Knobby22
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Well he said almost a brother because he is black and could really at best be a half brother.
Lol.
Tony Abbott says the Indian P.M. is more than almost a kindred spirit, but almost a brother. After less than a week of meeting the bloke in his role as Indian P.M., Abbott comes up with a shallow statement like that to grow a stronger trading partner.
Federal minister Christopher Pyne took to Twitter to beg the ABC not to shut down its South Australian TV production unit.
“The board must reassure South Australians that the local TV production house of the ABC will remain in South Australia,” Mr Pyne’s petition says.
This has to be up there with Brandis explaining metadata
Make sme think Chris has a decent stash of Kava or Peyote that he's consuming a bit too much of lately.
That would be taking a leaf out of Barack Obama's book.He'll be moaning when the University of Adelaide has to hold chook raffles to raise funds too.
“We know it is very difficult, but if Australia can give permission for Chinese labourers to help with infrastructure construction, then the mines and other projects we both need will be completed *quickly, and the workers will go back to China. They won’t remain in Australia. Then Australia will employ local people to work in those mines and other infrastructure. That will be good for employment, and therefore beneficial for Australia”.
Mr Li conceded this would be difficult to pass through the Australian parliament, “but Australian labour costs are too high”.
“…if the related policies concerning the entry of skilled personnel will be relaxed, it will help all of the progress of our related projects and after the completion of those construction projects, those skilled workers will return back to China. So I believe these related policies should be relaxed”…
“As you know, the visas granted by the US government [are] now extended from one year to five, or even 10 years,” he said. “It’s good.”
A little while ago he was describing Stephen Harper as like a brother also. Why on earth does he seem to have this compulsion to overstatement? It's surely perfectly possible to be welcoming and respectful without resorting to such hyperbole. Just sounds a bit silly.Well he said almost a brother because he is black and could really at best be a half brother.
Lol.
A little while ago he was describing Stephen Harper as like a brother also. Why on earth does he seem to have this compulsion to overstatement? It's surely perfectly possible to be welcoming and respectful without resorting to such hyperbole. Just sounds a bit silly.
Don't people like politicians have access to good coaching on communication? The government has done quite well in achieving some of their stated aims, but the language and delivery is a constant detraction.
Obama is a good example of the power of words and delivery. He has done virtually nothing useful during his tenure, is unlikely to alter this record before he leaves, yet apparently inspires people with his oratorical virtuosity.
I've heard plenty of people express their dissatisfaction with Obamacare. It seems nothing like our Medicare. Yes, probably a step up from what it was for some sections of the population, but not enough to save his reputation.If you call Obama care as virtually nothing then you're hard please. Millions of poor people in the US can now access affordable healthcare and don't face bankruptcy if the have a major accident or illness
I've heard plenty of people express their dissatisfaction with Obamacare. It seems nothing like our Medicare. Yes, probably a step up from what it was for some sections of the population, but not enough to save his reputation.
Plenty of not so great American presidents. He just promised so much with the soaring rhetoric, has failed to live up to it, and is now trying for last gasp redemption via even more promises that he knows he cannot keep.
Double dissolution being considered now the Senate has stalled?
The current senate eruption between Jacqui Lambie and PUP are not TA's fault. The government there just needs to be patient and let Jacquie Lambie exhaust her fireworks.If the situation does not improve by mid 2015, then Abbott should be replaced and a double dissolution called...
It is very clear in my mind parliament as it is, is a shambles due to the bastardy of the senate shenanigans.....Parliament has become totally unworkable and is not in the best interest of this nation.
If the situation does not improve by mid 2015, then Abbott should be replaced and a double dissolution called...it cannot be left any later than mid 2015.......if voters want to go back to the Rudd/Gilaard/Rudd era then so be it....they will just have to suffer the consequences......more debt, more deficits, more borrowings and more heartache.
A double dissolution might also bring some surprises....it has to be done as we can't go on the way we are at present.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-for-pm-to-fight/story-fnihsr9v-1227128699227
It is very clear in my mind parliament as it is, is a shambles due to the bastardy of the senate shenanigans.....Parliament has become totally unworkable and is not in the best interest of this nation.
If the situation does not improve by mid 2015, then Abbott should be replaced and a double dissolution called...it cannot be left any later than mid 2015.......if voters want to go back to the Rudd/Gilaard/Rudd era then so be it....they will just have to suffer the consequences......more debt, more deficits, more borrowings and more heartache.
A double dissolution might also bring some surprises....it has to be done as we can't go on the way we are at present.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-for-pm-to-fight/story-fnihsr9v-1227128699227
ABC, climate change: the Coalition is drowning us in nonsense
In opposition, authenticity and truth-telling was the focus. Now it’s all denials and broken promises
Katharine Murphy, deputy political editor
theguardian.com, Thursday 20 November 2014 11.00 AEST
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Malcolm Turnbull’s denial of Tony Abbott’s election promise to safeguard the ABC’s budget is insulting.
This morning, on the wireless, I heard the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, say the government wasn’t making cuts to the ABC.
The day before, I heard the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, say Tony Abbott hadn’t actually promised before last September’s election not to cut the budgets of the ABC and SBS. If Abbott had said something like that, then he didn’t mean it; and more likely, we’d all just misunderstood what the prime minister had said.
Also on Wednesday, I heard the prime minister tell the French president, Francois Hollande, that part of the Australian government’s policy arsenal to combat the risks associated with climate change involved funding an agency called the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
What he didn’t tell the French president was the government intends to abolish the CEFC.
In politics at the present time, we are drowning in nonsense. The nonsense waves are not only lapping, elegantly, at our ankles, they are picking us all up and dumping us head first into the sand.
The Abbott government is performing so many contortions, and running so rhetorically ragged, it’s hard to see if anything coherent is actually going on.
The maximum self-harm you can inflict on yourself in politics is to obscure your substance with abject nonsense, and yet federal politics has been seemingly locked in this cycle for the past couple of terms. Labor deadweighted itself with kindergarten intrigues and dysfunctional personality conflicts.
This government is seemingly intent on deadweighting itself with evasions and too-clever-by-half constructions that can be ripped apart comprehensively in about a minute-and-a-half.
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