Foxy said;
The former Prime Minister chose the subject of
Law as her profession, but majored in economics to be
proficient in economics - which helped her in her
political career.

Arrrgggghhh, I nearly choked on my morning coffee when I read that !

Foxy is ducking and dodging, indulging in semantics.

Replying to Tony Jones on ABC Lateline on 17 October, 2007, the (then) 46 yr old Julia (no slip of a girl) is quoted as saying,

<JULIA GILLARD: Tony, it's been a fair old journey since my 20s. Yes, you know in the years in between, what have I done? I completed my law degree, I completed my economics degree.>

A link was given earlier and for ease of reference here it is again,
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/05/julia-gillard-remained-actively-involved-in-the-socialist-forumfabian-society-after-her-departure-fr.html

The questions to Foxy remain unanswered,
"Does she have a B Econ or not? If so please cite university and year awarded. If she has a B Econ as claimed, why isn't in her CV?"

Dear Bazz,

Sorry to hear about your coffee.
I know how important coffee is,
especially in the morning.

otb,

I have answered your question.
However, I'm not interested in trying
to work on your percpetions.
They're beyond my control.

Like every thread we ever contributed to this one has wobbly legs.
It wanders from subject to subject and in truth few of us care.
I however want to ask a question again.
Have other posters noticed recently the UN getting more involved than it did in the past.
I am both pleased and confused at the intervention in to Syria.
Most of us know just how bad the refugee problem is in adjoining states made all the worse for snow and unheard of in recent times cold winter *in that part of the world*
They have a task ahead and seem never to have under taken such a task before.
Great, if they have answers for the War too all wars for that matter.
Maybe if they fail cultural diversity may be forced in massive numbers on us all.

Belly,

As Peter Hitchens observed during his recent bushwhacking compered by ABC's Tony Jones, we have already lost the culture war.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3868791.htm

It is too late now to realise what you have lost for yourself and your grandchildren. You have already lost it. The prevailing and systemic political correctness was displayed in all of its 'glory' on Tony Jones' show, even down to the awful Germaine Greer scoffing and casting doubt on a Rhodes Scholar, just because she disagree with him.

It was an unedifying show of little merit, only remarkable for the boasting arrogance and shameless political correctness and extremism of some of the guests. As Hitchens said, the culture war has been won already by Greer, Savage et al and they can no longer claim victimhood. Rather as they so ably demonstrated on the show, they are now the ruling class, the persecutors in fact.

The astute Charlton Heston had it right so many years ago,

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/charltonhestonculturalwar.htm

Belly,
Since the entire Islamic world is pouring men, guns and cash into Syria the refugees can be the responsibility of rich Muslims thanks.

OTB,
"We" haven't lost anything, "they" are losing, the older generation are going to be in for a big shock when my kids' generation learn that they are going to be expected to pay for all these disasters. I've told my kids already that their generation are under no obligation to support their Gen X parents, let alone grandma and grandpa. Grandma and Grandpa are going to spend their last days in poetic justice being tortured, starved and raped by their Third World immigrant carers while my generation will be working until we're seventy five or eighty.
A declaration of War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJB-wjrGsM