2013 Federal Election: 7 September 2013

[Julia]

A bit of light reading.....make of it what you will.

Source?

Middle of the road? Feminista, maternity leave and all the trimmings. Ask her about that poster of Tony Abbott in her electoral office. Bailed on Julia Gillard when most needed.
As with M.Turnbull, OMDB.

Exactly. She presents as mild mannered and reasonable. In reality she was one of the most strident supporters of Gillard's confected misogyny rant, and then in the ultimate act of hypocrisy toward the sisterhood, she walked away from Gillard when the latter needed it most.

I'd put her right at the bottom of any list of potential leaders, even below Penny Wong, and she's sure as hell right down there.

 

[Macquack]

Middle of the road? Feminista, maternity leave and all the trimmings. Ask her about that poster of Tony Abbott in her electoral office.

The posters, snapped inside the Sydney electorate office of Health Minister Tanya Plibersek, carry the slogans: "I'm threatened by boats and gays. Gays on boats are my worst nightmare" and also "Note to Ladies: Make me a sandwich".
Mr Abbott told the Nine Network today: "It's tacky, it's not funny and Tanya Plibersek should be better than that and the Labor Party should lift its game

Who is a big sook?

That story was a beat up by that serial pest and low life Ben Fordham.

 

[Calliope]

+1 I really do not like Abbott but I really believe it is a matter of economic life or death to stop labor now..Otherwise I see Australia taking the road of my native country which I had to leave 20y ago to have a future.
Sadly a lot of damage has been done already and I only hope Abbot will be strong enough to take the harsh measures needed to clean the mess....

I saw a Labor commercial tonight with a stumbling, mumbling, tentative Abbott being interviewed. For God's sake, if he can't look, act and talk like a winner now, will he ever have the guts to institute the savings that will have to be made to reclaim Labor's massive black hole.

He is certainly not giving me the impression of strength enough to take, as you say, harsh measures.

He should adopt the attitude of Muhammad Ali;

"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."

 

[dutchie]

Roger Corbett - Chairman of Fairfax Media and Reserve Bank member tells it like it is...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...udd-says-fairfax-chairman-20130904-2t3x5.html


He is right, Australia won't cop any more of this Labor bullsh#t.

 

[drsmith]

Labor can't blame Rupy for this,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/fairfax-chairman-roger-corbett-attacks-kevin-rudd/4933128

 

[bunyip]

Source?

Julia

It's supposedly from the 'Australian Taxpayers' Alliance'.

 

[bunyip]

A friend of mine (a staunch Labor hater) just sent me the following eamil which is supposedly from Kevin Rudd.
Whether it's for real or is just a scam, I don't know.

I’ve attempted to copy and paste it here, but it hasn’t come out exactly as he sent it to me. Missing are the links you can click on to donate $5.

If this is for real, it shows the desperation of Labor and Rudd.

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Dear........


Both sides of politics agree that this election will be won or lost on a knife edge. What we all do in the next few days will make a huge difference.

Tonight at midnight, political advertising on TV and radio stops. Mr Abbott is counting on people to stop listening. He’s counting on us not being able to hold him to account for his plans to cut jobs and services, health and education, our Clean Energy Future and of course, our NBN. We have other plans.

We’re taking our message to millions of people online. Just $5 from you and your friends will help us reach more than 12 million Australians over the next three days through hugely popular platforms like Facebook, where we can still get our message out.

We know Tony Abbott is hoping people will just stop listening. He knows the more they think about his plans to hand out money with one hand, and rip far more away with the other, the worse he’ll fare. During this blackout period, we can let millions of people know about Mr Abbott’s brutal cuts to the bone – but we need to join together to make it happen.

I’m asking you and five friends to chip in $5 – because truly together we can all make a real difference.

Thanks,

Kevin

Step Up & Donate


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Australian Labor Party
Authorised by G. Wright, Australian Labor, 5/9 Sydney Avenue, Barton ACT 2600

 

[sails]

Labor can't blame Rupy for this,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/fairfax-chairman-roger-corbett-attacks-kevin-rudd/4933128

It's in the Age as well - I don't know if the free to air channels have picked up on it but Corbett's comments from lateline have been shown on Sky News too.

