The Gillard Government

[noco]

He is the perfect candidate for labor.

Got balls.
Seems honest.
and not in the long term plan as he is a past failure.

Therefore, rope him in, cut some losses and toss him aside (or let him ride as opposition leader for the first term of opposition to save the chosen ones)

I really like Simon Crean

MW

But has Crean, Fitzgibbons and Ferguson got the balls to cross the floor and bring down the Government?????

 

[drsmith]

Labor raised the prospect of increased super taxes prior to last year's budget and in the end wimped out to an increased contributions tax on incomes above $300k.

From the SMH on April 21 2012,

''There are a number of options on the table and none of them will bother the people whose votes we need,'' one source said.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...rise-in-contributions-tax-20120420-1xcfa.html

Pre-budget last year they were still playing to win the next election. This time around, I'd suggest they've given up that hope and might just see it as a final act of wealth redistribution before being kicked from office.

Simon Crean and Joel Fitzgibbon I suspect are just firing a shot across the bow of a dying government not to go too far, although that doesn't leave too much wriggle room for a government that's already made changes.

 

[Julia]

Pre-budget last year they were still playing to win the next election. This time around, I'd suggest they've given up that hope and might just see it as a final act of wealth redistribution before being kicked from office.

Agree. The people who will be affected would never have voted for Labor anyway, so Gillard & co. don't care.

 

[noco]

But has Crean, Fitzgibbons and Ferguson got the balls to cross the floor and bring down the Government?????

Well Crean and his supporters might just pull it off by bringing down the Gillard Government.

There is still lots of dissent in the Labor Camp and anything could happen before the 14th September.



http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...aldsun/comments/crean_leads_a_new_opposition/

 

[sptrawler]

Well Crean and his supporters might just pull it off by bringing down the Gillard Government.

There is still lots of dissent in the Labor Camp and anything could happen before the 14th September.



http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...aldsun/comments/crean_leads_a_new_opposition/

It would be the smart thing to do as it would look like a purging of the party, boy do they need that.

This nasty slap you down discipline Gillard is dishing out, is scaring the hell out of the party, let alone the electorate.

I'm just gratefull we aren't a 3rd world country. We aren't are we.

 

[Logique]

What a pass we have come to in federal politics. A Government with two Oppositions. This will make a great mini-series one day.

Policy, not gender, will decide Gillard's fate at ballot box -Gerard Henderson SMH 2 April 2013

[Professor Marilyn] Lake believes ''most women and fair-minded men support [Gillard] in her program of change and her vision of a fairer society''. If this is the case, Labor will win easily in September. If the Gillard government falls, the reason will be found in policy and administration - not gender.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-ballot-box-20130401-2h2zu.html#ixzz2PFd7TNbx

 

[dutchie]

This will make a great mini-series one day.

Spot on there Logique. Problem will be cutting five years down to 2 hours.

 

[drsmith]

2% point 2PP shift on Essential Media against Labor this week.

Bearing in mind it's a 2-week average, that's a pretty big shift.

http://essentialvision.com.au/category/essentialreport

Spot on there Logique. Problem will be cutting five years down to 2 hours.

It will be better suited to a miniseries, or perhaps several.

 

[Calliope]

What a rat-bag Craig Emerson is. He can play the role of the village idiot in the mini-series.

“This is what I say about fabulously wealthy people - `God bless their little cotton socks',” Dr Emerson said.

 

[Julia]

2% point 2PP shift on Essential Media against Labor this week.

Bearing in mind it's a 2-week average, that's a pretty big shift.

Thanks for that, drsmith. No comfort for Labor there.

It will be better suited to a miniseries, or perhaps several.

I shudder at the thought of any permanent reminders of this government.
Let's just be thankful to consign them to distant memory after September.

 

[dutchie]

More Union hypocrisy.

ALP crusader on foreign workers Tony Sheldon puts staff on 457s

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ts-staff-on-457s/story-fn9hm1pm-1226611261017

ALP national vice-president and prominent union leader Tony Sheldon has recruited overseas workers on 457 visas to fill three key positions in his union, defending the move by claiming he could not find suitably qualified Australian workers to take the jobs.

Mr Sheldon, who two weeks ago accused some employers importing 457 visa workers of engaging in "human trafficking" and a "form of slavery", confirmed to The Australian that his chief of staff Dermot Ryan, media officer Barry Dunning and senior organiser Celia Petty were employed on 457 visas.



They truly are a joke!

 

[bunyip]

I shudder at the thought of any permanent reminders of this government.
Let's just be thankful to consign them to distant memory after September.

I feel it will be a long long time before a government this bad is a distant memory.
The atrocious ALP government of Gough Whitlam in the 1970’s is still a pretty strong memory for many people.

 

[bellenuit]

Nothing new added, but Michael Smith is feeling very exuberant this morning....

I have received some fantastic news today - a major step forward in The AWU Scandal

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...-a-major-step-forward-in-the-awu-scandal.html

 

[drsmith]

Nothing new added, but Michael Smith is feeling very exuberant this morning....

Someone else isn't,

''I don't need 20,000 leagues of sea [sic]; I need an MRI at Mount Druitt Hospital," he said.

Mr Husic is a supporter of former prime minister Kevin Rudd and resigned his position as deputy whip during last month's leadership spill triggered by the sacked frontbencher Simon Crean.

The MP's criticisms come after a parade of ministers cautioned the government over its ''class war'' rhetoric on issues from 457 visas to superannuation tax changes.

Mr Crean, Martin Ferguson and Joel Fitzgibbon, who lost their posts in the aborted leadership spill, have continued to speak out particularly on any superannuation plans.

More than ever, the crockery from the house of Labor continues to be smashed into ever smaller pieces.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...usters-says-labor-mp-20130403-2h60d.html#poll

 

[Logique]

Voting has come in sharply, was 60:40. Now the No Ways have it 51%. Vote at the link under.

http://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/julia-gillard/

 

[sails]

Voting has come in sharply, was 60:40. Now the No Ways have it 51%. Vote at the link under.

http://time100.time.com/2013/03/28/time-100-poll/slide/julia-gillard/

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Don't know how she managed 60:40 at one stage - must have been the mummy bloggers...lol

 

[drsmith]

Latest Moran poll confirms what the others are saying,

http://www.roymorgan.com/roymorgan/general/Home.cfm

 

[dutchie]

Pickering nails it again...

 

[drsmith]

Pickering nails it again...

I generally only consider Pickering as amusement value.

That one though is brilliant.

 

[sptrawler]

IMO This whole debate and speculation as to what they will, or what they won't do to super.
Is just another clever McTernan diversion.
What is the best way to get peoples minds off that current 'real' issues.
Give them something in common to worry about, SUPER, even the reporters are emotionally involved and preoccupied with it.

Then when the budget is announced, Gillard turns around and says " I told you we wouldn't hurt super".
I can hear the mass sigh of relief now and people saying, "oh she did stand by her word, she isn't so bad".

Obviously they think we are pretty dumb, who knows she may be right.