Gillard for PM?

[BrightGreenGlow]

Obviously a gender gimmick and may well work. I believe maybe females voters will vote Labor because of Gillard. Furthermore, if her massive earlobes are a sign of anything we are in for a great surprise indeed. But seriously, I would BET a massive majority of females who do not care to get into politics much WILL vote Labor due to this gender gimmick.

Kinda just like most of Australian's voted Labor and now look at us 3 years down the track. In Debt, massive amounts of wasted money, half of QLD sold and YET ANOTHER crying idiot Labor ex-PM ousted by his own following hahaha. Funny but not really because it actually happened..... AGAIN.

Bring back the Libs!

 

[springhill]

There is no excuse for being killed at work place, BHP have direct total control over all their operations, insulation was installed by Private contractors who are directly responsible.

Several of the BHP deaths were private contractors also, so same scenario. Just because one is a PLC and the other is a Govt does not absolve either of more culpability than the other.

There are hazards in mining but nothing like using metal staples on foil insulation.

You have got to be kidding? You are comparing whacking in metal staples to working around heavy machinery, possible cave-ins, blasting, etc etc.
Get your hand off it.

 

[BrightGreenGlow]

Govt. and BHP would have the same duty of care anyways and the Govt. failed in respect to due diligence in the insulation deaths.

 

[Calliope]

Gillard has not only rat f****d Rudd, she has rat f****d Abbott.

JULIA GILLARD'S rise to power has catapulted Labor back into a crushing election-winning lead over the Coalition.

A Herald/Nielsen poll conducted after the political execution of Kevin Rudd shows the voters who abandoned Labor in recent months have swarmed back and Ms Gillard has a thumping 21-percentage-point lead over Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-saves-labor-20100625-z9qy.html?autostart=1

 

[SM Junkie]

Obviously a gender gimmick and may well work. I believe maybe females voters will vote Labor because of Gillard. Furthermore, if her massive earlobes are a sign of anything we are in for a great surprise indeed. But seriously, I would BET a massive majority of females who do not care to get into politics much WILL vote Labor due to this gender gimmick.

Kinda just like most of Australian's voted Labor and now look at us 3 years down the track. In Debt, massive amounts of wasted money, half of QLD sold and YET ANOTHER crying idiot Labor ex-PM ousted by his own following hahaha. Funny but not really because it actually happened..... AGAIN.

Bring back the Libs!

I agree, many in here do not think gender should be an issue. But it's a marketing tool and will be used to her full advantage. For now at least.....however further down the track.... it could then turn to a disadvantage if she does not perform.

Politics in this country is starting to follow the US, bit of a popularity contest.

 

[IFocus]

Several of the BHP deaths were private contractors also, so same scenario. Just because one is a PLC and the other is a Govt does not absolve either of more culpability than the other.

On a mine site BHP is directly responsibility for everyone as if they are an employee that is the law it matters not if they are a contractor or not everyone is treated a direct employee under the mines act.

You have got to be kidding? You are comparing whacking in metal staples to working around heavy machinery, possible cave-ins, blasting, etc etc.
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Have an electrical back ground and spent years in mining including under ground mines............try asking an electrician (house basher) about the risk of rolling out foil in a ceiling space and then using metal staples to fix it down I would rather fix electrical Jumbos any day.

Get your hand off it

Try getting your head out of the gutter

 

[IFocus]

Govt. and BHP would have the same duty of care anyways and the Govt. failed in respect to due diligence in the insulation deaths.

I think there is a coroners inquiry for at least one of the deaths which should shine a light on responsibilities.

 

[kotim]

GILIARD has no hope, I for the first time ever will not vote labour but will vote liberal at the election and I know quite a few other labour supporters who are going to do the same. There will be many more now that Gilliard has the job as I have never spoken to anyone who has anything nice to say about her. Its sad for labour but Liberal is better in times of of trouble as they spend less. Labour are better in Gov't when times are good where the cost of their view can be absorbed better.

My brother knows Kev RUDD well (through politics, in fact RUDD/labour personally asked my brother to sit for seat up in North Qld area as he would walk it in, but due to an earlier experience with politics in his young life with Wayne Goss's gov't, he is no longer interested in pursuing a political career) AND HE TOLD ME WHEN RUDD won the election that any opportunity labour has to get rid of him they will. RUDD was like BEATTIE, BEATTIE was not liked but at the time they needed a fresh face and he finally got his chance and he took it with both hands, especially with an incompetent opposition, however RUDD got in at the wrong time when things were going bad and has paid the price.

Anyway anythign can happen between now and the election but at the next election Liberal will get my vote for the first time ever.

 

[todster]

Rudd Govt, ONE scheme, 12 months, FOUR deaths.
I would think mining is a far more dangerous operation than installing insulation. Imagine if the Rudd Govt actually ran a mine?

