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The good Professor was held to account by Bolt today, it was horribile dictu (for her). Seems she's doing rather nicely on the taxpayers dollar.
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Good heavens! $480K for that stuff. Amazing.
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Love the photo of Craig Thompson classic 
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Thoroughly recommend reading The Pickering Post todays article!
http://pickeringpost.com/article/prepare-for-some-dizzying-spin-from-the-consummate-spinster/1073
PREPARE FOR SOME DIZZYING SPIN FROM THE CONSUMMATE SPINSTER
first paragraph
Without a responsible Senate to reject supply this Government will load Abbott up with debt requiring austerity measures that will give him voter backlash. “If I can’t win, at least I can make life hell for you”, seems to be Gillard’s thinking. Except it’s not hell for Abbott, it’s hell for us.
recommend reading the rest of article
The cartoons are great!
http://pickeringpost.com/archive/cartoons
http://pickeringpost.com/article/prepare-for-some-dizzying-spin-from-the-consummate-spinster/1073
PREPARE FOR SOME DIZZYING SPIN FROM THE CONSUMMATE SPINSTER
first paragraph
Without a responsible Senate to reject supply this Government will load Abbott up with debt requiring austerity measures that will give him voter backlash. “If I can’t win, at least I can make life hell for you”, seems to be Gillard’s thinking. Except it’s not hell for Abbott, it’s hell for us.
recommend reading the rest of article
The cartoons are great!
http://pickeringpost.com/archive/cartoons
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Awesome...... thank you JuLiar...
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-new...ne/story-fncynjr2-1226607170108#ixzz2Oh0U8Pob
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You'll find Greg Sheridan views in the linked audio both well worth a listen, and somewhat depressing.
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...editor-greg-sheridan-on-2gb-this-morning.html
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Neil Mitchell on 3AW Melbourne ripped Bill Shorten apart this morning..........
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Labor's final raid on the treasury before being kicked from office has begun, on behalf of the unions.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...nions-penny-wong/story-fn59noo3-1226607460959
My bolds.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...nions-penny-wong/story-fn59noo3-1226607460959
My bolds.
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Doug Cameron has to go.
Doug Cameron was Ian Macdonald's unionist saviour
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...unionist-saviour/story-fndo317g-1226607170174
Doug Cameron was Ian Macdonald's unionist saviour
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...unionist-saviour/story-fndo317g-1226607170174
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The general media are now fully awake to this lousy Govt and are taking them on, Leigh Sales, Neil Mitchel and more to follow, not just questioning but demanding answers instead of spin and BS.........
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MCTERNAN IS GILLARD’S MAN... in more ways than one
The bitter back bench leaks have started already and the rumour is, from more than one quarter, that our lovely Julia has a new partner.
Apparently there was a huge blue at The Lodge over Tim Mathieson’s recent Richmond exploits and a small matter of a raft of traffic fines in a Commonwealth car.
Let’s face it, Tim was an embarrassment and the wily McTernan has apparently stepped in to take up the slack.
Continue reading the full article on the Pickering Post
http://pickeringpost.com/article/mcternan-is-gillards-man...-in-more-ways-than-one/1077
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Tim Mathieson pressured Richmond to snub Tony Abbott
by: CHRIS KENNY AND KATE LEGGE
From: The Australian
March 09, 2013 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...snub-tony-abbott/story-fn59niix-1226593598167
AN email obtained exclusively by The Weekend Australian reveals Julia Gillard's partner, Tim Mathieson, sought to involve her office in pressuring a major sporting club to freeze out Tony Abbott.
After attending an AFL clash at the MCG as a guest of the Richmond Football Club, Mr Mathieson emailed its chief executive, Brendon Gale, copying in the Prime Minister's office, to complain about the Opposition Leader's access to the team's inner sanctum and his prominent seating at a pre-game function.
Mr Mathieson demanded that Mr Gale raise the matter with the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Ben Hubbard.
His fiery outburst occurred on a Sunday evening after the Dreamtime AFL match between Essendon and Richmond on May 19 last year. The Dreamtime game is one of the highlights of the AFL calendar for its social and cultural significance in promoting reconciliation.
"Mate u need to speak with Ben Hubbard on why abboott was taken down to the rooms ... " Mr Mathieson fumed. " ... it's just not on Who authorised it < it was a shocker it was a Don's function and he should not have gone down there
That same weekend Ms Gillard was travelling to Chicago for top-level security talks with Barack Obama and other NATO leaders to plan the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
Ms Gillard's office declined to respond to questions about Mr Mathieson's complaint.
