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7x7 - that made me laugh. Here's an embedded link for those too lazy to click through to Youtube
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Another good news day!
Michelle Grattan has announced her resignation as the Age newspaper Political Editor and Bureau Chief. She accepted an academic position in the University of Canberra, no doubt passing her left-wing bias on to the next generation of journalists. I'm sure that those with liberal/conservative values will give a sigh of relief, although the potential of any replacement to be as overtly biased is more than possible. There is also an unsubstantiated rumour Michelle spat the dummy after Julia borrowed her glasses for the Press Club address and failed to return them. :) |
Abbott is, perhaps, not the Conservative leader we need at the present time, but he's the incumbent so...
Maybe, as 500N says, "Cometh the hour..." but perhaps we just need the chain of this Govt. to be broken & maybe the ALP will sort itself out during a term of Opposition...who knows. Victorias ALP may be in that very scenario, but they haven't endowed themselves to the electorate. It's almost a mirror image of Federal. The Govt. are doing everything to lose the next election & the opposition is doing nothing to earn it... :( |
Buster
If I may say, I don't think Ted is doing much to endear him to the electorate either. He's a bit like Bracks when he got in, didn't have a vision and didn't do anything for a while - until I think his deputy gave him a few pushes. Re the polls, I know the poll today had the Libs well ahead, it will be interesting to see what happens in the polls over the next 6 months or so. |
It seems to me that most of the criticism of Abbott is merely the result of months of highly personal anti-Abbott propaganda.
It's worked well because Abbott is naturally somewhat stiff and awkward in front of a camera, he is competitive and he is slightly unusual - super fit in middle age etc. But on any analysis, Abbott's record doesn't really fit the image Labor has tried to give him. Example: misogyny. It's easy to agree that the slightly weird religious guy has an (unspecified) 'problem with women'. After all, didn't he punch some woman? But look closely. Happily married with three daughters, supportive of the women around him... and the woman-punching incident sounds dramatic but there's no reliable evidence for it. The name Mcternan springs to mind. Meanwhile Gillard (who seems to treat women and men equally badly in her personal life) is protecting for the lowest political reason Peter Slipper who by any standard is far closer to the nasty image Labor tries to project onto Abbott. Even without the hypocrisy, though, the Labor/Gillard/Mcternan image of Abbott which the swinging voters are expected to accept has very little foundation, to put it mildly. |
JULIA Gillard has accused her own MPs of trying to destroy her Government from within as she addressed a shattered caucus ahead of the resumption of Parliament tomorrow. A source inside the caucus told The Daily Telegraph that the PM said she was aware that MPs had been leaking to journalists with the intention of backgrounding against the Government. Backgrounding is where politicians provide sensitive information to journalists under the assumption they will not be named. In a clear sign that Ms Gillard and her backers are concerned about another challenge being mounted against her leadership, the PM said that marginal seat MPs would be the only ones to suffer from the continuous leaking. While talk of Kevin Rudd has been revived following today’s disastrous poll results, the former PM was a noticeable absence from the meeting. Mr Rudd was said to be unwell. The caucus met at 2pm today in Parliament. Ms Gillard then claimed that the source for her claim of backgrounding MPs was a journalist. The caucus also elected Communications Minister Stephen Conroy as the new Senate leader to replace Chris Evans, who rocked the Government on Friday night when he stepped down from Cabinet, along with Attorney General Nicola Roxon. A caucus spokesman said Ms Gillard's remarks had been "implicit" and had not referred to individuals. "She referred to media that had said to her a range of negative comments, or people with negative comments, were waiting for them when they came back from leave." Caucus had been shaken by the messy start to the year, which included a row over the selection of Nova Peris as a Senate candidate, a shock announcement of the election date, and two cabinet ministers announcing they would quit at the election. "We need to make sure we're all united," Ms Gillard was quoted as saying. In an evaluation of Ms Gillard's remarks today, one unimpressed Labor MP who did want to be named said: "It's everyone else's fault." |
As I saw on another site: "Ships deserting a sinking rat."
Quite a few 'ships', I think, and soon. |
I thought if Julia did not like what the people in the media were saying, she just called the editor or whoever, and had the person sacked.
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JULIA Gillard has accused her own MPs of trying to destroy her Government from within etc etc Any bets for an earlier than 14 Sep election? |
Well she has not yet been to visit the GG. I also understand that the earliest she can do that is 58 days prior.
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I'm watching the 7.30 report. Even the ALPBC is given Labour a bad rap tonight.
Even talking about a Rudd challenge again. Interesting. |
From THE AGE (June 24 2010)
Ms Gillard paid tribute to outgoing prime minister Kevin Rudd, but said she believed the Labor Party was "losing its way" under his leadership. In her first speech since she was annointed Australia’s first female prime minister, Ms Gillard said she had felt a responsibility to "step up and take control and make sure the government got back on track". |
make sure the government got back on track" |
I think it was to that "old fashioned shack" that Christine Milne and her cohorts want us all to live in. With no heating.
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Or lights.
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It seems to me that most of the criticism of Abbott is merely the result of months of highly personal anti-Abbott propaganda. "We need to make sure we're all united," Ms Gillard was quoted as saying. It's like watching a car accident. You'd like to stop it, you'd do anything to do so, but all you can do is stay out of the way, watch and call 000 when it's all over; maybe haul a few injured people out of the wreckage and direct traffic around the scene. |
Al Gore on Lateline saying that we have a Prime Minister that we "can be proud of" and telling us that we ought to vote Labor at the next election.
So, no problems there then. :yuk: |
Really, sisemen?
If that ain't the final nail in the coffin, I don't know what is........ |
The actual words....
EMMA ALBERICI: Here in Australia, we have a carbon tax, but our Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who opinion polls say could well be prime minister by September, he's campaigning on a platform that would scrap the carbon tax on day one of his government. He also has no interest in the emissions trading scheme that was to follow. What's your message to him? AL GORE: Well, if I were a citizen of your country - I am not, so I don't wish to interfere in your politics - but I would certainly question the conclusion that public opinion polls are going to decide the outcome of an election so far away. I'm very impressed with your current prime minister. I think she's shown a great deal of courage and vision. And I think that Australians may look very carefully at the progress that has taken place and also look at the very powerful evidence that the climate crisis is having a very harsh impact on Australia, as predicted, as your own scientists have eloquently warned over and over again. So I have a great deal of faith and confidence in the people of Australia and will be watching along with others around the world as your election year unfolds. |
"also look at the very powerful evidence that the climate crisis is having a very harsh impact on Australia, as predicted, as your own scientists have eloquently warned over and over again."
No doubt he somewhere mentioned the floods and fires we are having ATM and puts that down to Global warming as well. |
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