With the sickening devastation of the NZ earth quakes, will also come the personal devastation from loved ones in Australia who have lost relatives.

Now, if these relatives request a charter flight, or flights, so they can attend the funerals in NZ, can Julia say no?

Come on Butcher! I understand you are a bit different but not here not on this issue please.
Airlines at such times give free flights, governments too,Canada is flying Aussies out of Libya right now.
MATE!cry for the death, suffering, pain, loss but to try to use this As a political thing?
Get in to your till take out the lot send it to help but bloke dip your head in shame.
In the worst of times we pull together or we are less than nothing.
Conservatives must hold off on the dog whistle politics it is more than hurting them.

Belly:>>Come on Butcher! I understand you are a bit different but not here not on this issue please.<<

I agree with Belly, leave it alone.

Not a good thread, that is disgusting you can come up with such a topic.
Think before you open the floodgate of dribble.

rehctub, I think you have exposed a large and very smelly pile of hypocracy. Interesting to compare the responses justifying public expenditure for refugee funeral attanedences and the "warning off" the topic when a contradiction is created.

can julia sau no
hell yes

if your vulnerable..or poor
hated or despised
sick or depressed

BUT*..if your a rich miner ..or got a lobby group behind you
or media sympathy..or yanki or israelie voices...
yep your right
she cant say no

its funny how some dont want to talk about this issue
just the same lot who dont want to talk about other issues

no one is talking about how the greens
are running her via her nose to her next elertion loss

i note with the new tax...she is spinning her wheels again
all the money is going to go
to bailout business...then the people[but note she aint talking about cost nor numbers..or naming names about just who gets our new tax

it will be those with the loudest voices
or the lobby...[or else she would name names]

its funny how some wanted this topic gone
or limited to the subject..not the title

hell yes she can say no
if your not a greenie or an independant she needs
or a miner with millions to advertise her and her lousey party into the boon docks of histry

to many she only can say yes
remember the promise was ANYTHING YOU WANT
if you put it with the right voice..with the right backing

all expenses paid

[i didnt want to raise it before
but the vision of the guy squeezing the kid
and the woman going nutts...ya gotta feel if these now got the kid

what was media doing there anyhow?
was it a setup?

but things did change fast
once the media spead the vision..
who could say no?

[oh and on the kids]..
how many child molesters are bringing in 'kids'
seems we got huge numbers of em..there must be a plan behind that
kids cant say no

but we wont talk about that
they got no choice to say know neither..
regardless ..it shows the power of those ..who run media adgendas
or know ..how to make* her say yes

i guess thats all for this topic
i guess

They are not boat people, so they don't deserve compassion from the state.

Spindoc/Shadow Minister how low can we go?
What is it costing us to send help, WHO CARES?
IF Tony Abbott and his hangers on are not held accountable for trash such as this thread this country is in a dark place.
If our mate ship with our ANZAC cousins has to be dragged thought unthinking mud like this I will migrate.
Sad gentlemen, sad.

Well I agree it is an insensitive thread at this point in time, however, I will bet it is an issue that we will be faced with in the up coming weeks.

My concern is, has madam PM set a very dangerous precedence.

Let it die rechtub please.
Some how I think you and I could have a beer with out coming to blows.
May even have two.
But I look at life a little differently, as I should.
You have big money I never will.
I have been hungry you most probably never have.
I understand [now it is a belief I could be wrong] no party is purely good or bad.
I happen to think we are at an all time low ,on both sides right now.
You will have noted I distrust and dislike Julia Gillard.
You will take to me for my view,an honest one, Abbott Pyne are worse.
You are quite wrong here, this thread was purely offensive, three posters, you are one, made it worse.
Governments should not have to cost caring.
Gillards sins exist but not the charges the little man Abbott uses.
She can not be trusted, played far too big a roll in Rudd's impersonation of a rabbit stunned in the spotlight.
I think bloke you should give, a few bob ,with the thought in mind just maybe right now some one is laying under the rubble in fear and pain.
It is time we thought about our family New Zealand, even if they flog us in Rugby are family, warning they must not do it in cricket.

I have no idea what you are all talking about.

We had heard gossip the other day about cheap flights - is that the subject? I saw a bit of clip on TV about them - I think it was Mr Rudd saying it.

Sent a teenage girl back home to her mother in Ch-Ch yesterday, we could not find these cheap flights and then got told it was only domestic NZ flights. Only thing that worked (and yes she was in tears for days) was an old fashioned booking and money.

Jewely, my point exactly. Sad isn't it!