Labor accusing the Greens of "grave robbing"

Just seen Albanese on TV  accuse the Greens of Grave Digging after the Greens put their logo on top of images of former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam.

         Greens logo on Gough Whitlam image

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nothing surprised me with the Greens!

Fraser keeps "Free" Uni fees.,,

1989 Labor reintroduces them ..

1992 labor introduces indefinite mandatory detention...

The announcement of a $3.50 co-payment for people who were bulk-billed under Medicare in the August 1991 budget arguably cost prime minister Bob Hawke the Labor leadership.

 



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Labor increased the PBS co-payment by 100 per cent in 1986 and it was Labor who first introduced a PBS co-payment for pensioners in 1991.

Labor supported an increase to the PBS co-payment in 2004.

JULIA Gillard represents the largest number of single mothers of all federal parliamentarians, placing her electorate of Lalor on the frontline of a major budget cutback.

Labor holds 15 of the 25 most vulnerable seats where single parents will be forced off the parenting payment and on to the dole in January next year.

But new modelling warns that single parents face a 90 per cent risk of falling into poverty if they have just the Newstart allowance to rely on.

The Prime Minister defended the changes yesterday, saying they were necessary to help welfare recipients get into work.

"Of course, when people are caring for very young children, they need to be there looking after their family," Ms Gillard said.

"But all the evidence shows that if a parent gets back into the workforce as their child goes to school, that's better for the parent and ultimately better for the child."

Toby Fiander I remember the RED scheme that Whitlam started. Those who had not worked for a longer period were told to report for duty. A local Council employed some of them, I think under protest... same sort of thing as is proposed. The boys had a bit of a laugh - they had a strike during a concrete pour and buried their shovels in the concrete. I think this program is asking for trouble, although I am sure the boys would be more subtle these days.

MORE than a third of undecided voters would be less likely to support Labor after its cuts to universities according to a new survey.
In a blow to the Prime Minister', the survey also found 34 per cent of soft voters - who have indicated a preference for a party but are willing to change - would choose the Coalition if it reversed the Gillard Government's $2.3 billion tertiary cuts.
Australian 2/4/2013

I don't understand Labora problem.

Are they saying they have OWNERSHIP rights over ideas and policies???

Petty minded fools

Media must be short on news  :)

I think it is more both Labor and Greens Party Politicians giving interviews to the Media on the matter

I've seen a number of pollies from both parties justifying their position.

IMO you stir sh*t - it smells.

Abby

It is more like the Corporate Media approaching Labor and the Greens.... the Liberals certainly would not want too much comment on Whitlam.  They were only being polite and showing respect.... AS THEY SHOULD HAVE and DID!

But I do agree that if you stir sh*te - it certainly smells.

In that case why would members of the Labor agree to interviews with accusations of Greens of Grave Digging ???

Yes too bad the Labor and the Greens could not find it within them to show respect to a great statesman as Whitlam... For political gain ??? How low can you go ?

They are all political ghouls cashing in on any trivial thing that they think might buy them a vote or get some advantage from.

They are only doing themselves damage by association with Whitlams policies and not with  Hawke who had to make a start on repairing the damage 

whitlam was not only rejected twice by the Australian voters by the biggest landslide in Australias history but in his last year more people emigrated from Austrslia than arrived .

Spot on kfchugo.

About what?

Very disappointed in Albanese...... Greens policies and integrity are closer to Whitlams than the current labor party policies and lack of integrity.

Hence, they have as much right as the Labor party to show their respect for this great man, Whitlam, on his passing.

I didn't think anyone was being a ghoul (?), it was a PM of Australia who died and everyone, bar a minority, showed due consideration and respect.  OR did I miss something???? I don't read main stream Corporate Media.

Whitl was a fool. A closet communist.

He would have nationalise everything and turned Oz into a basket case.

Aligned with the Russians.

The UK and US would have abandoned this country and left it to the wolves

The Real Gough Whitlam - What a B#$TARD

http://newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=340

 

National Affairs: East Timor: Whitlam was the culprit


by News Weekly

News Weekly, September 23, 2000

 

The release of some 484 previously secret Foreign Affairs Department documents relating to East Timor, dating from 1974 to 1976, just days before the Olympic Games began in Sydney, may have been mere coincidence. In any event, it had the effect of disguising the events which led to the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and the responsibility of then Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, for the developing Timor tragedy.

The documents were released under the title, Australia and the Indonesian Incorporation of East Timor.

Much of the media’s attention was focused on the role of the Australian Ambassador in Indonesia at the time, Richard Woolcott, who urged Australian acquiescence in Indonesia’s plans (about which he had foreknowledge), and the advanced warning he gave to the Whitlam Government about the Indonesian incursion in October 1975, during which five Australian journalists were killed.

However important these events might appear to be, Mr Woolcott was simply a public servant at the time, answerable to his political masters in Canberra; and in any case, his actions were themselves the consequence of Mr Whitlam’s earlier decision to acquiesce in Indonesia’s absorption of East Timor.

According to the documents, as early as September 1974, Whitlam told officials, “I am in favour of incorporation [into Indonesia], but obeisance has to be made to self-determination.”

Although the Timor documents have been censored to delete sensitive intelligence material, enough emerges from them to make clear that early in 1975, seven months before the Indonesian invasion, Mr Whitlam held a fateful meeting with Indonesia’s President Suharto in Townsville, at which Australia’s Timor policy was determined.

Responsibility for the tragedy in East Timor falls on many shoulders. But a major share rests with Mr Whitlam — the self-styled Australian statesman who strutted the world stage — who also laid the ground for the current political mess in Papua New Guinea, and the disgraceful betrayal of anti-communist South Vietnam at the time of the Communist takeover in April 1975

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