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Tisme said:
So Rupert is pissed off about the whole awards fiasco and Tony, so today's News Corp feeders are already talking about Tony's head:

http://www.news.com.au/national/ton...he-liberal-party/story-fncynjr2-1227198704319


and:

PRINCE PHILIP: SIR GAFFE-A-LOT


To Aboriginal leader William Brin: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”

To a native woman in Kenya: “You are a woman, aren’t you?

To a British student in China: “If you stay here much longer you’ll go home with slitty eyes.”

To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”

To a tourist in Budapest: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

At a party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!”

To a 13-year-old boy: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”

To a nursing home resident in a wheelchair: “Do people trip over you?”

To a penniless student: “Why don’t you go and live in a hostel to save cash?”

On women in general: “I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.”

ellen.whinnett@news.com.au
Originally published as Abbott ‘pushing his luck with this one’
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On a message board where a lot of us are complaining about political correctness, some of the Duke's comments come like a breath of fresh air. I think he has a very dry tongue in cheek sense of humour that some take as offensiveness.

Still not worth a knighthood though.
 
SirRumpole said:
On a message board where a lot of us are complaining about political correctness, some of the Duke's comments come like a breath of fresh air. I think he has a very dry tongue in cheek sense of humour that some take as offensiveness.

Still not worth a knighthood though.
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Yes, dry sense of humour and razor sharp perceptiveness:

Islamic Sharia Law has invaded Great Britain all under the nose of the British Royal Family. Why aren’t they doing something about it? Perhaps we should ask Sir-Prince-do-you-still-throw-spears-at-each-other-Philip:

Interviewer: Sir Philip, What do you think about Islamic Sharia Law being practiced in Great Britain?
Sir Prince Philip: What do you mean? That’s just for muslims.
Interviewer: Yes Sir Philip but that’s the point there are so many muslims in our country and they are practicing Sharia Law.
Sir Prince Philip: Ha ….. I don’t think so. Those people all ride camels. Haven’t seen many camels around London lately. Have you?
 
Pretty spot on explanation for why Abbott does what he doeses

http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/earning-your-pineapple.html

Abbott's natural base consists of reactionaries, people who define themselves by what they're against. They have no ability to distinguish between a passing fad and a substantial shift. They will hunt for evidence to support clean coal or wind turbine syndrome, but ignore that supporting climate change or vaccinations.
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It happened before then, too. He didn't understand why Gillard could negotiate her way into government in 2010 and get legislation through a hung parliament. He couldn't, and still can't understand why Senators outside the major parties will neither bend to his will nor be won over by his smarm.
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People like Abbott have been reactionaries since their university days: simply spitting the descriptor at them makes no difference. Instead, understand how:
  • weak reactionary behaviour is as a motivator; and
  • little can be done when such people occupy office; and
  • they fight tooth and nail to stay in a position where they dispose regardless of what might be proposed. To be in a position where they neither propose nor dispose underlines their irrelevance.
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His main problem is that all of the policy stuff that really interests him are social issues where he's love to push a social conservative line but he can't because it would be very unpopular and/or require legislation he can't pass. So he's left with trying to push social conservatism with gimmicky things like knighthoods that don't require legislation etc. Meanwhile economics and the finer details of the budget don't really interest him much.
 
ACOSS has made a pretty sensible submission to the Govt on how to get the budget moving towards balance in a much fairer way that what has been so faar presented to us

http://www.acoss.org.au/media/release/budget_must_chart_a_fairer_path_back_to_surplus_acoss

Included among the tax expenditures targeted for cuts are:
  • Discretionary trusts and private companies, which allows relatively well-off individuals to avoid tax by diverting and ‘sheltering’ their income or income producing assets. ACOSS claims that “tightening the use of private trusts to avoid personal income tax would save as much as $1 billion in 2016-17 and a further $1 billion would be saved by curbing the use of private companies used for the same purpose”.
  • ACOSS also wants to see negative gearing, superannuation tax concessions, and Capital Gains Tax concessions unwound, which collectively are costing the Budget many billions in foregone revenue.
ACOSS also claims that $8.8 billion could be saved by abolishing the private health insurance rebate (which “has not reduced pressure on public hospitals”), curbing the Medicare safety net, and stopping subsidies for medicines listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme but are no longer under patent.

