The one thing that never fails to amuse me is just how all these labor puppets get a kick out of anything that may hamper anyone getting into office to try to salvage what little we have left.

Don't worry about our failed manufacturing, or our failing tourism and aguculture industries, or even our floundering retail sector.

All that you lot, and you know who you are, care about is winning the battle, not fighting for whats best fo our nation.

May ia suggest you remove your rose colored glasses, take a good look around and smell the roses.

Talk to the people, the tradies who are now waiting for the phone to ring and not sure where they will be in the next year or two, or the retail worker struggling with their part time wages.

Labor puppets, through and through.

The character of Slipper shows he probably belongs with the Greens Government. Strange Houellebecq that you find being shameless, lying an d deceit traits something to be admired. You just like seeing how low someone will go to cling to power. No doubt you admire those using union funds for prostitutes and refusing to blush also.

runner,

"You just like seeing how low someone will go to cling to power."

No doubt you remember the Dr Haneef affair in the dying days of the Howard government....now there was desperation.

The upshot is that we are dealing here with politicians and it's what they do (unfortunately).

Poirot,

You have to be totally desperate to compare John Howard with Julia Gillard. Only hatred could blind a person of the differences in integrity.

Posted by runner, Friday, 25 November 2011 5:16:52 PM

" ... Only hatred could blind a person of the differences in integrity. ... "

And you don't seem to be able to get past your HomoPhobia to realise that what both howard and geelar share in common is locking up children.

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You have in *GreenBrowny* a good person who will of his own accord stop this, as opposed to the other mobs who need to be dragged kicking and screaming.

The political church needs to have a good long think about that one *Runner*

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*RehTub* re manufacturing, why not instead of or in adjunct to the mining rent tax, have the miners tithe at cost to a materials stock pile for the benefit of Australian manufacturers. It's very simple really, but as long as you remain beguiled by the mainstream, who say one thing and hide another, you will remain bound to them, and they care not what happens to our steel and other industries, though I acknowledge that there are members on both side who would support something like this.

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I would have our allies share knowledge with us, of special materials, for advanced manufacturing. We have much of the raw materials that we need. Thus, the mining boom would be for the profit of the companies and their shareholders, and the public good and also local Australian industry.

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As for the mainstream, they just treat the resources boom like a dead, bloated and gas filled whale carcass to be fed off by international white noahs, which is perhaps not surprising given both Geelar and Abbott are wanna be poms.

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And that's a problem for all True Blue Ozzies i.m.o.

Dear runner,

Very amusing.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?