Mr Mathieson is a fanatical supporter of the Richmond "Tigers" while the PM barracks for the Western Bulldogs. They are often seen at games together in their respective club colours.
Richmond has accommodated Mr Mathieson's requests for tickets, hospitality and memorabilia since his move into The Lodge.
At the Dreamtime game in Melbourne, the first bloke invited ABC Insiders host Barrie Cassidy to join him on the Richmond table. Both men visited the Richmond room before the contest, where they crossed paths with Mr Abbott, who was a guest of Essendon's chairman David Evans.
Essendon was hosting the pre-game function for the Dreamtime game and in charge of protocol. The Opposition Leader was accompanied to the event by two of his three daughters and his chief of staff, Peta Credlin.
The rooms for rival teams at the MCG are not far apart and after visiting Essendon players, Mr Abbott was escorted across to the Richmond bunker.
Clubs embrace politicians from all sides of politics and dignitaries who are invited to pre-game functions usually get taken to visit players in the room before the match.
The Weekend Australian understands that Mr Gale responded politely to Mr Mathieson's email protest, explaining that Richmond was staunchly bipartisan and happy to accord Mr Abbott the very same privileges that the Prime Minister's partner enjoyed on a regular basis. He signed off by confirming Mr Mathieson's attendance at an upcoming pre-game cocktail, party in Sydney.
Mr Gale would not comment on the email exchange. "He will not discuss private communications," his spokesman said.
Government sources say Mr Mathieson has a habit of firing off emails and texts to Ms Gillard's personal staff when he senses a perceived injustice. His email to Mr Gale was copied to a senior public servant working in Ms Gillard's office at the time.
The bitter back bench leaks have started already and the rumour is, from more than one quarter, that our lovely Julia has a new partner.
Apparently there was a huge blue at The Lodge over Tim Mathieson’s recent Richmond exploits and a small matter of a raft of traffic fines in a Commonwealth car.
Let’s face it, Tim was an embarrassment and the wily McTernan has apparently stepped in to take up the slack.
Continue reading the full article on the Pickering Post
http://pickeringpost.com/article/mcternan-is-gillards-man...-in-more-ways-than-one/1077
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Tim Mathieson pressured Richmond to snub Tony Abbott
by: CHRIS KENNY AND KATE LEGGE
From: The Australian
March 09, 2013 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...snub-tony-abbott/story-fn59niix-1226593598167
AN email obtained exclusively by The Weekend Australian reveals Julia Gillard's partner, Tim Mathieson, sought to involve her office in pressuring a major sporting club to freeze out Tony Abbott.
After attending an AFL clash at the MCG as a guest of the Richmond Football Club, Mr Mathieson emailed its chief executive, Brendon Gale, copying in the Prime Minister's office, to complain about the Opposition Leader's access to the team's inner sanctum and his prominent seating at a pre-game function.
Mr Mathieson demanded that Mr Gale raise the matter with the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Ben Hubbard.
His fiery outburst occurred on a Sunday evening after the Dreamtime AFL match between Essendon and Richmond on May 19 last year. The Dreamtime game is one of the highlights of the AFL calendar for its social and cultural significance in promoting reconciliation.
"Mate u need to speak with Ben Hubbard on why abboott was taken down to the rooms ... " Mr Mathieson fumed. " ... it's just not on Who authorised it < it was a shocker it was a Don's function and he should not have gone down there
That same weekend Ms Gillard was travelling to Chicago for top-level security talks with Barack Obama and other NATO leaders to plan the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
Ms Gillard's office declined to respond to questions about Mr Mathieson's complaint.
Mr Mathieson is a fanatical supporter of the Richmond "Tigers" while the PM barracks for the Western Bulldogs. They are often seen at games together in their respective club colours.
Richmond has accommodated Mr Mathieson's requests for tickets, hospitality and memorabilia since his move into The Lodge.
At the Dreamtime game in Melbourne, the first bloke invited ABC Insiders host Barrie Cassidy to join him on the Richmond table. Both men visited the Richmond room before the contest, where they crossed paths with Mr Abbott, who was a guest of Essendon's chairman David Evans.
