This will be extremely difficult to repeal, Gillard will lock it in as best she can
Half wit Stephen Conroy waffled on the other day about how "reforming Govts" have to be prepared to take short term hits in the polls.
What he's saing is we'll do what we want regardless of having a mandate or not and we will push it down your throat and hope you give in to it.
How dictatoral can you get.
If Gillard "locks" it in, she is doing so against the wishes of the majority. It's not Abbott she is trying to lock out of her tax, it is voters - the people who she is paid to represent. Shameful at best, imo.
Agree. She knows it won't be her responsibility to figure out how to fund the NDIS because she'll be out of office by then. In the meantime, she's hoping it will make her look warm and fuzzy, oh so compassionate.Is this just another 'RED HERRING' looming with this inept government?
Is Gillard trying to make herself look good again to lift the polls?
Is this just another diversion from the failures of the past; the boat people, the carbon dioxide tax etc.etc.
It would appear Campbell Newman, whilst in the state by state minority on the NDIS, maybe the only one with any sensible approach to what it will all cost.
Agree. She knows it won't be her responsibility to figure out how to fund the NDIS because she'll be out of office by then. In the meantime, she's hoping it will make her look warm and fuzzy, oh so compassionate.
Easy to spruik these schemes when you don't have to worry about how to pay for them.
So now we have the Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister telling the nation that he derives inspiration for his public policies from a pop singer.
The Pythonesque nature of this government would be hilarious if it were not so bloody tragic.
So now we have the Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister telling the nation that he derives inspiration for his public policies from a pop singer.
The Pythonesque nature of this government would be hilarious if it were not so bloody tragic.
Yes the greens, through Bob Brown, have shown they are a more effective party than labor. Also they have highlighted how inept labor are at formulating effective policy.
The labor internal polling must be coming up with horrific results, to cause the current panic attack. They must be in utter turmoil, somethings got to give, probably when parliament resumes.
That post was 11th of last month, this newspaper report shows how close to the bone it is,
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/14443374/leaked-poll-dire-for-labor/
Can't wait untill parliament resumes, I don't know what plan "B" is, but the blame Tony smear campaign ain't working. LOL
First thing I would be doing if I was Gillard, is sack that pommie adviser, he is just compounding the loser projection.
The more they blame Tony, the more they look like fools, who are not in control.
Bob Brown must be having a real laugh, after playing the goons.
+1.I hope they keep Gillard as leader. She’s virtually a certainty to lose the next election, whereas a change of leadership might just sway enough delusional voters into giving Labor another go in the hope they’ll lift their game.
That’s what happened when they replaced Rudd with Gillard – they got an immediate lift in voter confidence because of the delusional people who thought Gillard would make a better PM, despite the fact that she was instrumental in helping Rudd formulate his ill-considered policies that have cost us so dearly.
And the leader of the Opposition is a confessed reader of "Mummy pr0n." Woe is me, these people are human after all. Seriously, the media and the voters make a big deal of all the wrong things some times!So now we have the Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister telling the nation that he derives inspiration for his public policies from a pop singer.
The Pythonesque nature of this government would be hilarious if it were not so bloody tragic.
I doubt, though, that the Opposition leader sets policy on the basis of what you describe as 'mummy pr0n'.And the leader of the Opposition is a confessed reader of "Mummy pr0n." Woe is me, these people are human after all. Seriously, the media and the voters make a big deal of all the wrong things some times!
+2 but surely people are not that dumbOriginally Posted by bunyip
I hope they keep Gillard as leader. She’s virtually a certainty to lose the next election, whereas a change of leadership might just sway enough delusional voters into giving Labor another go in the hope they’ll lift their game.
That’s what happened when they replaced Rudd with Gillard – they got an immediate lift in voter confidence because of the delusional people who thought Gillard would make a better PM, despite the fact that she was instrumental in helping Rudd formulate his ill-considered policies that have cost us so dearly.
+1.
Disagree. I'm not the one making something of it. He appeared on '7.30' discussing his passion for Springsteen and how he had helped him formulate policy.I think you're over-analysing Swan's use of Bruce Springsteen. But I'm not getting into a debate about that - because it's silly. The public seem to jump on any politician who shares anything from his personal life... whether seriously or in jest.
Certainly. All you had to do was Google "Wayne Swan - utube video discussing his Springsteen collection".Is there a link of this speech where he apparently uses his youtube video as part of the content?
I think it would be pretty amusing if it was true.
Happy to help with a quote from the so called story:Julia - it won't let me reply to you with quotes. For some reason.
Link http://www.news.com.au/national/abb...de-stripped-bare/story-fndo4eg9-1226441975367
OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says he has read 50 Shades of Grey. But he prefers Bride Stripped Bare.
Mr Abbott told the Grill Team on TripleM radio in Sydney that he had been prompted to read the book because his daughters had been reading it.
Mr Abbott was responding to a series of rapid-fire questions from the breakfast radio show pertaining to his masculinity.
He was answering with flying colours, revealing he does not eat salad as a main course, can drive a manual car, does not own a cat, does not rub sunscreen on other men and does love hot chicken vindaloo.
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