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Ms Gillard is appealing to that same sector in assuring them they are not being racist etc for being concerned about boat people.
With all the same heads sitting beside her and behind her nodding and mumbling "here here" just as they, and Ms Gillard, did with the previous puppet only weeks ago espousing vehemently the opposite...
It's called spin. Rudd needed a team of spin doctors to achieve what comes naturally to Gillard.
The East Timor solution is a good example. It will never get off the ground. But that doesn't matter. She only has to pretend to be having meaningful discussions with Ramos-Horta until the election to keep the illusion alive that she has a solution.
John Faulkner is to retire after the election. Rats leaving a sinking ship me thinks. Lindsay Tanner the first to go. Hmmmmm ... watch this space.
John Faulkner is only retiring from the front bench. He intends remaining on the back bench after Gillard persuaded him to stay.
I think you will find he is only going to stay for a year, the term rats leaving the ship is so true.
This articale from Andrew Bolt really does show Gillard is no different to Rudd, except Gillard is a smoother operator. It is the same manure, the same wheel barrow but a different pusher as commented by another journalist.
http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermai...uriermail/comments/column_gillards_great_con/
Rather than use again the detention centre at Nauru, which we’ve already built, Gillard will spend a fortune on a new one in East Timor, provided its Government ever agrees to a plan it’s not yet seen in detail. And in the months until then, the boats will keep coming, with 83 this year already.
(Bold is mine)“My Government is not interested in pursuing a new Pacific Solution,” she said without blushing. We’re not doing what you see us doing.
Yes, noco, it seems your suggestion that Tony Abbott has been sensible in withholding his policies so they are not copied has indeed been vindicated.
A bit like Trainspotter, I think I was starting to be a bit sucked in with Ms Gillard's smoothness, but the Pacific Solution That Is Not the Pacific Solution has sure woken me up.
Quite aside from any principles involved, if the East Timor project were to happen (and it looks pretty doubtful) she would be wasting more of the taxpayers' money.
There is the centre already built at Nauru which she is happy to see lie empty while she builds another at East Timor.
Yes, noco, it seems your suggestion that Tony Abbott has been sensible in withholding his policies so they are not copied has indeed been vindicated.
A bit like Trainspotter, I think I was starting to be a bit sucked in with Ms Gillard's smoothness, but the Pacific Solution That Is Not the Pacific Solution has sure woken me up.
Quite aside from any principles involved, if the East Timor project were to happen (and it looks pretty doubtful) she would be wasting more of the taxpayers' money.
There is the centre already built at Nauru which she is happy to see lie empty while she builds another at East Timor.
But that's the beauty of the scheme - East Timar is a signatory to the UNHCR scheme (Nauru is not), will be set-up as a "regional" centre (Nauru was Australia going it alone), and the Australian public psyche has positive connotations with East Timor due to our strong role in the Interfet mission just a few years ago. The subtle differences are enough to appease the left, we're still "sending brown people offshore" enough to appease the right, and Gillard gets to spruik a major policy difference between herself & her predecessor.
Whatever your stance on Gillard, you can't deny her political savvy.
I'm not that sure it is that politically savvy. It maybe an easier solution than an ALP branch-stacking exercise south of Brisbane.
East Timor asylum plan a legal minefield
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-legal-minefield/story-e6frg6nf-1225888713531
EAST Timor MP Jose Teixeira was thoroughly perplexed yesterday by Julia Gillard's announcement of plans for an asylum-seeker processing centre.
"It would be a legal minefield, to say the least, with the amendments that would be required to the Immigration Act to make it happen," said Mr Teixeira, who was resources and energy minister in the former Fretilin government and now sits on the parliamentary foreign affairs committee.
"Fretilin disagrees with Timor Leste being set up as a processing centre for asylum-seekers bound for Australia," he said. "It is unfair to burden emerging countries like ours with such an issue.
"We take our international commitments seriously, and believe to go down this path would not be a good way to comply with our international obligations and our constitutional guarantees for those seeking asylum."
and furthermore....
An outraged opposition politician was heard to say shortly after Ms Gillard's statement: "So they don't want the LNG (liquefied natural gas) to be processed here, but they do want us to process asylum-seekers," referring to the ongoing disputes over access to East Timor's undersea wealth.
Anyone noticed how quiet the Insulation debacle has gone after Greg Combet took over from Peter Garrett? Where is the media focus?
"In a 40-minute disclosure to parliament, Mr Combet admitted some of the warnings of fires and fraud given to the Department of Environment had proved correct.
Mr Combet, cleaning up the political mess left after Peter Garrett was stripped of responsibility for the scheme following its suspension, cited fraud concerns about one insulation installer who did $9.6 million of work under the program and attracted 100 complaints about fraud and quality issues."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/pol...il-clean-up-bill/story-e6frgczf-1225839337844 for some hard hitting evidence.
Or what about the other fiasco ... the BER after Julia Gizzard did the Pontius Pilate?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-...bbott-government/story-fn56ulhe-1225888993339
Who is in control of this legacy of debt to us all as taxpayers?? HUH?
Health is non reformist other than TV adverts telling us how wonderful they are doing? Swept under the carpet perhaps?
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