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sptrawler said:
, how a useless pieces of ###### like him and Wilkie get voted in completely beats me.
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They get voted in because the electorate is utterly fed up with both major parties.
The people who voted in Oakeshott and Windsor would have had no conception of how their chosen candidate would sell them out.

Julia Gillard is busily trying to recoup some votes in Queensland with the awarding of the next G20 meeting to Brisbane. Good to see Can-do Newman has ensured the federal government will be paying for most of it.
If Ms Gillard thinks this bit of largesse to a State which utterly detests her will change her fortunes, she is seriously underestimating Queenslanders.
 
Julia said:
They get voted in because the electorate is utterly fed up with both major parties.
The people who voted in Oakeshott and Windsor would have had no conception of how their chosen candidate would sell them out.

Julia Gillard is busily trying to recoup some votes in Queensland with the awarding of the next G20 meeting to Brisbane. Good to see Can-do Newman has ensured the federal government will be paying for most of it.
If Ms Gillard thinks this bit of largesse to a State which utterly detests her will change her fortunes, she is seriously underestimating Queenslanders.
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I am sure the longer labor holds off calling an election the more the electorate are turning against them.
Initially delaying the election as long as possible, I thought may work in labors favour. However when you hear Mark McGowan, you have to think they have done their homework. When you add that to worsening polls, unless there is some mircle going to happen over christmas, labor will be lucky to hold a seat.
This is becoming a perfect example of where the person is bigger than the party, funny though that's why they got rid of Kev.
The more she 'slaps' them, the more they look like fools, the more Tony looks normal.:D

Even worse for Oakeshott, Wilkie and the boys, they follow along gormlessly behind like puppies. Sad just very sad, why haven't they said at some time, lets take this to the electorate.
 
Gillard gave Brisbane the nod for the G20 summit because Sydney airport could not handle the extra traffic.

So, did she do her homework or was it a political decision to prop up her seats in Queensland? Now she has the BLUES off side.

Looks like another typical Labor stuff up on the way.

Check out the link in todays Courier Mail. Very timely indeed.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And to adding to the hysteria, Brisbane has 9000 hotel beds available of which 7000 will be required for the G20 summit.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ff-access-jammed/story-fndo1yus-1226423853587

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...ock-full-for-g20/story-fndo1yus-1226423847980
 
noco said:
So, did she do her homework or was it a political decision to prop up her seats in Queensland? Now she has the BLUES off side.
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Noco
That's not hard to do, all you have to do is beat them in football:cool:

I think she is trying to soften up Campbell. We all know that will not happen.
In relation to the link..The Cairn Airport was up graded a couple of years back and it
was a tedious job to watch.

I cannot link todays joke in Australian, but I will word it.

Big suggestion box on wall with words, "Labor Values Suggestion Box".
Swan standing on floor saying, "Nothing Yet".
Gillard standing on chair looking into box saying...
'Bloody Greens probably nicked them again"' :D
joea
 
Gillard is in Townsville today saying how much she loves our city.

Gawd, why didn't she have the G20 in Townsville, the army at Lavarack barracks has heaps of tents to house 7000 and it could have all have been set up in the show grounds. We might even get the overflow from Biissie and FIFO each day.
 
I've really turned around on the carbon tax, sorry price, now that I've seen the compensation being paid, to somebody else. A great strategy by the Govt.
 
The G20 is Gillard's way to punish Brisbane for nurturing Rudd. Melbourne's Mayor is thankful Melbourne didn't get the nod.

Cr Doyle said he had spoken with former Toronto mayor David Miller, who told him his city needed to employ an additional 20,000 police and security personnel when the Canadian city hosted the G20 in 2010.
“He said to me: 'For God's sake don't get this conference',” Cr Doyle said.
“He said, for him, it was a nightmare for Toronto. They made over 1000 arrests, they had this group called Black Bloc, who were professional protesters who flew in from around the world to disrupt this conference.
“They had four or six police cars set on fire.
"David said: 'This is the conference you do not want'.
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Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/protesters-will-be-waiting-for-g20-20120711-
 
WHY I'M DEPRESSED
Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel ,
"Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to
the Promised Land."
Whitlam said "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up
a Camel, this is the Promised Land."
Today, Gillard has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, put camels
in plain packaging, and mortgaged the Promised Land!
I was so depressed last night thinking about Health Care Plans, the
economy, the wars, lost jobs, savings, Social Security, & retirement funds,
so I called a Suicide Hotline. I had to press 1 for English, & I was
connected to a call center in Pakistan . I told them I was suicidal.
They got excited and asked if I could drive a truck

joea
 
And 2067 years ago...

