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Maybe someone can explain to me why people in the bush vote Nats?
Apparently they get a raw deal even after 10 years of the coalition in office.
 
todster said:
why do people assume if your against the Libs your a labor supporter?
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Because "work choices" was all we heard being droned on about negatively by labor before the election - especially the day before.

So if you are going on negatively about "work choices" it infers labor by association.
 
sails said:
Because "work choices" was all we heard being droned on about negatively by labor before the election - especially the day before.

So if you are going on negatively about "work choices" it infers labor by association.
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If you were in an industry that you could be fined $22k for walking off the job you might feel the same way.
anyway I brought it up coz old mate reckons people who voted Libs believed in a fair days work for a fair days pay and if work choices got through that would be BS.
Libs will always screw the worker first.
 
sails said:
Because "work choices" was all we heard being droned on about negatively by labor before the election - especially the day before.

So if you are going on negatively about "work choices" it infers labor by association.
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Cool. I am anti-middle class welfare and pork barrelling, which sums up a distaste for both major parties just nicely :)
 
Would you trust this man? He has been exposed as a rat. He has always been more Labor than National and makes a habit of ratting on his electorate for his own advancement. Gillard is welcome to him.

For some strange reason Abbott has asked his members to go easy on him. Does Oakeshott have something on Abbott. Abbott said last Tuesday that the two stooges acted "in good faith." Anybody so gullible cannot aspire to be PM.


Prominent Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has poured scorn on independent Rob Oakeshott over claims he sought a NSW ministerial post when he was a state member.

Mr Joyce described as "rubbish" a comment by Mr Oakeshott that he could not recall the conversation that he had in 2007 with NSW Premier Morris Iemma about becoming a minister.

Reports in News Limited papers allege Mr Oakeshott - who is set to reveal today if he will accept an offer from Prime Minister Julia Gillard for a regional affairs role - pushed for the state role. At the time, Mr Oakeshott was the state independent member for Port Macquarie, having defected from the Nationals.
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/joyce-pours-scorn-on-rubbish-oakeshott-20100910-153n8.html
 

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Calliope said:
For some strange reason Abbott has asked his members to go easy on him. Does Oakeshott have something on Abbott. Abbott said last Tuesday that the two stooges acted "in good faith." Anybody so gullible cannot aspire to be PM.http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/joyce-pours-scorn-on-rubbish-oakeshott-20100910-153n8.html
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No I think it's smart politics Calliope. Mr Oakeshott seems to need little help in doing himself over, no need for the Coalition to expend any political capital on him.

More than anyone else in the parliament, the Member for Lyne's political future hangs on the success of the rainbow coalition govt. I might also recall a comment I made a few weeks ago - he looks the successor to Cheryl Kernot.
 
noco said:
It's a Gillard Government by default.

Less seats.
Less Primary vote.
Less two party preferred.
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Goodness, noco, you're fortunate not to be chased up and slammed by Timmy here for suggesting the above on the 2PP!


todster said:
"The Libs & Nats have a profoundly successful ability at attracting a disproportional quantity of the most embittered,politically pungent elements of Australian society as supporters-A dark,angry,belligerent underbelly that believes the only acceptable outcome of any political contest is the one they believe in."
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Again, here's a statement in quotation marks with no attribution.
Some considerable double standards in the moderation of this site recently.

bellenuit said:
What I found amusing from Oakeshott's speech was that even though he thought he was teasing everyone by delaying stating which way his decision went, it was apparent from the speech itself that it could only be for the ALP. He several times mentioned "the next 3 years of government", but as I understand it, there would be no "next 3 years of government" if he voted for the Coalition, as that would have given 75/75 and a new election.

As well as the being the "minister for pork-barreling", other relevant ministryships come to mind. Minister of Procrastination, Minister of Delusions of Importance, etc.
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:D:D:D
And it would seem that his negotiations included the offer of a Cabinet position in return for his support.
Definitely all about self interest which I suppose should surprise no one.
 
