The Gillard Government

[Calliope]

Hysteria is setting in. Plibersek goes crazy.

 

[sptrawler]

She certainly sounds a bit touchy, implosion imminent.

 

[Macquack]

Can you imagine the News Headlines " Batt Man Returns". lol

SP, you are a comedian as well as a bright "spark".

 

[drsmith]

An essential selection criteria for leadership within the Labor party.

Kevin Rudd's a lunatic, says Mark Latham

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-leadership-push/story-fn59niix-1226659165519

 

[Calliope]

All this Whooping and Hollering about a Coalition victory on 14 September is a bit premature. Sure, it will be a victory at the polls, but nowhere else. Forget about mandates. Adam Bandt says the Greens and the unions will continue to run the country their way. He doesn't give a stuff what the electorate says. The scary bit is that the Greens will still hold the balance of power in the Senate after the election and probably after 1st July 2014.

This means, of course, that all Gillard's anti-employer policies will stay in place.

THE cornerstones of Tony Abbott's workplace policy, including an assault on unions and increased criminal penalties for unlawful conduct, will be blocked after the Greens declared they would use their balance of power to oppose the changes.

Deputy leader Adam Bandt said the Greens, who will hold the balance of power in the Senate until at least July next year, would not support four key elements of the Coalition's workplace policy, including changes that would allow workers to trade off conditions, such as penalty rates, more easily.

In an interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Bandt said the Greens had a "different position" from the Opposition Leader in other key areas, including the Coalition's plan for a new registered organisations commission.

He also supported the new Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, which the Coalition has indicated it might scrap.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ock-on-ir-policy/story-fn59niix-1226659652653

 

[drsmith]

The Greens will also stand in the way of the Coalition removing the carbon tax.

The first question will be what the remnants of a battered and bruised Labor does.

 

[Julia]

The Greens will also stand in the way of the Coalition removing the carbon tax.

The first question will be what the remnants of a battered and bruised Labor does.

Greg Combet has already said unequivocally that they will oppose the removal of the carbon tax.

Looks like rocky times ahead for the Coalition. I doubt they'll be smiling the smile of victory for too long.

 

[drsmith]

Greg Combet has already said unequivocally that they will oppose the removal of the carbon tax.

What they say and what they do could well be two different things.

It will depend on the magnitude of the initial pounding they cop from the electorate and the resultant taste of what's left of them has for seconds.

 

[Calliope]

They've tried every dirty trick in the book to destroy Abbott. As a last resort they are trying the old "if looks could kill" strategy

 

[MrBurns]

What they say and what they do could well be two different things.

It will depend on the magnitude of the initial pounding they cop from the electorate and the resultant taste of what's left of them has for seconds.

If the Greens say they will stop the scrapping of the Carbon Tax it could well backfire at the ballot box.

 

[drsmith]

I'd hate to see the looks Kevin gets.

They've tried every dirty trick in the book to destroy Abbott. As a last resort they are trying the old "if looks could kill" strategy

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[sptrawler]

If the Greens say they will stop the scrapping of the Carbon Tax it could well backfire at the ballot box.

IMO the greens won't decide on tactics, untill they see voter backlash at the election.
If they are hammered, which I think they will be, they wouldn't dare have a double dissillusion election called.
It appears to only now be sinking in with Labor and the Greens, how much they are despised.
It has been a shocking misjudgement by Labor tacticians, to delay the election, when all the indicators were pointing south.
The Greens have jumped ship, but polling would indicate they have again been relagated to a fringe party again.
It is going to be hard for voters to vote anything other than the coalition. That is why Abbott is pushing the stable government barrow.
Nobody in their right mind wants to go through the fiasco of the last six years again.

That is appart from asylum seekers.

 

[Calliope]

IMO the greens won't decide on tactics, untill they see voter backlash at the election.
If they are hammered, which I think they will be, they wouldn't dare have a double dissillusion election called.

You think so?

Newspoll chief executive Martin O'Shannessy said yesterday that based on current opinion poll results, it was not likely the Coalition would "get control of the Senate very easily" after July 1.

He said the Greens could pick up an extra Senate spot based on current calculations.

 

[sptrawler]

You think so?

I didn't think we were voting on the senate this year.
Therefore, if they are hammered in the lower house, they would be reluctant to bring about a upper house spill.Only my opinion.

 

[drsmith]

Hell will freeze over before the Greens give up on their carbon tax.

They're not even fussed about asylum seekers drowning on the way here by boat, as long as most of them make it.

 

[sptrawler]

Hell will freeze over before the Greens give up on their carbon tax.

They're not even fussed about asylum seekers drowning on the way here by boat, as long as most of them make it.

That's why I think the greens will be hammered, only the 'rusted on' will vote for them. The upper middle class chardonay brigade will desert them in droves. IMO

 

[Julia]

I didn't think we were voting on the senate this year.

AFAIK it's a half senate election but any changes don't actually take place until July next year.
Someone else will know more about this.

Hell will freeze over before the Greens give up on their carbon tax.

Agree. It's basic to their ideology. They will fight to the death for this. Any notion of them rolling over on it is out of the question imo.

 

[Aussiejeff]

JULIA Gillard is to launch a new Women For Gillard campaign based on the United States' successful fundraising movement Women for Obama.

An independent campaign arm, partly funded by the Labor Party, the Women For Gillard campaign will seek online "micro-donations" from supporters' credit cards to run digital, print and television ads.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/na...ma/story-fnii5s3x-1226660633664#ixzz2Vez2SdtZ

Mmmmm...really looking forward to this Tsunami of taxpayer funded propaganda. :1zhelp:
How many dayz2go? :shake::shake:

 

[Logique]

All this Whooping and Hollering about a Coalition victory on 14 September is a bit premature. Sure, it will be a victory at the polls, but nowhere else. Forget about mandates. Adam Bandt says the Greens and the unions will continue to run the country their way. He doesn't give a stuff what the electorate says. The scary bit is that the Greens will still hold the balance of power in the Senate after the election and probably after 1st July 2014.
This means, of course, that all Gillard's anti-employer policies will stay in place.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ock-on-ir-policy/story-fn59niix-1226659652653

I was wondering if the Coalition should actually run on a conditional promise of a double dissolution. Something like.. if the Senate blocks the will of the people, there will be a spill of both houses within 6 months. Puts it out there upfront, no surprises post-election. Gets the mandate from the people.

 

[Calliope]

Not everybody wants to be photographed with Ruddy.