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Rudd's Crisis Centre Bunker

In the budget, Rudd ordered a $38M bunker to be built under parliament house for 'improved communications' during a crisis. what do you guys think?
 
Re: Rudd's Crisis Centre Bunker

Hilter had a bunker.
Stalin had a bunker.
Mao had a bunker.
Now Ruddy has a bunker.
 
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Largesse said:
Hilter had a bunker.
Stalin had a bunker.
Mao had a bunker.
Now Ruddy has a bunker.
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Obama has many bunkers
The Queen of England has a bunker
Gordon Brown has a bunker

whats your point? :D
 
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I see where this is going...

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Doesn't this tickle your 'this seems a little suss' button in the back of your mind? :cautious::cautious::cautious:
 
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You mean they built parliament house without a bunker who was the idiot who did that.It has been standard practice since churchill in battle of Britain. I suspect it was Hawke maybe he could sell off his investments in myamar to compensate the taxpayer for his lack of foresight
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

I only heard the end of Paul Bongoirno..political reporter for ch10 tonight...saying PM Rudd would have to step down.....??? wonder what that was about...

Kevin Rudd denies he did favours for free car

AAP
June 04, 2009 05:06pm
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says neither he nor his office have made representations in relation to the OZ Car scheme on behalf of a car dealership that gave him a free vehicle.
Brisbane car dealer John Grant Motors has given the prime minister a free car, including registration and insurance.

Mr Rudd said that while he accepted the car from John Grant, which he uses in his electorate, he had not made representations on behalf of the car dealer in relation to the Oz Car scheme.

"In relation to this individual and the contribution of a motor vehicle to my local electorate, that was fully declared," he said.

The OZ Car scheme, a debt facility, was announced in December to support dealerships under threat of losing financing through the withdrawal of financiers GE and GMAC from the Australian market.

Treasurer Wayne Swan said his office had referred John Grant to the Treasury-run program
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25586884-29277,00.html
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

pm and utegate is turning interesting
some political commentators are calling it tail gate...
bbc radio this morning said Swan saying in parliament yesterday that there were thousands of calls regarding OZCAR...it turns out there were only 3 and 2 of them were from Grant..funny about that...more to come...

and its beginning to sound like lies.....both from swan and the PM statement below......guess we will find out more between now and next time parliament sits again..............

Mr Rudd told parliament today that neither he nor his office had made representations on behalf of John Grant Motors about OzCar.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25590269-421,00.html
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

apparently Andrew Bolt cannot be bought, or silenced like the rest of the media...and the utegate affair is tiny compared to the all the other things that have been going on......but then again I was not aware of Bolt until late last year...maybe he said similar things about Howard.....

the extract.................

Given also Rudd’s damning of artist Bill Henson, his blocking of the promotion of Hugh Borrowman, his astonishing and deceptive spinning, his personal intervention in arts prizes, the increased sidelining of dissent, the political stacking of the ABC board, the deliberate creation of group think, and the co-opting of media bosses and leading journalists in the Rudd agenda, would Marr once more conclude (and I’ve changed just two words):


Since 2007, Rudd has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced non-government organisations, neutered Canberra’s mandarins, curtailed parliamentary scrutiny, censored the arts, banned books, criminalised protest and prosecuted whistleblowers.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

kincella said:
apparently Andrew Bolt cannot be bought, or silenced like the rest of the media...and the utegate affair is tiny compared to the all the other things that have been going on......but then again I was not aware of Bolt until late last year...maybe he said similar things about Howard.....
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No, he didn't say similar things about Howard. Bolt is probably the journalist most to the right, bar perhaps Piers Akerman.
But yes, I'd be surprised if he could be bought or silenced.

This car thing so far sounds to me like the Libs clutching at anything they can to try to divert attention from the good news for the government on the GDP figures earlier this week. Rudd has declared the vehicle on the pecuniary interest register, so unless the Libs have something substantially greater to reveal, they should shut up or look pathetic.

