Tag: ALP Stuffups

ALP looking to reinforce failure

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People with the retention of a lightning strike are thinking; The ALP need to get rid of Gillard, let’s try Rudd again. I wonder how long it will take them to remember just how bad Rudd was? He claims to have learnt his lesson and has changed. He is only saying what he wants people to believe and if caucus believe him then the ALP are looking at worse poll figures than they have now. If he does win a ballot the ALP will most probably get some bounce but it will recoil after a week or so of him being back in the public arena. People will remember. Simon Crean, one of the few adults in the ALP, has told Rudd to join the team or quit and I think that is the best solution. Let’s stay with Gillard and just hold our breath, hoping she doesn’t stuff the country any more that she already has, and wait until we can get the Coalition in to sort out all the decay. God, the country is suffering!
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Coming home to roost

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Isn’t it great having an ALP-Greens government with unions free to destroy jobs and businesses? Qantas announced the shedding of 500 jobs as their profits go into free-fall partly due to the union strikes late last year. BHP in trouble as thousands of miners walk off the job. Coastal shipping cargo costs to rise as much as 500% as unions and the government clamp down on foreign registered ships.
About 30 per cent of coastal shipping – the carriage of cargo between Australia’s ports – is now carried on foreign ships. In 1995, there were 55 Australian-operated ships carrying coastal cargo compared with 22 today.
The 55 down to 22 is another example of unions pricing themselves out of the industry.
“The MUA’s outrageous wage demands would see maritime workers such as those employees working as kitchen hands, stewards, dishwashers and basic cooks potentially earning up to $230,000 a year”
HSU’s Craig Thomson has the quote of the year award for this jaw dropper;
[he]…said it was nonsensical to suggest there had been any political interference in the FWA investigation. There is no benefit for me or for the government to go on as long as it has, he said. From a personal point of view, the sooner they finish it, the better.
Yeah right! Except, on the face of it, the longer it takes, the longer Thomson can stay in parliament and the longer the Gillard government can stay in power. If Thomson is found to have no case to answer I fully believe it will be because the HSU doesn’t have a rule that makes spending union funds on whores and cash advances illegal. Kim Sattler from the Unions ACT has been caught out lying about her involvement in winding up the Australia Day riot in Canberra. Imagine that, a union rep lying. With over a year to go before an election things will get a whole lot worse. I pity any incoming LNP government – it will take all of the first term just to get the country back on track.
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FWA Investigation

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Shorten on Fair Work Australia taking three years to investigate Thomson “The best way to protect Fair Work Australia is to protect its independence,” he told Channel Ten today.
“The argument which says the government needs to intervene would undermine its independence.
What about the argument which says the government already has intervened to slow down the investigation. It might not be true of course but if not, then FWA and the government will need to clarify why it has taken nearly three years to investigate the allegations that Thomson used Union credit cards on prostitutes, lavish meals and cash withdrawals. Had I had done the same whilst employed I would’ve been stood down during an investigation that would have been concluded in weeks at the most. Bill, the problem is, rightly or wrongly, the punters don’t believe you.
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Greens lonely MP Adam Bandt says Tony Abbott should be focused on Aboriginal disadvantage not political point scoring. He is. He spends a couple of weeks every year in the outback helping Aboriginal communities. No cameras, no journalists – just trying to help and understand their problems. What are you doing for them Brandt?
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Canberra riots

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Gillard’s answers questions on the Canberra Black’s camp and radical left wing permanent white student riot The Prime Minister was quick to emphasize that though Tony Hodges had acted in a way that was inappropriate, he “did not misrepresent Mr Abbott’s remarks, nor did he incite violence or a demonstration. Sorry PM, I don’t believe you. My concern is that there exists within the government, and particularly the Prime Minister’s Office, a mindset that understand that the government can’t gain any ascendancy in the polls or with the electorate based on their record, thus all steps must be taken to make Tony Abbott look bad. Tony Abbott’s remarks are continually being misrepresented – a case or two in point “Well that’s one ship that did get stopped” and “Shit happens” The PM went on to say;
…..Mr Hodges tried to contact the Minister for Indigenous affairs Chris Burke who was unavailable and then contacted the representative for UnionsACT Kim Sattler.
Now why would he contact Kim Sattler? Because she is in the same game of trying to damage Abbott’s reputation as is Hodges. What’s the odds that they are on each others speed dial. According to Sattler:
“Tony Abbott is like your typical bar-room brawler who starts a fight and then disappears like a coward when it is in full swing,” she wrote.
And this is, I believe, after she had set him up. In the Canberra Times Kim denies being the go-between
When contacted by the Sunday Canberra Times this morning, Ms Sattler said she had been at the tent embassy but she was not the go between. “I heard it from the crowd,’’ she said.
Which is not how Barbara Shaw, Greens candidate and aboriginal activist remembers it;
“Now I know who she is and what her position [is], it’s really disappointing,” she said. “It breaks my heart to know who she is.” Ms Shaw said she didn’t identify Ms Sattler on sight at the embassy rally but later confirmed her identity speaking to others who were there. “She said I should let people know Tony Abbott is over there, so I did,” Ms Shaw said. “I wasn’t the first person she told and the coffee shop is a public area, but there were already people from here going over there. “I was told and I was told to tell everyone else.”
Grubs, the lot of them!
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Politics, Radical Ferals

