The Gillard Government

[Julia]

I am not sure if the electorate is stupid, but somebody voted her in.
joea

She wasn't voted in any more than Abbott...lol

Two independents who seemingly betrayed their electorates propped her up into power.
The people certainly did not vote her in.

Exactly Sails. If we had a first past the post electoral system, Labor wouldn't have had a chance.
You know quite well how she acquired government, joe, so to say "somebody voted her in" unless you're referring to the Independents, is disingenuous.

So what next if they tell Julia to go take a flying ~~~~?

Australia invades Europe?

Give me a break! Laughable!

How absolutely embarrassing.
Seems to be another pathetic attempt to divert attention from the troubles right here in Australia. This is the politician who said she wasn't much interested in foreign affairs.
So whacko, she has belatedly realised Kev is a big threat, so she's attempting to get in first with rubbish like this to cut the ground from under his feet.

Why can't she see that she's just further destroying herself with faux remarks like this?

 

[Calliope]

Sarkozy and Merkel must feel suitably chastened tonight. A bogan ranga from a place called Orstralia has warned them to smarten up.

"We are putting the pressure on European leaders to stop muddling through and to get their house in order."

Perhaps they need a Carbon Tax.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...or-bailout-funds/story-fn59niix-1226176227658

 

[moXJO]

ELITE bodyguards paid to take a bullet for the Prime Minister and other VIPs are facing salary cuts of up to 35 per cent under Australian Federal Police reforms.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/loc...ut/story-e6frfkvr-1226176758720#ixzz1bpmDYGSS

Great environment to dock their pay. :

 

[joea]

Well as far as I am concerned, Sails sums it up with Gillard getting 72 seats with the primary vote.
To me that is a pretty substantial vote force.

Considering Rudd was knifed in the back, she had no policy's, she was a liar then and still is, and to top it off the media went "mad" with the possibility of a "minority government".

So while the Labor MP'S won in their individual electorate, the whole world knew that she would be PM with a Labor win, and we knew in a couple of days with the body language of the independants and Gillard, she would be PM.

So it can be bent anyway you want it to be. Somebody voted her in.

And my point is "they did not stop to reconsider the consequences of Labor as economic managers".

So in another election how many of those voters are going to "eat craw" and change their vote?
Because at the next election she will have additional supporters from all the compensation packages she is so vocal about.
She will have supporters from "distributing the wealth".
That's why she is backing Obama before he arrives, as this will be a part of her campaign.
There is no doubt that Gillard would like a majority government, but she will take it anyway she can.

Finally she did not appoint a propaganda team for the cabron tax because it was just a "good idea" on the day.

joea

 

[Calliope]

Everyone's looking at Julia's legs. Perhaps she should wear a sari. And Tim should too, I reckon.

 

[Logique]

Honestly.. ..that photo of Tim is going straight to the Pool Room.

A rather good summary of Labor's leadership turmoil comes from (yes) Mark Latham. http://afr.com/p/opinion/smith_is_best_of_the_rest_for_labor_U9aHvrEcLAM2KQXIYqzj5N
Smith is best of the rest for Labor

Love to quote some excerpts for you, but the AFR are a bit touchy about that.

Kevin Rudd might just be doing the dirty work for Smith and his backers. First bring on a spill, then Smith as the compromise candidate, the third man. Latham says when it happens, it will happen quickly.

 

[Calliope]

Too much air travel plays havoc with the ankles.

 

[sptrawler]

It will be interesting to see how this goes. The Gillard government asked to reduce tax, that's a classic. In four years they have run up a huge deficit are introducing two new huge taxes and increasing marginal tax rates to pay for inept fiscal management.
Now local book sellers want a tax break, best of luck with that.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...vernment-advised/story-fn3dxiwe-1226190394588

 

[joea]

It will be interesting to see how this goes. The Gillard government asked to reduce tax, that's a classic. In four years they have run up a huge deficit are introducing two new huge taxes and increasing marginal tax rates to pay for inept fiscal management.
Now local book sellers want a tax break, best of luck with that.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...vernment-advised/story-fn3dxiwe-1226190394588

SP
I thought they called it reform not taxes.
joea

 

[joea]

Hi.
Now that the dust has settled on a carbon tax we can look on the achievements of Gillard.

If Labor is to be a two term government, first they need to accumulate money in their coffers( to cover some of their blunders & to move forward.)

Well they have processed two very large taxes(CO2 Tax $ Mining Tax). So they achieved the first part.(will be rolling in money) Gillards achievements.
To achieve the second term, how are they going to do it?

Well I would suggest we watch Bill Shorten and his agenda. Because having ripped off everybody and sundry, they are going to give back some of the booty. "to buy some votes."

Now we all understand that there will be compensation (for CO2 Tax), and all the leveled headed people understand the majority will still be out of pocket.
But not the Labor supporters. Or the Green supporters, or the people who do not want to work, or the undecided, etc, etc.

Bill Shorten will attempt to do 2 things, prior to the next election.
1 To reclaim the primary vote majority numbers from the Greens & the undecided &
swingers..
2 Bless the palms of voters( who can be reclaimed) to achieve 1.

Because" IF " Gillard is still on the "nose" prior to the next election, her replacement will have compiled the policy's to gain the support of the voters required to get them across the line. Just remember the lodge is to be renovated, and the perception of Julia Gillard will be, "it will be ready for her next term", or for the next Labor PM.

Rudd is gone and "dusted".
Cream is too old.
Combet is Labor's "fixer."
Forget about any the media bring out of the cupboard as the Australian suggests today.

So there we have it.
You have to admit that "hard work always precedes greatness".
So is the Australian voter going to give Labor the opportunity to think they have achieved "greatness"?

