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The Coalition to pass Labor on 2 party preferred.

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If the independents join TA then again all the metrics will give the right to govern to the libs.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Saturday, 4 September 2010 7:58:22 AM
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Laura Tingle in her 'Canberra Observed' column this week in the Fin (behind a paywall, unfortunately):

<< There are two possible explanations for how an opposition presenting itself as an alternative government could end up with an $11 billion hole in the cost of its election commitments.

One is that they are liars, the other is that they are clunkheads. Actually there is a third explanation: they are liars and clunkheads.

But whatever the combination, they are not fit to govern. >>

So what are they, Shadow Minister - liars, clunkheads or both?
Posted by CJ Morgan, Saturday, 4 September 2010 2:33:15 PM
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Andrew Wilkie, as I understood him to state previously, was not going to make any demands and then conduct himself more like a Senator representing Tasmania then as A Member of House of Representatives designate for the federal issues.
As a CONSTITUTIONALIST I would wish all those posting comments first understood what the constitution really stands for.
See also my website http://www.schorel-hlavka.com and my blog at http://www.scribdd.com/InspectorRiakti (various correspondences to the Governor-General included) and you may just learn that who forms government got absolutely nothing to do with the INDPENDENTS, Greens, etc, because the Governor-General alone determines who shall be commissioned regardless of any majority in the House of Representatives.
E. Barton was commissioned to form a government on 26 December 1900, before the federation existed, and so no Parliament either. Learn what the constitution stands for and you all might just realise you are all conned.
Currently there is not a single Member of the House of Representatives as they are all Members of the House of Representatives designate!
Parliament is to vote on bills not to decide who forms government. That is the job of the Governor-General exercising prerogative powers!
Posted by Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 12:59:41 AM
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CJ,

Apparently not as big clunk heads or liars as the Labor party with an $8bn hole in the mining tax revenue estimate over the first 2 years.

PS, the number stated by the treasury over 4 years was $7bn based on different revenue assumptions and the Labor $2.5bn incompetence contingency, and the other $4bn based on an assumption by treasury that some projects could not be cancelled.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 8:55:37 AM
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