Is the cloths horse still throwing a wobbly because no one wanted her as PM. Apparently the party has been covering up her incompetence for years, but some how that has become bullying when they did not make her leader.

Thank god for some new found level of sense in Canberra. Pity it wasn't there when they were stupid enough to vote Turnbull leader.

Dear Hassie,

Julie Bishop has been a great Foreign Affairs
Minister and an attribute to the Liberal Party.
She's been loyal to the core and a team player.
She deserved more than the 11 votes from her WA
colleagues - who now claim they were bullied,
and intimidated. (Not her words). She did not
start the complaining - so's it's not fair to blame
her for the behaviour of the ones who actually did
the bullying and the intimidation. They need to be held
accountable. Trying to win at someone else's expense
is an old paradigm and an increasingly obsolete model
of success. Separation leads to disintegration.
And uniting and joining leads to miracles.

cont'd ...

Dear Hassie,

BTW -

What would have been wrong with our first female Liberal
Prime Minister wearing diamante-studded stilettos
and dressed in Armani?

John Howard liked expensive suits, and many Liberal MPs
still do. Akubra hats aren't cheap either.

Belly, you have hit another home run.
What you read here is exactly what you have described.
'A very sad country'.
The reason you are right is that a medium such as this (a forum), allows people a freedom that they would not otherwise experience in public, face to face, conversations.
That of being free to say what they 'truly feel', without peer pressure or threat of physical harm.
Forums are one of the few places we can truly speak freely, and thank God for that.
I must make a correction.
It is only true if the moderators do not over edit or put onerous restrictions on what is written.
But fear not.
If we completely crush PC and hold on to our right to freedom of speech, and that includes the right to insult or berate someone if the need arises, and not be swayed by the Nancy's and the Neuters.
We must not let these mentally and emotionally challenged people stop us from exercising our freedoms.
To do so would be living a lie.
So you see Belly, it's not those of us who speak freely and openly that are the problem.
It is those out there who promote all this namby pamby stuff that are guilty of turning us into 'A very sad country' indeed.

ALTRAV, well I AGREE, even fully know why you said that.
Dare I? why not. sometimes a sad old thing we call onset dementia can be reason some lash out, lost a great bright mate to it recently, he is still alive, but not his brain, he lives in one of those last ever homes far away in another state.
My task is to tuck the ball under my arm, take it [my views up] and try as hard as I can not to needlessly knock others over

Hi Belly,

Our niece Honey played for St George yesterday against the Bronco's in the first grade woman's rugby league competition, it was on TV. Honey had a good game in a losing side, all Auntie was concerned with was that no one got hurt.