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From her own mouth she is condemned : Comments

By Leon Bertrand, published 11/3/2011

Buying the Greens by breaking an election promise might be the ticket to a short and ignominious term for Gillard and Labor.

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Am I the only person flummoxed by this analysis? No one won the election. No party has a mandate for its program.

That left two options. All parties could stick to their platforms with an inevitable early return to the polls. It would have been interesting to see how the Australian population would have reacted to that display of politician rejection of the decision of the 'umpire' (read voters). Labor chose the alternative - compromise their platforms in the awareness that they had not been supported by the majority of voters.

Arguments that Labor are in bed with the Greens ignor the reality that the Liberals have the power to play a constructive role in government, preventing the excesses of the greens from making it to legislation. Yes I will consider the positions taken by Labor and the Greens in those compromises. But I will also consider the wisdom of supporting a party who are not prepared to accept the umpire's decision through constructive compromise towards outcomes in the national interest.

Greg Burra NSW
Posted by Burra NSW, Friday, 11 March 2011 1:36:45 PM
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When ex PM John Howard told the nation that country shopping asylum seekers were tossing their children overboard, in order to force Australian navy personel to take them to Australia rather than turn their boats back, every left wing journo in Australia shreiked and frothed at the mouth that the PM was "lying."

Working themselves up into a frenzy of self rightous apoplexy, they damned Howard to hell and back for "lying" to the electorate and therefore "stealing" the election, which he won comfortably. Books were written about it. It was mentioned every night on ABC news, along with the usual tears for Mamdouth Habib, Davis Hicks, Cornelia Row, and detention centre inmates.

Given the circumstances under which the ex PM was misinformed by the navy (which admitted it had screwed up), reasonable people considered the whole episode a storm in a teacup.

Now, please note the difference in reportage now that the present PM, that daaaahling of the left wing, Julia Gilliard, has just been caught out by the public in what he self evidently a barefaced lie. Not a peep from the left wing members of the Fourth Estate who have averted their eyes and who have suddenly remembered that they have a pressing appointment, somewhere.

No "she STOLE the election by telling a lie!" No books. No endless repetition on the ABC.

If left wing journos wonder why the electorate do not trust them, and why ordinary people prefer to listen to the so called "shock jock" radio, then they had better look critically at their obvious penchant for outrageous double standards.
Posted by LEGO, Sunday, 13 March 2011 8:48:35 AM
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it does seem strange juliar putting out soo much
to the greens so early in the relationship

i supoose it meshes with her gift to the us joint houses
that in her friend down under ..they will allways find a willing partner for war...[and as an afterthought ..piece 4 peace]

it was sad to watch her groveling
before less than 20 percent of the house
and spending [wasting] her time teaching footy balls
to the leader of the freeworld...[thought there would be more pressing issues to talk about]

also noting her change of stance re the air cover over libia
sems she has been debriefed about how israel feels about that issue

[as we all should realise by now by the fact isreal has recruted 50,000 africans to the libian dic-traitors forces..'loyal to the traiter'.. doing favourable deals with israel][just like egypts former leader..gave cheap gas to the same appartheid state]

its funny how her own mouth betrays her
but ..by her works
[or rather that she choses to NOT do..
is she able to be con-demmed..]

she is an embarrisment
especially down under..[if thats below the belt]
tell her to get off her big fat buttt and stop serving special intrests

give us details how much this new tax shall reap in
or how much it will cost...or how much
egsactly who shall be getting

isnt it supposed to be the poluter pays
so how come any poluter gets compo?

or just how much
is rupert running things
or who pays the faceless men

with who..is the red ..in the bed

lawyers swear loyalty to the british law society
[ie has sworn loyalty to a foreign power..]

thus is ineligable to even stand for govt..
let alone serve the multinationalistic duel passport holding boys club

or coach footyball to obama
let alone babble-on about veginamite

as cath or kim would say
or the con..fruiter-or..[how embarrisment]
Posted by one under god, Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:13:29 AM
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its funny [julia gets 20 percent]

yet
More Than 50% of U.S. Senate
to Attend AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE

http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/03/more-than-50-of-u-s-senate-to-attend-aipac-policy-conference/
By: Elias

You gotta know
that the U.S. Congress
will be there too
They must go
as their hands will be out taking cash bribes
with their blackened hearts spilling with no shame as they send our billions earned by the sweat of each American to a land far far away that has no consequence to the everyday welfare of Americans...

but fully controles media war
and so much more
http://www.jewwatch.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lFHaIgCDE4
http://www.americanussr.com/
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=14262

Video Documentary
"Lifting the Veil"

(exposes the scam
of the two party system)

VIDEO
http://metanoia-films.org/compilations.php
"Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet.

See this film!"

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Posted by one under god, Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:50:50 AM
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Kevin Rudd had negotiated an ETS with the Coalition under Malcolm Turnbull: then the coalition under Abbot walked away from the ETS that had been negotiated. Then Julia among others told Kevin to dump the ETS (a terrible political error as it meant that Kevin was seen as being without any integrity), then Kevin was dumped due to low polling, then there was an election where Julia promised that if elected there wouldn't be a carbon tax. Julia didn't win the election: no-one did. This result (a hung parliament) was largely seen to result from voter's disgust at both parties for not getting on with some policy to reduce carbon emissions. Julia clearly got this message from voters, and she managed to negotiate with the greens and some independants to retain power. From July, the Greens will have control of the Senate. The Coalition is bleating that Julia is in a form of coalition with the Greens, particularly on carbon reduction policy. Well of course she is: but it's not only because of the electoral outcome: it's because the Coalition have removed themselves from having any real influence on this issue. All they can now do is carp from the sidelines. Voters' message to Julia at the last election was to just get on with a carbon reduction policy. NZ has had an ETS for several years now, with very little effect on their economy. It is several years to the next election: perfect timing to get a carbon reduction policy in and working, so people will see by the next election that it's not going to have much effect on ordinary people, only on the behaviour of the most carbon polluting industries, which is the point of such a policy. In the meantime, like with the mining tax, we have the vested interests bankrolling the carping. After the appalling mining tax backdown which has the cost the government future billions in income, this time the government is unlikely to respond to vested interests, particularly this far out from an election.
Posted by Johnj, Sunday, 13 March 2011 8:55:46 PM
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Thanks for that Johnj, I really do love a good fairy story, & boy isn't that a good one.

I often wonder if you people tell these stories to try to convince yourselves, or the real people.

You don't have to look too closely at the polls to see that Julia isn't being told by the electorate that she should introduce a carbon dioxide tax. No sirree . It's that bastion of democracy Bob Brown who is pulling her strings there mate.

It must be quite a sight, our Julie rolling over for Bob, with all four feet in the air to get her belly scratched.

I really like that attempt to start a rehabilitation of Rudd. That he was "seen" to be without integrity does sound better that was proven to be so, which is of course the fact. Are the power brokers thinking of trying to recycle him? That would be a laugh.

If you get yourself a good editor, you could have a great future writing fiction.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 14 March 2011 12:16:04 AM
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