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Nothing controversial in Mr Gibbons' speech as far as I can see from a quick scan of it.

Trish Crossin, on the other hand, didn't hold back and neither should she. Her being so shafted by Gillard was disgusting, a point also made by Doug Cameron and another of her colleagues.
 
Gillard to visit Indonesia to talk about illegal boats, two months before she is kicked out - what a great idea.
 
Julia said:
Nothing controversial in Mr Gibbons' speech as far as I can see from a quick scan of it.

Trish Crossin, on the other hand, didn't hold back and neither should she. Her being so shafted by Gillard was disgusting, a point also made by Doug Cameron and another of her colleagues.
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News 24 must have put that clip up by mistake, don't know where it came from now.

dutchie said:
Gillard to visit Indonesia to talk about illegal boats, two months before she is kicked out - what a great idea.
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Just going over the muddy the waters for the Libs before she gets the a***.
 
These valedictory speeches are all a bit sad.
Some have lost the respect of the party and so have hardly anyone listening, others are whinges abut why they didn't make it and party politics, others seem to be in a fantasy land.

The Labor party needs desperately to reform.
 
That was a good speech by Mr Abbott.
However, he needs to be a bit careful about his accusations of hypocrisy, however well targeted they are toward the government.

He himself is labouring the point about the dreadful impost of the carbon tax on business, whilst proposing to levy another great big new tax on business for his way too generous parental leave scheme.
Can't have it both ways, Tony.

Seems to me a bit foolish to leave yourself so vulnerable to justifiable suggestions of hypocrisy.
 
Julia said:
That was a good speech by Mr Abbott.
However, he needs to be a bit careful about his accusations of hypocrisy, however well targeted they are toward the government.

He himself is labouring the point about the dreadful impost of the carbon tax on business, whilst proposing to levy another great big new tax on business for his way too generous parental leave scheme.
Can't have it both ways, Tony.

Seems to me a bit foolish to leave yourself so vulnerable to justifiable suggestions of hypocrisy.
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For everyones expectation of Abbott making a gaff or saying something stupid, over the last three years he really hasn't put a foot wrong.
To now expect him to blow his feet off with a dumb policy, seems premature.:confused:
I would expect if or when he takes office, hard and fast policy, would be decided.
 
So yound Billy has lost the confidence of the Prime Minister and has been kicked out of the inner circle.

He might even talk to his MUMMY-IN-LAW about this and suggest she disolve parliament.

Ah yes, there will fun and games in parliament at the end of next week and in the meantime, the boats still arrive everyday, the ecomomy gets worse, we still borrow $100,000,000 each day, the country is divided and the circus in Canberra continues to perform with a female clown.



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-decision-making/story-fn59niix-1226667155632
 
Paul Howes says the Unions will decide who become PM of Australia and how they get there.

DON'T believe the tricky wordplay of union powerbrokers springing to the defence of Julia Gillard's embattled leadership.

Of course no union secretary "directs" members of the parliamentary party how to vote in leadership ballots. They don't have to.

When Paul Howes went on live national television to call for the removal of a first-term prime minister in 2010, Labor MPs received the message loud and clear.

The AWU secretary was not the only powerbroker making calls to Canberra or using the media to communicate his views. So did key figures from the shoppies union, the Transport Workers Union and the (then respectable) Health Services Union.

While it is doubtful they needed to go public or make calls to shore up support for Gillard to topple Kevin Rudd, their involvement sealed the deal.

That they are now sending a message they won't stand in the way of a leadership change or seek to influence caucus members' votes is significant.

Of course they'll pledge public support for the Prime Minister. But, privately, few of them are strong-arming MPs to stick with Gillard. How can they?

ACTU and Labor polling reveals the diabolical standing of the government. Ironically, it was in these same circumstances that Howes and others made their move against Rudd.

And ignore the absurd suggestion that union leaders don't, or can't, influence caucus members how to vote.

There are many caucus members who owe their Labor preselections to union support. Unions exert enormous influence inside the party, particularly over the preselection of MPs. If MPs challenge this power, their own positions will be in jeopardy.

In 1983 ACTU president Cliff Dolan undermined Bill Hayden's leadership of the party and urged MPs to back Bob Hawke as leader.

While a senior serving union figure is unlikely to call for Gillard to resign, ignore the nonsense that it hasn't happened before or that unions can't make their views known in other ways.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...eceive-a-message/story-fnbcok0h-1226667115707
 
Quite the hit list:

Kevin Rudd - tick
Trish Crossin - tick
Budget Surplus - tick
Blue Tie wearers - tick
Electricity bills - tick
Industries - tick
Unionism - tick
Feminism - tick
ALP - tick

The current ALP leadership (PM + Praetorian Guard) must go to the election, back off Kevin Rudd.
 
Well done Labor, surely the most ignominious period in Australian politics... ever :eek:
 
Its an oldie but a funny reminder of one of their great achievements...

Even though he only had one tattoo I yearned for him to fill the lonely hours between Jerry Springer and Days of our Lives.
As he approached me with his pasty white arms hanging out of his Nike vest, his smile told me that it was dole day and I knew that my velour track suit would be hanging off the lampshade tonight.

As I stood in line at the job centre,... thinking of reasons why I couldn't work, a sweet smell drifted past my pig like nostrils. It was a mixture of weed, sweat and Lynx Africa! I turned and there he was, DWAYNE, with his pants half way down his ****, our eyes met and he was soon lifting me onto the wheelie bins behind Woolies.
He had already tied his Staffy to a post in the alley way so we would not be disturbed, there was a tramp watching but it did not bother us, just added to the mystery.

I knew then that this was love and my life would never be the same again.

I made a promise to him there and then that I would buy him a plasma with the baby bonus.
 
I am of the firm belief Labor wants to lose this election because of the gigantic mess they have created. It has presented a problem for them which they do not know how to solve. They just do not have a solution on how to rectify it.

So they will leave this unholy mess for the coalition to resolve.

Yeah, nice people I must say.
 
IFocus said:
Nope thats still to come with the Abbott Government :)
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I suppose nothing's impossible IF. That Labor mole Malcolm Turnbull is sure to create some disunity, but let's be honest, it would have to be nothing short of an apocalyptic meltdown of the Coalition to top the current self induced Labor holocaust.

Ergo, extremely low probability.
 

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