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Now she has joined the "Bring Corby home" campaign. Is this just another diversion from the day to day incompetence? I can't say this inspires me with confidence.
FEDERAL Labor appears weak, unconvincing and hostage to its many dilemmas.
THE Gillard government, deft at tactics, is losing its policy authority in the nation and facing a relentless haemorrhage in political support with repeated exposures of its inability to shape events or outcomes.
Labor is in serious difficulty, a fact more apparent the greater the distance from Canberra. The government looks out of its depth, weak and devoid of strategic purpose. So overwhelming are these early signs they demand an urgent rethink of Labor's policy and messages.
In June Julia Gillard explained Kevin Rudd's removal by saying the government had "lost its way", but Labor's risk is that of changing jockeys but failing to get back on track. If this perception takes hold, the government will be finished.
This week the Commonwealth Bank dismissed Wayne Swan with abject contempt in its near doubling of the Reserve Bank's official interest rate rise. Gillard returned to Australia after her bizarre Asian visit that disastrously enshrined the highly dubious East Timor processing centre as the centrepiece of our regional diplomacy. President Barack Obama, in response to the mid-term election defeat, announced he would not proceed with "cap and trade" legislation, but would look for "other means" to confront climate change, thereby undermining Gillard's push to price carbon.
After reading comments by the media today, Juila Gillard's slogan 'MOOOVING FOOORWARD' seems to have back fired on her. Perhaps she should change her slogan to 'MOOOOVING BACKWARDS'...
Haven't watched the Utube clip but have already noticed that this is her latest buzzword. It's what she says when she cannot make a clear response to a question. Just assures the questioner that she is having an ongoing dialogue.Noco, looks like the latest buzz word is "dialogue". 38 sec youtube clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G85IPsaR708
Haven't watched the Utube clip but have already noticed that this is her latest buzzword. It's what she says when she cannot make a clear response to a question. Just assures the questioner that she is having an ongoing dialogue.
So reassuring.
She is simply way, way out of her depth and the whole government is floundering woefully.
Would like to be more charitable to the PM, but have given up waiting for a straight answer to a straight question. As they probably will too.
The Gillard government has reaffirmed its commitment to returning the budget to surplus 2012/13.
This is despite falling revenues (projected) from the rising AUD
On this issue Labor sinks or swims and / or the conservatives for ever bite their tongues (unlikely)
"Me and Wayne"??? Could we get the PM some lessons in grammar just for a start?From Andrew Bolts blog.
Andrew Bolt asked Julia about the veracity of her promise to return the budget to surplus by 2012/13 and this was her reply:
(giggle) “Well Andrew, me and Wayne are carefully and methodically having dialogue with each other, conversations, dialogue, carefully and methodically, as we plan to return the budget to 2012/13, in 3 years time, 3 years early. We’re not just cobbling together some plan, like Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey, we’re talking to the Australian people, we’re facilitating, we’re putting together a plan, it’s no secret. We’re looking at measures, having dialogue, conversations and Wayne will announce our ideas and strategies to the Australian people in good time. We won’t be rushed by Tony Abbott’s populist slogans, we’re determined to work in a methodical and responsible way, talking to the Australian peole, having dialogue, talking to the treasury, carefully and methodically. That’s my vision for Australia, I love this country, I am passionate about education. My parents are immigrants. Tim and I care very much. Methodical and responsible Andrew. No slogans, no Tony Abbott, no delays, no idea. Sorry, what was the question”?
Do you think they can do it, IFocus?The Gillard government has reaffirmed its commitment to returning the budget to surplus 2012/13.
This is despite falling revenues (projected) from the rising AUD
On this issue Labor sinks or swims and / or the conservatives for ever bite their tongues (unlikely)
IFocus, I'm sure you still believe in Santa Clause and the fairy God Mother if you believe anything Joolya says.
"Me and Wayne"??? Could we get the PM some lessons in grammar just for a start?
Did she really say that? Andrew Bolt hasn't, um, paraphrased her comments?
If she did, then we are in even more dire straits than I'd imagined.
Noco should stick to the facts instead of reciting some infantile cult member of the Andrew Bolt fan club (probably "boy lightning" himself).
Do you think they can do it, IFocus?
A decent start would be to cease the stimulus remaining in the BER program.
So crazy that they are continuing to stimulate the economy, while the Reserve is obliged to increase rates to rein it in, and even worse, while the government is sticking it to the banks for raising rates!!!
I understand that, but I gather they have many millions still not spent.I hear this often but to do so will seriously hurt a number of business's / people. Projects have a certain lead time to completion once started contracts signed etc its not quite like just turning off a tap.
Did you see Wayne Swan being questioned about this on the 7.30 Report this evening? He was his usual shrill, frenetic self, ignoring the actual substance of Kerry O'Brien's questions, and refusing to acknowledge that some sectors of the Australian society are absolutely not sharing in any economic boom.I suspect the biggest impact is commodity prices / exports and the BER actually helps the bottom end of the 2 speed economy that we currently have unlike the mining boom
To a tee I'd have thought. It's the answer to every question, regardless of subject....Unfortunately it sounds exactly like an answer she would have given!!
Duckman
The federal government is confident that the jobless rate will continue to fall over the next 18 months, despite the surprise spike to 5.4 per cent in October.
"If the labour market tightens too rapidly, this can lead to a wages breakout and higher inflation," NAB Capital chief economist Rob Henderson explained.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-new...ll-will-resume-says-evans-20101111-17oq4.html
Yeah right ...... have they got anything right so far?? Name one thing. Just one.
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