Politics

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The Iron Lady dies aged 87-----------vale Margaret Thatcher.

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In Reply To: nipper's post @ Mar 21 2013, 05:18 PM

please don't march to Canberra; just as far as your local member's office.

Dont think I'd make that far! Not much point going to our local members office, since they are mostly liberal, over here in the west even our Federal "Cabinet" are unwelcome

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In Reply To: flower's post @ Mar 21 2013, 04:58 PM

please don't march to Canberra; just as far as your local member's office.

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In Reply To: flower's post @ Mar 21 2013, 04:58 PM

the weasel with no ticker sat in the theatre of the absurd....

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In Reply To: flower's post @ Mar 21 2013, 04:58 PM

Flower spot on. Its a soap opera. We don't have a voice we should all march in our millions but all you will see is union bs out marching they will gather their own and everyone else will be scared to show their faces out there....but when we vote it will be a massacre.

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Who Will Be The Prime Minister Following The 2013 Election?

If it wasn't so serious todays events would at the very best be seen as high farce, at worst a modern day demonstration of political shambles worthy of any third world continent.

Do we, the voters, have no immediate voice?

We should unite, march in our millions on Canberra and demand an immediate election, surely we can't wait until September.

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One of the curious things about Julia Gillard is that people who meet her and talk with her don't recognise the Julia Gillard they have to come to know through the media.

Gillard the media person is not Gillard the actual person.

"She's so much more impressive when you are in the room with her," is one of the most oft repeated comments of outsiders who come into direct contact with the Prime Minister.

So it beggars understanding why, in the past week of campaigning in western Sydney, Gillard spent far more time doing what she is bad at rather than what she is good at.

She was everywhere in the media but barely made direct contact with the ordinary people in the shopping centres and streets of the west.

Her public engagements were strictly controlled to avoid what her minders feared could be ugly TV news footage of confrontations with a few disgruntled locals.

Yet she spent hours doing TV and radio interviews from which the sound and the vision continuously exposed the worst side of her, the cold, monotone automaton voters seem to have stopped listening to.

Gillard's schedule of nearly 30 television, radio, media doorstops, press conferences and speeches dominated her week in the west.

from Saturday's AFR
all I can say is: don't stop, keep going .... and hopefully she will disappear, along with Wayne Goose

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Who Will Be The Prime Minister Following The 2013 Election?

One thing seems virtually certain following the overpowering win by the Liberals in WA that it will not be Julia Gillard.

Not only was Labour thrashed in WA, but it seems that consequentially the Greens will very likely have no WA Parliamentary presence.

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In Reply To: chiller's post @ Feb 3 2013, 03:27 PM

So you should have started your post with the pre-amble given I am a right wing capitalist supporter I reckon that

The Nielson poll is extremely good news for right wing capitalist supporters!

The Nielsen poll, published in Fairfax newspapers, shows Labor's primary vote has dropped 5 points since December to 30 per cent, while the Coalition's has risen 4 points to 47 per cent.

After preferences, the Coalition has a thumping election winning lead of 56 per cent to 44 per cent.

The figures also reveal a dramatic reversal in who voters would prefer as prime minister. Support for Mr Abbott has jumped nine points to 49 per cent, while Ms Gillard's support has dropped five points to 45 per cent.

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In Reply To: flower's post @ Feb 3 2013, 01:35 PM

So you should have started your post with the pre-amble given I am a right wing capitalist supporter I reckon that

With the overnight news that Nicola Roxon--Attorney General, and Chris Evans -- Leader of the Senate, have both decided to quit politics whilst the going is good, what effect will that and other matters affecting critical votes in the House of Reps have on the ability of Labor to hold power?

More particularly could it possibly be our stockmarket now senses the outcome to the September federal election will turn out as the current voting numbers on this poll show?

Then everyone would have seen your post for what it was. Actually I think everyone probably did see your post for what it was so sorry it probably doesn't matter. Not withstanding your comment regard US employment, employment is trending down, manufacturing is up, housing is up and the cash rate is going to be kept low for some time. Interesting how you just take facts to suit because Chinese PMI dropped in December, however trend is up. Which do you prefer point data or trend?

Cheers Charles