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Your probably right, this may have helped her.
http://afr.com/p/national/media_face_bans_for_leaking_parliament_DuZt3umTctakeEWXHJDnFL
Nothing like a good whipping to get everything "ship shape"
To me Michelle Grattan's article is pretty reasonable and even handed.
She has, imo, appropriately criticised both sides:
This is the telling bitJulia Gillard is tougher than diamonds, and has cowed even the notorious political streetfighter Tony Abbott.
the opposition did not even attempt to move a motion of censure against her or, more seriously, a motion of no confidence.
Even in quiet times the Oz's Canberra political coverage has a hectoring tone. Obsessive, bombastic, endlessly repetitive, it is a newspaper with Asperger's. Platoons of reporters, columnists and commentators, all grandly titled - chief this, national that - tumble over each other in furious agreement with their proprietor's view that only nice Mr Abbott can save the nation from the perdition to which Labor is leading us.
This week they soared to dizzy new heights. What I suppose we must call the Gillard/AWU Affair whipped them to a frenzy, to page after page of grey print that bellowed and howled like some lunatic chained in a padded cell. It seems every hack on the payroll has lunged into the fray, save for the golfing writer and the food editor so far as I can gather, but sooner or later even they will be expected to join this News Ltd stampede to crucify the Prime Minister. It's the group-think way the joint works. HOPELESS JULIA DOUBLE-BOGEYS 18TH. PM's COQ AU VIN POISONS CAT. With the federal election due next year, the creative possibilities are endless.
Yes, she once had a dud boyfriend, until she dropped him like a hot brick. Show me a woman her age who hasn't. Even the
sanctimonious but risibly ineffectual Julie Bishop might have to plead guilty to that heinous offence.
One of your mob Peter Hartcher writes an adult summery of the week
This is the telling bit
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...another-day-20121130-2amng.html#ixzz2DkQjYCmn
impropriety, noun. - bad taste, improper action, improper behavior, imprudence, inappropriate behavior, inappropriateness, incongruousness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inexpedience, inexpediency, inopportuneness, lack of good taste, misbehavior, peccadillo, quod indecorum est, tactlessness, unaptness, unfitness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitable accion, unsuitableness, untimeliness, want of caution, want of circumspection
Associated concepts: crime, violation
She lays it out very clearly, doesn't she.Listen very carefully to this interview between Alan Jones and Julie Bishop form your own opinion.
http://www.2gb.com/article/julie-bishop-awu-affair
Hedley Thomas is The Australian’s national chief correspondent. He writes across the newspaper, specialising in investigative reporting with a particular interest in legal issues, the judiciary, public administration, corruption and politics.
Hedley, 43, first joined The Australian in 2006 after working for The Courier-Mail, The South China Morning Post and the Gold Coast Bulletin.
He is the author of Sick to Death, a book revolving around surgeon Dr Jayant Patel who was tried for manslaughter and grievous bodily harm in Brisbane after working as a director of surgery in Queensland. Dr Patel was convicted in July 2010. Hedley was responsible for uncovering his appalling background, leading to a public outcry and the criminal prosecution.
Hedley has won five Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley, in 2007, for his investigations into the fiasco surrounding the Australian Federal Police investigations of Dr Mohamed Haneef. Hedley is based in the Brisbane Bureau of The Australian, which he returned to in early 2010 after a two year stint in investor relations and media for a resources company.
She doesn't like all this at all.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...union-corruption/story-fndo317g-1226527799306
It is evidence of how Gillard uses sexism as both an accusation and a weapon. She screams “sexism” at Abbott, hoping to be excused as a woman the scrutiny and criticism any Prime Minister should face.
Agree, sails, not a very nice person at all. She isnt coping too well with her past being rehashed, is she?
Those loud sarcastic laughs say it all.
As for that pink outfit, does not suit her at all.
Feminine? pffft.
The same person.Is this the same Mike Carlton, or just someone with the same name?
Banking records first obtained when the AWU's national leadership called for a royal commission into this scandal in 1996 remain readily available.
A very dangerous place to stand is between Julia Gillard and power. That's where Kevin Rudd found himself and where Tony Abbott currently finds himself.What a nasty snarl...lol
She won't catagorically deny it which in itself raises suspicisions. One does not remember every transaction, but if something has been done that is naughty, one is more inclined to remember.Ms Gillard has said she cannot remember whether $5000 was deposited into her bank account.
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