Dear runner,

I fully agree with Pelican and Poirot.

Australians do have a tendency to be less
judgemental of their "heroes," be they
football players, politicians, celebrities,
that they like. Less tolerant of the ones
they don't like. And as I tried to point
out in my earlier post - people do make
mistakes, admit them, try to resolve them,
and move on.

On the other side of the coin, there is also
the tendency to moralize, to say endless things
to other people about how "they" should clean up
their houses. Surely we must clean up ours.
The days have long gone when we have the genuine
moral authority from which to preach to others
in this country.

Let us regain that ground, take a fearless moral
inventory, do the work on ourselves that we still
need to do. It will heal our hearts and free our souls.
There is new life waiting to happen here, as soon as we
own up. Nothing less will heal us and this country.

I like public figures who promote freedom and keep government interference with freedom to the minimum.

One of Julia Gillard's first acts as prime minister was to kill the proposed government internet censorship. This was an initiative of Rudd, and Abbott has not protested it.

This issue to me is far more important than the small number of boat people who come to our shores.

I hope our prime minister will continue to limit government interference by getting rid of the National School Chaplaincy Program which has put fundamentalist missionaries in the public schools and stops subsidising religious and other private schools. Both the NSCP and religious school subsidies are violations of S. 116 of the Australian Constitution.

Good Ruddance.

While I don't care particularly about some ones past relationships, this is prime example of poor judgement. Having an affair with some one married with kids is never going to have a good result either for ones self or the man, or his family.

This was stupid, stupid, stupid, and shows that JG had no consideration for anyone but herself. It takes a liar and cold hearted cheat to do this.

For any one that stoops this low, there is little she will do to get what she wants.

Dear Shadow Minister,

It takes two to tango as the saying goes,
and blaming just one party in the breakdown
of any marriage is simply displaying ignorance.
Who knows why the married man chose to have a
relationship with Julia Gillard or she with him.
Who knows what state his marriage was in or
who was to blame. I dare so only the parties
involved. It's very easy to make assumptions and
cast blame - but without knowing all the facts -
it's best to avoid doing that.

We are experiencing a crisis of leadership now,
not so much because people lack the qualities
necessary for it, but it seems to me that its
because we systematically invalidate such qualities.

It's hard in today's world for a person to stand up
in excellence and power within the public realm.
There are a myriad forces marshaled against doing so,
causing a massive brain and spirit drain from the
realms of worldly power.

Instead of tearing people down let us support the
possibility of greatness in anyone at any time.
We must rethink our attitudes about leaders, or at the
rate we're going we will soon have none.

davidf says:

"One of Julia Gillard's first acts
as prime minister was to kill the
proposed government internet censorship.
This was an initiative of Rudd,
and Abbott has not protested it."

That one had slipped under my radar*, davidf. Do you have a reference, and does it also relate to abandonment of the proposal spoken of in Chris Abood's OLO article 'An even Bigger Brother?' See: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10589

I wonder whether, if it does, it constitutes a tacit acceptance of the true proposal having been the one speculated upon here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10589#177061

I wonder, too, whether Julia Gillard's action in this matter may portend some hope of Brian Howes, currently detained without charge in the UK awaiting extradition (rendition?) to the US, being given at the least a hearing by means of an Australian request for the same? See: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=3810&page=0 , for a bit of background, here and there. You will have to read the whole, now two-page, thread, davidf. My apologies, but maybe worth it.

And I don't think I am really off-topic, either, but only the links might, toward the end, make that clear.




* Radar. Another palindrome. But nothing could top Diva David in context!

Thank GY not for doing as you may and suspending a poster but for the change that let us see what had taken place.
Shadow Minister after the poll lets look back at the campaign,here in OLO at least.
I am combative, but that last post of yours is way over the top.
Did you ever stray? do you think only a few do? did you read the post about how we handled Abbott's son that turned out not to be.
Runner talks of watching porn and such but porn plays no part in my sex life.
Stooping so very low to get at Gillard but the coming election victory will make up for it.