The Gillard Government

[IFocus]

Very amusing bigdog, thanks.


So, IFocus, you'd be believing Ms Gillard's being all choked with emotion at the memory was entirely genuine?
You'd dismiss entirely any notion that - given the criticism she received for her wooden and unfeeling performance during the Australian floods - she has been told to act out some warm fuzzy stuff for the purpose of her political survival?

Gillard is a politician working the US for the benefit of all Australians and by all accounts doing an excellent job that's what I think.

I also shudder that some time in the future a gaff prone idiot Abbott could be the one over there on our behalf, I can guarantee he will never be trusted by the Yanks of addressing the house.

Just maybe you don't understand the gravity of a US visit by our leaders and what the underlying issues are.

 

[Calliope]

Gillard is a politician working the US for the benefit of all Australians and by all accounts doing an excellent job that's what I think.

Naturally that's what you would think. Whoever advised the "star spangled Ranga"* to join the conga line of suckholes and grovel before a stacked audience, should have realised it made her cringeworthy back home.

Naturally her performance was ignored by the American media. I can't wait for her pending visit to China. It will take her best spin doctors to sell her American performance to the Chinese. Tears won't help.

* my thanks to Mike Bowers.

 

[drsmith]

And now, Australia 's future rail services:

THE NEW HIGH SPEED SERVICE: "THE GILLARD ROCKET"

Non-stop service daily from CHRISTMAS ISLAND to CENTRELINK. Coming to a town near you!

That should be The "THE GILLARD/BROWN ROCKET" or perhaps "THE BROWN/GILLARD ROCKET".

It would be powered carbon neutral of course. As there is no room for solar panels, it would be pulled by the Australian middle class.

 

[drsmith]

Given the unfolding events in Japan, it hasn't taken the anti-nuclear brigade long to start shouting from the roof tops.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/13/3162740.htm?section=justin

Greens leader Bob Brown says the situation in Japan is a reminder that nuclear energy is outside "the limits of human safeguards".

"It does raise real questions about the nuclear alternative, particularly for a sunny country like this where we don't need it. People don't want it," he said.

"When the Howard government promoted it, they quickly withdrew it, because the Australian people don't want to be unnecessarily faced with that sort of mega risk."

However, Ms Gillard says now is not the time to have a debate about nuclear power.

Meanwhile, conservationists say Australia will be morally culpable if there is a nuclear disaster in Japan.

Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation says Australia has a direct moral responsibility for any nuclear fallout.

"Australian uranium is bought and burnt by this power company in Japan," he said.

"So there are direct links between the industry here and the industry in Japan, which is causing major problems with mass evacuations, with mass dislocation of communities, with a real threat of a grave contamination event."

Bob,

The sun doesn't shine at night.

 

[Logique]

Given the unfolding events in Japan, it hasn't taken the anti-nuclear brigade long to start shouting from the roof tops.http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/13/3162740.htm?section=justin Bob,
The sun doesn't shine at night.

Sanctimonious opportunists are they not. This from the people who told us the QLD floods were caused by coal miners.
Fran Kelly forensically quizzing Ziggy Zwitkowski on Radio National this morning, circling like a predator, but Ziggy was wise to her.

 

[Logique]

Expect flat-earth climate deniers to get a right bollocking tonight, all with a mocking sneer - PM Gillard is the guest on ABC Q&A. Won't be too many interruptions from Mr Climate Change.

Also expecting the boot to be sunk into nuclear power.

If you have the stomach to sit through it all.

 

[demiser]

Unfortunately a lot of the information out their at the moment is either incorrect or fairly misleading. However with the run the media is giving it, and the scare mongers jumping on the bandwagon, it will probably be enough to convince Joe Public that nuclear's a bad idea.

 

[nukz]

Rudd preferred as Gillard hits new low
Katharine Murphy
March 14, 2011

MORE voters prefer Kevin Rudd than Julia Gillard as federal Labor leader - and the Coalition has consolidated an emphatic election winning lead in the latest Age/Nielsen poll.

It's bad news for the government, but Tony Abbott should hold off on the celebration. Voters are signalling they would prefer Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal leader.

Source - http://www.theage.com.au/national/rudd-preferred-as-gillard-hits-new-low-20110313-1bt2d.html

Not sure if this has been posted yet, this does not supprise me lots of people hate her guts especially those cochroach independants...

