Looks like the mining tax impasse is all but clear for a start - given Rudd nailed his credibility to the issue (and his ETS backflip), he was in a far less politically friendly position to make concessions than the way Julia has.
The talk of the Lib/National parties being more concerned with facing Julia in the polls than there were with Ruddy speaks volumes. Julia has a genuine chance of solidifying support for Labour, with a voting public that could no longer connect with Rudd (or had any idea what he stood for these days).
An unfortuante trend is that politicians increasingly see respect and getting re-elected as two different things.A fair question that deserves an answer. It might have been entertaining for the comrades, but people that want an answer to the question will lose respect for her with such nonsense.
That's taken her down several notches for me.
Looks like the mining tax impasse is all but clear for a start - given Rudd nailed his credibility to the issue (and his ETS backflip), he was in a far less politically friendly position to make concessions than the way Julia has.
The talk of the Lib/National parties being more concerned with facing Julia in the polls than there were with Ruddy speaks volumes. Julia has a genuine chance of solidifying support for Labour, with a voting public that could no longer connect with Rudd (or had any idea what he stood for these days).
I suspect a mini budget of sorts will be released prior to the election.And there is already talk of cutting the super increase and lowering of tax rates.
I suspect a mini budget of sorts will be released prior to the election.
An unfortuante trend is that politicians increasingly see respect and getting re-elected as two different things.
Indeed. A modern form of Rome burning while Nero fiddles.The blight on democracy.
Following the political assination of Kevin Rudd I thought would be appropriate to replace the Rudd thread.
How can anyone be inspired by comrade Gillard when she flys to Brisbane in the Government jet to fund raise for the Labor Party. She was to have flown back to Brisbane today but thought better of it after the criticism she received from the press.
What a nerve this Prime Minister has in exceeding her privaliges!
I don't think we need to comment on physical features as they are not relevant to the debate. Though, ideology should be looked at because it affects people.She's to vain to be PM.
Her face looks as though she's had a face lift and her hair looks as though its been dyed even more than usual.
Perhaps Swan will be the next leader.
I can see the ad campaign now, Bill Shorten pulling the strings with a puppet in Gillard below.
Polls are starting to turn against her now. Only took a week for this to happen. Usually new leaders have a good period for a few months.
Too much damage has been done.
Gillard should have dropped the blasted tax alltogether, but no she's pushing ahead with it.
But did the question get answered without equivocation?What's wrong with being flippant.
I think she is very clever, probably more than Abbott.
Look how quickly she rose to the top. She has changed horse midstream at the right time and knows how to outwit her opponents.
A good example of quick thinking in Parliament:
JULIE BISHOP: Given that the Prime Minister has confirmed today that the same ministers will be conducting the same negotiations with the mining industry, for the same $12 billion outcome as before today's unprecedented political assassination of the former prime minister, what ...
(Jeering)
SPEAKER: Order!
JULIE BISHOP: ...what policy change has occurred? Or is the change, what many suspect a new face but still same old Labor, same old tax?
JULIA GILLARD: I thank the same old Deputy Leader of the Opposition for her question.
(Laughter)
JULIA GILLARD: And wish her well as she serves her third leader.
(Laughter)
This is my first post in here so be kind.
Been trying to find a forum on the super tax. In there a forum
on aussie stock forum only talking about this blasted super tax ?
She'll go the same way as Krudd did.
She's to vain to be PM.
Her face looks as though she's had a face lift and her hair looks as though its been dyed even more than usual.
Perhaps Swan will be the next leader.
I can see the ad campaign now, Bill Shorten pulling the strings with a puppet in Gillard below.
Polls are starting to turn against her now. Only took a week for this to happen. Usually new leaders have a good period for a few months.
Too much damage has been done.
Gillard should have dropped the blasted tax alltogether, but no she's pushing ahead with it.
Sure, it is the appeal of the Aussie Ockerina and her rhetoric is first rate.
It depends on how quickly Aussies see through this and look at raw ideology/policy, to know whether this is what Australia wants, ergo, socialism.
Was it Alan Greenspan (who has worked with every US President since Nixon) who once mentioned that anyone who is prepared to do what it takes to get elected isn't fit to run for office?An unfortuante trend is that politicians increasingly see respect and getting re-elected as two different things.
Appollo, firstly the super profits tax is now dead. It has been renamed the 'resource rent tax' which in effect is the same thing (very clever Julia Gillard) with a different name.
But I must admit she has shown some sanity in her negotiations with the miners, albeit at a cost in revenue of some $1.5billion.
She was perhaps in the invidious position being the new leader to be able to back down from the original concept put up by Rudd without losing face. If Rudd had relented, it would have shown him up as a weak leader.
Julia Gillard has once again made Rudd the scapegoat to make herself look as a hero in the face of the public. Very clever indeed.
Was it Alan Greenspan (who has worked with every US President since Nixon) who once mentioned that anyone who is prepared to do what it takes to get elected isn't fit to run for office?
Australians want the middle ground and Australians want government for the people, not the rich or special interest groups.
Not the hard right that has failed the USA, not the hard left that has failed parts of Europe.
And we have been good at obtaining it from our politicians. Once a party moves too far in one direction, we dump them.
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