Essendon was hosting the pre-game function for the Dreamtime game and in charge of protocol. The Opposition Leader was accompanied to the event by two of his three daughters and his chief of staff, Peta Credlin.
The rooms for rival teams at the MCG are not far apart and after visiting Essendon players, Mr Abbott was escorted across to the Richmond bunker.
Clubs embrace politicians from all sides of politics and dignitaries who are invited to pre-game functions usually get taken to visit players in the room before the match.
The Weekend Australian understands that Mr Gale responded politely to Mr Mathieson's email protest, explaining that Richmond was staunchly bipartisan and happy to accord Mr Abbott the very same privileges that the Prime Minister's partner enjoyed on a regular basis. He signed off by confirming Mr Mathieson's attendance at an upcoming pre-game cocktail, party in Sydney.
Mr Gale would not comment on the email exchange. "He will not discuss private communications," his spokesman said.
Government sources say Mr Mathieson has a habit of firing off emails and texts to Ms Gillard's personal staff when he senses a perceived injustice. His email to Mr Gale was copied to a senior public servant working in Ms Gillard's office at the time.
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It is a bitter irony Burnsie. This forum, and particularly this thread, has onto them for years.The general media are now fully awake to this lousy Govt and are taking them on, Leigh Sales, Neil Mitchel and more to follow, not just questioning but demanding answers instead of spin and BS.........
This government is off the rails, be very afraid. The Unions are off the leash too, making hay. Grand kids out there, be even more afraid, you'll be the ones paying off the national debt.
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From Andrew Bolt
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ttacks_gillard_on_exactly_the_grounds_i_have/
"To put it less diplomatically, Gillard, is disloyal, untrustworthy, incompetent, reckless, divisive, dictatorial, wasteful and lacking in vision:"
And those are her good points!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ttacks_gillard_on_exactly_the_grounds_i_have/
"To put it less diplomatically, Gillard, is disloyal, untrustworthy, incompetent, reckless, divisive, dictatorial, wasteful and lacking in vision:"
And those are her good points!
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Another day, another terrible poll for Labor.
http://www.afr.com/p/national/labor_faces_annihilation_in_marginal_MRqll2ldnEA2yvStbw4IMM
Sportsbet has given up running odds on who will win the next election, but has the Coalition at $1.20 to win 91 seats or more
Betting is also available on Julia Gillard's future post election. PM doesn't rate a mention.
http://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting...Australian-Federal-Election-2013/14-3668.html
http://www.afr.com/p/national/labor_faces_annihilation_in_marginal_MRqll2ldnEA2yvStbw4IMM
Sportsbet has given up running odds on who will win the next election, but has the Coalition at $1.20 to win 91 seats or more
Betting is also available on Julia Gillard's future post election. PM doesn't rate a mention.
http://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting...Australian-Federal-Election-2013/14-3668.html
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I love how the poll is predicting Kev baby might be the only Labor pollie to be left standing in QLD... if he manages to hold his seat which is under threat on current voter intent.
Awww. How could Oz cope with losing Herr Schwann - The World's Greatest Treasurer?
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Juliar's partners / boyfriends count
Count is currently five!
Can you add to the list?
Extract from Pickering Post issued six months ago!
http://pickeringpost.com/article/why-single-women-prefer-married-men/597
Then there is the kinky pleasure of being in the presence of the married man's wife. The smug "if-only-you-knew" factor is a form of covert power over another oblivious female.
So, what common thread in her relationships indicates Julia Gillard's motivation? We are not supposed to ask that sort of thing you say! Why the hell not? If we had a single male Prime Minister who consistently had covert affairs with married women it would surely justify media interest. If you don't think it's a fair question then you don't believe in sexual equality... particularly concerning the sexuality of those with political power over us.
Gillard is so obviously a very sexual woman. Her patent, overt flirting with Barack Obama is testimony to that. She displays that come-to-bed look with aplomb and her list of affairs with married men with children is long and worthy of note:
Bruce Wilson, apparently happily married with children. He was a fraudulent crook and a union strongman with loads of cash at the ready. The exciting world of union corruption was an attraction for Gillard. (A relationship of over 4 years.)
Michael O'Connor, ruggedly good-looking and an unabashed communist was at the time a militant powerbroker of the CFMEU. He is now CFMEU Boss. Apparently happily married with children. Union power and mob-style thuggery was again an attraction for Gillard. (A relationship of over 6 years but overlapped other relationships.)
