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MrBurns said:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-06/labor-mps-pack-up-their-offices-ahead-of-election/4736524

Makes me think of the theme from Rawhide............

Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and grab 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide.


Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em out,
Move 'em on, head 'em out Rawhide!
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Great show in it's day. Ahhh memories........
 
Well at last labor has sorted the two speed economy, W.A has the biggest economic contraction in 30 years.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/17497925/economy-takes-biggest-hit-in-decade/

Wayne should write a book when he leaves office, in September, "How to stuff an economy 101".

Or maybe "100 ways to talk up failure", another one could be "What happens when the batteries run flat in the magic wand".
We could possibly start a thread on Wayne's wonderfull book titles.:D:D:D
 

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It's hard to believe these two could share any sort of affection.:rolleyes: They deserve each other.

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I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go
People know the part, I'm playin'
Paid for every dance, sellin' each romance
Ooh, what they're sayin'

There will come a day, and youth will pass away
What'll they say about me?
When the end comes I know they'll say just a gigolo
And life goes on without me
 
drsmith said:
Beyond the raw entertainment value, I won't be if Kevin Rudd knocks her off.

After all this time, the electorate should get its say on her prime-ministership.
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That would cause absolute chaos in the party, I can't see it happening.

But as you say, people should get the opportunity to vote on her and her parties performance.
Also Oakeshott, Windsor, Wilkie and the Greens should have the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with her, at the time of reckoning.:xyxthumbs
 
I know that comments from a opposing party should be taken with a grain of salt, but I suspect Malcolm Turnbull is on the money here.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: ............I think - I say this to you that I think the tragedy of Labor is that personal hatreds and animosities run so deep that they have totally overwhelmed their common interest; they've totally overwhelmed their natural human instinct for survival. The hatred - I'll tell you, there was one Labor person said to me the other day, said that in his earlier life he'd been a divorce lawyer and he gave up being a divorce lawyer because he couldn't handle just the bitterness and hatred that you see sadly all too often in divorce and he gave that up and he said to me, you know, the hatred in our party room makes the most unhappy, vicious, bitter divorce look like a picnic and that's Labor's tragedy.
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http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3774681.htm

Kevin Rudd's motivation above all else may be to drag a smouldering Julia Gillard from the charred wreckage and personally put the stake through her political heart.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-06/rudd-denies-being-to-blame-for-labor-polling/4738486
 
drsmith said:
The following article looks like it has quotes from the ABC's 7:30 KR segment.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/...says-he-will-not-launch-leadership-challenge/

It's not quiet an upfront job application, but one does have to wonder why he's jockeying for the air time.
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I suppose it could be a last ditch effort, now that a few of Labor power players have gone public against the Gillard power base. Maybe push an overthrow from the back bench.
I certainly hope not.
 
sptrawler said:
I suppose it could be a last ditch effort, now that a few of Labor power players have gone public against the Gillard power base. Maybe push an overthrow from the back bench.
I certainly hope not.
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Even he would realise he couldn't win an election from here, so all that's left is vindication and revenge.

Hopefully the majority of the Caucus see it that way as well and pass on this one.
 
drsmith said:
Kevin Rudd to appear on the ABC's 7:30 tonight while Julia Gillard looks worried about the whereabouts of the kitchen knives, again.
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drsmith said:
Beyond the raw entertainment value, I won't be if Kevin Rudd knocks her off.

After all this time, the electorate should get its say on her prime-ministership.
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drsmith said:
The following article looks like it has quotes from the ABC's 7:30 KR segment.

It's not quiet an upfront job application, but one does have to wonder why he's jockeying for the air time.
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When introducing KR, Leigh Sales said he had only accepted the invitation to appear if he was permitted to talk about the summit between the American and Chinese leaders, not just the domestic Australian situation.
So she obliged and asked some obvious questions in this regard. This gave KR the opportunity to sound as though he was still either Prime Minister or at the very least Foreign Minister, as he pontificated on what he thought these two nations needed to do.
So we have an Australian back bencher still attempting to remain relevant on the international stage, even if only for the consumption of a local audience.

Then inevitably he was asked the perpetual question: would he continue to assure the nation that he would not challenge Julia Gillard. His response, carefully repeated despite multiple phrasings of the question by Sales, was that what he said earlier this year has not changed. This is distinct from saying "No, I will never again aspire to be Prime Minister of Australia" or even "No, I will never again aspire to lead the Labor Party."

