BEAZLEY GOOOONEEEE

[skint]

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Use the quote buttons.

Cheers,

THE QUOTE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[justjohn]

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Minty whats going on mate shouldn't JD become Jack Daniels show some respect and mabey arfternoon (what the.......... ) how many have you had also you think todays Friday instead of Monday

 

[2020hindsight]

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I dance with caraccas, I also kick nackers, I've kick-boxed the floor of the shop,
Don't try to resist me, that bloke there just kissed me, I had to say "Ruddy please stop!"
I'm out on the hustings, to sort out my lustings, for power and who gets the chop!
Full marks for "Kung Fu Man", I'm in this race too man, half points for J. Gillard - I'm TOP!!

 

[2020hindsight]

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oops missed a verse

I majored in "tax cheats", I Ph D'ed "Backseats", and taxis I grab by the throat
my Liverpool grounding, was made during sounding, the depth of the petty cash float
I reckon with reading, will lead to good -deeding , and vocab will grow till you gloat
I'm f...ing disarming - give points for Prince Charming - (but Mark the Almighty your vote) .

 

[trading_rookie]

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ROTFLMAO! You think its funny now....wait and see what happens after they're elected. Can you imagine having all the states and the Feds Labour?

God help us. (hmmmm, maybe Rudd has that one too)

I think the smartest thing we voters have done is given 'em both power...one federally and one state-wise.

If Labor do happen to win the 2007 federall election, I don't really think they'll change much. Afterall, It was the Hawke/Keating 'regime' that privatised CBA and Qantas, floated the 'AUS' dollar. In other words, they're more conservative than the conservatives! and the right of caucus is the most dominant faction that always dominates. Beazley's father made Universities free, Hawke slugged us with HECS.

Even the trade unions that back Labor are either left or right wing! The CFEMU being left (no suprise! ) while the AWU and NUW being right. I reckon Eddie from 'Love Thy Neighbour' would've been AWU or NUW ;-)

Speaking of the unions, I liked it when Crean reduced their power base '60-40' was the slogan if I remember. However during question time today it was revealed that both the NSW Union leader and the leader of the ACTU both called Rudd and made sure their work relations policy was his as well. "Everything new is old again" was the reply from the Libs.

As for the troops in Iraq, it was mentioned today that the US is thinking of reducing numbers, we'll follow suit. A right-wing Labor majority government that traditionally is allied with the US will not make waves. Nor will they make too many changes to the IR laws, afterall, the Libs are claiming over 160,000 jobs have been created due to the new laws. Caucus will meet, mediate, create some division and life goes on. If the Libs hold enough Senate seats they'll just blame them for not being able to do more.

 

[2020hindsight]

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http://www.ntu.edu.au/faculties/lba/schools/Law/apl/blog/stories/natpolitics/175.htm
NB This is 4 years old :-

Drover's Dog sums it up
December 16, 2002

I was quite taken by this essay by Bill Hayden in The Age a couple of days ago. Much of it was just venting his spleen at Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam (but not Bob Hawke interestingly enough). However, this passage was interesting for another reason:

"Howard is transforming Australian values in the most radical manner imaginable. He is changing the fundamental values of ordinary people. The great swing to subcontracting is remaking people who would once have been wages tradesmen with union affiliation into small-business people, thinking as individualists, concerned about profit return, maximising efficiency, especially from any workforce they now employ, and a whole range of other middle-class, employer values.

Labor is confronted with a seemingly impossible conundrum; how to hold its traditional working-class base (which it is failing to do), and how, concurrently, to appeal successfully to the new, middle-class, small-business people Howard and Tony Abbott have created (and it hasn't worked that strategy out yet).

The notion of "Howard's battlers" takes on an ominous quality for Labor. Howard is securely fusing his ideology on to the national psyche. Australia will be transformed by the Howard years - and whither national Labor? Perhaps that's the word: withered."

It seems to me old Bill is right on the money. The Drover's Dog might not be suggesting any answers, but he sure as heck can see the questions a lot more clearly than either Simon Crean or any of the current bunch of leadership aspirants, including Mark Latham.

You'll all maybe recall that quote "even a drover's dog would win an election at the moment" - paraphrasing - (said prior to Bob Hawke's topplin him - and Bob's subsequent emphatic victory)

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/30/1075340827181.html

Aussie English for Beginners, the third in a series, delves behind the whys and wherefores of some peculiarly Australian phrases.

Put together with the help of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University, the latest volume makes sense of slang phrases, where earlier editions focused on uniquely Aussie words, like bludger, dob, ocker and swag.

Look up "chuck a wobbly" and you'd find it means to have a tantrum or lose your temper.

