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Bintang said:
The Abbott government's achievement in stopping the boats is one of the things that for me puts them in the category of 'least bad'. But they are not perfect.

And yes a future vote for Labor will be a vote for more boats
A vote for more boats will be a vote for more muslims entering our country
And more muslims entering our country will mean more future votes for Labor.
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You are so correct Bintang.....Shorten has already stated he will not turn back the boats so you can bet your boots the people smugglers will back in business the day after, If Labor were reelected in 2016.
 
Bintang said:
There must be something wrong with your spellchecker.
I didn't say Damn Credlin cause I was trying to remain civil.
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He meant Dame, as in Dame... like His Royal Highness Prince Phillip, consort to Her Majesty the Queen of England, Great Britain and colonies (and also Knight of Australia)... haha
 
Triggs meeting with Chris Bowen and Tony Burke prior to the last election, regarding this report. What was that all about. Hang her out to dry. If you have a clear political agenda in such a position, you are an embarrassment. Labor up to its old tricks again in dodgy sting attempts. Gretch affair, Gillard /Abbott being mobbed at the restaurant, the misogyny speech the list goes on.

Libs need to hammer labor and the greens over this and get the message out that labor and greens policy was worse by far.
 
Question time has become very interesting today.


2:11pm: Opposition leader Bill Shorten reads out a section of the transcript from yesterday's hearing in which the secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, Chris Moraitis, confirmed that Professor Triggs was told a senior role would be available if she resigned.

Ms Bishop says she spoke to Mr Moraitis earlier today who told her no offer was made and Professor Triggs was not asked to resign.

"I would back the secretary of the Attorney-General's department over anyone on that side."

2:04pm: The opposition asks Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (who represents the Attorney-General George Brandis) what role was offered to Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs in exchange for her resignation.

"I can advise that no such offer was made," Ms Bishop says.

(Which is very interesting given the evidence in the Senate estimates committee yesterday.)
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Perhaps we should just leave it to the AFP to thoroughly investigate this allegation and work out exactly who is lying through their teeth.

Clearly if no pressure was put on Gillian Triggs to resign and no alternative employment offer was made what do we make of the statements by Mr Moriatis at the Senate Review Committee yesterday ? Clearly the poor boy needs to be taken in hand...
 
basilio said:
How quickly some people can forget.
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:rolleyes::rolleyes: That's exactly what you can say about Gillian Triggs.

She originally categorically denied having had any discussions about an enquiry with either Mr Bowen or Mr Burke, but, oops, later 'remembered' that she had in fact had discussions about this with both these Ministers prior to the last election when Labor was still the government.
She subsequently decided not to initiate the enquiry until the Coalition government had been in power for around six months.

And you don't think there's anything political going on here????
Give me a break!
 
Anyone hear Scott Morrison at the National Press Club today ?

At the start of his speech he said that the biggest expenditure on social welfare was the Age Pension followed by Family Tax Benefits.

He went on to ask older people to keep on working to relieve themselves of the pension, but nothing further was said about Family Tax Benefits.

Unlike getting old , having a disability, or in most cases not being able to find a job, having children is a personal choice that people have to decide whether they can afford before they commit themselves to increasing the brood. I would have thought that personal choice and responsibility would rank high with the current government, but apparently not.

By all means make it easier for people to increase the taxpaying and consumer base, but I suggest any investment in childcare should be funded by reductions in FTB, not by extra levies on business. FTB costs around $15 billion pa and is unaffordable with current revenue.
 
moXJO said:
Triggs meeting with Chris Bowen and Tony Burke prior to the last election, regarding this report. What was that all about. Hang her out to dry. If you have a clear political agenda in such a position, you are an embarrassment. Labor up to its old tricks again in dodgy sting attempts. Gretch affair, Gillard /Abbott being mobbed at the restaurant, the misogyny speech the list goes on.

Libs need to hammer labor and the greens over this and get the message out that labor and greens policy was worse by far.
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Trigg was under instructions from Bowen and Burke to delay the report until after the 2013 election because they believed it would hurt the coalition......Trigg became the fall guy and probably did not foresee the back lash that finally has occurred...Trigg has been caught out stretching the truth.
 
Good to see Turnbull continues to troll abbott:

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has directly contradicted Prime Minister Tony Abbott's scathing critique of Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, heaping praise on the embattled professor and stressing the importance of getting children out of detention.
 
banco said:
Good to see Turnbull continues to troll abbott:

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has directly contradicted Prime Minister Tony Abbott's scathing critique of Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, heaping praise on the embattled professor and stressing the importance of getting children out of detention.
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MT is not a team player.He will never lead the Coalition even if Abbott is gorne.
 
noco said:
Trigg was under instructions from Bowen and Burke to delay the report until after the 2013 election because they believed it would hurt the coalition......Trigg became the fall guy and probably did not foresee the back lash that finally has occurred...Trigg has been caught out stretching the truth.
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How do you know all that fanciful stuff? Conspiracy theories are so 90s internet
 
Tisme said:
How do you know all that fanciful stuff? Conspiracy theories are so 90s internet
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Listen to the following video from 15:00 to 16:11 and you'll see one example of how her bias impacts her judgment.

It gets worse when she admits that an enquiry was off limits during Labor's term from when Julia Gillard announced the election date 6-months in advance in March 2013 (from approx 16:45).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXi6S-7FCQ
 
Tisme said:
How do you know all that fanciful stuff? Conspiracy theories are so 90s internet
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Because I know how the Labor Party operate.....Trigg denied having a conversation with Bowen and Burke but she was caught out lying and came clean that she had had conversation with Bowen and Burke before the 2013 election...It is not fanciful stuff as blind Freddy could see what those two Labor rats were up to....Anybody who cannot see that are very naive.
 
noco said:
Because I know how the Labor Party operate.....Trigg denied having a conversation with Bowen and Burke but she was caught out lying and came clean that she had had conversation with Bowen and Burke before the 2013 election...It is not fanciful stuff as blind Freddy could see what those two Labor rats were up to....Anybody who cannot see that are very naive.
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I've no doubt she leans to the left but to think that she's going to have a conversation with Bowen and Burke where they suggest she screw the liberal party by waiting until after the election to launch the inquiry (or that she made the suggestion) is cuckoo land stuff.
 
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