My bolds.
Newly elected Tasmanian federal independent, Andrew 'Sovereign Risk' Wilkie, Denison's finest.
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/09/11/Wilkie_threatens_to_block_mine_tax_511713.html
Wilkie threatens to block mine tax
Saturday, September 11, 2010 » 07:33am
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/09/11/Wilkie_threatens_to_block_mine_tax_511713.html

Independent Andrew Wilkie has threatened the Gillard government's mining tax, warning he will block it unless it is fundamentally redrawn and possibly expanded to capture profits from more mining companies.

Mr Wilkie, the first independent to pledge his support to Labor in the hung parliament, says the proposed mining tax is 'unsatisfactory', must be redesigned from scratch and should be included in next year's proposed tax summit along with the rate of GST.

His position sets up a showdown with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan, who wants the mining tax excluded from the summit and has refused to canvass changes to the GST.

Mr Wilkie told The Weekend Australian that unless the mineral resources rent tax was changed he would oppose its legislation if it were introduced into the House of Representatives.

'I think we need to go back to the drawing board because the MRRT as it is currently designed is unsatisfactory,' he said.

Although he would not specify his preferred changes to the MRRT, saying experts should be consulted, Mr Wilkie suggested the tax could be applied to a wider number of mining companies.

Mr Wilkie, who said the nation's richest companies could pay more tax, told The Weekend Australian he would write to the prime minister to urge the inclusion of both the mining tax and the GST at the tax summit.
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noco said:
The two assassins Shorten and Arbib have been rewarded.
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What has been given to Arbib?
Surprise to see Penny Wong made Finance Minister.
Can't see any reference to what is to happen with Chris Bowen, who I'd have thought was one of their best performers.

It's hard to imagine the atmosphere around the Cabinet table being anything other than, um, a bit tense.

If the two top positions had been occupied by Lindsay Tanner and Stephen Smith, I could have voted for Labor.
 
Julia said:
What has been given to Arbib?
Surprise to see Penny Wong made Finance Minister.
Can't see any reference to what is to happen with Chris Bowen, who I'd have thought was one of their best performers.

It's hard to imagine the atmosphere around the Cabinet table being anything other than, um, a bit tense.

If the two top positions had been occupied by Lindsay Tanner and Stephen Smith, I could have voted for Labor.
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Apology Julia, Arbib is on the outter.

Shorten is assitant treasurer and superannuation.

Bowen to Immigration.
 
Well it's going to be a very interesting time. Julia got there promising a consensus style government and she is going to need her people skills in overdrive to get anything done.
 
Is it a Conspiracy or just a coincidence?

Rudd is appointed as Foreign Minister on Saturday 11/09/2010 and is on the Air Force jet today headed for the United Nations to meet with the UN Secretary General Mr.Moon. He is not yet officially swarn in by the Governor General.

How could he arrange such a trip in 48 hours unless of course it was organised some time back?

Was his demise as Prime Minister a conspiracy by Rudd, Gillard and the faceless men for a leg into his long term ambition of becoming the UN Secretary General? May be the opening is already there.

Arch Bevis predicted Rudd would resign within 6 months, so maybe he knows something we don't.

Can't help feeling suspicious of the plotting that goes on in the Labor Party. Maybe we will see it all unfold in due course.

Where are you GG, you often seem to have your finger on the pulse? Please do some sleuth work for ASF.
 
Step daughter of the prime minister of the commonwealth of australia doing a titty mag

Nice

Shows how much control she has over the first bloke and his daughter.

Why should she control the nation if she makes us all look this bad.
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Slipperz said:
Step daughter of the prime minister of the commonwealth of australia doing a titty mag

Nice

Shows how much control she has over the first bloke and his daughter.

Why should she control the nation if she makes us all look this bad.
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Gee control over a 31 year old daughter,you must be an Abbott clone.
 

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