Peter Gordon, of Slater & Gordon, Married with children and Senior Partner. Gillard's rather brief stint with Gordon was a result of his Presidency of the Western Bulldogs AFL Club. Gordon and Gillard regularly spent time together at the Club and Gillard has supported the Bulldogs ever since, both emotionally and with taxpayer funds as Prime Minister.
Craig Emerson, current Trade Minister. Happily married with 3 children. His rise to power through ANU academia and his assertive manner was also an attraction for Gillard. Emerson and his wife divorced after this relationship became public. Emerson's main claim to fame was that he drank Gillard's contact lenses she inadvertently left in a glass of water in the bathroom.
Tim Mathieson breaks the mould of Gillard's affairs. He is divorced with children and has another daughter out of wedlock. Gillard began this relationship just prior to Rudd's election. Mathieson, a drink-driving yobbo, has left a long trail of debt wherever he goes.
Gillard's Prime Ministerial ambitions were being hatched with the help of Bill Shorten and Bill Ludwig, both powerbrokers in the AWU, long before Rudd's election.
Mathieson's role as a partner for Gillard as Prime Minster is apt. His dimwittedness ensures he could never be in competition with, or a threat to, Gillard's lofty ambitions. And for God's sake, we could never have a single female Prime Minister living alone in The Lodge, could we?
None of her previous partners could have successfully moved into The Lodge with her.
So, leaving the hapless Mathieson out of the thread, there is a commonality in Gillard's affairs:
All men were older.
All were married.
All had children.
All wielded power.
All had dodgy union connections and lots of available cash (albeit mostly belonging to other people) and,
All were beguiled by Gillard's sexuality.
Yet strangely, all these affairs ended amicably. Even now, Gillard and her ex-men hold not a shred of bitterness for each other. Craig Emerson and even Bruce Wilson and Peter Gordon rush to defend her. What does this mean? It simply means they were not affairs of the heart. True emotional love mostly ends in prolonged hurt and acrimony. These affairs did not.
Gillard has been attracted to the intoxicating excitement of lustful power, union corruption, rivers of illicit money and an ego driven, covert competition with married men's wives. She has never felt the need to hide her sexual targeting of any man. Wilson's wife simply learnt to live with his infidelity. Emerson's wife couldn't. O'Connor's wife was furious but got over it.
And why were these men attracted to Gillard? Well, I'm a little uncomfortable saying this, but she definitely exudes a bewitching sensuality.
A sensuality even Barack Obama finds difficult to ignore.
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Extract below from Pickering Post - please read the full article
http://pickeringpost.com/article/the-labor-party-i-love-by-julia-gillard/1078
Still lying!!
Make no mistake, unless Julia Gillard experienced an epiphanous rebirth on the eve of her election to Parliament, the blood of the radical Communist Left still runs deep in her veins.
Of course she denies any meaningful connection to the Socialist Forum, “I just did clerical work, posting letters and stuff, you know”, she claimed.
When asked on Q&A if the Socialist Forum was a Communist organisation, her terse reply was, “Of course not!”
In fact the Socialist Forum was an ultra radical breakaway group of the Communist Party of Australia.
But Julia forgot there are minutes of Socialist Forum meetings that show she was a driving force behind the subversive organisation.
The infamous Taft brothers, Jenny Macklin and Julia’s bed partner, Michael O’Conner (now of the CFMEU) along with other devotees, avowed the following resolution:
"... the Socialist Forum being a defacto continuum of a section of the Communist Party of Australia be interpreted as a political party competing with the ALP... it is not possible for any member of the ALP to simultaneously belong to the Socialist Forum.”
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http://pickeringpost.com/archive/cartoons
Check Pickering's Cartoons with link above
Count is currently five!
Can you add to the list?
Extract from Pickering Post issued six months ago!
http://pickeringpost.com/article/why-single-women-prefer-married-men/597
Then there is the kinky pleasure of being in the presence of the married man's wife. The smug "if-only-you-knew" factor is a form of covert power over another oblivious female.
So, what common thread in her relationships indicates Julia Gillard's motivation? We are not supposed to ask that sort of thing you say! Why the hell not? If we had a single male Prime Minister who consistently had covert affairs with married women it would surely justify media interest. If you don't think it's a fair question then you don't believe in sexual equality... particularly concerning the sexuality of those with political power over us.