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC
 
IFocus said:
Thought the same ....almost.......why would you want the G20 its just a major drama from start to finish.
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And Gillard wants to spend another 350 million on this? Don't we have enough debt yet? It seems she has no restraints on spending.
 
Boggo said:
And 2067 years ago...

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC
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Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose....
 
Taxing the truth: why we must not let Abbott's dogmas lie



Opposition Leader Tony Abbott constantly accuses the Prime Minister of 'lying' when she made a commitment before the last election not to introduce a tax on carbon. But who's the liar here?
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A lie is when you say something is true when you know it is not true. This is quite different from a commitment, which is a promise to do something in the future.

We can be absolutely certain that Abbott, as a former student in a Catholic seminary, knows the substantive and moral difference between a lie and a commitment.

So when Abbott says the Prime Minister told a lie, he is saying something is true when he knows it is not true, so Abbott is telling a lie. Whereas the most the Prime Minister can be truthfully accused of is breaking a pre-election commitment, like John Howard with the GST and ''core and non-core promises'', or Ted Baillieu with Victorian teachers' salaries.
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When I was at secondary school, my English class studied a collection of essays, one of which analysed the methods of Nazi propaganda in the 1930s.

There were, I recall, three components of this: an element of truth; gross exaggeration; and constant repetition.

I have been starkly reminded of this trilogy by the habitual behaviour of Abbott and his opposition colleagues during the past 15 months.

The elements of truth the opposition is exploiting are, first, that the Prime Minister did make an (implicitly qualified) commitment before the last election not to introduce a tax on carbon; and second, that she has indeed had legislation passed putting a price on carbon as an interim measure, before a future carbon-trading scheme is introduced a few years down the track.

Abbott's exaggerations of these basic facts are distortions of the real situation.

As we have seen, and as he well knows, a broken commitment is not a ''lie''.

Ironically, Abbott calling what Australia's Prime Minister said a ''lie'' may itself be an example of what Adolf Hitler called a ''big lie'', that is a lie so ''colossal'' it has a ''certain force of credibility'' because the populace ''would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously'' (Mein Kampf, volume I, chapter X).
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Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...-dogmas-lie-20120706-21mlz.html#ixzz20TyVIgrP
 
As you quoted IFocus.

When I was at secondary school, my English class studied a collection of essays, one of which analysed the methods of Nazi propaganda in the 1930s.

There were, I recall, three components of this: an element of truth; gross exaggeration; and constant repetition.

That is what I dislkie about Abbott and contemporary politics.
The propaganda combined with the willingness of certain members of the press to spread it unquestioningly.

Propaganda is propaganda no matter how you look at it. And people that fall for propaganda are lacking a discerning mind and are easily led.
 
The experts in Europe have decide you can but dozen eggs any more now called 674 Grams.



It is the embodiment of Ayn Rand's famous quote:​

[FONT=verdana, geneva]"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty become[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva]
[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva][/FONT][FONT=verdana, geneva]Every one has the right to be stupid but some are abusing the privilege.
Coming soon to a store near you no doubt.[/FONT]
 
IFocus - then how do you explain Gillard on the eve of the 2010 election when she gave an interview with the Australian stating this:

In an election-eve interview with The Australian, the Prime Minister revealed she would view victory tomorrow as a mandate for a carbon price, provided the community was ready for this step.

"I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism," she said of the next parliament. "I rule out a carbon tax."
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How could she possibly view victory as a mandate for a carbon price when she had run ads repeatedly saying she wouldn't have a carbon tax? Carbon tax or carbon price is the same thing. And Swan vigorously denied the coalition's hysterical allegations that they would bring in a carbon tax. It sounds like she intended to deceive the electorate with her TV ads and only told the truth to a couple of journalists when the media blackout was on just hours before the election.

If that's not a deliberate attempt at deception, I don't know what is. IFocus - you are pushing mud uphill to try and make Abbott look worse than Gillard's apparent lack of respect for Aussie voters.

Oh, and what happened to her promised citizen's assembly? I thought that was to precede the carbon tax. Does Gillard tell the truth about anything, IF?


full article from News.com: Julia Gillard: My carbon price promise


 
Well Julia looks a lot younger in the clip, than she looks now. Obviously two years in politics is a long time.
 

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