Oh, God! Is that on Reinhardt's $720 sexy girl advertisement site too?
I suppose he predicted that one.
Nice.
Kerr briefed on CIA threat to Whitlam
EXCLUSIVE: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY TAPES
By ANDREW CLARK
THE AGE Sunday 15 October 2000
The first evidence of possible CIA
involvement in the dismissal of the
Whitlam government in 1975 has been
revealed by the defence minister at the
time, Bill Morrison.
The American intelligence connection is
linked to a crucial meeting called by the
Governor-General, John Kerr, a few
days before he sacked Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam.
I notice GG has been absent from further comment on his thread.
Perhaps he was feeling bored and decided to stick his oar in and stir the water.Nothing like a bit of rabid political debate to liven things up!
The contention is quite ludicrous ,anyway.Comparisons between 1975 and today make no sense at all...just wishful thinking on the part of the anti-labour faction here.
Cheers Ya'll
Well after reading about rudds bailout of mortgages and car payments now i personally think sack the numnut also !! WTF . people being penalised for having a job here ? having a hard time paying the bills ...bugga it lets all go on the dole and have a year off from paying ........ THIS has pissed me off , im gunna go sack all my workers and go do em all a bloody favour!
might as well sack myself too and live it large with the rest of these freewheelin buggas .
LOL the worse part is . I AM PAYING FOR ALL THIS latest crap and if i dont pay my bills i WILL go to the wall
un believable!
Exactly and this mortgage relief rubbish will just postpone the housing crash a little and put the banks under a lot of financial pressure.
Someone will pay and the only ones who can are those with a few bucks and perhaps a job.
Rudd's playing with fire, his ad hoc intervention could have massive adverse repercussions, you don't play with the economy of a nation as if it were your own personal tool for gaining popularity.
Quite true. A relative of mine is a single mother with two deaf children.Agree totally nun, why work when all the bludgers and greedy bastards who've never worked get more and more handouts.
gg
This from Channel 10 today via www.news.com.au.
It sounds familiarly like 1974/5.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25292235-2,00.html
gg
THE coalition is prepared to block budget supply in the Senate if it believes the Federal Government is wasting taxpayers' money.
Earlier this year the coalition voted against Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's $42 billion economic stimulus package.
Opposition finance spokesman Joe Hockey says the coalition is prepared to do so again if next month's budget contains reckless spending measures.
"If there is waste, if there is mismanagement, we will oppose it," Mr Hockey told Channel 10.
"We have always opposed bad policy and we will continue to oppose bad policy."
gg
Quite true. A relative of mine is a single mother with two deaf children.
She gets all sorts of additional benefits because of the kids' disability.
She does not work but is for ever engaging in courses, counselling etc, all for free because she is a carer.
In the last two stimulus payments combined she will have received over $6000.
She's looking forward to a three week trip to London and the Continent.
Meantime, self funded retirees get nothing. Whacko! What a great system.
Sure is no doubt about ****** Labor governments!
PS See also my thread about dividend imputation being under threat.
ok back sort of on topic .....
if they sacked rudd who would they put in his place currenttly?
Hi GG,
The chances of the Gov dissolving parliament are at or near zero. Here are some reasons.
Because the Coalition is so far behind Labor in the polls, and Turnbull has gained so little traction, there is no way (despite what they claim) that they would want an election any time soon. Turnbull's attempts to label the Global Financial Crisis, the Rudd Recession, just sound childish, and not even the economically naive are buying it. To take a divided Rudd-erless boat to an election would be spectacularly daft. Doesn't matter whether you love or hate Rudd. From an objective standpoint, he's a mile in front in the polls. Personally, I think his term so far has been a mix of botched and good policy, but a country mile in front of the clowns who were shown the door.
Switching to Costello, would also go splat. Labor, Coalition and other polling have consistently found him to be un-electable. He's also inextricably associated with Work Choices, which would make him even greater political poison in a time of rising unemployment. Costello has a loyal but small base of Liberal only voters and disliked by the rest. If they did make the switch to Costello or any other, I'd expect an early election to be called shortly after.
Regardless, as first term governments in Australia almost always call an early election to capitalise on there popularity, I'd be surprised if that's not the case this time around as well. Rudd would looking for an excuse right now.
GG of ASF may want parliament to be dissolved but the other GG won't be doing so in the near future.
Just as a footnote, before you chime in with predictions of the electorate turning on a sixpence and racing back to the coalition in their current state of dissarray, reflect on your previous prophecies of the same thing happening in the US and Australian elections. "McCain and Howard in a late landslide" or words to that effect. Someone seems to keep shooting the phoenix, dagnabit.
I would agree with many of your points, well argued and explained , particularly the early election. that would be a good tactic.
Costello I think you underestimate, although he has been late to call his bet before and ran out of time, with a winning hand, and lost.
There are some other "disasters" and "rats" ready to come out of the Labor baggage later this year.
Also , Rudd is the only bloke I know of whose gone to a high class brothel all expenses paid and come away without a r**t.
It makes you wonder whether he isn't so much up himself and Obama that he may call an election too late. An Erection delayed as is said in Mandarin is an Erection wasted.
gg
Skint, thanks for your rare but always interesting posts. I understand the point you're making about what is fair v what is effective, but geez, it still annoys me mightily.
Yes, as you recall, I've been out of the market since beginning of 08, other than a few short term trades. Just last week I put the first 'toe in thewater'
with a fairly small parcel of WBC.
And you? Still staying out?
Originally Posted by skint
Hi GG,
The chances of the Gov dissolving parliament are at or near zero. Here are some reasons.
Because the Coalition is so far behind Labor in the polls, and Turnbull has gained so little traction, there is no way (despite what they claim) that they would want an election any time soon. Turnbull's attempts to label the Global Financial Crisis, the Rudd Recession, just sound childish, and not even the economically naive are buying it. To take a divided Rudd-erless boat to an election would be spectacularly daft. Doesn't matter whether you love or hate Rudd. From an objective standpoint, he's a mile in front in the polls. Personally, I think his term so far has been a mix of botched and good policy, but a country mile in front of the clowns who were shown the door.
Switching to Costello, would also go splat. Labor, Coalition and other polling have consistently found him to be un-electable. He's also inextricably associated with Work Choices, which would make him even greater political poison in a time of rising unemployment. Costello has a loyal but small base of Liberal only voters and disliked by the rest. If they did make the switch to Costello or any other, I'd expect an early election to be called shortly after.
Regardless, as first term governments in Australia almost always call an early election to capitalise on there popularity, I'd be surprised if that's not the case this time around as well. Rudd would looking for an excuse right now.
GG of ASF may want parliament to be dissolved but the other GG won't be doing so in the near future.
Just as a footnote, before you chime in with predictions of the electorate turning on a sixpence and racing back to the coalition in their current state of dissarray, reflect on your previous prophecies of the same thing happening in the US and Australian elections. "McCain and Howard in a late landslide" or words to that effect. Someone seems to keep shooting the phoenix, dagnabit.
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