Is Australia its own Worst Enemy?

[Worrals in the wilds]

Craig Thompson? Cad and a bounder he would appear to be but at least He is sc-----g women

I thought union honchos could usually scrounge enough freebies without having to pay for sex. That said, if it had been the BLF or similar, escort services are probably on the approved expenditure list anyway ...

[bob johns]

bob johns

.WiW .What I could have added while I care not for him or his scabby incestuous, party at least he aint battin fer the opposition ,if yer gits me meanin!

[Andu]

The Bluescope boss was on the ABC (Illawarra) a couple of months ago warning that this was on the cards. Someone mentioned it on one of the Canetoad threads and the Usual Suspects howled him down saying the Bluescope boss was issuing "empty threats".

[T28D]

How on earth can Australia compete with A manufacturing powerhouse like China, there are more people in Shanghai City than the whole of Australia Shen Zhen is a modern "miracle".

China was the centre of manufacturing in the 1400 century, and political division cut it away from the world, now 2011 we see a new dynamic, China owns the bulk of the US debt , fundamentally the U S defence budget.

Can we compete, hell no, we are good at commodity export, we are a clean green food producer, we mine profoundly large natural surface resources.

We ca't compete as a manufaturer, we shouldn't try.

Just get better with the tools we have, " off the sheeps back" to use a previous commoditised catch phrase.

Rant over, air beef from Whyndam for aviation content, my grandpa was into it !!!! Bristol Frighteners, Centaurus Engines, unlimited Oil W100

[Frank Arouet]

Strike me pink! I went from Cristchurch (Wigram), to Chatham Islands in Freighter. 1970 from memory, it took all day, or most of it.

The spin about Bluescope exports is a furfy. They exported fcuk all except roof iron to detention centres. $1Billion loss in 12 months vs Gillard's $100 million to fix the problem. Work to welfare- everyone is dependant upon the government- great socialist dream pulled- wanked- and dusted down in Johnsons baby powder. Feel good stuff.

Just a wild suggestion, because it's been done before. Why can't this mob of fiscal geniiiiiii devalue the dollar or impose tarrifs on inports we grow- manufacture- produce here to make us at least locally competetive.

This government is an alarming misadventure. At best a product of dysfunctional voters from a memory lapsed dysfunctional population possibly too young to remember previous Labor "experiments".

[Slasher]

How on earth can Australia compete with A manufacturing powerhouse like China,

The problem with present Oz politics (and the US and Europe
I might add) is that the wrongest people imaginable are in
power at a somewhat critical time in history.

Ozland could have risen tremendously by taking the obvious
advantages that opened up to it in April 2008, and become a
extremely influential regional economic power with a trade
surplus that would've even been the envy of China on a GNP
basis. But of course that never happened, and a safe bet it
won't happen should the opportunity ever arise in the future,
if the locals continue to be influenced by idealogical left wing
crap instead of sheer hard-nosed no-nonsense pragmaticism.

[bob johns]

.BOB JOHNS

Bulls eye Slasher this once foreward looking country is turning into a city centric,media/soapy/sport/ Hollywood obsessed hedonistic basket case ,where our (?)leadership insist on more unskilled immigrants to do jobs our own unemployed wont do,when a lot of kids leave school unemployable,without basic literacy and numeracy, to go where ? on the dole ,breed more illierates while 3rd world immigrants are brought . in to jobs Aussies wont do?This is what the Brits did and look at what that has done.If someone decided to go on with another project like the Snowy Mountains scheme( and there is one badly needed and that is the Upper Clarence Diversion as envisioned by Dr Bradfield in the 1930s)some citycentric clache of squealing greenies would find an endangered wood louse to protect scupper the whole project and the rest ..of us would yawn ,wonder what was on tv and may be put pen to paper and have a grizzle about it and-do-nothing .Rant over.

[Wiley]

I don't know whether this bloke is a con artist or the real deal, (he can certainly 'talk the talk'), but just imagine how things could be turned around if: -

(a) he is the real deal and ,

(b) we had a political leadership in this country with the nous, brains and courage to follow his lead and implememt even 10% of what he espouses here - Gunter Pauli: The Blue Economy - Science and Technology - Browse - Big Ideas - ABC TV

[sisemen]

The cops have now got the bite on Craig Thomas so we may be getting a little closer to the end game (and hopefully an election) a bit sooner than we thought (or the ALP planned!).

Someone mentioned it on one of the Canetoad threads and the Usual Suspects howled him down saying the Bluescope boss was issuing "empty threats".

Yep. It's funny how unerringly accurate the Usual Suspects were in their analysis of political events

[Frank Arouet]

Craig T... now asked about in The House of Representatives if his "donation" to keep Gillard in POWER was taxable as income. The thing is, I believe, a government Act of Grace Payment is not reportable, but a Union payment is not so protected. (details under the secrecry act is claimed).

So who runs the Country?

BTW, Albanese showed what we can expect by way of his input into aviation matters yesterday. The Trucks of disadvantage now re-named the convoy of no consequence.

Brave words from a transport minister/ (and person off small stature), aspiring to greater heights in the Qantas lounge gold key ****ehouse.