The Age: Labor should have stuck with Julia Gillard instead of a 'discredited' Kevin Rudd, says Fairfax chairman

Here is the lateline link: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3840482.htm

 

[noco]

It's in the Age as well - I don't know if the free to air channels have picked up on it but Corbett's comments from lateline have been shown on Sky News too.

The Age: Labor should have stuck with Julia Gillard instead of a 'discredited' Kevin Rudd, says Fairfax chairman

Here is the lateline link: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3840482.htm

Yes I saw it on Late Line last night and Corbett certainly didn't do Rudd any favours.

 

[IFocus]

Julia

It's supposedly from the 'Australian Taxpayers' Alliance'.

5 seconds of research will show it to be complete rubbish but hay believe what you want keep the rant going LOL.

 

[Country Lad]

It appears that the smear campaign by Treasurer Bowen and Labor has caught up with Bowen and is starting to backfire as the Australian does some digging.

It started with Labor denigrating Ray King, and then NSW's most senior police retirees have queued up to defend the King against the unsubstantiated and apparently untrue Labor smears.

Now the table has turned as The Australian has the story of Bowen's involvement in the past Labor dominated local council.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...litical-intrigue/story-fn9qr68y-1226710129224

Just a bit of hypocrisy here because Bowen is happy to continue to smear King knowing it is all untrue but then urged The Australian not to publish an article revealing that Bowen voted to keep paying ALP councillor Phuong Ngo while he was on remand for the murder of state Labor MP John Newman in April 1998.

Cheers
Country Lad

 

[IFocus]

I saw a Labor commercial tonight with a stumbling, mumbling, tentative Abbott being interviewed. For God's sake, if he can't look, act and talk like a winner now, will he ever have the guts to institute the savings that will have to be made to reclaim Labor's massive black hole.

He is certainly not giving me the impression of strength enough to take, as you say, harsh measures.

He should adopt the attitude of Muhammad Ali;

"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."

Simple problem, go for those sort of cuts, take those funds out of the economy and bingo recession, remember them?

Ross Gittins states the obvious that the Abbott love in folk here just cannot get heir heads around

Abbott won't rush into making cuts

If Tony Abbott wins the election would he ''cut, cut, cut'' to fill the ''$70 billion black hole'' needed to cover the cost of his election promises, as Labor repeatedly claims? Would he follow the Europeans in adopting austerity policies, as others claim?

No. Why not? Because the man who'd be his treasurer, Joe Hockey, isn't that stupid and Abbott isn't that committed.

While Labor was in power, Abbott and his colleagues exaggerated the significance of the size of the budget deficit and the level of the public debt because this was the only way to disparage the economic record of a government that had - with much help from the Reserve Bank - done surprisingly well.

But once the Coalition was back in power its need for fear-mongering about debt and deficit would disappear and it would face the same struggle to get the budget back to surplus that Labor faced.

Whenever it was challenged about its slow progress it would blame Labor but, apart from that, it would prefer to talk of other things.

How can I be sure? Mainly because Abbott's been backing off already. He used to say he'd get the budget back to surplus in ''year one''. Now his promise is merely that ''by the end of a Coalition government's first term, the budget will be on track to a believable surplus'' and ''within a decade'' the budget surplus will be 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

Only ''on track'' after three years? And ''within a decade''? That's three elections away.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/abbott-wont-rush-into-making-cuts-20130903-2t33o.html#ixzz2dsOpmBaT

 

[sails]

Simple problem, go for those sort of cuts, take those funds out of the economy and bingo recession, remember them?

Ross Gittins states the obvious that the Abbott love in folk here just cannot get heir heads around

Abbott won't rush into making cuts





Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/abbott-wont-rush-into-making-cuts-20130903-2t33o.html#ixzz2dsOpmBaT

Hmmmm... if labor hadn't spent so wildly over the last six years creating a near $300 BILLION debt (with it's approx $12 billion interest bill), then cuts would not be necessary. Try getting your head around that one, IFocus...

Labor created the problem and now you try to ridicule Abbott over the cuts? Shame on labor and their twisted propaganda!