 

[Whiskers]

Rudd preferred as Gillard hits new low
Katharine Murphy
March 14, 2011

MORE voters prefer Kevin Rudd than Julia Gillard as federal Labor leader - and the Coalition has consolidated an emphatic election winning lead in the latest Age/Nielsen poll.

It's bad news for the government, but Tony Abbott should hold off on the celebration. Voters are signalling they would prefer Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal leader.

Source - http://www.theage.com.au/national/rudd-preferred-as-gillard-hits-new-low-20110313-1bt2d.html

Not sure if this has been posted yet, this does not supprise me lots of people hate her guts especially those cochroach independants...

The Brisbane Times publishes a bit more information.

It sems that diehard labor prefer Gillard, but the wider electorate prefers Rudd as Labor leader and possibly by default as PM, (assuming he dumps Gillards Carbon Tax Policy... and what was Rudds policy again...) since Abbott doesn't seem to be able to get it all together for the swing voter.

Combet and Shorten would only hasten the demise of a federal Labor government atm.

In asking voters to choose their preferred Labor leader, the poll pitted Gillard against Rudd but also against two of the most often-touted next-generation Labor leaders, Greg Combet of the Labor Left faction and Bill Shorten of the Right. Combet and Shorten won 9 per cent support each, with Gillard attracting 34 per cent and Rudd 39 per cent among all voters polled.

Among Labor voters, Gillard was the most popular choice by a margin of 19 percentage points.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nat...ard-popularity-plummeting-20110313-1bt33.html

 

[Calliope]

Tony Abbott must be thinking there is something wrong with his style when more people would prefer a bogan, lying, political assassin as PM to him. Perhaps he will re-invent himself as a new Tony.

I think if he told the truth about his real views on climate change he would regain respect lost through his vacillating approach to this issue. He is a clever man and if he sniffed the breeze he would find that the majority of the electorate know very well that you can't alter the climate. They are looking for a lead.

 

[sails]

Tony Abbott must be thinking there is something wrong with his style when more people would prefer a bogan, lying, political assassin as PM to him. Perhaps he will re-invent himself as a new Tony.

I think if he told the truth about his real views on climate change he would regain respect lost through his vacillating approach to this issue. He is a clever man and if he sniffed the breeze he would find that the majority of the electorate know very well that you can't alter the climate. They are looking for a lead.

I agree that Tony could well afford to take a strong stand and give voice to the many Aussies who are disgusted with with the whole debacle of "climate change". I think Gillard has gone so far the other way that he would be respected for presenting an a definite NO to this debacle.

Agree with Noco too that we rarely hear of "global warming" as apparently temperatures globally have dropped a bit. Can't use that as an excuse for a tax any more.

So "climate change" is the now word. But then climate has been changing all on it's own for yonks. Didn't need any help from us.

And to use "carbon" as an excuse for a tax is beyond me. It is said that Australia only emits around 1% or world carbon emissions. Agree that anything we try to do with taxes will absolutely be negligable to zero effect.

Even if the taxes reach their destination, we have a government who seems to be always running out of revenue, so it's unlikely to me that carbon tax revenue will be used for anything other than more money for jam by this government.

 

[Julia]

Tony Abbott must be thinking there is something wrong with his style when more people would prefer a bogan, lying, political assassin as PM to him. Perhaps he will re-invent himself as a new Tony.

I think if he told the truth about his real views on climate change he would regain respect lost through his vacillating approach to this issue. He is a clever man and if he sniffed the breeze he would find that the majority of the electorate know very well that you can't alter the climate. They are looking for a lead.

I agree absolutely. He would gain more votes than he would lose by reverting to his earlier stronger position. Nick Minchin is not too afraid to say it. Pity we don't see more of him, imo.

 

[trainspotter]

Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation says Australia has a direct moral responsibility for any nuclear fallout.

"Australian uranium is bought and burnt by this power company in Japan," he said.

Ummmmmmmmmmmm ....... nope.

Uranium is recovered in a chemical precipitate which is filtered and dried to produce a yellow powder known as yellowcake. The yellowcake is heated to about 700 °C to produce a dark grey-green uranium oxide powder containing more than 98% U3O8, which is placed into 200 litre steel drums for export.

