If we were to have another election so quickly, I wonder who would actually change their votes?
Tony Crook the new Nat from the West has opted not to join the gang of four. He doesn't want to be in the Coalition either. I think he wants to be a loose cannon.
They are including Crook in the 73. He has already stated he does not support the new resources tax but for now at least, Julia is standing her ground on that one.When the papers say that the Coalition will probably end up with 73, are they including Crook or not in that 73 number?
BACKBITING has begun in the NSW Liberal and National parties over the failure to transform the strong anti-Labor swing in the state into captured seats.
Now Coalition begins its own civil war
I can't understand how NSW didn't smash Labor given the state politics is so bad the state Liberals must be complete drop kicks.
I've been wondering the same thing. You'd have to assume most people during the five week campaign gave reasonable thought to their choice.If we were to have another election so quickly, I wonder who would actually change their votes?
Unless there is more information to change people's ideas, I wonder if the only winners out of another election at this stage might be more green votes.
Yes, it's somewhat encouraging that they have asked for e.g. details of how the $42 billion for the NBN was arrived at. Heavens, they may even go so far as to request something as out there as a cost-benefit analysis!!Perhaps the independents may extract enough information for the public to get a better grasp of what is really going on should we be required to head back to the polls.
I can't begin to imagine how hard Swan would have had to grit his teeth in this situation. Pretty funny, really.Who would have thought (before the election) we would see Wayne Swan bowing down to Bob Katter ?
Did anyone see Malcolm Fraser trotted out yet again on the 7.30 Report this evening?
He has already said more than once that he does not believe the Coalition is fit to govern. This evening, he had to refer to his notes to make sure he answered the question as expected.
That the ABC put him up yet again, and very specifically asked him this question yet again, is strong verification of their own political bias, (if we needed any.)
Isn't it time for Malcolm Fraser to get the hell out of the public sphere and leave the air time to people who have some relevance?
Bandt went further to explicitly call for an immediate carbon tax, but Oakeshott and Windsor didn't. What though have they agreed privately ?Oakeshott: Scientists have done good work. The vast majority of them say there's an issue. Garnaut gave us a report. Let's use it.
Windsor: We have to change the way we live. We have a unique situation in this parliament to start and drive this thing forward.
Katter: Manufacturing and farming is dead in this country. All we have left is mining. Carbon price will kill mining.
Bandt calls for the road map laid out by Ross Garnaut to be followed.
http://www.garnautreview.org.au/pdf/Garnaut_Chapter14.pdfTransition period:
The two or more years between scheme commencement (2010) and the end
of the Kyoto period (end 2012) should be treated as a transition period to an
unconstrained, fully market-based emissions trading scheme.
Price controls:
Price controls are not supported except during the transition period to
end 2012. During this transition period, permit price should be fixed, starting at $20 per tonne and increasing by 4 per cent per annum plus the rate of inflation.
Did anyone see Malcolm Fraser trotted out yet again on the 7.30 Report this evening?
He has already said more than once that he does not believe the Coalition is fit to govern. This evening, he had to refer to his notes to make sure he answered the question as expected.
That the ABC put him up yet again, and very specifically asked him this question yet again, is strong verification of their own political bias, (if we needed any.)
Isn't it time for Malcolm Fraser to get the hell out of the public sphere and leave the air time to people who have some relevance?
Malcolm proved himself to be a socialist when he was PM, and even more so afterwards.
He was always in the wrong party.
What Garnaut says,
http://www.garnautreview.org.au/pdf/Garnaut_Chapter14.pdf
In short, it calls for an interim (transition) price on carbon.
If that's what Windsor and Oakeshott want, they should come out and say it explicitly and not hide behind Garnaut or the Greens's Adam Bandt.
There is no doubt these guys are left-progressives. They could never work with the Coalition. Abbott would be a fool to try to win them over by bowing to their demands to gain the benches.
Gillard is welcome to these posturing clowns. She should be given enough rope to hang herself. The three Stooges would help this process.
Just to set the cat amongst the pigeonsDid anyone see Malcolm Fraser trotted out yet again on the 7.30 Report this evening?
He has already said more than once that he does not believe the Coalition is fit to govern. This evening, he had to refer to his notes to make sure he answered the question as expected.
That the ABC put him up yet again, and very specifically asked him this question yet again, is strong verification of their own political bias, (if we needed any.)
Media favours Coalition, study finds
Newspapers are left wing, television is right wing, and
the media as a whole tends to favour the Coalition.
And surprisingly, according to researchers from the Australian
National University, the ABC Television news is the most pro-
Coalition of them all.
Former Liberal prime minister John Howard railed against the
alleged left-wing bias of the ABC, but the researchers found
Aunty was more likely to favour his side.
Researchers pored over news stories from 1996 to 2007 to
establish if the media was biased.
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