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Julia said:
I don't specifically remember anything she said about Julie Bishop. What was it?
Perhaps I just take for granted and mentally dismiss the apparently obligatory dissing of their opposite number.
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Pliberseck was responding to a question saying that the US Ambassador had heaped a lot of praise on Julie Bishop.Pliberseck simply replied that the US ambassador was a good diplomat, she made no assertions against Bishop.
 
Julia said:
I don't specifically remember anything she said about Julie Bishop. What was it?
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http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2014/s4077805.htm
 
SirRumpole said:
In what way was Carr an embarrassment ?
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How about this for starters?


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Diaries of a first-class tosser: former foreign minister Bob Carr’s moaning set to insult leaders around the globe

5 months ago April 10, 2014 10:39AM

Bob Carr resigns from politics
Bob Carr: Diaries of a first-class tosser

Former foreign minister Bob Carr in first-class jammies. Source: DailyTelegraph

FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr was last night labeled “arrogant” and “foolish” for risking diplomatic ties after leaked extracts of his new diaries revealed him complaining about taxpayer-funded first and business class travel and questioning whether top US leaders had plastic surgery.

Mr Carr complains about inedible food and a lack of pyjamas in business class where seats were akin to “trans-Atlantic slave trade”, a lack of subtitles on an Opera film in first class and even the perk of getting an upgrade to first because he could only book business as “a middle-power foreign minister”.

In other extracts already dubbed “Bridget Carr’s Diary”, the exercised-obsessed former NSW premier reveals during a trip to Cairo that his ambition was to “have a concave abdomen defined by deep-cut obliques”.

He also writes that he “cannot feel humble” after attending a G20 leaders meeting with US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in his last act in the job last September.

“Interested, curious, of course. Just not humble,” he writes in Diary of a Foreign Minister.

Mr Carr also muses about the possibility of plastic surgery work for US Senator John McCain (“younger and more sparkle-eyed than I might have expected”) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (“I noticed something about the skin”).

http://www.news.com.au/national/dia...around-the-globe/story-fncynjr2-1226879387117
 
SirRumpole said:
The usual media beat up of a tongue in cheek book. I'm sure it caused us no end of embarrassment, not.
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Rumpy, you did not disappoint me with your reply...it was exactly what I expected from you when you don't like something which is factual and true.

If you want some more on this grub just google it and DYOR.
 
SirRumpole said:
Pliberseck was responding to a question saying that the US Ambassador had heaped a lot of praise on Julie Bishop.Pliberseck simply replied that the US ambassador was a good diplomat, she made no assertions against Bishop.
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Perhaps so, but when in the full context of the quote provided by drsmith, her response was snarky, ungenerous, and implied that the praise directed toward Ms Bishop was undeserved and constituted nothing more than a suck-up from the diplomat.

Typical, however, which is why I probably just filtered it out.

So usual is such mean spirited commentary by both sides, that the sensibly worded support expressed by Bill Shorten for the government's decision on Iraq really stands out. If he could just apply a little of that same sense to being prepared to negotiate on the Budget, the electorate might feel a bit less depressed about the country's future.
 

I don't really think much of Tanya, thought she made a poor health minister but that is quite critical to question the way she handled that. I don't think I've ever seen a politician compliment the opposing member on the job they're doing. I think when no cheap shots are made as per the above interview would be the most diplomatic we could hope for.
 
If he could just apply a little of that same sense to being prepared to negotiate on the Budget, the electorate might feel a bit less depressed about the country's future.
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The same words could equally be applied to the other side.

"No surprises, no excuses" were Tony Abbott's words. There was no mandate for the GP co-payment and many other budget measures. I see no reason why Labor should support measures for which the Coalition have no mandate.
 
OK Rumpole. My comments were essentially directed to both sides of politics, an example offered of Plibersek's cattiness as opposed to Shorten's reasonable approach.
It would be good if you'd not regard every comment by every poster as a partisan political attempt at point scoring.

FWIW my suggestion was that the opposition should negotiate on the Budget, not that they should necessarily 100% support all of it.
 
Julia said:
It would be good if you'd not regard every comment by every poster as a partisan political attempt at point scoring.
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I don't, but after being bombarded with platitudes about Fabians by some, occasionally the knee jerk response kicks in.
 
noco said:
Rumpy, you did not disappoint me with your reply...it was exactly what I expected from you when you don't like something which is factual and true.

If you want some more on this grub just google it and DYOR.
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Carr has never shied away from self deprecating humour; his guilt is that he over estimates the residual humour of what was once a larrikin country. Somewhere around the infamous PC wars of the late eighties our culture changed to a predominantly spiteful one it seems.
 

My local representative was voted in with a mandate to represent his constituents wishes... no more no less. My only lament is that there wasn't a X dresser to vote for last time around.
 
Tisme said:
My local representative was voted in with a mandate to represent his constituents wishes... no more no less. My only lament is that there wasn't a X dresser to vote for last time around.
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So which X Dressers did you vote for previously ?
 
SirRumpole said:
So which X Dressers did you vote for previously ?
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Tamarra Tonite (sp) was the X dresser, then there was the stripper who had the last name as the sitting Fed rep...she was too hot not to tick off on...my mojo got a kick start that weekend.
 
Tisme said:
Tamarra Tonite (sp) was the X dresser, then there was the stripper who had the last name as the sitting Fed rep...she was too hot not to tick off on...my mojo got a kick start that weekend.
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Is she the same stripper Kevvie put $100 note down her knickers?
 
noco said:
Is she the same stripper Kevvie put $100 note down her knickers?
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I was so impressed by Kevin I went to that place in New York, but I whimped out when I saw it was so exposed to observers in the deserted part of the city. Besides I'm not that trusting of a business that takes $10k off the credit card on entry as security against drinks, cigars and women.
 
I don't know about the ABC being political, but it's certainly getting dumbed down.

News24 breakfast spent a disproportionate amount of the show lamenting the death of Joan Rivers, an American comedian I had barely heard of and who apparently was noteworthy for being foul and obnoxious.

OK, a news item maybe , but not repeated 5 minute eulogies every half hour.
 
OK OK I get it I am sick and tied of the political agenda of the ABC.

Breakfast radio I have to listen to a former Liberal party MP

At nigh watching the Drum hosted by the wife of the Liberal party NSW premier.

Then 7.30 reporter best mates with federal liberal party MPs.


Where will it all end?
 

A bit of balance perhaps?
 
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