The Gillard Government

[joea]

Is it any wonder shoppers have a recessionary mindset!

Yes I think the shoppers are wondering how much more trouble is coming.
The problem is the shoppers are losing jobs as well.

By June about 55,000 of our top dairy cows will have been sold to China.
All the overseas countries are investing in Australia to have some sort of guaranteed
food supply for the future.
In Australia our fearless leaders are just taking it one "quarter" at a time, because that is what produces the statistics. (i.e. shortsighted).
joea

 

[Logique]

It looks like Fairfax has disowned Jullia Gillard.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics

From, wait for it...Michelle Grattan, who calls for the PM to step down:

Credibility gone, PM should fall on her sword April 30, 2012...
...If Labor had any functioning party elders, they would be advising Gillard to consider the good of the party and relinquish the leadership gracefully. That would lead Labor down another fraught path, but it could hardly be worse off than now.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...n-her-sword-20120429-1xt3a.html#ixzz1tTzN4umZ

 

[StumpyPhantom]

This is starting to SNOWBALL.

I'm surprised Gillard hasn't barricaded herself in ABC studios whilst awaiting Stephen Smith's order to the army to mobilise to take effect (oh - that's right Smithy's stood the lot of them down).

 

[MrBurns]

This is starting to SNOWBALL.

I'm surprised Gillard hasn't barricaded herself in ABC studios whilst awaiting Stephen Smith's order to the army to mobilise to take effect (oh - that's right Smithy's stood the lot of them down).

I heard she isnt giving interviews today...

 

[joea]

Hot!

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...t-the-leadership/story-fn53lw5p-1226342178692

joea ...I gotta do some work in yard, and stop fooling around here.

 

[Calliope]

Thomson says Julia still has confidence in him.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...omen-must-topple/story-fn8qlm5e-1226342051350

 

[Julia]

Nice article Joea. It takes the overseas commentator with no skin in the political game to tell us some home truths.

So the slowing in Australia has caught them by surprise. How do they think we feel! New taxes on production (MRRT) and consumption (carbon 'pricing'), yet our national debt is still spiralling into record territory. Not much talk of $900 for a plasma tv in this latest budget.

Is it any wonder shoppers have a recessionary mindset!

The objectivity of that article is something the government should heed.

So much focus on the interest rate decision tomorrow. I might be quite wrong but I don't see even a 50 basis point cut making much difference.

Imo a greater boost to the economy and to overall national confidence would be the wiping of the carbon tax, preferably along with the government calling an election.

There was a report on ABC radio this morning that - since the change of government in Queensland - confidence has returned to pre-GFC levels.

It looks like Fairfax has disowned Jullia Gillard.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics

Wow, some damning stuff there, especially Michelle Grattan's remarks.

I saw some speculation about this in the SMH late yesterday evening, but can't find it this morning.

Beyond the fringes, I suspect they're dreaming.

Greg Combet was asked about the suggested modification of the carbon tax on Radio National this morning. He denied it.
Not that that means anything.

 

[Calliope]

Apparently Julia thinks that the vast majority of Queenslanders who gutted the state Labor party are supporters of the "privileged few." Actually they were working Australians.

I will be leading the Labor Party to the next election and I can tell you very clearly now what that election will be about," Ms Gillard said.

"It will be about who you stand for, whether you stand for the privileged few or whether you stand for working Australians and their families."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...lards-leadership/story-fn59niix-1226342807723

 

[joea]

I just have the feeling that things are so bad something's got to break.....soon.

Where some of the money went from HSU.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/thomson-l...where-union-millions-went-20120430-1xuq6.html

joea

 

[Logique]

Those of you who signed up will have received this email:

Dear ----,

In just over 24 hours, we will be formally launching the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance: Australia's first professional grassroots activist organisation standing up for taxpayers against special interest groups. We are dedicated to fighting high taxes, over-burdensome regulation, and government waste - and we we want you to take part in our launch!

If you are unable to join us for our launch in person, we want you to join us online!

Please visit www.taxpayers.org.au or our facebook page at 6:30pm Sydney time tomorrow for a livestream of the entire evening (technology permitting!). You can watch the entire night from your computer screen - not just the speeches! - and our interactive online chat will mean you can not only watch the entire event live, but you can also chat with like-minded persons else tuning in from all over Australia! And, throughout the night, you will have the opportunity to talk to participants who are physically at the launch, and hear messages from our many special guests!

The launch kicks off at 6:30pm Australian Eastern Time on Tuesday 1 May, and we'll be setting up the livestream shortly afterwards.

I sincerely hope that you will still be able to join us online for what shall no doubt will be a very, very memorable occasion!

 

[MrBurns]

Where some of the money went from HSU.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/thomson-l...where-union-millions-went-20120430-1xuq6.html

joea

Someone should go to jail for that lot

 

[joea]

So much focus on the interest rate decision tomorrow. I might be quite wrong but I don't see even a 50 basis point cut making much difference.

