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Labor looses more credibility

9 yrs ago

LABOR and the Greens have handed mining magnate and MP Clive Palmer the votes he needs to launch a politically motivated investigation into one of his chief adversaries: Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.

The Coalition dubbed the inquiry Mr Palmer’s “personal vendetta’’ as it emerged last night that Senator Lazarus would pocket an extra $21,464.30 for chairing the five-member committee.

Mr Palmer — once the LNP’s biggest donor and a significant behind-the-scenes player before a bitter split with the Queensland government — and his Senate team struck a deal with the Greens to ensure the inquiry would examine commonwealth oversight of coal-seam gas project approvals in Queensland.

Labor last week opposed the probe when it would have covered former premier Anna Bligh but yesterday backflipped to provide the numbers after the Bligh era was quarantined from the investigation.

Mr Palmer’s relationship with the Queensland government soured after it failed to give him a mandate to build a 500km railway line from the Galilee Basin in central Queensland to the coal port of Abbot Point.

Liberal senator Bill Heffernan asked in the Senate whether Senator Lazarus in moving the motion would “have to, as there is, acknowledge a conflict of interest of a commercial nature behind the reason … it’s the bloody reason for the inquiry’’.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/politics-news/clive-palmers-vendetta-against-campbell-newman-wins-labor-support/story-fn59nqld-1227075792361

I believe the main reason for Clive Palmer entering politics is his personal vendetta against Newman.

The only reason .

I'd agree with you both.

And of course we can thank the voters of Fairfax for saddling the country with him and his motley crew.

Edit to add:

And of course, we can also thank the Laborgreens for supporting this lunacy.

geomac

9 yrs ago

Looses is not a word I am familiar with so maybe a typo. Nooses is ok but doesn,t fit the sentence. Cannot be a typo as it would have been edited by the poster. Loosens ?

Examples from the web for looseExpandTherefore you shall see them find out prettylooses in the conclusion, but are no ways able toexamine or debate matters.Probably the water looses some energy to theground, but gains some from sunlight.If an excited electron jumps down a level, itlooses energy.

geomac

9 yrs ago

loose
lu?s/Submit
verb
3rd person present: looses
1.
set free; release.
"the hounds have been loosed"
synonyms:   free, set free, unloose, turn loose, set loose, let loose, let go, release, liberate; More
antonyms:   confine
make (something) loose; untie or undo.
"the ropes were loosed"
relax (one's grip).
"he loosed his grip suddenly"
synonyms:   relax, slacken, loosen; More
2.
fire (a bullet, arrow, etc.).
"he loosed off a shot at the vehicle"
synonyms:   fire, discharge, shoot, eject, catapult, let go, let fly with
"Brian loosed off a shot though the back of the car"
Origin

Middle English loos ‘free from bonds’, from Old Norse lauss, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German los .
Translate looses to
Use over time for: looses

lose |lo?oz|
verb ( past and past participle lost |lôst, läst| ) [ with obj. ]
1 be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something): I've lost my appetite | Linda was very upset about losing her job | the company may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals.
• cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something): you lost me my appointment at the university.
• be deprived of (a close relative or friend) through their death or as a result of the breaking off of a relationship: she lost her husband in the fire.

Geo,

You lost me.

Duck diarrhoea, as in loose goose. Is that correct?

Take it easy.

Geomac you are totally ignoring the thread subject for obvious reasons . As SD has pointed out on other occasions English is a living laguage . For instance our kids say looser but should they say loser .

Well Pete that depends what they want made looser, but if my kids called someone a loser I would think it very rude anyway.

Loosen your grip and set loose the hounds of grammatics! :)

Is "U R a looser English ?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/english-grammar-is-changingbecause-internet/

geomac

9 yrs ago

You lose something or you have lost your keys. Loose is a band that does not fit or to have loose morals.

Lose is a verb, so theoretically does not have a plural form, but the plural of the noun, loss, is losses.

Geo,

Please stop.

So the plural of Ducks Diarrheoa could be a loose goose on the loose, assuming of course there are multiple loos in use. A used loo could be a loosed as well I guess

I do find it hard to type with my tongue in my cheek.

Take it easy.

I reckon the present government has lost credibility after the horrendous budget and the taking part in some foreign war which will not end for years and will endanger Australians here and abroad.

Every minority is entitled to its views...

Everyone makes typos or spelling mistakes on here; I just ignore them, no big deal.

geomac

9 yrs ago

So do I radish and make quite a few myself , typos. Looses as has been shown by the posts of the author was not a typo.

What's Arthur got to with Labor loosing credibility.

If you knew Arthur , you'd know that he does what he pleases.

Coz deep in his heart, he's just a boy.

I loved Arthur .

SO-called billionaire Clive Palmer is dragging Labor down to his own low standards as he turns our Parliament into a business asset. Has any politician been so apparently brazen in using Parliament to make a buck and destroy people who thwart him in business?

Palmer has already used his Palmer United Party senators to help repeal the carbon tax, saving his businesses up to $6 million a year.

He has used his senators to vote against the mining tax, making his coal interests more valuable.

One of Palmer’s top executives even warned his Chinese partner, Citic Pacific, to back off its legal case accusing Palmer of dishonestly taking $12 million, reminding them they were taking on “Australia (sic) fourth largest political party of which our chairman is leader”. (Palmer denies dishonesty.)

Palmer, in his furious court battle with Citic over disputed port and royalty payments, also exploited his new status as a political leader to attack “Chinese mongrels” who “shoot their own people” and “want to take over our ports and get our resources for free”.

And this week Palmer got Labor and the Greens to agree to a rigged Senate inquiry to dig for dirt against Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, who refused Palmer a lucrative deal.

Be very clear: this Senate inquiry seems no more than a witch-hunt or get-square. The Senate has agreed to set up an overwhelmingly anti-Liberal committee led by a Palmer patsy, Senator Glenn Lazarus, and comprising only one Liberal member against four from Labor, the Greens and Palmer United.

This posse is formally charged to investigate anything that might turn out remotely suspect about the Newman Government — from its use of commonwealth funds to how it approves resource projects, plus absolutely “any other matter the committee considers relevant”.

It must then report by March 27 — just days before the expected date of the Queensland elections. What a coincidence!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/clive-palmers-vendetta-against-queensland-government-a-hit-with-labor/story-fni0ffxg-1227077004032

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