who gets to face the brunt of voter anger. It all depends on who goes to the polls first, which is why Krudd will avoid the election till the last minute, unless Julia gets the nod. Either way, brand Labor has run it's course until it realises that you govern for THE PEOPLE and not for the party. Get it now idiots?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/7427316/gillard-doesnt-have-numbers-report/
edit- Just had to put this in
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7427333/pms-mental-health-adviser-quits/
When I read the headline, I thought Krudds mental advisor had quit because Kevin was a lost cause, especially after his rant about the Rat F**k . Poor Kevin, another one leaves team Rudd.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/rudds-polls-suggest-labor-may-be-cactus/story-e6frezz0-1225881530211
As Krudds popularity dives faster than Stuka Dive bomber, speculation is rife that next weeks opinion polls will decide Krudds fate. Gillard does not have the numbers...yet, but Labor in panic mode and looking like to repeat NSW labor in "change the leader" to fool the public, who knows what will happen. If there was a challenger who had the numbers and was popular with the voters, Krudd would be booking his flight to Brussells and checking to the UN Hilton in no time. The recent results in the NSW Penrith by election will rock Labor in this country. Kevin must be nervous. Both State and federal Labor compliment each other. Waste and mismanagement, record debt and arrogance and it is a race to see who gets to face the brunt of voter anger. It all depends on who goes to the polls first, which is why Krudd will avoid the election till the last minute, unless Julia gets the nod. Either way, brand Labor has run it's course until it realises that you govern for THE PEOPLE and not for the party. Get it now idiots?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/7427316/gillard-doesnt-have-numbers-report/
edit- Just had to put this in
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7427333/pms-mental-health-adviser-quits/
When I read the headline, I thought Krudds mental advisor had quit because Kevin was a lost cause, especially after his rant about the Rat F**k . Poor Kevin, another one leaves team Rudd.
Kevin threatens "We've got a long memory" Joke my ass!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/does-730-report-land-have-a-sense-of-humour/story-e6frg6zo-1225881541045
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/nobody-laughs-when-pm-jokes-about-revenge/comments-e6frg6zo-1225882472592
Just joking, right Kevin? Not too many people laughed Kevin07. But I can see your point, I mean your government has been a joke from day one, why not ramp it up mate. Your rat f**k spiel was funny, your 07 election promises were funny. When you verbally threaten someone or a company however, it's not funny. Stick to policy Kevin, as your ideas are still a riot.
fiscal conservative= hahahahahha
reign in reckless spending=hahahahahhaa
maintain national borders=hahahahhahaha
promised budget surplus=hahhahahahahah
You get the idea now Kevin, carry on Joker!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/nobody-laughs-when-pm-jokes-about-revenge/comments-e6frg6zo-1225882472592
Just joking, right Kevin? Not too many people laughed Kevin07. But I can see your point, I mean your government has been a joke from day one, why not ramp it up mate. Your rat f**k spiel was funny, your 07 election promises were funny. When you verbally threaten someone or a company however, it's not funny. Stick to policy Kevin, as your ideas are still a riot.
fiscal conservative= hahahahahha
reign in reckless spending=hahahahahhaa
maintain national borders=hahahahhahaha
promised budget surplus=hahhahahahahah
You get the idea now Kevin, carry on Joker!
The Leyland P76 of politics. Lemon 07 indeed!
Labor explains the mining tax without Hawker Britton cue cards.
The end of the road Kevin.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7454580/rudd-proud-of-his-achievements/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/julia-gillard-is-australias-new-prime-minister/story-e6freuy9-1225883617249
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/julia-gillard-is-australias-new-prime-minister/story-e6freuy9-1225883617249
BYE KEVIN......DON'T LET THE
HIT YOUR ASS ON THE WAY OUT!!
The rise of Julia Gillard, the States all over again
The Federal labor has done just same as State Labor has done for years, replaced a dud male with a spinning female.
QLD.....Dud Beattie replaced with Anna Bligh
NSW....Dud Rees with Krisitne Keneally
WA......Dud Dowding replaced Carmen Lawrence
VIC.... Dud Cain was replaced by Joan Kirner
Australia......Dud Rudd replaced by Gillard
Ask those states how they're faired after the axe of the dud leaders. It's common knowledge that
they faired even worse! Don't be fooled by Labor Australia. This is standard tactics by Labor and it
does not make anything better. Especially considering Julia was deputy PM and a head nodding Rudd
supporter.
QLD.....Dud Beattie replaced with Anna Bligh
NSW....Dud Rees with Krisitne Keneally
WA......Dud Dowding replaced Carmen Lawrence
VIC.... Dud Cain was replaced by Joan Kirner
Australia......Dud Rudd replaced by Gillard
Ask those states how they're faired after the axe of the dud leaders. It's common knowledge that
they faired even worse! Don't be fooled by Labor Australia. This is standard tactics by Labor and it
does not make anything better. Especially considering Julia was deputy PM and a head nodding Rudd
supporter.
Australia's MSM, biased and it MUST STOP!
Kevin Rudd the disaster website was to be archived as a legacy to the worst PM in living memory.
What has disgusted me is since the election being called is the absolute bias the Australian media is now spewing.
It is 2007 all over again as Mel and koshie types gush all over Julia Gillard while grilling Tony Abbott over every minute policy detail. They are NOT taking Julia to task over her failures as deputy PM and now PM of Australia via a very big knife. BER.....no problem, stating that waste and mismanagement is acceptable.... no worries, ex communists.... all good.
Nodding in the background for every Rudd stuff up..... she was being polite!
The MSM have swallowed "Moving Foward" the same way as "working families" and have NO credibility in the 2010 election. Hawker Britton is proving every day that Australia's MSM are yet another branch of the ALP.
Lets throw in the Greens and Unions, MSM and Labor as one big party against the other party who just wants us out of debt and back on track. So Kevin Rudd the disaster will continue, concentrating on Julia Gillard, who as ex deputy PM and a huge participant in all of Labors stuff ups, WILL NOT get a free ride here.
What has disgusted me is since the election being called is the absolute bias the Australian media is now spewing.
It is 2007 all over again as Mel and koshie types gush all over Julia Gillard while grilling Tony Abbott over every minute policy detail. They are NOT taking Julia to task over her failures as deputy PM and now PM of Australia via a very big knife. BER.....no problem, stating that waste and mismanagement is acceptable.... no worries, ex communists.... all good.
Nodding in the background for every Rudd stuff up..... she was being polite!
The MSM have swallowed "Moving Foward" the same way as "working families" and have NO credibility in the 2010 election. Hawker Britton is proving every day that Australia's MSM are yet another branch of the ALP.
Lets throw in the Greens and Unions, MSM and Labor as one big party against the other party who just wants us out of debt and back on track. So Kevin Rudd the disaster will continue, concentrating on Julia Gillard, who as ex deputy PM and a huge participant in all of Labors stuff ups, WILL NOT get a free ride here.
Population policy….what policy?
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/no-numbers-no-substance-no-solutions--just-populist-platitudes-20100721-10lad.html#poll
It’s not about birth control, it’s not about immigration. So what is it about Julia?
So far all we have seen is hot air on this issue. Basically she states she wants a
Policy but doesn’t have one. So she’s saying
''I urge you all to contribute to the national population strategy we are developing.''
Is it just me or is she asking for help? Could there be another 2020 type talk fest on the horizon where Rudd…..err sorry I meant Julia will gather celebrities to get ideas on this issue? Until then, it’s spin spin spin. Because lets face it, Tony Abbott hasn’t released a policy to steal yet! Come on Mr Abbott, get your act together mate.
You gave Julia a border protection policy, you helped get rid of Rudd, how about coming to Julia’s rescue and release something?
Of course, Labor will rename it, change one or two details, claim it and then claim that Tony is following HER policy.
It’s not about birth control, it’s not about immigration. So what is it about Julia?
So far all we have seen is hot air on this issue. Basically she states she wants a
Policy but doesn’t have one. So she’s saying
''I urge you all to contribute to the national population strategy we are developing.''
Is it just me or is she asking for help? Could there be another 2020 type talk fest on the horizon where Rudd…..err sorry I meant Julia will gather celebrities to get ideas on this issue? Until then, it’s spin spin spin. Because lets face it, Tony Abbott hasn’t released a policy to steal yet! Come on Mr Abbott, get your act together mate.
You gave Julia a border protection policy, you helped get rid of Rudd, how about coming to Julia’s rescue and release something?
Of course, Labor will rename it, change one or two details, claim it and then claim that Tony is following HER policy.
Rudd is back, and doing what he does best, being arrogant.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/mind-the-gap-as-rudds-rival-told-to-toe-the-line-20100721-10l9e.html
Take a look at this picture
Take a look at this picture
The man is so busy, he can’t even take the time to greet his opposition. Doesn’t it remind you of the photo of Kevin and Kristina Keneally over the hospital agreement.
But why so busy Kevin? You’re off to the UN straight after the election anyway. Every one knows that. Julia can’t have you hanging around, what an embarrassment that would be. This photo speaks a thousand words. It shows Labor in its true form, Arrogant and out of touch. In 2007, Tony Abbott was late for the health debate against Ms Roxon, you know her…..the health minister! Oh what bad manners did Tony have, stated the Labor party. Wasn’t there a stink kicked up over that!
But Labor can do even worse and ignore their opponent and all is good.
Hypocrites never change their spots, only their leaders!
But why so busy Kevin? You’re off to the UN straight after the election anyway. Every one knows that. Julia can’t have you hanging around, what an embarrassment that would be. This photo speaks a thousand words. It shows Labor in its true form, Arrogant and out of touch. In 2007, Tony Abbott was late for the health debate against Ms Roxon, you know her…..the health minister! Oh what bad manners did Tony have, stated the Labor party. Wasn’t there a stink kicked up over that!
But Labor can do even worse and ignore their opponent and all is good.
Hypocrites never change their spots, only their leaders!
“Moving Forward” slogan… What are we moving away from?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/tomorrows-woman-yesterdays-man-20100717-10f4o.html
Julia, we heard you the FIRST time, no need to repeat the same slogan over 30 times. We are not kids, we tend to get things first time around.
Actually, while we’re on the subject of “Moving Forward”, what are we moving away from? To move forward, we must leave something behind, Yes? Are we leaving behind the Howard years? I don’t think so, that was 3 years ago and since then Kevin Rudd and labor with you as the DEPUTY have been in power. Are we moving away from Kevin Rudd? Nope, he’s still around and wants to be a frontbencher. Are we moving away from every Disaster on this site?
Grocery watch
Fuelwatch
Pink batts.
BER
East Timor policy on the run
Failed hospital takeovers
Failed aboriginal housing
Failed GP super clinics
Etc
Etc
YOU BETCHA!!! But Ms Gillard, you had a hand in most of that, so are we moving away from your record as Education minister and deputy PM? Maybe Hawker Britton should have thought this one through better. When you “Move Forward” it usually means to get away from the past, and Julia as a member of the “gang of four” your past is shocking. One thing you moved forward very fast from, and that is a budget surplus. Despite a solid gold promise to uphold a surplus that went out the windows faster than a first term Labor PM.
Julia, we heard you the FIRST time, no need to repeat the same slogan over 30 times. We are not kids, we tend to get things first time around.
Actually, while we’re on the subject of “Moving Forward”, what are we moving away from? To move forward, we must leave something behind, Yes? Are we leaving behind the Howard years? I don’t think so, that was 3 years ago and since then Kevin Rudd and labor with you as the DEPUTY have been in power. Are we moving away from Kevin Rudd? Nope, he’s still around and wants to be a frontbencher. Are we moving away from every Disaster on this site?
Grocery watch
Fuelwatch
Pink batts.
BER
East Timor policy on the run
Failed hospital takeovers
Failed aboriginal housing
Failed GP super clinics
Etc
Etc
YOU BETCHA!!! But Ms Gillard, you had a hand in most of that, so are we moving away from your record as Education minister and deputy PM? Maybe Hawker Britton should have thought this one through better. When you “Move Forward” it usually means to get away from the past, and Julia as a member of the “gang of four” your past is shocking. One thing you moved forward very fast from, and that is a budget surplus. Despite a solid gold promise to uphold a surplus that went out the windows faster than a first term Labor PM.
The East Timor solution, Amateurs!
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/gillard-unveils-east-timor-solution-20100706-zy9s.html
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/confusion-over-pms-east-timor-solution-20100709-103x8.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-pulls-back-from-timor-solution-20100708-102a4.html
You think a serving Prime Minister would know that East Timor has a Prime Minister and the President is for show only. After all, this is a place where Australian troops upheld the peace in 1999. The fact is this idea was born out of desperation. The pacific solution of Howard worked so well, that Julia had no choice but to implement something similar. It would be political suicide to open Nauru. Imaging the caning the Libs would giver her after her very public opposition to Howard plan when in opposition. But the boats keep coming and it becomes an election issue, yet again.
In 2007, Rudd said he would stop the boats. He had to because Howard had already done so, another “me too” policy from the party devoid of original policy. Julia drafted the plan, Rudd implemented the plan, and the boats came at an electrifying pace. In 2003 it was “another boat, another policy failure” from Julia’s mouth.
In 2007 it was world factors causing the boats to arrive.
In 2010 it was panic mode as it was going to kill them in the elections. So out comes the ETS
The East Timor Solution! What a joke. The funniest thing is after all the dust had settled, Julia claimed the opposition was following HER solution. I don’t get it?
Tony is following Julia’s plan who was following her own plan but switched to Howard plan which was Abbotts plan??
Hawker Britton…give us a hand mate and spin this so I can understand?
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/confusion-over-pms-east-timor-solution-20100709-103x8.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-pulls-back-from-timor-solution-20100708-102a4.html
You think a serving Prime Minister would know that East Timor has a Prime Minister and the President is for show only. After all, this is a place where Australian troops upheld the peace in 1999. The fact is this idea was born out of desperation. The pacific solution of Howard worked so well, that Julia had no choice but to implement something similar. It would be political suicide to open Nauru. Imaging the caning the Libs would giver her after her very public opposition to Howard plan when in opposition. But the boats keep coming and it becomes an election issue, yet again.
In 2007, Rudd said he would stop the boats. He had to because Howard had already done so, another “me too” policy from the party devoid of original policy. Julia drafted the plan, Rudd implemented the plan, and the boats came at an electrifying pace. In 2003 it was “another boat, another policy failure” from Julia’s mouth.
In 2007 it was world factors causing the boats to arrive.
In 2010 it was panic mode as it was going to kill them in the elections. So out comes the ETS
The East Timor Solution! What a joke. The funniest thing is after all the dust had settled, Julia claimed the opposition was following HER solution. I don’t get it?
Tony is following Julia’s plan who was following her own plan but switched to Howard plan which was Abbotts plan??
Hawker Britton…give us a hand mate and spin this so I can understand?
Repeat after me Labor, WORKCHOICES IS DEAD!
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/mr-squiggle-abbotts-scrawl-over-the-workchoices-finish-line-20100719-10gpr.html
http://www.2ue.com.au/blogs/2ue-blog/workchoices-dead-buried-cremated/20100719-10ghw.html
It’s not the glory days of 2007 where the scare campaign of the unions
Reaped the rewards. It is now 2010 and Tony has stated.
“It is dead, buried and cremated” How much more plain can you get?
Labor knows it worked so well in 2007 that they want it to be an issue in 2010 and the MSM is helping that fantasy by grilling Tony Abbott on work choices.
Nobody wants to admit that Tony Abbott was against work choices in the first place, one of the few ministers who did. While Ms Gillard gets a free ride with her IR laws, in which she stated no worker would be worse off under her IR policy, which turned out to be untrue, Labor and the MSM continue to grill a dead 3 year old policy.
Are they insane? Tony has also stated as policy he WILL NOT touch fair work Australia for 3 years to see how it goes. If it needs fine tuning, he will. So the MSM and Labor state in 3 years he will bring back work choices.
This is fraudulent thinking and deserves the contempt of the Australian people.
Get over it Labor. The mileage you wish to get over work choices died 3 years ago.
Time to stand on your own IR policy, which is shaky to say the least.
http://www.2ue.com.au/blogs/2ue-blog/workchoices-dead-buried-cremated/20100719-10ghw.html
It’s not the glory days of 2007 where the scare campaign of the unions
Reaped the rewards. It is now 2010 and Tony has stated.
“It is dead, buried and cremated” How much more plain can you get?
Labor knows it worked so well in 2007 that they want it to be an issue in 2010 and the MSM is helping that fantasy by grilling Tony Abbott on work choices.
Nobody wants to admit that Tony Abbott was against work choices in the first place, one of the few ministers who did. While Ms Gillard gets a free ride with her IR laws, in which she stated no worker would be worse off under her IR policy, which turned out to be untrue, Labor and the MSM continue to grill a dead 3 year old policy.
Are they insane? Tony has also stated as policy he WILL NOT touch fair work Australia for 3 years to see how it goes. If it needs fine tuning, he will. So the MSM and Labor state in 3 years he will bring back work choices.
This is fraudulent thinking and deserves the contempt of the Australian people.
Get over it Labor. The mileage you wish to get over work choices died 3 years ago.
Time to stand on your own IR policy, which is shaky to say the least.
YOU pay for Union ballots…..good one Julia!
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/tony-abbotts-promise-to-axe-union-ballots-breaks-fair-work-act/story-fn5z3z83-1225894994374
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/21/2960495.htm
No wonder the Unions love Labor. If it’s not getting members into parliament, knifing a sitting PM it’s getting the Australian taxpayers to pay for union ballots. Gee, next we’ll be paying for gold cards for union bosses! I for one don’t pay taxes for this sort of rubbish and would like the Australian to think real hard on this one. How much Union influence is allowed in government before Government is compromised?
If Shorten, who’s claim to fame is getting his head in every camera shot during the Beaconsfield mine disaster can help knife a sitting PM, what’s the point of voting for a Labor member at all? Your rights at work my A**
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/21/2960495.htm
No wonder the Unions love Labor. If it’s not getting members into parliament, knifing a sitting PM it’s getting the Australian taxpayers to pay for union ballots. Gee, next we’ll be paying for gold cards for union bosses! I for one don’t pay taxes for this sort of rubbish and would like the Australian to think real hard on this one. How much Union influence is allowed in government before Government is compromised?
If Shorten, who’s claim to fame is getting his head in every camera shot during the Beaconsfield mine disaster can help knife a sitting PM, what’s the point of voting for a Labor member at all? Your rights at work my A**
Rudd sends aide to Defence briefing, Julia doesn't say Squat!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/kevin-rudd-denies-leaving-national-security-matters-to-alister-jordan/story-fn59niix-1225896144486
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/rudds-disdain-for-security-committee-20100722-10mxv.html
Has anybody read the book "The Sum Of All Fears" by Tom Clancy? This classic best seller is about a Nuclear bomb going off in the city of Denver by terrorists and lead character Jack Ryan saves the day by taking control over a out of his depth President of the USA. In the book, the President never attends defence scenarios and briefings to the dismay and anger of defence officials and when the S*** hist the fan, the President can't cope or deal with the situation. A world catastrophe
is narrowly avoided. But this is piece of fiction, In Australia we have the real deal! A PM who sent an aide to defence briefings is simply too mind boggling to comprehend. As with all Rudd stuff ups, the "Gang of four" were there all the way, supporting and agreeing with every policy. It all comes down to polls with Labor. With Kevin07 riding high in the polls, and re-election guaranteed, why would Gillard, Swan or Tanner say anything? Guilt by association here as Julia never had a word to Kevin about not attending Defence meetings.
Julia had said "I worked alongside Kevin Rudd as prime minister. And as prime minster Kevin Rudd was deeply concerned about the security of the Australian people,
So why did you not say anything Julia? Either you were one of 2 things.
You were either weak or you were happy with the state of affairs.
And since you knifed Kevin Rudd and took over the PM's role because the "Government had lost its way" and since you said" I worked alongside Kevin Rudd as prime minister" by default that means YOU lost your way as well. So the takeover was all about polls and being re-elected, wasn't it Julia? the Labor Powerbrokers would have never gotten rid of Rudd if the polls were not plunging. You know it and so do the Australian people. If your polls slide in the near future, does that mean that the Government is losing it's way and will you be looking over your shoulder for Bill Shorten and Paul Howes?
I think I now understand the reason for the influx of boats, Kevin Probably didn't attend that meeting, you had changed your tune about "another boat, another policy failure" and the polls were just super.
To sum up this issue, look at the top of this website to the 2007 Labor/Rudd election card that was widely used.
In the six point plan, have a read of planNo 5.....MAINTAIN OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
You can't maintain it if you don't know how to do it.
As Gerry Harvey said, AMATEURS !!!!!!!!!!!
Julia Gillard has a 2 year affair with a married man.....ok with this ladies?
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2006/s1586140.htm
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/womens_weekly_campaigns_for_gillard_despite_its_one_admission/
So here is a question to the men and women of Australia. Do you think it is ok for a person aspiring to be Prime Minister to conduct a two year affair with a married man and demand loyalty from her party and the citizens of Australia. This Woman has already shown the people of Australia her version of loyalty. Pledge loyalty to the elected Prime Minister, then stab him in the back from the urging of union hacks. Show loyalty to the sisterhood by destroying a marriage and wrecking the lives of children involved. Now I know it takes two to tango and Emerson is equally awarded the scumbag title for this. But Julia knew that Emerson was married with 3 children but did not hesitate for a second.
So its ok to have an affair if your a Labor pollie. Hawke, Emerson, Gareth Evans/Cheryl Kernot, Della Bosca to name a few have all joined the cheating fraternity. However, if you a Liberal in Ross Cameron, oh boy will you get the full blast from the hypocritical Labor party. In NSW, we all remember the relentless press hounding if this individual who ended up quitting his seat over an affair. Labor were aghast at this, how could he do this to his lovely wife. Now that Joolyia has been exposed as a women who not only had an affair but has no regrets, where is the outrage from the media? Women of Australia, having the first female PM of this country is a great thing IF the person chosen by the voting public was of a high standard. Julia Gillard was installed instead of elected by the unions. She is a cheater. Good role model Ladies? instead of Tony Abbott, who has been portrayed as anti-women, but is married with 3 lovely daughters. I know who I want as a role model for my two children and it IS NOT a serial cheater and backstabber.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/womens_weekly_campaigns_for_gillard_despite_its_one_admission/
So here is a question to the men and women of Australia. Do you think it is ok for a person aspiring to be Prime Minister to conduct a two year affair with a married man and demand loyalty from her party and the citizens of Australia. This Woman has already shown the people of Australia her version of loyalty. Pledge loyalty to the elected Prime Minister, then stab him in the back from the urging of union hacks. Show loyalty to the sisterhood by destroying a marriage and wrecking the lives of children involved. Now I know it takes two to tango and Emerson is equally awarded the scumbag title for this. But Julia knew that Emerson was married with 3 children but did not hesitate for a second.
So its ok to have an affair if your a Labor pollie. Hawke, Emerson, Gareth Evans/Cheryl Kernot, Della Bosca to name a few have all joined the cheating fraternity. However, if you a Liberal in Ross Cameron, oh boy will you get the full blast from the hypocritical Labor party. In NSW, we all remember the relentless press hounding if this individual who ended up quitting his seat over an affair. Labor were aghast at this, how could he do this to his lovely wife. Now that Joolyia has been exposed as a women who not only had an affair but has no regrets, where is the outrage from the media? Women of Australia, having the first female PM of this country is a great thing IF the person chosen by the voting public was of a high standard. Julia Gillard was installed instead of elected by the unions. She is a cheater. Good role model Ladies? instead of Tony Abbott, who has been portrayed as anti-women, but is married with 3 lovely daughters. I know who I want as a role model for my two children and it IS NOT a serial cheater and backstabber.
Citizens assembly......talk fest yet again, give up Labor!!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/citizens-assembly-has-lost-labor-crucial-support/story-fn59niix-1225896780474
“GUESS which former Australian deputy prime minister and current Prime Minister lectured the nation last November, telling us “Australians can’t afford any more inquiries, reports or investigations into climate change”?
This si the same woman who said Another boat, another policy failure so saying one thing and doing the opposite is quite standard for Julia.
Of course we can afford more inquiries, the more the merrier the Labor way. Well done Julia, it seems more and more that Kevin Rudd was the brains of the outfit which is even more scary. You have a couple of hundred people employed at Penny and Garretts Climate change centre doing sweet FA. Why not use them? I am sure Penny could use the work and so could Peter, but first you will have to find them? Yoo Hoo, anybody seen the ministers for climate buildings and pot plants? Rudd delayed the ETS on advice from Julia, so Julia is handling the problem by having yet another Labor talkfest.
I though it was the governments job to come up with policy, not employ 150 people to come up with new ideas. Why not ask Tony for ideas? No more needs to be said on this but if you think that this is silly, have a look a t NSW Labor. They are having a meeting next week where ministers need to come up with 5 ideas to fix NSW! Poor old Labor, you can only blame John Howard so many times before you have to face the reality of your own ineptness.
“GUESS which former Australian deputy prime minister and current Prime Minister lectured the nation last November, telling us “Australians can’t afford any more inquiries, reports or investigations into climate change”?
This si the same woman who said Another boat, another policy failure so saying one thing and doing the opposite is quite standard for Julia.
Of course we can afford more inquiries, the more the merrier the Labor way. Well done Julia, it seems more and more that Kevin Rudd was the brains of the outfit which is even more scary. You have a couple of hundred people employed at Penny and Garretts Climate change centre doing sweet FA. Why not use them? I am sure Penny could use the work and so could Peter, but first you will have to find them? Yoo Hoo, anybody seen the ministers for climate buildings and pot plants? Rudd delayed the ETS on advice from Julia, so Julia is handling the problem by having yet another Labor talkfest.
I though it was the governments job to come up with policy, not employ 150 people to come up with new ideas. Why not ask Tony for ideas? No more needs to be said on this but if you think that this is silly, have a look a t NSW Labor. They are having a meeting next week where ministers need to come up with 5 ideas to fix NSW! Poor old Labor, you can only blame John Howard so many times before you have to face the reality of your own ineptness.
National security aides.....JULIA DID TOO!!!!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/election/gillard-disregarded-national-security/story-fn5zm695-1225899329630
I asked in a previous paragraph why Julia did not say anything to Rudd over him sending his aide to defence briefings.
Well today, we find out the real reason and that is of course......Julia did it as well! National security is one portfolio you do not want to get wrong. It is vital to this nations interest. To send staffers in your place is criminal. But it also explains the Influx of boat people over the term of Labor. Labor have no interest in National affairs or security. The successful Howard Pacific solution was scrapped because of Labor ideology, not because it was a bad policy. Now with defence, Julia has shown defence matters just do not matter to her or Rudd. And hey, why would unions be interested in defence? Like old people, there are no votes in defence. Defence force traditionally votes liberal becuase Labor have a deep history of screwing over defence. Look at the scrapped pension for ADF members. The cost cutting, the retirement of defence assts ie HMAS Melbourne. So this is the woman the union have decided to be our commander in chief? The new policy must be to laugh potential enemies to death and with this bunch of clowns in office it may just work!
I asked in a previous paragraph why Julia did not say anything to Rudd over him sending his aide to defence briefings.
Well today, we find out the real reason and that is of course......Julia did it as well! National security is one portfolio you do not want to get wrong. It is vital to this nations interest. To send staffers in your place is criminal. But it also explains the Influx of boat people over the term of Labor. Labor have no interest in National affairs or security. The successful Howard Pacific solution was scrapped because of Labor ideology, not because it was a bad policy. Now with defence, Julia has shown defence matters just do not matter to her or Rudd. And hey, why would unions be interested in defence? Like old people, there are no votes in defence. Defence force traditionally votes liberal becuase Labor have a deep history of screwing over defence. Look at the scrapped pension for ADF members. The cost cutting, the retirement of defence assts ie HMAS Melbourne. So this is the woman the union have decided to be our commander in chief? The new policy must be to laugh potential enemies to death and with this bunch of clowns in office it may just work!
The REAL Kevin Rudd......Fake, Rude, scheming....Told ya!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/the-rudd-we-never-really-knew/story-e6frezz0-1225899480960
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/kevin-007-was-our-double-agent-libs/story-e6frewt0-1225899489554
This man is now officially the biggest flop, disaster and mistake the Australian people ever made. Just goes to show what Hawker-Britton managed to achieve in selling this man to a gullible public and making it seem that Rudd was a better option than John Howard. And the same Spin merchants that sold you the biggest Lemon on the world stage are now back with an even better offer, arise Ye Julia Gillard! If Labor, the unions and Hawker-Britton were all behind Krudd, knowing what a disaster he was, then how much is hidden from us from the Red witch?
Think about it carefuuly, it is all about power. Krudd should not have in charge of the coffee machine, let alone the country. We have paid for it for 3 years in debt, mismanagement, waste and failed policy. And head nodding julia was there all the way, only striking when the polls indicated they may lose power. Otherwise Julia was happy for the Rudd experiment to continue. Ever wonder how Australia would go under Latham, well we just have for 3 years and we will for another term under Labor. Ashamed that Austrlia was hoodwinked by these conartists. Dont let em foll you again.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/kevin-007-was-our-double-agent-libs/story-e6frewt0-1225899489554
This man is now officially the biggest flop, disaster and mistake the Australian people ever made. Just goes to show what Hawker-Britton managed to achieve in selling this man to a gullible public and making it seem that Rudd was a better option than John Howard. And the same Spin merchants that sold you the biggest Lemon on the world stage are now back with an even better offer, arise Ye Julia Gillard! If Labor, the unions and Hawker-Britton were all behind Krudd, knowing what a disaster he was, then how much is hidden from us from the Red witch?
Think about it carefuuly, it is all about power. Krudd should not have in charge of the coffee machine, let alone the country. We have paid for it for 3 years in debt, mismanagement, waste and failed policy. And head nodding julia was there all the way, only striking when the polls indicated they may lose power. Otherwise Julia was happy for the Rudd experiment to continue. Ever wonder how Australia would go under Latham, well we just have for 3 years and we will for another term under Labor. Ashamed that Austrlia was hoodwinked by these conartists. Dont let em foll you again.
Krudd raided Future fund, now Gillard raids Medibank for 300 Million
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-election/labor-taps-medibank-reserves-for-election-20100802-113fj.html
Labor does it again with the raiding of Medibank Private of $300 Million. Now what is the 300 million for you ask?
For poll spending, what else? It was bad enough Rudd and Gillard raided Billions for the Howard Future fund. You remember Howard? He was the former Prime Minister that Labor considered was a man who engaged in reckless spending.
And of course Labor would end reckless spending as part of their 2007 campaign pledge. And who can forget Rudds promise to be a fiscal conservative? Now that Rudd was knifed by Jools, We could all expect an end to all that. After all, Jools knifed him because the Govrnment had lost its way. Now Gillard reveals herself to be Rudd MkII By doing exactly the same. 300 Million people! Is this another fiscal conservative decision by Gillard?
We all know Garrett said when we get in we will change everything, but fair suck of the sauce bottle labor! How about
paying for this with union funds. After all your not shy of using Union funds for scare campaign and averstising.
It is hard to believe that the Australian people would even consider giving Labor another go after showing no shame in blowing taxpayers fund, day, day out. And is this the idea of the NEW Julia or the OLD Julia?
Labor does it again with the raiding of Medibank Private of $300 Million. Now what is the 300 million for you ask?
For poll spending, what else? It was bad enough Rudd and Gillard raided Billions for the Howard Future fund. You remember Howard? He was the former Prime Minister that Labor considered was a man who engaged in reckless spending.
And of course Labor would end reckless spending as part of their 2007 campaign pledge. And who can forget Rudds promise to be a fiscal conservative? Now that Rudd was knifed by Jools, We could all expect an end to all that. After all, Jools knifed him because the Govrnment had lost its way. Now Gillard reveals herself to be Rudd MkII By doing exactly the same. 300 Million people! Is this another fiscal conservative decision by Gillard?
We all know Garrett said when we get in we will change everything, but fair suck of the sauce bottle labor! How about
paying for this with union funds. After all your not shy of using Union funds for scare campaign and averstising.
It is hard to believe that the Australian people would even consider giving Labor another go after showing no shame in blowing taxpayers fund, day, day out. And is this the idea of the NEW Julia or the OLD Julia?
Julia announces ghost rail link, pity NSW Labor didn't know.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/election/julia-gillards-rush-for-city-train-for-epping-to-parramatta-for-the-federal-election/story-fn5zm695-1225905577771
I've lived in NSW for a long time and I've heard this rail line be announced time and time again to the point where you are more likely to see a spectral ghost train hurling past the proposed site than the real thing ever being started, let alone completed. It's like Labor dust off the same promise every couple of years to use in a new election and the gullible swallow and ask for more. here in NSW, we are hardened to this after decades of spin and bullshit. So when this rail was announced "yet again" the howls of laughter were louder than listening to Paul Howes try to belittle Abbott.
Rail lines
GP super clinics
Laptops for kids.
Fool watch
Grocery watch
Promised budget surpluses
abandoned child care centres
tech colleges
Aboriginal housing
pinks batts
BER
asylum seekers
no political advertising on policies
hospital takeovers
No changes to super laws
avoiding national security briefs
Oh Labor, is there anything you can do right?
Apart from knifing a first term PM of course!
I've lived in NSW for a long time and I've heard this rail line be announced time and time again to the point where you are more likely to see a spectral ghost train hurling past the proposed site than the real thing ever being started, let alone completed. It's like Labor dust off the same promise every couple of years to use in a new election and the gullible swallow and ask for more. here in NSW, we are hardened to this after decades of spin and bullshit. So when this rail was announced "yet again" the howls of laughter were louder than listening to Paul Howes try to belittle Abbott.
Rail lines
GP super clinics
Laptops for kids.
Fool watch
Grocery watch
Promised budget surpluses
abandoned child care centres
tech colleges
Aboriginal housing
pinks batts
BER
asylum seekers
no political advertising on policies
hospital takeovers
No changes to super laws
avoiding national security briefs
Oh Labor, is there anything you can do right?
Apart from knifing a first term PM of course!
Julia’s Internet doctors, WTF?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/election/cash-back-for-remote-consults/story-fn5zm695-1225905859224
Why is this plan necessary now that Labor’s GP super clinics are up and running?
As per Kevin 07’s election promise? Oh that’s right, the scare campaign of Abbott closing The GP super clinics is a lie as only 2 of the 36 were built in the first place! And the national takeover over hospitals ending up being bull dust too. So Julia comes up with this gem. Labor seems to think everything can be fixed with a website.
Fuel watch
Groceywatch
My schools.
And now we have heathwatch! Doctors must be laughing their heads off at this one. Must be real easy to diagnose meningococcal disease via a 2megapixel web camera. And of course all the “web doctors” Will be certified professionals. This is a stupid policy that will endanger many lives. Instead Julia, How about actually delivering the 2007 promises of taking over woeful state labor hospitals and the GP superclinics.
Why is this plan necessary now that Labor’s GP super clinics are up and running?
As per Kevin 07’s election promise? Oh that’s right, the scare campaign of Abbott closing The GP super clinics is a lie as only 2 of the 36 were built in the first place! And the national takeover over hospitals ending up being bull dust too. So Julia comes up with this gem. Labor seems to think everything can be fixed with a website.
Fuel watch
Groceywatch
My schools.
And now we have heathwatch! Doctors must be laughing their heads off at this one. Must be real easy to diagnose meningococcal disease via a 2megapixel web camera. And of course all the “web doctors” Will be certified professionals. This is a stupid policy that will endanger many lives. Instead Julia, How about actually delivering the 2007 promises of taking over woeful state labor hospitals and the GP superclinics.
Julia talks "off the cuff" without notes of course......LIAR!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/julias_missing_notes_turn_up_on_her_lectern/
Wasn't it exciting? The PM was going to launch her campaign without notes and speak off the cuff as it were.
The stupid gullible Australian Media fell for it as per usual regarding Labor spin. But there was one small problem. The cameras showed a guy placing notes on the dias for Julia! Here we have a un elected PM, saying she will fire from the hip, attracts all sorts of media hype and then lies and has notes hidden behind the dias. We have Bill Hayden getting all excited saying this has never happened before. We he's right, it hasn't happended before with a Labor leader and it still hasn't. Julia once again has shown to be a liar and the media with our ABC leading the charge swallowing more rubbish.
Here's a news flash MSM, we the people are getting very pissed off with your bias. You grill Tony Abbott day in, day out, whilst asking Julia what her favourite colour is. If your personal views are to vote labor, go for it. That is your right. It is OUR right to chose based on what we hear and what we see and past and present performance. NOT what you want us to hear. That's called propaganda and the Australian MSM should be ashamed that it is fast becoming a tabloid media. If Tony Abbott had done this, it would be front page headlines, first on the 6 o'clock news etc. Julia doing it barely gets mention. Wake up and do your jobs ladies and gentlemen and REPORT THE FACTS, not your beliefs!
Wasn't it exciting? The PM was going to launch her campaign without notes and speak off the cuff as it were.
The stupid gullible Australian Media fell for it as per usual regarding Labor spin. But there was one small problem. The cameras showed a guy placing notes on the dias for Julia! Here we have a un elected PM, saying she will fire from the hip, attracts all sorts of media hype and then lies and has notes hidden behind the dias. We have Bill Hayden getting all excited saying this has never happened before. We he's right, it hasn't happended before with a Labor leader and it still hasn't. Julia once again has shown to be a liar and the media with our ABC leading the charge swallowing more rubbish.
Here's a news flash MSM, we the people are getting very pissed off with your bias. You grill Tony Abbott day in, day out, whilst asking Julia what her favourite colour is. If your personal views are to vote labor, go for it. That is your right. It is OUR right to chose based on what we hear and what we see and past and present performance. NOT what you want us to hear. That's called propaganda and the Australian MSM should be ashamed that it is fast becoming a tabloid media. If Tony Abbott had done this, it would be front page headlines, first on the 6 o'clock news etc. Julia doing it barely gets mention. Wake up and do your jobs ladies and gentlemen and REPORT THE FACTS, not your beliefs!
