Does Gillard inspire confidence?

[drsmith]

You should be able to get the full story from the Australian without needing a subscription through this link via Michael Smiths's Blog

Ian Cambridge on the Victoria Police investigation into The AWU Scandal

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...-investigation-into-the-awu-scandal.html#more

This has also appeared on Smithy's blog.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has imposed a travel ban on Coalition MPs heading overseas, saying they need to be prepared for an election at any time.

If the image on the post is from today, something is indeed brewing.

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/02/something-brewing-in-canberra-.html#more

 

[sails]

Found on Michael Smith's website - says it all really...



http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/02/make-up-your-mind.html

 

[drsmith]

Michael Smith has a score to settle and it may well settle in his favour.

 

[sptrawler]

I think the misogyny speach has been a turning point in Gillards career and not for the better.

It was a massive tactical stuff up, now only one in four women want to vote for her.

This is the problem with bringing in an overseas spin doctor, what works in U.K doesn't necassarily work here, there are subtle differences.

 

[Miss Hale]

I think the misogyny speach has been a turning point in Gillards career and not for the better.

It was a massive tactical stuff up, now only one in four women want to vote for her.

This is the problem with bringing in an overseas spin doctor, what works in U.K doesn't necassarily work here, there are subtle differences.

It didn't work in the UK either.

 

[sails]

It didn't work in the UK either.

That's what is bizarre. Why would Gillard bring in someone who had failed?

 

[Purple XS2]

Being open minded and all, I thought I'd chip in to the anti-Gillard thread for a change:

From today's Crikey :"In launching the policy, the Prime Minister gave a speech that was almost cringingly awful at times."[/I]

With one exception, (a speech made in China, no doubt drafted by Foreign Affairs wonks instead of her usual Wally) every 'speech' from our current PM I've heard, is cringingly bad.

Which, ignoring all the weird anti-Gillard stuff one sees about the traps, (present thread excepted of course, is 1 of 2 reasons why the current PM is a failure at her job, because there are just 2 fundamental tasks for a Prime Minister:

1: to articulate the government's polices and principles (whatever they are - that's a separate issue), and
2: to be responsible for ministerial appointments. Any PM that tolerates a boob like Joe Ludwig in their cabinet is clearly oblivious to this requirement.

Anyway, don't let me interrupt your spiking of your voodoo doll,

regards,

P

 

[drsmith]

Anyway, don't let me interrupt your spiking of your voodoo doll,

You've filled the last two places to put pins.

 

[sptrawler]

Well this is a not so rosy picture, from what the reporter is saying, there were no treasury accountants present when the MRRT was thrashed out.
No wonder they were thrashed, pure arrogance, anything to keep office.IMO

Amazing, it was posted on an ABC website, maybe they are realigning for a change of master.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4524780.html

 

[noco]

The new debt level is now $267,000,000,000 that is $267 billion (THAT IS $14,000 FOR EACH MAN WOMAN AND CHILD) and rising at the rate of $100,000,000 each day.

Gillard is leaving with a "SCORCHED EARTH POLICY" for the Coalition to battle with for the next 10+years and when it is all paid back the stupid naive will say it is time for a change of government and the merry go round will start all over again.

How can anyone have confidence in this Prime Minister let alone this inept Labor Party? Well, I guess the rusted on Labor supporters wiil but then again they are starting dwindle.


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-this-term-alone/story-fncyva0b-1226607170108

 

[YMI]

The new debt level is now $267,000,000,000 that is $267 billion (THAT IS $14,000 FOR EACH MAN WOMAN AND CHILD) and rising at the rate of $100,000,000 each day.

Gillard is leaving with a "SCORCHED EARTH POLICY" for the Coalition to battle with for the next 10+years and when it is all paid back the stupid naive will say it is time for a change of government and the merry go round will start all over again.

How can anyone have confidence in this Prime Minister let alone this inept Labor Party? Well, I guess the rusted on Labor supporters wiil but then again they are starting dwindle.


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-this-term-alone/story-fncyva0b-1226607170108

Yes it’s awful how they waste the money that isn’t theirs but look at the debt level of other countries, for example:
USA: ~48000 A$ per person,
EU: ~26000 A$ per person,
China: ~1125 A$ per person.
Does that mean the Chinese have the best government?

And it would be more meaningful to put the debt in relation to the GDP.
USA: ~100%
EU: ~89%
Australia: ~27%
China: ~19%
Now it doesn’t look quite so bad anymore, does it?

 

[noco]

Yes it’s awful how they waste the money that isn’t theirs but look at the debt level of other countries, for example:
USA: ~48000 A$ per person,
EU: ~26000 A$ per person,
China: ~1125 A$ per person.
Does that mean the Chinese have the best government?

And it would be more meaningful to put the debt in relation to the GDP.
USA: ~100%
EU: ~89%
Australia: ~27%
China: ~19%
Now it doesn’t look quite so bad anymore, does it?