 

[Calliope]

Ross Gittins states the obvious that the Abbott love in folk here just cannot get heir heads around
Abbott won't rush into making cuts

Yes. It is a refreshing change when even a clown like Gittins agrees that the Rudd mantra of Abbott "cuts-cuts-cuts" is all bullsh!t.

Actually Rudd's scare campaign is scaring no one but Abbott.

 

[sails]

So much for Rudd going on about TAFE funding:

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd savaged state governments for destroying vocational training while simultaneously stripping $111 million set aside for TAFE and university campuses.

During his campaign launch speech on Sunday, Mr Rudd vowed to protect the national training system from the likes of Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria, which he said had allowed TAFE to start to “wither on the vine”.

But half of the $200 million in small business tax cuts unveiled in the speech would be paid by deferring payments from the Education Investment Fund, which is used for new buildings and facilities for tertiary colleges.

“[It’s] another broken promise,” said the fund’s independent chairman, Philip Clark. “They’ve [had] to find an offset and thought, aha, we’ll defer these TAFE projects and use that as the offset.”

Mr Rudd threatened a federal take*over of the vocational training system on Sunday unless the state governments agreed to maintain or increase funding for the 61 institutions. “I have always been passionate about education around the single vision that we must nurture the best educated, best trained, best skilled workforce of anywhere in the world,” he said in the speech.

From the AFR: Rudd raids TAFE fund to pay for business tax cuts

 

[Calliope]

"The tired, the poor and huddled masses" don't scare easily these days. They know that old softie Abbott couldn't cut butter with a hot knife.

How did an unpopular PM like Keating manage to get re-elected in 1993? Via the mother of all scare campaigns on the GST. What's Rudd's tactic today? The mother of all scare campaigns over cuts to spending by the Coalition.

The difference? The polls reveal it just isn't working in this campaign the way that it did for Keating in 1993.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...ating-comparison/story-fn53lw5p-1226710071251

 

[noco]

In the elctorate of Griffith, Bill Glasson is one step ahead of his opponent.

Read the link to appreciate the comics.



http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-bit-of-a-muppet/story-fnihsr9v-1226710173910

 

[Julia]

Surprisingly, the PUP's support is, according to the ABC, edging up to around 8%. Not sure if that's national or just in Qld.
The advertising is everywhere. I'm in a safe National seat and there's a normal amount of advertising from the LNP candidate, but there's a PUP sign on almost every street corner, and massive radio advertising. I don't watch much TV but have seen a fair bit of Clive there also.

I won't be surprised if he considerably outpolls Katter.

Can't wait to see if Bill Glasson manages to oust Kevin Rudd. If he does, surely that will have to be the final demise of Rudd?

 

[bunyip]

Simple problem, go for those sort of cuts, take those funds out of the economy and bingo recession, remember them?

Yes, we remember recessions very well. Now let me see – didn’t the last big one occur under a Labor government of which Keating was treasurer?

And then there were the dark days and tough economic times under Whitlam – another Labor government.

Ross Gittins states the obvious that the Abbott love in folk here just cannot get heir heads around

Abbott won't rush into making cuts

It’s your Labor heroes, pal, not the LNP supporters in here, who can’t seem to get their heads around the fact that Abbot won’t CUT CUT CUT us into recession, as the Rudd circus is trying to make us believe.
However, I don’t really think the ALP believe their own bull dust on this issue.
But heck, when a political party has little to bring to the election campaign except a woeful track record of dysfunction, lies and incompetence, I guess it shouldn’t surprise us when they desperately try to swing support their way by resorting to lies, smears, and scare campaigns against their opponents.

 

[IFocus]

Yes, we remember recessions very well. Now let me see – didn’t the last big one occur under a Labor government of which Keating was treasurer?

And then there were the dark days and tough economic times under Whitlam – another Labor government.

Yep they were responsible for the world oil shocks that help cause them not to mention the breaking of inflation cycle world wide BTW you forgot the one under Fraser in 83 must have been Labors fault to.

But heck, when a political party has little to bring to the election campaign except a woeful track record of dysfunction, lies and incompetence, I guess it shouldn’t surprise us when they desperately try to swing support their way by resorting to lies, smears, and scare campaigns against their opponents.

Ah that would be the coalition you are talking about then.