ACOSS also wants to see welfare cut back on wealthy retirees, and recommends proceeding with the Government’s 2014-15 Budget proposal to abolish the $887 a year Seniors Supplement for wealthy retirees (blocked by Labor in the Senate) and lower the maximum financial assets (not including the principal residence) that retiree couples can hold, beyond which they no longer qualify to receive a part Aged Pension from $1.1 million to $795,000 and a full Age Pension from $287,000 to $150,000.

Offsetting some of the $13.1 billion of Budget savings measures, ACOSS recommends the Government boost a range of welfare measures for lower income households at a total cost of $5.9 billion (delivering net total Budget savings of around $7.2 billion). Included amongst this increased welfare spending are: a much needed $51 a week boost for unemployment benefits, with benefits also indexed to wages rather than CPI (as is the case with the Aged Pension); increases in family tax benefits for sole parents, with family allowances also indexed to wages; and more generous dental and rent assistance.
 
I think Abbott is a dead man walking.

The decision to give a Knighthood to Prince Phillip has destroyed any vestige of confidence in his political judgment. The fact that Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones and Rupert Murdoch have publicly attacked the decision makes his position completely untenable.

Tony is now seen as ridiculous. There was a brilliant video clip produced yesterday which sent him up gutless. (Mind you it was all his own words)

This will go viral and I can see a thousand emails to the backbench with this clip.

And almost all will come from Liberal Party members

If the Liberal Party doesn't cut him loose and give him a decent burial the stench of his rotting political carcass will destroy this government. The only way he can be saved (IMO) is if the Labour Party somehow decide to go easy on him with the view that keeping him as PM will just damage the Liberal Party as long as possible

Bumbling Tony Abbott cast alongside Hugh Grant in 'Four Weddings and A Funeral' remake

Date
January 29, 2015 - 1:39AM

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Jenna Clarke


Awkward: Tony Abbott replaces Hugh Grant in <i>Four Weddings and A Funeral with Tony Abbott</i>.

Tony Abbott's decision to knight Prince Philip has earned the Prime Minister his very own accolade: the honour of starring alongside the bumbling Hugh Grant in an iconic romantic comedy.

The artist who gave the House of Representatives the Seinfeld treatment last year and recut Ghostbusters with a cameo by Jacqui "Sharia Law obviously involves terrorism" Lambie, has produced a new video, Four Weddings and A Funeral with Tony Abbott.

Video editor Huw Parkinson released the short film on Wednesday after seamlessly inserting the Prime Minister's Australia Day press conference into a scene from the more-British-than-the-British film, replacing the blundering and awkward best man speech from the opening scene of the film.
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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/lif...ngs-and-a-funeral-remake-20150128-130ey0.html


http://vimeo.com/117970255
 
Pressure mounts on Tony Abbott to dump Peta Credlin - SMH -January 29, 2015
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ott-to-dump-peta-credlin-20150128-1303ix.html

"..Mr Murdoch, the News Corporation boss, also applied direct public pressure on Wednesday, using Twitter to demand Ms Credlin's head."

"Tough to write, but if he [Mr Abbott] won't replace top aide Peta Credlin she must do her patriotic duty and resign. More," he wrote.

"Forget fairness," he added in a subsequent tweet. "This change only way to recover team work and achieve so much possible for Australia. Leading involves cruel choices."..
 
Interesting to see a couple of political analysis of Tony Abbott's problems in being an effective PM.

Tony Abbott's political deficiencies go on spectacular display

Date
January 27, 2015

Jack Waterford


Tony Abbott's most serious political handicap has proven not to be his essential philosophy, which most Australians do not share but which maintain's his party's support, but his judgment. He's not good at picking good people. He has reasonable political instincts, from where he stands, but he is all too often so impetuous, impatient and disinclined to talk ideas through with cooler heads before launching them that he fails too see the obvious pitfalls.

He is clever but not shrewd or wise. Unless he changes, his leadership is entering a terminal phase. Unless his party requires that he change, he will lead them to disaster next year.

His deficiencies have been well in evidence over the past month, but hardly anytime, anywhere, so spectacularly as with his decision to have Prince Philip knighted. His old strengths have not been so evident, and he now seems unable, in any event, to put them on display simply by changing the subject or creating a distraction.
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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/com...o-on-spectacular-display-20150127-12yu96.html


Tony Abbott has much bigger problems than a rogue knight

Date
January 28, 2015 - 9:00PM

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Paul Sheehan


"I'm determined to learn from all of this," the Prime Minister said of his self-immolating lapse in anointing the Duke of Edinburgh with an Australian knighthood, which compounded the adverse impact of the anachronistic, self-indulgent, zero-upside honours system he introduced in his first year.

