The Gillard Government

[drsmith]

A curious update on Andrew Bolt's blog,

UPDATE

But someone called “Gus Jones” emailed us on 2GB saying he was a partner of one of the guests and saw the menu handed around, and Brough laughing at it.

I have no idea of the truth of this. It’s odd that he lives in West Ryde, though, and went to a fundraiser in Brisbane.

Even more suspicious, his email bounces and his mobile number is false. Sounds the like moral Left is using lies to smear.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...plete_turkey_or_sexist_pig/desc/#commentsmore

 

[sptrawler]

Some more info on the guy that posted it (Crikey blog earlier today),



http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/12/bad-taste-broughs-bill-of-misogynystic-fare/

and the guy's facebook page.

https://twitter.com/chef09876

Just another dumb Labor play, that ends up backfiring as usual, what a way to run a country.

 

[Miss Hale]

I think I'm in love with Albrechtsen she really is good, Leigh Sales I do love ...........she doesn't look well to me ???

Too late, Albrechtsen is taken, her and Michael Kroger are an item

 

[moXJO]

Some more info on the guy that posted it (Crikey blog earlier today),



http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/12/bad-taste-broughs-bill-of-misogynystic-fare/

and the guy's facebook page.

https://twitter.com/chef09876

Looks like he may have sent it out round the 28th of march.

No I tried to send it to Julia Gillard & Peter, didn't hear back. So I thought no one was interested

Seems Labor has used it as their last remaining bullet, missing Abbott and hitting themselves in the foot once again. Seems some lefty media might also have known about it as well.

 

[MrBurns]

Well done ABC for not waiting..........

Brisbane restaurant owner says he wrote sexist menu mocking Prime Minister Julia Gillard

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-12/restaurant-owner-says-he-wrote-sexist-gillard-menu/4750226

 

[MrBurns]

Too late, Albrechtsen is taken, her and Michael Kroger are an item

Good luck ....not sure if he would be enough for her but what would I know ?

 

[drsmith]

Looks like he may have sent it out round the 28th of march.

I'd suggest they'll be dedicated souls at the Coalition going through that Twitter page with a fine tooth comb and perhaps a few worried ones at Labor as well.

 

[bellenuit]

If the ABC is aware of the contents of the letter as posted on Bolt's blog, then it should be ashamed of its report on the 7PM News (Perth). After showing all the footage of the condemnation by Labor, it then added at the very end of its report on that subject as an addendum: "The author of the menu has said that it was an inhouse joke between himself and his son and apologised for any embarrassment caused". There was no mention that the author was part of the restaurant staff and no mention that the menu was not put on the tables. Viewers would likely come away thinking it was a Liberal staffer and that the attendees would have been still aware of the menu at that dinner.

 

[Miss Hale]

Might tune in to ABC radio tomorrow morning and see how they try to back peddle from all their outrage today

 

[moXJO]

The whole incident has the same labor stench on it as the Aboriginal tent embassy fiasco that was whipped up by labor.
I'm sure there are games being played on both sides over this.

 

[Calliope]

Good luck ....not sure if he would be enough for her but what would I know ?

Yes, it does reflect on her taste. He's the clown that Bolt often uses on The Bolt Report, which is even more boring and biased than the Insiders.

 

[Julia]

We already knew Mal Brough was as thick as **** from the clumsy way he left his fingerprints all over the ashby affair.

Might need to retract that comment in view of later developments, banco.

Who ever set up the menu may have been a Labor plant to embarrass Mal Brough of which he (Mal) may not have known about.

Nothing would surprise me with those Labor people just like the aboriginal caper on Abbott.

It has been a set up in my opinion and hope Mal Brough gets to the bottom of it all. This is something that took place back in March so why has it taken Labor so long to bring it to the fore?

I am very suspsicious about the whole affair.

And your suspicious have been shown to be justified.

Never mind, Gillard will apologise to Mal Brough, Tony Abbott and all of the Liberal Party for her harsh words just as any responsible person would do.

She will won't she?

Cheers
Country Lad

I hope you won't be holding your breath in anticipation.

There is, as others have observed, something very fishy about this whole thing. Why would it come to light the day after Gillard's latest rant if it has been around since March?

Why did the restaurant owner allow the fuss to go on for a whole day before revealing it was a private joke between him and his son? Apparently he is an LNP donor. Perhaps that has nothing to do with anything, but the timing of his admission could seem like damage control urged by the LNP/Coalition.

Whatever, it's a pretty unpleasant indication of the dirtiness of the next 90 odd days when apparently neither side will stop at anything.
Australia deserves better.

PS Thumbs up to Janet Albrechtsen. Now there is a woman we could do with in politics.

