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The Gillard Government
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All made possible by the person YOU voted for
Well he's yours now and good riddance The Labor party is a mecca for deserters and two-timing rats. You can have Turnbull if you want him. Wilkie, of course was a Liberal deserter.
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The Dead Horse Theory
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And, of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
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lol you talk about the ALP knifing Wilkie short memories dude.
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Could this be the real reason why Gillard knifed Wilkie?
The Labor Party needs the money to finance the next election campaign.
CANBERRA TIMES
Labor moves to protect party finances
BY NOEL TOWELL, CHIEF ASSEMBLY REPORTER
21 Jan, 2012 01:00 AM
ACT Labor is sitting on a $41million poker machine jackpot through its affiliated clubs group.
And the Canberra Labor Club group has begun multimillion asset transfers to other party-associated entities ahead of reform aimed at blocking ACT Labor's access to the clubs' gambling revenue.
Party officials want to position ACT Labor so it is no longer financed by poker machines, the mainstay of its income for more than 30 years.
The Canberra Labor Club group's annual report reveals the clubs, which operate 488 machines across four venues in Canberra, made a profit of nearly $3.3million in 2010-11 and is sitting on ''members' funds'' of more than $41million.
The report details the latest efforts to reposition ACT Labor's finances from poker machines and into real estate as its political rivals look to choke off the party's revenue from associated gambling operations.
The last attempt to diversify party revenue sources, a bid in 2009 to sell the clubs to the Tradies' Group, collapsed amid factional squabbling. The clubs group has begun channelling money into an investment vehicle - the 1973 Foundation - set up to purchase property investments, seen as the future of the local party's finances.
In August 2011, according to the club group's documents, a $3.7million debt, incurred by the 1973 Foundation, was repaid to Westpac bank by the group.
Earlier that month, the clubs paid $618,000 for a property in the name of the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), with both of the transactions to be recorded in the 2011-12 accounts as company expenses.
The report also records the clubs, which were established for the express purpose of supporting ACT Labor, contributed $539,606, to the party's coffers as well as a $3000 donation to Labor's Ginninderra branch.
The donations were made before a Bill was introduced into the Assembly by the Canberra Liberals last year with the support of the ACT Greens which, if passed, would make it a criminal offence to donate more than $50,000 to a political party.
The law would choke off Labor's money supply, which has traditionally come in the form of donations from the clubs, while leaving the Liberals' main source - rental income from a multimillion-dollar office property in Deakin - intact.
Labor's shift into real estate would effectively protect its revenues from any more attacks by its political rivals by moving to a similar funding model as the Canberra Liberals.
The Assembly is also awaiting the recommendations of a committee examining campaign finance reform which is expected to recommend caps on donations and limits to election expenditure.
Canberra Labor Club president Tony Luchetti cold not be contacted for comment yesterday. But Labor's ACT Branch Secretary Elias Hallaj said the move to the foundation funding model was continuation of the support the party had traditionally enjoyed from its affiliated clubs.
''The Labor clubs were set up more than 30 years ago by local party members, some of whom mortgaged their homes, to support the party and local community organisations and they continue to fulfil that objective,'' Mr Hallaj said.
''I trust local community clubs will be able to continue that valued support of the party and many other community organisations into the future.''
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The Labor Party needs the money to finance the next election campaign.
CANBERRA TIMES
Labor moves to protect party finances
BY NOEL TOWELL, CHIEF ASSEMBLY REPORTER
21 Jan, 2012 01:00 AM
ACT Labor is sitting on a $41million poker machine jackpot through its affiliated clubs group.
And the Canberra Labor Club group has begun multimillion asset transfers to other party-associated entities ahead of reform aimed at blocking ACT Labor's access to the clubs' gambling revenue.
Party officials want to position ACT Labor so it is no longer financed by poker machines, the mainstay of its income for more than 30 years.
The Canberra Labor Club group's annual report reveals the clubs, which operate 488 machines across four venues in Canberra, made a profit of nearly $3.3million in 2010-11 and is sitting on ''members' funds'' of more than $41million.
The report details the latest efforts to reposition ACT Labor's finances from poker machines and into real estate as its political rivals look to choke off the party's revenue from associated gambling operations.
The last attempt to diversify party revenue sources, a bid in 2009 to sell the clubs to the Tradies' Group, collapsed amid factional squabbling. The clubs group has begun channelling money into an investment vehicle - the 1973 Foundation - set up to purchase property investments, seen as the future of the local party's finances.
In August 2011, according to the club group's documents, a $3.7million debt, incurred by the 1973 Foundation, was repaid to Westpac bank by the group.
Earlier that month, the clubs paid $618,000 for a property in the name of the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), with both of the transactions to be recorded in the 2011-12 accounts as company expenses.
The report also records the clubs, which were established for the express purpose of supporting ACT Labor, contributed $539,606, to the party's coffers as well as a $3000 donation to Labor's Ginninderra branch.
The donations were made before a Bill was introduced into the Assembly by the Canberra Liberals last year with the support of the ACT Greens which, if passed, would make it a criminal offence to donate more than $50,000 to a political party.
The law would choke off Labor's money supply, which has traditionally come in the form of donations from the clubs, while leaving the Liberals' main source - rental income from a multimillion-dollar office property in Deakin - intact.