I am just asking the question!!!!
The first hint from the "Shorten corner" will be where he is positioned in a reshuffle.

joea

 

[Calliope]

How much longer will Gillard persist with her attitude they we can achieve a positive result in Afghanistan. I saw Stephen Smith interviewed on 7.30 report last night. I think he is just going through the motions. His heart is not in it. Gillard has to retreat, but she is firmly wedged by Bob Brown. To be seen to adopting another Green policy has a bad look.

But along with the respect we owe our soldiers, here is one basic requirement: we must not commit them to battle when there is no compelling military or strategic reason to do so. Where there was once a military rationale, and that rationale disappears, our soldiers need to be redeployed.

Afghanistan has reached that stage now. Yesterday an Afghan National Army soldier shot and wounded three Aussie Diggers. Ten days ago, another ANA soldier, a veteran of several years service in the ANA, shot and killed three of our men.

This follows a pattern of incidents in Afghanistan in which the Taliban has infiltrated the ANA and dozens of coalition soldiers have been killed by ANA soldiers or people in ANA uniforms. These are the people we are training, to whom we will hand security responsibility in 2014.

Australian soldiers no longer serve any military purpose in Afghanistan. There is a broad strategic purpose and that is purely to continue to express political and military solidarity with the US as it pulls out of Afghanistan by 2014.

(My bolds)


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-to-kill-diggers/story-e6frg76f-1226190608369

 

[sptrawler]

Really good reading for all those that voted for Labor

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...worse-is-to-come/story-e6freooo-1226193590276

And lets not forget they have reduced the amount you can salary sacrifice into your super, just in case you thought you might like to retire early.
I wonder if Julia, Bob, Ferguson, Combet etc are going to forgo their tax payer funded indexed pensions.LOL
I also love the last bit about her uncompromising message to people who want to come to Australia. Maybe she should put a footnote, "This does not include boat people who come through Christmas Island"

 

[sails]

Is this a cover-up?

From Bolt's blog:

Having watched yesterday’s Question Time in the Senate, I agree there is something very odd about the Gillard Government’s cancellation of the tender process for the Australia Network - just as the $233 million contract was about to be won by Sky News (part-owned by News Ltd) rather than then ABC.

An excerpt of Senator Simon Birmingham’s speech:

In regards to the Australia Network contract, what we are witnessing at present is a textbook cover-up of a corrupted process by a government mired in a dodgy and dirty deal. What we have seen is a three-step move to conceal the facts behind the scandal that is plaguing this $223 million corrupted tender for the Australia Network. Chapter 1 of the textbook cover-up that the government is engaged in was to claim that everything””not just the purely commercial-in-confidence material of the tenderers””associated with the tender, the now extinguished tender, remains confidential.

Read more of the Senator's speech here: What’s the truth behind the cancelling - again - of this tender?

 

[Logique]

Greens Party - why so negative? Bob Brown's words rushed to air by the adoring (non-hate) media. Sen Brown doesn't spare PM Gillard. Of course, along with everything else, it is partly the fault of Mr Abbott.

For the info of Sen Brown, this Australian is neither horrified nor appalled. Nuclear power is rather effective at reducing CO2 emissions, which the Greens claim to care about.

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3366144.htm
Greens concerned by uranium push
Alexandra Kirk reported this story on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

"..BOB BROWN: Well this is a clear plan by Julia Gillard to reverse Kevin Rudd's decision and to go along with the George W Bush decision to supply nuclear materials to India despite the fact it hasn't signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It's going to be pretty horrifying for many Australians.

ALEXANDRA KIRK: But the Government could sell uranium to India without any legislation through the Parliament, that's correct?

BOB BROWN: Yes it can do that and…

ALEXANDRA KIRK: And you expect them to do that?

BOB BROWN: One would expect it will have the support of Tony Abbott. It'll be Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott really feeling the same way here, although the Australian people won't agree with that. Certainly a great number of Labor voters are going to be appalled by the idea of Julia Gillard taking up this option.."

 

[sails]

Interesting article by Gerard Henderson in the SMH about labor's pick up in the polls. It seems it is more hype than substance as labor's primary vote would still leave them in pretty poor shape if an election were to happen soon.

Here's a snippet:

On any objective analysis, the combination of Newspoll and Herald/Nielsen - along with the Morgan and Essential Media polls - indicate Labor is recovering somewhat from a low base and the Coalition is performing well. Yet this is not the tone of recent media commentary, much of which suggests Tony Abbott has stumbled.

Read full article: The media are picking up good vibrations but can't shake off the facts

 

[joea]

Nobody should underestimate Julia Gillard!

When the time comes for her to start ticking the boxes be very observant!

joea

 

[IFocus]

Selling hot rocks to India could this be the end of Abbott, a Labor leader starting to be pragmatic, It has to go to the vote at the national conference 1st.

 

[sails]

Selling hot rocks to India could this be the end of Abbott, a Labor leader starting to be pragmatic, It has to go to the vote at the national conference 1st.

Haha IFocus - do you guys ever get Abbott off your minds?

I reckon he must be doing pretty good to have labor/green supporters so obsessed with his demise. It's been a massive effort from the left to try and bring him down.

Anyway, are you labor/greens happy with Gillard's decision re uranium? I would have thought there would be a fair of of internal resistance to this?

 

[Glen48]

A truck driver is stuck in traffic suddenly there is knock on the window he winds down the window.
A man tells him terrorist have taken on parliament house and will set fire to Gillard and Co unless they receive $10M

we are looking for donations.. the driver asks what the average donation…

about 1 gallon he replies.

 

[drsmith]

Nobody should underestimate Julia Gillard!

When the time comes for her to start ticking the boxes be very observant!

joea

Why now and not before ?

There have been so many issues where she could have ticked the boxes.

A leopard does not change it spots.