 

[moXJO]

From what I have read there is no hard copy menu, one guy (previous employee I think) took a photo of someones facebook or twitter page (chef at the time) which had the menu on it. He then shopped it round to papers and PMs /members emails. The guy was talking like he knew it was fact that this menu was handed out, but seems to be guessing as he only took a photo/screenshot and was not actually at the function. So from what it looks like there was only one mock menu made up and the rest is BS.




Not to be taken as fact probably full of holes.

 

[noco]

It is now quite evident, the menu being taunted around by the Labor Party was never distributed to Mal Brough's 30 odd guests, instead it was a doctored menu by the reatrauntant ownwer and his son as an in-house joke. It was later picked up by an ex employee, no doubt a Labor supporter, and placed on Face Book in an endeavour to embarrass the Liberal Party.

I think this will all back fire on Miss Gillard and the Labor Party.



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...says-tony-abbott/story-fn59niix-1226662432480

 

[Calliope]

I think this will all back fire on Miss Gillard and the Labor Party.

Maybe, but will it backfire on all the gullible posters on this thread who were happy to toe the Gillard sexism and misogyny line just because they hate Mal Brough, and apparently prefer Peter Slipper? Well I am quite sure that on 14 September the electors of Fisher, of whom I am one, will give a resounding decision on that question.

 

[drsmith]

This is the guy who claims to have twittered the article last night,

https://soundcloud.com/702abcsydney/former-venue-worker-andrew

Interesting that he's David Carter on Twitter and Andrew in the above interview. The host acknowledges at the end of the interview that his real name is not Andrew.

I don't know much about Twitter of if this is a genuine Peter Van Olsen. This if from David's Twitter account,

Peter van Onselen ‏@vanOnselenP 4h
I wonder if the PM will have the good grace to apologise to Hockey et al for accusing them of involvement in the menu when they weren't?

Craig Emmerson (real or fake I don't know) has also been commenting on this guy's Twitter account.

Peter Van Olsen's piece in The Australian today,

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...r-its-time-to-go/story-fn53lw5p-1226662763758

 

[Logique]

This poster was displayed in Tanya Plibersek's office:
http://www.news.com.au/national-new...lectorate-office/story-e6frfkvr-1226377446341 Tanya Plibersek bans satire but refuses to apologise for 'racist, sexist, homophobic' posters.

A direct slur on Tony Abbott, worse than anything said by a staff member in a QLD retaurant.

Something she might think about, before she points the moral finger at anyone else. It's called hypocrisy Tanya.

 

[Aussiejeff]

This poster was displayed in Tanya Plibersek's office:
http://www.news.com.au/national-new...lectorate-office/story-e6frfkvr-1226377446341 Tanya Plibersek bans satire but refuses to apologise for 'racist, sexist, homophobic' posters.

A direct slur on Tony Abbott, worse than anything said by a staff member in a QLD retaurant.

Something she might think about, before she points the moral finger at anyone else. It's called hypocrisy Tanya.

View attachment 52776

Applying the PM's own fine logic, Tanya Plibersek should be sacked today over such offensive ****. I hope if this is a proven fact (unlike Labor's baseless menu slander), that this gets spread all over the media.

BTW, has JuLiar urgently apologised profusely to Mal Brough, Joe Hockey & the Australian people as a whole, for her & her party's baseless slander with regard to the Menu Affair?

No?

Oh.

I guess that says something about the PM's real integrity.

 

[db94]

This poster was displayed in Tanya Plibersek's office:
http://www.news.com.au/national-new...lectorate-office/story-e6frfkvr-1226377446341 Tanya Plibersek bans satire but refuses to apologise for 'racist, sexist, homophobic' posters.

A direct slur on Tony Abbott, worse than anything said by a staff member in a QLD retaurant.

Something she might think about, before she points the moral finger at anyone else. It's called hypocrisy Tanya.

View attachment 52776

I hope this gets out there and people see this. Each day it gets worse for Labor. Julia will be in hiding

EDIT: noticed how this was from the 1st of June. Why didnt Abbott call out Julia/Labor for this? If it was the Labor party theyd call foul for weeks

 

[Calliope]

Gillard seized on the fake menu as a chance to demonise the man who helped to expose the nasty misogyny of her mate Peter Slipper...but;

It is understandable that Australia's first female Prime Minister wants to make women's issues a focus of her government, but her words would have greater authority if she had not supported a man for Speaker who had sent text messages describing women in vulgar terms. Or if she hadn't invited a serial sexist FM disc jockey to Kirribilli House or appear on his radio program. Or if she had drawn a line earlier about Labor MP Craig Thomson using a union credit card at brothels, as Fair Work found. Or if she wasn't reducing the income of single mothers by forcing them on to Newstart. Or if she had supported women to replace outgoing Labor MPs Nicola Roxon in Gellibrand and Martin Ferguson in Batman. Or if she was not so dependent on a male coterie of union and faction bosses to support her leadership

. The Australian Editorial