Labor's shift into real estate would effectively protect its revenues from any more attacks by its political rivals by moving to a similar funding model as the Canberra Liberals.
The Assembly is also awaiting the recommendations of a committee examining campaign finance reform which is expected to recommend caps on donations and limits to election expenditure.
Canberra Labor Club president Tony Luchetti cold not be contacted for comment yesterday. But Labor's ACT Branch Secretary Elias Hallaj said the move to the foundation funding model was continuation of the support the party had traditionally enjoyed from its affiliated clubs.
''The Labor clubs were set up more than 30 years ago by local party members, some of whom mortgaged their homes, to support the party and local community organisations and they continue to fulfil that objective,'' Mr Hallaj said.
''I trust local community clubs will be able to continue that valued support of the party and many other community organisations into the future.''
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Yes, I suppose it was.
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Wrong again dude.
Best you speak to noco then
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Is this pokies reform going to end up another pink batts fiasco.
Yes we will have pre comitment, no we won't but we put $1 limits on, then again maybe we won't. But the Greens will put $1 limits on, if they get the support.
But Wilkie won't support it, then again he won't vote against it.
We will run run a trail in the A.C.T when the A.L.P has off loaded its pokies.
More moves than a Swiss Watch I bet Aristocrat shareholders are on the edge of their seats.LOL
Another industry under the pump that has nothing to do with the carbon tax.LOL
http://www.aristocrat.com.au/company/Pages/default.aspx
These goons just crack me up, actually I just thought of the movie skit that personifies them.
If I remember correctly it was 'The Holy Grail' when John Clease as Lancelot chopped up the wedding reception. Then when realising his folly he says sorry.
The difference here is they don't say sorry.
Yes we will have pre comitment, no we won't but we put $1 limits on, then again maybe we won't. But the Greens will put $1 limits on, if they get the support.
But Wilkie won't support it, then again he won't vote against it.
We will run run a trail in the A.C.T when the A.L.P has off loaded its pokies.
More moves than a Swiss Watch I bet Aristocrat shareholders are on the edge of their seats.LOL
Another industry under the pump that has nothing to do with the carbon tax.LOL
http://www.aristocrat.com.au/company/Pages/default.aspx
These goons just crack me up, actually I just thought of the movie skit that personifies them.
If I remember correctly it was 'The Holy Grail' when John Clease as Lancelot chopped up the wedding reception. Then when realising his folly he says sorry.
The difference here is they don't say sorry.
Best you speak to noco then
Well, which ever way you want to look at it todster. I think each have a knife in the back. Both have drawn blood.It has confirmed Gillard has lied AGAIN and We Willie Wilke looks like a fool for trusting her.
Gillard had it all planned long before Parliament rose for recession just before Xmas, hence the reason she replaced Jenkins with Slipper to gain that extra seat.
She knew she could not keep her promise and agreement with Wilkie. Blind Freddie could see that. Wilkie had his blinkers on.
Todster, I hope you read my post no 2206 reagrding the transfer of Labor party funds involving money from poker machines. ( The Canberra Times.) It is no wonder Gillard does not want dem pokies banned. No money to fill the Labor Party coffers.
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When you live in WA,
pokies are in Burswood Casino and thats about it
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Best thing ever. There is nothing nice about going into a hotel and seeing obviously 'poor' people feeding the machines.
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Some say thats why you get so many bands from here
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I remember we drove the Nullarbor and took the kids for a meal in the dinning room of the Ceduna Pub, at the end of the pier. Watched the W.C.E play on the big screen.
Next time we went over, the kids asked if we could do it again, you couldn't get in it was full of pokies.
Next time we went over, the kids asked if we could do it again, you couldn't get in it was full of pokies.
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Well don't be shy. Drag 'em out, brush their teeth, dress them as you would, kick 'em up the bum and shove them back into the race.
There are millions upon millions of people and animals in the world to feel pitiful for.
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And that is the best solution. Same should go for any thieving gambling operation.
Hi.
Well the pokie reform(or lack of reform) has achieved "one" thing.
Julia has come up with a new slogan. "The Labor Government is about getting things done"
In a interview this morning, she repeated it a number of times.
All we need now is the report on Craig Thompson from Fair Work Australia, and we can throw "the cat" in with the pigeons
joea
Well the pokie reform(or lack of reform) has achieved "one" thing.
Julia has come up with a new slogan. "The Labor Government is about getting things done"
In a interview this morning, she repeated it a number of times.
All we need now is the report on Craig Thompson from Fair Work Australia, and we can throw "the cat" in with the pigeons
joea
I believed Fair Work Australia with some 8 Labor people on the board have thrown the case out from lack of evidence.
It is now up to the Victorian and NSW police to do their bit.
Lack of evidence!!!!!!!!!! What a load bull.
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Ah, that explains his poking his head up in support of his boss's knifing of Wilkie.
More and more it falls into place. FWA are going to let him off (of course) so Gillard has enough confidence in her numbers to tell Wilkie to take a running jump.
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Nothing has changed. Wilkie is behaving like a petulant child, but he doesn't have the backbone to put his money where his mouth is. He doesn't scare Gillard. She has his measure. Her actions were the correct ones. His knife was too blunt.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...l-for-labor-20120122-1qc9d.html#ixzz1kEpn3Yhz
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...l-for-labor-20120122-1qc9d.html#ixzz1kEpn3Yhz