Why has he, in the immediate aftermath of Gillard's worst poll, sought publicity yet again?
My guess is that certainly he will not challenge her before the election, but he is lining himself up to be begged to take the leadership after she has owned the ultimate defeat on September 14.

And on the other side, Christopher Pyne made a total idiot of himself by announcing to the media that KR was going to appear on 7.30 and that he had it on good authority from Labor sources that Ms Gillard had demanded equal time. Leigh Sales quickly dismissed this - it simply didn't happen.

Stupid on the part of Mr Pyne.
 
This is one of those occasions where Christopher Pyne would have been well served by some duct tape. Talk about come in spinner. :frown:

LEIGH SALES: If you don't say a blank no, people of course interpret it as you leaving wiggle room.

KEVIN RUDD: Well, you know exactly what I've said in the past to these questions time and time and time again and you'll play word games all the way through. Last time I said in February of 2012 that I would not be challenging the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister won that caucus ballot by two-to-one. It was a convincing and strong win. I've accepted the result.
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Hmmm, we have to go all the way back there.

It's a job application. His leadership ambitions have been transferred from the cryogenic freeze into the shower cubicle. It's an invitation to his party to turn on the hot water and put Julia Gillard out in the cold.

LEIGH SALES: You say that they're strong points for re-election, but the public doesn't seem to be buying it. Have voters stopped listening to Julia Gillard?

KEVIN RUDD: Well you know the great saying in politics that a week is a very long time in politics, well let me tell you, 100 days is an eternity. We have an opportunity - all of us, the Prime Minister, ministers of the Government, backbenchers such as myself, to argue the case for the Labor Party. Others can provide the commentary as to who is being listened to or not. My job is to put the case for Labor. It's a strong case on its merits, as opposed to one which has been constructed on a tissue of lies as we have in the case of Mr Abbott's campaign.
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He chose his words carefully here, but he's looking for a personal leadership thaw before the election.

He's either completely delusional about the prospect of election victory under his leadership or he's out for revenge against the redhead that knifed his prime-ministership. I still think it's the latter. Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. It's very cold in Canberra in winter.

He's Uncle Psychopath and he's there to help.
 
Feisty falls flat!

When Australia's first female Prime Minister lost it in parliament last year and unleashed a withering attack on Tony Abbott over misogyny, the feisty Julia, at her aggressive best, was applauded from her backbench.

Yesterday, being feisty fell flat - there was no conviction in her thought or voice and her argument was greeted with mocking laughter from the opposition.

On the Labor side, there were no whoops of delight and high-fives from her colleagues, just sullen looks and silence.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...s-pm-misses-mood/story-e6frg75f-1226658967992
 
It's an utterly bizarre situation.

Rudd - I think is engaging in schadenfreude, in respect of both the PM and the party. But possibly he is lobbying for a senior cabinet post after the election. I think Albanese or Shorten will be Opposition leader. And who knows...pre-election, what has he got to lose? The Rudds have just sold their Canberra house.

Gillard - with due respect, but I've given up trying to understand her. But as we know, strong Union links, and they'll want their pound of flesh from the PM before Labor are eventually turfed out.

Timmy - I'd be making hay too, while the sun shines.
 
Rudd is now more in the media, seeing him more , hearing him more what a great reminder of what a goose he is and how utterly wrong he would be as PM or local Mayor for that matter.

Labor party has given us Mark Latham, Rudd and now Gillard..............this incompetence would only be tolerated in political life, the private sector would have sorted them out ages ago.
 
MrBurns said:
Rudd is now more in the media, seeing him more , hearing him more what a great reminder of what a goose he is and how utterly wrong he would be as PM or local Mayor for that matter.

Labor party has given us Mark Latham, Rudd and now Gillard..............this incompetence would only be tolerated in political life, the private sector would have sorted them out ages ago.
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Can you imagine the News Headlines " Batt Man Returns". lol
 
Wayns Swan telling everyone, everything is fine, the economy is strong.
Just shows how out of touch he really is, with public sentiment.
Mining coming off the boil, Ford closing down, now this.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-...-bust-in-new-april-record-20130606-2nss7.html

They are the only ones listening to their spin, it's about time they grew up and stood down. Where is a tardis, when you need one, come on September.
 

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