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drsmith said:
Paul Kelly's not backing down.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...public-spotlight/story-e6frg74x-1226455236267
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Excellent that Paul Kelly has now provided the actual questions Ms Gillard should answer. This is what Mr Abbott was unable to come up with on "7.30" this evening.

As Paul Kelly says, they are absolutely legitimate questions.
We will see whether Ms Gillard manages to answer them.
 
Julia said:
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Excellent that Paul Kelly has now provided the actual questions Ms Gillard should answer. This is what Mr Abbott was unable to come up with on "7.30" this evening.

As Paul Kelly says, they are absolutely legitimate questions.
We will see whether Ms Gillard manages to answer them.
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Even the SMH is saying there is grounds for an independent investigation into unions. Wouldn't that be a hoot, I bet it would fill the news report for the next 12 months.
Bring it on a Royal Commission into union financial conduct, I reckon it would be the story of the century.:eek:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/edito...edia-social-and-otherwise-20120822-24m86.html
 
sptrawler said:
Strap yourself in for the backlash.:eek:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...in-annual-profit/story-fndo1yus-1226455971496

My guess is, this is the first of many announcements.
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I wonder when the rusted on labor faithfull will realise, we have a double whammy of the carbon tax losing jobs in manufacturing and the mining tax hitting mining jobs( but that's o.k they will import labor).
That leads to the next problem, with a downturn in commodity prices, will they get rid of the imported labour or the local labour.LOL,LOL,LOL:eek:
The coalition could never get away with this, it is so funny.:cry:
 
This is shaping up as a nightmare inheritance for the Libs
Around about the time of the election the local and global situations will merge in a perfect storm.
Gingerella will have scurried off by then
 
Julia said:
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Excellent that Paul Kelly has now provided the actual questions Ms Gillard should answer. This is what Mr Abbott was unable to come up with on "7.30" this evening.

As Paul Kelly says, they are absolutely legitimate questions.
We will see whether Ms Gillard manages to answer them.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, apparently Roxon is linked to the affair.
I wonder why she was so vocal blaming everyone for muck raking?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...ft-slater-gordon/story-fn6tcxar-1226456182194
 
sptrawler said:
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, apparently Roxon is linked to the affair.
I wonder why she was so vocal blaming everyone for muck raking?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...ft-slater-gordon/story-fn6tcxar-1226456182194
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Could you do a copy and paste of the article? It's subscriber only.
As I heard this on ABC Radio there was nothing untoward about Nicola Roxon's activities here. She was an industrial lawyer with Maurice Blackburn who handled the AWU's business after S & G lost it following the Gillard controversy.

If there's more to it than that, it would be good to make it clear what it is.
 
here is some good news for Dillard, I doubt it would ever be implemented anyway.


Should government policy be decided by an online poll?
Yes 10710
No 15721
 
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JULIA IN DEEPER S^&T THAN CRAIG:

Thomson is involved in rorting $500,000 from the HSU.
Gillard is involved in rorting $1 million from the AWU.

To date, no attempt has been made by either union to recover one cent.

As a backbencher, Thomson had no clout with media.
As Prime Minister, Gillard used her clout to kill the story... and this is how she did it:

Bruce Wilson was an AWU heavy and Gillard’s boyfriend at the time. He had been threatening developers in a thinly disguised, mob-style protection racket: Industrial peace for payment... up to $50,000 at a time.

The payments went straight to accounts Gillard had arranged while she was still working for the Left wing law firm, Slater & Gordon.

Gillard was into the scam up to her elbows and, as she was screwing Wilson at the time, pillow talk wasn’t confined to her other sexual exploits including married father, and current, Trade Minister Craig Emerson and now Gold Coast spiv Tim Mathieson who departed the Coast leaving multiple unpaid debts.

Her part in the scam was rewarded with $50,000 of renovations to her house and a $25,000 account at a top fashion house (although one could be forgiven for thinking she never used it.)

The story broke and Gillard went into frenzied damage control.

