While I have my own issues with Julie Bishop, most specifically with her seemingly blind support of Zionist Israel, she has in this article summed up in one go our current PM - her hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Yes it was Gough Witlam who defied convention and the views of the coalition and our American ally, by opening up trade relations with Moaist China; dragging the coalition kicking and screaming into the 20th century in the process.
I find the endless broken record rethoric bagging of our PM and our economy, for rank political purpose, rather tiresome.
Yes the school halls thing could have been done better! But Ken Henry, was adamant, that it was much more important, to just get the money out there, even if it meant dropping it from helicopters? And I paraphrase.
Talking about Glass houses and throwing stones?
I'm reminded of a story that takes place at the turn of the last century.
A missionary had found his way into deepest, darkest and undiscovered Africa, and was trying to talk his way out of an unpleasantly hot cooking pot?
With a flash of rare genius, he produced his Sears Roebuck catalogue; and asked the chief to pick any three gifts he liked from it.
The chief started examining the catalogue, and stopped at a picture of Queen Victoria, the then reigning English Monarch.
The chief enquired and was told that this person was a chief of many nations, that stretched so far and wide, that the sun never set on her empire.
A very impressed chief then asked if he to could have a crown, a throne and a sceptre, like that he saw in the picture.
The missionary obliged and in around three months, a rather large crate found its way up river. Inside were theatrical props, a throne, a crown and a sceptre.
The chief sat himself down on his thrown, only to discover, nearly all his subjects now stood head and shoulders over him!
He responded by having the thrown lifted up and placed in the rafters!
When he got up there and added his considerable weight, the whole thing collapsed, leaving just the wreckage of a hut and a very dead chief.
The moral of the story?
People in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones!
Rhrosty.

Rhrosty, I have a question for you about our economy.

Do you honestly think we can brag about how good we are, when in less than two terms, this government has taken us from having 20 odd billion in the bank, to owing 200 billion and counting, not to mention the desk full of unfunded promises that JG has made amd the 30,000 (and counting) illegals labor has let in?

Now if you answer yes, then I think you are blinds.

The late mail is that Leightons have just sacked 900 workers, atbthe peat downs mine, as the MRRT is going to take more of the profits than Leightons themselves.

They, along with several others are now likely to just sit on their hands and wait for a change in government, so this ridiculous tax can be recinded.

Now removing the tax is one thing, but restoring confidence will be a whole new challenge, esspecially given that there will be no money to spend in the short to medium term.

Now by all means, remain in denial, however, Which ever way you look at it, this government, led by the lying Gillard, is incompitent.

She lied about the carbon tax, she lied about the tax on peoples super, and most people won't forget about either of those, but by all means stay on board, as they will be looking for all the die hard supporters they can find to keep the sinking boat afloat.

But their efforts will be in vein my fiend.

Most of us know Julie how incompetent and usless Labor are.Even their old party leaders admit it.However now the focus is on the Coalition.

Already Tony Abbott is reniging on the Carbon tax saying all will not be recinded.So is the Coalition going to slighty reduce the CO2 tax and increase the GST?

We cannot trust any of our pollies since lying to us has now become an obsessive compulsive artform in which all sides of politics take pride in.

You are right there Arjay.
If anyone thinks the calibre of politicians in the Coalition are any better than those in Labor, then they will be in for a nasty surprise.

This time next year will see the contributors to this forum whinging and whining about the Coalition Government.
Already the frowns of discontent have started with the talk of the dumbing down of the NBN by the coalition.

Abbott will come out of his protective box and show us all his true colours.
Julia will seem like a paragon of virtue in comparison...

Julie Bishop could be a wee bit more careful about throwing stones and talking about hypocrisy.

Her much publicised utterances in response to Bob Carr's revelations about Thatcher's racist attitudes are indeed revealing.

It seems Bishop would find any twee reason to condemn an opponent's revelations of a blemish on the side of her idol's character. Never mind the racism, we should have the decency not to spoil the feasting to celebrate the death of one's icon, no matter that it was one who helped nurture the murderous Pinochet reign - by public endorsement, and by providing military know-how it would appear.

Is this the Bishop-style hypocrisy we can expect for the rest of her public life or just plain unthinkingness in her haste to opportunistically bespatter a political opponent, our Foreign Minister no less?

To think that she is touted to be our next Foreign Minister!

Chek,

Bob Carr's comments on Thatcher were supposedly a private conversation held many years ago, even if they are not a figment of Bob's imagination, reporting them now, is pure cowardice and reprehensible given when it was raised.

Secondly as Australia's foreign minister this is blatant stupidity. What will Bob remember next? Perhaps Gandhi admitting he was a pedophile?

My dear Shadow Minister,

Carr's revelations added to the unfettered assessment of Thatcher's public life. It was timely in that the hagiographic feastings were both unsightly and deceptive.

Contrary to your belief, it takes courage to speak up against the revelry of the mob.

It was once a superstition that one speaks not ill of the dead. But we are now going through the records of paedophile priests some of whom are dead or at death's door. Why should we treat Thatcher differently?

Her Falklands War was perhaps not as pernicious as her predecessors' Opium Wars which rendered the entire Chinese people to a good century of befuddled subservience to the every whim of the invading nations which followed the Opium War precedent. All the same, the sinking of the Belgrano was reminiscent of the unnecessarily prolonged military rampage that the Brits indulged in the first Opium War to teach the Chinese a lesson for good!

And why should we white over her role in Pinochet's regime of terror?

Chek

Chek,

While I don't hold with uncritical examination of the dead, Carr's nasty and completely unsubstantiated moment of spite (probably an outright lie) at the moment of her passing is at the very least extremely crass. As foreign minister, to spew that bile at the time the British are mourning the passing of one of their most iconic leaders is offensive and astonishing idiocy.

As far as Pinochet is concerned, Thatcher, saw him as a bulwark against the communists in South America who were often far worse than Pinochet. As for the Opium wars? Really.

I have no respect for Bob Carr.He left NSW in a mess and a few months later joined Macquarie Bank with a part time consultancy of half a $ million pa to line up prime contracts with the NSW Govt.

Bob has now become friends with Henry Kissenger,a globalist who wants a one world Govt of Bankers to own and control us.

Bob is supposed to idolise the US Constitution yet dares not criticise Bush or Obama who are leading the West to fascist totalitarianism via The Patriot Act,Preventative Detention, legalised assassination and the National Defence Authorisation Act.