Pic sums it up.
As long as it applies to politicians and public servants as well.
Pic sums it up.
Governments have to sell a Budget.
This one hasn't sold in any palatable form. Clive Palmer knows it, and so does Malcolm Turnbull. Medicare $7 co-payment, right up there with '..there will be no carbon tax..'. It's an older population in this country.
Abandon co-payment PM Abbott, or I vote ALP next time.
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Rumour has it that Abbott will be tipped out in nine days,
Successors tipped are Hunt, Turnbull and my wife forgets the name of the other one.
On Facebook this afternoon.
Howard and Hawke appeared at the Press club together.
Howard made some very good points, as did Hawke. Both great men imo.
We'd be lucky to have leadership half their calibre these days.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...steps-up-attack-against-big-megaphone-bulliesAfter a week of extraordinary exchanges with the News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt and the Sydney radio announcer Alan Jones, Turnbull told the ABC’s 7.30 that “you could come to the conclusion” the attacks against him by the commentators had been “coordinated” but that he was “absolutely certain” they had not been fuelled by the prime minister’s office because “that really would be mad".
Watching Sarah Ferguson's interview with Malcolm Turnbull last night, imo he came across as barely containing his irritation at this whole silly situation.
I thought he handled her questions pretty well.
Ditto calling Jones out as he did.
I'm no great fan of Mr Turnbull but believe he has done his best to be a team player in recent times, and can't be held responsible for the stupid behaviour of some of the less than sensible media commentators.
Again, the time, energy and focus of politicians - and the nation - is being wasted by this ridiculous attention-seeking nonsense instead of their looking at some genuinely relevant and important issues.
Watching Sarah Ferguson's interview with Malcolm Turnbull last night, imo he came across as barely containing his irritation at this whole silly situation.
I thought he handled her questions pretty well.
Ditto calling Jones out as he did.
I'm no great fan of Mr Turnbull but believe he has done his best to be a team player in recent times, and can't be held responsible for the stupid behaviour of some of the less than sensible media commentators.
Again, the time, energy and focus of politicians - and the nation - is being wasted by this ridiculous attention-seeking nonsense instead of their looking at some genuinely relevant and important issues.
Agreed on Turnbull's response to the issue, Abbott also handled it reasonably well, publicly anyway, but with two of Abbott's media chums coming out with anti Turnbull propaganda in such a short time frame you just have to wonder what and who is behind it. Peta Credlin on behalf of her boss perhaps ?
There is rarely smoke without fire, and I would surmise that there is a fair bit of smouldering going on in the LNP backbenches. Some with slim majorities may be getting nervous.
How do you win an election yet never rate positively with the public as PM?
Just shows how disenchanted the electorate was with the previous government.
The way things are going, we could be flipping governments for the next 10 years.
Shame the problems won't go away.
However by then the media will really have something to report, the economy should be in real strife.
yes, I think the L+NP really thought the electorate wanted them when it was a case of dumb and dumber and fat bastard. OH BEHAVE
Wont take 10 years. 100K of workers around the LNG terminals all looking for new jobs over the next 2 years. Another 30K or so looking for jobs from other resource project construction as well.
The media might focus on GDP growth, mostly due to the population ponzi and net exports, which don't reflect the loss of purchasing power we're all facing, or the fact there's been an income and spending recession going on for the last couple of years already..
It was good while the ToT boom lasted, shame all we've got to show for it is massively wasteful Government spending programs and some of the world's most overpriced housing
+1, the whole media has become an absolute joke.
Watching Sarah Ferguson's interview with Malcolm Turnbull last night, imo he came across as barely containing his irritation at this whole silly situation.
I thought he handled her questions pretty well.
Ditto calling Jones out as he did.
I'm no great fan of Mr Turnbull but believe he has done his best to be a team player in recent times, and can't be held responsible for the stupid behaviour of some of the less than sensible media commentators.
Again, the time, energy and focus of politicians - and the nation - is being wasted by this ridiculous attention-seeking nonsense instead of their looking at some genuinely relevant and important issues.
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