The two candidates, what a difference.
Lets look at the difference between the two candidates and what a stark contrast between the two.
Lets also assume that if elected, Julia gets through her first term without being knifed by union hacks.
TONY ABBOTT JULIA GILLARD
Volunteer Firefighter No community volunteering ever
Volunteer Lifesaver No community volunteering ever
Volunteer Aboriginal community teacher No community volunteering ever
Economics degree No economics degree
Married Has affairs with married men
Ex journalist Ex Lawyer
3 children with home Mortgage No children no mortgage
Catholic faith Atheist
Successful Health Minister Education Minister for the BER rorting
Supported his PM Knifed her PM
His Government left 20 Billion surplus Her government left 90 Billion Debt
Has always belonged to the Liberal party Documented Links to the Communist party
Needs Liberal votes to win Needs Green preference to win
Rhodes scholar Fabian socialist society
Has not changed his standing "Real Julia" revealed compared to fake Julia
Stopped the boats Says " Another boat another policy failure" when in
opposition but has no idea in government
Chosen opposition leader UN-elected PM
I think that sums it up. Why on Earth would Australia consider such a person for PM? It doesn't matter whether it's
a man or woman. The performance of Julia as the gang of four and as Pm has been terrible. If you elect her as PM, you validate the Labor and union model of knifing your PM if the polls dive. The NSW model is now at the federal level and if you need a glimpse into the future of Australia under Labor, look no further than NSW, which is the poster child of bad government ever in this country. Labor need to go back to opposition so as to realise that Union hacks DO NOT deserve the power they wield. The Labor party need to rule for US the people, not the party and power.
I urge you all to give Tony Abbott a go, he is a proven performer, not a amateur like Labor has been. No more waste, no more mismanagement, no more Union hacks deciding on our PM. Bring back decency in government and end this 3 years of disasters. Rudd is gone but his policies are still here under Gillards watch. The union hacks are still there, Howes, Shorten, Abib etc. And remember, a vote for the lunatic Greens will keeps these sponges in power.
Lets also assume that if elected, Julia gets through her first term without being knifed by union hacks.
TONY ABBOTT JULIA GILLARD
Volunteer Firefighter No community volunteering ever
Volunteer Lifesaver No community volunteering ever
Volunteer Aboriginal community teacher No community volunteering ever
Economics degree No economics degree
Married Has affairs with married men
Ex journalist Ex Lawyer
3 children with home Mortgage No children no mortgage
Catholic faith Atheist
Successful Health Minister Education Minister for the BER rorting
Supported his PM Knifed her PM
His Government left 20 Billion surplus Her government left 90 Billion Debt
Has always belonged to the Liberal party Documented Links to the Communist party
Needs Liberal votes to win Needs Green preference to win
Rhodes scholar Fabian socialist society
Has not changed his standing "Real Julia" revealed compared to fake Julia
Stopped the boats Says " Another boat another policy failure" when in
opposition but has no idea in government
Chosen opposition leader UN-elected PM
I think that sums it up. Why on Earth would Australia consider such a person for PM? It doesn't matter whether it's
a man or woman. The performance of Julia as the gang of four and as Pm has been terrible. If you elect her as PM, you validate the Labor and union model of knifing your PM if the polls dive. The NSW model is now at the federal level and if you need a glimpse into the future of Australia under Labor, look no further than NSW, which is the poster child of bad government ever in this country. Labor need to go back to opposition so as to realise that Union hacks DO NOT deserve the power they wield. The Labor party need to rule for US the people, not the party and power.
I urge you all to give Tony Abbott a go, he is a proven performer, not a amateur like Labor has been. No more waste, no more mismanagement, no more Union hacks deciding on our PM. Bring back decency in government and end this 3 years of disasters. Rudd is gone but his policies are still here under Gillards watch. The union hacks are still there, Howes, Shorten, Abib etc. And remember, a vote for the lunatic Greens will keeps these sponges in power.
Julia says Rudd a non issue in election. Bulls***
http://au.news.yahoo.com/election/a/-/article/7794260/gillard-says-rudd-is-non-issue/
Julia Gillard pleads with us to forgetKevin07. The knifing of Rudd should be a non issue in this election and they
should yet again "Move forward".Here's news for you Julia. You and the union dumped an elected PM, something YOUR not! Labor and it's online bloggers love to point out that The Liberal party went through a few leaders in opposition prior to Tony Abbott taking the reigns. Can they not see the difference. The winner of federal elections become PM because they were ELECTED to run the country. The other party either remains in opposition or becomes the opposition. Then depending on the reasons for the loss, the leader of the opposition can and is replaced. The PM is only removed if he or she loses the election. For a deputy PM and Union hacks to removed a elected PM goes against everything democracy stands for. We the people are angry that WE didn't get a say in who runs the country, as is the reasons for elections.
And forget about the rubbish about electing the party and not the person as the 2007 election was all about "Kevin07"
All you Labor ministers rode in on Kevins coat tails. He was the messia, the popular one, the whole campaign was run on "Kevin07" with banners, car flags, posters, numper stickers and t-shirts with his name on them. There was No Latham04 or Beazley98 and now there is no Joolyia10. You made it a one man show, then dumped him when he failed. Do you get now why we are so pissed. Rudd was bad enough and might or might not have won the election. To have Julia installed by backroom deals ala NSW is WRONG!!!
So don't insult our intelligence Julia. It was a HUGE event, unprecedented in our History and we will not stand for it.
You and the unions had no right. If you lost the election,then so be it. Instead you panicked and knifed a sitting PM and made us a laughing stock world wide. Union members are not elected or ordained to choose PM's on a whim. A deputy needs to be loyal and you and Swan have shown us all that brand labor is in it for brand Labor and not Australians.
Julia Gillard pleads with us to forgetKevin07. The knifing of Rudd should be a non issue in this election and they
should yet again "Move forward".Here's news for you Julia. You and the union dumped an elected PM, something YOUR not! Labor and it's online bloggers love to point out that The Liberal party went through a few leaders in opposition prior to Tony Abbott taking the reigns. Can they not see the difference. The winner of federal elections become PM because they were ELECTED to run the country. The other party either remains in opposition or becomes the opposition. Then depending on the reasons for the loss, the leader of the opposition can and is replaced. The PM is only removed if he or she loses the election. For a deputy PM and Union hacks to removed a elected PM goes against everything democracy stands for. We the people are angry that WE didn't get a say in who runs the country, as is the reasons for elections.
And forget about the rubbish about electing the party and not the person as the 2007 election was all about "Kevin07"
All you Labor ministers rode in on Kevins coat tails. He was the messia, the popular one, the whole campaign was run on "Kevin07" with banners, car flags, posters, numper stickers and t-shirts with his name on them. There was No Latham04 or Beazley98 and now there is no Joolyia10. You made it a one man show, then dumped him when he failed. Do you get now why we are so pissed. Rudd was bad enough and might or might not have won the election. To have Julia installed by backroom deals ala NSW is WRONG!!!
So don't insult our intelligence Julia. It was a HUGE event, unprecedented in our History and we will not stand for it.
You and the unions had no right. If you lost the election,then so be it. Instead you panicked and knifed a sitting PM and made us a laughing stock world wide. Union members are not elected or ordained to choose PM's on a whim. A deputy needs to be loyal and you and Swan have shown us all that brand labor is in it for brand Labor and not Australians.
Labor now borrowing 100 million dollars every day to repay debt. AMATEURS!!!
Gillard back flips on Carbon Tax, what a surprise!
Well it didn’t take long for Gillard to outdo Rudd on lying.
On August 17th Gillard rules out a carbon tax, knowing to take it into
The election will be the death knell of her party, especially after the Rudd
Years of policy back flips. So being a good Labor politician, she stands up and proclaims no carbon tax.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/climate/gillard-rules-out-imposing-carbon-tax-20100816-1270b.html
Wayne Swan the doyen of treasurers proclaims an evil Liberal smear campaign when they state, Gillard will bring in the tax. So Gillard and her cronies go to the election,
And scrape in with the lowest primary vote in ages with the help of the independents.
So now she is in power and all those election promises need costing and of course the approval of the greens and the independents.
Surprise, surprise
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/27/2938114.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/bhps-move-puts-carbon-tax-back-on-gillards-agenda-20100916-15epm.html?autostart=1
Before you know it, out goes the election promise faster than a weeping Rudd.
Well Wayne, what now mate? Were the Liberals running a fear campaign or were they right and Gillard, yourself and rest lying their collective heads off?
Guess the results speak for themselves, LIARS!!!!!!
I was also reminded by email on the Union and ALP proaganda of Tony Abbott bringing back workchoices during the recent campaign. The hysterical way in which they portrayed Tony Abbott as a liar in saying workchoices is dead was defeaning. Radio, TV and Newspaper were overflowing with workchoices blah blah. Despite Tony Abbott's best efforts, the public once again fell for spin and lies, like Tony Abbott ripping 1 billion from the health system. This lie was finally admitted by Labor after the election. Now we have Labor proving absloute, that their word is as much use as a union hack in overalls. Guess what ALP, not a good look to accuse others of lying while being the defining definition of the word through your actions.
On August 17th Gillard rules out a carbon tax, knowing to take it into
The election will be the death knell of her party, especially after the Rudd
Years of policy back flips. So being a good Labor politician, she stands up and proclaims no carbon tax.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/climate/gillard-rules-out-imposing-carbon-tax-20100816-1270b.html
Wayne Swan the doyen of treasurers proclaims an evil Liberal smear campaign when they state, Gillard will bring in the tax. So Gillard and her cronies go to the election,
And scrape in with the lowest primary vote in ages with the help of the independents.
So now she is in power and all those election promises need costing and of course the approval of the greens and the independents.
Surprise, surprise
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/27/2938114.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/bhps-move-puts-carbon-tax-back-on-gillards-agenda-20100916-15epm.html?autostart=1
Before you know it, out goes the election promise faster than a weeping Rudd.
Well Wayne, what now mate? Were the Liberals running a fear campaign or were they right and Gillard, yourself and rest lying their collective heads off?
Guess the results speak for themselves, LIARS!!!!!!
I was also reminded by email on the Union and ALP proaganda of Tony Abbott bringing back workchoices during the recent campaign. The hysterical way in which they portrayed Tony Abbott as a liar in saying workchoices is dead was defeaning. Radio, TV and Newspaper were overflowing with workchoices blah blah. Despite Tony Abbott's best efforts, the public once again fell for spin and lies, like Tony Abbott ripping 1 billion from the health system. This lie was finally admitted by Labor after the election. Now we have Labor proving absloute, that their word is as much use as a union hack in overalls. Guess what ALP, not a good look to accuse others of lying while being the defining definition of the word through your actions.
More and more boats arrive. Labor rolls over in defeat.
My my my, isn’t it simply tragic to see a border protection policy simply die
Under Labor. “We will stop the boats” is now simply a embarrassment that will
Hang on Julia’s head forever. She of “Another boat another policy failure” is now
Up to 180 policy failures and counting. But is Julia concerned? Of course not because you see, she thought
She could do so much better than Howard and the Pacific solution. Her abilities in opposition do not automatically transfer when catapulted into power. In fact since “aquiring” power from Rudd her abilities have gone with her policies, down the drain.
Remember how she was going to send back the boat people?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/julia-gillard-to-send-back-boatpeople/story-e6frg6n6-1225887782751
Guess that’s not possible now that the high court has backed the Asylum seekers
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/detention-system-hinges-on-high-courts-decision-on-boat-people-20101110-17nmo.htm
I guess this will make Julia very angry. And being very angry sure worked with the banks. But that’s another story.
Under Labor. “We will stop the boats” is now simply a embarrassment that will
Hang on Julia’s head forever. She of “Another boat another policy failure” is now
Up to 180 policy failures and counting. But is Julia concerned? Of course not because you see, she thought
She could do so much better than Howard and the Pacific solution. Her abilities in opposition do not automatically transfer when catapulted into power. In fact since “aquiring” power from Rudd her abilities have gone with her policies, down the drain.
Remember how she was going to send back the boat people?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/julia-gillard-to-send-back-boatpeople/story-e6frg6n6-1225887782751
Guess that’s not possible now that the high court has backed the Asylum seekers
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/detention-system-hinges-on-high-courts-decision-on-boat-people-20101110-17nmo.htm
I guess this will make Julia very angry. And being very angry sure worked with the banks. But that’s another story.
Greens a risk says Julia.... what a absolute hypocrite!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/victorian-election-2010/greens-a-risk-julia-gillard-tells-victorian-voters/story-fn6wlyrv-1225954666624
In the upcoming Victorian state election, Ms Gillard has stated to Victorian voters not to risk the greens. WTF?
If it wasn't for the greens preferences, you wouldn't be in power love. Wayne Swan would of lost his seat if not for the greens as well. So if the greens are a risk and they are proping up your inept government, that means be default YOU are a risk! I don't understand this. How can a party be a risk when they support your position in government?
The state Liberals have preferenced the greens last which Bob Brown is discusted with and has stated such, yet will not back away from supporting Labor. What did you expect Mr Brown you idiot! Adam Brant got a leg up with liberal preferences yet joined forces with Gillard , who has now called your party a risk? you constantly deny help to the Libs but want their preferences. You and gillard are a great pair, hypoocrites on the political stage.
I think the biggest risk is keeping this shonky government in power.
In the upcoming Victorian state election, Ms Gillard has stated to Victorian voters not to risk the greens. WTF?
If it wasn't for the greens preferences, you wouldn't be in power love. Wayne Swan would of lost his seat if not for the greens as well. So if the greens are a risk and they are proping up your inept government, that means be default YOU are a risk! I don't understand this. How can a party be a risk when they support your position in government?
The state Liberals have preferenced the greens last which Bob Brown is discusted with and has stated such, yet will not back away from supporting Labor. What did you expect Mr Brown you idiot! Adam Brant got a leg up with liberal preferences yet joined forces with Gillard , who has now called your party a risk? you constantly deny help to the Libs but want their preferences. You and gillard are a great pair, hypoocrites on the political stage.
I think the biggest risk is keeping this shonky government in power.
Labor warned not to close Nauru!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/immigration-officials-warned-of-increase-in-asylum-seekers/story-e6freuzr-1225958841355
Well Labor were warned that closing Nauru would cause an influx of new boat arrivals. But in typical Labor style, they think they knew better. Silly Howard and his Pacific Solution! We’ll scrap that straight away as it doesn’t tie in with what we believe. How can you claim “we will stop the boats” then close the centre and scrap the policy that stopped the boats in the first place? So when the boats started arriving in invasion type numbers what does the Ruddster do? Come up with this gem
"When the global asylum claims go up around the world they also go up for Australia; when they go down around the world they also go down for Australia," he said in Parliament in October 2009.
Always somebody else’s fault isn’t it Labor. It’s never your policies is it?
Even now, 3 years after your election win, you can still find policy failure to blame on Howard. And let us not forget our current PM, who claimed “Another boat arrival, another policy failure” So according to Rudd, Julia was wrong! It wasn’t a policy failure, it was the fact that global asylum claims had gone up.
Julia, please apologise to Howard as using Rudd’s excuse, it wasn’t his fault.
But that won’t happen as Labor are the party of hypocrites, liars, shonks and hacks.
When is somebody in Labor going to have the guts to admit what ALL Australians know? The boat problem is of Labor’s making and Labor's making alone.
Well Labor were warned that closing Nauru would cause an influx of new boat arrivals. But in typical Labor style, they think they knew better. Silly Howard and his Pacific Solution! We’ll scrap that straight away as it doesn’t tie in with what we believe. How can you claim “we will stop the boats” then close the centre and scrap the policy that stopped the boats in the first place? So when the boats started arriving in invasion type numbers what does the Ruddster do? Come up with this gem
"When the global asylum claims go up around the world they also go up for Australia; when they go down around the world they also go down for Australia," he said in Parliament in October 2009.
Always somebody else’s fault isn’t it Labor. It’s never your policies is it?
Even now, 3 years after your election win, you can still find policy failure to blame on Howard. And let us not forget our current PM, who claimed “Another boat arrival, another policy failure” So according to Rudd, Julia was wrong! It wasn’t a policy failure, it was the fact that global asylum claims had gone up.
Julia, please apologise to Howard as using Rudd’s excuse, it wasn’t his fault.
But that won’t happen as Labor are the party of hypocrites, liars, shonks and hacks.
When is somebody in Labor going to have the guts to admit what ALL Australians know? The boat problem is of Labor’s making and Labor's making alone.
Clear and transparent Government?
Let the sun shine in? Pity about the gag order
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/senators-reject-7-year-nbn-gag/comments-fn59niix-1225958046710
When Gillard and co snuck in with the help of Oakeshott and Windsor, we were told there would a new era, a government like none before, real Julia etc etc. Oakeshott’s incredibly long spiel about supporting Labor was like pulling your fingernails out, very very painful. So Rob, about your sun shining in?
How you figure on the Gillard governments take on a 7 year gag order on the NBN business case? You know the one that will cost a mere 43 Billion. The policy that will be the first Labor one to be on time, on budget or even completed!
So Tony, learnt how to use a computer yet? You went with Gillard on NBN on this issue...or was it payback my friend?
The Australian public can’t get any information on this, cross bench MP’s must sign
a gag order for 7 years on the business case. If john Howard had tried this, Gillard would have been screeching like a banshee. Rudd would have been in his element on the sneaky Howard as he tried to gag opposition.
I for one have had enough of this. Either release it or you prove that you have something to hide. And to the majority of Australians, they reckon they know what Labor are hiding. And that is the NBN will cost far far more than 43 Billion. But then again there is a track record of this since the price has blown out considerably since 2007. Wake up Australia, before you see gag orders on all of Comrade Gillard’s policies.
When Gillard and co snuck in with the help of Oakeshott and Windsor, we were told there would a new era, a government like none before, real Julia etc etc. Oakeshott’s incredibly long spiel about supporting Labor was like pulling your fingernails out, very very painful. So Rob, about your sun shining in?
How you figure on the Gillard governments take on a 7 year gag order on the NBN business case? You know the one that will cost a mere 43 Billion. The policy that will be the first Labor one to be on time, on budget or even completed!
So Tony, learnt how to use a computer yet? You went with Gillard on NBN on this issue...or was it payback my friend?
The Australian public can’t get any information on this, cross bench MP’s must sign
a gag order for 7 years on the business case. If john Howard had tried this, Gillard would have been screeching like a banshee. Rudd would have been in his element on the sneaky Howard as he tried to gag opposition.
I for one have had enough of this. Either release it or you prove that you have something to hide. And to the majority of Australians, they reckon they know what Labor are hiding. And that is the NBN will cost far far more than 43 Billion. But then again there is a track record of this since the price has blown out considerably since 2007. Wake up Australia, before you see gag orders on all of Comrade Gillard’s policies.
Just incase you missed it...........7 YEARS!
Labor's 5.5Billion buys 11 extra hospital beds.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labors-55bn-buys-just-11-new-hospital-beds-ama-claims/story-fn59niix-1225955974521
A national plan to fix our hospitals eh Ruddy? Good plan chops! Maybe we should scrap the NBN and use the 43 Billion
to buy some more beds.?
With the extra 43 billion, we should have enough beds to the open up a new ward at Nepean Hospital.
What say Julia? We'll even provide a pair of scissors. Or if you like, you can use the knife you used on Rudd to cut the ribbon.
A national plan to fix our hospitals eh Ruddy? Good plan chops! Maybe we should scrap the NBN and use the 43 Billion
to buy some more beds.?
With the extra 43 billion, we should have enough beds to the open up a new ward at Nepean Hospital.
What say Julia? We'll even provide a pair of scissors. Or if you like, you can use the knife you used on Rudd to cut the ribbon.
labor going down in the states.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/crisis-hit-alp-facing-disaster-in-three-states/story-e6freuzr-1225962405996
Western Australia started the rot with the dumping of Labor, Now it seems like Victoria is shedding 11 years of Labor waste. Now I can guarantee that NSW will dump Labor at March with an absolute thrashing. Anna Bligh in Queensland is very much on the nose and if NSW and Victoria are Labor free then Queenslanders will think along the same lines. The headlines are stating that Gillards health reform are in jepoardy now. What? Scroll up to Krudd 2007 election promises.
" A NATIONAL PLAN TO FIX HOSPITALS"
It is now 2010 and nothing has been done. waiting lists are blowing out even more, Hospitals are still underfunded and understaffed. Labor has had a couple of years to fix any problems with our health system and now it's all going to blow over beccause the nasty Liberal are in power in the states. Funny, but I always thought health was state run entity. Successive State ALP governemnts have failed to do anything worthwhile, while Federal Labor when in opposition blamed Tony Abbott for ripping a billion dollars for the health system. Oh, by the way, Ms Roxon, our health minister has now admitted that was a lie. So now what? Will Gillard blame the states now that State Labor is gone? Now that the Liberals are in power, will it become a state issue? Either way. It all comes down to this.
Old system under State Labor
Health= state funded and run= Labor Failure
Blame= federal minister Tony Abbott= liberal
New system under federal labor
Health state funded and run= Liberal failure
Blame= state Premier=Liberal
Julia should of called it a hospital revolution instead
Western Australia started the rot with the dumping of Labor, Now it seems like Victoria is shedding 11 years of Labor waste. Now I can guarantee that NSW will dump Labor at March with an absolute thrashing. Anna Bligh in Queensland is very much on the nose and if NSW and Victoria are Labor free then Queenslanders will think along the same lines. The headlines are stating that Gillards health reform are in jepoardy now. What? Scroll up to Krudd 2007 election promises.
" A NATIONAL PLAN TO FIX HOSPITALS"
It is now 2010 and nothing has been done. waiting lists are blowing out even more, Hospitals are still underfunded and understaffed. Labor has had a couple of years to fix any problems with our health system and now it's all going to blow over beccause the nasty Liberal are in power in the states. Funny, but I always thought health was state run entity. Successive State ALP governemnts have failed to do anything worthwhile, while Federal Labor when in opposition blamed Tony Abbott for ripping a billion dollars for the health system. Oh, by the way, Ms Roxon, our health minister has now admitted that was a lie. So now what? Will Gillard blame the states now that State Labor is gone? Now that the Liberals are in power, will it become a state issue? Either way. It all comes down to this.
Old system under State Labor
Health= state funded and run= Labor Failure
Blame= federal minister Tony Abbott= liberal
New system under federal labor
Health state funded and run= Liberal failure
Blame= state Premier=Liberal
Julia should of called it a hospital revolution instead
The “warmongering” Howard has nothing on Krudd
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/rudd-the-butt-of-wikileaks-expos-20101205-18lf2.html
Oh dear! What is worse than Kevin “Fiscal conservative” Rudd as our Prime Minister? And that is being our Foreign Minister after yet another disasterous week of the Labor party politics. Rudd had advocated using force if necessary against China and China being paranoid over Tibet and Taiwan. This is all come about over WikiLeaks spilling the beans on Governments around the world. You’d think Kevin would be applauding confidential leaks. After all, look at the recent Federal Election. The Labor campaign leaked confidential information throughout the campaign. And it all benefitted Rudd because it made Gillard look an even bigger Liar that she already is. Come on Ruddy, WikiLeaks is like a kindrid spirit for you Kevin.
It wasn’t enough for Kevin to damage Australia’s reputation as PM. HE is now doubling the effort as Foreign Minister, but Julia needs him to maintain government. So Kevin won’t be sacked anytime soon. After all, “whatever it takes” Kevin does have runs on the board regarding the Chinese anyway. Remember when he called them Ratf***ers? And Master Kevin was supposed to be some sort of Foreign affairs messia! Honestly, the man is a joke and to online bloggers , don’t try and defend the indefensible. The man is a fool. He was parachuted into the role to plug the leaks during the election and
now is hoisted by his own petard. The saddest thing for Australia is that we had an excellent foreign minister in Steve Smith but he was removed so Krudd could get what he wanted.
Typical Labor, don’t worry about the best man for the job, input a failed dud, or union hack who couldn’t run a Lemonade stand without putting his neighbourhood into debt.
Oh dear! What is worse than Kevin “Fiscal conservative” Rudd as our Prime Minister? And that is being our Foreign Minister after yet another disasterous week of the Labor party politics. Rudd had advocated using force if necessary against China and China being paranoid over Tibet and Taiwan. This is all come about over WikiLeaks spilling the beans on Governments around the world. You’d think Kevin would be applauding confidential leaks. After all, look at the recent Federal Election. The Labor campaign leaked confidential information throughout the campaign. And it all benefitted Rudd because it made Gillard look an even bigger Liar that she already is. Come on Ruddy, WikiLeaks is like a kindrid spirit for you Kevin.
It wasn’t enough for Kevin to damage Australia’s reputation as PM. HE is now doubling the effort as Foreign Minister, but Julia needs him to maintain government. So Kevin won’t be sacked anytime soon. After all, “whatever it takes” Kevin does have runs on the board regarding the Chinese anyway. Remember when he called them Ratf***ers? And Master Kevin was supposed to be some sort of Foreign affairs messia! Honestly, the man is a joke and to online bloggers , don’t try and defend the indefensible. The man is a fool. He was parachuted into the role to plug the leaks during the election and
now is hoisted by his own petard. The saddest thing for Australia is that we had an excellent foreign minister in Steve Smith but he was removed so Krudd could get what he wanted.
Typical Labor, don’t worry about the best man for the job, input a failed dud, or union hack who couldn’t run a Lemonade stand without putting his neighbourhood into debt.
Christmas Island Tragedy- see boatwatch page
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More Julia lies on her Leadership claims
The impresssion given to media circles on the leadership challenge is that it was a last minute thing. Poor julia was aghast that Kevin could question her Loyalty and raced to topple him. Good gubberment has lost its way said julia. This gave her a boost for the first few weeks of power. Poor Julia did it for the good of the nation and was a reluctant player in the historic toppling of a PM.
Even asked before "the night of the long knives" Julia had this quotes to say.
"a challenge for the Labor leadership is "not within cooee of my day-to-day reality".
"You may as well ask me whether I'm anticipating a trip to Mars."
"There's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor Party."
Now good old Wikileaks reveals the "Real Julia"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-after-top-job-a-year-before-coup-wikileaks/story-fn59niix-1225972416553
Oh dear, caught out fibbing again Jools! Almost a year before the knifing you were eyeing off the top job by any means.
So when did the "Real Julia" come out then? Loyal deputy eh? What is so funny is that during the 2007 election, Rudd and Gillard sniped at the Howard/Costello team on who is going to be the leader. They both played on this issue heavily creating doubt on the unity of the Liberal team. Oh Julia, you are such a hypocrite that your picture should be under the said word in the dictionary.
Even asked before "the night of the long knives" Julia had this quotes to say.
"a challenge for the Labor leadership is "not within cooee of my day-to-day reality".
"You may as well ask me whether I'm anticipating a trip to Mars."
"There's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor Party."
Now good old Wikileaks reveals the "Real Julia"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-after-top-job-a-year-before-coup-wikileaks/story-fn59niix-1225972416553
Oh dear, caught out fibbing again Jools! Almost a year before the knifing you were eyeing off the top job by any means.
So when did the "Real Julia" come out then? Loyal deputy eh? What is so funny is that during the 2007 election, Rudd and Gillard sniped at the Howard/Costello team on who is going to be the leader. They both played on this issue heavily creating doubt on the unity of the Liberal team. Oh Julia, you are such a hypocrite that your picture should be under the said word in the dictionary.
Labor spreads the blame except at its own doorstop.
The tragedy of Christmas Island is revealling to all the absolute gaul of Labor in plaing the blame game.
Never have I seen such hysterical replies from people representing or supporting a political party.
They all know what a big issue this is and sheer terror of finally being held accountable has produced massed panic among these clowns.
Lets start with the leader of the Greens Mr Bob Brown. His response so far has been to call for the sacking of columnist Andrew Bolt for blaming Labor for the deaths. This is the same tool that is more than happy to stand up for Wikileaks founder Mr Assange's right to free speech. I guess it depends on the message eh Bob? This is also a man who after the tragic deaths of Black Saturday was happy to hold a press onference and announce it was caused by climate change.
Senator Brown said the "dreadful inferno" was a terrible reminder of what climate change could mean for Australians.
"Global warming is predicted to make this sort of event happen 25 per cent, 50 per cent more," he told Sky News.
"It's a sobering reminder of the need for this nation and the whole world to act and put at a priority our need to tackle climate change.
Couldn't wait to get your message across eh Bob? 7th february was the date of Black Saturday. Bobs comments to the media? 8th February. I suggest you amend your next statement to this
"The dreadful loss of life was a terrible reminder of what policy change can mean for Australians"
Next we have David Marr, SMH Writer, sometimes guest panelist on Q& A and all round Labor supporter.
His response to the dradful loss of life......BLAME THE NAVY. Gee David, were you there? Ever done a rescue at sea?
Ever thought that your Bias leeds to stupid finger pointing? Guess not.
We have online bloggers nation wide accusing people of politicising the event. The same hypocrites were also torching ex Prine Minister Howard on SievX despite that tragic event happening nearly 1500 miles away. Nauru, children overboard , Tampa, they were all very loud in politicising those events. It seems Julia Gillards Hypocritical nature has full approval of her supporters as they strive to emulate their heroine.
And leading the pack with sheer stupidity is Rob Oakeshott, who is worried that the government let this happen.
Gillard might be inept Rob, but hey you backed her mate. Let the sun shine in on this tragedy Rob.
Now we have Gillard desperately asking for Bi-partisan support. How many issues did you give Bi-partisan support while in opposition Julia. Here's a hint. Look at the number 1 and count backwards. YOU politicised every Border incident under Howard. YOU stated the famous "Another boat another policy failure". YOU were the architect of the current policy.
YOU said you would stop the boats. YOU said you would fix the problem with the East Timor Solution. YOU screeched at Scott Morrison everytime he brought up the boats issue.
And now YOU are after something you never ever gave in Bi-partisan support.
This is policy failure using YOUR OWN WORDS!!
Now after years of judging , ye shall be judged Julia Gillard
Never have I seen such hysterical replies from people representing or supporting a political party.
They all know what a big issue this is and sheer terror of finally being held accountable has produced massed panic among these clowns.
Lets start with the leader of the Greens Mr Bob Brown. His response so far has been to call for the sacking of columnist Andrew Bolt for blaming Labor for the deaths. This is the same tool that is more than happy to stand up for Wikileaks founder Mr Assange's right to free speech. I guess it depends on the message eh Bob? This is also a man who after the tragic deaths of Black Saturday was happy to hold a press onference and announce it was caused by climate change.
Senator Brown said the "dreadful inferno" was a terrible reminder of what climate change could mean for Australians.
"Global warming is predicted to make this sort of event happen 25 per cent, 50 per cent more," he told Sky News.
"It's a sobering reminder of the need for this nation and the whole world to act and put at a priority our need to tackle climate change.
Couldn't wait to get your message across eh Bob? 7th february was the date of Black Saturday. Bobs comments to the media? 8th February. I suggest you amend your next statement to this
"The dreadful loss of life was a terrible reminder of what policy change can mean for Australians"
Next we have David Marr, SMH Writer, sometimes guest panelist on Q& A and all round Labor supporter.
His response to the dradful loss of life......BLAME THE NAVY. Gee David, were you there? Ever done a rescue at sea?
Ever thought that your Bias leeds to stupid finger pointing? Guess not.
We have online bloggers nation wide accusing people of politicising the event. The same hypocrites were also torching ex Prine Minister Howard on SievX despite that tragic event happening nearly 1500 miles away. Nauru, children overboard , Tampa, they were all very loud in politicising those events. It seems Julia Gillards Hypocritical nature has full approval of her supporters as they strive to emulate their heroine.
And leading the pack with sheer stupidity is Rob Oakeshott, who is worried that the government let this happen.
Gillard might be inept Rob, but hey you backed her mate. Let the sun shine in on this tragedy Rob.
Now we have Gillard desperately asking for Bi-partisan support. How many issues did you give Bi-partisan support while in opposition Julia. Here's a hint. Look at the number 1 and count backwards. YOU politicised every Border incident under Howard. YOU stated the famous "Another boat another policy failure". YOU were the architect of the current policy.
YOU said you would stop the boats. YOU said you would fix the problem with the East Timor Solution. YOU screeched at Scott Morrison everytime he brought up the boats issue.
And now YOU are after something you never ever gave in Bi-partisan support.
This is policy failure using YOUR OWN WORDS!!
Now after years of judging , ye shall be judged Julia Gillard
Another Labor failure, Green Start scrapped.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/jobs-lost-in-bloody-end-to-green-start/story-e6freuzr-1225974698202
Well Gillard only spent 123 Million on this fiasco, so I suppose i shouldn't be too harsh on her.
123 million is pretty good compared to the other billions wasted. Oh hang on a minute, Greg Combet has
to fork out 30 million to compensate the assessors who trained to deliver this scam. So that's 153 million.
By the way, hows your power bill this month. Hows your gas bill or waterbill going? Don't worry, those increases
will more than cover the latest 153 million blown. After all, taxpayer money grows on green trees. And of course Gillard
who couldn't stand waste when in oppostion could now write a book on the subject. Hope it's better than Rudds one
on kitty and woof woof.
Well Gillard only spent 123 Million on this fiasco, so I suppose i shouldn't be too harsh on her.
123 million is pretty good compared to the other billions wasted. Oh hang on a minute, Greg Combet has
to fork out 30 million to compensate the assessors who trained to deliver this scam. So that's 153 million.
By the way, hows your power bill this month. Hows your gas bill or waterbill going? Don't worry, those increases
will more than cover the latest 153 million blown. After all, taxpayer money grows on green trees. And of course Gillard
who couldn't stand waste when in oppostion could now write a book on the subject. Hope it's better than Rudds one
on kitty and woof woof.
Online Bloggers out in force.....co-incidence?
Ever since Rudd started backing away from his 2007 election promises and started his downward slide, there has always been a steady stream of online bloggers holding Rudd to account. As has there been Labor apologists to not only defend him but to still complain about the Howard years. When Rudd became indefensible with his many many policy backflips or stuff ups the bloggers became hysterial with there defence, trotting out tired out Howard era propaganda mixed with a generous mix of lies. When Rudd was axed, they switched their allegance to Gillard as the new saviour. She was going to fix the mining tax, boat people and the climate change issue all in one foul swoop. Alas, as predicted, all three "fixes" turned out to be Rudd type duds. Gillard duped the miners who are now looking to restart the media blitz. She hasn't the strength to go against the miners so is switching to the states as she sees them as less of a challenge. The boat issue....well we know how well that is turning out. and Climate change issue has been "fixed" with a carbon tax, despite her saying " There will be NO carbon tax under any government I lead". Her online bloggers have been frantic with desperation to salvage some sort of credibility for the Labor Government.
Now after the tragedy of Christmas island (you know the one Labor was going to close because it's a white elephant) a mass of "new" bloggers have arrived to defend her performance. They have been most vocal in their defence. In true form many have pointed at SievX and John Howard letting people drown. they have even go as far as saying SievX sank in Australian waters so to excuse 50 odd men, women and children drowning on the rocks at Christmas Island. How can people blatantly lie and not look like fools. SievX sank in Indonesian waters near Java, an island under Indonesian control. Labor 101 on how to rewrite history to condemn others and excuse your own. Now I have watched these online bloggs for years and have been a participant at times. Since the Christmas Island tragedy, I have seen Labor bloggers increase 10 fold. I have read some of the slanderous attacks on people who actually want the Government to admit the truth. I have read so called Journalists , the same who attacked Howard on the issue, defend Gillard or lay the blame elsewhere. I have read Bob Brown call for journalists to be sacked over calling for Julia's head. It all comes down to my belief that all the new online bloggers are infact, paid labor staffers told to get out there and defend our Julia. Companies in the past have done this before. During the computer wars 10 years ago companies had paid bloggers praising their products while berating the competition.
Are Governments so different? Why so a massive increase in bloggers after the Christmas island teagedy? why so many one off comments from people passionate about Labor. Mostly online bloggers, either Labor or Liberal, tend to be regular contributers. Only now, when Julia is looking shakey, her failures so obvious, her desperation so apparant, do we see "new"
people online commenting on the great Gillard. Call me cynical but I don't believe for a minute that these are regular joes, but Labor staffers with orders to "defend at all costs".
Now after the tragedy of Christmas island (you know the one Labor was going to close because it's a white elephant) a mass of "new" bloggers have arrived to defend her performance. They have been most vocal in their defence. In true form many have pointed at SievX and John Howard letting people drown. they have even go as far as saying SievX sank in Australian waters so to excuse 50 odd men, women and children drowning on the rocks at Christmas Island. How can people blatantly lie and not look like fools. SievX sank in Indonesian waters near Java, an island under Indonesian control. Labor 101 on how to rewrite history to condemn others and excuse your own. Now I have watched these online bloggs for years and have been a participant at times. Since the Christmas Island tragedy, I have seen Labor bloggers increase 10 fold. I have read some of the slanderous attacks on people who actually want the Government to admit the truth. I have read so called Journalists , the same who attacked Howard on the issue, defend Gillard or lay the blame elsewhere. I have read Bob Brown call for journalists to be sacked over calling for Julia's head. It all comes down to my belief that all the new online bloggers are infact, paid labor staffers told to get out there and defend our Julia. Companies in the past have done this before. During the computer wars 10 years ago companies had paid bloggers praising their products while berating the competition.
Are Governments so different? Why so a massive increase in bloggers after the Christmas island teagedy? why so many one off comments from people passionate about Labor. Mostly online bloggers, either Labor or Liberal, tend to be regular contributers. Only now, when Julia is looking shakey, her failures so obvious, her desperation so apparant, do we see "new"
people online commenting on the great Gillard. Call me cynical but I don't believe for a minute that these are regular joes, but Labor staffers with orders to "defend at all costs".
