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Yes I do. Never thought pointing out a misquote would cause such a reaction.
Don't you think there is a bigger issue (like the deficit) it seems to me we are getting caught up debating was,wasn't,won't,wouldn't.
It is a bit like the other day when front page news was "It wasn't a trust fund it was a slush fund". Who gives a rats ar$e it was theft of union members funds.OMG
Campbell Newman is already backing off his previously suggested target of at least 20,000 jobs gone.
This evening he is saying it's likely to be under 15,000. He seems to be testing the waters re how much he can do without losing too much in the polls.
Mr Abbott distanced himself from the comments yesterday saying the policy was in the past and that Mr Howard was three Liberal leaders ago.
But one thing the Coalition is keen to re-visit is the idea of the Australian Building and Construction Commission. It was abolished this year, and replaced by the Office of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate.
The Opposition's employment and workplace relations spokesman Eric Abetz says if the ABCC was still in existence there wouldn't have been a picket.
ERIC ABETZ: We put in place the Australian Building and Construction Commission and this sort of ugly violence and intimidation stopped basically. Now the Labor-Green alliance has removed the Australian Building and Construction Commission and we are seeing the consequences of that action with the CFMEU bosses basically getting the dust off the jack boots and marching out again in breach of the law, in breach of an injunction, with bloody scenes with police.
SABRA LANE: The Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says reviving the commission, and its full powers would be one of the Coalition's first priorities if elected. Senator Abetz says that would include the ability to fine unions.
ERIC ABETZ: We would re-institute the Australian Building and Construction Commission in exactly the same form and most importantly, with huge penalties. The CFMEU in the past had to pay a fine of $1.35 million of its members' monies and that moderated its behaviour considerably.
Those penalties have now been deliberately removed by the Labor-Green alliance, and that is why the CFMEU bosses are on the rampage again.
Frank Marks ... (was) a judge of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW… His farewell address from the bench last month was not the usual hail-fellow-well-met one. Marks ...said that rather than trying to settle disputes, the Fair Work Act actually encouraged industrial action between parties and then protected that industrial action.
The coalition are going to have to deal with this sort of bias to industrial action:
(My Bolds)AS police clashed with militant unionists at a construction site in Melbourne yesterday, having to use horses and capsicum spray to restore order, the need for debate on industrial relations reform could not be more urgent. Grocon chief executive Daniel Grollo, who is undertaking the $250 million Emporium Melbourne project, says this dispute is about the rule of law as construction unions have ignored court rulings and defied police.
Previously, Mr Grollo has warned the Fair Work system is hampering productivity, increasing costs and sending much-needed capital investment overseas. This ugly incident should make clear the need for a serious debate about the direction of workplace relations policy and the government's Fair Work industrial reforms. As part of this debate, Tony Abbott should not ignore the need to develop a comprehensive industrial relations policy alternative.
Time to debate workplace laws
From: The Australian August 29, 2012 12:00AM
(My Bolds)
Long before he became an energetic, hardline, right-wing parliamentarian, Tony Abbott was an energetic, hardline, right-wing student activist. Here, David Marr details the federal Opposition Leader's years as a reactionary Catholic warrior on campuses across the country.
Not that there would be the slightest tinge of bias in either your view or David Marr's, would there!Well he certainly hasn't changed much has he ? Abusive, arrogent, totally destructive. I would be interested to hear his response to the whole story - apart from the incident where he intimidated Barbara Ramjam
And exactly what are this piece of xxxxs good points ?::frown:
Mr Marr seems to consider himself the archetypal judge of character. Some people would question his own character.
Well he certainly hasn't changed much has he ? Abusive, arrogent, totally destructive. I would be interested to hear his response to the whole story - apart from the incident where he intimidated Barbara Ramjam
And exactly what are this piece of xxxxs good points ?::frown:
That's an interesting perspective. Others might say he has matured out of ill-disciplined youthful and possibly arrogant attitudes into a more rounded individual.Reading about Abbott in those early years, he may not have been a genius but he was a goer a doer. Ambitious, headstrong (as you should be as a young man) but really strong in his beliefs. He seems so likeable.
He now looks a bit worn down, weaker in his beliefs and forced to behave under the weight of his party. Oh for the good old days!
That's an interesting perspective. Others might say he has matured out of ill-disciplined youthful and possibly arrogant attitudes into a more rounded individual.
As a nation, we are so blessed to have a PM that represents the benchmark for these fine characteristics, except of course when she was young and naive and perhaps once or twice since.What riles me is his complete fraud he continues to perpetrate as a honest and decent politician only interested in Australia's future.
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