furbacchione

Politics has always been a problem like that for me. It's like I've been told I have the choice of voting for hitler, stalin or pol pot, which in reality is no choice at all.

moneypenny20

Indeed.

commonwealth

we live in a politically misogynist country. therefore, for the sake of national unity, she must go.

(besides the fact she disapproves of gay marriage )

DadAgain

Even lightweight daytime TV hosts can rip TA apart in interviews these days.
The guy is falling apart. SURELY we cant hand this intellectual lightweight the 'keys to the cupboard'?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9uWQf_h9AE

and heres the now famous Leigh Sales interview where TA was thoroughly outplayed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhbg80E2JE


Note the direct contradiction over whether or not he read the statement about Olympic. This means he MUST have lied in one of these interviews. How about we start calling him a nice juvenile 'Tony LIARbott'? (ok that doesnt quite scan - but you get the idea)

moneypenny20

You almost find yourself hiding your face in your hands when he's doing these interviews. It's just frightening.

Bibbs

Just to bump this ..

Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...-tax-rate.html

GarryP

Or in other words, 10,000 millionaires used accountants to hide their income in other ways, so as to avoid looking like they were earning as much.

Somehow I think that is MUCH more likely than that they actually upped sticks. Its quite easy to do, with lots of tricks you can pull.

Sherlock Holmes

Within a reasonably democratic system, if redistribution of wealth were to occur, i.e. the whole pot was divided equally amongst the population, within ten years the money would be right back where it started.

As to Julia, does the recent comedic debate in parliament about a possible wrong-doing spell the end for her?

GarryP

Nope.

She quite cleverly gave abbott enough rope to hang himself. He made loads of implicit accusations, but when given the 15mins of open time to justify them and make it stick, couldn't do so. Basically he was running off a newspaper story (most of which got retracted during the day).

It was a risky gambit of Gillards - but one she pulled off masterly.

If anything, it asks the question if abbott can survive. Nobody in his own party seems to like him, but they'll put up with him if he can land blows and increase their vote. If he looks like a lame duck on that, he's very vulnerable.

bcworld

She did. People are tired and bored of hearing about this story. I think most people switched off to it a while back but the opposition has continued to waste time on it. Yet again, Tony was made to look silly in parliament. The only win the opposition got was getting a Labor MP to call Julie Bishop a bimbo which doesn't sit well with Gillard's sexism thing.

moneypenny20

Trouble is, it's way too easy to do.

bcworld

In parliament, at the beach, milking a cow...he looks silly everywhere!

Beoz

Though, she may end up hanging herself if she keeps repeat the sexist card. It's all too easy to continually pull that when you are a woman in power.

GarryP

It looks very like to me that John McTernan, the spin doctor they bought in from the UK has got the measure the abbott and the libs.

I've long been a critic of the political nouse of the average australian politician - from all parties. Seems like they were playing in kiddie debates rather than politics. However, with the 'sexist pig' tirade, and this little 'put up or shut up' ruse, it looks like someone has got to grip with things - and evidence would point towards it being the ex-nuLabour spin doctor.

If I'm right then abbott will need to take christmas off to come up with some real policies - since the sh*t-stirring he's been doing up till now is unlikely to fly on the run up to the election. If John McTernan has a toolbox of approaches worked out to deal with expected abbott attacks - he will need to change direction, fast.

knockoff nige

It should be outlawed for anyone to make such claims in parliament as it is a sitraction from actual government business. If they are so offended by comments made by someone else, threaten legal action. Right now, Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard both have cases for defamation of character.