150 Hospital networks = 46 according to Gillard & Roxon
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/government-surrenders-on-hospitals-abbott/story-e6freuyi-1225975906671
http://au.news.yahoo.com/national-news/a/-/latest/8561079/govt-defends-hospital-network-rollout/
I knows it's getting boring hearing about another Labor backflip or broken promise but I'll tell you what.
When Labor actullay does what it says it will do then I'll be out of business. Until then don't shoot the messenger!
Nicola Roxon's defence? -
"It's always a balance in a country as vast as Australia between geography and population," Ms Roxon told ABC Radio.
"And what you see in a... vast state like New South Wales is very significant change but still some big areas because the population is sparse if you travel to western New South Wales."
Hey Nicola, if you can't deliver it, why announce it? You, Julia and Rudd all signed off on it, all went to media on the great big hospital reform. Berated the opposition on their policy, then can't even come close to delivering your own policy.
What is with labor and policy? They go to elections or the media announcing policy A, then way down the track
implement policy B and then defend their position. And the MSM break out the feather duster reporting of it.
So far by my reckoning the only election promise fully kept since 2007 is the Sorry to the stolen generation.
Every other policy has been changed, manipulated or ditched.
4th March 2010. Extract from Julia gillard interview
http://www.australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1357:julia-gillard-on-radio-national-breakfast&catid=101:australian-news&Itemid=158
"This is the biggest structural reform to health since Medicare, with the ability to make a real difference to patients right around the country." - Julia Gillard
I guess it's not the biggest structural reform since medicare anymore eh Julia?
Of course they were warned in march it would be difficult.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/top-bureaucrat-casts-doubt-on-hospital-overhaul-20100304-plv4.html
But then again Labor's ability to roll out a skateboard would be difficult!
http://au.news.yahoo.com/national-news/a/-/latest/8561079/govt-defends-hospital-network-rollout/
I knows it's getting boring hearing about another Labor backflip or broken promise but I'll tell you what.
When Labor actullay does what it says it will do then I'll be out of business. Until then don't shoot the messenger!
Nicola Roxon's defence? -
"It's always a balance in a country as vast as Australia between geography and population," Ms Roxon told ABC Radio.
"And what you see in a... vast state like New South Wales is very significant change but still some big areas because the population is sparse if you travel to western New South Wales."
Hey Nicola, if you can't deliver it, why announce it? You, Julia and Rudd all signed off on it, all went to media on the great big hospital reform. Berated the opposition on their policy, then can't even come close to delivering your own policy.
What is with labor and policy? They go to elections or the media announcing policy A, then way down the track
implement policy B and then defend their position. And the MSM break out the feather duster reporting of it.
So far by my reckoning the only election promise fully kept since 2007 is the Sorry to the stolen generation.
Every other policy has been changed, manipulated or ditched.
4th March 2010. Extract from Julia gillard interview
http://www.australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1357:julia-gillard-on-radio-national-breakfast&catid=101:australian-news&Itemid=158
"This is the biggest structural reform to health since Medicare, with the ability to make a real difference to patients right around the country." - Julia Gillard
I guess it's not the biggest structural reform since medicare anymore eh Julia?
Of course they were warned in march it would be difficult.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/top-bureaucrat-casts-doubt-on-hospital-overhaul-20100304-plv4.html
But then again Labor's ability to roll out a skateboard would be difficult!
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The nation floods while Julia sinks
Well what a tragic and heartbreaking time it has been for Australia. The devastation on the east coast has been very hard to watch as families lose their lively hoods and tragic loss of life. The Australian people will recover and rise above this awful natural disaster as we always do. The heroes of 2011 are already on display for people to see. My heart goes out to the family of 13 year old Jordan Rice. So young yet so brave. A suprise package has been Anna Bligh. From the most hated woman in QLD, she has shown real leadership. Something that not been seen since in a Labor politician since Paul Keating. I think she will be a better leader for this and reconnect with her fellow Queenslanders. Well done Anna.
What has been an absolute chringe worthy spectacle is Julia touring the flood ravaged land. Can this woman who is supposed to represent us show any compassion instead of coming across and a drone bee, rading off a scripted tele prompter? It didn't take a flood to show Julia Gillard out of her depth. As a political head kicker in opposition, she was the queen bee. When in Government and given a portfolio to run we go the BER. As PM, we get East Timor, Boat people dying, mining tax , Carbon Tax etc tec. Out of her depth? This woman should of stayed in the shallow end of politics because that what she is, a shallow politican who thinks she's got the goods. As her folks said, "What Julia wants, Julia gets".
Pity we didn't get what we want but thanks to Oakeshott, Windsor, Bandt and Wilkie the Real Julia continues to endure.
Word around political circles is Julia is gone. Tragedy brings out the best in us all as Anna Bligh has shown. It didn't bring
anything out of the real Julia that we already haven't seen. My god PM, can you at least show some sort of sympathy to your fellow Australians? This not the time for monotone voice and crafted speeches. This is where we as a nation mourn our losses together, yet Ms Gillard might as well of been visiting the moon for all she appeared to care. And let's not forget the Ruddster who waded through water in a good photo op. Thanks Kevin, your here to help my Ass! Best you head off back overseas and dish out more 100's of millions so Vietnam can affortd more Tanks and Rifles. And thanks Julia for the 1 million towards flood victims. Indonesian kids get 500 million borrowed money, QLD gets 1 million. In percentages, that is 0.2% of what Gillard and Krudd gave to ONE country that has not been a great friend to Australia.
What has been an absolute chringe worthy spectacle is Julia touring the flood ravaged land. Can this woman who is supposed to represent us show any compassion instead of coming across and a drone bee, rading off a scripted tele prompter? It didn't take a flood to show Julia Gillard out of her depth. As a political head kicker in opposition, she was the queen bee. When in Government and given a portfolio to run we go the BER. As PM, we get East Timor, Boat people dying, mining tax , Carbon Tax etc tec. Out of her depth? This woman should of stayed in the shallow end of politics because that what she is, a shallow politican who thinks she's got the goods. As her folks said, "What Julia wants, Julia gets".
Pity we didn't get what we want but thanks to Oakeshott, Windsor, Bandt and Wilkie the Real Julia continues to endure.
Word around political circles is Julia is gone. Tragedy brings out the best in us all as Anna Bligh has shown. It didn't bring
anything out of the real Julia that we already haven't seen. My god PM, can you at least show some sort of sympathy to your fellow Australians? This not the time for monotone voice and crafted speeches. This is where we as a nation mourn our losses together, yet Ms Gillard might as well of been visiting the moon for all she appeared to care. And let's not forget the Ruddster who waded through water in a good photo op. Thanks Kevin, your here to help my Ass! Best you head off back overseas and dish out more 100's of millions so Vietnam can affortd more Tanks and Rifles. And thanks Julia for the 1 million towards flood victims. Indonesian kids get 500 million borrowed money, QLD gets 1 million. In percentages, that is 0.2% of what Gillard and Krudd gave to ONE country that has not been a great friend to Australia.
Kevin Rudd photo op backfires, one leech latches onto another.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/foreign-minister-kevin-rudd-treated-for-infection-from-floodwater/story-fn7ik2te-1225988117584
The stories of bravery, hardship, sacrifice and community spirit throughout this Disaster will continue to endure for decades. I tip my hat to those volunteers out there lending a helping hand. So what the hell was Kevin Rudd doing wading around a suburb with camera crew in tow carrying an empty briefcase?
The stories of bravery, hardship, sacrifice and community spirit throughout this Disaster will continue to endure for decades. I tip my hat to those volunteers out there lending a helping hand. So what the hell was Kevin Rudd doing wading around a suburb with camera crew in tow carrying an empty briefcase?
Julia's tax, Gee a surplus would come in handy right now!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/levy-inequity-shows-its-a-joke-says-joe-hockey/story-fn3dxity-1225995953574
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gillard-on-sunrise1/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/alps-revolt-over-the-flood-tax/story-e6freuzr-1225996488362
After Australians generously donated to the plight of flood victims nation wide, we are now being asked to pay a Levy for
reconstruction of the flood devastated regions. Julia has misread the public mood on this Levy. She throws about the mateship tag and everything will be allright. But times have changed in Australia. In the past, Levies have been introduced on everything from East Timor, Sugar and the Gun Buyback Scheme to name a few. Back then, we had a budget surplus, low cost of living , and properly managed economy. Working families could and did get ahead by hard work and managing their budgets.
Since Kevin07 came into power and then Julia, the landscape has changed due to poorly made spending choices and massive increases in the cost of living. Kevin Rudd in his own words promised to ease the squeeze on working families. In 2011 we have squeezes like nothing seen before. And the same man who made the hollow promise is throwing way billions in overseas aid. Utility prices are skyrocketing. Everything from Petrol, Groceries and Land rates to Electricity, Gas and Interest rates continue to climb. Now have had a terrible disaster in the Floods of 2011. Had we had the Surplus of Howard of 22 Billion, the reconstruction would be a minor issue that could be paid for without a Levy.
However, when the Global Financial crisis hit, Labor hit the panic button and went into a massive spentathon like there was no tomorrow. Well tomorrow came, hit hard and the bank account is empty. Now we use a credit card to borrow 100 million dollars a day to pay pack the splurge. Australians are angry. We feel cheated that we donated so much and now are being forced to donate through a
Levy. Julia is apparenlty getting angry over the response. Her recent interview with
Neil Mitchell on 3aw is the talk of the town at the moment.
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-generic-blog/gillard-defends-flood-levy-to-the-hilt/20110128-1a7hu.html
She gets quite angry and accuses Neil of being patronising. Julia, Neil is saying don't blow the money and waste it like everything else. And you have the hide to get angry over this? You yourself were quite the performer in opposition on Government watse. Who could forget you blasting Howard over 121 million spent on fridge magnets and mouse pads
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193374.htm
You wre quite rude and patronising yourself Julia. But I guess it's different when it's you highlighting waste.
Now Neil has a valid point in saying don't waste this levy Julia. He is only going by history.
http://laborwaste.com.au/
Only when you came into power did you backflip and state a bit of waste and mismangement is ok.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/abbott-urges-schools-to-expose-ripoffs-20100326-r0lg.html
Remember Julia? You now believe the following...........
"a bit of waste" and "a bit of mismanagement" was unavoidable in a large-scale project"
Your words Julia, not mine.
WRONG PM!
If in opposition you are scathing of waste then you cannot backflip and say it's ok now. Neil called you on it
and you blew your stack. He is saying what we are all saying. Stop the waste that has been a part of your government since winning the 2007 election. We are sick and tired of paying through our nose to cover you and your mates backsides because you can't manage money. That's what it boils down to. This levy is a result of you and Kevin blowing the lot on pink batts, Plama TV's and school halls. It is a admission of economic mismanagement hidden under the banner of mateship. Australia will always suffer natural disasters as do many countries of the world. What the greatest irony of this is Howard and the Liberals were blasted by Labor, the Left leaning media, the greens and other biased interest groups on not spending the surplus.
The catchcry was "what is the point of a surplus if you don't spend on infrastructure"? Many people were enraged on Howard not spending the money on infrastructure despite it being mainly a state responsibility. Now it's gone as Labor spends surpluses not create them and now this nation really needs one. Instead we get a Levy. We're angry that Indonesia gets 500 million for education, we get a Levy. We're angry that Kevin is giving away borrowed money while we get a Levy.
When will enough be enough and Labor start being the fiscal conservatives they claimed to be to dethrone John Howard.
Come on Ms Gillard. Be scathing of waste while in power and not just in opposition.
Instead we get "mateship". Funny that word coming from a woman who stabbed her leader in the back.
And to all those Journalist ot there, listen to the Neil Mitchell interview. THAT is how you ask tough questions to governments. For too long Julia and Kevin have been given kid glove treatment by biased media. At last we see the "Real Julia" crack under questions that we as a nation want asked.
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gillard-on-sunrise1/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/alps-revolt-over-the-flood-tax/story-e6freuzr-1225996488362
After Australians generously donated to the plight of flood victims nation wide, we are now being asked to pay a Levy for
reconstruction of the flood devastated regions. Julia has misread the public mood on this Levy. She throws about the mateship tag and everything will be allright. But times have changed in Australia. In the past, Levies have been introduced on everything from East Timor, Sugar and the Gun Buyback Scheme to name a few. Back then, we had a budget surplus, low cost of living , and properly managed economy. Working families could and did get ahead by hard work and managing their budgets.
Since Kevin07 came into power and then Julia, the landscape has changed due to poorly made spending choices and massive increases in the cost of living. Kevin Rudd in his own words promised to ease the squeeze on working families. In 2011 we have squeezes like nothing seen before. And the same man who made the hollow promise is throwing way billions in overseas aid. Utility prices are skyrocketing. Everything from Petrol, Groceries and Land rates to Electricity, Gas and Interest rates continue to climb. Now have had a terrible disaster in the Floods of 2011. Had we had the Surplus of Howard of 22 Billion, the reconstruction would be a minor issue that could be paid for without a Levy.
However, when the Global Financial crisis hit, Labor hit the panic button and went into a massive spentathon like there was no tomorrow. Well tomorrow came, hit hard and the bank account is empty. Now we use a credit card to borrow 100 million dollars a day to pay pack the splurge. Australians are angry. We feel cheated that we donated so much and now are being forced to donate through a
Levy. Julia is apparenlty getting angry over the response. Her recent interview with
Neil Mitchell on 3aw is the talk of the town at the moment.
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-generic-blog/gillard-defends-flood-levy-to-the-hilt/20110128-1a7hu.html
She gets quite angry and accuses Neil of being patronising. Julia, Neil is saying don't blow the money and waste it like everything else. And you have the hide to get angry over this? You yourself were quite the performer in opposition on Government watse. Who could forget you blasting Howard over 121 million spent on fridge magnets and mouse pads
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2193374.htm
You wre quite rude and patronising yourself Julia. But I guess it's different when it's you highlighting waste.
Now Neil has a valid point in saying don't waste this levy Julia. He is only going by history.
http://laborwaste.com.au/
Only when you came into power did you backflip and state a bit of waste and mismangement is ok.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/abbott-urges-schools-to-expose-ripoffs-20100326-r0lg.html
Remember Julia? You now believe the following...........
"a bit of waste" and "a bit of mismanagement" was unavoidable in a large-scale project"
Your words Julia, not mine.
WRONG PM!
If in opposition you are scathing of waste then you cannot backflip and say it's ok now. Neil called you on it
and you blew your stack. He is saying what we are all saying. Stop the waste that has been a part of your government since winning the 2007 election. We are sick and tired of paying through our nose to cover you and your mates backsides because you can't manage money. That's what it boils down to. This levy is a result of you and Kevin blowing the lot on pink batts, Plama TV's and school halls. It is a admission of economic mismanagement hidden under the banner of mateship. Australia will always suffer natural disasters as do many countries of the world. What the greatest irony of this is Howard and the Liberals were blasted by Labor, the Left leaning media, the greens and other biased interest groups on not spending the surplus.
The catchcry was "what is the point of a surplus if you don't spend on infrastructure"? Many people were enraged on Howard not spending the money on infrastructure despite it being mainly a state responsibility. Now it's gone as Labor spends surpluses not create them and now this nation really needs one. Instead we get a Levy. We're angry that Indonesia gets 500 million for education, we get a Levy. We're angry that Kevin is giving away borrowed money while we get a Levy.
When will enough be enough and Labor start being the fiscal conservatives they claimed to be to dethrone John Howard.
Come on Ms Gillard. Be scathing of waste while in power and not just in opposition.
Instead we get "mateship". Funny that word coming from a woman who stabbed her leader in the back.
And to all those Journalist ot there, listen to the Neil Mitchell interview. THAT is how you ask tough questions to governments. For too long Julia and Kevin have been given kid glove treatment by biased media. At last we see the "Real Julia" crack under questions that we as a nation want asked.
Hospital reform "sick"
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/julia-gillard-to-junk-kevin-rudd-health-reform/story-e6freuzr-1226000532276
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-to-junk-kevin-rudd-health-reform/story-fn59niix-1226000488507
Ok, the headlines are that Julia Gillard is going to junk Kevin Rudd’s health reform. You know, the one on the 2007 Labor Election ticket. Let me see, oh yes, A national plan to fix our hospitals. Then that went out the window for a different “Plan” in which the states had to give up 30% of their GST.
Only WA was strong enough to tell Rudd and Roxon to bugger off to an idiotic plan that was basically a plan to seem like they were doing something. So many throw away slogans were thrown around. Historic, ground breaking etc etc. The longer Labor endured thanks to the “Independents”, the longer the chance of any real hospital reform evaporated quicker than a 2007 election promise.
Now PM Gillard is looking to scrap the health reforms all together. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Gillard policy without a hefty amount of bullying involved. Sign up or else lose Billions in funding.
Well Julia, although this might be Kevin 07 policy, YOU, like all other policy blunders, were right next to him nodding your head in agreement.
Pink Batts= nodding Julia
BER = nodding Julia
Border protection = Nodding Julia
If you were against the Hospital reforms in the current guise, why did you support it? Why as deputy PM did you not offer an alternative point of view? The reason of course is like every Kevin Rudd disaster, you were a participant. They were not called the “gang of four” for nothing.
A national plan to fix our hospitals is dead if Jools acts. Kevin Rudd policy you say?
Doesn’t matter does it Julia , it was all Kevin’s fault. His policies sucked, YOUR policies are doing super love.
*snicker* East Timor *snicker*
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-to-junk-kevin-rudd-health-reform/story-fn59niix-1226000488507
Ok, the headlines are that Julia Gillard is going to junk Kevin Rudd’s health reform. You know, the one on the 2007 Labor Election ticket. Let me see, oh yes, A national plan to fix our hospitals. Then that went out the window for a different “Plan” in which the states had to give up 30% of their GST.
Only WA was strong enough to tell Rudd and Roxon to bugger off to an idiotic plan that was basically a plan to seem like they were doing something. So many throw away slogans were thrown around. Historic, ground breaking etc etc. The longer Labor endured thanks to the “Independents”, the longer the chance of any real hospital reform evaporated quicker than a 2007 election promise.
Now PM Gillard is looking to scrap the health reforms all together. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Gillard policy without a hefty amount of bullying involved. Sign up or else lose Billions in funding.
Well Julia, although this might be Kevin 07 policy, YOU, like all other policy blunders, were right next to him nodding your head in agreement.
Pink Batts= nodding Julia
BER = nodding Julia
Border protection = Nodding Julia
If you were against the Hospital reforms in the current guise, why did you support it? Why as deputy PM did you not offer an alternative point of view? The reason of course is like every Kevin Rudd disaster, you were a participant. They were not called the “gang of four” for nothing.
A national plan to fix our hospitals is dead if Jools acts. Kevin Rudd policy you say?
Doesn’t matter does it Julia , it was all Kevin’s fault. His policies sucked, YOUR policies are doing super love.
*snicker* East Timor *snicker*
Watch out Julia for the night of the “Shorten knives”
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/
Word around town is the challenge is coming. Julia having been a backstabber herself should see the signs and prepare to defend her PMship. It simply won’t do if she doesn’t last as long as Rudd did. Bill Shorten is coming with an ego to match Rudd’s Just what Australia needs. Yet another union hack who believes his divine right to rule. The NSW model of change the leader is now well and truly entrenched in Canberra. Rudd, Julia and now Shorten is looming. I for one am truly saddened that the office of the Prime Ministership of Australia is now a tradable commodity for the lust for power.
You think Labor is governing for you the citizen? They are governing for themselves. They are governing for power. If the polls go down, so does the leader. Remember a time when leaders of the nation were decided by the people?
So many questions to follow
Will the three amigos bow down and pledge allegiance to the Short man?
Will Paul Bullfrog Howes look for a spot in a Labor cabinet?
Will Swanny stay as deputy?
Will Bob Brown actually say something intelligent?
And beware the Ruddster. This man is going nowhere. He is the Gollum of Australian politics. He wants his precious back!
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/
Word around town is the challenge is coming. Julia having been a backstabber herself should see the signs and prepare to defend her PMship. It simply won’t do if she doesn’t last as long as Rudd did. Bill Shorten is coming with an ego to match Rudd’s Just what Australia needs. Yet another union hack who believes his divine right to rule. The NSW model of change the leader is now well and truly entrenched in Canberra. Rudd, Julia and now Shorten is looming. I for one am truly saddened that the office of the Prime Ministership of Australia is now a tradable commodity for the lust for power.
You think Labor is governing for you the citizen? They are governing for themselves. They are governing for power. If the polls go down, so does the leader. Remember a time when leaders of the nation were decided by the people?
So many questions to follow
Will the three amigos bow down and pledge allegiance to the Short man?
Will Paul Bullfrog Howes look for a spot in a Labor cabinet?
Will Swanny stay as deputy?
Will Bob Brown actually say something intelligent?
And beware the Ruddster. This man is going nowhere. He is the Gollum of Australian politics. He wants his precious back!
80 Billion In savings......WHAT?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julias-deception-on-savings-makes-credibility-a-joke/story-fn59niix-1226001104422
This is one story that defies belief! I cannot comment on this as it’s too depressing.
So I’ll cut & paste it and let you read this crap.
"YESTERDAY Julia Gillard proudly repeated a line Wayne Swan has been misleadingly spruiking for months.
She said: "I want to reinforce this point, we have already made as a government more than $80 billion of savings since 2007".
Sounds impressive, right? The only problem is it isn't true. When the Prime Minister and the Treasurer talk of "savings", they include tax increases, dividends and levies, not just cuts in government spending.
The planned flood levy would be classified as savings. What a joke.
Here are some examples of what Gillard includes in her list of so-called savings. A one-off dividend of $150 million the government demanded from Australia Post, $555m from luxury-car tax rises, $402m from higher visa application charges and, in the most recent budget, $275m from more fuel taxes as a result of amending ethanol arrangements.
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Added to that are billions of dollars from alcopops and tobacco tax rises. Even the yet-to-be-collected mining tax is included in the $80bn in so-called savings.
Labor's biggest challenge is overcoming a relentlessly negative opposition and failures in programs during its first term. But its credibility is hurt, not helped, by misrepresentative statements.
It is political alchemy to include tax increases and one-off dividends as savings. It simply doesn't pass the commonsense test. No wonder the public is loath to believe what politicians tell them."
Beautiful in its ugliness Oakeshott? You sir are an idiot!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julias-deception-on-savings-makes-credibility-a-joke/story-fn59niix-1226001104422
This is one story that defies belief! I cannot comment on this as it’s too depressing.
So I’ll cut & paste it and let you read this crap.
"YESTERDAY Julia Gillard proudly repeated a line Wayne Swan has been misleadingly spruiking for months.
She said: "I want to reinforce this point, we have already made as a government more than $80 billion of savings since 2007".
Sounds impressive, right? The only problem is it isn't true. When the Prime Minister and the Treasurer talk of "savings", they include tax increases, dividends and levies, not just cuts in government spending.
The planned flood levy would be classified as savings. What a joke.
Here are some examples of what Gillard includes in her list of so-called savings. A one-off dividend of $150 million the government demanded from Australia Post, $555m from luxury-car tax rises, $402m from higher visa application charges and, in the most recent budget, $275m from more fuel taxes as a result of amending ethanol arrangements.
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Added to that are billions of dollars from alcopops and tobacco tax rises. Even the yet-to-be-collected mining tax is included in the $80bn in so-called savings.
Labor's biggest challenge is overcoming a relentlessly negative opposition and failures in programs during its first term. But its credibility is hurt, not helped, by misrepresentative statements.
It is political alchemy to include tax increases and one-off dividends as savings. It simply doesn't pass the commonsense test. No wonder the public is loath to believe what politicians tell them."
Beautiful in its ugliness Oakeshott? You sir are an idiot!
NO CARBON TAX!
The very first paragraph on this site has Julia saying this.
“There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead”
She said this before the election and Julia and Wayne lamblasted the opposition for a scare tatctic on this issue.
Now Julia and her Independent and Green cohorts are bringing it in.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/julia-gillard-fends-off-accusations-she-has-broken-a-promise-on-a-climate-tax/story-e6frg6xf-1226011792834
Is julia Gillard a liar? Well she's not called Juliar for nothing.
A national rally is on the cards to tell julia to stick her tax. Now I know many people can't get out and protest but
what I can suggest is this.
Head down to your local news agent. Pay $5 for 3 white cardboard sheets. On each sheet write in big black words.
NO CARBON TAX
Join them together and stick them on your fence. This needs to be a ground swell of public backlash. No writing to newspapers or calling in to radio stations. Julia and her fools of a party need to see first hand the anger and resentment to
her tax. Julia is actually going out there promoting the idea that Australians want a price on carbon. Show her the contempt she is showing us.
I aslo read that the Labor bloggers are out in force trying to compare Julia's carbon tax to John howards GST. What utter rubbish! JH went to the 1998 election with the GST as his policy. The Australian people had the option. Vote for it or against it. Jools did the exact opposite. Went to the 2010 election with a No carbon tax as her policy. Then backflipped and is trying to take the moral high ground in saying she always supported a carbon tax.
So Wayne Swan, about the liberal being hysterical thing. The only hysterics I see is Julia defending her indefensible position.
April the first is April Fools day. What a great day for a rally against the tax. Sort of peotic wouldn't you think?
“There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead”
She said this before the election and Julia and Wayne lamblasted the opposition for a scare tatctic on this issue.
Now Julia and her Independent and Green cohorts are bringing it in.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/julia-gillard-fends-off-accusations-she-has-broken-a-promise-on-a-climate-tax/story-e6frg6xf-1226011792834
Is julia Gillard a liar? Well she's not called Juliar for nothing.
A national rally is on the cards to tell julia to stick her tax. Now I know many people can't get out and protest but
what I can suggest is this.
Head down to your local news agent. Pay $5 for 3 white cardboard sheets. On each sheet write in big black words.
NO CARBON TAX
Join them together and stick them on your fence. This needs to be a ground swell of public backlash. No writing to newspapers or calling in to radio stations. Julia and her fools of a party need to see first hand the anger and resentment to
her tax. Julia is actually going out there promoting the idea that Australians want a price on carbon. Show her the contempt she is showing us.
I aslo read that the Labor bloggers are out in force trying to compare Julia's carbon tax to John howards GST. What utter rubbish! JH went to the 1998 election with the GST as his policy. The Australian people had the option. Vote for it or against it. Jools did the exact opposite. Went to the 2010 election with a No carbon tax as her policy. Then backflipped and is trying to take the moral high ground in saying she always supported a carbon tax.
So Wayne Swan, about the liberal being hysterical thing. The only hysterics I see is Julia defending her indefensible position.
April the first is April Fools day. What a great day for a rally against the tax. Sort of peotic wouldn't you think?
Word games Juliar?
Our illustrious PM has accused the Oppostion and the media of playing "Word games and semantics" on pledge of no Carbon Tax. WTF? How are we all playing word games? lets look at her words.
'There will be no carbon Tax under any government I lead"
How shall we play word games with this quote? Buggered if I know? Maybe someone can email me to explain.
Simple fact is democracy in this country is dead. You go to an election on platform. Labor went to the 2010 election
on the No carbon Tax stand. Now the reason they did is simple. Due to the close race of the election, had Juliar openly stated that they would implement a carbon Tax, they would of lost the election. There is no doubt internal polling would confirmed this. They had to do "Whatever it takes" to get power. And that meant being deceitful in ruling out a Carbon tax.
Juliar just scraped into power with the help of the green and indepenants and now believes she has a mandate to introduce a tax that would of killed Labor at the election. There is no mandate. There are no word games. The fact is she LIED. And what is even worse, she is lying about lying. Juliar lied, Swan lied....LABOR LIED. We the Australian people must not and cannot stand for this. The time of kicking back with a "she'll be right mate" attitude is over. If you are horrified with this tax, then write to your MP in protest. Make up a T-shirt, put signs out. Email and talk and ring till your blue in the face.
We need to tell Juliar in no uncertain terms that you either drop the tax or call an election with the tax as your platform.
The media, who grill Tony Abbott daily on every word he says, are absent with the same attitude towards the tax.
The ABC, you are paid by the taxpayer and the taxpayer is angry. Either you represent what we are all feeling or you hand in your license. Apart from Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Neil Mitchell and Piers Akerman going into bat for Australia, the rest of the media are mutely reporting this. "Nothing to see here people, move on"
March the 24th looks like a march on Canberra day to protest on this Tax.
It should be the same day Australia wide.
Melbourne march!
Sydney march!
Adelaide march!
Perth march!
Hobart march!
Darwin march!
Brisbane march!
If you don't stand up now, you don't stand for anything.
The catchcry was "Don't let julia foolya"
Now she has. The new one will be "Don't let Juliar tax you!
'There will be no carbon Tax under any government I lead"
How shall we play word games with this quote? Buggered if I know? Maybe someone can email me to explain.
Simple fact is democracy in this country is dead. You go to an election on platform. Labor went to the 2010 election
on the No carbon Tax stand. Now the reason they did is simple. Due to the close race of the election, had Juliar openly stated that they would implement a carbon Tax, they would of lost the election. There is no doubt internal polling would confirmed this. They had to do "Whatever it takes" to get power. And that meant being deceitful in ruling out a Carbon tax.
Juliar just scraped into power with the help of the green and indepenants and now believes she has a mandate to introduce a tax that would of killed Labor at the election. There is no mandate. There are no word games. The fact is she LIED. And what is even worse, she is lying about lying. Juliar lied, Swan lied....LABOR LIED. We the Australian people must not and cannot stand for this. The time of kicking back with a "she'll be right mate" attitude is over. If you are horrified with this tax, then write to your MP in protest. Make up a T-shirt, put signs out. Email and talk and ring till your blue in the face.
We need to tell Juliar in no uncertain terms that you either drop the tax or call an election with the tax as your platform.
The media, who grill Tony Abbott daily on every word he says, are absent with the same attitude towards the tax.
The ABC, you are paid by the taxpayer and the taxpayer is angry. Either you represent what we are all feeling or you hand in your license. Apart from Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Neil Mitchell and Piers Akerman going into bat for Australia, the rest of the media are mutely reporting this. "Nothing to see here people, move on"
March the 24th looks like a march on Canberra day to protest on this Tax.
It should be the same day Australia wide.
Melbourne march!
Sydney march!
Adelaide march!
Perth march!
Hobart march!
Darwin march!
Brisbane march!
If you don't stand up now, you don't stand for anything.
The catchcry was "Don't let julia foolya"
Now she has. The new one will be "Don't let Juliar tax you!
Here's an idea?
The backlash against the tax is gaining momentum. petitons are springing up everywhere online. Here's a few examples of people playing "Word games" according to Juliar
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Stop-Gillards-Carbon-Tax/197122506973202
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=204343259579493
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/02/26/no-carbon-tax-petition/
While youtube is going gangbusters with anit Juliar videos
But I wonder how effective this will all be? Juliar is not know for listening to the Ostraylian people.
The opposition can only do so much, they are not in power and with the greens in total control, it is up
to State Premiers to stand up to this abominal tax.
What would happen if the Liberal Premiers flatly came out and stated their state rejects this tax?
Ted Baillieu and Colin Barnett and soon to be premier Barry O'Farrell have to opportuninty to stand up for us all.
I will cite Western Australia as an example.
Colin Barnett holds a press conference.
States that if Juliar continues on with this Tax, his government will hold a referendum on ceding from the
Commonwealth if the tax passes into law. That will rock the Country to the core. That will create a crisis in Canberra
that will see the tax scrapped. I think Colin has the guts to do this. I think it will shake Juliar to her core.
And her government will fall. Either she calls an election on the tax or she resigns. Either way, one State government
threatening to cede over the tax will be enough for the Labor party to go into panic mode.
Maintain the rage Australia. She lied and now she says she didn't. State premiers, look into it and help get rid of the red witch before she destroys everything the Anzacs fought for.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Stop-Gillards-Carbon-Tax/197122506973202
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=204343259579493
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2011/02/26/no-carbon-tax-petition/
While youtube is going gangbusters with anit Juliar videos
But I wonder how effective this will all be? Juliar is not know for listening to the Ostraylian people.
The opposition can only do so much, they are not in power and with the greens in total control, it is up
to State Premiers to stand up to this abominal tax.
What would happen if the Liberal Premiers flatly came out and stated their state rejects this tax?
Ted Baillieu and Colin Barnett and soon to be premier Barry O'Farrell have to opportuninty to stand up for us all.
I will cite Western Australia as an example.
Colin Barnett holds a press conference.
States that if Juliar continues on with this Tax, his government will hold a referendum on ceding from the
Commonwealth if the tax passes into law. That will rock the Country to the core. That will create a crisis in Canberra
that will see the tax scrapped. I think Colin has the guts to do this. I think it will shake Juliar to her core.
And her government will fall. Either she calls an election on the tax or she resigns. Either way, one State government
threatening to cede over the tax will be enough for the Labor party to go into panic mode.
Maintain the rage Australia. She lied and now she says she didn't. State premiers, look into it and help get rid of the red witch before she destroys everything the Anzacs fought for.
Juliar admits to lying about the lie!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sunday-telegraph/petrol-freeze-mooted-to-offset-carbon-tax/story-e6frewt0-1226012535165
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/8914257/yes-i-vowed-no-carbon-tax-gillard/
When news of the Carbon tax broke, Juliar went onto the attack on the radio. She took the high ground stating Labor was always going to bring in the tax as she believes in climate change.
She dismissed the quoting of her own words as semanitcs or playing word games. Depsite Alan Jone splaying back her
pre election words 3 times, she still refused to admit she lied.
Well the denial of the lie has been hurting her on talkback radion and online blogs. So much so that the spin team had a word in her ear and viola!
"Yes, I did say that and circumstances have changed."
But she just can't help herslef
"What my vision was was to be elected as prime minister and to introduce an emissions trading scheme, which is not a carbon tax."
Why wasn't this "vision" shared at the polls Juliar? And we all know the answer to that.
"WHATEVER IT TAKES"
No way Prime Minister. Prepare for the marches that no spin team on the planet can manage. You think we're angry?
You ain't seen nothing yet lady!
Sign the petition please.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Stop-Gillards-Carbon-Tax/197122506973202
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/8914257/yes-i-vowed-no-carbon-tax-gillard/
When news of the Carbon tax broke, Juliar went onto the attack on the radio. She took the high ground stating Labor was always going to bring in the tax as she believes in climate change.
She dismissed the quoting of her own words as semanitcs or playing word games. Depsite Alan Jone splaying back her
pre election words 3 times, she still refused to admit she lied.
Well the denial of the lie has been hurting her on talkback radion and online blogs. So much so that the spin team had a word in her ear and viola!
"Yes, I did say that and circumstances have changed."
But she just can't help herslef
"What my vision was was to be elected as prime minister and to introduce an emissions trading scheme, which is not a carbon tax."
Why wasn't this "vision" shared at the polls Juliar? And we all know the answer to that.
"WHATEVER IT TAKES"
No way Prime Minister. Prepare for the marches that no spin team on the planet can manage. You think we're angry?
You ain't seen nothing yet lady!
Sign the petition please.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Stop-Gillards-Carbon-Tax/197122506973202
Canberra protest march, what about other capital cities?
I've changed this article as protest marches are already programmed.
Rallies against Julia Gillard and Bob Brown's Carbon Tax.
CANBERRA
Date: 23 March
Time: 10:30am
Location: Parliament House
MELBOURNE
Date: 23 March
Time: 10:30am
Location: TBA - Parliament House?
SYDNEY
Date: 2 April
Time: 10:30am
Location: NSW Parliament, Macquarie Street
BRISBANE
Date: 23 March
Time: 10:30am
Location: Qld Parliament, Cnr George and Alice Streets
When Melboune, Adelaide, Darwin, Pert and Hobart are known,
I'll post those venues here.
Rallies against Julia Gillard and Bob Brown's Carbon Tax.
CANBERRA
Date: 23 March
Time: 10:30am
Location: Parliament House
MELBOURNE
Date: 23 March
Time: 10:30am
Location: TBA - Parliament House?
SYDNEY
Date: 2 April
Time: 10:30am
Location: NSW Parliament, Macquarie Street
BRISBANE
Date: 23 March
Time: 10:30am
Location: Qld Parliament, Cnr George and Alice Streets
When Melboune, Adelaide, Darwin, Pert and Hobart are known,
I'll post those venues here.
Why are most Australians against the Carbon Tax?
In the run up to the 2007 election, both major parties went to polls with different carbon trading schemes.
In the media recently, Labor ministers have stated that there is a mandate for the tax as Australian voted for it in 2007 via Kevin Rudd's ETS. After the victory by Labor, the Liberal party also backed an ETS. After Malcom Turnbull was chosen as the Liberal leader, it all seemed a done deal. So a few questions now need to be asked.
Why in 2011 are many Australian so vocal against the Carbon Tax?
Why are mass rallies being programmed.?
Why are talk back radio and online blogs overflowing with anger?
The Answer is in two parts.
The first is Julia Gillard Lied. So ifs, buts or denials. Even then the Prime minister may have got around it over time.
But she was seriously let down by her advisers. She went into denial and the more she refused to answer the question on why she said prior to the election "there will be no carbon Tax under any government I lead" the angrier Australia got.
It was her arrogant dismissal of the opposition and radio talkback questions as "semantics" and word games that infuriated people and started a wave of resentment and anger that shows no sign of abating. The fact that there is a minimum amount of information of how this will effect the nation is also scaring the electorate. Too late did the Prime Minister go into damage control mode, the damage was already done. The announcement of a carbon tax has been done in a way that alienates Labor from nearly every quarter.
So far, all Labor has come out with is that costs will rise. And that is the one thing that will get peoples back up.
Which leads to part two of the answer.
Lets look back to 2007 and the ETS / Greatest moral challenge of our time.