What a prat!

[Ovation]

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[flying_a_nix_box]

Well I do think that this article is inline with this discussion Mining Boom | High Dollar | BlueScope To Sack 1000 Workers. Soon we will just be China's mine and nothing else......

[Andu]

(In my best Martin Luther King voice) "Ah have uh dream..."


... that the Member for Dobell is impaled on his own appendage and is forced to vacate his seat in Parliament.

... that the resulting byelection goes the way most consider it will and Labor loses the seat to someone other than the Watermelon Party.

... that this results in the fall of the Gillard government.

... that Tony Abbott does NOT try to govern with a majority of one and constantly massaging the Three Amigos, but calls for a new election PDQ.

... that Gillard loses her 'safe' seat and we never have to hear that dreadful bloody voice ever again.

... and that the half Senate election sees the Libs win a majority in the Senate large enough to consign the Greens to having no power to affect any vote so we never have to hear Brown's drone, Milne's oh so similar drone, or Hansen-Young's puerile(ette?) ramblings ever again.

... and most of all, that the Libs, if they get into power, don't do as many fear they might and screw it all up.

Ah do indeed have uh dream...

[Pinky the pilot]

Second the dream Andu but with one amendment.

That Tony Abott does attempt to pass some legislation in a majority of one Government which the Watermelon Party in the Senate is guaranteed to reject. He then makes two more attempts.

After three rejections he then has grounds for a double dissolution and we can get rid of all the Watermelons at once.

[Slasher]

... that Gillard loses her 'safe' seat and we never have to hear that dreadful bloody voice ever again.

Or that arse-ugly bloody mug of hers too!

I pity you poor bastards down there in Oz copping that
bogan in your faces 24/7. At least around here we are
spared!

[Worrals in the wilds]

... and most of all, that the Libs, if they get into power, don't do as many fear they might and screw it all up.

That's the problem. It's a bit like saying 'Who is the most attractive Biggest Loser candidate?' At a pinch and after consuming a proscribed amount of rum and coke everyone can come up with one, but it's between a 2/10 and a 3/10...'cause basically the available options are all feral uggers.

This is where the Watermelons and the Mad Katters get an unfortunate amount of credibility, because when both major parties are uggers people start looking at the minor players/independents, which has proven to be a largely futile hope in recent times. Unfortunately with the exception of Senator X the minor players seem to be inflicted with the same 'look at me' disease as the major parties.

It's a pity there's no ballot paper option where you can tick 'You all suck. Find some pollies with a degree of integrity, intelligence and fortitude who can run the show without resorting to chimpanzee politics. Ta. In the meantime we're withholding our taxes'.

[Andu]

It's a pity there's no ballot paper option where you can tick 'You all suck. Find some pollies with a degree of integrity, intelligence and fortitude who can run the show without resorting to chimpanzee politics. Ta. In the meantime we're withholding our taxes'.

WitW, there is such an option. It's called the Informal Vote, where the voter submits a blank voting slip or in some way defaces the slip so as to register a protest vote by voting for 'none of the above'.

A friend told me he was one of the ~5% of voters who did this at the last election, as he didn't want his vote going towards supplying funds to any Party (as he was so disappointed in all of them).

(Some may not be aware that each Party receives public funds based upon the number of votes they receive.) At the time, I thought he was misguided, but I suspect that many traditional Labor voters, unable to bring themselves to vote for either Abbott or the Watermelons, but unable to vote for Gillard, will take this option in the next election - whenever it may be.

[sisemen]

I am astounded at the degree of politicking, obfuscation, lack of morality, sleaze, bloody-mindedness, and spin surrounding the piece of dog turd that comes in the shape of Craig Thomson.

If there is anything that demonstrates that Gillard has no moral compass and is in it purely for the ego trip and power then this is it.

Whilst I accept that the basic tenet is "innocent until proven guilty" this little shennanigen is going beyond the pale.

Let's hope the cops don't get dragged into this politically tainted **** fight and, with due diligence, come up with something soon.

[Frank Arouet]

Gillard has no moral compass

Her soft Tasmanian penile parietal partner in politics is her moral compass, but she is rudderless except for some misguided University agenda based on a redistribution of my wealth. (for what that's worth these days).
Harry Jenkins is the only person giving any credibility to this debacle, but he is showing his red undies much too often.

The Mr T matter is grubby.

No doubt many will go immediately on the attack, but we should ask about now, where is the moral compass of The Governor General?

Swinging to the left perhaps?

Talk about an absence of checks and balances.

EDIT to add.

Trying to stuff marshmallows into a money box conjures up images when thinking of Brown and Gillard. (so I'm a sick puppy).

[Pinky the pilot]

Question time in the house today was worth a listen to, provided of course, that one could stand listening to the donkey-like braying of Juliar as she ducked, weaved and avoided actually answering any questions put to her.

Lost count of how many Opposition members found themselves asked to leave the chamber under rule 93A but was at least three.

Frank; I don't think that there is anything the GG can do. Not yet anyway, and I suspect there won't be in the future either.