The Gillard Government

[sptrawler]

Loving your posts sptrawler, but mate, even better with a paragraph break or two in there. Cheers, L.

Yes a bit rushed the other half was telling me to get off the computer.

 

[sptrawler]

See in todays "Australian" a senior Wespac exec is saying overseas investors are worried about where the Gillard Government is comming from. Well suprise, suprise the Gillard Government don't know where they are comming from themselves. So how would anyone else know.

 

[noco]

Is Kevin Rudd paving a way back as leader or is it a back stop if he fails in his bid to become UN General Secretary at the end of 2011 when KI-Moon retires.
I guess we will have to wait and see!!!!


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...d-on-the-rebound/story-e6frgd0x-1226036230657

 

[Wysiwyg]

Is Kevin Rudd paving a way back as leader or is it a back stop if he fails in his bid to become UN General Secretary at the end of 2011 when KI-Moon retires.
I guess we will have to wait and see!!!!

Kevin Rudd has poor diplomacy and relationship skills. He won't be U.N. Gen. Sec. unless "they" require a good puppet.

 

[joea]

See in todays "Australian" a senior Wespac exec is saying overseas investors are worried about where the Gillard Government is comming from. Well suprise, suprise the Gillard Government don't know where they are comming from themselves. So how would anyone else know.

This is a very interesting comment.
I would believe the majority of CEO'S of big businness are thinking the same thing.

But where does it leave us.? Labor was voted in by the people.

Will the voters of Australia get it correct at the next election.

If we could pick the best politicans from both sides, that group would probably do a good job.

Which means they are not working together for the good of Australia.

It will be interesting to watch O'Farrell. Because I think he is going to display a more
cooperative form of government.

Cheers

 

[qldfrog]

But where does it leave us.? Labor was voted in by the people.

As Australian, i could nearly take offence at this sentence
let's get the figures again:
Australian voted for greens and independents who decided to side with labor without asking their respective electorate;
Only Gilliard seems to believe she was elected, and had the clown of Abbott be replaced by ANY other coalition representative, we would not be in the state we are..
And so far no hope at the end of the tunnel

 

[drsmith]

FOR A supposed extremist, Brown is more pragmatic and conciliatory than almost anyone in the Parliament. Despite all that has been said and written, the demands the Greens have placed on the Labor government since Rudd's election in 2007 have been minimal.

They gouged a few billion out of the $42 billion stimulus package in return for their support, as did the other Senate crossbenchers, and they reversed planned cuts to solar energy spending in return for supporting the flood levy. Otherwise, they have respected the government's mandate.

As cranky as Brown is over the watering down of the mining tax, for example, to appease BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, he accepts that if the Greens block the tax because it is inadequate and they don't like the revenue being used to reduce company tax, the alternative is Abbott's plan to not tax miners at all.

Therefore the Greens will seek to amend the tax but then wave it through.

Similarly, the deal they struck with Gillard in return for supporting Labor in minority government included a promise to establish a national dental scheme. Brown said on Thursday that while this demand still stands, he accepts it won't be in this budget because spending is being cut.

On Thursday morning, Brown and Gillard made up over a cup of coffee in her office.

The policy issues at stake, he said, were more important than whether his feelings were hurt and it was time to ''move on''.

Brown is prepared to cut Gillard some slack.

Has the author of this article looked at the composition of the Senate after June 30 ?

http://www.smh.com.au/national/haunted-by-the-ghost-of-pm-past-20110408-1d7rf.html

 

[Logique]

Getting wound up is the Bolta.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...n_labor_faces_only_catastrophe_under_gillard/

At first I dismissed it as all hyperbowl, but then this, '..Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, a former ACTU boss, was heckled this week by Port Kembla unionists when he tried to tell them it wouldn’t cost them their jobs or a chunk of their wages..',

and,

'.. Heather Ridout, head of the powerful Australia Industry Group, was once the chief business confidant of the Rudd government, but now she’s distancing herself from the wreckage, criticising not only Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax but her Fair Work Act..'

Tend to agree with the notion of installing Martin Ferguson or Simon Crean to the ALP leadership, and going into damage limitation mode. Otherwise they face a NSW style wipeout next time.

The teenagers have spent all their pocket money. Mum and Dad will have to step in and bail them out.

 

[Julia]

'.. Heather Ridout, head of the powerful Australia Industry Group, was once the chief business confidant of the Rudd government, but now she’s distancing herself from the wreckage, criticising not only Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax but her Fair Work Act..'

Ms Ridout's patronage is something the government needs, and it's telling that it has largely been withdrawn.

Tend to agree with the notion of installing Martin Ferguson or Simon Crean to the ALP leadership, and going into damage limitation mode. Otherwise they face a NSW style wipeout next time.