Australia voted for a ETS but what has been overlooked by the MSM is the standard of living between 2007 and now.
in 2007 Australia felt confident in handing over the reigns to Labor. Kevin Rudd ran a good campaign by being "Howard Lite" The Budget was in surplus, our cost of living was low, the Asylum seekers had been held at bay by a tough border protection stance. So Australians felt pretty good about things in general and felt able to be generous. We all felt able to pay for slight increases in prices to pay for an ETS. John Howard warned us that "Australian families have never had it so good"
Maybe we did and maybe we didn't. But hat didn't stopLabor and the MSM from howling that statement down. And it worked along with the workchoices scare campaign.
Now in 2011 and that standard of living is long gone. We now have massive rises in Electricity, Gas, Water and Rates. The budget surplus is gone. Asylum seekers overflow at Christmas Island to the point where new detection centres are opening in Australia. The confidence is gone. We have the flood levy because Queensland didn't have insurance. We have the mining tax because the deficit is out of control. We feel like we are being taxed to death. We feel like every bill that arrives in the mail is a mountain too hard to climb. We have a few greens members in Parliament formulating policy for 22 million people. And to top it all off now comes in carbon tax. We may have been able to cope with the rise in costs in 2007. In 2011 we cannot. Thanks to 4 years of Labor Government, we now have national debt and utility bills that are just mind boggling.
That is why we will fight against a carbon tax Prime minister. Working families are broke. There are no notches in the belt any more.
So in 2007, John Winston Howard said " Families have never had it so good" 4 years later we realise he was right. Labor's Carbon Tax is 4 years too late. Sorry Prime Minister, you either take it to the polls or resign as the carbon tax protests and rallies will make the work choices scare campaign look like a hobo with an "end of the word placard".
In the media recently, Labor ministers have stated that there is a mandate for the tax as Australian voted for it in 2007 via Kevin Rudd's ETS. After the victory by Labor, the Liberal party also backed an ETS. After Malcom Turnbull was chosen as the Liberal leader, it all seemed a done deal. So a few questions now need to be asked.
Why in 2011 are many Australian so vocal against the Carbon Tax?
Why are mass rallies being programmed.?
Why are talk back radio and online blogs overflowing with anger?
The Answer is in two parts.
The first is Julia Gillard Lied. So ifs, buts or denials. Even then the Prime minister may have got around it over time.
But she was seriously let down by her advisers. She went into denial and the more she refused to answer the question on why she said prior to the election "there will be no carbon Tax under any government I lead" the angrier Australia got.
It was her arrogant dismissal of the opposition and radio talkback questions as "semantics" and word games that infuriated people and started a wave of resentment and anger that shows no sign of abating. The fact that there is a minimum amount of information of how this will effect the nation is also scaring the electorate. Too late did the Prime Minister go into damage control mode, the damage was already done. The announcement of a carbon tax has been done in a way that alienates Labor from nearly every quarter.
So far, all Labor has come out with is that costs will rise. And that is the one thing that will get peoples back up.
Which leads to part two of the answer.
Lets look back to 2007 and the ETS / Greatest moral challenge of our time.
Australia voted for a ETS but what has been overlooked by the MSM is the standard of living between 2007 and now.
in 2007 Australia felt confident in handing over the reigns to Labor. Kevin Rudd ran a good campaign by being "Howard Lite" The Budget was in surplus, our cost of living was low, the Asylum seekers had been held at bay by a tough border protection stance. So Australians felt pretty good about things in general and felt able to be generous. We all felt able to pay for slight increases in prices to pay for an ETS. John Howard warned us that "Australian families have never had it so good"
Maybe we did and maybe we didn't. But hat didn't stopLabor and the MSM from howling that statement down. And it worked along with the workchoices scare campaign.
Now in 2011 and that standard of living is long gone. We now have massive rises in Electricity, Gas, Water and Rates. The budget surplus is gone. Asylum seekers overflow at Christmas Island to the point where new detection centres are opening in Australia. The confidence is gone. We have the flood levy because Queensland didn't have insurance. We have the mining tax because the deficit is out of control. We feel like we are being taxed to death. We feel like every bill that arrives in the mail is a mountain too hard to climb. We have a few greens members in Parliament formulating policy for 22 million people. And to top it all off now comes in carbon tax. We may have been able to cope with the rise in costs in 2007. In 2011 we cannot. Thanks to 4 years of Labor Government, we now have national debt and utility bills that are just mind boggling.
That is why we will fight against a carbon tax Prime minister. Working families are broke. There are no notches in the belt any more.
So in 2007, John Winston Howard said " Families have never had it so good" 4 years later we realise he was right. Labor's Carbon Tax is 4 years too late. Sorry Prime Minister, you either take it to the polls or resign as the carbon tax protests and rallies will make the work choices scare campaign look like a hobo with an "end of the word placard".
Labor lost its way again, so why no sacking of Gillard?
In 2010, Kevin Rudd was the Prime Minister of a Government in crisis. After many backflips and policy failures, Labors primary vote was down to 35%. KevinRudd had gone from the most popular PM in Australia's history to a liability in just two and a half years. With an election just around the corner, the faceless men of Labor and the unions were very worried they would lose government. A first term loss would be unthinkable after deposing of the most successful PM's in Australian history, one John Howard.
The factional warlords could not and would not risk going to the election with Rudd. It was most fortunate that the deputy PM, Julia Gillard had a good following with the public and especially the MSM, who adored her. The feisty, seemingly able Gillard had the numbers to take over the reigns and with men like AWU boss Paul Howes in her corner, the only option was to historically dump a first term PM. Despite the denials from Julia weeks before the dumping of Rudd, she was ready, willing and able to take over and give Labor a boost and win the election.
So despite saying she would rather go to Mars, play Football for the Dogs, sail around the world solo etc than challenge the leadership, challenge she did, stating "Good Government had lost its way" Labor did get a boost, but not enough to win the election in its own right. An alliance of Labor, Greens and the Independents now govern for us all. Less than twelve months later and the woes of Labor make Kevin Rudd look absolutely brilliant. So far we have seen nearly all of Labors 2010 election policies simply die a slow death. Cash for Clunkers is gone, East Timor is Stillborn, Citizens Assembly never took off and now the infamous No carbon tax was reversed. So what do we see as a result of this ?
Taken fron NEWSPOLL
PRIMARY VOTE+
COALITION LABOR GREENS OTHERS
Election 21 August 2010 43.6 38.0 11.8 6.6
Newspoll 5-7 November 2010 43 34 13 10
Newspoll 19-21 November 2010 39 36 14 11
Newspoll 3-5 December 2011 41 34 14 11
Newspoll 4-6 February 2011 44 32 14 10
Newspoll 18-20 February 2011 41 36 13 10
Newspoll 4-6 March 2011* 45 30 15 10
*4 per cent “uncommitted” and 2 per cent “refused” excluded
TWO PARTY PREFERRED+
Based on preference flow at August 2010 Federal election
COALITION LABOR
Election 21 August 2010 49.9 50.1
Newspoll 5-7 November 2010 52 48
Newspoll 19-21 November 2010 48 52
Newspoll 3-5 December 2010 50 50
Newspoll 4-6 February 2011 52 48
Newspoll 18-20 February 2011 50 50
Newspoll 4-6 March 2011 54 46
+ Excludes Northern Territory
Now if good government had lost its way at 35% of the Primary vote that resulted in one Kevin Rudd being axed, how would you classify a Government at 30% of the Primary vote? Lost its way?
But now comes the big difference. In 2010 there was Julia Gillard ready and willing to take over. And in 2011 there is no election a few months away. There is no doubt what so ever that if an election was looming and say Greg Combet or Bill Shorten had the numbers and the public profile, Julia Gillard would be suffering a leadership challenge right now. The true reason Kevin was axed, was to win the election. It had nothing to do with good government or bad government.
It was down to "What ever it takes" to win an elction. If that means lying about a Carbon tax, then so be it.
Prime minister Gillard. You challenged and deposed of Kevin Rudd based on numbers higher than your own.
You own backflips are now exceeding Kevin Rudds. The Carbon Tax rallies will be well represented despite the Get Up
mob trying to arrange their own rallies. Your own Ministers can't remember if it s a tax or not. The UN gets 10%, but you are trying to hide that. It has been a dismal failure like everything else.
At 30% of the Primary vote, will you say your government have lost its way PM?
Or is that not with Cooee of your day to day reality? Labor is in a deep hole at the moment. No credible alternative to Gillard. And Australia barely tolerated the axing of a Prime Minister. They simply will not suffer a second axing.
Neither will the Independents or the Greens. You think 30% is bad, wait till the next poll.
To get rid of this inept, ridiculous government the only option left is for the good people of Lyne and New England to
help the Nation by holding mass rallies against Oakeshott and Windsor to abandon Labor and follow their electorates wishes. These 2 men are the reason Gillard and her mess endure. One or two prominent members of those areas need to step up and organise protests outside the MP's offices and call on them to either resign or withdraw their support. It may cost them their seats but it may also save their seats in the next election. If you make a pact with the devil, expect to get burnt.
The factional warlords could not and would not risk going to the election with Rudd. It was most fortunate that the deputy PM, Julia Gillard had a good following with the public and especially the MSM, who adored her. The feisty, seemingly able Gillard had the numbers to take over the reigns and with men like AWU boss Paul Howes in her corner, the only option was to historically dump a first term PM. Despite the denials from Julia weeks before the dumping of Rudd, she was ready, willing and able to take over and give Labor a boost and win the election.
So despite saying she would rather go to Mars, play Football for the Dogs, sail around the world solo etc than challenge the leadership, challenge she did, stating "Good Government had lost its way" Labor did get a boost, but not enough to win the election in its own right. An alliance of Labor, Greens and the Independents now govern for us all. Less than twelve months later and the woes of Labor make Kevin Rudd look absolutely brilliant. So far we have seen nearly all of Labors 2010 election policies simply die a slow death. Cash for Clunkers is gone, East Timor is Stillborn, Citizens Assembly never took off and now the infamous No carbon tax was reversed. So what do we see as a result of this ?
Taken fron NEWSPOLL
PRIMARY VOTE+
COALITION LABOR GREENS OTHERS
Election 21 August 2010 43.6 38.0 11.8 6.6
Newspoll 5-7 November 2010 43 34 13 10
Newspoll 19-21 November 2010 39 36 14 11
Newspoll 3-5 December 2011 41 34 14 11
Newspoll 4-6 February 2011 44 32 14 10
Newspoll 18-20 February 2011 41 36 13 10
Newspoll 4-6 March 2011* 45 30 15 10
*4 per cent “uncommitted” and 2 per cent “refused” excluded
TWO PARTY PREFERRED+
Based on preference flow at August 2010 Federal election
COALITION LABOR
Election 21 August 2010 49.9 50.1
Newspoll 5-7 November 2010 52 48
Newspoll 19-21 November 2010 48 52
Newspoll 3-5 December 2010 50 50
Newspoll 4-6 February 2011 52 48
Newspoll 18-20 February 2011 50 50
Newspoll 4-6 March 2011 54 46
+ Excludes Northern Territory
Now if good government had lost its way at 35% of the Primary vote that resulted in one Kevin Rudd being axed, how would you classify a Government at 30% of the Primary vote? Lost its way?
But now comes the big difference. In 2010 there was Julia Gillard ready and willing to take over. And in 2011 there is no election a few months away. There is no doubt what so ever that if an election was looming and say Greg Combet or Bill Shorten had the numbers and the public profile, Julia Gillard would be suffering a leadership challenge right now. The true reason Kevin was axed, was to win the election. It had nothing to do with good government or bad government.
It was down to "What ever it takes" to win an elction. If that means lying about a Carbon tax, then so be it.
Prime minister Gillard. You challenged and deposed of Kevin Rudd based on numbers higher than your own.
You own backflips are now exceeding Kevin Rudds. The Carbon Tax rallies will be well represented despite the Get Up
mob trying to arrange their own rallies. Your own Ministers can't remember if it s a tax or not. The UN gets 10%, but you are trying to hide that. It has been a dismal failure like everything else.
At 30% of the Primary vote, will you say your government have lost its way PM?
Or is that not with Cooee of your day to day reality? Labor is in a deep hole at the moment. No credible alternative to Gillard. And Australia barely tolerated the axing of a Prime Minister. They simply will not suffer a second axing.
Neither will the Independents or the Greens. You think 30% is bad, wait till the next poll.
To get rid of this inept, ridiculous government the only option left is for the good people of Lyne and New England to
help the Nation by holding mass rallies against Oakeshott and Windsor to abandon Labor and follow their electorates wishes. These 2 men are the reason Gillard and her mess endure. One or two prominent members of those areas need to step up and organise protests outside the MP's offices and call on them to either resign or withdraw their support. It may cost them their seats but it may also save their seats in the next election. If you make a pact with the devil, expect to get burnt.
Christmas Island riots, the White elephant runs amok!
http://www.theage.com.au/national/mp-labels-island-detention-centre-a-waste-of-money-20080708-3bwi.html
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/christmas-island-detention-centre-burns-in-protest-20110317-1bz3q.html
In 2008 Labor toured the Christmas Island detention centre and labelled it a waste of money, a White Elephant.
I guess the asylum seekers decided the same thing so they decided to burn it down! With overcrowding a problem thanks to Labor's policy of asylum appeasement, the Government is opening up new detention centres in Australia.
East Timor is a policy wasteland and Nauru is political suicide. Now Gillard is looking at new Visa plans for asylum seekers.
This whole part of Labor government is now a running joke to co-incide with the Carbon Tax, which is no running joke.
When you start using rubber bullets to control Asylum seekers, you have failed. It doesn't matter which side of politics you are or which journalist reports it with his of her view or bias. The minute the riots started and the place burned, the minute fedral police started firing non lethal projectiles the Government has failed. If the Liberals were in power and this had happened, What would Julia had said?
"Another riot another policy failure" ?
"Another rubber bullet, another policy failure" ?
And where are the legion of frothing Howard haters, who screeched over SievX and children overboard?
We have Asylum seekers lost at sea or killed on the rocks at Christmas Island. We have riots and asylum seekers roaming free outside the compund and now to top it all off, we are looking at having Australia sued for imprisioning them in the first place.
Australia it seems is getting lethargic over Labor policy failure now. Everything we slaughtered Howard over is now accepted at part of the land.
The Howard/ Costello leadership tension = BAD vs Rudd /Gillard / Shorten = Whatever!
Children overboard= HORROR vs Christmas Island tragedy / Riots = Whatever!
Workchoices scare campiagn = REAL vs Carbon Tax= Whatever!
Liberals Warn suplus to be gone= Scare vs Bugdet deficit in Billions = Whatever!
You get the picture? Christmas Island woes will not get any better as the smugglers Loooove labor.
Stay tuned for more riots and outrageous behaviour from our future citizens because Gillard's
" Another boat, another policy failure" is from someone who has made failure an artform.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/christmas-island-detention-centre-burns-in-protest-20110317-1bz3q.html
In 2008 Labor toured the Christmas Island detention centre and labelled it a waste of money, a White Elephant.
I guess the asylum seekers decided the same thing so they decided to burn it down! With overcrowding a problem thanks to Labor's policy of asylum appeasement, the Government is opening up new detention centres in Australia.
East Timor is a policy wasteland and Nauru is political suicide. Now Gillard is looking at new Visa plans for asylum seekers.
This whole part of Labor government is now a running joke to co-incide with the Carbon Tax, which is no running joke.
When you start using rubber bullets to control Asylum seekers, you have failed. It doesn't matter which side of politics you are or which journalist reports it with his of her view or bias. The minute the riots started and the place burned, the minute fedral police started firing non lethal projectiles the Government has failed. If the Liberals were in power and this had happened, What would Julia had said?
"Another riot another policy failure" ?
"Another rubber bullet, another policy failure" ?
And where are the legion of frothing Howard haters, who screeched over SievX and children overboard?
We have Asylum seekers lost at sea or killed on the rocks at Christmas Island. We have riots and asylum seekers roaming free outside the compund and now to top it all off, we are looking at having Australia sued for imprisioning them in the first place.
Australia it seems is getting lethargic over Labor policy failure now. Everything we slaughtered Howard over is now accepted at part of the land.
The Howard/ Costello leadership tension = BAD vs Rudd /Gillard / Shorten = Whatever!
Children overboard= HORROR vs Christmas Island tragedy / Riots = Whatever!
Workchoices scare campiagn = REAL vs Carbon Tax= Whatever!
Liberals Warn suplus to be gone= Scare vs Bugdet deficit in Billions = Whatever!
You get the picture? Christmas Island woes will not get any better as the smugglers Loooove labor.
Stay tuned for more riots and outrageous behaviour from our future citizens because Gillard's
" Another boat, another policy failure" is from someone who has made failure an artform.
Labor spin busted!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/labor-mps-ordered-to-distance-government-from-the-greens-as-it-bids-to-sell-carbon-tax/story-e6frg6xf-1226027370768
Well someone has leaked Julia’s game plan to sell the Carbon Tax.
First, deny Labor is sharing power with the greens.
Second, remind the press on Howard and the GST deal with the Democrats
Third, remind the press on Howard negotiating with Senator Harradine.
And Fourth, Remind the press that Gillard really didn’t mean to mislead us on her
“No carbon tax” pledge before the 2010 election.
Hawker Britton has been a busy boy for Madam Gillard.
So let’s look at the four items in Julia’s game plan.
First, If you are keen to distance yourself from the greens, then WHY did you hold a press conference to announce the Carbon Tax with Senator Bob Brown and Deputy Christine Milne next to you? The very tax you said would never happen
under your government.
Second and third, are not the words “Moving Forward” Julia’s favourite? So why with every policy problem, failure or back flip. Does she keep going back to cite John Howard? Julia likes to move forward when a policy is ditched, but loves going back to cite the previous liberal government in an attempt to justify any appeared wrong doing. Were Meg lees and Senator Harradine considered Extreme by Howard or the MSM back then?
Because Julia thinks her Green counterparts are.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/bob-brown-says-by-calling-the-greens-extreme-the-pm-is-just-trying-to-appear-different/story-e6frg6xf-1226023131780
John Howard negotiated with the Democrats and Senator Harradine to get his legislation through. Gillard is doing the exact opposite. This is not her legislation, it is the greens. As she said, ‘Circumstances have changed” as the reason for introducing a carbon tax. This is just pure rubbish from Labor.
And the fourth command,
“MPs were also advised to reject any suggestion that Ms Gillard wilfully misled voters last year, when, before the election, she ruled out a carbon tax.”
One of the suggested responses to any question about the broken promise was: “As the PM said, we never intended to mislead people - but the fact is that we were faced with a parliament we didn't expect.
So it’s ok to lie to Australia because you expected to win the election by knifing Rudd and quickly calling an election in the honeymoon period? That ploy didn’t work, so everything you promised before the election is now ok to ditch? Cash for clunkers, East Timor, No carbon tax to name a few are now dying or gone. It’s not our fault you didn’t get a majority Julia. That is YOUR fault.
And to top it all off, the upcoming taxpayer paid media blitz to push the Carbon Tax, which will lower emission by ZERO, is to be explained by reminding the MSM on Howards media budget. Oh dear, not moving forward again! And was it not the foreign minister, when riding high on the Kevin 07 wave who said the abuse of public funds for advertising a Cancer? That didn’t stop kevin07 from claiming emergency powers to advertise the mining tax and it won’t stop Gillard from doing the same. You see, as the Carbon Tax won’t reduce emission but it will bring in Billions to replace the amount blown since 2007 and it will give Gillard and Swan the chance to have a Labor budget surplus, something that has never happened.
This leaked memo has gone out to all Labor MP’s. What’s the bet similar orders have gone out online to Bloggers and Get Up members as well? Anybody who thinks there are not paid members to blog online positive spin for Labor ideals is deluded.
To sum up. Julia axed Rudd and then showed what a ‘Great’ negotiator she is.
Stop the boats by the East Timor solution (FAIL)
Fixing the mining tax (FAIL)
NO Carbon Tax, instead a citizens assembly (FAIL)
Gillard and co must be obsessed with John Howard. For years they
have crucified him in opposition, then use him as an example 4 years after defeating him.
SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN
UPDATE
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/mps-told-to-warn-of-climate-mayhem/story-fn59niix-1226028368404
Now the MP's have been told to spuik Fire, Flood and Famine if the Carbon Tax isn't passed. And If it is, it will lower emission by how much? Honestly, this government is seriously taking us for fools and sure enough there are enough fools out there in Green Land and Get up Island to believe this. Heads up Green Ups, she's not the messiah, she's a very naughty liar!
Well someone has leaked Julia’s game plan to sell the Carbon Tax.
First, deny Labor is sharing power with the greens.
Second, remind the press on Howard and the GST deal with the Democrats
Third, remind the press on Howard negotiating with Senator Harradine.
And Fourth, Remind the press that Gillard really didn’t mean to mislead us on her
“No carbon tax” pledge before the 2010 election.
Hawker Britton has been a busy boy for Madam Gillard.
So let’s look at the four items in Julia’s game plan.
First, If you are keen to distance yourself from the greens, then WHY did you hold a press conference to announce the Carbon Tax with Senator Bob Brown and Deputy Christine Milne next to you? The very tax you said would never happen
under your government.
Second and third, are not the words “Moving Forward” Julia’s favourite? So why with every policy problem, failure or back flip. Does she keep going back to cite John Howard? Julia likes to move forward when a policy is ditched, but loves going back to cite the previous liberal government in an attempt to justify any appeared wrong doing. Were Meg lees and Senator Harradine considered Extreme by Howard or the MSM back then?
Because Julia thinks her Green counterparts are.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/bob-brown-says-by-calling-the-greens-extreme-the-pm-is-just-trying-to-appear-different/story-e6frg6xf-1226023131780
John Howard negotiated with the Democrats and Senator Harradine to get his legislation through. Gillard is doing the exact opposite. This is not her legislation, it is the greens. As she said, ‘Circumstances have changed” as the reason for introducing a carbon tax. This is just pure rubbish from Labor.
And the fourth command,
“MPs were also advised to reject any suggestion that Ms Gillard wilfully misled voters last year, when, before the election, she ruled out a carbon tax.”
One of the suggested responses to any question about the broken promise was: “As the PM said, we never intended to mislead people - but the fact is that we were faced with a parliament we didn't expect.
So it’s ok to lie to Australia because you expected to win the election by knifing Rudd and quickly calling an election in the honeymoon period? That ploy didn’t work, so everything you promised before the election is now ok to ditch? Cash for clunkers, East Timor, No carbon tax to name a few are now dying or gone. It’s not our fault you didn’t get a majority Julia. That is YOUR fault.
And to top it all off, the upcoming taxpayer paid media blitz to push the Carbon Tax, which will lower emission by ZERO, is to be explained by reminding the MSM on Howards media budget. Oh dear, not moving forward again! And was it not the foreign minister, when riding high on the Kevin 07 wave who said the abuse of public funds for advertising a Cancer? That didn’t stop kevin07 from claiming emergency powers to advertise the mining tax and it won’t stop Gillard from doing the same. You see, as the Carbon Tax won’t reduce emission but it will bring in Billions to replace the amount blown since 2007 and it will give Gillard and Swan the chance to have a Labor budget surplus, something that has never happened.
This leaked memo has gone out to all Labor MP’s. What’s the bet similar orders have gone out online to Bloggers and Get Up members as well? Anybody who thinks there are not paid members to blog online positive spin for Labor ideals is deluded.
To sum up. Julia axed Rudd and then showed what a ‘Great’ negotiator she is.
Stop the boats by the East Timor solution (FAIL)
Fixing the mining tax (FAIL)
NO Carbon Tax, instead a citizens assembly (FAIL)
Gillard and co must be obsessed with John Howard. For years they
have crucified him in opposition, then use him as an example 4 years after defeating him.
SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN
UPDATE
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/mps-told-to-warn-of-climate-mayhem/story-fn59niix-1226028368404
Now the MP's have been told to spuik Fire, Flood and Famine if the Carbon Tax isn't passed. And If it is, it will lower emission by how much? Honestly, this government is seriously taking us for fools and sure enough there are enough fools out there in Green Land and Get up Island to believe this. Heads up Green Ups, she's not the messiah, she's a very naughty liar!
Barnaby for Deputy PM? Oh but Swan is sooooo much better!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-warns-barnaby-joyce-could-be-deputy-pm-under-a-future-coalition-government/story-fn59niix-1226041388861
Julia Gillard has attempted to smear the coalition by claiming Barnaby Joyce could end up as deputy PM. She demands the coalition come clean on the nature of the team they will take to the next election. Is this woman for real? Is this not the same woman who said Kevin Rudd will lead Labor to the 2010 election, then back flipped, knifed her leader in the back and took Labor to minority government. Julia hasn’t come clean on anything in her life and now demands that others do what she simply cannot do. Did Julia come clean prior to the 2010 election on the Carbon Tax?
Did Julia come clean on knifing Rudd? Remember she said there is more of a chance of her playing for the Bulldogs. Remember she said there will no Carbon Tax under any government I lead. Now she is on the moral high horse to others on coming clean.
And is Barnaby Joyce as Deputy PM a bad thing? At least he would be a loyal Deputy eh Julia? And compared to Goose Swan, he would be an economic Genius.
Maybe he would tell the truth and actually answer question posed to him. With Barnaby Joyce, what you see is what you get. No spin, lies or deceit. He will stand by his principles and not what the polls dictate. Instead of smearing the opposition Julia, how about you fix the mining tax, BER Rort, Open borders, cost of living, carbon tax, Budget deficit, upcoming horror budget, Local greens dipping into foreign policy, Kevin Rudd out of control to but name a few.
Julia Gillard has attempted to smear the coalition by claiming Barnaby Joyce could end up as deputy PM. She demands the coalition come clean on the nature of the team they will take to the next election. Is this woman for real? Is this not the same woman who said Kevin Rudd will lead Labor to the 2010 election, then back flipped, knifed her leader in the back and took Labor to minority government. Julia hasn’t come clean on anything in her life and now demands that others do what she simply cannot do. Did Julia come clean prior to the 2010 election on the Carbon Tax?
Did Julia come clean on knifing Rudd? Remember she said there is more of a chance of her playing for the Bulldogs. Remember she said there will no Carbon Tax under any government I lead. Now she is on the moral high horse to others on coming clean.
And is Barnaby Joyce as Deputy PM a bad thing? At least he would be a loyal Deputy eh Julia? And compared to Goose Swan, he would be an economic Genius.
Maybe he would tell the truth and actually answer question posed to him. With Barnaby Joyce, what you see is what you get. No spin, lies or deceit. He will stand by his principles and not what the polls dictate. Instead of smearing the opposition Julia, how about you fix the mining tax, BER Rort, Open borders, cost of living, carbon tax, Budget deficit, upcoming horror budget, Local greens dipping into foreign policy, Kevin Rudd out of control to but name a few.
Labor Pinball Politics.
In politics in Australia, you have either stable government or unstable government.
You may have hiccups on the way that can cause your brand of politics to be tarnished. But you soon recover by achieving good outcomes, good polices or just plain strong government based on your political parties principals. This has been the case for both Labor and Liberal governments over the decades. Even the Rudd Government started out stable and strong with a broad based support form the community.
But that quickly started to unravel as the promises were scrapped or not kept, the carefully scripted speeches started to seem hollow, the waste and mismanagement piled up and policy failure upon policy failure became apparant. The successes of the previous Howard Government policy were rearranged to suit the Labor philosophy and rapidly became embarrassing failures. The successful Pacific Solution became the Labor Asylum seeker policy nightmare and the budget surplus became the Labor deficit we had to have. All 2007 promises apart from the stolen generation apology and the Kyoto signing have been scrapped or failed dismally, so much so that the sitting PM was axed by his own party.
Now in 2011 we have morphed into Pinball politics. This is where there are so many policy failures that is hard for the public to focus on the issue of the day. The news cycle may be focused on the Asylum Seeker debacle for a few days, then switch to the Treasurer bemoaning the forthcoming Budget. Then we switch to the ADF Sex scandal, and then the Mining Tax issue rears its head. And the granddaddy of all policy failure, the Carbon Tax is always sandwiched in the news between every Labor policy bungle. You see how hard it is for the people of Australia to figure what the hell is going on in Canberra when every day there is an issue coming out of the Federal Labor party? Welcome to the world of Pinball politics. Where the Labor ball keeps bouncing off a different issue that make a lot of noise but is quickly drowned out by the next noise of policy failure.
Carbon tax (Bounce) Mining Tax (Bounce) Asylum Seekers (Bounce) Pink Batts (Bounce) Christmas Island/ Villawood riots (Bounce) Kevin Rudd (Bounce) Greens policies( Bounce) BER Rorts (Bounce) Budget deficit (Bounce). Never have we seen a government in the news cycle, lurch from problem to problem on a daily basis. Never have we seen such incompetence over a long period of government. But what is most astonishing is this government is only held together by a small team of Independents from majorly conservative electorates. You could not script this for a sci fi movie as it would seem too unbelievable. All it would take for the Gillard experiment to end is for one Independent to follow the wishes of his electorate.
The poor old Labor ball just can’t seem to hit the targets but just keeps scoring on
Policy failure bumpers while racking up a big score, it’s just the big score is in the negative figure of billions.
The danger is Australia is about to TILT and there is no refund and we don’t have any more 20 cent pieces in the pocket for another game.
You may have hiccups on the way that can cause your brand of politics to be tarnished. But you soon recover by achieving good outcomes, good polices or just plain strong government based on your political parties principals. This has been the case for both Labor and Liberal governments over the decades. Even the Rudd Government started out stable and strong with a broad based support form the community.
But that quickly started to unravel as the promises were scrapped or not kept, the carefully scripted speeches started to seem hollow, the waste and mismanagement piled up and policy failure upon policy failure became apparant. The successes of the previous Howard Government policy were rearranged to suit the Labor philosophy and rapidly became embarrassing failures. The successful Pacific Solution became the Labor Asylum seeker policy nightmare and the budget surplus became the Labor deficit we had to have. All 2007 promises apart from the stolen generation apology and the Kyoto signing have been scrapped or failed dismally, so much so that the sitting PM was axed by his own party.
Now in 2011 we have morphed into Pinball politics. This is where there are so many policy failures that is hard for the public to focus on the issue of the day. The news cycle may be focused on the Asylum Seeker debacle for a few days, then switch to the Treasurer bemoaning the forthcoming Budget. Then we switch to the ADF Sex scandal, and then the Mining Tax issue rears its head. And the granddaddy of all policy failure, the Carbon Tax is always sandwiched in the news between every Labor policy bungle. You see how hard it is for the people of Australia to figure what the hell is going on in Canberra when every day there is an issue coming out of the Federal Labor party? Welcome to the world of Pinball politics. Where the Labor ball keeps bouncing off a different issue that make a lot of noise but is quickly drowned out by the next noise of policy failure.
Carbon tax (Bounce) Mining Tax (Bounce) Asylum Seekers (Bounce) Pink Batts (Bounce) Christmas Island/ Villawood riots (Bounce) Kevin Rudd (Bounce) Greens policies( Bounce) BER Rorts (Bounce) Budget deficit (Bounce). Never have we seen a government in the news cycle, lurch from problem to problem on a daily basis. Never have we seen such incompetence over a long period of government. But what is most astonishing is this government is only held together by a small team of Independents from majorly conservative electorates. You could not script this for a sci fi movie as it would seem too unbelievable. All it would take for the Gillard experiment to end is for one Independent to follow the wishes of his electorate.
The poor old Labor ball just can’t seem to hit the targets but just keeps scoring on
Policy failure bumpers while racking up a big score, it’s just the big score is in the negative figure of billions.
The danger is Australia is about to TILT and there is no refund and we don’t have any more 20 cent pieces in the pocket for another game.
The land of the White Elephant.
Below is the Australian mainland and Christmas Island. That little Island that Labor were going to close down because it was a white elephant as it only housed a few dozen asylum seekers. Kevin 07 and Julia 10 scrapped the Pacific Solution and the map below in 2011 shows the Labor Solution. Yep, Detention centres operating in each state becuase Christmas Island has the no vacancy sign up. Riots and rubber bullets, the Labor way. And the odd boat dissapearing or crashing into rocks and men, women and children drowning. The most incredible thing about this whole sorry saga is that there is no shame or apology from Labor, the anti Howard MSM or Labor supporters on this disaster mascarading as policy. You can still find online bloggers screeching about Howard and the Tampa affair while remaining blissfully silent on the current events.
Julia Gillard, you are responsible for this mess as you said Howard was for SievX and Children overboard.
R E S I G N !
Julia Gillard, you are responsible for this mess as you said Howard was for SievX and Children overboard.
R E S I G N !
Villawood riots while Labor talks tough.......again!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/asylum-riots-put-heat-on-labor/story-fn59niix-1226043544659
Coming soon after the Christmas Island riots, Villawood detention centre has seen riots break out, resulting in a damage bill that is sure to run into the milllions. Computer labs, Hospital facilities all gone and protesters sitting on the roof refusing to come down. The Rubber bullets didn't come out this time as it would be politically fatal to have federal police using tear gas and bean bag bullets in a Sydney suburb. Now Labor is talking tough yet again on Asylum seekers. They have been doing this since in opposition and now after 4 years in Government, like all other failed policies, are talking the talk, but waddling the walk. Mr 10% acting PM, the Goose is on the airwaves talking tough citing the full force of the law. Good one Wayne, you talking tough should have them off the roof in no time. They'll loose their footing by laughing too much and fall off!
It was the Laws you people introduced into the first place that caused the overcrowding at Villawood and Christmas Island by relaxing the tough border stance of the previous governemnt. Their application have been rejected so they should be on the plane home. It's a tight run race at the moment on which policy is the biggest running joke at the moment. The Carbon tax or the border protection failures. I'm sure the Goose's upcoming budget should take the spotlight of those disasters for a few days. And where is the PM? In Japan with Tim touring disaster sites. Oh the irony! Maybe we can get the Japanese to visit Villawood and Christmas island? Sort of sister disaster sites. Better throw in canberra at that.
I'll Stop the boats!
I'll stop the riots!
How about I'll stop lying?
Coming soon after the Christmas Island riots, Villawood detention centre has seen riots break out, resulting in a damage bill that is sure to run into the milllions. Computer labs, Hospital facilities all gone and protesters sitting on the roof refusing to come down. The Rubber bullets didn't come out this time as it would be politically fatal to have federal police using tear gas and bean bag bullets in a Sydney suburb. Now Labor is talking tough yet again on Asylum seekers. They have been doing this since in opposition and now after 4 years in Government, like all other failed policies, are talking the talk, but waddling the walk. Mr 10% acting PM, the Goose is on the airwaves talking tough citing the full force of the law. Good one Wayne, you talking tough should have them off the roof in no time. They'll loose their footing by laughing too much and fall off!
It was the Laws you people introduced into the first place that caused the overcrowding at Villawood and Christmas Island by relaxing the tough border stance of the previous governemnt. Their application have been rejected so they should be on the plane home. It's a tight run race at the moment on which policy is the biggest running joke at the moment. The Carbon tax or the border protection failures. I'm sure the Goose's upcoming budget should take the spotlight of those disasters for a few days. And where is the PM? In Japan with Tim touring disaster sites. Oh the irony! Maybe we can get the Japanese to visit Villawood and Christmas island? Sort of sister disaster sites. Better throw in canberra at that.
I'll Stop the boats!
I'll stop the riots!
How about I'll stop lying?
Tanner dumps on Labor, no surprises there.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/ex-minister-unloads-on-rudd-govt/story-e6freuzi-1226043827370
Ex Fiance minister Lindsay Tanner and a member of the "Gang of four" has unloaded on the Gillard/ Rudd Government.
He covers a whole range of issues starting with the slogan "Moving Foward" Was it not Juliar who had a swipe at Abbott as a lover of three word slogans.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/gillard-slams-abbott-over-border-security-slogans/story-fn59niix-1225945853859
What a hypocrite the PM is. Her love of a slogan is well documented, now it's revealled that her ministers found her slogans setting a new record in banality. But Julia so far is the poster child of hypocritical action. As for the hair dye change to be more noticeable, I reckon her policy backflips, lies and backstabbing make her more noticeable. Notice she kept a low profile after the medicare gold saga. No hair dye change until THAT debacle faded away.
But now we get to the crux of the Lindsay Tanner article. The creation of a business advisory panel failure.
It never happened. As with most Rudd and Julia promises, it was either killed, downgraded or just a plain lie.
You could check out the promise on Labor's webiste, but as mentioned here, the 2007 promises were removed from the site when more an more people went there to look at the list of policy promises that failed dismally. Chalk another great Labor lie, brought to you by that doyen of lies, Krudd.
Ex Fiance minister Lindsay Tanner and a member of the "Gang of four" has unloaded on the Gillard/ Rudd Government.
He covers a whole range of issues starting with the slogan "Moving Foward" Was it not Juliar who had a swipe at Abbott as a lover of three word slogans.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/gillard-slams-abbott-over-border-security-slogans/story-fn59niix-1225945853859
What a hypocrite the PM is. Her love of a slogan is well documented, now it's revealled that her ministers found her slogans setting a new record in banality. But Julia so far is the poster child of hypocritical action. As for the hair dye change to be more noticeable, I reckon her policy backflips, lies and backstabbing make her more noticeable. Notice she kept a low profile after the medicare gold saga. No hair dye change until THAT debacle faded away.
But now we get to the crux of the Lindsay Tanner article. The creation of a business advisory panel failure.
It never happened. As with most Rudd and Julia promises, it was either killed, downgraded or just a plain lie.
You could check out the promise on Labor's webiste, but as mentioned here, the 2007 promises were removed from the site when more an more people went there to look at the list of policy promises that failed dismally. Chalk another great Labor lie, brought to you by that doyen of lies, Krudd.
Arbib tell NSW Labor leader, be like Abbott, WTF?