Abbott is unlikely to learn from this, other than to become even more cautious and robotic. You cannot learn what you refuse to know. He is a bulldog who will not let go of a course of action which, without an end to his bunker insularity, and a change in his relationship with the electorate, will see him removed either before the next election or at the next election.

His party is already moving. The phones are running hot. They will not turn to the deputy leader, Julie Bishop. It will be Malcolm Turnbull.
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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/com...lems-than-a-rogue-knight-20150128-1306yv.html
 
August 2012

TA said "For months BHP have been warning that the carbon tax and the mining tax are making Australia a less competitive place to invest. And Marius Kloppers himself said back in June that the carbon tax and so on are all conspiring to turn Australia from a low cost to a high cost environment."

What Kloppers actually said

"The decision is almost wholly associated with in the first instance capital costs." He goes on to say "As you know, the tax environment for this particular project has not changed at all since we started working on it six or seven years ago. The MRRT only covers coal and iron ore, not copper, not gold and not uranium, so the tax situation for this project has not changed."

So the carbon and mining taxes have been revoked in 2014.

Today BHP announces 300 job losses

I wonder what Tony and the coalition will blame that on???? Maybe the lack of a GP tax or stalling of the deregulation of uni fees??

Seems many of the mistruths the then opposition leader was providing the public are slowly coming into the light for what they really were.
 
This thread sort of reminds me of the old western towns that received news the Indians are coming..........gone very quite.

Mean while back at the ranch some of the hired help have gone rogue.

One thing about the right wing media when they smell a dollar can be made kicking their own they can get really feral.

Bolt has taken to his "friend" with a machete "The Liberal Daily" jurno's who are also close "friends" with Abbott are forming a line to take turns with the base ball bat.

Then Murdoch weighs in declaring........well you all know Abbotts gone.

If thats not enough you know Abbotts stuff because he is sincerely tells all and sundry he is a good captain thats why his front bench of dopes preform so well.....are they friends as well?

And if thats not enough Shorten is telling everyone to lay off Peta some thing not right there..............Shortens a friend as well. :):)

Mean while Gina's bag lady waits in the wings........
 
between the PPL albatross and talk of cutting the minimum wage and reducing weekend and unsociable hours penalties, one has to wonder why the Govt is trying to force through their poorly thought out data retention policy. How many more mistruths are they going to try to get away with???

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/29/telstra_we_dont_store_everything_the_government_wants_now/

In today's hearing into the government's metadata retention scheme, dominant telco Telstra said it does not retain any IP address assignments on its mobile network, and that it doesn't see any value in retaining missed call data.

Straightforward and unsurprising statements, except that Brandis – with the public support of the Australian Federal Police and ASIO – has repeatedly and unequivocally said the data retention scheme imposes no new demands on telecommunications carriers.

On the political side, both Brandis and prime minister Tony Abbott are adamant that they merely want carriers to retain what they already keep for business purposes.

Brandis separately told the Senate that “will not give the national security agencies any more powers than they currently have, nor will it require the telecommunication providers to do anything more than they currently do.”

That's been backed up by various agency personnel, both in pleading their case to the public and in evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee for Intelligence and Security.

Telstra putting its statements on the record in a parliamentary inquiry merely reconfirms several warnings that the government has seemingly chosen to ignore.
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banco said:
Another broken election promise then? Keep 'em coming Tony.
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Fair go. Tony has presided over many ambitious achievements in this term:

e.g.

"stop the boats" well no really, but so long as they don't arrive on our shores;
"scrap the carbon tax" tick
"get the budget back under control" yep it's under Labor's control still
"build the roads of the 21st century" pass

and of course the various commissions and audits of all thing Labor and Unions
 
Yes, Labor through the Senate still yields considerable influence over the budget but not the boats despite it's best offorts.

Note the difference.

banco said:
Another broken election promise then? Keep 'em coming Tony.
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That's one where's there's near universal agreement that it never should have been made in the first place.
 
drsmith said:
That's one where's there's near universal agreement that it never should have been made in the first place.
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It sums up Abbott for raising and not letting go and the current Liberals for taking so long to dump.

I would still expect Abbott to survive for a while even the full term.


Interesting now where do the Coalition go from here more of the same crap blaming Labor but spending more?
 

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