Source?A bit of light reading.....make of it what you will.
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.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.
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
+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....
Source?
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
Julia
It's supposedly from the 'Australian Taxpayers' Alliance'.
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."
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?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
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.
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.
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