'Enemies wherever the PM looks'

http://twitpic.com/7ktsh6/full

Worth a look, even if only for the artwork on the wall.

The painting is captioned 'Still life with fluffy slippers and dummy'.

This whole episode is akin to being forced to watch an episode of Big Brother and wondering who is going to be kicked out of the House first.

There are no heroes in this on either side of politics just more buffoonery, faux protestations and the usual high moral outrage. More proof that it doesn't matter what is said or done but WHO says it and DOES it.

While one might try to see this as just another aspect of a new style of governing, possibly as managing the limited tools available within a minority parliament, it is a shame that 'success' is marked in terms of political strategy than good representation, good policy or ideology.

The media is writing this up as a victory. But a victory to what end?

We have already seen a dismal watering down of the MRRT, to the point of some 'experts' putting forward the view it is revenue neutral - so what is the Point Exactly? Every thing else is just a diversion.

Pelican, it's not only been about the taxes, but also about whether or not labor had what knowhow to implement them without stuffing them up.

Legs face it, if their track record is anything to go by, boy, are we in trouble!

The only comfort we have is that when they keep getting thing so wrong they are in fact edging closer to a win.

If only running the country was as simple as choosing red or black. Hey!

Has been,I would suggest these rates are all up rates. But I must find out.

Butch you change horses mid stream, two bob each way. Some of your comments are archaic. I do not think you know which way is up.

Sorry 579, not sure what you mean.

I've just said on another thread that I tend to use OLO as a journal of record, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=4851#129342 , and because of that I must now make a correction to my post of Monday 28 November 2011 at 7:15:02 AM.

In that post I said that:

"In early 2010 DPMC (under Rudd)
called for submissions in an
Electoral Reform Green Paper."

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If I had re-read my own posts in the thread that was the target of the link I supplied I would have seen my mistake. This post clearly identifies 23 September 2009 as the date that announcement of an intent to call for submissions on the Electoral Reform Green Paper was made. http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=3212#76075 . That post also clearly identifies the very-short-fused DPMC online forum as opening on Monday 9 November 2009 and initially closing on Friday 14 November 2009.

The NSW introduction of automatic electoral enrollment that I referred to in my post of Monday 28 November 2011 was assented to on 14 December 2009 (but not proclaimed as coming into effect until 22 September 2010 to commence on 24 September 2010). http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11834#205311

Its just that it may become perhaps important that the dates be presented in their correct order*.

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I'm glad I posted the twitpic of that cartoon in my post of Monday, 28 November 2011 1:49:16 PM. A legitimate exercise of free speech in public debate. As for this, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/rats-now-peter-slippers-serjeant-at-arms-is-trying-to-ban-the-tele/story-e6freuzi-1226208572849 , its a straight out contempt of Parliament. I hope Slipper without hesitation puts the boot into The Telegraph.

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*The long weekend Monday of 5 October 2009 was the date I posted the first comment to then Deputy PM Julia Gillard's OLO personal epiphanies themed article 'Driven by indignation at injustice', thereby placing it upon the OLO index page. It was a challenging post subsequently complained of (by a faceless faction lord minder?) as being off-topic, and it was subsequently taken down. http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=3050#73310 A fact perhaps now interesting in hindsight. Was a plan in place even then?