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/9251636/robertson-should-use-abbott-as-model-arbib/
Ok, I'll admit I just don't get Mark Arbib saying this. This is man who holds the Lions share of responsibility for the state of the Labor party in this country. He was instrumental in NSW politics, giving us Morris Iemma and his subsequent downfall. He also had a big hand in the disposal of Rudd and the rise of Julia. Tony Abbott is the enemy to this man. And yet he believes Tony Abbott is a role model for opposition leaders?
He wants Robertson, the union hack Labor leader to do the following "They've got to focus to get back on the basics, be unified and also hold Barry O'Farrell to account,"
Now if Arbib reckons Abbott is a good role model for Robertson to follow then Abbott has the basics, is unified and is holding Julia Gillard to account! You hear that Labor opposition leaders in Australia? Look no further than T.A for how to conduct yourself. How about when Julia was in opposition Mark? Surely that's an even better role model than Abbott? I mean, she was super with medicare gold, her asylum seeker policy, her hysterical opposition to waste and mismanagement, her undying loyalty to her leader and Craig Emerson. The circus continues. Laurie Oaks, who probably has the words "Labor" stitched into his underwear, goes on the attack over the Labor run Asylum Seekers debacle. Lindsay Tanner dumps on Julia and the KRudd gets a few digs in on Q&A.
And to top it all off, the man who along with Shorten and Howes was responsible for Juliar the super PM, reckons Abbott is a good role model for Labor politicians? This just gets more hilarious every day. Maybe instead of Limo's and comcars dropping off Labor every morning at Parliament, we could have a fleet of minis instead. And out pores 10 Labor politicians wearing big shoes and makeup?
Ok, I'll admit I just don't get Mark Arbib saying this. This is man who holds the Lions share of responsibility for the state of the Labor party in this country. He was instrumental in NSW politics, giving us Morris Iemma and his subsequent downfall. He also had a big hand in the disposal of Rudd and the rise of Julia. Tony Abbott is the enemy to this man. And yet he believes Tony Abbott is a role model for opposition leaders?
He wants Robertson, the union hack Labor leader to do the following "They've got to focus to get back on the basics, be unified and also hold Barry O'Farrell to account,"
Now if Arbib reckons Abbott is a good role model for Robertson to follow then Abbott has the basics, is unified and is holding Julia Gillard to account! You hear that Labor opposition leaders in Australia? Look no further than T.A for how to conduct yourself. How about when Julia was in opposition Mark? Surely that's an even better role model than Abbott? I mean, she was super with medicare gold, her asylum seeker policy, her hysterical opposition to waste and mismanagement, her undying loyalty to her leader and Craig Emerson. The circus continues. Laurie Oaks, who probably has the words "Labor" stitched into his underwear, goes on the attack over the Labor run Asylum Seekers debacle. Lindsay Tanner dumps on Julia and the KRudd gets a few digs in on Q&A.
And to top it all off, the man who along with Shorten and Howes was responsible for Juliar the super PM, reckons Abbott is a good role model for Labor politicians? This just gets more hilarious every day. Maybe instead of Limo's and comcars dropping off Labor every morning at Parliament, we could have a fleet of minis instead. And out pores 10 Labor politicians wearing big shoes and makeup?
How dare East Timor say no to Julia
Yet again East Timor has said no to Gillard's "East Timor solution".
Didn't they get the memo? "What Julia wants, Julia gets "
This policy was announced during the 2010 election in which she of "Another boat, another policy failure" fame would stop the boats. You remember? There were some lovely pictures of Captain Julia on a patrol boat smiling away if you've forgotten?
Only last week, Chris Bowen was still issuing media releases stating that talk were still ongoing and the East Timor option is still viable. Someone is lying here. GASP! Someone in Labor is lying is like saying the sky is blue. Detention centres full, rioting or on hunger strikes. Another boat arrived this week as well. the 2007 election promise by Krudd to "maintain our border security" is as dead as fuelwatch and grocerywatch. That's it folks! Game over. The people smugglers have won.
And just like was predicted, the Ocean Viking incident sent a message that our laws were weakened and the political will to maintain our border security was gone. There were more pressing issues facing our government. Like installing red hot roof insulation, making sure we all has Plasma TV's and the schools had new toilet blocks. The Ocean Viking fiasco started a downward slide to where we are now, with asylum seekers in charge and asylum smugglers raking in the cash. Who would of thought the stimulus package would include people smugglers?
And where is the man who started it all? Mr "I'm Kevin and I'm here to help"?
Wandering around Buckingham Palace chatting to Koshie to show up Julia before he fires up the 747 again.
Hang your damn heads in shame Independants. You could of stopped this and still can. But like the government you support, it's all about you.
Didn't they get the memo? "What Julia wants, Julia gets "
This policy was announced during the 2010 election in which she of "Another boat, another policy failure" fame would stop the boats. You remember? There were some lovely pictures of Captain Julia on a patrol boat smiling away if you've forgotten?
Only last week, Chris Bowen was still issuing media releases stating that talk were still ongoing and the East Timor option is still viable. Someone is lying here. GASP! Someone in Labor is lying is like saying the sky is blue. Detention centres full, rioting or on hunger strikes. Another boat arrived this week as well. the 2007 election promise by Krudd to "maintain our border security" is as dead as fuelwatch and grocerywatch. That's it folks! Game over. The people smugglers have won.
And just like was predicted, the Ocean Viking incident sent a message that our laws were weakened and the political will to maintain our border security was gone. There were more pressing issues facing our government. Like installing red hot roof insulation, making sure we all has Plasma TV's and the schools had new toilet blocks. The Ocean Viking fiasco started a downward slide to where we are now, with asylum seekers in charge and asylum smugglers raking in the cash. Who would of thought the stimulus package would include people smugglers?
And where is the man who started it all? Mr "I'm Kevin and I'm here to help"?
Wandering around Buckingham Palace chatting to Koshie to show up Julia before he fires up the 747 again.
Hang your damn heads in shame Independants. You could of stopped this and still can. But like the government you support, it's all about you.
The pacific Solution, another White elephant just flew by!
In 2008, Labor MP Michael Danby toured the Christmas Island detention facility and called it an enormous White Elephant.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/mp-labels-island-detention-centre-a-waste-of-money-20080708-3bwi.html
As promised, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard commenced tearing down the Pacific Solution which was lauded by certain interest groups and certain newspapers.
The Age Newspaper was particularly vocal stating a stain had been removed from Australian society with the removal of the Pacific Solution.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/australia-banishes-odious-treatment-of-refugees-20080729-3msc.html
So in came Kevin 07 and Julia 10, promising to maintain our border security whilst tearing down the very thing that secured our borders in the first place. When the promise turned to dust, Julia of another boat, policy failure fame, came up with the East Timor solution that has been rejected by the East Timorese time and time again. Now, after 3 years of policy failures, over 235 failures according to Julia, out comes a small admission of defeat by announcing the possible re-opening of Manus island detention centre. IS this because there is no room at the various white elephants around Australia?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-turns-to-pacific-solution-in-papua-new-guinea/story-fn59niix-1226050792939
Oh dear oh dear oh dear! From white elephant Christmas Island to detention centres around Australia at near capacity. From deaths on the high seas to riots and rubber bullets. And now comes Manus Island to be re-opened due to East Timor rejecting Real/Fake Julia policy on the run. Julia Gillard, you should have stayed in opposition as
You spat venom at the pacific Solution in opposition, yet in government you spit noting but hypocrisy. I’ll leave the last word to Michael Danby. Hey Mick! What say big fella? Feel like a tour of Christmas Island and Manus Island again? This time will it be an enormous waste of money? Or now that Labor has the chequebook, it is an Abbott scare campaign?
DUCK!! FLYING WHITE ELEPHANTS AT 2 O’CLOCK!
RATATATATATATAT!
Update
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-bid-to-save-papua-new-guinea-asylum-plan-after-port-moresby-puts-centre-on-hold/story-fn59niix-1226051466046
24 hours later and julia has to start to save a plan already. Should be as successful as her saving the East Timor Plan.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-bid-to-save-papua-new-guinea-asylum-plan-after-port-moresby-puts-centre-on-hold/story-fn59niix-1226051466046
24 hours later and julia has to start to save a plan already. Should be as successful as her saving the East Timor Plan.
Julia did say "Bring it on, Bring it on"- Going by your polling numbers and policy backflips, Tony Abbott not only did, but made you look a fool. Too late to say "Just kidding"?
So many Labor stuff ups, where to begin?
Well it's a difficult choice at the moment what to blog on.
Should it be the Goose and his upcoming 50 billion budget deficit?
Should it the carbon tax and how the Northen Territory wants a 50 year exemption?
Should it be the NBN and how its funding is excluded from the budget?
Should it be 2 more boat arrivals?
Should it be about the Labor independants and their love for Juliar's Carbon Tax
Should it be about Wilki the Pokie hater who forces cadets to salute on the anniversary of Hitlers death?
Should it be about the Union sponsored GETUP group paying for an ex asylum seeker to get surfing lessons from Abbott?
But the winner of course is the Malaysian swap of asylum seekers. Fly over 800, receive 4000. Now that Gillard has finally admitted that East Timor is dead and Manus island is to be re opened, Bowen And Gillard have come up with a gem.
Now what is interesting is Malaysia is not a signatory of the convention of refugees. Labor and all its paid online bloggers have for years pointed out the reason Nauru will never be re opened is for the same reason. By creating this deal with Malaysia, it confirms the reason why Nauru was off the agenda. And that is that is purely a polictical choice NOT to lose face and hide behind the no signature of convention of refugees. The hypocrisy is now blatantly open for inspection and it's beautiful in its ugliness. Where is the outrage Labor supporters? Where is the venom directed at John Howard and his Pacific Solution?
Lets cut the political crap, the I love Labor/Liberals no matter what. Points are fact.
Labor said they would stop the boats, Rudd and Gillard did not!
Labor said it would dismatle the Pacific Solution and now parts are being "Remantled"
Labor said it would maintain Border security. It did not.
Labor said Christmas Island was a white elephant. Now at capacity.
Labor would adopt a more humane policy. Over 200 men, women and children are dead.
I always thought using a false resume to get a job is a criminal offence? In 2007 Rudd and Julia did just that.
Every claim, promise and idea on that resume is dead and buried. And yet they still blame and pick on the bloke who didn't get the job. Despite being more qualified and having done the job before at a professional and competent level.
Well at least East Timor is off the hook. As Tony Abbott has stated. Pick up the phone and ring Nauru. You did for
Malaysia and they are not a signatory. Better yet, just resign and leave border security to grown ups and not union hacks.
Should it be the Goose and his upcoming 50 billion budget deficit?
Should it the carbon tax and how the Northen Territory wants a 50 year exemption?
Should it be the NBN and how its funding is excluded from the budget?
Should it be 2 more boat arrivals?
Should it be about the Labor independants and their love for Juliar's Carbon Tax
Should it be about Wilki the Pokie hater who forces cadets to salute on the anniversary of Hitlers death?
Should it be about the Union sponsored GETUP group paying for an ex asylum seeker to get surfing lessons from Abbott?
But the winner of course is the Malaysian swap of asylum seekers. Fly over 800, receive 4000. Now that Gillard has finally admitted that East Timor is dead and Manus island is to be re opened, Bowen And Gillard have come up with a gem.
Now what is interesting is Malaysia is not a signatory of the convention of refugees. Labor and all its paid online bloggers have for years pointed out the reason Nauru will never be re opened is for the same reason. By creating this deal with Malaysia, it confirms the reason why Nauru was off the agenda. And that is that is purely a polictical choice NOT to lose face and hide behind the no signature of convention of refugees. The hypocrisy is now blatantly open for inspection and it's beautiful in its ugliness. Where is the outrage Labor supporters? Where is the venom directed at John Howard and his Pacific Solution?
Lets cut the political crap, the I love Labor/Liberals no matter what. Points are fact.
Labor said they would stop the boats, Rudd and Gillard did not!
Labor said it would dismatle the Pacific Solution and now parts are being "Remantled"
Labor said it would maintain Border security. It did not.
Labor said Christmas Island was a white elephant. Now at capacity.
Labor would adopt a more humane policy. Over 200 men, women and children are dead.
I always thought using a false resume to get a job is a criminal offence? In 2007 Rudd and Julia did just that.
Every claim, promise and idea on that resume is dead and buried. And yet they still blame and pick on the bloke who didn't get the job. Despite being more qualified and having done the job before at a professional and competent level.
Well at least East Timor is off the hook. As Tony Abbott has stated. Pick up the phone and ring Nauru. You did for
Malaysia and they are not a signatory. Better yet, just resign and leave border security to grown ups and not union hacks.
Update. Julia syas she' getting tough, no sorry I mean't VERY TOUGH.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/cabinet-told-of-malaysia-plan-hours-before-launch/comments-fn59niix-1226052547789
Too funny PM. You have the red hair, now all you need are some oversized shoes and some better makeup.
Oh and I love how cabinet only had a few hourse notice before the policy was announced. Policy on the run? Mate, Labor has run a marathon from Sydney to Perth and back again on the amount of policy running they have done.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/cabinet-told-of-malaysia-plan-hours-before-launch/comments-fn59niix-1226052547789
Too funny PM. You have the red hair, now all you need are some oversized shoes and some better makeup.
Oh and I love how cabinet only had a few hourse notice before the policy was announced. Policy on the run? Mate, Labor has run a marathon from Sydney to Perth and back again on the amount of policy running they have done.
What's my solution you demand? One Kim Beazley!
I get emails saying "well what's your solution seeing as you know everything." Well let us look at the options of ending this circus that has become the Australian Government. Best option would be for one Independant to cross the floor to the Liberals. But that will not happen as Rob Oakeshott , Tony Windsor and Andrew Wilki have proven they will support the government that supports their agendas. Oakeshott proved his loyalty to Julia by stating he would vote for the Carbon Tax the day it was announced. The man is as much as an Independant as I am a Real Juliar supporter. Tony Windsor hates the Nationals as they robbed him of his own belief of greatness. Andrew Wilkie is Andrew Wilkie, enough said about him.
How about a Labor MP revolt to cross the floor? Won't EVER happen. Labor will support horrific policy publicly despite having misgivings. It's all about the party and not the people. NSW is a testament to that. Replacing Julia would be the best option, but what do you do when the alternatives are at the bottom of the barrel? Conroy, Garrett, Roxon, Shorten, the Goose, Ferguson, Bowen, the Ruddster, Wong. Any one would carry Australia even further down the drain and into the Sewer.
Now how about a bloke who holds Labor values and is actually a decent man? A man who will stand up to the looney left and would repel so much of the crap that Julia and Rudd have brought to the nation over their reign? Kim Beazley is currently US Ambassador and an ex Labor leader. He couldn't beat John Howard so he was replaced by the dream team of Rudd and Julia, who in turn became a nightmare for Australia. He is far removed from all the current crop of hopeless fools who mascarade as politicans and bring a sense of order to Canberra. The Australian people I believe would support a return of Kim Beazley. And oh what a joy to have a decent man who was desposed by a bunch of liars, replace said liars.
If we have to run the full course till the next election then Labor powerbrokers take note. If there was a person to replace Juliar and it's not Krudd, then do some internal secret polling and suggest KIM BEAZLEY. But keep it top secret, as Juliar has indepth knowledge when a leader is about to be knifed.
How about a Labor MP revolt to cross the floor? Won't EVER happen. Labor will support horrific policy publicly despite having misgivings. It's all about the party and not the people. NSW is a testament to that. Replacing Julia would be the best option, but what do you do when the alternatives are at the bottom of the barrel? Conroy, Garrett, Roxon, Shorten, the Goose, Ferguson, Bowen, the Ruddster, Wong. Any one would carry Australia even further down the drain and into the Sewer.
Now how about a bloke who holds Labor values and is actually a decent man? A man who will stand up to the looney left and would repel so much of the crap that Julia and Rudd have brought to the nation over their reign? Kim Beazley is currently US Ambassador and an ex Labor leader. He couldn't beat John Howard so he was replaced by the dream team of Rudd and Julia, who in turn became a nightmare for Australia. He is far removed from all the current crop of hopeless fools who mascarade as politicans and bring a sense of order to Canberra. The Australian people I believe would support a return of Kim Beazley. And oh what a joy to have a decent man who was desposed by a bunch of liars, replace said liars.
If we have to run the full course till the next election then Labor powerbrokers take note. If there was a person to replace Juliar and it's not Krudd, then do some internal secret polling and suggest KIM BEAZLEY. But keep it top secret, as Juliar has indepth knowledge when a leader is about to be knifed.
BER is back, juliar syle!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/now-its-the-digital-tv-box-rort/story-e6frevp9-1226052859810
Oh dear, here we go again. You'd think Labor would learn from the mistakes of the BER and Pink Batts that made Rudd a laughing stock. But not our Juliar. As the architect of the BER, she once again shows her incompetence with the Digital Set Top Box Revolution. A 308 million dollar scheme to install $40 set top boxes.
It's quite amusing to watch our PM in action. When in oppostion, she screeched about waste and mismanagement when 121 million was spent on mouse pads and fridge magnets. After the BER and Pink Batts, she changed her tune as stated
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/abbott-urges-schools-to-expose-ripoffs-20100326-r0lg.html
"a bit of waste" and "a bit of mismanagement" was unavoidable in a large-scale project.
Now Julia is matured in the job enough that now she incorporates the waste and mismanagement beforehand by allocating $308 Million for installation of $40 set top boxes. Thank god Julia wasn't around when the VCR was first introduced. Would of cost us billions in installation fees. But then again Julia would of allocated money for Beta only.
Oh dear, here we go again. You'd think Labor would learn from the mistakes of the BER and Pink Batts that made Rudd a laughing stock. But not our Juliar. As the architect of the BER, she once again shows her incompetence with the Digital Set Top Box Revolution. A 308 million dollar scheme to install $40 set top boxes.
It's quite amusing to watch our PM in action. When in oppostion, she screeched about waste and mismanagement when 121 million was spent on mouse pads and fridge magnets. After the BER and Pink Batts, she changed her tune as stated
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/abbott-urges-schools-to-expose-ripoffs-20100326-r0lg.html
"a bit of waste" and "a bit of mismanagement" was unavoidable in a large-scale project.
Now Julia is matured in the job enough that now she incorporates the waste and mismanagement beforehand by allocating $308 Million for installation of $40 set top boxes. Thank god Julia wasn't around when the VCR was first introduced. Would of cost us billions in installation fees. But then again Julia would of allocated money for Beta only.
Rudd 2 Billion for UN Seat, where are the Downer critics?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/billion-for-kevin-rudds-un-bid/story-e6freuzr-1226054263034
Cast your mind back to the Howard years. The foreign minister was Alexander Downer. Oh how Labor and the media loved to critisize his performance, despite being a good minister. He represented Australia, Rudd represents Rudd. But the media couldn't help but concentrate on the foreign minister wearing fish net stockings for charity. Sort of like now how they concentrate on Abbott and his lifesaver costume. Well done media of Australia. Rudd is kept happy and not pulled into line by Julia for one thing and one thing only. She can't afford a by-election, so Rudd who is still smarting on being knifed by Julia, Shorten, Swan and Howes has the world as his oyster. If there is an event happening in the world and cameras are present, you can be sure to spot the jet trails of a 747 nearby as the Ruddster approaches, if he isn't already there. What sort of government allows one of their ministers to thumb his nose at any censure? Could you imagine Alexander Downer treating Howard or the Australian people with that sort of contempt?
It shows a weak PM, who will show weakness to any politican whom which she needs support to rule.
Rudd
Oakeshott
Wilkie
Windsor
All 4 hold aces while Julia holds Jokers. Need a new sports centre? No problem
Need an extra 2 billion in funding? No worries. Poker machine reforms? All over it mate!
Go for the whole hog fellas. In the recent Fifa scandal, one corrupt offical wanted a knighthood.
Go for it Kevin. Ask for a knighthood.
Sir Kevin Rudd, Duke of Boeing?
Cast your mind back to the Howard years. The foreign minister was Alexander Downer. Oh how Labor and the media loved to critisize his performance, despite being a good minister. He represented Australia, Rudd represents Rudd. But the media couldn't help but concentrate on the foreign minister wearing fish net stockings for charity. Sort of like now how they concentrate on Abbott and his lifesaver costume. Well done media of Australia. Rudd is kept happy and not pulled into line by Julia for one thing and one thing only. She can't afford a by-election, so Rudd who is still smarting on being knifed by Julia, Shorten, Swan and Howes has the world as his oyster. If there is an event happening in the world and cameras are present, you can be sure to spot the jet trails of a 747 nearby as the Ruddster approaches, if he isn't already there. What sort of government allows one of their ministers to thumb his nose at any censure? Could you imagine Alexander Downer treating Howard or the Australian people with that sort of contempt?
It shows a weak PM, who will show weakness to any politican whom which she needs support to rule.
Rudd
Oakeshott
Wilkie
Windsor
All 4 hold aces while Julia holds Jokers. Need a new sports centre? No problem
Need an extra 2 billion in funding? No worries. Poker machine reforms? All over it mate!
Go for the whole hog fellas. In the recent Fifa scandal, one corrupt offical wanted a knighthood.
Go for it Kevin. Ask for a knighthood.
Sir Kevin Rudd, Duke of Boeing?
Julia’s kamikaze polling.
I once commented that the Ruddster’s polling was diving quicker than a Stuka dive bomber. If so then Gillard’s polling must resemble a kamikaze. Only this time she’s taking us all to a flaming death.
Julia’s ratings as PM
15 May 2011 34% satisfied 55% dissatisfied 11% Uncommitted
Kevin Rudd’s ratings as PM
May 14-16 2010 39% Satisfied 51% Dissatisfied 10% Uncommitted
With a rating of 39%, Kevin Rudd was considered toxic for the upcoming Election.
Labor were in a panic on the thought of losing the election with Rudd at the helm.
Julia was in denial about a challenge but ended up changing into the Bulldogs uniform and became PM after a quick trip to Mars and a bit of a co-eee. Labor thought it could win with Julia at the helm but ended up with a minority government instead.
Now I’ve said this before but it is even more relevant now. If good government had lost its way at 39% leaders rating and two party preferred of 51% liberal, 49% Labor, what would you call it now at a leaders rating of 34% and two party preferred of 54% to 46%? I would call it lost its way, meaning, existence, integrity and core support. But there will be no axing of another Labor PM. And why?
There is no one to replace Julia and the election is 2 years away. Rest assured, if the election was a few months away, the faceless men would once again strike with the knife. How on earth Julia can still believe she is delivering good government with those numbers when she knifed a PM with better numbers. But then again, this is a woman who’s hypocritical nature
screeched over 121 million spent on mouse pads, then spent Billions on pet schemes. A woman who screeched another boat another policy failure, then created boat highways to Australia.
Bob Brown, deputy PM has stated there will be no early election, and he is right.
Rob Oakeshott once shopped around for a state Labor seat and used his electorate,
masquerading as an independent to help Labor into power
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/neutral-rob-oakeshott-asked-labor-for-state-cabinet-seat/story-e6freuy9-1225917125501
Tony Windsor hates the Nationals and is supporting Labor in a childish way to gain revenge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Windsor
Andrew Wilki has stood as both a Green and Independent going against John Howard in the 2004 election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wilkie
All three were always going to support Gillard. Windsor and Oakeshott are the most despised as their electorates are mainly conservative. Windsor even considers himself a conservative.
The sitting Labor MP’s will never cross the floor and oppose anything. Oh sure they may grumble and leak information to the media, but so long as they are in government, that is all that matters. “Whatever it takes”
Seeing as there is little chance of any of these clowns in Julia’s words “Doing the right thing”, we are stuck with the Real Julia. However, should there be one by-election due to any reason and that seat falls to the Liberals, Julia will be replaced ala Rudd. Make no mistake, she is safe because of 2013 being 2 years away. Not because she is the best of the best.
Julia Gillard, your polling is now worse than Kevin’s by a considerable margin. Good government has not appeared since Labor came into power in 2007. You thought you would be a superior model than those you tore apart whilst in opposition. You have been exposed as weak and worse than the model you replaced. I know it’s horrifying to realise you suck at a job you dedicated your whole life to gaining. Now that you’re here and failed, please resign before even Whitlam croaks from his hospital bed to resign.
Ms Fixit breaks everything
When Gillard knifed Kevin Rudd in 2010, her aim was to be seen as MS fix it.
“Good government had lost its way” and her first three priorities were to fix the following
A. Delayed ETS
B. Fix the mining tax
C. Stop the boats
A citizen’s assembly
B agreement with Rio and BHP
C East Timor Solution.
Funny thing is the 3 issues that were causing the bad polls were not entirely Rudd’s fault. As PM and leader, he takes the can. But Julia was instrumental in urging Rudd to delay the ETS. And she was a guiding force in relaxing the Border Protection policy of John Howard. This is all in 2010 mind you. Fast forward to 2011 and all three “Fix its” are in total disarray.
The Citizens assembly that received wide press, especially from the ABC is dead, replaced with a broken promise of a Carbon Tax.
Fixing the mining Tax has faltered. The MRRT is considered a joke considering the other players in the mining industry were not involved
The East Timor solution is dead, replaced with the PNG/ Malaysian Solution.
The poor old mining industry. Now not only do they have to pay more in the MRRT, but a Carbon tax as well whilst providing the lifeblood of the economy through the China Boom. So you have at one side Labor sucking endless amounts of cash to fund pink batts, set top boxes etc etc , you have idiots like Paul Howes at the gates trying to sign up workers because the nasty miners are exploiting them.
Labors biggest problem since coming to power in 2007 is that there were not many problems that needed fixing. Wayne Swan and his grandstanding about a budget surplus in 2013 is a result of 4 successive budget deficits from the Surplus inherited by him in 2007.
The PNG / Malaysian policy is a solution to a problem created by Labor by abolishing another solution created by Howard that Labor said was a problem!
The tough budget/ fiscal conservative attitude needed by Swan is a result of 4 years of blatant waste and mismanagement by Labor in the first place.
And there in lies the problem. Labor created a problem that didn’t exist, come up with a solution, then crow about it to the press “Aren’t we clever in fixing that?”
Tony Abbott can only be negative when the problems faced by Australians are Labor initiatives. What does Gillard want? For Abbott to praise the waste? Praise the boat arrivals, praise the deficit etc etc? Did Julia praise anything whilst in opposition? Did Julia offer Bi-partisan support in opposition? It staggers me that one person can be so hypocritical and not blush with shame. Either way, when your time is up Julia, people will not look back at your leadership fondly. They will look back and see a person who shined in opposition when all she had to do was talk the talk, but in power floundered like a harpooned seal. They will see waste and mismanagement on a grand scale. They will see you create history by axing a sitting PM. They will see your boat policy as a disaster, personified by your “Another boat another policy failure” statement in opposition. They will see the waste of the BER. All you wanted to be was as good if not better than John Howard. Guess what Julia? The history is written forever and you failed by a wide margin.
“Good government had lost its way” and her first three priorities were to fix the following
A. Delayed ETS
B. Fix the mining tax
C. Stop the boats
- These are the three issues that were killing Labor in the polls and why Kevin was axed. She declared that all three were fixed during the election
A citizen’s assembly
B agreement with Rio and BHP
C East Timor Solution.
Funny thing is the 3 issues that were causing the bad polls were not entirely Rudd’s fault. As PM and leader, he takes the can. But Julia was instrumental in urging Rudd to delay the ETS. And she was a guiding force in relaxing the Border Protection policy of John Howard. This is all in 2010 mind you. Fast forward to 2011 and all three “Fix its” are in total disarray.
The Citizens assembly that received wide press, especially from the ABC is dead, replaced with a broken promise of a Carbon Tax.
Fixing the mining Tax has faltered. The MRRT is considered a joke considering the other players in the mining industry were not involved
The East Timor solution is dead, replaced with the PNG/ Malaysian Solution.
The poor old mining industry. Now not only do they have to pay more in the MRRT, but a Carbon tax as well whilst providing the lifeblood of the economy through the China Boom. So you have at one side Labor sucking endless amounts of cash to fund pink batts, set top boxes etc etc , you have idiots like Paul Howes at the gates trying to sign up workers because the nasty miners are exploiting them.
Labors biggest problem since coming to power in 2007 is that there were not many problems that needed fixing. Wayne Swan and his grandstanding about a budget surplus in 2013 is a result of 4 successive budget deficits from the Surplus inherited by him in 2007.
The PNG / Malaysian policy is a solution to a problem created by Labor by abolishing another solution created by Howard that Labor said was a problem!
The tough budget/ fiscal conservative attitude needed by Swan is a result of 4 years of blatant waste and mismanagement by Labor in the first place.
And there in lies the problem. Labor created a problem that didn’t exist, come up with a solution, then crow about it to the press “Aren’t we clever in fixing that?”
Tony Abbott can only be negative when the problems faced by Australians are Labor initiatives. What does Gillard want? For Abbott to praise the waste? Praise the boat arrivals, praise the deficit etc etc? Did Julia praise anything whilst in opposition? Did Julia offer Bi-partisan support in opposition? It staggers me that one person can be so hypocritical and not blush with shame. Either way, when your time is up Julia, people will not look back at your leadership fondly. They will look back and see a person who shined in opposition when all she had to do was talk the talk, but in power floundered like a harpooned seal. They will see waste and mismanagement on a grand scale. They will see you create history by axing a sitting PM. They will see your boat policy as a disaster, personified by your “Another boat another policy failure” statement in opposition. They will see the waste of the BER. All you wanted to be was as good if not better than John Howard. Guess what Julia? The history is written forever and you failed by a wide margin.
Kevin 747 upgrades the runabout!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/foreign-minister-kevin-rudd-on-a-mission-to-the-moon/story-e6freuzr-1226062275630
Called by both political parties as minister for foreign air fares, Kevin 07 spends
So much time away trying for a UN seat, he has more frequent flyer points than
Charles Kingford Smith! Not that Julia is complaining. The more time he spends in a
747, the less time he has to plot a return to the prime ministership. And with Julia at 28% approval rating in QLD, NSW and WA looking to slaughter her at the next election, maybe she’s quite happy for him to be jetting off day in day out. It’s not like this is a recent event either. Kevin was honoured with the mantle of Kevin747 whilst PM.
I know some Kevin supporters will argue he is foreign minister
And he must travel, but surely you must admit, this is ludicrous?
And what momentous achievements has Kevin achieved whilst flying to the moon and back? That’s right, ZILCH! Unless you call draining the taxpayers coffers, in which Kevin 07 has been a brilliant success. Remember in 07 when he said he
Was determined to end reckless spending? Kevin and his mob of cronies who are still around haven’t ended the reckless spending, they have rewritten the meaning of reckless spending with billions and billions down the drain. Kevin, how about when you reach the moon, plant the kevin07 flag, claim the Moon as Kevinland and damn well stay there.
Don’t worry about being lonely though.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-gets-creative-in-ducking-the-leadership-question-20100518-va4d.html
Julia has experience of travelling to Mars according to her, so maybe she might pop in on the way. Swan won’t be coming though. With the budget in deficit yet again, Swan can’t afford a ticket unless the carbon Tax gets up.
Bit of waste and mismanagement, Julia Gillard style
Smile for the Waste Camera!
While our brave men and women in the armed forces looking at losing $10,000 is danger money for 6 month deployments in the middle east, curtesy of Gillard, she still pays her ex chief politcial despite her resigning on Jan 31st. Let's see now, it's May 27th so that would be nearly 4 MONTHS! Her salary was $146,492 to $225,746 per annum. Wasn't it Julia who was scathing of waste in opposition. Such a shame Julia, as the Malcomn Turnbill/Abbott spat distracted the spotlight for what how long? Oh about a day, maybe 2 max. Thank you for that brief interlude, now back to the main program of labor waste.
Can somebody in Parliament check to see if Amanda Lampe was in parliament during the "handover". Maybe Labor can say she was at home doing the "Handover" over the computer? And that's why we need the NBN as it has taken 4 MONTHS to do the "Handover" via the PC using ADSL 2+! Funny though how when Rudd was sacked, his advisor lasted a day for his "Handover". Must of used wireless.
Why has the Labor loving Left gone silent?
The Malaysian Solution of Julia Gillard’s is rapidly approaching farcical proportions. When Labor won Government in 2007 it had gained a mandate to disassemble the Pacific Solution. Thanks largely to a fear campaign on the horrible conditions Asylum seekers were facing under Howard, Labor promised to tear down the Pacific Solution and close Christmas Island as a great big white elephant.
The Left rejoiced as the Evil John Howard and his cruel inhumane Pacific Solution
Were consigned to the annals of embarrassments in Australia’s history.
Fast forward to the present day and the Labor policy on detention and border policy
makes the Pacific Solution seem like afternoon detention at school for passing notes in class! Over 6000 asylum seekers crammed in every detention centre Australia runs.
The white elephant is at breaking point. New centres opened up in Australia to cope.
Trying to brown beat a sovereign government into accepting a detention centre based on a lie to get through a Federal Election by looking tough on asylum seekers. And now comes via leaked documents on the fate of Asylum seekers from the hands of the Malaysian government. Under the pacific Solution, Australia controlled the detention centres. So the Asylum seekers received the best medical treatment, good housing, education and security. Something that was never acknowledged under Labor. When running a scare campaign, facts like that undermine your attack, so are kept quiet by left leaning protestors. And of course Labor just loves to chime in with such quotes as
“Under Labor, we will never put children behind bars."
“Under Labor, we would never send Asylum seekers to countries that haven’t signed the UN convention on refugees."
So after the mountainous amount of arrivals under the Labor pull factor, under the failure of numerous policy back flips, we now come to Malaysia.
Flogging and caning
Sexual attacks
Barbed wire
Poor health checks
No children under barbed wire under Labor
The Left rejoiced as the Evil John Howard and his cruel inhumane Pacific Solution
Were consigned to the annals of embarrassments in Australia’s history.
Fast forward to the present day and the Labor policy on detention and border policy
makes the Pacific Solution seem like afternoon detention at school for passing notes in class! Over 6000 asylum seekers crammed in every detention centre Australia runs.
The white elephant is at breaking point. New centres opened up in Australia to cope.
Trying to brown beat a sovereign government into accepting a detention centre based on a lie to get through a Federal Election by looking tough on asylum seekers. And now comes via leaked documents on the fate of Asylum seekers from the hands of the Malaysian government. Under the pacific Solution, Australia controlled the detention centres. So the Asylum seekers received the best medical treatment, good housing, education and security. Something that was never acknowledged under Labor. When running a scare campaign, facts like that undermine your attack, so are kept quiet by left leaning protestors. And of course Labor just loves to chime in with such quotes as
“Under Labor, we will never put children behind bars."
“Under Labor, we would never send Asylum seekers to countries that haven’t signed the UN convention on refugees."
So after the mountainous amount of arrivals under the Labor pull factor, under the failure of numerous policy back flips, we now come to Malaysia.
Flogging and caning
Sexual attacks
Barbed wire
Poor health checks
No children under barbed wire under Labor
Nauru isn’t so bad now eh Gillard?
People get shot? No, surely this must a picture from Nauru?
And the best part is Australia gets to pay for everything. Malaysia gets to veto any asylum seekers it deems undesirable. Malaysia doesn’t have to pay anything, or sign the refugee convention. You know? The convention to prevents Nauru from getting the nod from Gillard. Malaysia even erased the term Human Rights from the draft document.
Malaysia gets 800, we get 4000, all at our cost. Wasn’t Labor screeching of the cost of the Pacific Solution when in opposition?
So to end this article, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM THE LEFT?
You mob of self serving hypocrites who wailed over the Pacific Solution but barely peeped over this. Getup has already stated they will not oppose this. My My My! .Tony Abbott is always being criticised by the left for trying to politicise the Asylum Seeker problem. The Malaysian Solution has proven beyond any doubt that the Left will support any Labor policy even if it goes against everything they have ever protested about against the right. It has proven the Left are not champions of Human rights but of Labor Party rights. Every single Human rights lawyer, journalist or columnist who rallied against the Pacific Solution but barley whimpered against this travesty should forever hang their heads in shame. They forgave Gillard for the deaths on the rocks at Christmas Island but will never forgive Howard over Tampa, Children overboard and SievX.
This government will go down in the annals of Australian history as the most two faced backstabbing, hypocritical one since the nation was formed. Thank you Lefties. The first cane that strikes the back of some poor woman is landed directly at your feet. But like most hypocritical idiots, you’ll deny all responsibility. Some of the worst crimes in history have been made with the best intentions. Your crime is to support a political party, back your own hatred and ignore the facts of previous good government make you as guilty of the Malaysian Solutions as your Prime Minister.
Malaysia gets 800, we get 4000, all at our cost. Wasn’t Labor screeching of the cost of the Pacific Solution when in opposition?
So to end this article, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM THE LEFT?
You mob of self serving hypocrites who wailed over the Pacific Solution but barely peeped over this. Getup has already stated they will not oppose this. My My My! .Tony Abbott is always being criticised by the left for trying to politicise the Asylum Seeker problem. The Malaysian Solution has proven beyond any doubt that the Left will support any Labor policy even if it goes against everything they have ever protested about against the right. It has proven the Left are not champions of Human rights but of Labor Party rights. Every single Human rights lawyer, journalist or columnist who rallied against the Pacific Solution but barley whimpered against this travesty should forever hang their heads in shame. They forgave Gillard for the deaths on the rocks at Christmas Island but will never forgive Howard over Tampa, Children overboard and SievX.
This government will go down in the annals of Australian history as the most two faced backstabbing, hypocritical one since the nation was formed. Thank you Lefties. The first cane that strikes the back of some poor woman is landed directly at your feet. But like most hypocritical idiots, you’ll deny all responsibility. Some of the worst crimes in history have been made with the best intentions. Your crime is to support a political party, back your own hatred and ignore the facts of previous good government make you as guilty of the Malaysian Solutions as your Prime Minister.
