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Holding babies won't cut it for Gillard : Comments

By Kellie Tranter, published 13/8/2010

Julia Gillard’s gender should be her greatest strength, not a political weakness.

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It's amazing. Since the election was called, the world is suddenly filled with experts who pontificate about all manner of things. Some even talk about 'emotional intelligence' as if it wasn't a contradiction in terms.

I would urge the punters who haunt these pages to listen carefully to Gillard and then Abbott when they speak. It is clear which one is the most intelligent and can think both laterally and consistently (and it's certainly not Tony).

Tony would be perfect as the ringmaster in a small circus!
Posted by David G, Saturday, 14 August 2010 2:27:00 PM
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Sorry, my mistake, Arjay.

I thought that when you said...

>>make the Reserve Bank of Australia create the new currency<<

you meant...

"make the Reserve Bank of Australia create the new currency"

Clearly I was in error, as you now tell me...

>>Pericles,It is not new currency.<<

Silly me.

We can come back to this, when you are able to make sense of your own posts, Arjay.
Posted by Pericles, Saturday, 14 August 2010 2:59:07 PM
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Kellie,
"Holding babies won't cut it for Gillard"! Neither will this piece for the equality of women.

This piece can be equated with a discussion on last nights low temps in a discussion on Global warming.

Did it occur to you that the 'experts' may simply not want to be associated with Labor for other reasons
Posted by examinator, Saturday, 14 August 2010 4:02:05 PM
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Pericles,you have serious cognitive disorder.Money only represents human productivity and potential.So GDP of Aust should belong to all Australians,hence our Govt via the RBA should be producing money to equal our productivity.This is clearly not the case as I've demonstrated,since the RBA pays the Aust Govt just a small percentage of GDP + inflationary money.Money is just the symbol.It is not real without human productivity.
Posted by Arjay, Saturday, 14 August 2010 7:40:57 PM
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Julia Gillard demonstrates that she has the capacity and power to listen to a "whole" nation.

This is not the time to play gender politics. As we see from comments above, articles like this are unhelpful at a time on the eve of a critical election.

We need to move together as a nation. Not in front of ourselves, nor behind.

The three women you quoted are wonderful women. Elizabeth Warren, Maya Angelou and Arundhati Roy. They to have wonderful ideas and like Ms Julia Gillard and others in Australia, they represent a number of cultures, working among many sectors, with degrees and depth of knowledge.

Your article drives with much passion. However as a piece of wisdom, I say it is a bit too strong to be taken seriously.

Community Engagement is the essential next step for Climate Change, for the Disadvantaged and Middle Class alike.

Reason with the Mining Companies, Banks, Pharmaceutical , Telco's, Housong Developers, Multi-national companies and all their controlling Shareholders. Reason with Farmers and Public Servants. May a bridge be built toward greater understanding, for what we need to do as a nation, to change. To bring about the pace for reform.... as human race.

We do have the knowledge on Climate Change. We do know we each need to down - scale our desire for energy and power, using so many cars, eating so much fresh fish. We each know exactly the risk of continuing with those consumer aspects that contribute to unhealthy consumption and unhealthy degrees of desire driven economic growth.

The task ahead is more then a Prime Minister or a bunch of "expert" advisors can do.

No one will succeed this task without citizens.

Leadership is not about one person. It is about us all.

If I didn't think Ms Gillard knew something about this, I'd not vote.

Unlike the Liberals, and especially with a opposition leader like Abbott. Ms Gillard with the ALP, and the Nation will try, as they have been doing, to work through these factors.

We all need the courage.

http://www.miacat.com/
Posted by miacat, Sunday, 15 August 2010 1:01:19 AM
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Miacat,you say that Julia has the capacity to listen.I think not.None of our leaders Govern for the people.They Govern for their corporate masters.

A case in point is carbon tax.Carbon is the basis of all life and the primary source of our energy.The real agenda behind taxing carbon is Corporate greed.Large Corps love high taxing Govts since it is the ordinary tax payer who ends up with the bill.Socialised medicine is great for their bottom line since anything perceived to be free will be abused.Thus we cannot possibly ever have health costs under control.

The same will apply to carbon taxes.In conjunction with these taxes they want a derivative carbon market that feeds off them so that the the most powerful companies can control most of the energy.

A carbon tax will be a nightmare,since they can tax cow flatulance ie food,people for exhaling CO2,emitting methane,and taxing all our energy supplies.

If we believe that oil is running out or if CO2 is a problem,don't tax carbon.Have more alternate energy tax whereby all the money goes into clean alternate energy research and subsidising solar for example.In this way we stop the large corps from profiting in another derivative share market scam.The large Corps ar going to push up the price of fossil fuels anyway.

Gillard and Labor will never listen to reason since they do not serve the people.Labor will put us in more debt to ease the short term pain and the Coalition will try and address the debt increasing our agony.They can blame Labor and justify severe austerity.

There is a solution as I've suggested.Address the problem of where our money comes from.We can all do something right now.Stop using credit cards and go back to cash.This forces our Govt to create more hard currency which is not created OS thus adding to our debt.

The harder problem will be getting our RBA to produce what is rightfully ours ie our GDP + inflationary money of $7000 for every working person pa.
Posted by Arjay, Sunday, 15 August 2010 6:33:11 AM
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