But remember when Simon Crean was leader, he just didn't cut it at all.
Martin Ferguson has more sense than the rest of the party combined, but I'm not sure he's actually leadership material.

At first I dismissed it as all hyperbowl,.......

Too funny. I'll never be able to look at the word hyperbole again without mentally pronouncing it Gillard style.
Suspect the new spelling might catch on.

 

[drsmith]

Getting wound up is the Bolta.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...n_labor_faces_only_catastrophe_under_gillard/

He doesn't stop there.

This is a man the Gillard Government has paid $170,000 to teach us to follow its global warming faith.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...nts/flannery_explains_his_vision_for_us_ants/

 

[Julia]

He has that peculiar intensity of gaze that denotes the fanatic.

The government must be feeling somewhat chagrined about him rather letting the side down with his recent comment that it would take 1000 years for the proposed carbon tax to make even a slightly measurable difference.

 

[IFocus]

It will be interesting to watch O'Farrell. Because I think he is going to display a more
cooperative form of government.

Cheers

Hopefully O'Farrell will be better than this

Honeymoon is over, now it's time for truth
Sean Nicholls
April 9, 2011

Barry O'Farrell's post-election honeymoon ended rather abruptly on Sunday. No sooner had he finished overseeing the swearing-in of his cabinet than he was accused of betraying a colleague, undermining a senior minister and gutting the environment department. Not a great start to the second week of government.

O'Farrell's team opted for spin by suggesting it had been ''elevated'' by its position in the Premier's own department. It was rightly branded as ''laughable'' by his opponents.

Still long way to go before he reaches the lows of the previous incumbents


http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/honeymoon-is-over-now-its-time-for-truth-20110408-1d7fv.html

 

[Calliope]

Rudd will achieve what Abbott can't. He has Gillard "twisting slowly, slowly in the wind". They are now locked into a path of mutual destruction.

 

[Happy]

Scary stuff is that if all the individuals that will be compensated for increased cost of living, means that ones that are not struggling will have to pay more.

So $800 per household per year will be $0 for unemployed, pensioners and the like and $2,000 or $3,000 for ones that earn average or above average income.

 

[Julia]

Rudd will achieve what Abbott can't. He has Gillard "twisting slowly, slowly in the wind". They are now locked into a path of mutual destruction.

Agree and it's fascinating to watch. If you had to put money on the survivor, Calliope, who would it be?

 

[DB008]

At first I dismissed it as all hyperbowl, but then this, '..Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, a former ACTU boss, was heckled this week by Port Kembla unionists when he tried to tell them it wouldn’t cost them their jobs or a chunk of their wages..',

I still remember seeing Greg Combet on TV years and years ago, caught on CCTV ripping of a car antenna and damaging property during a union rally/protest (maybe the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute, MUA - "Here To Stay", ring any bells??). And this bozo the clown is Climate Change Minister?

 

[noco]

Agree and it's fascinating to watch. If you had to put money on the survivor, Calliope, who would it be?

Julia, I don't think either will be a winner. They will both self destruct. There will be a massive implosion before the year is out. You can't get away from the fact it is becoming very messy.

 

[sptrawler]

I still remember seeing Greg Combet on TV years and years ago, caught on CCTV ripping of a car antenna and damaging property during a union rally/protest (maybe the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute, MUA - "Here To Stay", ring any bells??). And this bozo the clown is Climate Change Minister?

I agree with you there is no one in the Labor party that isn't carrying baggage. Most unionist have become desenfranchised with the unions since it went to principal unions at a given site. Then all the companies had to do was threaten the principal union with changing to another union, they then have to toe the company line or lose membership i.e income.
The result is the Labor parties engine room is is falling apart, the grass roots are feeling the party is chardonay socialists from university topped up with ex ACTU dicks that have lost touch. If they don't start and come up with something sensible they will lose even the hard line followers.

 

[James58209]

The government has an opportunity to show some balls in the upcoming federal budget. But unfortunately they are still terrified of having the opposition ridicule their budget deficits, so they are promising a "tough" budget. Returning the budget to surplus by 2013 would be nice, but at what cost? It looks like medical research will be a big casualty. The Discoveries Need Dollars campaign is planning rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide tomorrow.

 

[Calliope]

Agree and it's fascinating to watch. If you had to put money on the survivor, Calliope, who would it be?

Laurie Oakes puts Rudd in the same category as the three conspirators, Windsor, Oakeshott and Wilkie. She has to bend over backwards to keep them on side.

Rudd will never be PM again and neither will Gillard. The Gillard government is sowing the seeds for the end of Labor as a viable party.

It's no wonder Brown is as smug as a rat with a gold tooth. He picks up the pieces after the explosion.