The Gillard Government

[joea]

In the media, one article states" A leadership change could be in play once the budget was delivered and there was no significant poll bounce."

Well I think with no clear challenger, and nobody with guts to advise her to stand down, then it appears the mostly likely way a change will come about is by a vote of no confidence.

The MP's on the cross bench maybe the only solution. If there is a solution!!!
joea

 

[joea]

It's all about the budget.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-and-hard-truths/story-fndbwnla-1226347242125

joea

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

The population's main aim from hereon in, is to resist Stockholm Syndrome.

Having been taken hostage by the Greenies, Mad Socialists, Commos and Cafe Nistas, we just need to keep our anger smouldering, and be conscious of the tendency to fall in to line with the regime.

gg

 

[kincella]

http://vimeo.com/41541940
if you really enjoy a good laugh

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

http://vimeo.com/41541940
if you really enjoy a good laugh

+1

lol

gg

 

[IFocus]

So the inflationary cycle, even before it all starts on 1 July, has already started.

Its certainly started in WA big time under a conservative government gas up another 8% this week, electricity price rises are through the roof.

 

[Logique]

Fair enough IF, it's not all because of the carbon tax.

Just wanted to alert the Labor-Greens government to it's best chance. The SOI has crossed the signal line into negative. A drier, warmer winter may result for southern Australia.

Of course the dams are now full. That would never fill again, according to the Greens Party, did presumptive Senator Whish-Wilson endorse this viewpoint, in line with Guru Flim-Flammery?

 

[sails]

Its certainly started in WA big time under a conservative government gas up another 8% this week, electricity price rises are through the roof.

Who is to say that isn't carbon tax already starting to bite?

I'm not sure you can blame all that on a state government when there is a big nasty federal tax coming that is more than likely going to push up utility prices - not to mention the compounding effect on groceries, rates and everything else you can think of.

 

[StumpyPhantom]

Who is to say that isn't carbon tax already starting to bite?

I'm not sure you can blame all that on a state government when there is a big nasty federal tax coming that is more than likely going to push up utility prices - not to mention the compounding effect on groceries, rates and everything else you can think of.

I can see it's going to be botched - see this link:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/gove...ying-firms-20120504-1y3mp.html?skin=text-only

which includes the following (emphasis in bold):

"Companies such as ALCOA, BHP Billiton, Boral and La Trobe University are among about 250 companies that will pay the carbon tax when it is introduced on July 1.

The Clean Energy Regulator has today published an initial list of 250 ''liable entities'' that will face the $23 per tonne tax. However, a further 80 companies have also notified that they are likely to face the new tax in the 2012-2013 financial year.

It says these companies and facilities will account for more than 95 per cent of emissions covered by the carbon price mechanism. The list will continually be updated.

Other entities listed by the regulator today include the Brisbane City Council, BlueScope Steel, the City of Armadale, Rio Tinto and Thales.

The government has been estimating that about 500 companies would pay the carbon tax.

"I think we'll come in underneath 500 but it is a matter for the regulator to determine," Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said.

Mr Combet said the initial list was based on greenhouse emissions reporting by companies over the last four to five years."

All that hot air out of universities, in the case of La Trobe Uni, must be igniting the coal sitting under it. This greenhouse emissions reporting, if it's anythig like the joke it was treated as by the people I saw filling it in, is going to be nothing but inaccurate.

So all those poor students at La Trobe, who don't even carry pens (much less use paper) any more are going to have to pay double the uni fees for walking into lectures with their iPads or logging in from home and down-loading it.

Meanwhile, Christine Milne and her Tasmanian mate Wishy-Washy fly to Canberra on a weekly basis and apparently have no carbon footprint.

The Government should just start the Carbon Lottery that we can all go to the newsagent and pay our money (gladly) to have a stab at.

 

[sails]

Stumpy, I understand that the government is exempt from carbon tax even though they are one of the country's largest emitters of co2. Now that's hypocritical and undermines their apparent concern for the environment, imo.

Source:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-carbon-skeleton/story-fn59niix-1226090982940

 

[Julia]

This article describes better than any other I've read the factors causing the current woeful status of the government.
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/a-hildebrand-guide-how-labor-destroyed-itself/

Extract:

There are countless other factors and examples that even the internet doesn’t allow space for but the nub of it is that we have a government that is neither grounded in nor has significant exposure to the full breadth of the electorate and the mass of antipathy, frustration and disbelief that lies therein. It almost defies belief to think that it was only after she got off a plane on the weekend that Gillard realised the true public hostility towards the government’s defence of Slipper and Thomson but this is what she said with a straight face on Sunday.