The anniversary of the dismissal June 2010
It’s nearly been 12 months since the sitting Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd was defeated in a ballot by his deputy, Julia Gillard and replaced. The first ever sitting Prime Minister to be deposed by his own party. The main reason given by Julia Gillard was “Good Government had lost its way”. It had nothing to with the fact that an election was a few months away and Labor were lagging in the polls and Kevin Rudd was being looked upon as a liability. Labor could not afford to take the chance with Kevin Rudd and with Julia Gillard polling higher as preferred PM, Labor took the plunge and shocked the nation by doing something that is usually reserved for the people to do.
Gillard had already started on the wrong foot by constantly denying she was vying for the top job. Memorable quotes from her include.
"I'm passionate about what I'm doing now, being deputy PM is the bees knees, I haven't even caught a whiff of the PM's job"
You may as well ask me am I anticipating a trip to Mars."
Steven Spielberg rang me from Hollywood and asked me to star opposite Brad Pitt in a movie, would I do it? Well, I'd be a little bit tempted but you know what, I don't reckon Steven Spielberg is going to give me a call." No leadership, no calls from Spielberg, got it.
"I know we’ll be welcoming Jessica [Watson] back to Sydney this weekend after her round the world epic feat. I tell you, I think there’s more chance of me going round the world sailing solo a dozen times than this chatter in the media becoming anything more than that."
There’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party."
Was Julia Gillard a liar? The MSM and the general public decided to give her a go and forgive the arrogant nonsense she said before the challenge. Then she rushed off to an election to capitilise on her standing in the polls. The opposition ran a very good campaign and Labor were resigned to minority government with the support of the Independents and the Greens. Now approaching 12 months later and one must look at how far Labor and Australia has come under the Gillard leadership. The results do not paint a pretty picture. We now have a looming Carbon Tax, despite the PM ruling that out before the election. We have the Asylum seeker debacle reaching new heights of despair. The deaths of 50 men, women and children off the rocks at Christmas Island will haunt Labor for decades to come and has forever taken any moral high ground Labor sought to reach on their border protection agenda. We still have a budget deficit with the promised surplus in 2012-2013 looking shaky. We have the polls showing the coalition in a strong election winning lead and Julia Gillard’s personal rating worse than Kevin Rudd’s.
We have consumer confidence at an all time low and a groundswell backlash against the majority of Labor policy. Every new policy or announcement is met with sceptisism, which is devastating for any government. It shows the country has no faith in any Labor policy being carried out on time and on budget. It all comes down to one statement which has labor on the cliff with the ledge starting to crumble. “There will be no Carbon Tax under any governemnt I lead” It’s a powerful statement made from strength of conviction. A statement Australia took to heart. The sort of statement you’d expect to take to the bank. When Julia Gillard backflipped and then had the audacity to go on the attack over the backlash was a fatal rookie mistake. She incredibly called any oppostion word games or semantics. And that is when the wheels started to fall off.
A heartfelt and smiple apology would of gone along way to appeasing the country. Julia Gillard failed to do so and it had to be dragged out of her to admit she had misled the nation. Saying circumstances change did nothing to sooth the anger.
The video of her saying it haunts her as much as her “Another boat, another policy failure” statement. So 12 months later and Australia is no better off than Rudd, maybe even worse off. Labor woes continue and the polls continue to decline. Australia will simply not forgive a Prime minister for blatantly lying. Only a change of leadership or an election will appease the mounting anger in the electorate and that takes political guts of the type we have not seen from labor since Paul Keating.
More riots at Christmas island and Faulkner and Rudd moan on Labor values. I reckon a picture will do for this story.
The deceit of Labor.
What the current Labor government has shown is that they're way to gain government is to speculate on what the opposition will do whilst painting a pretty picture of their own intentions. Then once secure in government they totally back flip on their own policy or even worse, adopt the policy they accuse the opposition of trying to attempt. Sounds bizarre but if you have a gifted spin team and can look into a camera with your hand over your heart then you’re always a chance.
Take 2007 in which Kevin Rudd and Labor fuelled the speculation of a leadership challenge from Peter Costello to John Howard. Costello was considered arrogant by the electorate and non electable. So Labor being Labor, prayed on the fears and advertisement featured heavily on Leadership tension in the Liberal party. So look what happened within the Labor party. The same two people who played on the Costello issue showed what real leadership tension is with the sacking of a first term PM whilst in office. A first for Australia. Kevin Rudd stated “This reckless spending must end” that resonated with voters. Very telling after the Howard Government spent 121 million on fridge magnets and such on terrorism warnings. Julia Gillard herself was scathing on this waste and even brought into parliament the magnets and mouse pads. Of course look what happened when Kevin and Julia got into power.
The reckless spending went into hyper drive or is that hyper bowl? The blowouts in every scheme from the BER to pink Batts to green schemes have set the benchmark on waste.
In 2010, after dumping Rudd, the Labor spin team once again went into hyper bowl on the resurrection of work choices. This is despite Tony Abbott being on record as against work choices when in Government. Once again Labor speculated on what the opposition would bring in whilst maintaining the Halo of No Carbon Tax under any government I lead. Then on cue, back flip and bring in a tax they said they never would. Nicola Roxon is the latest to adhere to this plan. She stated the deceit of Abbott ripping one billion out of the heath system that she herself stated was untrue……after the election of course. Now with the means testing of the 30% government rebate, this will rip THREE BILLION out of the health system.
The Carbon Tax is the biggest, most ambitious lie based of the deceit plan that Labor has attempted since 2007. Will it work? 2013 will be telling for the next federal election. Will the electorate forgive the lie? What deceit plan will Labor trout out for 2013. Work choices is losing its aura as a scare campaign so Labor should trout out something along the lines Abbott will scrap compensation for the Tax that nobody wants. If they win in 20103, going by past deceit, should then scrap incentives and compensation themselves and then attack Abbott.
Bottom line is whatever Labor states in the 2013 election will have to be met with scepticism. I call Labor’s new government style as the three D’s
Direct
Deflect
Dump
Direct scrutiny onto the opposition
Deflect any attacks on your policy as lies
Dump promises and policy after the election.
Who do you trust?
Not the Australian Labor Party!
Juliar at 27%
See what happens when you blatantly lie to the electorate. Julia scraped in at the 2011 election on 38% primary vote. Not even 12 months later and she has taken Federal Labor into unknown territory with an appalling primary vote of 27%.
Even NSW Labor is going “oooooh”. This is a woman who recently lectured NSW Labor on what went wrong with the NSW state election. Are you kidding lady?
That’s like Bob Hawke lecturing at an AA meeting. Now Kevin Rudd was axed as PM when his personal rating got to 38%. He was axed because “Good government had lost its way”. But Australians know it was because Labor believed it had a better chance at retaining government with Julia at the helm.
Now Julia’s rating as PM has hit 30%. She is safe because it is 2011 and not 2013.
Good government has never been found Ms Gillard, certainly not with you at the helm. You see PM, Australians simply hate being lied to. And saying you didn’t mean to deceive us means diddly squat. You did and now are hell bent on taking that deceit as policy. Sell your tax all you want. To sell something, you need demand for that product. And we will not shop for something we didn’t ask for and specifically said we didn’t want. I said in this website a while ago that regarding Labor’s ratings, you aint seen noting yet. Today’s polls prove that, but will it go lower. My word it will.
You keep plugging the lie, we’ll keep plugging our ears.
If any Labor ministers are reading this website, then listen up and listen hard.
Every single person I have spoken too is furious with the lie tax. Oakeshott, Windsor and Wilkie are despised and will face election slaughter in 2013. NSW Labor didn’t listen to the people and were slaughtered in an historic drubbing. Continue to support Gillard, the Independents and the Greens on this Tax and YOU will face slaughter by your electorate. Cross the floor on the tax as you electorate wants. Remember them?
The people who voted you in to provide a better future not a tax. Loyalty to Australians should come first before a political party. Something traditionally Labor has failed to understand. Australia needs a hero. Oakeshott, Wilkie and Windsor have proven to be not up to the task. The Independent brand is finished in Australia. Will you the Labor minister reading this, finish the Labor brand too? Will you stand up to the greens? Please, listen to the people. Listen to US!
Greens
Independents
Gillard.
The GIG is up!
Memory lane 2007
Labor have been in power for 4 years and it might be time to look back 2007, especially the 2007 election, the promises, the ad campaigns and where we are today.The ad campaign run by John Singleton with Whingeing Wendy are a classic.
When John Howard stated “working families have never had it so good” he opened the Coalition up to a classic campaign by the Labor party. Wendy went on the attack
“Really Mr Howard?”
“How can you say that when my childcare and grocery prices are higher than ever?” “And those interest rate rises, they’ve stretched us to the limit . . . ‘Never better off?’ You’ve lost touch, Mr Howard.” Wendy, who was of course a paid actor, went on and on about bills and how they were climbing. This campaign was very effective in helping defeat Howard as out of touch with the cost of living. Lets look to 2011 and how well Australia is going under the Gillard Team?
Cost of living increases in some cases up 300% or more
Electricity Prices, Gas prices, Rates, Public debt, National Debt, Budget deficit, Food, Rent, Transport. All have seen massive increases with a Carbon Tax coming to add even more pain. Still think Labor are more in touch Wendy? Actually it would be Interesting to get in contact with the Actor who played Whingeing Wendy to see how as an actor and mother she and her family are travelling in Gillards wonderland?
The Howard and Costello Leadership “Buy one get one free deal” that Labor played on. Labor played on the fears of the electorate that Costello would become PM. So how ironic that we got buy one and a free replacement if the first one is a dud. And after Wayne Swan’s attempts as treasurer, would Peter Costello have been so bad?
I’ll add more to this Article from 2007 as time permits but I’ll leave it with this from QC Julian Burnside from the Telegraph in 2007.
At the Future Summit in Melbourne in May, Julian Burnside, QC declared: “If we really want to make things better I suggest we introduce a law that makes it an offence for politicians to lie.” According to the Herald report, this comment was greeted with rapturous applause. Burnside told the reporter that he was serious about his proposal and added that “it’s not just a cheap point”. Nevertheless, the official record of the occasion, titled Future Summit Report, claimed that Burnside’s proposal that it should be a “jailable offence” for politicians to lie was merely a “light moment in the session” which “was met with peals of laughter from the floor”. A case for investigation by the truth police, surely. Burnside’s call was unusual, coming as it did from a barrister who accepts remuneration from clients to advance their case in court. In any event, where is the line of truth to be drawn? If it is proper to jail politicians who do not honour their promises what about, say, lawyers?
In the lead-up to the 2004 election, Burnside let it be known that he was thinking of leaving Australia if Howard defeated Latham. He later told readers of the New Matilda website that one of his reasons for staying in Australia was “inertia” since the “effort of selling up and moving to New Zealand or Canada and re-establishing a career is formidable”. Quite so. But a broken promise is a broken promise. On Burnside’s own criteria, such a whopper should be worth a couple of years in the slammer, don’t you think?
Everyone remembers Julian, the staunch Anti Pacific Solution crusader who much later changed his mind and admitted it actually worked. Apply his proposal to “There will be no Carbon tax under any Government I lead”
Convoy of no confidence
http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2011/08/02/convoy-of-no-confidence-releases-its-routes/
http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/convoy-of-no-confidence-in-the
I urge all who hate what this country has become under Labor to join in support of this group of ordinary Australians who are driving to Canberra to protest on our behalf. This is no Get Up mob of political activists, nor biased union thugs on the march. This is a mob or people like you and me who have HAD ENOUGH!!
http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/convoy-of-no-confidence-in-the
I urge all who hate what this country has become under Labor to join in support of this group of ordinary Australians who are driving to Canberra to protest on our behalf. This is no Get Up mob of political activists, nor biased union thugs on the march. This is a mob or people like you and me who have HAD ENOUGH!!
Support the convoy by signing the petition.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-the-convoy-of-no-confidence.html
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The Malaysian Solution, 2 out of 3 Duds
When Julia Gillard knifed Kevin Rudd in 2010, she the great negotiator put three issues on her agenda to fix. The mining tax, the ETS and the border protection farce. Gillard had decided that good government has lost its way and she was the girl to fix these issues. In doing so, these issues were firmly nailed to Kevin Rudd’s mast and as Deputy she had nothing to do with these policy failures. Despite the being a lynch pin in the infamous “Gang of four”, Gillard tried to distance herself from these failures and promised to sort these issues out. So let’s see how after 12 months what “The Great negotiator” has achieved.
The ETS problem was solved with a Citizens Assembly to tackle Climate change. She promised before the election that” there would be no carbon tax under any government I lead”. She promised not to move until the world did so. Of course we now know that was all a lie to “win’ the election. There is now a Carbon tax to be introduced and the Citizens assembly died as fast as Cash for Clunkers did.
The Border protection farce under Rudd and Gillard morphed into the East Timor Solution. Praised by the left and newspapers like the Age, the only problem with this Gillard policy is that she forgot to tell East Timor. So after months of strenuous claims that it was a go, East Timor strongly told the Australian government to go away. So after the debacle of East Timor, we got the Malaysian solution. A policy that Labor would of absolutely belted the coalition over had they attempted to introduce it. This is fact as Gillard herself screeched time and time again over many years over Howards Pacific Solution. Her reasoning was Nauru was not a signee to the convention on refuges. Her reasoning was also that it was too expensive for Australian taxpayers to justify. Well the High court has killed off the Malaysian solution on the very reasoning Gillard was against the Pacific Solution. Since then Nauru has signed but Gillard will not go there. It’s too late for that now as Labor has nowhere else to go in a humiliating lesson to Gillard to not fix what is not broken.
Third on Gillard’s list to fix was the mining tax. This is still very much still born as the government has no time to devote energy to this as the first two of Gillard’s fixes has the Labor party in a fix of its own. Opinion polls continue to dive, internal bickering is rife and leadership speculations are a daily fix in our newspapers. Ever notice how Gillard blames everyone else for her lack of performance? In knifing Rudd, she blamed him for the policy failures, despite being Deputy? She blamed radio shock jocks for her poor polling. She Blames Abbott for being a wrecker in opposition, despite doing exactly the same in her time in opposition. She blames the high court for her poor policy failure on the Malaysian Solution. She is now ringing newspapers and demanding stories be withdrawn that are critical of her.
Julia Gillard should never have reached as far as she did. She was a fantastic opposition attack dog. Who could forget her bringing in mouse pads and fridge magnets to highlight Howard waste? Her policies in opposition were riddled with incompetence, Google Medicare Gold if you don’t believe me. Once in government and she had to actually deliver and it all went pear shaped for our first Female PM. The policy failures under Rudd were hers as well. BER blowouts, encouraging Rudd to drop the ETS then knifing him over it. And since climbing over Rudd to get the Prime Ministership, she has not had ONE successful policy. Her Good government has lost its way is a lie. It never found it in the first place. Since 2010, she continues to drag down the Labor party and Australia to her level of incompetence and the polls reflect this. Labor, the Gillard experiment is a failure. Ditch her now or suffer an even greater slaughter at the polling booth. You cannot afford her anymore.
Kim Beazley needs a phone call to come home and challenge.
Or Martin Ferguson or Simon Crean. Install Shorten at your peril Labor. Either way Gillard’s time is up.
And that ladies and gentlemen is the truth!
The return of the million dollar man?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/foreign-minister-kevin-rudds-1-million-power-trip/story-e6freuzi-1226136196391
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1560286/rudd-leads-gillard-as-preferred-alp-leader
The latest polls have Kevin Rudd way in front as preferred PM over the Liar. It seems that the desperation that has hit Labor is so bad, that some are calling for the second worst PM to be returned to the lodge. Now this website was started to highlight the absolute ineptness of Kevin Rudd. All talk, little action and a bag full of lies. We thought things could not get worse under Julia, but to coin a phrase, never say never. Few could have foreseen just how bad Julia Gillard would be as a PM. It doesn’t help that her ministers are equally hopeless. Combet, Garrett, Shorten, Swan, Bowen, Wong, all have shown a willingness to support hopelessness with their own brand of hopelessness.
And now we have Rudd supporters sounding out colleges to gauge support for Krudd. “Oh but he’s a changed man, he’s learnt his lesson.” What absolute rot! Incompetence in people rarely changes, unless they are honest about themselves and decide to learn and change. Mr Rudd has shown nothing to make Australia believe he has changed. As foreign minister, he has hit the 1 million dollar mark for costs associated with travelling overseas. Now I know foreign Ministers must travel, it’s part of their job, but this is ludicrous and unjustifiable. Mr “Fiscal conservative” hasn’t yet understood what that means, instead of a throwaway election line.
Julia or Rudd? It’s like a choice between Bowel cancer and Stomach cancer. I have a better idea, call an election and let Australia decide who they want. And it won’t be Krudd or the Liar. Because if an election is called now, Julia would be axed in a millisecond due to her disastrous polling and every promise would be laughed at. Could you imagine the bloggers and media?
“There will be no (insert new policy announcement) under any government I lead”.
Krudd is hated by his peers and it would be a desperate party to bring back Kevin07. RAAF
Flight attendants would go on stress leave!
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1560286/rudd-leads-gillard-as-preferred-alp-leader
The latest polls have Kevin Rudd way in front as preferred PM over the Liar. It seems that the desperation that has hit Labor is so bad, that some are calling for the second worst PM to be returned to the lodge. Now this website was started to highlight the absolute ineptness of Kevin Rudd. All talk, little action and a bag full of lies. We thought things could not get worse under Julia, but to coin a phrase, never say never. Few could have foreseen just how bad Julia Gillard would be as a PM. It doesn’t help that her ministers are equally hopeless. Combet, Garrett, Shorten, Swan, Bowen, Wong, all have shown a willingness to support hopelessness with their own brand of hopelessness.
And now we have Rudd supporters sounding out colleges to gauge support for Krudd. “Oh but he’s a changed man, he’s learnt his lesson.” What absolute rot! Incompetence in people rarely changes, unless they are honest about themselves and decide to learn and change. Mr Rudd has shown nothing to make Australia believe he has changed. As foreign minister, he has hit the 1 million dollar mark for costs associated with travelling overseas. Now I know foreign Ministers must travel, it’s part of their job, but this is ludicrous and unjustifiable. Mr “Fiscal conservative” hasn’t yet understood what that means, instead of a throwaway election line.
Julia or Rudd? It’s like a choice between Bowel cancer and Stomach cancer. I have a better idea, call an election and let Australia decide who they want. And it won’t be Krudd or the Liar. Because if an election is called now, Julia would be axed in a millisecond due to her disastrous polling and every promise would be laughed at. Could you imagine the bloggers and media?
“There will be no (insert new policy announcement) under any government I lead”.
Krudd is hated by his peers and it would be a desperate party to bring back Kevin07. RAAF
Flight attendants would go on stress leave!
It's all abbott's fault says Julia.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/two-new-asylum-seeker-vessels-test-labors-troubled-boats-policy/story-fn9hm1gu-1226144422313
Ending the blame game is easy according to Gillard. All you have to
do is appropriate all blame to Tony Abbott for the boats coming and problem solved.
Let’s get down to facts and not Gillard fantasy. This is a woman who was instrumental in
closing the Pacific Solution when she came into power.
From the very mouth of Ms Gillard.
“Labor will end the Pacific solution, the so-called Pacific Solution, the processing and detaining of asylum seekers on Pacific islands because it is costly, unsustainable and wrong as a matter of principle.”
“We have committed to ending the so-called Pacific Solution. We would not have offshore processing in Manus Island and Nauru”.
“I think it's time for us, on this side of the House, to urge those on the other side of the House to again look at the so-called Pacific Solution and bring it to an end”.
When Rudd and Gillard took over in 2007 Australia had 4 people in detention. Now in 2011 we have over 11,000 and our border protection is a farce. Gillard came up with the East Timor solution. A stillborn abomination that East Timor didn’t even know about until it was announced! Then after that policy gem went to join Feulwatch, Grocerywatch, Cash for clunkers and the Citizens assembly, Gillard came up with the Malaysian solution. Now that the high court of Australia trashed that, Ms Gillard has run out of options. She must press on with Malaysia as there is no other alternative. Nauru is a Howard success so Ms Gillard will go in the opposite direction rather than acknowledge what is an obvious solution. Julia’s ego is such that the Pacific Solution will never be revived. It is not in Labor’s DNA to admit they got it wrong and eat humble pie to revive liberal policy.
So now the most ridiculous spin is now to blame Tony Abbott in not supporting Malaysia. This is the most child like direction to date for Labor. Ms Gillard, how many policy directives did YOU support in opposition? Here’s a hint, break out the calculator and input 1-1 to get your answer. You and your cronies wiped off the map a successful policy, replaced it with multiple duds and then blame the opposition on said failed policy! WTF? Great spin Julia. Maybe Tony could also be blamed for the BER and all your other duds. And what about the Greens Julia? After all they are another arm of Labor, any fault there Julia or is Bob Brown too tough for you to criticize? Tony Abbott’s job is not to fix a problem created from one that didn’t exist.
A problem created by ideology and not policy.
The coalition policy has been clear since day one. It is you and you alone that is responsible. First rule of leadership Jooles. Everything is your fault. It’s like a battle where your army loses and the General blames the enemy for fighting in the first place! Screech all you want Ms Gillard, but Tony Abbott is not in Government, you are. But judging by how many times you mention him, how many times you abuse him and how many times you blame him for Labor policy failure, Australia is starting to wonder who actually is in charge of this country.
The Final word goes to Defence minister Stephen Smith as opposition immigration spokesperson in 2004.
STEPHEN SMITH: “Well I don't accept for a moment that Nauru or Manus Island play any significant or any role in deterring unauthorised arrivals from trying to come to Australia. What deters people coming to Australia is effective border protection and sensible regional arrangements with our neighbours to deter secondary movements."
What we do know about the so-called Pacific Solution, Nauru and Manus Island is that it's now an expensive farce.”
Farce Stephen? What do you call Labor policy today Stephen?
Ending the blame game is easy according to Gillard. All you have to
do is appropriate all blame to Tony Abbott for the boats coming and problem solved.
Let’s get down to facts and not Gillard fantasy. This is a woman who was instrumental in
closing the Pacific Solution when she came into power.
From the very mouth of Ms Gillard.
“Labor will end the Pacific solution, the so-called Pacific Solution, the processing and detaining of asylum seekers on Pacific islands because it is costly, unsustainable and wrong as a matter of principle.”
“We have committed to ending the so-called Pacific Solution. We would not have offshore processing in Manus Island and Nauru”.
“I think it's time for us, on this side of the House, to urge those on the other side of the House to again look at the so-called Pacific Solution and bring it to an end”.
When Rudd and Gillard took over in 2007 Australia had 4 people in detention. Now in 2011 we have over 11,000 and our border protection is a farce. Gillard came up with the East Timor solution. A stillborn abomination that East Timor didn’t even know about until it was announced! Then after that policy gem went to join Feulwatch, Grocerywatch, Cash for clunkers and the Citizens assembly, Gillard came up with the Malaysian solution. Now that the high court of Australia trashed that, Ms Gillard has run out of options. She must press on with Malaysia as there is no other alternative. Nauru is a Howard success so Ms Gillard will go in the opposite direction rather than acknowledge what is an obvious solution. Julia’s ego is such that the Pacific Solution will never be revived. It is not in Labor’s DNA to admit they got it wrong and eat humble pie to revive liberal policy.
So now the most ridiculous spin is now to blame Tony Abbott in not supporting Malaysia. This is the most child like direction to date for Labor. Ms Gillard, how many policy directives did YOU support in opposition? Here’s a hint, break out the calculator and input 1-1 to get your answer. You and your cronies wiped off the map a successful policy, replaced it with multiple duds and then blame the opposition on said failed policy! WTF? Great spin Julia. Maybe Tony could also be blamed for the BER and all your other duds. And what about the Greens Julia? After all they are another arm of Labor, any fault there Julia or is Bob Brown too tough for you to criticize? Tony Abbott’s job is not to fix a problem created from one that didn’t exist.
A problem created by ideology and not policy.
The coalition policy has been clear since day one. It is you and you alone that is responsible. First rule of leadership Jooles. Everything is your fault. It’s like a battle where your army loses and the General blames the enemy for fighting in the first place! Screech all you want Ms Gillard, but Tony Abbott is not in Government, you are. But judging by how many times you mention him, how many times you abuse him and how many times you blame him for Labor policy failure, Australia is starting to wonder who actually is in charge of this country.
The Final word goes to Defence minister Stephen Smith as opposition immigration spokesperson in 2004.
STEPHEN SMITH: “Well I don't accept for a moment that Nauru or Manus Island play any significant or any role in deterring unauthorised arrivals from trying to come to Australia. What deters people coming to Australia is effective border protection and sensible regional arrangements with our neighbours to deter secondary movements."
What we do know about the so-called Pacific Solution, Nauru and Manus Island is that it's now an expensive farce.”
Farce Stephen? What do you call Labor policy today Stephen?
UPDATE: Prime Minister, below is a photo you should well know. Do you see Tony Abbott in the picture? No? Well
quit blaming everyone except people in the picture. Labor, Greens and independants have joined to form government.
Tony Abbott is oppostion leader. And yes, I am trying to teach you suck eggs as you suck at everythign else you do .
quit blaming everyone except people in the picture. Labor, Greens and independants have joined to form government.
Tony Abbott is oppostion leader. And yes, I am trying to teach you suck eggs as you suck at everythign else you do .
The Rudd blooper and Jet Lag.....rubbish Mr Foreign Minister!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/jet-lag-blamed-for-kevin-rudds-pm-gaffe/story-e6freuy9-1226148496496
Kevin07 can’t help himself. “Accidentally” calling himself PM is no gaff or
mistake. Kevin must think people are as gullible now as they were in 2007.
It’s been over a year since Kevin was knifed by his “loyal” deputy in Julia Gillard.
How could you forget having to front a press conference and telling the nation that you are no longer PM? It would have to be the most traumatic incidents a sitting PM has had to endure. Not to fight but too meekly roll over and accept your own party axed you in the most humiliating way.
But people are now saying he rolled over with a plan. He would have had inkling on how Julia would go as PM. Deputy positions do not necessarily groom a person for the higher role. Many deputies have not been able to ascend to the higher position. Look at Wayne Swan! Does anybody think Swanny could step up as PM? So Kevin bides his time and watches his deputy flounder as PM over time. The occasional swipe at her with “there is more chance of me playing for the Brisbane broncos that challenging” and the like to undermine her position.
Now comes the time where Kevin is high in the polls again and Julia Gillard is looking terminal as the most hated PM in Australian history. Caucus is nervous despite 2 years to go to the next election. With minority government and only 1 vote
stopping the annihilation of the Labor party, Kevin is grooming himself as the next messiah. But will people forget how bad Kevin 07 was a PM? Kevin was axed because he made Napoleon Bonaparte look like a Christian missionary. So now Kevin comes out with his “happy vegemite” PM/ foreign minister line. What utter garbage Kevin! Happy little vegemite is a term kids use, not Foreign ministers. Image if Alexander downer had called himself a “happy little Vegemite”?
Labor would have had a field day on that one. Make no mistake. Kevin’s slip was no slip. It was once again a reminder that he wants his job back. It also shows, his will never forgive or support Julia. And if Labor is stupid enough to bring back a failed dud, his revenge will be swift on those who showed Claytons loyalty. Honesty, integrity, competence and professionalism. Something Kevin07 would need to be PM again. And since he never had those in the first place, bugger off Mr Rudd.
You had your shot and blew it. You were no Howard lite and neither is the ranger.
Election now please so the rubbish bins can be put out with Labor party inside stickers stuck on the lid.
Does Fairfax have hard questions to answer Julia?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/in-depth/julia-gillard-says-news-ltd-has-questions-to-answer-in-wake-of-uk-scandal/story-e6frgago-1226098227102
We all remember in July when Gillard, Brown, Conroy and co went on the attack over the UK hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World was involved in some seedy practices that deserved the full weight of the law.
Most of us were appalled and hope to see news hacking to be eradicated from the industry. Now News Limited were big
supporters of Labor in 2007. Like everyone else, they jumped on the Kevin07 bandwagon and advocated a change of government. But over the last 4 years, we have seen incompetence on a scale never seen before in Federal politics. Even Gough Whitlam would be hard pressed to come up with the mess that is Labor. NBN, pink batts, border farce, deficits, waste, Carbon Tax lie etc etc. News limited reported the facts and changed it tune, becoming very negative on Julia's regime. Let's face it, how could you be positive with the mounting evidence of Labor's total inability to govern without crisis?
Now Julia, Bobby and co very very unhappy with the reporting from news limited. Along comes the News of the World scandal and Labor fell over themselves trying to link Australia and the UK news limited teams. They launch a media enquiry into Australian Journalistic standards focusing on News Limited. Julia said point blank.
“I do believe that Australians watching all of that happening overseas with News Corp are looking at News Ltd here and are wanting to see News Ltd answer some hard questions."
Julia made it perfectly clear she believes hacking is a News Limited only issue. My what a coincidence the only papers in the country so critical of her performance are the ones under scruitiny? But hang on PM, here's a news story that requires "hard questions"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/police-investigate-age-hacking/story-e6frg996-1226193814514
Seems that Labor loving Age newspaper of the Fairfax Empire could be involved in some seedy practices as well.
When asked about this latest hacking scandal, did Julia and Bobby go on a rampage? Were there "hard questions" to answer? Suprise surprise, All Julia can say is it's a matter for the police! Surely there will be a media enquiry into Fairfax Julia? Surely your outraged? Just another day in the life of the hypocrites of that pretend party known as Labor.
We all remember in July when Gillard, Brown, Conroy and co went on the attack over the UK hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World was involved in some seedy practices that deserved the full weight of the law.
Most of us were appalled and hope to see news hacking to be eradicated from the industry. Now News Limited were big
supporters of Labor in 2007. Like everyone else, they jumped on the Kevin07 bandwagon and advocated a change of government. But over the last 4 years, we have seen incompetence on a scale never seen before in Federal politics. Even Gough Whitlam would be hard pressed to come up with the mess that is Labor. NBN, pink batts, border farce, deficits, waste, Carbon Tax lie etc etc. News limited reported the facts and changed it tune, becoming very negative on Julia's regime. Let's face it, how could you be positive with the mounting evidence of Labor's total inability to govern without crisis?
Now Julia, Bobby and co very very unhappy with the reporting from news limited. Along comes the News of the World scandal and Labor fell over themselves trying to link Australia and the UK news limited teams. They launch a media enquiry into Australian Journalistic standards focusing on News Limited. Julia said point blank.
“I do believe that Australians watching all of that happening overseas with News Corp are looking at News Ltd here and are wanting to see News Ltd answer some hard questions."
Julia made it perfectly clear she believes hacking is a News Limited only issue. My what a coincidence the only papers in the country so critical of her performance are the ones under scruitiny? But hang on PM, here's a news story that requires "hard questions"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/police-investigate-age-hacking/story-e6frg996-1226193814514
Seems that Labor loving Age newspaper of the Fairfax Empire could be involved in some seedy practices as well.
When asked about this latest hacking scandal, did Julia and Bobby go on a rampage? Were there "hard questions" to answer? Suprise surprise, All Julia can say is it's a matter for the police! Surely there will be a media enquiry into Fairfax Julia? Surely your outraged? Just another day in the life of the hypocrites of that pretend party known as Labor.
The sharks circle the shark
The latest scuttlebutt for Labor ranks have a challenge to Julia's leadership early next year. Obviously Kevin07 is the prime candidate, but this just shows how low the stocks of the Labor party have gone when Kevin07 is your saviour. The man failed in every attempt, and was pushed to give Labor a better change at winning the 2010 election. Of course Juliar didn't do too well and now governs to the whim of fruit loop indepenendents and the greens. If Labor polling was in the 40's, there would be no speculation. But julia keeps the Labor party in the high 20's to low 30's for their primary vote. Why does nobody in Labor get it? Labor will not win the next election with Julia at the helm. And why?
BECAUSE SHE LIED YOU FOOLS! Don't you want to get it? Denile is not river in Africa. The Australian people have never, ever accepted their politicians lying. John Howard went to war on false evidence. He did it in good faith, but that didn't stop the left from screaming to the moon that he lied. Lying rodent was their favourite saying. Now Julia stood up on national television, looked at us all in the eye, waved her hands around and said "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead" No spin, no stoic defence will ever erase those few words from our minds. Her word means nothing. When you lose the trust of the Australian people , you lose the ability to get people to listen to you.
But go ahead Labor, Keep going on about Abbott, he might be unpopular to some , but he will lead the coalition to an election win, because he has not lied directly to the Australian people. Kevin07, through his childish antics has proven he is not a leader but a spoilt brat who rose way too far in his profession. Keep Juliar at the helm, and watch the "I never supported her" spiels from the Labor ranks after the crushing defeat bestows them all.
BECAUSE SHE LIED YOU FOOLS! Don't you want to get it? Denile is not river in Africa. The Australian people have never, ever accepted their politicians lying. John Howard went to war on false evidence. He did it in good faith, but that didn't stop the left from screaming to the moon that he lied. Lying rodent was their favourite saying. Now Julia stood up on national television, looked at us all in the eye, waved her hands around and said "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead" No spin, no stoic defence will ever erase those few words from our minds. Her word means nothing. When you lose the trust of the Australian people , you lose the ability to get people to listen to you.
But go ahead Labor, Keep going on about Abbott, he might be unpopular to some , but he will lead the coalition to an election win, because he has not lied directly to the Australian people. Kevin07, through his childish antics has proven he is not a leader but a spoilt brat who rose way too far in his profession. Keep Juliar at the helm, and watch the "I never supported her" spiels from the Labor ranks after the crushing defeat bestows them all.
TRUST
Trust for many people is the one benchmark that will never
be allowed to be compromised or accepted in their lives. In relationships, once
the trust has been abused it rarely comes back and usually results in the total
breakdown of that relationship and people go their separate ways. In business, trust is what will have the customers coming
back time and time again. Your favourite retailer looks after you and you will
always trust them on the goods they sell. Sell a dud and not repair the damage
of said transaction and the customer will go elsewhere forever. I remember getting a useless washing machine
form a retailer that constantly broke down. Now instead of replacing or
refunding me, they stonewalled and continue to offer repairs to the washing
machine from hell.
I eventually could not contemplate dealing with them after the 4th breakdown and dumped the washing machine at the tip, went to another company and purchased a new washing machine. Six years later I’m still with this company and have never been back to the other mob, despite the flashy TV ads. Trust is equally true of utility companies. You get a bad experience with a telephone company or an electricity generator and they usually are blacklisted from future dealings. Friends who abuse your trust rapidly become ex friends. Yes, trust is all around us in our daily lives. We see it less and less in society these days and most people adore friends, family, companies, bosses who value trust.
Politicians are elected by the people on platform of ideas and policy. They go before us all every few years and ask for our trust. We tend to know a little bit about the candidate and a lot more about the party they represent. That politician represents a political party that has been around for decades. It is a huge responsibility to represent the party. And trust is the key to that responsibility. Abuse it and not only are you gone, but so is your party from the minds of hundreds of thousands of voters.
The federal Labor party in 2007 and 2010 went to the Australian people based on ideas and trust. After eleven odd years in opposition, Labor was desperate to regain government. It had been a long time between drinks. Many leaders had been paraded onto the public in an effort to regain trust after the Keating years. His LAW tax cuts backflip mixed with his perceived arrogance were a death knell for the Keating government. Kevin Rudd was fresh, new and spoke in a manner that exhumed trust. We didn’t know a lot about Rudd but the trust factor was there. After a few years as Prime Minister, people realised Kevin could not be trusted to deliver what he said he would. His policy platform of 2007 was in tatters in 2010 and an election was looming. To be a one term government after eleven years in opposition was unthinkable to the Labor party so they did something that shocked the nation and axed Kevin for Julia Gillard.
Ms Gillard had the trust factor. She had the exposure and likeability factor that would probably ensure a Labor win in 2010. But the damage that Kevin had done and the damage the Labor party had done in axing Kevin ensured a hung parliament. Thanks to the Greens and Independents, Julia Gillard was able to form government. She now had a platform to follow her policies. Australians still trusted her.
And that is where the trust factor that is so important in society was trashed to follow ideology. As a politician you ask us to trust you before an election. Then you break that trust after the election and expect the Australian people to still accept you. The Labor party under Julia Gillard has decided that trust is a throw away commodity that doesn’t mean much. Her policies of Cash for Clunkers, No Carbon Tax, Stopping the boats were swept away after the election and replaced with her true position. Julia Gillard lied to the people to gain government. Labor used to sneer at John Howard's Core and Non Core promises. yet they replaced with Real Julia policies and fake Julia policies. The trust factor in Gillard and the Labor party in general is gone. And that is why Labor will lose the next election. That is why the Independents, who claimed to be conservatives, then back flipped will be gone. Trust should be the most sought after commodity in politics, Labor has relegated it to a punch line. When you lose trust, people stop listening. Australians have stopped listening to Julia Gillard when she stopped listening to us. A politician who loses trust is only one election away from oblivion.
The Nation is angry and no amount of spin from Hawker Britton hides the abuse of trust. Time will not heal all wounds in this case. Julia, you had so much promise, but you forgot the basic rule of society, something we teach our kids every day. Don’t lie and don’t abuse the trust we give you. Your support comes from the rusted on Labor voters who couldn’t give a damn if you lie, cheat or backflip, so long as you’re Labor. The rest of Australia will not change their opinion on the Labor party. NSW Labor found out what a loss of trust means. The next Labor leader must adopt trust as their 1st priority. Do what you say and say what you do. If you’re not trustworthy in the eyes of the public, you don't deserve to represent us.
I eventually could not contemplate dealing with them after the 4th breakdown and dumped the washing machine at the tip, went to another company and purchased a new washing machine. Six years later I’m still with this company and have never been back to the other mob, despite the flashy TV ads. Trust is equally true of utility companies. You get a bad experience with a telephone company or an electricity generator and they usually are blacklisted from future dealings. Friends who abuse your trust rapidly become ex friends. Yes, trust is all around us in our daily lives. We see it less and less in society these days and most people adore friends, family, companies, bosses who value trust.
