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’
Still not worth a knighthood though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/com...o-on-spectacular-display-20150127-12yu96.htmlTony 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.
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.
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.
Someone it seems has been listening to Scott Morrison,
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...tal-leave-scheme/story-fn3dxiwe-1227203069210
Hopefully the scaling back goes all the way to scrapping that ridiculous levy on big business to pay for it.
Another broken election promise then? Keep 'em coming Tony.
That's one where's there's near universal agreement that it never should have been made in the first place.Another broken election promise then? Keep 'em coming Tony.
That's one where's there's near universal agreement that it never should have been made in the first place.
When you see this you know Abbotts in real trouble
Mal Brough reportedly urged to challenge for leadership
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-01/lnp-rout-leaves-abbott-terminally-wounded/6060126
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