Gillard is so obviously a very sexual woman. Her patent, overt flirting with Barack Obama is testimony to that. She displays that come-to-bed look with aplomb and her list of affairs with married men with children is long and worthy of note:
Bruce Wilson, apparently happily married with children. He was a fraudulent crook and a union strongman with loads of cash at the ready. The exciting world of union corruption was an attraction for Gillard. (A relationship of over 4 years.)
Michael O'Connor, ruggedly good-looking and an unabashed communist was at the time a militant powerbroker of the CFMEU. He is now CFMEU Boss. Apparently happily married with children. Union power and mob-style thuggery was again an attraction for Gillard. (A relationship of over 6 years but overlapped other relationships.)
Peter Gordon, of Slater & Gordon, Married with children and Senior Partner. Gillard's rather brief stint with Gordon was a result of his Presidency of the Western Bulldogs AFL Club. Gordon and Gillard regularly spent time together at the Club and Gillard has supported the Bulldogs ever since, both emotionally and with taxpayer funds as Prime Minister.
Craig Emerson, current Trade Minister. Happily married with 3 children. His rise to power through ANU academia and his assertive manner was also an attraction for Gillard. Emerson and his wife divorced after this relationship became public. Emerson's main claim to fame was that he drank Gillard's contact lenses she inadvertently left in a glass of water in the bathroom.
Tim Mathieson breaks the mould of Gillard's affairs. He is divorced with children and has another daughter out of wedlock. Gillard began this relationship just prior to Rudd's election. Mathieson, a drink-driving yobbo, has left a long trail of debt wherever he goes.
Gillard's Prime Ministerial ambitions were being hatched with the help of Bill Shorten and Bill Ludwig, both powerbrokers in the AWU, long before Rudd's election.
Mathieson's role as a partner for Gillard as Prime Minster is apt. His dimwittedness ensures he could never be in competition with, or a threat to, Gillard's lofty ambitions. And for God's sake, we could never have a single female Prime Minister living alone in The Lodge, could we?
None of her previous partners could have successfully moved into The Lodge with her.
So, leaving the hapless Mathieson out of the thread, there is a commonality in Gillard's affairs:
All men were older.
All were married.
All had children.
All wielded power.
All had dodgy union connections and lots of available cash (albeit mostly belonging to other people) and,
All were beguiled by Gillard's sexuality.
Yet strangely, all these affairs ended amicably. Even now, Gillard and her ex-men hold not a shred of bitterness for each other. Craig Emerson and even Bruce Wilson and Peter Gordon rush to defend her. What does this mean? It simply means they were not affairs of the heart. True emotional love mostly ends in prolonged hurt and acrimony. These affairs did not.
Gillard has been attracted to the intoxicating excitement of lustful power, union corruption, rivers of illicit money and an ego driven, covert competition with married men's wives. She has never felt the need to hide her sexual targeting of any man. Wilson's wife simply learnt to live with his infidelity. Emerson's wife couldn't. O'Connor's wife was furious but got over it.
And why were these men attracted to Gillard? Well, I'm a little uncomfortable saying this, but she definitely exudes a bewitching sensuality.
A sensuality even Barack Obama finds difficult to ignore.
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Extract below from Pickering Post - please read the full article
http://pickeringpost.com/article/the-labor-party-i-love-by-julia-gillard/1078
Still lying!!
Make no mistake, unless Julia Gillard experienced an epiphanous rebirth on the eve of her election to Parliament, the blood of the radical Communist Left still runs deep in her veins.
Of course she denies any meaningful connection to the Socialist Forum, “I just did clerical work, posting letters and stuff, you know”, she claimed.
When asked on Q&A if the Socialist Forum was a Communist organisation, her terse reply was, “Of course not!”
In fact the Socialist Forum was an ultra radical breakaway group of the Communist Party of Australia.
But Julia forgot there are minutes of Socialist Forum meetings that show she was a driving force behind the subversive organisation.
The infamous Taft brothers, Jenny Macklin and Julia’s bed partner, Michael O’Conner (now of the CFMEU) along with other devotees, avowed the following resolution:
"... the Socialist Forum being a defacto continuum of a section of the Communist Party of Australia be interpreted as a political party competing with the ALP... it is not possible for any member of the ALP to simultaneously belong to the Socialist Forum.”
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http://pickeringpost.com/archive/cartoons
Check Pickering's Cartoons with link above
