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You are a sick man.
Explod is a decent fellow and former police officer.
Noco, you are just biased.
You are joking surely. Publicity written all over it.
You are joking surely. Publicity written all over it.
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He is highly experienced and qualified, having been involved in his rural brigade for years.
Cheers
Country Lad
And in war, this case fire, should not be on the front line risking his life. As you become experienced you learn to lead from behind and delegate down.
No idea of being a leader that's for sure.
And in war, this case fire, should not be on the front line risking his life. As you become experienced you learn to lead from behind and delegate down.
No idea of being a leader that's for sure.
Anyone who tries to smear a long term volunteer for doing his job has no judgement and will get no support from anyone with credibility.
Sounds good but unfortunately you haven't got a clue what you are talking about. When you do a bit of research to find the extent of his qualifications as a firefighter you will realise the stupidity of your statements.
He is highly experienced and qualified, having been involved in his rural brigade for years.
Cheers
Country Lad
His body language was interesting in the media shots.
And in war, this case fire, should not be on the front line risking his life. As you become experienced you learn to lead from behind and delegate down.
No idea of being a leader that's for sure.
One of these days, explod, just try a bit of objectivity on for size in place of your ever obvious political bias.Not sure that we could find real malice aforethought.
In the heat of some discussions emotions fly, mixed with biases, left v right as well as social background. Bad comment yes but in the light the thread's supposed or emergent spirit, understandable.
Absolute rubbish. You should be ashamed of such a nasty comment. See Sails' very accurate post below.You are joking surely. Publicity written all over it.
Good for you, basilio, to at least make this acknowledgement. Explod should do a bit of research before making such facile comments.Tony Abbott has long history of volunteering and community activism. It's for real.
+1 x 100. You sum it up well, sails.And surely the electorate is entitled to know where Abbott has gone when Truss is taking the reigns in his absence? He is on the public payroll and I don't see any problem.
Labor has done nothing but try to destroy Abbott's image. I don't see any problem in letting people into his life. Many did not even know of his fire fighting interest - I didn't know how long until yesterday.
Gillard has let people into her personal life in the lodge obviously in an attempt to gain public support. I don't see why Abbott should continue to stay quiet about his community service for so many years especially when labor go out of their way to smear him.
It's about time the public knew that Abbott has been helping in the community for a long time. Not only fires, but also surf life saving and aboriginal work.
Have your ever complained when Gillard has had photo shoots with school children, holding babies or any other such thing? And that's not actually helping anyone - just publicity shoots.
Exactly.Sounds good but unfortunately you haven't got a clue what you are talking about. When you do a bit of research to find the extent of his qualifications as a firefighter you will realise the stupidity of your statements.
He is highly experienced and qualified, having been involved in his rural brigade for years.
Cheers
Country Lad
Sometimes when one tosses a small pebble into the pond,
it turns out to be a rock into a puddle, you are wrong and all the water is gone too.
However it does demonstrate how treacherous the waters do become when extremes of biased emotions try to outbid each other.
Having started out at 14 years on the back of one of the Hawkesdale West fire-trucks holding a trailing wick when we did the two chain firebreaks, fighting them and later co-ordinating in my career I have also taken as now a close interest in the fire seasons and the effectiveness of control.
One of the greatest problems is communication. Most of the leaders in the CFA continually call for proper use of community radio. In fires situation, mobile phones, computers and normal commercial radio are useless. The need to act and tell people needs to be from the area coordinators direct to the people and fast. This is a glaring problem now and has been blaring at us since Ash Wednesday.
As the leader of the opposition and a senior minister in the Howard Government these problems should have been highlighted by Mr Abbott and by now solved. Now this discussion is off topic and some will say an attempt to exonerate myself.
Not at all I am sorry for my stupid comments yesterday.
However if Abbott had been a vocal voice in trying to make the fire-fighting services more efficient I would probably, due to my own interest in this service have known what I should have about him.
Uppercuts and smacks accepted.
On topic, a good and faithful Indian I do now see, but not really leadership material on the evidence presented.
At least Abbott was there with genuine intentions to fight fires.
Did you see the 'RANGER' there making sandwiches and handing out cups of tea to firies or was she there for the photo shoot with that stupid grin of hers?
She makes me want to throw up every time I see her on TV taking advantage of a dangerous situation.
"LOOK AT ME, I AM HERE, CAN EVRYONE SEE ME. I AM HERE TO GIVE SUPPORT"
Where was she when the ''GOOSE" had to admit he was not going to make for a surplus buget as promised?
Logique;747450As for publicity, the press sniff things out pretty quickly, especially in small communities, it was never going to be a secret.
What we got was a year of Abbott calling the prime minister a liar which in itself was a lie nothing else.
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