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Re: Julia Gillard Stockholm Syndrome
Hear, hear! Surly...
And here is a video of the recent budget should anyone need to refresh their memory how much Ms Gillard nodded in approval most of the way through... http://media.nationaltimes.com.au/o...ayne-swans-budget-speech-in-full-1440577.html
Hear, hear! Surly...
And here is a video of the recent budget should anyone need to refresh their memory how much Ms Gillard nodded in approval most of the way through... http://media.nationaltimes.com.au/o...ayne-swans-budget-speech-in-full-1440577.html
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Julian Burnside likes to exaggerate for effect, but he reckons the Pacific Solution cost one million bucks for ever migrant processed.
Let's say we can do the Timor solution at, say, a 50% discount.
The answer to the whole mess is obvious. Give each boat person half a million bucks and a plane ride home, where they could buy all the protection they wanted, or opt to go to greener pastures.
Julian Burnside likes to exaggerate for effect, but he reckons the Pacific Solution cost one million bucks for ever migrant processed.
Let's say we can do the Timor solution at, say, a 50% discount.
The answer to the whole mess is obvious. Give each boat person half a million bucks and a plane ride home, where they could buy all the protection they wanted, or opt to go to greener pastures.
Re: Julia Gillard Stockholm Syndrome
Calliope, Julia Gillard is becoming a 'ME TOO' similar to Rudd and has virtually accepted the Coalitions's policy under the disguise of a different banner, which others have made commented that it will never get off the ground.
This is why I keep harping on Abbott not releasing his policeis untill election time although in this instance it has been long a standing Howard policy adopted by Abbott.
Our new Prime Minister is desperate to gain middle ground to regain power, but watch out if she gets relected, as Peter Garrett once stated,"Labor will change everything once they get into power".
Don't shoot untill you see the whites of their eyes.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...bbott-were-right/story-e6frg6zo-1225888708722
Calliope, Julia Gillard is becoming a 'ME TOO' similar to Rudd and has virtually accepted the Coalitions's policy under the disguise of a different banner, which others have made commented that it will never get off the ground.
This is why I keep harping on Abbott not releasing his policeis untill election time although in this instance it has been long a standing Howard policy adopted by Abbott.
Our new Prime Minister is desperate to gain middle ground to regain power, but watch out if she gets relected, as Peter Garrett once stated,"Labor will change everything once they get into power".
Don't shoot untill you see the whites of their eyes.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...bbott-were-right/story-e6frg6zo-1225888708722
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John Faulkner is to retire after the election. Rats leaving a sinking ship me thinks. Lindsay Tanner the first to go. Hmmmmm ... watch this space.
John Faulkner is only retiring from the front bench. He intends remaining on the back bench after Gillard persuaded him to stay.
I think you will find he is only going to stay for a year, the term rats leaving the ship is so true.
Yes, you could be right about Faulkner staying one year to make Gillard look good.
I think we have only seen the tip of the iceberg and more will follow.
Re: Julia Gillard Stockholm Syndrome
This articale from Andrew Bolt really does show Gillard is no different to Rudd, except Gillard is a smoother operator. It is the same manure, the same wheel barrow but a different pusher as commented by another journalist.
http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermai...uriermail/comments/column_gillards_great_con/
This articale from Andrew Bolt really does show Gillard is no different to Rudd, except Gillard is a smoother operator. It is the same manure, the same wheel barrow but a different pusher as commented by another journalist.
http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermai...uriermail/comments/column_gillards_great_con/
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Yes, noco, it seems your suggestion that Tony Abbott has been sensible in withholding his policies so they are not copied has indeed been vindicated.
A bit like Trainspotter, I think I was starting to be a bit sucked in with Ms Gillard's smoothness, but the Pacific Solution That Is Not the Pacific Solution has sure woken me up.
Quite aside from any principles involved, if the East Timor project were to happen (and it looks pretty doubtful) she would be wasting more of the taxpayers' money.
There is the centre already built at Nauru which she is happy to see lie empty while she builds another at East Timor.
Yes, noco, it seems your suggestion that Tony Abbott has been sensible in withholding his policies so they are not copied has indeed been vindicated.
A bit like Trainspotter, I think I was starting to be a bit sucked in with Ms Gillard's smoothness, but the Pacific Solution That Is Not the Pacific Solution has sure woken me up.
Quite aside from any principles involved, if the East Timor project were to happen (and it looks pretty doubtful) she would be wasting more of the taxpayers' money.
There is the centre already built at Nauru which she is happy to see lie empty while she builds another at East Timor.
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John Faulkner's leaving will be a loss to the parliament imo. The people with any integrity are escaping.
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Thanks for the article, Noco. The excerpt below from this article clearly shows that Gillard is still in spending spree mode. Taxpayers have already paid for one detention centre - but she wants to build a new one...
