Federal Labor Party discussion

[dutchie]

You can't always pick winners..

Kevin Rudd's star Victorian recruit Geoff Lake's abuse of wheelchair-bound woman revealed

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-new...ed/story-fnho52ip-1226694514695#ixzz2bVm3YNsN

 

[sptrawler]

You can't always pick winners..

Kevin Rudd's star Victorian recruit Geoff Lake's abuse of wheelchair-bound woman revealed

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-new...ed/story-fnho52ip-1226694514695#ixzz2bVm3YNsN

Sounds like he will fit right in.

 

[sptrawler]

You can't always pick winners..

Kevin Rudd's star Victorian recruit Geoff Lake's abuse of wheelchair-bound woman revealed

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-new...ed/story-fnho52ip-1226694514695#ixzz2bVm3YNsN

OOOPs it looks like Gillard's misogyny speach has come back to bite them.lol

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...usive-candidates/story-fnho52jp-1226694708678

Dumb politics by Gillard, wedges Rudd.lol

 

[dutchie]

Liberal ad





Maybe Beattie could have said this now.....

"For me, Rudd's lack of political judgement was demonstrated when he picked me to run for the seat of Forde........."

 

[chiff]

You can't always pick winners..

Kevin Rudd's star Victorian recruit Geoff Lake's abuse of wheelchair-bound woman revealed

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-new...ed/story-fnho52ip-1226694514695#ixzz2bVm3YNsN

Why is it that we/I try to second guess others'motives?.Perhaps the labor party cannot attack TA on his past bad behaviour when involved in the student uni movement if they have their own baggage.Hence this candidate had to go -for a long past indiscretion.

 

[dutchie]

Why is it that we/I try to second guess others'motives?.Perhaps the labor party cannot attack TA on his past bad behaviour when involved in the student uni movement if they have their own baggage.Hence this candidate had to go -for a long past indiscretion.

Credit to Krudd for dumping him (and Robertson).

 

[dutchie]

I can see a call up of Gough and Latham by Rudd to replace those two candidates.

 

[sptrawler]

I can see a call up of Gough and Latham by Rudd to replace those two candidates.

Maybe a captains pick of his two sons.

Then change the ACT to the kingdom of Ruddum.

 

[sails]

Here is an interesting link to a 2gb radio interview with Steve Kates, senior lecturer at RMIT University, who discusses how imported Obama strategists are employing American tactics to influence Australian politics.

Team Obama and the ALP infect Australian politics - audio player

I have questions about Vote Compass if it is actually as independent as it suggests or is it part of the Obama team gathering information. Time will tell.

Here is the link to Steve Kates' article in the Quadrant: Packaging putrescence,Obama-style

 

[Country Lad]

According to this, Labor does have a plan to work towards a surplus.

Cheers
Country Lad

 

[sptrawler]

According to this, Labor does have a plan to work towards a surplus.

Cheers
Country Lad

Great post, Country Lad.

Hope we are still smiling after the debate,. Rudd is an excellent speaker, never caught speachless.
Abbott will have to be really on his toes or he will be made a fool of IMO.

 

[db94]

According to this, Labor does have a plan to work towards a surplus.

Cheers
Country Lad

hahahaha brilliant! at first I thought my computer was f'ed but then i realised

 

[noco]

We are into election mode and the Labor Party are still fighting amongst themselves internally.

I used to believe Labor and the unions motto was "UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...didate-in-hotham/story-fn9qr68y-1226695194983

 

[noco]

We are into election mode and the Labor Party are still fighting amongst themselves internally.

I used to believe Labor and the unions motto was "UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...didate-in-hotham/story-fn9qr68y-1226695194983

Once again we are seeing disunity in the Labor ranks with senior Labor Ministers disagreeing with Rudd over the Greens.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...rudd-woos-greens/story-fnii5s41-1226697415884

 

[drsmith]

Perpetual Tony Abbott bagger Mark Kenny (Fairfax) finally throws in the towel on Labor.

In the narrowly focused context of the formal contest, they reasoned, Rudd would rise against a Liberal leader weighed down by his low popularity, half-baked policies on climate change and broadband and his reputation for old-world attitudes to women and same-sex marriage. But with the halfway point of this pantomime not far away, it is clear to the cooler heads in both camps that this race is already decided.

Tony Abbott's 52-48 per cent lead in last weekend's Fairfax-Nielsen poll is not unbridgeable for Labor but it is, in all likelihood, structural.

He's finally come to the realisation that the great launch of Rudd II will end more like the Russian N1 than the US's Saturn V.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ust-a-sugar-hit-after-all-20130814-2rwr1.html

 

[noco]

Liberal ad

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Maybe Beattie could have said this now.....

"For me, Rudd's lack of political judgement was demonstrated when he picked me to run for the seat of Forde........."

To top it all off now, this Beattie grub is blaming Anna Bligh for the financial mess Campbell Newman inherited.

I can't see this statement buying him many votes in Forde.

 

[dutchie]

Now here's a good idea. Let's develop the north of Australia and give them special tax concessions.


Kevvie your a legend for being so smart.

 

[drsmith]

To top it all off now, this Beattie grub is blaming Anna Bligh for the financial mess Campbell Newman inherited.

I can't see this statement buying him many votes in Forde.

If the're starting to spill their own blood before the election, just imagine the internal slaughter that will take place after Labor lose.

The shanty Kevin Rudd has built from the rubble of Julia Gillard's leadership will quickly become as red as that wall behind Peter Beattie.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ligh-for-economy/story-fnihsrf2-1226697639834

 

[sails]

Another proven lie of labor's. From PolitiFact:

Tony Abbott neither “took $1 billion out of hospital funding for the states” nor presided over a cut.

The charge is serious and personal.

A PolitiFact rating of "false" applies where a statement is not accurate.

PolitiFact rates Kevin Rudd's claim that Tony Abbott took $1 billion out of hospital funding for the states "false".

and

It was an increase, not a cut. Under the new agreement, states were offered “up to an additional $10 billion to help run public hospitals,” but instead of being offered up to $43 billion as had been foreshadowed they were offered up to $42 billion.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/fact-checker/did-abbott-rip-1b-out-of-hospitals-20130815-2ry8t.html#ixzz2c22QcFff

 

[Julia]

Now here's a good idea. Let's develop the north of Australia and give them special tax concessions.

Didn't the Coalition bring out a White Paper largely based on this a few months ago which was widely ridiculed by Labor at the time?

Why the Northern Territory? I thought their economy was reasonably healthy.
Why would such a policy not result in companies notionally basing their operations up there for the tax concessions and continuing to operate in other parts of Australia as they do now?
Effectively it would be to advertise the NT as Australia's own tax haven.

If any part of Australia needs preferential treatment it would seem to be Tasmania.