March 2009 5 deaths in 9 months Bhp iron ore state gov was getting close to shutting there operations mate this in an industry where you cant fart without some one smelling it and you try and compare it with a government funded scheme you have no idea your footy team explains your mentality exactly you have no idea

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I'm just glad Rudd is gone, he was a control freak, and would have been impossible to rein in by the factions if he hadn't stuffed up as he did.

JG is a much better choice as PM than Rudd imho. She is a good performer apart from the education rollout which was a complete stuff up. Tony Abbott if he does get in will have to nail her on that.

Personally I think the average Joe and Josephine will vote Julia Gillard in.

gg

 

[todster]

In a nation where dancing with the stars and some idol show rule the roost she is a shoe in Tony who where is Tony anyway,do a triathalon or something at least

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

I'm looking forward to Tony Abbott wining and the Australian people holding the Labor Gov to account for the wastage of money and bad governance that our new PM Julia Gillard has been a part of.

Abbott a real man of integrity and substance is better by far for this country.

 

[-Bevo-]

I'm looking forward to Tony Abbott wining and the Australian people holding the Labor Gov to account for the wastage of money and bad governance that our new PM Julia Gillard has been a part of.

Abbott a real man of integrity and substance is better by far for this country.

Totally agree, there is no excuse for the complete waste and incompetence that was on display from the Labor Party, Abbott is far and away better for this country.

 

[todster]

The Bill leak cartoon in todays Australian is a cracker poor ol tintin look at lttle tony

 

[springhill]

March 2009 5 deaths in 9 months Bhp iron ore state gov was getting close to shutting there operations mate this in an industry where you cant fart without some one smelling it and you try and compare it with a government funded scheme you have no idea your footy team explains your mentality exactly you have no idea

Don't try to make the BHP deaths somehow more sinister than the insulation deaths. As i said before they are both as culpable as the other. As for the attack on my mentality take a look in the mirror champ. Your devotion to a party who has had more c0ckups than i care to list makes YOU look stupid. You'd luck their asses and still call it ice cream. Peace out.

 

[weird]

I posted this on another forum, but will repeat here,

Gillard's partner faces life in the limelight

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...in-the-limelight/story-e6frg6nf-1225884482420

Yeah, sounds solid. Good on the 49 y/o.

Not judging ... but heck she is the PM. Good example of work coming first, and nothing wrong with not having a normal life. And committed partnership and child rearing (note did not necessarily say birthing) are for other animals, not humans ... we have evolved beyond that.

Particularly in the west, individualism comes first.

I believe she has one thing on the agenda ... her (not you). She has as much understanding towards women or family, as any self-serving prick does.

 

[nunthewiser]

I posted this on another forum, but will repeat here,

Gillard's partner faces life in the limelight

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...in-the-limelight/story-e6frg6nf-1225884482420
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Who cares?

 

[trainspotter]

WOW ........ just like watching question time in Parliament. But it could be put down to an ecumenical matter as they are both religious?

Anyways ...... It is going to be interesting as to what the PM Julia Gillard is going to make policy in regards to the asylum seeker debacle. Afterall wasn't it MP Julia Gillard that said "Another boatload of asylum seekers, another policy failure" when she was attacking Howards "Pacific Solution" .... now it seems a bit strange to me all this rhetoric in regards to these poor innocent refugees trying to call Australia their home.

WHEN it comes to asylum seekers, we are all being conned. And it's got to stop.

Quick quiz time.

Which prime minister has faced the highest influx of boat people in any one calendar year?

a) Bob Hawke

b) Paul Keating

c) John Howard

d) Kevin Rudd

If you chose C, you'd be right. If you chose D, you've been conned by anti-refugee rhetoric.

It was Howard. "The highest number of boats arriving in Australia in any one year was, in fact, in the year 1999, when 3700 asylum-seekers arrived on 86 boats," the Prime Minister said.

"The highest number of asylum-seekers arriving in Australia in any one year was in 2001 under the previous Howard government."

Mark Dodd: The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/pol...ng-of-boatpeople/story-e6frgczf-1225841600727

F.O. means Far Out and F.U. means Financially Unsound

 

[todster]

Don't try to make the BHP deaths somehow more sinister than the insulation deaths. As i said before they are both as culpable as the other. As for the attack on my mentality take a look in the mirror champ. Your devotion to a party who has had more c0ckups than i care to list makes YOU look stupid. You'd luck their asses and still call it ice cream. Peace out.

More anti Liberal than a Labor supporter,don't hink i would vote for either and then you have backdoor Bob,I think i will go to the pub and wear the fine.
Looked in the mirror yep you were right,but i'm happy

 

[Calliope]

WOW ........ just like watching question time in Parliament. But it could be put down to an ecumenical matter as they are both religious?

The amazing thing is that they stayed up until 2.40 AM to carry on such an inane exchange of insults. Maybe they watched the football between posts. It was really weird and I am still none the wiser as to what it was all about.