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MrBurns said:
I wish there was a trigger for an earlier action she's so arrogant it's getting hard to take.
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There is nothing wrong with arrogance, it's just sad when the arrogance is lacking substance to support it.

I'm in W.A and to see a political party parachute in a media personality to unseat a prime minister, well it doesn't get more shallow than that.
When you stand for nothing other than re election, your circle of friends is very small.
 
drsmith said:
Julia Gillard tries to play the same card twice, this time out of order.


The speaker Anna Bourke actually had to ask the PM to withdraw it twice as the first withdrawal was not without qualification. The second was.

These are the among the final breaths of a PM close to political death.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...of-misogyny-slur/story-fn59niix-1226600921268
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Why was Pyne ordered from the chamber? Surely not for asking the PM to withdraw her comment? :confused:
 
Miss Hale said:
Why was Pyne ordered from the chamber? Surely not for asking the PM to withdraw her comment? :confused:
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I would assume the ruling 94A relates to behaviour in parliament. Pyne was an idiot today. He blew a golden opportunity to show Gillard up as someone who will play the gender card at every opportunity. Now all will just remember him losing his cool. I know the following has been edited by Labor supporters, but that is no way for anyone to act.

 
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Miss Hale said:
Why was Pyne ordered from the chamber? Surely not for asking the PM to withdraw her comment? :confused:
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I didn't see Pynes outburst as anything worse than I've seen in the house before
"A desperate play from a desperate prime minister" was a measured and acurate statement and a lot tamer than what most would like to have said
But madam speaker to Gillards defence as usual
 
MrBurns said:
Rudd pulled out of a joint press conference with Gillard this morning ..... It's on.
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Kevin Rudd or Simon Crean ?

Fairfax is still pushing the story,

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-turn-their-eyes-to-crean-20130319-2gdnq.html

As for the events in parliament yesterday, this is what happened, including Christopher Pyne's ejection,

"Let me say very clearly to the Leader of the Opposition, it will be a contest counterintuitive to those believing in gender stereotypes but a contest between a strong, feisty woman and a policy-weak man, and I will win it."

In the furore that followed, she made her allegation "Misogynist Tony is back".

Amid the uproar, manager of opposition business Christopher Pyne leapt to his feet and repeated the word, demanding that the Speaker make her withdraw.

"It is a slur on the Leader of the Opposition and a desperate ploy by a desperate Prime Minister," he yelled, before being ejected.

Former attorney-general Nicola Roxon interjected when he rose, "two policy-weak men".

Ms Burke said she had not heard the Prime Minister's remarks but asked her to withdraw.

"If the Leader of the Opposition is upset in any way then I withdraw," she said.

As Coalition members erupted in fury, Ms Burke ordered the Prime Minister to apologise "unreservedly" and sat down manager of government business Anthony Albanese as he attempted to take a point of order.

Ms Burke again ordered Ms Gillard to withdraw. The Prime Minister finally obliged.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...or-julia-gillard/story-fn59niix-1226601067210
 
MrBurns said:
I thought I heard Rudd but probably Crean come to think of it, why would Rudd be having a press conference with Gillard anyway ?......
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More on your earlier point from News,

Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd this morning where scheduled to attend a function for indigenous training - an important issue for both - but sent apologies and didn't show.

The Prime Minister was due to "pop in" to a GenerationOne breakfast with billionaire miner Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest and Tony Abbott that started at 7.15am.

But her spokesman confirmed to News Limited at 7.45am she would no longer be attending.

"She was originally down to pop in but the morning is just becoming too busy," the spokesman said.

Kevin Rudd's office also confirmed the former Prime Minister pulled out of the GenerationOne event this morning because he didn't want to face the media scrum.

''He didn't want to be seen as a distraction,'' his spokesman said.
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Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-new...or/story-fncynjr2-1226601010695#ixzz2O28UGnr1
 
MrBurns said:
Thanks.......the humiliation she foisted on Rudd is about to be paid back:2twocents
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The media frenzy continues to grow,

SUPPORT for Kevin Rudd to replace Julia Gillard has gained momentum after senior parliamentary figures in both camps confirmed that the Prime Minister's majority in the 102-person Labor caucus is now in serious doubt.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ajority-in-doubt/story-fnhqeu0x-1226601360773

And this from Fairfax's live politics page,

Chief government whip and Rudd man, Joel Fitzgibbon, has told Fairfax Media's Tim Lester that: "I'm too honest in politics. But I wear that as a badge of honour. The newspapers are full of it so the public must conclude that something must be going on....It would be silly to tell people watching your program that there is nothing going on."
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-pulse-live/politics-live-march-20-2013-20130320-2gecr.html

My bolds.
 
bellenuit said:
I would assume the ruling 94A relates to behaviour in parliament. Pyne was an idiot today. He blew a golden opportunity to show Gillard up as someone who will play the gender card at every opportunity. Now all will just remember him losing his cool. I know the following has been edited by Labor supporters, but that is no way for anyone to act.

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Thanks. Yes, I saw that. Nothing wrong with what he said or did as far as I am concerned, he had to shout to be heard over the din. Given that the speaker made Gillard apologise it would seem she argreed Pyne had a point, so why order him from the chamber? I have a lot of trouble understanding how parliament is conducted. One day you can get away with anything, the next you are ordered from the chamber for no reason, seems highly subjective to me.

Gillards line about a fiesty women versus a policy free man was pathetic. Why is she bringing gender into the debate again? I thought she was against that? :rolleyes: Taking out whether it's a man or a woman, why is fiesty preferrable to policy free anyway? She has no idea....
 
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Simon Crean on process and outcome.

The long-time Gillard backer left no doubt about his views on the handling of the media reform package that was brought to cabinet last week with no notice and then forced on an unwilling Parliament. ''The process could've been handled better and I've made the point on previous occasions. We get hung up more about issues around lack of process than we do the content . . .,'' Mr Crean said.
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The process though impacts the outcome.

Everyone knows that, so I can only assume that Labor's initial process was to seek an outcome that suited them politically.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/pms-chamber-of-horrors-20130319-2gdo5.html
 
MrBurns said:
She's as cunning as a ****house rat, she'll work it somehow so she doesn't look like a loser.
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The only way she can achieve anything like that is if its anyone else but Kevin Rudd.

If she achieve that while on her way out, that will at least be something positive.
 
drsmith said:
The only way she can achieve anything like that is if its anyone else but Kevin Rudd.

If she achieve that while on her way out, that will at least be something positive.
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She might step down rather than let it go to a vote blaming the Murdoch press and Tony the misogynist.
 
MrBurns said:
She might step down rather than let it go to a vote blaming the Murdoch press and Tony the misogynist.
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I can only guess at this point, but I reckon the party today is encouraging her to step down in favour of a third furniture-saving option.
 

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