And they'll find it difficult to be negative about the appointment of Faulkner to the Defence portfolio. Very experienced, very capable politician.
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

Julia...I saw Swan in parliament saying there were thousands of calls to his office about OZCAR...was he supposed to check everyone of them......then in a senate committee meeting..he was forced to discloise the truth...only 3 calls or inquiries made and two of them were from.....drumroll...John Grant...

so here we have the treasurer telling huge lies....

what some are failing to understand here....the PM has no need for an old ute....he has everything he needs at his disposal....they are neighbours and good friends....if you are supposed to be transparent and above board...while leave something as silly as an old ute out there...

oh the libs will have more when parliament sits again....
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

kincella said:
apparently Andrew Bolt cannot be bought, or silenced like the rest of the media...and the utegate affair is tiny compared to the all the other things.


Since 2007, Rudd has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced non-government organisations, neutered Canberra’s mandarins, curtailed parliamentary scrutiny, censored the arts, banned books, criminalised protest and prosecuted whistleblowers.
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I have always thought that Bolt was a bit over the top, but, someone once said;

"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."

Now my opinion of Kevin Rudd and David Marr is that they are nasty pieces of work.

So, in this context I guess Andrew Bolt is OK.
 
Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

maybe its only some of us who woke up to this a long time ago....
absolutley no reporter saying anything against rudd and his team of misfits...
so I have given up reading or listening to any of them.....ie the reporters or the labor party.....luckily its different in the states...where information flows into the public view....
note an article today about Bligh....keeping kids in a tent etc....
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Rise of Rudd's sentinels of spin
Team Rudd is about disguising the leader's weaknesses, including a short temper and a certain lack of spontaneity, says Gazard. "He doesn't perform well when he's under pressure, and he's not particularly strong at thinking on his feet. By contrast, John Howard really enjoyed the likes of Kerry O'Brien and Laurie Oakes; he enjoyed the conflict and didn't shy away from a tough interview
Twenty months after Kevin '07 swept to victory, the PM's burgeoning media machine has become so practised at controlling his image and massaging his message that some political analysts liken it to a PR state, one exceeding the sheen of former prime minister John Howard, whose renowned National Media Liaison Service (nicknamed aNiMaLS) set a new benchmark in spin. While ostensibly serving as a liaison between the press and the Prime Minister, Rudd's media advisers serve one principal function: to boost their boss's image, say observers.

"He (Rudd) is a micro-manager, he doesn't know when to stop, and that flows through to everything he does, including trying to control the media," says one member of the press gallery.

Largely invisible to the public, the Rudd Government's growing force of press secretaries, media advisers and consultants is nearly double the number employed during the Hawke and Keating eras.

After initially vowing to slash ministerial head counts, including media, across all departments, the Rudd Government employs 40 communications staff in the Department of Agriculture, 30 in the Department of Innovation, 23 in the Department of the Environment and six in the PM's office. Communications spending on consultants is also rising. The departments of immigration, broadband and innovation forked out $7.4 million for public relations experts in 12 months.

Yet figures alone can't convey how the media machine is controlling the day-to-day discharge of information. Gallery journalists describe how Maria Hawthorne, a media adviser in the Prime Minister's office, prowls the gallery each day unashamedly asking journos: "What are you writing?"

"It's very obvious what the strategy is," observes one member of the press gallery. "Get an image for the nightly news for people who don't follow politics - an image that makes the Government look like it's frenetically trying to help people through the economic crisis - and then make life as hard as possible for journalists who try to analyse the Government."

It's probably a measure of how tightly controlled the Rudd machine is that few journalists in the press gallery are willing to go on the record on the subject, afraid of alienating hard-earned contacts. Explains one reporter: "Our job is hard enough now, without making life even more difficult for ourselves." Says Ian Smith, a Liberal Party consultant who worked on the Telstra sales of T1, T2 and T3, now a principal with consultancy Bespoke Approach: "Part of the Rudd Government's success has been the ability to cut out the press gallery and undermine its influence by managing the media flow beyond. Why deal with the media who ask the informed questions if you don't need to do so?"

Central control of media inquiries has become the cornerstone of the Government's strategy, say observers. All press releases and media, including even those by the CSIRO, are first to be approved by the PM's office. Complains one member of the press gallery: "Senior public servants are now saying, 'Sorry, I just can't talk to you. I could be prosecuted.' The traditional sources of information have dried up."


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25593811-5013871,00.html
 

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