And it actually makes sense. Every time the government has been criticised or attacked, it has deluded itself to think that it is just the work of Tony Abbott or the Murdoch press or some other sinister force seeking to destroy all that is good and light. Not once does the party seriously consider the possibility that the public has turned on them because they knifed a popularly elected prime minister, lied twice about “the greatest moral challenge of our time”, and sought to defend two alleged rorters caught – almost literally – with their pants down.

The ALP simply no longer knows what people are thinking. It is so consumed by parlour house politics – such as the “masterstroke” of recruiting Slipper – or patching together piecemeal and unpopular policies to appeal to tiny vested interests such as Wilkie and the Greens that it has completely lost sight of how these issues are playing out in the wider electorate. Then when they do hear the negative feedback they are so simultaneously arrogant and paranoid that they simply shoot the messenger.

And no doubt again when they read this piece the same bunch of ostriches will ignore its contents and accuse me of being yet another agent of evil attempting to destroy the party. They will rant and rail and stick their heads in the sand.

And most tragically of all they will not stop to ask themselves why someone trying to destroy the Labor Party would spend 2,000 words explaining how to save it.

 

[StumpyPhantom]

++1 - The whole article is a great read:

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/...troyed-itself/

Delusions of grandeur do not come any clearer than this. And (something the article forgot to mention), everytime all of the above is used as an excuse and the venom hasn't gone away, then the burden of being Australia's first female PM gets trotted out as a last resort.

As for this:

Stumpy, I understand that the government is exempt from carbon tax even though they are one of the country's largest emitters of co2. Now that's hypocritical and undermines their apparent concern for the environment, imo.
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They're completely conditioned to this (and it helps immunise them further from the real world). Did you know that all your tax invoices for your goods and services, when you invoice the Federal Government, they simply lop off the 10% GST.

That's right! They don't pay it, never have since the start. So no surprise they're not paying the carbon tax either. Who the hell would they charge?

 

[sails]

...They're completely conditioned to this (and it helps immunise them further from the real world). Did you know that all your tax invoices for your goods and services, when you invoice the Federal Government, they simply lop off the 10% GST.

That's right! They don't pay it, never have since the start. So no surprise they're not paying the carbon tax either. Who the hell would they charge?

However, it gives the message that they are not serious about the environment which give more credence to the theory that it is nothing more than a wealth redistribution. Perhaps they are hoping we are too stupid to notice.

 

[Calliope]

Delusions of grandeur do not come any clearer than this. And (something the article forgot to mention), everytime all of the above is used as an excuse and the venom hasn't gone away, then the burden of being Australia's first female PM gets trotted out as a last resort.

She is tougher than most of her male front bench.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Female of the Species

WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male

 

[MrBurns]

She is tougher than most of her male front bench.

Is it tougher or just ambitious, cruel and belligerent. ?

 

[drsmith]

Is Labor's biggest lie about to be the catalyst for another mutiny ?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...carbon-tax-fears/story-e6freuy9-1226347607191

 

[Calliope]

This should give Harvey Norman a big lift in widescreen TV sales, and computer games for the kids.

PARENTS will receive up to $820 for every child they have at school - paid directly into their bank account next month - as part of a federal government overhaul to combat rising education costs.

In another sign the government is preparing a Robin Hood Budget that targets the rich but helps battling families, Julia Gillard will announce the means-tested payment today.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the payment will replace the existing education tax refund, which forced parents to keep receipts to prove they had spent thousands of dollars on computers and school uniforms before claiming a rebate for education expenses.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...very-schoolchild/story-e6freuy9-1226347607402

 

[MrBurns]

This should give Harvey Norman a big lift in widescreen TV sales.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...very-schoolchild/story-e6freuy9-1226347607402

Makes you sick doesnt it, she's going to spend as much of our money as possible to buy votes before she gets thrown out

 

[IFocus]

Who is to say that isn't carbon tax already starting to bite?

I'm not sure you can blame all that on a state government when there is a big nasty federal tax coming that is more than likely going to push up utility prices - not to mention the compounding effect on groceries, rates and everything else you can think of.

Government charges in WA have been sky rocketing under the conservatives watch, mean time massive amounts of largess are handed out to selected liberal / national party held seats like confetti.

Labor or the carbon tax have nothing to do with these digressions.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Labor or the carbon tax have nothing to do with these digressions.

57% of voters would not agree with you. You would be lucky to muster 25% who would agree.

And it is because the ALP regime, held hostage to the Greens and independents, are utter and complete muppets, when it comes to running a country or an economy.

Absolute amateurs, more used to Union diddling or working in legal offices or universities.

gg