More killed by government incompetence

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A boat sinks, hundreds die and the ALP say it’s too tragic for politics which sounds like a political statement to me. Everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room and declining to politicise the most recent ‘life style seeker’ tragedy off Indonesia. The Libs don’t have to say anything as they know reasonably smart voters can see it for what it is – they don’t have to tell them. No such reticence here! All tragedies that have happened since Australia lost direction and voted in a lot of undelivered promises have Gillard’s name all over them. A litany of stuff-ups followed the election of these incompetents. Gillard and Rudd canceled Howard’s answer even though it was working…..she spoke to the president of East Timor (oops! should have spoken to the PM) but insisted on stating the ALP were holding talks with East Timor even while East Timor said NO from day one…..said she couldn’t use Narau as it wasn’t a signatory to the UN convention so chose Malaysia who likewise wasn’t a signatory to the convention. Meanwhile Narau said they would sign the convention if that is was it takes to get involved quickly followed by the High Court telling her she couldn’t use Malaysia. I’d like to talk to the 30% who still says she’s OK. Don’t they read newspapers or watch the news? Tony Kevin of A Certain maritime Incident fame went into overdrive when something similar happened whilst John Howard held the reigns. Driven by hatred of Howard and conservatives generally, he wrote a book and regularly appeared on the ABC castigating Howard and trying to get the government cited for murder. He also accuse the RAN of ignoring distress signal (of a boat that was sinking in Indon waters) If any reader has his email address please give it to me and I’ll ask him the name of his new book detailing similar incidences under the Gillard government. I’m sure he’s working on it A review on his last book says;
In a careful and well-researched argument, Kevin implies that those who drowned when the SIEV X capsized were not only victims of an unscrupulous people smuggler, Abu Quassey, whom Australian authorities have shown surprisingly little interest in apprehending. They were also casualties of the Howard Government’s efforts to deter asylum-seekers from seeking refuge in northern Australia.
The Greens abrogate all responsibilities as well. Sarah Hanson-Young tosses a throw-away line into the mix when asked if the Greens feel responsible at all.
Of course not. Tragedies happen, accidents happen
Dead right Sarah, and they will keep on happening while you and your idiot mates ignore the realities of life. Gillard and the Greens have created a nightmare by continuing to pander to the Asylum seeker industry. They are effectively telling all and sundry; come to Australia, we are so confused you will just be able to arrive and get accepted as legitimate asylum seekers, no questions asked. We have no concept of borders, everyone is welcome legitimate or not – we don’t care so go for it! We are being led by fools.
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Indonesian payback

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The Indons are going to halve their live cattle imports from Australia and who would blame them. The move demonstrated the need to change governments that wipe out an entire industry based on a TV programme. Of course, that’s not how ALP talking heads see it.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said the move demonstrated the need for beef producers to diversify locally as well as expand international markets.
It’s not expanding markets, it’s trying to recover from destroyed markets
A government taskforce, set up after the ban on live exports to Indonesia earlier this year, is looking at building a new abattoir near Mt Isa. “Producers in north Queensland may in fact be able to develop a domestic market in response to changes in the Indonesian market,” she told Sky News.
Who in their right mind are going to spend capital on a project when all it takes for the government to close it down again is for someone to take a video of cattle being slaughtered. Selective and ideologically based editing can make a Brahman dying of old age an emotionally charged vision. The people who make these type of videos don’t want us eating meat full stop.
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Gillard opens our borders to anyone…anytime.

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So yesterday the ALP/Greens took the first step in bringing in a Carbon tax that the people don’t want and now today they are adopting in-shore processing for unauthorised boat arrivals that the people don’t want. Just exactly who are they governing for? Radical Greens…Left wing nutters….human rights lawyers…unions. What about the rest of us – those determined to kick them out? Is it a death wish?
Some are concerned about the way people will take it in the community.”
Why? They never have before. Under a plan presented to the Labor caucus today, asylum-seekers will be processed onshore with fast-tracked health checks, the right to work and living money provided. …and a car and housing, I presume. If this actually happens they will want to stay in their bunkers – the bulk of the population will be furious.
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Carbon Tax passed in lower house

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The government’s carbon tax package was passed 74 votes to 72, with applause from the government benches as legislation was passed with the support of independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, and Greens MP Adam Bandt. Cost of living to rise with no benefit for the environment – sounds like an ALP plan. Now watch the pressure ramp up on the Senate. UPDATE: Latest NEWSPOLL has 60% of respondents against the Tax and that’s not going to go down when they start getting increased bills in the knowledge that their suffering won’t help the environment one little bit.
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