And this one confirms my belief that nothing has changed with the change of PM:
This makes Rudd look like the kindergarten of spin.
Thanks for the article, Noco. The excerpt below from this article clearly shows that Gillard is still in spending spree mode. Taxpayers have already paid for one detention centre - but she wants to build a new one...
And this one confirms my belief that nothing has changed with the change of PM:
(Bold is mine)
This makes Rudd look like the kindergarten of spin.
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Re: Julia Gillard Stockholm Syndrome
Agree, she is a sad little reconstructed faction warrior, playing the left and the right simultaneously.
E.Timor won't happen. And Nauru is available.
More money to be wasted by Gillard.
gg
Agree, she is a sad little reconstructed faction warrior, playing the left and the right simultaneously.
E.Timor won't happen. And Nauru is available.
More money to be wasted by Gillard.
gg
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Gillard has made a big diplomatic mistake by asking East Timors' Head of State, who has no power to decide anything, about her plan instead of the Prime Minister of that country.
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Re: Julia Gillard Stockholm Syndrome
No more Mr Nice Guy for me on this red headed She Devil calling herself the Pied Piper of the Nation. The rankness of the policy that she has clearly stolen from the Libs and force fed to the media as her own is vomitous. To take on the same principles and then require the destination to be geographically different by a few hours is OBTUSE in the extreme.
Maybe Timor should ask for Australia to get back some of the oil WE are mining in the Timor sea with less than 12% going back to the sovereign state.
NO MORE of this duplicity and the blurring of the lines for the sake of winning Govt. We are in control of voting who we want to represent US. Do not be fooled by this David Copperfield act of smokes and mirrors. Do not be duped by the sleight of hand. Do not be conned by the media to think this She Devil is doing the right thing for the country.
This is still the only woman from the GANG OF FOUR that led us into this mess and she is now screaming like a banshee that she is the Messiah ???
I THINK NOT !!! Vote with your brains and not what we are being led to believe that Labor has somehow taken on the responsible role of Guvmnt.
I implore you.
No more Mr Nice Guy for me on this red headed She Devil calling herself the Pied Piper of the Nation. The rankness of the policy that she has clearly stolen from the Libs and force fed to the media as her own is vomitous. To take on the same principles and then require the destination to be geographically different by a few hours is OBTUSE in the extreme.
Maybe Timor should ask for Australia to get back some of the oil WE are mining in the Timor sea with less than 12% going back to the sovereign state.
NO MORE of this duplicity and the blurring of the lines for the sake of winning Govt. We are in control of voting who we want to represent US. Do not be fooled by this David Copperfield act of smokes and mirrors. Do not be duped by the sleight of hand. Do not be conned by the media to think this She Devil is doing the right thing for the country.
This is still the only woman from the GANG OF FOUR that led us into this mess and she is now screaming like a banshee that she is the Messiah ???
I THINK NOT !!! Vote with your brains and not what we are being led to believe that Labor has somehow taken on the responsible role of Guvmnt.
I implore you.
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I'm not that sure it is that politically savvy. It maybe an easier solution than an ALP branch-stacking exercise south of Brisbane.
East Timor asylum plan a legal minefield
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-legal-minefield/story-e6frg6nf-1225888713531
EAST Timor MP Jose Teixeira was thoroughly perplexed yesterday by Julia Gillard's announcement of plans for an asylum-seeker processing centre.
"It would be a legal minefield, to say the least, with the amendments that would be required to the Immigration Act to make it happen," said Mr Teixeira, who was resources and energy minister in the former Fretilin government and now sits on the parliamentary foreign affairs committee.
"Fretilin disagrees with Timor Leste being set up as a processing centre for asylum-seekers bound for Australia," he said. "It is unfair to burden emerging countries like ours with such an issue.
"We take our international commitments seriously, and believe to go down this path would not be a good way to comply with our international obligations and our constitutional guarantees for those seeking asylum."
and furthermore....
An outraged opposition politician was heard to say shortly after Ms Gillard's statement: "So they don't want the LNG (liquefied natural gas) to be processed here, but they do want us to process asylum-seekers," referring to the ongoing disputes over access to East Timor's undersea wealth.
I'm not that sure it is that politically savvy. It maybe an easier solution than an ALP branch-stacking exercise south of Brisbane.
East Timor asylum plan a legal minefield
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-legal-minefield/story-e6frg6nf-1225888713531
EAST Timor MP Jose Teixeira was thoroughly perplexed yesterday by Julia Gillard's announcement of plans for an asylum-seeker processing centre.
"It would be a legal minefield, to say the least, with the amendments that would be required to the Immigration Act to make it happen," said Mr Teixeira, who was resources and energy minister in the former Fretilin government and now sits on the parliamentary foreign affairs committee.
"Fretilin disagrees with Timor Leste being set up as a processing centre for asylum-seekers bound for Australia," he said. "It is unfair to burden emerging countries like ours with such an issue.