When the dust settled, Gillard was still PM but ground-breaking journalists were sacked, News Ltd CEO, John Hartigan, resigned. Both Fairfax and News Ltd immediately spiked the story and pulled broadcasts, Andrew Bolt threatened to resign, Laurie Oakes was told, “Don’t even think about it!” Blogs disappeared in a cloud of dust. Radio jocks were instructed to drop it.

ABC and ‘The Australian’ journalist, Glenn Milne, had spent months carefully documenting Gillard’s devastating involvement. His story had been legalled and it ran in ‘The Australian’ on Monday, August 1st 2011. It was immediately pulled after one phone call from Gillard.

Slavish supporter of Gillard, the ABC, promptly sacked Milne.

Gillard continued a barrage of phone calls to the then CEO of News Ltd, John Hartigan and there was a meeting arranged at the offices of News Ltd. What exactly was said at that meeting may never be known but it certainly didn’t resemble what Gillard said it was about.

The Leveson Hacking Inquiry was threatening to engulf Australia’s media and Gillard saw her opportunity. She used Bob Brown as a verbal battering ram to threaten Fairfax and Murdoch with an “inquiry”. Gillard herself publicly entered the fray with her now famous utterance: “There are questions that need to be answered.” That statement was carefully crafted to put the fear of God into the media. After much questioning she has refused to say what those questions might be.

A Leveson-style inquiry here would mutilate the very core of Australia’s media and their executives as it has, and is still doing, in the UK.

Fairfax and Murdoch executives, to put it bluntly, were ****ting themselves. Their indecent grappling for a piece of an ever-decreasing circulation market-share would have opened an ugly can of worms. A can I will let sit for another time.

So, this squalid deal was done but the sordid tale still bubbles below the surface. It reaches to the very heart of the Labor movement. We are witnessing only the tip of unions’ mob-like protection rackets and their corrupt manipulation of our Parliaments.

This shameful story will eventually be told in full colour. It will be a long and agonising read.
 
My CV.

gillard.jpg
 
Between now and the next election, the majority will be telling the Government
how to run this country and not the Minority.

Trust me on that!!

joea
 
IFocus said:
Muck raking continues but back down by The Australian
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Yes it's a bit of a laugh really, it was only a few months ago that Labor were full steam ahead for building dirt files on the opposition.LOL
If I remeber correctly, I think we said they should clean up their own backyard first.:D
 
Hey IFocus and So_Cynical, If the resources boom is over, as Ferguson says and manufacturing is stuffed due to the impost of the carbon tax.
Where do we go from here, you two have all the answers as to labors stupid policy, so what's next.LOL,LOL
Oh and I forgot to mention Labor gave the go ahead to bring in cheap labour, for the shortage that isn't there.:eek:
 
sptrawler said:
Where do we go from here, you two have all the answers as to labors stupid policy, so what's next.LOL,LOL
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TA I suspect would be spot on in what he says in the following interview if Labor and the Greens were given enough time. He was after all spot on with Labor and the carbon tax during the 2010 campaign.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-23/abbott-now-says-he-did-read-bhp-statement/4217680

The Carbon tax will also be applied to transport fuels in 2014, conveniently after the next election.

Labor knows it will bite. That after all is its purpose.
 
IFocus said:
Muck raking continues but back down by The Australian
Apology to the Prime Minister

From: The Australian
August 23, 2012 10:05AM


AN article in today's The Australian reported that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had set up a trust fund for her then boyfriend 17 years ago.

This is wrong.

The Australian apologises for the error.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/apology-to-the-prime-minister/story-e6frg6n6-1226456413608
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Perhaps it was a misprint - didn't Gillard call it a "slush" fund? "Trust" fund actually sounds much more respectable...:D

We have managed a trust fund when managing units some time ago and the rules are very strict with spot audits and every receipt must be kept and books reconciled monthly.

Whereas a "slush" fund seems to be a much looser arrangement.
 

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