Personally I don't give a bugger about what is going on in other countries.

I am concerned about what is going on here with this inept Green/Socialst Left wing Labor Party.

They have no concerns about the people's living standards in Australia. All they are concerned about is there own survival.

 

[drsmith]

And it would be more meaningful to put the debt in relation to the GDP.
USA: ~100%
EU: ~89%
Australia: ~27%
China: ~19%
Now it doesn’t look quite so bad anymore, does it?

It's the fiscal path our government is taking that's the problem.

It's unsustainable.

 

[sails]

Yes it’s awful how they waste the money that isn’t theirs but look at the debt level of other countries, for example:
USA: ~48000 A$ per person,
EU: ~26000 A$ per person,
China: ~1125 A$ per person.
Does that mean the Chinese have the best government?

And it would be more meaningful to put the debt in relation to the GDP.
USA: ~100%
EU: ~89%
Australia: ~27%
China: ~19%
Now it doesn’t look quite so bad anymore, does it?

No matter how you put it, $260+ billion gross debt is far greater than any debt ever run up by a labor government.

And you want us to follow in the footsteps of the countries you admire?

www.menzieshouse.com.au/steve-hunter/

 

[YMI]

No matter how you put it, $260+ billion gross debt is far greater than any debt ever run up by a labor government.

What a great picture and true in some way. The point is, this happens no matter what level of debt. If the world economy suffers, our economy suffers. Don’t get me wrong, I hate that too, how they deal with the taxpayer’s money and that they know just one direction and that is more debt. However, the current level doesn’t concern me so much, it’s more the direction. And whether Labor or Liberal is better at making debt I don’t know. And whether our grandchildren will say one day, that was sustainable what you guys did 50 years ago – I don’t know.

And you want us to follow in the footsteps of the countries you admire?

A good question, one that I admire – maybe yes but not one of the listed ones. And I would need more time to figure out whether there is one which I admire more

 

[DB008]

What a great picture and true in some way. The point is, this happens no matter what level of debt. If the world economy suffers, our economy suffers. Don’t get me wrong, I hate that too, how they deal with the taxpayer’s money and that they know just one direction and that is more debt. However, the current level doesn’t concern me so much, it’s more the direction. And whether Labor or Liberal is better at making debt I don’t know. And whether our grandchildren will say one day, that was sustainable what you guys did 50 years ago – I don’t know.

A good question, one that I admire – maybe yes but not one of the listed ones. And I would need more time to figure out whether there is one which I admire more

Should we have a very, very, very, deep hole to dig ourselves out of, or just a smash ditch?

 

[noco]

Did Gillard do anything wrong with the Wilson and the AWU scandal?

According Michael Smith News Ltd Gillard has done plenty wrong.

Do listen to his 20 minute audio attached to this link and form your own opinion.

What I would like to know is why haven't the police taken this into consideration?


http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...putation-on-the-proposition-that-you-did.html

 

[banco]

Did Gillard do anything wrong with the Wilson and the AWU scandal?

According Michael Smith News Ltd Gillard has done plenty wrong.

Do listen to his 20 minute audio attached to this link and form your own opinion.

What I would like to know is why haven't the police taken this into consideration?


http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...putation-on-the-proposition-that-you-did.html

Probably because it's bull**** and only convincing to people who don't actually know anything about how the law works.

To take but one example he defines "probable" as "could well happen" at around 6:30.

 

[MrBurns]

To take but one example he defines "probable" as "could well happen" at around 6:30.

prob·a·ble
Adjective


Likely to be the case or to happen.

.....

 

[drsmith]

Probably because it's bull**** and only convincing to people who don't actually know anything about how the law works.

QandA from November 26 2012 is well worth a listen,

JANET ALBRECHTSEN: Now, as a lawyer, I’m very familiar with ABC rules. I know that you can't set up an association using the letters ABC without authorisation. It was not authorised. What do I do next? I decide not to open a file. I'm a lawyer. I've got fiduciary duties to my partners at a law firm. I choose not to tell those partners about this matter. I’m a lawyer. I’ve got fiduciary duties to the firms major client, the ABC, but I choose not to tell other members of the ABC that I’m doing work on the side for my boyfriend to set up a fund using the letters ABC for the purposes that have nothing to do with workplace reform. Now, I'm sorry, Penny, you know, the Prime Minister today talked about being very ultra cautious and ultra careful. She was not ultra cautious or ultra careful in the work that she conducted and that's why this issue keeps coming up again and again. And let me just finish. By coming out today and denying everything, not even conceding there were perhaps judgments that she could have made a little better in hindsight, by coming out and denying, she’s upped the ante, not for the Opposition but for people like Nick Styant Browne, the former partner at Slater & Gordon. I think we will hear from people like that.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3635992.htm