Politicians are elected by the people on platform of ideas and policy. They go before us all every few years and ask for our trust. We tend to know a little bit about the candidate and a lot more about the party they represent. That politician represents a political party that has been around for decades. It is a huge responsibility to represent the party. And trust is the key to that responsibility. Abuse it and not only are you gone, but so is your party from the minds of hundreds of thousands of voters.
The federal Labor party in 2007 and 2010 went to the Australian people based on ideas and trust. After eleven odd years in opposition, Labor was desperate to regain government. It had been a long time between drinks. Many leaders had been paraded onto the public in an effort to regain trust after the Keating years. His LAW tax cuts backflip mixed with his perceived arrogance were a death knell for the Keating government. Kevin Rudd was fresh, new and spoke in a manner that exhumed trust. We didn’t know a lot about Rudd but the trust factor was there. After a few years as Prime Minister, people realised Kevin could not be trusted to deliver what he said he would. His policy platform of 2007 was in tatters in 2010 and an election was looming. To be a one term government after eleven years in opposition was unthinkable to the Labor party so they did something that shocked the nation and axed Kevin for Julia Gillard.
Ms Gillard had the trust factor. She had the exposure and likeability factor that would probably ensure a Labor win in 2010. But the damage that Kevin had done and the damage the Labor party had done in axing Kevin ensured a hung parliament. Thanks to the Greens and Independents, Julia Gillard was able to form government. She now had a platform to follow her policies. Australians still trusted her.
And that is where the trust factor that is so important in society was trashed to follow ideology. As a politician you ask us to trust you before an election. Then you break that trust after the election and expect the Australian people to still accept you. The Labor party under Julia Gillard has decided that trust is a throw away commodity that doesn’t mean much. Her policies of Cash for Clunkers, No Carbon Tax, Stopping the boats were swept away after the election and replaced with her true position. Julia Gillard lied to the people to gain government. Labor used to sneer at John Howard's Core and Non Core promises. yet they replaced with Real Julia policies and fake Julia policies. The trust factor in Gillard and the Labor party in general is gone. And that is why Labor will lose the next election. That is why the Independents, who claimed to be conservatives, then back flipped will be gone. Trust should be the most sought after commodity in politics, Labor has relegated it to a punch line. When you lose trust, people stop listening. Australians have stopped listening to Julia Gillard when she stopped listening to us. A politician who loses trust is only one election away from oblivion.
The Nation is angry and no amount of spin from Hawker Britton hides the abuse of trust. Time will not heal all wounds in this case. Julia, you had so much promise, but you forgot the basic rule of society, something we teach our kids every day. Don’t lie and don’t abuse the trust we give you. Your support comes from the rusted on Labor voters who couldn’t give a damn if you lie, cheat or backflip, so long as you’re Labor. The rest of Australia will not change their opinion on the Labor party. NSW Labor found out what a loss of trust means. The next Labor leader must adopt trust as their 1st priority. Do what you say and say what you do. If you’re not trustworthy in the eyes of the public, you don't deserve to represent us.
Wilkie suffers from lackofbackboneitis
Definition of lackofbackboneitis: Standing for a principle when holding the balance of power then meekly surrendering when balance of power is lost.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/andrew-wilkie-folds-on-pokies-threat-to-pm-julia-gillard/story-e6freuy9-1226246799268
Some memorable quotes from Andrew Wilkie
"I have the agreement with the Prime Minister and I am not going to blink."
“My agreement with Prime Minister Gillard is absolutely carved in stone… My support for her and her government hinges on it and I will withdraw my support from the Gillard Labor government if that is not progressed in accord with my agreement with the prime minister.. If legislation has not passed both houses of parliament by then (May, 2011) I will withdraw my support.”
“There’s no theatre here, no grand strategy playing out, I have reached an agreement with the prime minister, and she is only the prime minister because she agreed to it… If it means at the end of the day there are no pokie machine reforms, so be it… It’s important for me to be a man of my word.... There’s no flexibility at all, there must be mandatory pre-commitment fit to all high intensity pokie machines.”
“The only certainty is that if they don’t pull off this reform I will withdraw my support. I will do it regrettably but I’m a man of my word and I will hold the government to the commitment they made to me.”
This is a man who chose to support Julia Gillard based on his solemn belief that Julia could be more trustworthy than Abbott. Also he believes his “reforms’ would be more likely to bear fruition under Julia. Now, like the rest of Australia, naïve Wilkie finds out all too late that Julia’s word is worth as much as her policies, ZERO! But will Andrew withdraw his support? No, because he, like the other independents, have hitched their cart to Julia’s hide and it’s too late to realise that the ride is bumpy, uncomfortable and the road is full of hostile locals. So Andrew, you said she is only Prime minister because she agreed with it? You could also say she is only Prime Minister because she said “there will be no Carbon any under any government I lead” eh Andrew? But you supported her lie, so expect no sympathy from Australians that she lied to you as well. You have proven your word means as much as Julia’s. Another independent MP that Australia doesn’t want, need or respect. Remember Mr. Wilkie, you came third in the seat of Denison.
Wilkie.....13,788 (21.26%)
ALP.........23,215 (35.79%)
Liberal...14,688 (22.65%)
Greens..12,312 (18.98%)
Liberal preferences got you your seat. Will you receive those in 2013? Or will the rumor that Labor will not run a candidate in your seat as a sop get you over the line again? And now to top it all off, Mr Wilkie has gone cap in hand to the opposition looking for support for his rapidly failing “reform”. Let me get this straight. He got into parliament on coalition preferences, thumbs his nose at them because Julia is sooooo honest, gets stabbed in the back by said honest girl, and now looks to the opposition to help retain his credibility? Andrew, how does it feel to be the laughing stock of the nation? At least we were outraged when she lied over the Carbon Tax. You just meekly squeaked like a mouse being trod on.
New nickname for Mr. Wilkie…….Blinky. Or as a regular blogger put it.....Wilkie's Spine has been Gillardined!
UPDATE
Wilkie’s revenge.
Seems Andrew Wilkie is pissed Julia didn’t keep her word. So in true style of the independents, vow to block means testing of Private health rebates he once supported. How about the Carbon Tax Andrew? She didn’t keep her word to the Australian people but you supported that didn’t you? So you are quite happy that a nation of 22 million people can be lied to gain government but you’re different eh?
Can’t lie to me, because I can bring the government down, which thanks to the Slipper is a hollow threat. Don’t worry Andrew. In 2013, we, the Australian people will bring the government down. You see, we are furious at being lied to. We are furious with self serving Independents like you who supported the lie. So this government will limp along till 2013, then we will boot them out in a landslide. And Independents like yourself will lose the power trip you have enjoyed for so long.
You are part of the lie, part of the most dishonest government in Australian history.
And history my friend, will not be kind to Ms Gillard. Nor will it be kind to you, Oakeshott or Windsor. Enjoy the next 22 months Mr Wilkie because if you want to know what fate awaits the independent brand in 2013, look no further than a Mr Pete Besseling. Despite begging to the NSW electorate he would not support Labor after his mate Rob Oakeshott did just that, he lost his seat with a big swing against him. He now works for Rob Oakeshott. Andrew you can bring back much needed dignity to the independent brand by withdrawing all support to the Gillard government. Oakeshott never will. He’s a Labor man wearing an Independent hat. Windsor hates the National as they failed to see his brilliance.
Your choice Mr Wilkie. History is already seeing you as a doormat to Julia’s shoe leather. Either pull the rug out or prepared to have Labor boots wiping their mud on your carcass till 2013.
Another boat, another policy failure 2012 style.
Another boat, another policy failure 2012.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/boat-carrying-76-people-intercepted/story-fn3dxity-1226246754697
4 boats in 2012 so far. Hardly newsworthy these days, what with Comrade Julia opening car parks and parading around funding Cricket grounds. Then there are interviews to be done during live cricket broadcasts and of course knifing Wilkie in the back now that the Slipper is under her foot. Who has time for border protection these days?
And after all, Julia said “Another boat, another policy failure” in 2003. That was waaaaayyyy back when she was “young and Naïve”. Now that she is PM, great negoshiator and all, all that boring stuff she said when in opposition is no longer relevant. Speaking of things the great negoshiator said in opposition, check out the next column.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/boat-carrying-76-people-intercepted/story-fn3dxity-1226246754697
4 boats in 2012 so far. Hardly newsworthy these days, what with Comrade Julia opening car parks and parading around funding Cricket grounds. Then there are interviews to be done during live cricket broadcasts and of course knifing Wilkie in the back now that the Slipper is under her foot. Who has time for border protection these days?
And after all, Julia said “Another boat, another policy failure” in 2003. That was waaaaayyyy back when she was “young and Naïve”. Now that she is PM, great negoshiator and all, all that boring stuff she said when in opposition is no longer relevant. Speaking of things the great negoshiator said in opposition, check out the next column.
Julia Gillard, hypocrite par excellence!
Here are quotes from Julia Gillard on what she believes should happen to Tony Abbott when he was overruled by John Howard on the Medicare Safety net.
Gillard, 10/5/2005:
This minister [Abbott] is trying to get away with a standard of honesty that would not be acceptable anywhere else in public life, or indeed in private life. If the minister had been a businessman and offered a promise like that and not kept it, he would have been sued. If the minister had been in a court of law and made a statement like that and it turned out not to be true, he would have been tried for perjury. If the minister had been in a church and made a statement like that and it turned out not to be true, the congregation would have known that he had broken the ninth commandment. I do not see why the standard should be different in business, should be different in churches or should be different in courts from the standard in public life. If anything, the standard in public life should be higher.
CASH FOR CLUNKERS
Gillard, 18/8/2005:
Minister Abbott, when all of this originally happened and it was clear that his rock solid, ironclad guarantee was going to be broken, should have resigned. He should have resigned either because he had not been honest with the Australian people before the election or because of incompetence. Either way, he should have resigned at the time this policy was changed.
CARBON TAX
Gillard, 10/5/2005:
The member for Batman is absolutely right: the minister [Abbott] should resign … This minister went to the Australian electorate before the last election and gave his word, and he did not keep it. It is no more complicated than that. It does not require any more frills or explanation than that. He went to theAustralian electorate and he gave his word, a rock-solid, ironclad guarantee, and he did not keep it. When you look at the transcript of interview, there is no doubt. There is no equivocation here, no weasel words and no shades of grey.
POKER MACHINE REFORM
Gillard on Abbott, 10/5/2005:
When he is out there in the public domain, moralising and telling others what to do, surely one of the standards he should model and exhibit in his own life is truthfulness. Surely that is one of the standards he should exhibit in his own life, but he has fallen short of that standard. I think he knows that he has fallen short and feels deeply uncomfortable about it. But, like the common problem across the Howard government frontbench, when confronted with a difficult choice he lacked the bottle to do the right thing, and the right thing would have been to offer his resignation and go to the backbench.
EAST TIMOR SOLUTION
Gillard, 26/5/2005:
We know that they will say anything before an election and do the complete reverse afterwards, Minister Abbott has proved that time and time again but most spectacularly with the Medicare safety net. Now this goes a step further whether he is not only prepared to go out and lie to the Australian people but whether he is prepared to trash our system of government and lie in the House of Representatives and try and get away with it.
A CHALLENGE FOR THE LABOR LEADERSHIP IS NOT WITHIN CO-EEE OF MY DAY TO DAY REALITY.
Gillard, 19/4/2005:
I think the public is often very cynical about what politicians say and they expect them to use a bit of spin, to use weasel words to talk in shades of grey but I think the public still gets shocked when they see someone like Minister Abbott give a iron clad, rock solid guarantee and it is such a blatant lie. There are no shades of grey in that, no spin. A cast iron, rock solid guarantee and it’s a lie, I think that shocked the public and certainly justifies his resignation.
Under Labor, we will never put children behind bars.
Nothing more needs to be said other that the most blatant hypocritical liar ever to sit in parliament. I don’t think Julia knows how to speak the truth anymore. A lifetime of lying has damager her too much. And Laborites have the audacity to call Howard the lying rodent? We all know "There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead" was a cast iron, rock solid guarantee. Seeing as you think a health minister should resign because his PM pulled the rug from under him, should a PM who lies and pulls the rug from under Australians in general resign?
From young and naive in her 30's to cunning and deceitful in her 50's. You ought to be a riot in your 60's Jules!
Gillard, 10/5/2005:
This minister [Abbott] is trying to get away with a standard of honesty that would not be acceptable anywhere else in public life, or indeed in private life. If the minister had been a businessman and offered a promise like that and not kept it, he would have been sued. If the minister had been in a court of law and made a statement like that and it turned out not to be true, he would have been tried for perjury. If the minister had been in a church and made a statement like that and it turned out not to be true, the congregation would have known that he had broken the ninth commandment. I do not see why the standard should be different in business, should be different in churches or should be different in courts from the standard in public life. If anything, the standard in public life should be higher.
CASH FOR CLUNKERS
Gillard, 18/8/2005:
Minister Abbott, when all of this originally happened and it was clear that his rock solid, ironclad guarantee was going to be broken, should have resigned. He should have resigned either because he had not been honest with the Australian people before the election or because of incompetence. Either way, he should have resigned at the time this policy was changed.
CARBON TAX
Gillard, 10/5/2005:
The member for Batman is absolutely right: the minister [Abbott] should resign … This minister went to the Australian electorate before the last election and gave his word, and he did not keep it. It is no more complicated than that. It does not require any more frills or explanation than that. He went to theAustralian electorate and he gave his word, a rock-solid, ironclad guarantee, and he did not keep it. When you look at the transcript of interview, there is no doubt. There is no equivocation here, no weasel words and no shades of grey.
POKER MACHINE REFORM
Gillard on Abbott, 10/5/2005:
When he is out there in the public domain, moralising and telling others what to do, surely one of the standards he should model and exhibit in his own life is truthfulness. Surely that is one of the standards he should exhibit in his own life, but he has fallen short of that standard. I think he knows that he has fallen short and feels deeply uncomfortable about it. But, like the common problem across the Howard government frontbench, when confronted with a difficult choice he lacked the bottle to do the right thing, and the right thing would have been to offer his resignation and go to the backbench.
EAST TIMOR SOLUTION
Gillard, 26/5/2005:
We know that they will say anything before an election and do the complete reverse afterwards, Minister Abbott has proved that time and time again but most spectacularly with the Medicare safety net. Now this goes a step further whether he is not only prepared to go out and lie to the Australian people but whether he is prepared to trash our system of government and lie in the House of Representatives and try and get away with it.
A CHALLENGE FOR THE LABOR LEADERSHIP IS NOT WITHIN CO-EEE OF MY DAY TO DAY REALITY.
Gillard, 19/4/2005:
I think the public is often very cynical about what politicians say and they expect them to use a bit of spin, to use weasel words to talk in shades of grey but I think the public still gets shocked when they see someone like Minister Abbott give a iron clad, rock solid guarantee and it is such a blatant lie. There are no shades of grey in that, no spin. A cast iron, rock solid guarantee and it’s a lie, I think that shocked the public and certainly justifies his resignation.
Under Labor, we will never put children behind bars.
Nothing more needs to be said other that the most blatant hypocritical liar ever to sit in parliament. I don’t think Julia knows how to speak the truth anymore. A lifetime of lying has damager her too much. And Laborites have the audacity to call Howard the lying rodent? We all know "There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead" was a cast iron, rock solid guarantee. Seeing as you think a health minister should resign because his PM pulled the rug from under him, should a PM who lies and pulls the rug from under Australians in general resign?
From young and naive in her 30's to cunning and deceitful in her 50's. You ought to be a riot in your 60's Jules!
Gillard’s talk fest 2012, you’ve got to be kidding!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/pm-julia-gillard-calls-in-entire-caucus-for-crisis-summit/story-e6freuzi-1226252856269
Another day, another Labor crisis, this time Julia calls a crisis summit of all Labor MP’s to try and come up with ideas to the nations problems. Like the border protection issue, Labor comes up with a solution to a problem that didn’t exist. Then the not needed solution causes a whole raft of problems in which Labor then Blame Tony Abbott for the problem in the first place. So what will come out of Labor 2012 talkfest? Will Craig “It wasn’t me” Thompson be there to offer advice on workers of the night rights? Will Julia of “we are us” fame come up with new ways to break her word to the Australian people? Will Chris Bowen there Blame Abbott for another boat, another policy failure. Will Milk be served for Stephen Conroy?
And where are the celebrities? Surely Cate is available again? But let us be serious.
Julia and her cronies are there to come up with solutions to Australia’s problems in what, three and a half hours? The talkfest starts at two pm, finishing with a barbie at the Lodge at five thirty pm. Three and half hours to sort out five years of Labor induced problems. How do you fix in that amount of time so much damage? How you fix a personality trait like lying and blaming others for your mistakes? It took Peter Costello ten years to pay off Labor’s debt. How many years will it take this time considering the debt is over double what it was last time?
If Labor are so void of ideas that another talkfest is required then it is truly game over.
Gillard came into power in 2010. Two years later and it’s off to camp for more ideas.
A government should have a long term plan or has Gillard’s Labor achieved everything it wanted to two years? One things for sure, If the current crop come with more ideas over this, Australia is truly in worse trouble that it thought it was. But we all know why this is happening. It’s to shore up Gillard’s position and nothing else. Labor has proven it has no idea or ideas, so Gillard is there to stare down the Ruddites and reassert her authority. Why doesn’t Julia call an election and the Australian people decide on her Authority? If Labor has done such a great job in government, why would they fear an election?
Ask yourself this question. If you’re doing a great job where you work, would you be worried the boss is going to call you and fire you? Of course not. You would be secure in you employment and look to advance up the ladder. If your incompetent and don’t know it, being sacked would have you scratching your head. And that is Labor’s problem. They refuse to believe they are incompetent and are bewildered by the venom out there and the poor polling. Surely it must be outside influences? Ahhhhh, that Mr Rabbit, it’s his fault! This talkfest of 102 incompetent ministers will result 102 ideas the nation doesn’t want or need. There should be only one idea that should come out of this, CALL AN ELECTION NOW!
What a bloody disgrace!
Tony Abbott made the following comment on Australia day.
"I think a lot has changed for the better since then, I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian. I think a lot has changed since then, and I think it probably is time to move on from that".
Now some 200 odd protesters From Tent Embassy outside `Parliament house took offence at this and stormed a presentation in which Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were attending. One Micael Anderson accused Abbott of inciting racial riots by his comments. Excuse me Mick but what F***ing planet are you on? This is a man who has done more for the Aboriginal cause than you'll ever know.
Was he inciting racial riots when he volunters his time to teach in Aboriginal communities?
Was he inciting riots when he volunteers to work at remote Aboriginal communities ?
His comment were as mundane as you can get, but it doesn't take much for ratbags to get offended does it Mick?
Now as you know by this website, I'm no fan of Julia Gillard. I can't wait for her head off to political wilderness after suffering a smashing at the next election. But what she went through was unforgivable. She is the Prime minister of this country and should be able to attend a ceremony without ratbags causing distress to her, Tony Abbott and all who attended.
This incident has caused irreperable damage to Tent Embessy. People are saying that I guess the apology wasn't accepted after all eh?
I hope one day the protesters can calm down and look back with a little bit of humility and shame on their actions on our national holiday. What did you achieve? Feel better now that you made the PM fall? What a bloody disgrace to all involved! Already the lefty bloggers are blaming Tony Abbott. Word to the wise Labor, don't go there and blame T.A like everything else. It will backfire as fast as an Albanese press conference!
"I think a lot has changed for the better since then, I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian. I think a lot has changed since then, and I think it probably is time to move on from that".
Now some 200 odd protesters From Tent Embassy outside `Parliament house took offence at this and stormed a presentation in which Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were attending. One Micael Anderson accused Abbott of inciting racial riots by his comments. Excuse me Mick but what F***ing planet are you on? This is a man who has done more for the Aboriginal cause than you'll ever know.
Was he inciting racial riots when he volunters his time to teach in Aboriginal communities?
Was he inciting riots when he volunteers to work at remote Aboriginal communities ?
His comment were as mundane as you can get, but it doesn't take much for ratbags to get offended does it Mick?
Now as you know by this website, I'm no fan of Julia Gillard. I can't wait for her head off to political wilderness after suffering a smashing at the next election. But what she went through was unforgivable. She is the Prime minister of this country and should be able to attend a ceremony without ratbags causing distress to her, Tony Abbott and all who attended.
This incident has caused irreperable damage to Tent Embessy. People are saying that I guess the apology wasn't accepted after all eh?
I hope one day the protesters can calm down and look back with a little bit of humility and shame on their actions on our national holiday. What did you achieve? Feel better now that you made the PM fall? What a bloody disgrace to all involved! Already the lefty bloggers are blaming Tony Abbott. Word to the wise Labor, don't go there and blame T.A like everything else. It will backfire as fast as an Albanese press conference!
The Politics of "Get Abbott"
Thursday the 26th of January 2012 will down in Australian
history as the day Get Abbott was confirmed as an official
policy of the Labor party. This can be traced back to 2009 when Tony Abbott won the Liberal leadership by one vote. The Labor party, under Kevin Rudd and his deputy Julia Gillard was elated that Tony Abbott was elected by his peers as Leader of the opposition. The belief amongst Labor and the Australian media was that Abbott was unelectable. Too radical, too extreme and too in your face. Then a strange thing happened. The Opposition started gaining in the polls. Nothing fancy mind you. No Kevin Rudd style ascendancy to the preferred leader, just a subtle change in the Liberal fortunes. The two previous Liberal leaders in Brendon Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull had failed to gain any ground against the Labor juggernaut. Nelson was replaced as his polling was dismal. He came across as too nice and in the cut throat world of Federal politics, was never going to hold Kevin Rudd to account.
Malcolm Turnbull didn't present as a true leader of the opposition as he went against core values of the Liberal party.
The liberal party needed someone who was not a Kevin Rudd clone as was Malcolm Turnbull. His low polling, championing of an ETS and offering Bi partisan support to Labor was seen by Liberal MP's as the final straw. So in a leadership challenge, Tony Abbott rose to take the reins of the Liberal party. You could hear the cheering from Caucus miles away.
Another dud leader, one to ridicule and send packing like the last two. A leader who scraped in by one solidary vote. Labor had now made a fatal mistake that they're still making today. They underestimated Tony Abbott. They underestimated his ability to stand up and hold Labor to account on numerous failures. Around this time Kevin Rudd's fortunes were changing too. Numerous backflips and a perceived arrogance were eating away at Kevin Rudd's popularity. Coupled with a strong opposition leader, the Labor juggernaut slowed down with numerous mechanical failings. From the highest polling ever seen for a Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd's downward slide was nothing short of spectacular. And much of this can be contributed to Tony Abbott.
This slide continued to 2010, where an election loomed. Labor still believed Tony Abbott unelectable, but Kevin07 was too much of a risk. The election polling would be too close to chance, so in the still of the night, Julia Gillard challenged Kevin Rudd and was gifted the Prime Ministership by Labor. The belief was that Julia Gillard was more electable that both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Once again Labor underestimated Abbott and in a very close election, scraped through to form minority Government. Labor believed that Gillard would take Labor's polling north, effectively silence Abbott and negate him the same way previous Liberal leaders were. Over the last two years, Gillard has proven to be even worse than Rudd.
Her lies and backflips have become legendary and Tony Abbott has proven to be masterful in holding Labor to account.
Realising that Abbott is electable and the fact that the Liberal party would smash Labor at the next election has sent Labor in panic mode. So much so that previously dumped leader Kevin Rudd has been touted as an alternative. Too many faceless men would not let this happen. Too much vested interest in Gillard mean Kevin will never take the reins again. So the politics of "get Abbott" is born. Never before have we seen such venom against an opposition leader. Never before have we seen so many vested interests attempt "gotcha" incidents against Tony Abbott. Labor and the Australian Media have tried to land the killer blow against Abbott and failed.
Instead of relying on their track record, which is impossible, Labor has decided to destroy the opposition leader with vile attacks and childlike insults that have insulted the intelligence of the Australian public. Every comment Abbott makes is twisted to represent their view and not Abbott’s. The Australian media also share much of the blame for this. Australian journalists went from reporting facts to reporting their take on the facts. Mark Riley from channel seven tried with his setup question of Abbott in Afghanistan. The ABC and sky regularly report stories omitting the facts. Yet the polls still show Abbott with an election leading margin.
On Australia day 2012, the politics of get Abbott went to a level that should shock all Australians. A staffer from Julia Gillard's office mentioned to a friend that Abbott would be attending a function within throwing distance of tent city. Once again Abbott's comments were misreported to put him a bad light.
"I think a lot has changed for the better since then, I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian. I think a lot has changed since then, and I think it probably is time to move on from that". This was changed into Abbott wants tent city demolished. So off went Tent city activists and went on a rampage, determined to get Abbott for something he never said. It backfired however as Julia was targeted more than Abbott. Now the Staffer has resigned and Labor must apologise for this incident. Gillard and co can't go by one day without calling for Abbott to apologise for one trivial thing or another. Where is the apology to those who were there to get awards for serving their community? Where is the apology to the security staff? And where is the apology to Abbott?
This incident is a direct result of get Abbott policies. A normal political party would stand on their track record and go to the electorate with their heads held high. Labor can't do that. Their track record is dismal as many stories on this site attest to. Their only hope is to get Abbott. To trash his beliefs, policies, family, religion, Budgie smugglers, whatever it takes!
The Staffer Tony Hodges was just taking it to another level, another attempt at a gotcha that failed dismally.
I am in no way stating that Gillard knew about this. But what I am stating is that is it is ok for the MSM and Labor minister to attempt gotcha moments then others will follow off their own bat. The time has come for Labor to withdraw from gotcha moments and stand on their own track record. If they can't, then whose fault is that? Is it Abbotts? Or is it Gillard’s.
The biggest joke going around Australia at the moment is if something goes wrong in your life, whether it be a flat tire to their barbecue being rained out is to blame Abbott. The Australian public is ridiculing Labor on their "It's all Abbott's fault" philosophy. Take note Australian Media. Are you journalists or are you a cheer squad? Where did your integrity go? If Australians can see through "get Abbott" hysterics of Labor, WHY CAN'T YOU? Are you journalists or propagandists? Luckily no one was hurt in this incident. Maybe Abbott and innocent bystanders might not be so lucky next time. What's so funny is Labor Gotcha moments are aren't contrived by the Media or the Liberals, they do them all by themselves. Anthony "Hollywood" Albanese is a testament to that! Could this have been an deliberate attempt by labor staffers to take Albanese off the front pages in his Michael Douglas gaff that backfired? Labor has always used the Love media to further their attacks on Abbott.
As soon as Ray Hadley stated he had knowledge of a Labor staffer being involved, the love media rounded on him fiercely until it was confirmed as true. The love media slithered away, a quick sacking and "Let's move forward". No way people. Remember Utegate and Labor's relentless attacks on Turnbull. This is far more serious as people could have been seriously hurt. So which actions incite a riot, Abbott's words or Labor staffer's tip off to Tent Embassy? Come on MSM, can't be that hard "Not to write crap" eh?
And finally to Alan Moir of the Sydney Morning Herald. Now that it known that the activists were tipped of by a Labor staffer from the PM's office, and Abbott was not quoted correctly, where is YOUR apology to Abbott over this tripe?
policy of the Labor party. This can be traced back to 2009 when Tony Abbott won the Liberal leadership by one vote. The Labor party, under Kevin Rudd and his deputy Julia Gillard was elated that Tony Abbott was elected by his peers as Leader of the opposition. The belief amongst Labor and the Australian media was that Abbott was unelectable. Too radical, too extreme and too in your face. Then a strange thing happened. The Opposition started gaining in the polls. Nothing fancy mind you. No Kevin Rudd style ascendancy to the preferred leader, just a subtle change in the Liberal fortunes. The two previous Liberal leaders in Brendon Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull had failed to gain any ground against the Labor juggernaut. Nelson was replaced as his polling was dismal. He came across as too nice and in the cut throat world of Federal politics, was never going to hold Kevin Rudd to account.
Malcolm Turnbull didn't present as a true leader of the opposition as he went against core values of the Liberal party.
The liberal party needed someone who was not a Kevin Rudd clone as was Malcolm Turnbull. His low polling, championing of an ETS and offering Bi partisan support to Labor was seen by Liberal MP's as the final straw. So in a leadership challenge, Tony Abbott rose to take the reins of the Liberal party. You could hear the cheering from Caucus miles away.
Another dud leader, one to ridicule and send packing like the last two. A leader who scraped in by one solidary vote. Labor had now made a fatal mistake that they're still making today. They underestimated Tony Abbott. They underestimated his ability to stand up and hold Labor to account on numerous failures. Around this time Kevin Rudd's fortunes were changing too. Numerous backflips and a perceived arrogance were eating away at Kevin Rudd's popularity. Coupled with a strong opposition leader, the Labor juggernaut slowed down with numerous mechanical failings. From the highest polling ever seen for a Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd's downward slide was nothing short of spectacular. And much of this can be contributed to Tony Abbott.
This slide continued to 2010, where an election loomed. Labor still believed Tony Abbott unelectable, but Kevin07 was too much of a risk. The election polling would be too close to chance, so in the still of the night, Julia Gillard challenged Kevin Rudd and was gifted the Prime Ministership by Labor. The belief was that Julia Gillard was more electable that both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Once again Labor underestimated Abbott and in a very close election, scraped through to form minority Government. Labor believed that Gillard would take Labor's polling north, effectively silence Abbott and negate him the same way previous Liberal leaders were. Over the last two years, Gillard has proven to be even worse than Rudd.
Her lies and backflips have become legendary and Tony Abbott has proven to be masterful in holding Labor to account.
Realising that Abbott is electable and the fact that the Liberal party would smash Labor at the next election has sent Labor in panic mode. So much so that previously dumped leader Kevin Rudd has been touted as an alternative. Too many faceless men would not let this happen. Too much vested interest in Gillard mean Kevin will never take the reins again. So the politics of "get Abbott" is born. Never before have we seen such venom against an opposition leader. Never before have we seen so many vested interests attempt "gotcha" incidents against Tony Abbott. Labor and the Australian Media have tried to land the killer blow against Abbott and failed.
Instead of relying on their track record, which is impossible, Labor has decided to destroy the opposition leader with vile attacks and childlike insults that have insulted the intelligence of the Australian public. Every comment Abbott makes is twisted to represent their view and not Abbott’s. The Australian media also share much of the blame for this. Australian journalists went from reporting facts to reporting their take on the facts. Mark Riley from channel seven tried with his setup question of Abbott in Afghanistan. The ABC and sky regularly report stories omitting the facts. Yet the polls still show Abbott with an election leading margin.
On Australia day 2012, the politics of get Abbott went to a level that should shock all Australians. A staffer from Julia Gillard's office mentioned to a friend that Abbott would be attending a function within throwing distance of tent city. Once again Abbott's comments were misreported to put him a bad light.
"I think a lot has changed for the better since then, I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian. I think a lot has changed since then, and I think it probably is time to move on from that". This was changed into Abbott wants tent city demolished. So off went Tent city activists and went on a rampage, determined to get Abbott for something he never said. It backfired however as Julia was targeted more than Abbott. Now the Staffer has resigned and Labor must apologise for this incident. Gillard and co can't go by one day without calling for Abbott to apologise for one trivial thing or another. Where is the apology to those who were there to get awards for serving their community? Where is the apology to the security staff? And where is the apology to Abbott?
This incident is a direct result of get Abbott policies. A normal political party would stand on their track record and go to the electorate with their heads held high. Labor can't do that. Their track record is dismal as many stories on this site attest to. Their only hope is to get Abbott. To trash his beliefs, policies, family, religion, Budgie smugglers, whatever it takes!
The Staffer Tony Hodges was just taking it to another level, another attempt at a gotcha that failed dismally.
I am in no way stating that Gillard knew about this. But what I am stating is that is it is ok for the MSM and Labor minister to attempt gotcha moments then others will follow off their own bat. The time has come for Labor to withdraw from gotcha moments and stand on their own track record. If they can't, then whose fault is that? Is it Abbotts? Or is it Gillard’s.
The biggest joke going around Australia at the moment is if something goes wrong in your life, whether it be a flat tire to their barbecue being rained out is to blame Abbott. The Australian public is ridiculing Labor on their "It's all Abbott's fault" philosophy. Take note Australian Media. Are you journalists or are you a cheer squad? Where did your integrity go? If Australians can see through "get Abbott" hysterics of Labor, WHY CAN'T YOU? Are you journalists or propagandists? Luckily no one was hurt in this incident. Maybe Abbott and innocent bystanders might not be so lucky next time. What's so funny is Labor Gotcha moments are aren't contrived by the Media or the Liberals, they do them all by themselves. Anthony "Hollywood" Albanese is a testament to that! Could this have been an deliberate attempt by labor staffers to take Albanese off the front pages in his Michael Douglas gaff that backfired? Labor has always used the Love media to further their attacks on Abbott.
As soon as Ray Hadley stated he had knowledge of a Labor staffer being involved, the love media rounded on him fiercely until it was confirmed as true. The love media slithered away, a quick sacking and "Let's move forward". No way people. Remember Utegate and Labor's relentless attacks on Turnbull. This is far more serious as people could have been seriously hurt. So which actions incite a riot, Abbott's words or Labor staffer's tip off to Tent Embassy? Come on MSM, can't be that hard "Not to write crap" eh?
And finally to Alan Moir of the Sydney Morning Herald. Now that it known that the activists were tipped of by a Labor staffer from the PM's office, and Abbott was not quoted correctly, where is YOUR apology to Abbott over this tripe?
But I guess you missed integrity 101 lessons at Uni eh Alan?
UPDATE:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/labor-figure-kim-sattler-named-as-gobetween-in-protest-20120128-1qmre.html
Seems like it wasn't just Tony Hodges involves. Well know Labor figure Kim Sattler has now been named. This just gets worse and worse. Much to the dismay of the Love media, this story is gaining wings the size of an A380! Stay tuned Australia, We might be witnessing the tip of the iceberg with much more to come. Imagine endangering people for political gain? Once all the true facts come out, courtesy of REAL journalists, it will be time for the independents to make a stand.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/labor-figure-kim-sattler-named-as-gobetween-in-protest-20120128-1qmre.html
Seems like it wasn't just Tony Hodges involves. Well know Labor figure Kim Sattler has now been named. This just gets worse and worse. Much to the dismay of the Love media, this story is gaining wings the size of an A380! Stay tuned Australia, We might be witnessing the tip of the iceberg with much more to come. Imagine endangering people for political gain? Once all the true facts come out, courtesy of REAL journalists, it will be time for the independents to make a stand.
UPDATE PART 2: No update from well know union hack Kim Sattler on her role in Riotgate. But after helping set up Tony Abbott she did have this to say on Facebook:
“Tony Abbott is like your typical bar-room brawler who starts a fight and then disappears like a coward when it is in full swing."
WHO STARTED THE FIGHT KIM? I'd say a coward is one who passes on information in the shadows, then slinks away and watches the fracas from afar and then posts boasting words on Facebook.
Here's a picture of the little Angel.
“Tony Abbott is like your typical bar-room brawler who starts a fight and then disappears like a coward when it is in full swing."
WHO STARTED THE FIGHT KIM? I'd say a coward is one who passes on information in the shadows, then slinks away and watches the fracas from afar and then posts boasting words on Facebook.
Here's a picture of the little Angel.
UPDATE 3: As more explanations are given, the smell of this obvious setup rises. Kim Sattler has now wailed that she was only the messenger. Julia Gillard has stated that at no time did Hodges suggest that Abbott said that Tent Embassy should be demolished. He was just passing this on........"I think a lot has changed for the better since then, I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian. I think a lot has changed since then, and I think it probably is time to move on from that".
But now Kim has stated that Hodges mentioned on the phone that Tony Abbott had made a statement that the Embassy shouldn't exist at all! Kim has now realised Abbott never said that. But like everyone in the Labor\Green\Independent\Union Hydra, you are so quick to judge Abbott whilst attempting to sit on some Moral Mount Everest full of your own importance. You are quick to condemn Abbott purely because he is a threat to your power. Nothing more, nothing less.
The PM has stated - ‘’At no point did Mr Hodges say to Ms Sattler that Mr Abbott had suggested that the tent embassy be torn down or removed in any way.’’ Now Sattler says he did. So now someone is lying to protect someone in this epic saga.
Was it Hodges? Did he infact spin Abbott's words to cause a confrontation on Australia day?
Was it Sattler? Did she decide to whip up the mob by stating Abbott wants this place demolished?
Was it a reporter? looking to create a story on Australia Day in which Abbott would be confronted by 100's of angry protesters?
Were other member of Julia's staff involved?
And finally, was Julia involved?
Was this an all big charade to make Julia look tough but caring for Abbott's safety? Were reporters tipped off?My take is Julia was not directly involved. But the facts are this act of cowardice, in which peoples safety was put at risk, came from the office of the Prime Minister. It was grave error in judgement to hire people like Tony Hodges in the first place if they think this sort of thing is acceptable. I also believe, given the state of reporting in this country, that maybe a reporter was involved in whipping up the crowd. If the national carrier, the ABC could continue to falsely report Abbott wanted to demolish Tent Embassy, long after the fact were given, then why not a rogue reporter looking for a scoop? For all those involved, looking to setup Abbott, EPIC FAIL! Abbott's stocks has risen over this. Nice own goal idiots.
But now Kim has stated that Hodges mentioned on the phone that Tony Abbott had made a statement that the Embassy shouldn't exist at all! Kim has now realised Abbott never said that. But like everyone in the Labor\Green\Independent\Union Hydra, you are so quick to judge Abbott whilst attempting to sit on some Moral Mount Everest full of your own importance. You are quick to condemn Abbott purely because he is a threat to your power. Nothing more, nothing less.
