the best Kevin Rudd could come up with to that criticism was to suggest we take a greater responsibility in the context of the total number of refugees.When that bloke on the end of the panel made a criticism of Rudd, I could see Rudd's whole face change and his bottom lip was trembling.
In the event of global cooling, will the government give s buckets of money to boost the consumption of gas and electricity?
Julia tried to go a deep shade of Green, but there was no bounce in the polls. Then she tried her brand of atheistic Christianity, but still the polls marched determinedly southwards.
What's next on the faux-belief agenda? UFOs?
Rudd to Gillard via Q&A: "That's not a knife. This is a knife."
It's now official. Kevin Rudd's second tilt at becoming PM was officially launched on Q & A.
A road to Damascus rebirth of the new man is now publicly announced, courtesy of the ABC as Rudd's de facto factional machine and Tony Jones as his campaign manager.
I wonder how many viewers were fooled by Kevin O'Lemon's carefully arranged show of contrition and bonhomie on Q&A.
This was nothing more than an instalment in the Kevin vs Julia contest.
Let's just have an election and then they can contest the leadership in opposition.
Heading inland from Bellingen on the NSW north coast, the Waterfall Way winds past Thora then up the rainforest cloaked mountainside to Dorrigo.
"Strewth" finds it challenging enough in the car, so we were a little alarmed to discover Tony Abbott had cycled up it yesterday. He revealed the secret ingredients to 2SM's Grant Goldman: "A Mars Bar and a Coke at the start of the hill, that helped."
As did, we suspect replaying Monday night's Q&A in his head on high rotation.
Speaking of which, as troubling as it was at the time, Kevin Rudd's almost romantic reminiscence about first meeting Julie Bishop in Zimbabwe was a moment of relative innocence on Q&A before the storm. (Well, almost.) Rudd's insistence on shortening of Zimbabwe to "Zim" did elicit parallel tweets from self-described "simpering fop" Jules Schiller and Chaser member Chas Licciardello asking:
"if Zimbabwe was Zim, what would Rudd with Fukushima?"
Memo to Hawker Britton - Advise Julia not to try to make the Greens dance to her tune by shooting at their toes while she is playing footsie with them.
So funny, thank you Julia. Now those are what I call Clean Jokes.A few letters to "The Australian" today which seemed to the point.
Never has it been more important to understand the Greens. Never has a prime minister had less of a clue.
From July the Greens will decide which bills become law and which don’t. The prime minister says they "will never embrace Labor’s delight at sharing the values of every day Australians, in our cities, suburbs, towns and bush, who day after day do the right thing, leading purposeful and dignified lives, driven by love of family and nation”. Maybe, but that’s not what they will be called on to do.
They will be asked to vote on tax bills, on corporate regulation and on all manner of measures relating to economic management.
There are clues as to how they will vote, and if we are to believe her, the prime minister has missed every one.
Gillard thinks the Greens don’t get economics. They “wrongly reject the moral imperative to a strong economy,” she told the Whitlam Institute.
Her sidekick Anthony Albanese says they “tend to be a grab-bag of issues, tend not to have a coherent policy that adds up”.
Her resources minister Martin Ferguson says they want to “sit under the tree and weave baskets with no jobs”.
Its a forgivable impression until you examine what their supporters actually think...
... At least the money would have supplied ongoing jobs here rather than buying people a T.V to watch while they are out of work and being taxed more, so much for the hand outs, I hope you enjoyed them..
Sorry I forgot you will get a better internet connction, there you are that makes you feel better.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon has ruled out funding a comprehensive dental subsidy scheme in the May budget, breaking a key commitment Labor struck with the Greens to form government.
And I nearly choked on my wine when she pronounced hyperbole as hyperbowl!!!
Unbelievable.
Must have been the Welsh/South Australian accent comming through. Could have been worse though, she could have pronounced it "hyperbowel". Proberly more appropriate when you consider it.
So true Sailsy. The dental scheme could have been done if their financial planning went beyond the level of teenagers with pocket money. Yet another slap to (what remains of) the Labor heartland. Not much of it remaining in this state.Labor to break promise on dental subsidy scheme...Seems to be plenty of money for asylum seekers, climate change "experts", Rudd's throw away billions, etc, etc...
Loving your posts sptrawler, but mate, even better with a paragraph break or two in there. Cheers, L.Fortunatelly like trainspotter mentioned the wheels are starting to look very wobbly on the N.B.N cart. Also it sounds as though Bob Brown is starting to get a bit peeved with the Government reneging on deals made with them(they should get used to it the Government hasn't a clue). Only a matter of time before the underlying chaos in Labors policy and fiscal management unravels the bond between the greens and Labor. Then the independants will distance themselves especially when the small business sector in their elecorate start jumping up and down. High tax, high petrol prices,high electricity and gas prices, high commercial rents, high food prices then add another tax that will lift the underlying cost on most things = a hard time for small business. One would think that this is giving treasury a headache it is starting to look a bit like the situation just before Kev was chucked out. It's like a juggler with one too many objects in the air you can see that it just doesn't look comfortable.Slowly, slowly catch the monkey just doesn't seem to be in Labors makeup.
Nulla, let's wait for the moment when the word 'epitome' comes up in one of her speeches. Probably a slight pause beforehand.Must have been the Welsh/South Australian accent comming through. Could have been worse though, she could have pronounced it "hyperbowel". Proberly more appropriate when you consider it.
Nulla, let's wait for the moment when the word 'epitome' comes up in one of her speeches. Probably a slight pause beforehand.
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