Hi Poirot,

Politics to Mr Abbott is theatre.
That's not in the long-term
interests of this country or her people.
Mr Abbott belongs in the US. We really
could do very well without him here.

Abbott certainly hast he verbal and intellectual attributes Jones has.
He may lack some others the high squeaky voice at times?
I have seen this before mountains are built out of mole hills by Medea intent on hurting Labor.
And SOME within Labor chasing power for them selves hurting every one.
Kevin 07 can fix that.

Labor is appealing to the voters by spending like a drunken sailor with a credit card. With an estimated $8bn pa for the NDIS, $5bn for the Gonski reforms and $2.5bn for the dental scheme or roughly $17bn per year (or $66bn over the 4 yr forward estimate) with no visible means of supporting it.

The drop in minerals prices will see the revenue (which labor has already spent in hand outs) dropping considerably, and the carbon tax revenue (which labor has already spent in hand outs) which was budgeted on $29/t giving a short fall of $25bn. This gives Labor a $91bn black hole from their present budget position.

Labor has given Australia some of the largest deficits of any country in the OECD this decade without a recession.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/denial-about-deficit-as-reckless-spending-rolls-on/story-e6frg9qo-1226461115620

P.S. Juliar was humiliated on Australian Agenda when she was interviewed by Paul Kelly.

Dear Belly,

Ignore Shadow Minister, unless you want to
compare "black holes." (hee hee).

Hi Lexi,

Wouldn't it be wonderful if contributors stuck to the topic instead of thinking they have achieved anything by taking silly, cheap shots at people who disagree with them ?

Are there actually any issues here on this thread ? I think so, otherwise why start one up ?

What are those issues ?

* Ms Gillard assisted union officials, in her capacity as a legal adviser, to set up an organisation, process funds from union members and businesses, and buy a house (worth $ 200,000 in 1993) with those funds, in which her then-boyfriend lived.

* She did not open an official Slater&Gordon file for any of this, but of course, she must have had literally a folder of some sort in which to keep all the bits of paperwork. She ceased acting for these, well, not clients actually, friends ? - in 1995.

* From the time she began her links to this enterprise, she did not seek advice from more senior partners in Slater & Gordon.

* When Peter Gordon discovered this enterprise, he 'interviewed' her and she resigned.

* She passed all the details over to someone else, perhaps someone in Slater & Gordon, when she resigned. After all, presumably, it did not all disappear into one of your 'black holes'.

Would any lawyer see anything at all dodgy in any of this ?

I'm not a lawyer, I wouldn't know. Does it sound squeaky-clean ?

Not to me.

Cheers,

Joe

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

Your point of view is not unique as exhibited
by many in the media recently, that is -
until the PM's Press Conference, which answered
every single question that journalists put to her.
As for cheap shots - there's been quite a few of
them and as I've told Shadow Minister, If he stops
telling lies about Labor, we'll stop telling the
truth about the Libs.

However, I do agree that we can all try being nicer,
if some people try being smarter!

Cheers.