Yellowcake is used in the preparation of uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, for which it is smelted into purified UO2 for use in fuel rods for pressurized heavy-water reactors and other systems that use natural unenriched uranium. Generally between 2% - 4% U235.

Yellowcake used by Japan (supplied by Australia) is actually enriched in France.

Nuclear fuel rods are lowerd into water to create steam. The heated water rises up and passes through another part of the reactor, the heat exchanger. The moderator/coolant water is radioactive, so it can not leave the inner reactor containment. Its heat must be transferred to non-radioactive water, which can then be sent out of the reactor shielding. This is done through the heat exchanger, which works by moving the radioactive water through a series of pipes that are wrapped around other pipes. The metallic pipes conduct the heat from the moderator to the normal water. Then, the normal water (now in steam form and intensely hot) moves to the turbine, where electricity is produced.

Not burnt at all by the way. Spent rods are then sent back to France to be enriched again.

Most of the Low Enriched Uranium (not yellowcake) supplied to Japan comes from Russia by the way.

 

[IFocus]

Naturally that's what you would think. Whoever advised the "star spangled Ranga"* to join the conga line of suckholes and grovel before a stacked audience, should have realised it made her cringeworthy back home.

Naturally her performance was ignored by the American media. I can't wait for her pending visit to China. It will take her best spin doctors to sell her American performance to the Chinese. Tears won't help.

* my thanks to Mike Bowers.

The real test of Gillards visit will be if it opens up more access to the powers that run the place for ambassador Beasley

 

[Slipperz]

Naturally that's what you would think. Whoever advised the "star spangled Ranga"* to join the conga line of suckholes and grovel before a stacked audience, should have realised it made her cringeworthy back home.

Naturally her performance was ignored by the American media. I can't wait for her pending visit to China. It will take her best spin doctors to sell her American performance to the Chinese. Tears won't help.

* my thanks to Mike Bowers.

Lol star spangled ranga.

Yup might of been an idea to fawn less over the yanks being able to "do anything".

Seeing as their voraciously greedy practically unregulated financial institutions just ran the worlds biggest pyramid scheme and fscked up the entire global financial system.

Amazing how they managed to "do that". :

As an aside I was watching the PM's press conference yesterday and the thought struck me would it be possible for her to wear anything other than a low cut tee shirt under her jacket?

Like a shirt for instance?

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

The real test of Gillards visit will be if it opens up more access to the powers that run the place for ambassador Beasley

I have it on good authority from contacts in the embassy in Washington that "Bomber" Beazley, sorry he is a zz not an ss, jeez I'm falling asleep already, is making a very understated impression in Washington.

He is viewed as a sage philosopher manque.

Bob Carr would have done a better job, just slightly

He needs every kick he can get, and not just up his ar$e.

Now as for Jools and her pradoner, nuff said.

gg

 

[Julia]

The real test of Gillards visit will be if it opens up more access to the powers that run the place for ambassador Beasley

I'll come to the defence of Kim Beazley who I reckon will be a pretty decent Ambassador to the US.
He definitely lacked the drive to be Prime Minister, but is erudite, a gentleman, and has excellent social skills, all of these being imo a prerequisite to the position.

I can't at all see that Ms Gillard's fawning adulation which was quite nauseating will enhance Mr Beazley's position at all. On the contrary.

 

[Happy]

Yesterday’s Q&A got on my nerves, PM Gillard nauseating number of times said: this is very good question, pity I couldn’t remotely say anything like that about any of her answers.

Hope next elections bring better results for me anyway!

 

[Julia]

I've only watched some of Q & A so far. She has now clearly admitted that she did not want a carbon tax and has had to capitulate to the Greens.

This is hardly a Prime Minister of conviction.

What is this thing she has where she has to smile in that patronising way all the time when she is answering questions?

 

[drsmith]

I've only watched some of Q & A so far. She has now clearly admitted that she did not want a carbon tax and has had to capitulate to the Greens.

She does not want a carbon tax, but wants to tax carbon ??

The focus groups Labor are listening to must be saying that Australian voters, on average, have the intelect of a grain of sand.

No matter how Julia Gillard and the ALP try to dress it up, it's still a whopper of a lie.

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