Kevin Rudd

Mofra · 21 January 2010

Re: Rudd the comedian

Buddy said:
We will get rid of all those landed gentry (National Party voters) who have destroyed land, ie, we will import all food requirements.

Not that you haven't summed things up well Buddy, but I really wanted to highlight this one.
If Rudd or anyone can find a better environmental manager than your average farmer, please point them out. Farms are often inter-generational and if the land is not cared for effectively the farmers go broke!

gav · 21 January 2010

Re: Rudd the comedian

From the article posted at the start of this thread:

"By 2050, there will be 2.7 working-age Australians for every one aged 65 or over, down from about five today.

The impact would be twofold, Mr Rudd said. It would cost more to meet the needs of ageing Australians requiring health services, aged care and age pensions, at the same time reducing tax revenues as the proportion of working Australians fell."

Yet in the 2009 Federal Budget, the government cut the superannuation concessional contributions cap in half, starting the 2009-10 financial year. From $50K to $25K for those under 50, and from $100k to $50k for those over 50. And from July 2012, those over 50 will have their concessional contributions cap halved again, to $25k.

Makes no sense at all.

trainspotter · 22 January 2010

Re: Rudd the comedian

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old farmer, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

Eventually the topic got around to the Prime Minister.

The old farmer said, 'Well, ya know, in my opinion, the Prime Minister is a 'Post Turtle''..

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a 'post turtle' was.

The old farmer said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.

The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there and you just wonder what kind of dumb buggar put him up there to begin with !!

Timmy · 23 January 2010

Re: Does Rudd inspire confidence?

The Australian newspaper has nominated Mr. Rudd as its Australian of the Year

Mr Rudd's selection - as the person who had the most significant impact on the nation in the past 12 months - stands out because of the extraordinary challenges that confronted Australia last year and helped define his prime ministership.

More here:
WITH the exception of wartime prime minister John Curtin, few Australian leaders have faced a more daunting crisis in their first term of office than that which confronted Kevin Rudd.

Mr Rudd was barely a year into his job as prime minister when a collapse of confidence in US financial markets spread like a contagion across the globe in late 2008, plunging much of the world into recession. What happened next proved to be a defining moment, both for Australia and for its new leader, who had never before held an economic portfolio.

Rather than risk waiting for a clearer picture to emerge, Mr Rudd and his team saw the need for urgent and radical action to protect the economy, approving a series of unprecedented financial stimulus packages to taxpayers and giving sweeping guarantees to the nation's banks.

Garpal Gumnut · 23 January 2010