The PM has stated - ‘’At no point did Mr Hodges say to Ms Sattler that Mr Abbott had suggested that the tent embassy be torn down or removed in any way.’’ Now Sattler says he did. So now someone is lying to protect someone in this epic saga.
Was it Hodges? Did he infact spin Abbott's words to cause a confrontation on Australia day?
Was it Sattler? Did she decide to whip up the mob by stating Abbott wants this place demolished?
Was it a reporter? looking to create a story on Australia Day in which Abbott would be confronted by 100's of angry protesters?
Were other member of Julia's staff involved?
And finally, was Julia involved?
Was this an all big charade to make Julia look tough but caring for Abbott's safety? Were reporters tipped off?My take is Julia was not directly involved. But the facts are this act of cowardice, in which peoples safety was put at risk, came from the office of the Prime Minister. It was grave error in judgement to hire people like Tony Hodges in the first place if they think this sort of thing is acceptable. I also believe, given the state of reporting in this country, that maybe a reporter was involved in whipping up the crowd. If the national carrier, the ABC could continue to falsely report Abbott wanted to demolish Tent Embassy, long after the fact were given, then why not a rogue reporter looking for a scoop? For all those involved, looking to setup Abbott, EPIC FAIL! Abbott's stocks has risen over this. Nice own goal idiots.
Ruddy wants another shot.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/prime-minister-julia-gillards-supporters-count-the-numbers-as-nsw-right-leads-rudd-revolution/story-e6freuy9-1226257735683
As the inevitable challenge to Julia’s Office looms, Rudd once again has been counting the numbers. Once again, the Labor party looks to decide on horse trading the office of the Prime Ministership instead of leaving that right the voters of Australia. NSW disease of change the leader when the polls are bad is abhorrent to Australians but that doesn’t stop Labor from arrogantly trying anything to cling to power. Rudd has also stated to colleges he will keep the Carbon Tax policy that Gillard said she would never do. What a surprise Kevin! You voted for it, therefore agreeing that lying to the public to gain power is acceptable.
Here is a big hint Kevin that Julia refused to listen to. A mandate means stating a policy before an election, have the voters of Australia decide on said policy, then implementing it if you win government. A mandate is not rejecting a policy just before and election, gaining enough votes to gain government on based on said refusal, then BRINGING IT IN! That’s called Fibbing Kevin.
You have enough failures as your last tenure as PM Kevin. If want to adopt Julia’s failures as your own policy then your honeymoon will be much shorter than your last one.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/pm-rudd-would-keep-tax-he-axed-say-insiders-20120130-1qprc.html
Kevin will also most likely not to a call a snap election as he wants to prove to Australians he can Govern. Gee Kevin, what was Kevin07 all about then? You had nearly two and a half years to prove to Australians you could govern. Remember Kevin? You were PM! You had a big chance to prove you could govern. A big majority, high popularity etc. Yet you failed so dismally, that your own party knifed you. What’s changed since last time Kevin? You supported the Carbon tax lie, our borders are still wide open, and the Debt is still huge. You’re still blowing billions overseas. Your fiscal conservative status still sucks. You’re still arrogant and didn’t do anything as foreign minister to save Joe Ludwig’s destruction of our cattle trade.
Your whole time as Foreign Minister has been focused on the UN and not foreign policy. You had ample opportunity to help Gillard in her policy stuff ups, but failed to do so out of pure spite. So Julia is unelectable. That much is clear to ALL Australians. Bill Shorten is a lightweight Union hack whose claim to fame is positioning himself in front of Cameras during the Beaconsfield Mine tragedy. And now you want another go?
Challenge Kevin, depose Julia and then give Australians a chance to give their verdict on Labor since 2007, including your tenure. What’s the matter Kevin? You, Julia and all the rest will face us eventually. Don’t you want a majority? Or does leading a minority government give you an escape clause to blame others for your failures?
As the inevitable challenge to Julia’s Office looms, Rudd once again has been counting the numbers. Once again, the Labor party looks to decide on horse trading the office of the Prime Ministership instead of leaving that right the voters of Australia. NSW disease of change the leader when the polls are bad is abhorrent to Australians but that doesn’t stop Labor from arrogantly trying anything to cling to power. Rudd has also stated to colleges he will keep the Carbon Tax policy that Gillard said she would never do. What a surprise Kevin! You voted for it, therefore agreeing that lying to the public to gain power is acceptable.
Here is a big hint Kevin that Julia refused to listen to. A mandate means stating a policy before an election, have the voters of Australia decide on said policy, then implementing it if you win government. A mandate is not rejecting a policy just before and election, gaining enough votes to gain government on based on said refusal, then BRINGING IT IN! That’s called Fibbing Kevin.
You have enough failures as your last tenure as PM Kevin. If want to adopt Julia’s failures as your own policy then your honeymoon will be much shorter than your last one.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/pm-rudd-would-keep-tax-he-axed-say-insiders-20120130-1qprc.html
Kevin will also most likely not to a call a snap election as he wants to prove to Australians he can Govern. Gee Kevin, what was Kevin07 all about then? You had nearly two and a half years to prove to Australians you could govern. Remember Kevin? You were PM! You had a big chance to prove you could govern. A big majority, high popularity etc. Yet you failed so dismally, that your own party knifed you. What’s changed since last time Kevin? You supported the Carbon tax lie, our borders are still wide open, and the Debt is still huge. You’re still blowing billions overseas. Your fiscal conservative status still sucks. You’re still arrogant and didn’t do anything as foreign minister to save Joe Ludwig’s destruction of our cattle trade.
Your whole time as Foreign Minister has been focused on the UN and not foreign policy. You had ample opportunity to help Gillard in her policy stuff ups, but failed to do so out of pure spite. So Julia is unelectable. That much is clear to ALL Australians. Bill Shorten is a lightweight Union hack whose claim to fame is positioning himself in front of Cameras during the Beaconsfield Mine tragedy. And now you want another go?
Challenge Kevin, depose Julia and then give Australians a chance to give their verdict on Labor since 2007, including your tenure. What’s the matter Kevin? You, Julia and all the rest will face us eventually. Don’t you want a majority? Or does leading a minority government give you an escape clause to blame others for your failures?
Gillard in trouble!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/pms-hold-on-job-slipping-say-backers-20120201-1qtim.html?rand=1328147422995
After a dismal start to 2012, Julia is in trouble. Even her backers are saying she is losing her grip. Well what do you expect with a deliberate setup of the opposition leader by passing false information to group of protestors. The Dr No rubbish is wearing thin with the public as is the blame Abbott syndrome. Her back flip on pokie reform is seen as yet another broken promise to gain power. Just who is in government you wonder? I can see the polls going down further and remember, the next federal Election is not to far away. Even less if Fair Work Australia release adverse findings on Craig Thompson. Hey it’s only taken 3 short years to figure out if Thompson misused a credit card. Whatever you do FWA employees, don’t look for jobs as private investigators after the next election, people expect results in the real word. The choice of Rudd and Julia? Do you wish to be poisoned or shot?
Mirroring own failures onto Abbott
In today’s Daily telegraph was a story on Tony Abbott plagiarising speeches from American leaders. This story is a direct attempt to deflect Anthony Albanese and his now famous speech which copied a scene from “The American president”. Now what I find amusing is Labor and the MSM are attempting to mirror their own failures onto Tony Abbott.
First of we have the dismal failure of Labor’s border protection policies. Going back to 2007 and Labor came into power promising to close down the Pacific Solution. Labor considered it expensive and unnecessary. So much so that Christmas Island was called a ‘White Elephant” by Labor figures. 5 years later and Labor’s policy is in tatters. The amounts of boats that have come in approaching 300. Countless detention centres have been built or re-opened in Australia, Christmas Island is always close to capacity. Gillard had to come up with two shocking policies in East Timor and Malaysia. There have been countless deaths at sea which have been proven and documented. So what does Labor do? Not go back to a tried and tested policy in Howards Pacific Solution. But to Blame Abbott for not supporting their policies in Parliament. This is despite Labor having the numbers to pass any policy if their counterparts in minority government chose to do so as proven by the Carbon tax lie.
Now Anthony Albanese was humiliated by a speech which is below. This was almost a word for word speech that was quickly picked up by the Liberals and “Albo” quickly became a laughing stock. So not to be seen holding the bag on this, today we have an attempt to portray Abbott in the same league as Albanese. What utter rot! Lets look at some of the supposed plagiarism of Abbott.
First of we have the dismal failure of Labor’s border protection policies. Going back to 2007 and Labor came into power promising to close down the Pacific Solution. Labor considered it expensive and unnecessary. So much so that Christmas Island was called a ‘White Elephant” by Labor figures. 5 years later and Labor’s policy is in tatters. The amounts of boats that have come in approaching 300. Countless detention centres have been built or re-opened in Australia, Christmas Island is always close to capacity. Gillard had to come up with two shocking policies in East Timor and Malaysia. There have been countless deaths at sea which have been proven and documented. So what does Labor do? Not go back to a tried and tested policy in Howards Pacific Solution. But to Blame Abbott for not supporting their policies in Parliament. This is despite Labor having the numbers to pass any policy if their counterparts in minority government chose to do so as proven by the Carbon tax lie.
Now Anthony Albanese was humiliated by a speech which is below. This was almost a word for word speech that was quickly picked up by the Liberals and “Albo” quickly became a laughing stock. So not to be seen holding the bag on this, today we have an attempt to portray Abbott in the same league as Albanese. What utter rot! Lets look at some of the supposed plagiarism of Abbott.
Tony Abbott: "The current leaders of the Labor Party have failed to understand what Abraham Lincoln knew in the marrow of his bones, that government should do for people what they can't do for themselves and no more."
President Obama: "I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more."
Tony Abbott: "At the heart of Labor's failure is the assumption that bigger government and higher taxes are the answer to every problem."
Richard Nixon: "At home, we must reject the mistaken notion ... that even bigger government is the answer to every problem."
Tony Abbott: "At the heart of Labor's failure is the assumption that bigger government and higher taxes are the answer to every problem."
Rush Limbaugh: "The government has completely failed to appreciate the iron law of economics that no country has ever taxed its way to prosperity."
Now you are drawing a very long bow if you call this plagiarism, compared to Albo’s laughable speech. But once again we see Labor not taking responsibility for ever stuff up. They must include Abbott at some stage, either by blame or comparison. Which makes the opposition leader such a powerful influence on the Labor party in my book.
President Obama: "I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more."
Tony Abbott: "At the heart of Labor's failure is the assumption that bigger government and higher taxes are the answer to every problem."
Richard Nixon: "At home, we must reject the mistaken notion ... that even bigger government is the answer to every problem."
Tony Abbott: "At the heart of Labor's failure is the assumption that bigger government and higher taxes are the answer to every problem."
Rush Limbaugh: "The government has completely failed to appreciate the iron law of economics that no country has ever taxed its way to prosperity."
Now you are drawing a very long bow if you call this plagiarism, compared to Albo’s laughable speech. But once again we see Labor not taking responsibility for ever stuff up. They must include Abbott at some stage, either by blame or comparison. Which makes the opposition leader such a powerful influence on the Labor party in my book.
Rudd knows best on border protection........DOLT!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/asylum-seekers-a-global-issue-rudd/story-e6freuyi-1226252864777
The great Ruddster is in Europe at the moment (surprise surprise) lecturing Europeans on Asylum Seeker boats.
"These are complex and difficult issues, requiring therefore, well-thought through and integrated policy responses, not knee-jerk reactions of a populous nature."
Is this man for real? What was closing down the Pacific Solution Rudd? I'll tell you mate. It was a knee jerk reaction of a populous nature. You closed down a successful policy that was a role model for the world and replace it with a populous policy that failed dismally.
How many boats under Labor now Rudd?
How many deaths?
How many new detention centres opened?
How many Asylum Seekers now housed at Christmas Island?
And this fool has the audacity to claim the coalitions policy is unworkable? Poor Rudd. Knifed by his own party because he was too brilliant. And next in line is Stephen Smith.
"I simply draw your attention to the evidence given by the Chief of Navy at the last senate estimates hearings, which make it crystal clear that the policy position which Mr Abbott says he will pursue will only lead to rescue-at-sea operations, will only have the effect of putting asylum seekers and Australian seamen and seawomen at risk," Mr Smith added.
I simply draw YOUR attention to the risks our service people undertake NOW. I draw YOUR attention to the risks Asylum Seekers NOW undertake which has resulted in 100's of drowning of men, women and children. How many rescues at sea did the Navy have do under the Pacific Solution Stevie old boy?
SIEV 221 ring a bell? How about Siev 36? Honestly, you wonder about the mental health of the Labor party these days.
Can we please have some adults in Canberra please?
The great Ruddster is in Europe at the moment (surprise surprise) lecturing Europeans on Asylum Seeker boats.
"These are complex and difficult issues, requiring therefore, well-thought through and integrated policy responses, not knee-jerk reactions of a populous nature."
Is this man for real? What was closing down the Pacific Solution Rudd? I'll tell you mate. It was a knee jerk reaction of a populous nature. You closed down a successful policy that was a role model for the world and replace it with a populous policy that failed dismally.
How many boats under Labor now Rudd?
How many deaths?
How many new detention centres opened?
How many Asylum Seekers now housed at Christmas Island?
And this fool has the audacity to claim the coalitions policy is unworkable? Poor Rudd. Knifed by his own party because he was too brilliant. And next in line is Stephen Smith.
"I simply draw your attention to the evidence given by the Chief of Navy at the last senate estimates hearings, which make it crystal clear that the policy position which Mr Abbott says he will pursue will only lead to rescue-at-sea operations, will only have the effect of putting asylum seekers and Australian seamen and seawomen at risk," Mr Smith added.
I simply draw YOUR attention to the risks our service people undertake NOW. I draw YOUR attention to the risks Asylum Seekers NOW undertake which has resulted in 100's of drowning of men, women and children. How many rescues at sea did the Navy have do under the Pacific Solution Stevie old boy?
SIEV 221 ring a bell? How about Siev 36? Honestly, you wonder about the mental health of the Labor party these days.
Can we please have some adults in Canberra please?
Gillard vs Rudd at fever pitch.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/prime-minister-julia-gillard-in-for-the-chop/story-e6freuzr-1226262309080
Once again the office of the Prime Minister is about to be a commodity, traded in the halls of Canberra for power. Once again, Australians lose that right so selfish arrogant Laborites can maintain their Junta of misfits.
I would say that Australia doesn't have to wait till March for a challenge to Julia Gillard. We are seeing behind the scenes deals and number counting as only the Labor party can. Kevin is coming and the Julia is counting her army to see who will defect and who will man the trenches. It's going to be bloody as Rudd haters and supporters clash to cat fight over the spoils of portfolios. Swanny and Rudd loathe each other and Swan will not survive as treasurer. That fact that he held his seat in the last election by Green preferences and claiming the coalition was being hysterical about Labor bringing in a carbon tax doesn't help Swanny's cause.
Knowing Rudd, a member of the left will get treasury to ease any anger which will lead to someone not qualified in charge of our finances. Rudd will challenge and Rudd will win because the Labor party will hang their hat on whoever gives them a chance to gain or retain power. They did it in 2006 when the Rudd and Gillard "Dream Team" knifed Beazley. They rejoiced in 2007 when Rudd toppled Howard and their dreams of power were fulfilled. Then just over 2 years later they knife him because they believed Julia would give them Government. Now they will do the same in reverse if they believe Rudd can do it again. Regular journo's like Simon Benson and Laurie Oakes are bringing out articles on the demise of Julia which is a death knell to Julia's reign. but they can't help but rubbish Abbott and feel sorry for Julia.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/simonbenson/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/giving_up_gillard/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/policy-on-the-run-away-from-a-rout/story-e6frezz0-1226262198027
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3422999.htm
The fact that she is a woman has noting to do with the anger out there. You lie, you die. That simple MSM.
So Kevin will take over, fresh and new. All the policy failures under Rudd forgotten or attributed to Julia.
So lets get this straight.
Good government had lost its way resulting in Julia knifing Kevin, with all members of said lost government still in power.
New good government loses its way even more, resulting in a knifing of Julia by previous Bad government with all said members of bad government still in power. New government has found its way with previous lost government via a cabinet reshuffle. Every member of previous lost government are still in power but now is good government.
Confused Australia? How can you have good or bad government using the same people? Is a portfolio change all that is needed to turn lost into found?
Hows that 2007 election campaign look today.
Maintain border security?
National plan to fix our Hospitals?
Balance and fairness in the workplace?
Education revolution?
decisive action on climate change?
Strong economy?
Nothing will change. Still the same duds in different positions. Still the same egomaniac who claimed to be a fiscal conservative. The same cheer leaders in the MSM who conveniently forget all the backflips and policy failures.
One thing is for certain. Australia still has the same circus of clowns running Canberra. Australia still has the same ringmaster MSM yelling "Step right up folks". And Labor and the MSM will still blame Abbott for the poor show. No refunds folks!
Once again the office of the Prime Minister is about to be a commodity, traded in the halls of Canberra for power. Once again, Australians lose that right so selfish arrogant Laborites can maintain their Junta of misfits.
I would say that Australia doesn't have to wait till March for a challenge to Julia Gillard. We are seeing behind the scenes deals and number counting as only the Labor party can. Kevin is coming and the Julia is counting her army to see who will defect and who will man the trenches. It's going to be bloody as Rudd haters and supporters clash to cat fight over the spoils of portfolios. Swanny and Rudd loathe each other and Swan will not survive as treasurer. That fact that he held his seat in the last election by Green preferences and claiming the coalition was being hysterical about Labor bringing in a carbon tax doesn't help Swanny's cause.
Knowing Rudd, a member of the left will get treasury to ease any anger which will lead to someone not qualified in charge of our finances. Rudd will challenge and Rudd will win because the Labor party will hang their hat on whoever gives them a chance to gain or retain power. They did it in 2006 when the Rudd and Gillard "Dream Team" knifed Beazley. They rejoiced in 2007 when Rudd toppled Howard and their dreams of power were fulfilled. Then just over 2 years later they knife him because they believed Julia would give them Government. Now they will do the same in reverse if they believe Rudd can do it again. Regular journo's like Simon Benson and Laurie Oakes are bringing out articles on the demise of Julia which is a death knell to Julia's reign. but they can't help but rubbish Abbott and feel sorry for Julia.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/simonbenson/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/giving_up_gillard/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/policy-on-the-run-away-from-a-rout/story-e6frezz0-1226262198027
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3422999.htm
The fact that she is a woman has noting to do with the anger out there. You lie, you die. That simple MSM.
So Kevin will take over, fresh and new. All the policy failures under Rudd forgotten or attributed to Julia.
So lets get this straight.
Good government had lost its way resulting in Julia knifing Kevin, with all members of said lost government still in power.
New good government loses its way even more, resulting in a knifing of Julia by previous Bad government with all said members of bad government still in power. New government has found its way with previous lost government via a cabinet reshuffle. Every member of previous lost government are still in power but now is good government.
Confused Australia? How can you have good or bad government using the same people? Is a portfolio change all that is needed to turn lost into found?
Hows that 2007 election campaign look today.
Maintain border security?
National plan to fix our Hospitals?
Balance and fairness in the workplace?
Education revolution?
decisive action on climate change?
Strong economy?
Nothing will change. Still the same duds in different positions. Still the same egomaniac who claimed to be a fiscal conservative. The same cheer leaders in the MSM who conveniently forget all the backflips and policy failures.
One thing is for certain. Australia still has the same circus of clowns running Canberra. Australia still has the same ringmaster MSM yelling "Step right up folks". And Labor and the MSM will still blame Abbott for the poor show. No refunds folks!
UPDATE: Tasmanian Labor Mp Dick Adams says Julia has credibility issues and Oakeshott shoots a warning off.http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/12808438/gillard-has-credibility-issue-labor-mp/
Do ya think Dicky? "There will be no carbon Tax under any government I lead." Now you ALL voted for the carbon tax based on a lie Dicky, so the credibility issue doesn't just lie at the PM's doorstep does it mate? Every single Labor MP has credibility issues on the carbon tax. The high fives dished around after passing was a slap in the face to all Australians. Remeber us Dicky? Your boss! Labor MP's and glass houses, what a perfect combination.
Rob Oakeshott has also arced up on the Challenge. Poor Rob is feeling left out of so had to come up with this gem.http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/article/12797990/all-deals-off-without-gillard-oakeshott/Mr Oakeshott said any incoming Labor leader should not assume they could go to the governor-general and seek a snap election.
"We are obliged to sort it out as a group of parliamentarians," So that you have it folks. Robby has spoken future PM! don't be going to see Shorten's mum in law for a snap election. Rob has forbid it! If we do have an snap election, Rob is the first to go, hence his reluctance. Clowns are funny only when they know they are clowns Robby!
Pass the popcorn please Australia!
Do ya think Dicky? "There will be no carbon Tax under any government I lead." Now you ALL voted for the carbon tax based on a lie Dicky, so the credibility issue doesn't just lie at the PM's doorstep does it mate? Every single Labor MP has credibility issues on the carbon tax. The high fives dished around after passing was a slap in the face to all Australians. Remeber us Dicky? Your boss! Labor MP's and glass houses, what a perfect combination.
Rob Oakeshott has also arced up on the Challenge. Poor Rob is feeling left out of so had to come up with this gem.http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/article/12797990/all-deals-off-without-gillard-oakeshott/Mr Oakeshott said any incoming Labor leader should not assume they could go to the governor-general and seek a snap election.
"We are obliged to sort it out as a group of parliamentarians," So that you have it folks. Robby has spoken future PM! don't be going to see Shorten's mum in law for a snap election. Rob has forbid it! If we do have an snap election, Rob is the first to go, hence his reluctance. Clowns are funny only when they know they are clowns Robby!
Pass the popcorn please Australia!
Gillard’s Deceit?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/julia-gillard-jumped-the-gun/story-fn7x8me2-1226270184895
On the Four Corners program that everyone is talking about, Julia has made the following statement.
"I decided to challenge Kevin Rudd, to ask him for a ballot in the Labor Party on the day I asked him for that ballot."
Now this is in answer to claims Julia’s staff prepared a victory speech 2 weeks before she decided to knife Kevin Rudd. So she has done what no other leader has ever done and not counted numbers before challenging. Brave Julia woke up one morning and decided to challenge. So let’s see how this went in Kevin’s Office.
Julia: “Morning Kevin”
Kevin: “G’day Julia.”
Julia: “Kevin, I’ve got some bad news. I woke up this morning and it looked like such a beautiful day that I decided to Get my hair done, do some shopping and by the way, Challenge you for the leadership.”
Kevin: “WHAT! But you said it wasn’t within coee of your day to day reality!”
Julia: “Sigh, I know Kevin, but the polls are down to 38% and I woke up and figured what the hell, might as well challenge instead of watching Tim mow the lawns.”
Kevin: “But you haven’t got the numbers!”
Julia: “Wouldn’t have a clue Kevin, but I feel lucky. Who needs to count numbers? But good government has lost its way and I reckon Paul, Bill, Greg and Wayne will support me. Sorry Kevin. I know I said that a challenge for the Labor leadership is not within cooee of my day-to-day reality. I Know I said you may as well ask me whether I'm anticipating a trip to Mars. I know I said that there's more chance of me becoming the full-forward for the Dogs than there is any chance of a change in the Labor Party. I know I said that Steven Spielberg rang me from Hollywood and asked me to star opposite Brad Pitt in a movie, would I do it? Well, I'd be a little bit tempted but you know what, I don't reckon Steven Spielberg is going to give me a call." No leadership, no calls from Spielberg, got it. I know I said we’ll be welcoming Jessica Watson back to Sydney this weekend after her round the world epic feat. I tell you, I think there’s more chance of me going round the world sailing solo a dozen times than this chatter in the media becoming anything more than that. But the dream I had last night seemed so real, so I have to challenge.”
Kevin: “ ^&$@$^&&* you Julia.”
What a brave woman to wake up one day and challenge to become PM. She never thought about it or decided to do it until the same day she challenged? Do you really think Australian people are THAT Stupid Julia? Your reputation as a first class Liar is now so entrenched that this latest quote will only add to the farce that has become your governments legacy.
Part 2, The Australia Day lie.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/video-catches-unionist-kim-sattler-giving-false-abbott-story/story-e6freuzi-1226271220024
We all know Julia has stated that Tony Hodges only passed on Tony Abbott’s actual comments to Kim Sattler who then informed Tent Embassy that Abbott wanted to shut down said Embassy. This resulted in an angry mob heading to a venue very close by to seek out Abbott. This shameful event in which the nations reputation was tarnished worldwide, saw both the PM and opposition leader whisked away from potential danger. Now Kim Sattler has repeatedly denied she ever said Abbott wanted the Embassy shut down. This denial put the spotlight back onto sacked member Tony Hodges. He must of twisted Abbott’s words as Union officials like Sattler would never lie! Now comes out the damning video of Kim uttering the very words she denied saying. The MSM (Both love and hate) are desperately trying to located Kimmy for a comment, but Ms Sattler has sort of disappeared.
Union officials and Labor MP’s love making denials unless video footage turns up. Then the cone of silence is lowered so the bumbling agents of Laboros can plot on how to spin it away. If only a video camera was around when Craig Thompson was alleged to have misused a Union credit card eh?
So who’s lying? I think I can safely say a lie has been confirmed and someone needs to take the fall. Was Tony Hodges sacrificed too early now that video footage confirms Sattler’s lie to Tent Embassy? Or did Sattler pass on what she was told?
Now if she did, then the PM is a liar as she said Hodges only passed on Tony Abbott’s comments word for word. Was Sattler told to lie to protect the PM?
The strategy for Labor on how to handle this issue was to sack Hodges, attack Abbott for daring to suggest ulterior motives from Labor and wait for it to blow over. It was working. Remember the ABC and the love media wanting us to move on? The ABC still stood by the stand that Abbott should have known better. Now the video blows out that strategy and a new set of legs is being worn by this story. Isn’t it amazing that the same mob of liars that would not let go of a minor issue like Utegate for political mileage, now want a story of epic damaging proportions to fade quickly. Even “Our” ABC has picked up some moral courage on the story.
The state of denial is rapidly becoming a dangerous river for deLabor.
Rudd a changed man?
My my my, what a week in Labor politics. Kevin has resigned as Foreign Minister and is challenging for the leadership. The vote is on. Dumb or Dumber? What has been fascinating for all Australians is the level of hatred in the Gillard Government. And of course the Labor party workings have been exposed for all. No more “Media beat up”, no more “Abbott’s fault”. Let’s set the wind back machine to 2006 when Rudd and Julia were elevated to the top spots of the politburo.
After 11 years in opposition, the Labor party elevated a new “hero” in Rudd to tackle John Howard. The “dream team” they were called. Even then, Labor insiders knew Rudd was a control freak with a nasty streak the length of the Nullabor Highway. But through careful media manipulation, he was portrayed as the nerdy geek with vision, passion and a caring nature. Sort of like a Labor Bill Gates. With his loyal and smart deputy, the saturated the country with grand ideas and hopes. It didn’t matter that neither had even run a successful company. It didn’t matter neither had ever held a portfolio nor have any experience in government. Julia’s claim to fame was a disastrous Medicare Gold policy that is still ridiculed today. All that was needed for the Dream team was a catalyst for their tilt at government.
Along came Work choices and labor was in glee. The 2007 election gave Labor government with a very successful campaign of vision, new leadership, fresh ideas and Howard being out of touch with working families. I remember an article soon afterwards with labor climbing over each other to share the spoils of victory. Even then, Labor insiders knew Rudd was a dysfunctional egomaniac who adored power. But that didn’t stop one single Labor MP from having any reservations. They all rode on Kevin’s coat tails to gain power. They might not like him, but so long as he wins elections, you can put up with much. Who in 2007 could have gained them government other than Rudd? One believes that Rudd was a train to hitch your wagon to and then retire it ASAP. But not even the most ardent Labor minion could have foreseen the Rudd ego blow out to epic proportions. Rudd had power he has always dreamed of and no one was EVER going to take it away. As the polls grew worse and Rudd back flipped on every promise, Labor got nervous. So far Julia Gillard had avoided scrutiny on Labor failures, despite being Deputy.
The egomaniac was still as ruthless as ever, refusing to listen to advice and the Labor party did what no political party should do and axed their leader in government. In came Julia and the rest is history. Now Kevin is challenging due to Julia not defending him from labor MP’s vicious attacks. Yeah Kevin, if that’s the only reason! You want the power back under the guise that you have changed. I’ve never met an asshole who ever changed Kevin. The Luvvie Sunrise type era is gone as is your credibility.
Like many Australians, I have a large supply of popcorn as we watch the most shameful events in Political history unfold. We watch while the same MP’s who jumped on the Kevin07 bandwagon, slag the guy who got them in government. We watch Julia Gillard attack the man she gave the foreign affairs portfolio to. We watch Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor’s “stable Government “explode.
While we’re at it, a few apologies are in order.
1st - Rudd attacks that Tony Abbott is anti-women.
This is a man who has been married for decades and has raised 3 wonderful girls. He has been attacked for giving his daughters advice which is something all dads have done. Has Tony ever abused a female for not serving the correct meal Kevin? If Abbott had done that the left media and Labor would have lynched him.
2nd - Tony Abbott doesn’t have the right temperament for the top job.
So Kevin, what sort of temperament should a man have to be PM?
Temperament like this?
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have lead the most dysfunctional federal government in living memory. Each has failed and are now fighting for the spoils of a party that nobody wants.
I say this to both fools, GIVE US THE ELECTION WE WANT! To the independents, you’re a bigger disgrace as you prop up this disaster through personal greed only. How dare Oakeshott dictate to the Liberal party on who should be leader! This is from a man who shopped around for a state Labor position before going Independent. Rob, stick to sucking your thumb and dreaming you’re a big cheese. Your electorate will crucify you if an election is called after this shambles.
I personally have had enough. I started this website because I saw Rudd for what he was. An egomaniac with zip real life experience. No honour, no principle, no beliefs and no idea. Over the years we have seen the Labor party go for bad to extreme nutcase territory. We have seen lies and backflips as a normal part of life. We have seen a carbon tax foisted upon us without a mandate. We have seen independent s that couldn’t even spell the word, let alone understand its meaning.
As the famous email we have all read says.
“HOW”S THAT CHANGE YOU WANTED GOING”? – John Howard.
Pathetic Labor, absolutely pathetic!
Kevin Rudd news conference.
"It wasn't K Rudd who made a pre election commitment on a carbon Tax."
But Kevin still voted for it so he endorses it anyway
" It wasn't K Rudd who made a particular committment to Mr Wilkie on the question of Poker Machines."
True, but Rudd has been behind the scenes trying to gain support of the clubs by saying he would scrap the reform
"It wasn't K Rudd who had anything to with the East Timor Solution or the Malaysian Solution."
But Kevin scrapped the Pacific Solution which resulted in a massive surge in new boat arrivals, hence the need for Julia to come up with something to stop his legacy, no matter how bad.
Oh and referring to yourself in the third person is perceived as a very arrogant way to talk to people. But Kevin's changed? Not Bloody likely. Poor old Kevin. Still trying to change the past to suit the present.
I say this to both fools, GIVE US THE ELECTION WE WANT! To the independents, you’re a bigger disgrace as you prop up this disaster through personal greed only. How dare Oakeshott dictate to the Liberal party on who should be leader! This is from a man who shopped around for a state Labor position before going Independent. Rob, stick to sucking your thumb and dreaming you’re a big cheese. Your electorate will crucify you if an election is called after this shambles.
I personally have had enough. I started this website because I saw Rudd for what he was. An egomaniac with zip real life experience. No honour, no principle, no beliefs and no idea. Over the years we have seen the Labor party go for bad to extreme nutcase territory. We have seen lies and backflips as a normal part of life. We have seen a carbon tax foisted upon us without a mandate. We have seen independent s that couldn’t even spell the word, let alone understand its meaning.
As the famous email we have all read says.
“HOW”S THAT CHANGE YOU WANTED GOING”? – John Howard.
Pathetic Labor, absolutely pathetic!
Kevin Rudd news conference.
"It wasn't K Rudd who made a pre election commitment on a carbon Tax."
But Kevin still voted for it so he endorses it anyway
" It wasn't K Rudd who made a particular committment to Mr Wilkie on the question of Poker Machines."
True, but Rudd has been behind the scenes trying to gain support of the clubs by saying he would scrap the reform
"It wasn't K Rudd who had anything to with the East Timor Solution or the Malaysian Solution."
But Kevin scrapped the Pacific Solution which resulted in a massive surge in new boat arrivals, hence the need for Julia to come up with something to stop his legacy, no matter how bad.
Oh and referring to yourself in the third person is perceived as a very arrogant way to talk to people. But Kevin's changed? Not Bloody likely. Poor old Kevin. Still trying to change the past to suit the present.
More boats arrive
last week another five asylum seeker boats were intercepted. But who has time for such trivialities such as border protection when Kevin 07 is on the rampage. Noting to see here, move along people!
ONE TO EMAIL TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!
Quoted by: Ross Greenwood of Money News..
Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone - including us the mug-punters and the International Monetary Fund, that it will not exceed its own, self-imposed, borrowing limits.
How much? $200 billion. And here’s a worry.
If you work in a bank’s money market operation; or if you are a politician; the millions turn into billions and it rolls off the tip of the tongue a bit too easily. but every dollar that is borrowed, some time, has to be repaid. By you, by me and by the rest of the country.
Just after 5 o’clock tonight I did a bit of math for Jason Morrison ( Sydney radio presenter). But it’s so staggering its worth repeating now.
First thought; Gillard, Swan, Wong, before that Rudd, all of the Labor Cabinet, call these temporary borrowings, a temporary deficit.
Remember Those Words : Temporary Deficit.
The total Government debt will end up around $200 billion.
So here’s a very basic calculation .. I used a home loan calculator to work it out..... it’s that simple..
$200 billion is $2 hundred thousand million.
The current 10 year Government bond rate is 4.67 per cent. I worked the loan out over a period of 20 years. Now here’s where it gets scary .... really scary.
The repayments on $200 billion, come to more than one and a quarter billion dollars - every month - for 20 years. It works out we - as taxpayers - will be repaying $15.4 billion in interest and principal every year .. $733 for every man woman and child - every year.
The total interest bill over the 20 years is - get this - $108 billion.
Remember, this is a Government, that just 4 years ago, had NO debt. NO debt.
In fact it had enough money to create the Future Fund, to pay the future liabilities of public servants’ superannuation, and it had enough to stick $20 billion into the Building Australia Fund .....
A note was sent to me which explains that the six leading members of the Government, from Ms Gillard down, have a collective work experience of 181 years, but only 13 in the private sector.
If you take out of those 13 years the number that were spent as trade union lawyers, 11, only two years were spent in the private sector.
So out of those 181 years:
- no years spent running their own business
- no years spent starting their own business
- no years spent as a director of a family business or a company
- no years as a director of a public company
- no years in a senior position in a public company
- no years in a senior position in a private company
- no years working in corporate finance
- no years in corporate or business restructuring
- no years working in or with a bank
- no years of experience in the capital markets
- no years in a stock-broking firm
- no years in negotiating debt facilities with banks
- no years running a small business
- no years at the World Bank or IMF or OECD
- no years in Treasury or Finance.
But these people have plunged Australia into unprecedented debt.
Well, in a way you can’t blame them.
It’s clear the electorate did not do their homework, because the Government is there by right.
Ah, but they are Labor and people vote for them because Labor is good for the working family - right???
Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone - including us the mug-punters and the International Monetary Fund, that it will not exceed its own, self-imposed, borrowing limits.
How much? $200 billion. And here’s a worry.
If you work in a bank’s money market operation; or if you are a politician; the millions turn into billions and it rolls off the tip of the tongue a bit too easily. but every dollar that is borrowed, some time, has to be repaid. By you, by me and by the rest of the country.
Just after 5 o’clock tonight I did a bit of math for Jason Morrison ( Sydney radio presenter). But it’s so staggering its worth repeating now.
First thought; Gillard, Swan, Wong, before that Rudd, all of the Labor Cabinet, call these temporary borrowings, a temporary deficit.
Remember Those Words : Temporary Deficit.
The total Government debt will end up around $200 billion.
So here’s a very basic calculation .. I used a home loan calculator to work it out..... it’s that simple..
$200 billion is $2 hundred thousand million.
The current 10 year Government bond rate is 4.67 per cent. I worked the loan out over a period of 20 years. Now here’s where it gets scary .... really scary.
The repayments on $200 billion, come to more than one and a quarter billion dollars - every month - for 20 years. It works out we - as taxpayers - will be repaying $15.4 billion in interest and principal every year .. $733 for every man woman and child - every year.
The total interest bill over the 20 years is - get this - $108 billion.
Remember, this is a Government, that just 4 years ago, had NO debt. NO debt.
In fact it had enough money to create the Future Fund, to pay the future liabilities of public servants’ superannuation, and it had enough to stick $20 billion into the Building Australia Fund .....
A note was sent to me which explains that the six leading members of the Government, from Ms Gillard down, have a collective work experience of 181 years, but only 13 in the private sector.
If you take out of those 13 years the number that were spent as trade union lawyers, 11, only two years were spent in the private sector.
So out of those 181 years:
- no years spent running their own business
- no years spent starting their own business
- no years spent as a director of a family business or a company
- no years as a director of a public company
- no years in a senior position in a public company
- no years in a senior position in a private company
- no years working in corporate finance
- no years in corporate or business restructuring
- no years working in or with a bank
- no years of experience in the capital markets
- no years in a stock-broking firm
- no years in negotiating debt facilities with banks
- no years running a small business
- no years at the World Bank or IMF or OECD
- no years in Treasury or Finance.
But these people have plunged Australia into unprecedented debt.
Well, in a way you can’t blame them.
It’s clear the electorate did not do their homework, because the Government is there by right.
Ah, but they are Labor and people vote for them because Labor is good for the working family - right???
