Is it any wonder shoppers have a recessionary mindset!
From, wait for it...Michelle Grattan, who calls for the PM to step down:It looks like Fairfax has disowned Jullia Gillard.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics
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
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).
The objectivity of that article is something the government should heed.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!
Wow, some damning stuff there, especially Michelle Grattan's remarks.
Greg Combet was asked about the suggested modification of the carbon tax on Radio National this morning. He denied it.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.
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."
I just have the feeling that things are so bad something's got to break.....soon.
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Where some of the money went from HSU.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/thomson-l...where-union-millions-went-20120430-1xuq6.html
joea
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.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.
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).Someone should go to jail for that lot
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.
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Where some of the money went from HSU.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/thomson-l...where-union-millions-went-20120430-1xuq6.html
joea
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.
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
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
"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
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