Dear Is Mise,

A great grandfather no less - Congratulations!
That's wonderful!
I trust that you had a lovely Father's Day!
Well done!

Dear Poirot,

Perhaps we are being too critical of the
Abbott Government. We need to give credit
where credit is due:

http://newmatilda.com/2014/09/07/year-tony-credit-where-credit-due-and-theyre-running-lot-credit

Hello there FOXY and HASBEEN...

Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and sentiments for 'Father's Day' and Grand Father's Day. And I must defer to our fellow contributor, IS MISE for attaining that sublime state of 'Great Grand Father', indeed a splendid achievement !

Well dear FOXY, I had a look at the Site you kindly provided us with, reading the lead article therein and having finished, I browsed through the rest of the piece. No doubt it's a very 'left wing' publication which surprised me somewhat, as you're more than capable of enunciating your position, better than most I would've thought ? Without the need to rely on a quote from a such jaundiced source.

G'day HASBEEN, I couldn't agree more, with you summation apropos the performance of Ms Julie BISHOP, she exudes real class, both as a woman and politician in my view. And I also agree that she would perhaps make an excellent Prime Minister sometime in the future.

Concerning the BISHOP name, I had occasion to work quite closely (on inquiries), with Bronwyn BISHIP when I was still working, and she's an absolutely stunning human being, ingrained with class, an abundance of intelligence, with a marvellous personality to boot ! Previously, I was of the opinion she was an arrogant, sybaritic lady, and how very wrong was I ?

o sung wu,

"....and she's an absolutely stunning human being, ingrained with class, an abundance of intelligence, with a marvellous personality to boot !"

What a shame, in that case, that she's taken on the Speaker's position. Her performance (and I've been watching) has been disgraceful in its bias.

196 Labor toss-outs to 3 LNP and that's besides her preempting Points of Order with threats or dismissals - and her complete disregard for "relevance" when govt Ministers are answering.

"196 Labor toss-outs to 3 LNP and that's besides her preempting Points of Order with threats or dismissals"

It is a much smaller number of repeat offenders.

It us the result of Labor's campaign to disrupt the Parliament and target the Speaker. It is very negative and discredits Labor. The Australian taxpayer is far from impressed by the wastage of Parliamentary time. None of them would survive a week in private enterprise.

Good afternoon to you POIROT...

Well, on the other hand it could be quite conceivable there may be no bias at all with her adjudications ? It's well known that Labor can be quite disruptive and boisterous when in the House. With respect, one only needs to examine their individual vocational antecedents to see that many have or had strong Trade Union affiliations, for an explanation. Moreover, some of the larger Unions are well known for their rough and tumble styles of administrations, which can be very easily extrapolated into federal Parliament.