The Gillard Government

PinguPingu said:

Oh man, the Nova Peris selection is going to backfire big time. People in general believe in fairness and hard work to earn positions, not because you come from a political advantageous polling demographic. Wasn't Rudd dumped for these similar decisions himself?


They're either going to muzzle the senator hard or find a way to keep both of them.

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Logique said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Peris-Kneebone
"In 2005, she [Peris] sold her Olympic memorabilia to the National Museum of Australia for $140,000.[3] It included her gold medal, hockey stick, Sydney Olympic torch and the running shoes she wore in the Sydney Olympics.[4]" ...Quite the sentimentalist.

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dutchie said:

Lets see now..

1. Not a member of the Labor Party.
2. No experience.
3. NT ALP not consulted.
4. Existing member of 15 years not consulted other than "stand down"
5. Ignores pre-selection process.


Nice.

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Miss Hale said:

I think this could backfire in a big way. Already in her first interview Peris was blubbing and seemed way out of her comfort zone, which highlights that she was chosen because she ticks a couple of politically correct boxes (indigenous, female) rather than being someone who really has something to offer and the skills to carry it through. She's not a member of the Labor party yet either.

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Logique said:

Apparently the displaced (or realistically sacked after 15 years) Senator voted for Rudd in the last leadership spill. Taxpayers will be looking after her quite nicely in retirement, I wouldn't be shedding too many tears for her.

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MrBurns said:

Gillard referred to this as a "captains pick" she obviously sees Parliament as her own private playground
I would have thought the best people should be favoured

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MrBurns said:

Gillard referred to this as a "captains pick" she obviously sees Parliament as her own private playground
I would have thought the best people should be favoured

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Miss Hale said:

She loves sporting analogies, she thinks it makes her sound in touch with the average Aussie, instead she just comes across as a try hard wannabe It's the equivalent of Rudd's 'fair suck of the sauce bottle' stuff. Cringeworthy

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sptrawler said:

Still we have Peter as lead singer, what a circus.

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MrBurns said:

Gillard goes from bad to worse to just plain incredibly unbelievably out of touch focused entirely on her own survival
She treats the public as complete fools and now treats the Australian Parliament with contempt by stacking it with those not able to serve us best but those able to serve her own interests best
Peris is obviously a decent person used by Gillard in her endless power play
She will be subjected to ridicule because of this move and she seems like the sort of person that won't handle it well

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dutchie said:

Peris is also clueless. She does not have a clue that this women is just using her.

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The dumping of Northern Territory senator Trish Crossin to make way for star Labor recruit, indigenous athlete Nova Peris, has been described as brutal and 'a night of the long knives against a senator.'

Labor left co-convenor Senator Doug Cameron, a friend of Senator Crossin, is disappointed with Prime Minister Julia Gillard's interference in the NT Senate preselection process.

'If we have a problem in the Northern Territory with indigenous representation we should have been dealing with this six months ago,' he told ABC Radio.

'We should be looking at how we attract talented Aboriginal people into the party, how we can make the party relevant to them.'

He said it was not relevant to be 'parachuting people in and saying that soothes our conscience in terms of Aboriginal representation.'

'It's a short-term fix that belies a deeper problem,' he said.

Senator Cameron described Prime Minister Julia Gillard's 'captain's pick' as brutal and 'a night of the long knives against a senator.'

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The first train line in Sydney to be paid for and built under the Rudd and Gillard governments opened on Monday, $700 million over budget and three years after it was promised to be finished.

The final cost was about $1 billion. When Mr Albanese announced the start of construction in February 2009, he put a figure of $309 million on the project and a completion date of early 2010.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/we-wanted-to-make-sure-we-got-it-right-new-rail-line-opens--three-years-late-20130121-2d279.html#ixzz2IkPach9W

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MrBurns said:

I think she will be hurt badly in the end by Gillard, she has no idea she's being used as you say but it will become clear fairly soon, I hope she has the sense to bail early.

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Meanwhile, an expanded police investigation called by Kevin Rudd over his swearing YouTube video will hang like a "cloud" over the Prime Minister's office at the start of the parliamentary year, a Labor MP said yesterday.

Mr Rudd has identified possible new witnesses in what he believes was the theft of the footage and the unauthorised release of the video in which he unleashed a string of expletives in out takes of a message he was recording in Chinese.

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