And it originated in no lesser a place than the federal parliament, when one Senator admonished another to: "Stop chucking a wobbly, Senator. Behave yourself."

It was a also a politician - later turned governor general - who helped get the term a "like drover's dog" into more popular usage.

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Although it had been around since the 1940s, usually as a less than flattering term, it became more widely used after Bill Hayden - bumped from the Labor leadership - infamously commented in 1983 that a drover's dog could have led the party to victory.

His political contemporary Malcolm Fraser gets a mention for popularising "life wasn't meant to be easy", which he later attributed to British playwright George Bernard Shaw.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1171988
More here as well. " Bob Hawke came about the nickname during his abrupt appointment as leader of the Australian Labor Party in 1983"

PS THe Drovers Dog is actually one hell of a poem as well ( see if I can find it ) - If I do it will be on the poetry thread - unless someone beats me to it that is .

 

[carmo]

I saw Rudd on the 7:30 Report last night, certainly cleaned up Kerry.

 

[chops_a_must]

I saw Rudd on the 7:30 Report last night, certainly cleaned up Kerry.

Yes, and Kerry does not like him either. New Labor vs Labor left, don't get along. But Rudd certainly won out.

 

[2020hindsight]

THIS is a case where the moral of the story whacks you between the eyes - and yet not a word is spoken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQMJtilOGg = steven bradbury

I posted this elsewhere But would be it be fair comment that Kevin Rudd just did a Steven Bradbury?
Last Leader Left? Steve's Still Standing? Kevin, King at last !!

 

[2020hindsight]

This one overheard in ALP headquaters recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PwWZwPlVRY&mode=related&search=
(but i still liked the man) - and as for this song, lol - I wish the camera stayed on Ray , and forgot about the backing bimbos

 

[2020hindsight]

King Kevin and Big Juli, (beware the ides of March both of you )

 

[wayneL]

As much as I detest politicians, I actually felt a bit for the big fella. Losing a brother at the same time, he must have felt like he had run over a chinaman.

Good luck to the new team in ousting Johnny Rotten! (... and I'm usually a liberal voter )

We need a PM not a bonsai.

 

[new girl]

As much as I detest politicians, I actually felt a bit for the big fella. Losing a brother at the same time, he must have felt like he had run over a chinaman.

I said before and I'll say again, Canadians are nice

 

[MalteseBull]

Doesn't really matter seeing though Liberals will win again

 

[TheRage]

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Why do people pick political parties like a football team?

I am assuming that this is in reference to my post because it comes directly after my post.

Having agreed with you that Kevin Rudd is an exceptional opponent I would have thought we might share some common ground. I can assure you that I don't pick political sides like football teams. I don't particularly like football so your point is moot. While I am Liberal by nature I do tend to waiver on my voting decision if the leader is top notch much like how I invest in Companies. I may not particularly like what the company stands for and does but if the management is sound I will invest. So let me assure you my jest in relation to Joe Hockey running for Liberal was merely that and I look forward to the election.

 

[2020hindsight]

So Rage , does that mean you'd prefer to pick politicians like Hockey teams ?
(Front bench :- hockey 1, hockey 2, hockey 3)

 

[The Mint Man]

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Regardless of who is in government, we need a strong opposition otherwise the standards seriously start to slip.

This is true, hopefully thats what we get.

You think its funny now....wait and see what happens after they're elected. Can you imagine having all the states and the Feds Labour?

This is bad... However,
NSW will be under Liberal after the next election It just makes sense. I mean Labour fixed the problem of making the trains run on time simply by running less and slowing them down??? ppffttt! just one example.

 

[The Mint Man]

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Minty whats going on mate shouldn't JD become Jack Daniels show some respect and mabey arfternoon (what the.......... ) how many have you had also you think todays Friday instead of Monday

Every day is friday :drink: and JD is his nick name... he likes it

By the way... look at how this thread is spelt. It was doomed from the start... Then again Kim did call Rove Karl Rove

 

[Julia]

Yes, and Kerry does not like him either. New Labor vs Labor left, don't get along. But Rudd certainly won out.

Kerry was "off his game" last night. His usual incisive questions just weren't there.

Rudd is certainly articulate. But somehow he doesn't give any sense of himself as a person - more of a machine.

I did feel Kim Beazley wasn't connecting either but, as Wayne, said, I felt immensely sorry for him yesterday. Basically a very decent man.

Julia

 

[TheRage]

So Rage , does that mean you'd prefer to pick politicians like Hockey teams ?
(Front bench :- hockey 1, hockey 2, hockey 3)

Nice play on words .