Imo a greater boost to the economy and to overall national confidence would be the wiping of the carbon tax, preferably along with the government calling an election.

You are correct Julia. Tomorrow there will be some fiscal relief, and next week Wayne Swan will tighten fiscal policy in an attempt to obtain a surplus. So what is handed out tomorrow by the RBA will be absorbed next week and then some.

On you second point. +1
joea

 

[Julia]

Someone should go to jail for that lot

Absolutely. I cannot believe the massive amounts of money paid out without tender and in payments to the personal contacts (eg Williamson's holiday home).
If criminal charges are not brought amongst all this, there's something very wrong.

How must the poorly paid members of the union, the cleaners, orderlies, etc, be feeling with this disgusting abuse of their union dues?

 

[MrBurns]

So much focus on the interest rate decision tomorrow. I might be quite wrong but I don't see even a 50 basis point cut making much difference.

Imo a greater boost to the economy and to overall national confidence would be the wiping of the carbon tax, preferably along with the government calling an election.
.

You're right there Julia, no ones going out spending up any more, they're not going to run out and buy a house if rates drop, AND there's no guarantee the banks will pass it on anyway.

It's all too late, I think we're in for a recession, perhaps a bad one.

 

[DB008]

Where some of the money went from HSU.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/thomson-l...where-union-millions-went-20120430-1xuq6.html

joea

Joea, this article is also doing the round on the another tabloids with more and more coming out...
Revealed: Where the HSU millions have gone

To me, it is now very obvious that Temby QC had come across some very damaging evidence during his audit recently (late last week) and with the amount of corruption going on in the Gillard Government, someone alerted Gillard and told her what Temby QC had found leaving Julia no option other than letting Thompson go.

In one case an IT company was paid $15,000 a month to look after the union’s computers which had an HSU official on its board while another company was actually doing the work, according to an interim report into the HSU’s finances by Ian Temby QC.

$750,000 a year to Compugraphics Pty Ltd for printing, including $2.6 million between March 2007 and September 2011 for the union magazine.

Betting
http://sports.betfair.com/?mi=100465943&ex=2&origin=MRL&rfr=4509
Next Elected Prime Minister
Abbot - $1.16
Julia - $8

 

[bigdog]

I imagine that the independants will no longer support labour if there is a change of PM.

Their agreement is with Julia!

 

[joea]

Joea, this article is also doing the round on the another tabloids with more and more coming out...
Revealed: Where the HSU millions have gone

DB008.
Yes I think it is going to be viewed by millions here and around the world.
The PM made a decision "The right one!", just prior to the release.
I honestly believe she thinks she has exonerated herself, and the matter is "done and dusted".
There is more to come out at the end of May from the QC.

I now have this feeling that the "tentacles" of the HSU rorting will gain momentum, and possibly expose others.

Now it will be interesting to see what Shorten has to say to the voters.
What about? 1. How he intervened at the appropriate time. 2. How he will solved these problems in the future. etc. etc.

After all Shorten backed the side that has been exposed.

Finally, I wonder what union members around Australia are thinking?
Surely this "can not be Abbott's fault".

The only thing we can be sure of, is Kathy Jackson is "one very strong women".

joea

 

[MrBurns]

Watching Greg Combet this morning , what an arrogant smug useless bastard he is, "it's Abbott stirring up a frenzy" "we have important reforms to put in place" "Julia Gillard is doing a good job" and so on ad nauseum, he has been added to my list of "those who deserve a good punch in the face" along with Simon Crean, Craig Emmerson and a number of others.

Someone should ask these creeps why they think they have a mandate to introduce a Carbon Tax when they went to the election stating the opposite, fact is they don't have a mandate to introduce such a massive change to the system, no mandate and no one wants it but they go forward as if it's their God given right to impose their personal agenda on all of us.

 

[startrader]

Apparently Julia thinks that the vast majority of Queenslanders who gutted the state Labor party are supporters of the "privileged few." Actually they were working Australians.



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...lards-leadership/story-fn59niix-1226342807723

I find this comment absolutely astounding! I saw her saying it on tv and couldn't believe my eyes and ears. I'm sure most Australians would be interested to know that that's what the next election will be about.

 

[moXJO]

While I wasn't big on his policies, you gotta love Ruddy

"They assassinated him, they trashed his reputation, they buried him, then they dug him up, made him foreign minister, assassinated him again, trashed his reputation again - and now we want him back?"
Labor did such an energetic job of publicly smearing Rudd, and such an enthusiastic job of humiliating him, it might have irreparably damaged its own Plan B.
Like most of the government's biggest problems, this is entirely self-inflicted.
Wayne Swan said at the time of the ballot that colleagues were "sick of Kevin Rudd driving the vote down" by "sabotaging" the party. But since then, the government has lurched from one self-imposed crisis to another, and Rudd has not been anywhere near the scene.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...is-no-kevin-20120430-1xv5v.html#ixzz1tZDk1WmQ

Labor has been quick to point fingers at everyone and anyone but themselves. And they still don't get it.