"We take our international commitments seriously, and believe to go down this path would not be a good way to comply with our international obligations and our constitutional guarantees for those seeking asylum."
and furthermore....
An outraged opposition politician was heard to say shortly after Ms Gillard's statement: "So they don't want the LNG (liquefied natural gas) to be processed here, but they do want us to process asylum-seekers," referring to the ongoing disputes over access to East Timor's undersea wealth.
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This is one time Gumby that if you were in the same room as me I would actually give you a bit of man loving. Post of the month right here !
I'm not that sure it is that politically savvy. It maybe an easier solution than an ALP branch-stacking exercise south of Brisbane.
East Timor asylum plan a legal minefield
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-legal-minefield/story-e6frg6nf-1225888713531
EAST Timor MP Jose Teixeira was thoroughly perplexed yesterday by Julia Gillard's announcement of plans for an asylum-seeker processing centre.
"It would be a legal minefield, to say the least, with the amendments that would be required to the Immigration Act to make it happen," said Mr Teixeira, who was resources and energy minister in the former Fretilin government and now sits on the parliamentary foreign affairs committee.
"Fretilin disagrees with Timor Leste being set up as a processing centre for asylum-seekers bound for Australia," he said. "It is unfair to burden emerging countries like ours with such an issue.
"We take our international commitments seriously, and believe to go down this path would not be a good way to comply with our international obligations and our constitutional guarantees for those seeking asylum."
and furthermore....
An outraged opposition politician was heard to say shortly after Ms Gillard's statement: "So they don't want the LNG (liquefied natural gas) to be processed here, but they do want us to process asylum-seekers," referring to the ongoing disputes over access to East Timor's undersea wealth.
This is one time Gumby that if you were in the same room as me I would actually give you a bit of man loving. Post of the month right here !
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Anyone noticed how quiet the Insulation debacle has gone after Greg Combet took over from Peter Garrett? Where is the media focus?
"In a 40-minute disclosure to parliament, Mr Combet admitted some of the warnings of fires and fraud given to the Department of Environment had proved correct.
Mr Combet, cleaning up the political mess left after Peter Garrett was stripped of responsibility for the scheme following its suspension, cited fraud concerns about one insulation installer who did $9.6 million of work under the program and attracted 100 complaints about fraud and quality issues."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/pol...il-clean-up-bill/story-e6frgczf-1225839337844 for some hard hitting evidence.
Or what about the other fiasco ... the BER after Julia Gizzard did the Pontius Pilate?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-...bbott-government/story-fn56ulhe-1225888993339
Who is in control of this legacy of debt to us all as taxpayers?? HUH?
Health is non reformist other than TV adverts telling us how wonderful they are doing? Swept under the carpet perhaps?
"In a 40-minute disclosure to parliament, Mr Combet admitted some of the warnings of fires and fraud given to the Department of Environment had proved correct.
Mr Combet, cleaning up the political mess left after Peter Garrett was stripped of responsibility for the scheme following its suspension, cited fraud concerns about one insulation installer who did $9.6 million of work under the program and attracted 100 complaints about fraud and quality issues."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/pol...il-clean-up-bill/story-e6frgczf-1225839337844 for some hard hitting evidence.
Or what about the other fiasco ... the BER after Julia Gizzard did the Pontius Pilate?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-...bbott-government/story-fn56ulhe-1225888993339
Who is in control of this legacy of debt to us all as taxpayers?? HUH?
Health is non reformist other than TV adverts telling us how wonderful they are doing? Swept under the carpet perhaps?
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Anyone noticed how quiet the Insulation debacle has gone after Greg Combet took over from Peter Garrett? Where is the media focus?
"In a 40-minute disclosure to parliament, Mr Combet admitted some of the warnings of fires and fraud given to the Department of Environment had proved correct.
Mr Combet, cleaning up the political mess left after Peter Garrett was stripped of responsibility for the scheme following its suspension, cited fraud concerns about one insulation installer who did $9.6 million of work under the program and attracted 100 complaints about fraud and quality issues."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/pol...il-clean-up-bill/story-e6frgczf-1225839337844 for some hard hitting evidence.
Or what about the other fiasco ... the BER after Julia Gizzard did the Pontius Pilate?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-...bbott-government/story-fn56ulhe-1225888993339
Who is in control of this legacy of debt to us all as taxpayers?? HUH?
Health is non reformist other than TV adverts telling us how wonderful they are doing? Swept under the carpet perhaps?
Most of these devious rush to the top Canberra types have no idea about business or hard work. Nor care about the lives of workers,families or the bereaved left behind. Definitely a whitewash Trainspotter by the looks of things. Glad I'm not 20 years younger looking for work and none the wiser as to the dangers of such a poorly administered "green-friendly" impression making backdoor pocket-lining circus.
