Our CONTROLLER has SPOKEN - Abbott to Bishop, maybe?

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Our CONTROLLER has SPOKEN - Abbott to Bishop, maybe?

9 yrs ago

Rupert Murdoch has portrayed Abbott as a jester.... does that mean his usefullness has expired?

Silly, Abbott..... went and got his own (female) adviser and then failed to bow to his master. Besides, after implementing his master's "WISH LISTS" as policies without ANY sound economic examination or strategies for Australia's future, his usefullness has substantially diminished.

Out with the old and in with the new...???

Julie Bishop has all of a sudden lost her dewy eyed adoration for her 'Tony'.... she no longer follows him around like a lost puppy dog and she certainly is NOT presenting us with her normal ferocious tenaciousness and 'in your face' nastiness that has been her calling card.

Bishop is also looking a lot 'softer', more 'congenial' and a lot, lot more 'compromising' and even 'caring'.

God help us.... Creatures are rising from the depths, dressed as the MEEK!!!! Hell, I'm frightened and I'm an atheist.

NEW FACE..... same master!!!

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PlanB

9 yrs ago

I don't disagree re Shorten Toot --However I would not vote for eithe party, certainly not any one in the Libs, at this time, it will be independents for me, if only to send the 2 partys a loud message

I agree we need more than two parties.... essential to maintain our democratic processes.... however, I really do fail to see what Labor did that was any way bad when they were in power.

The ONLY ugliness about their performance and policies came from the corporate media who worked tirelessly to run down absolutely everything that Labor did AND failed to tell Australians what just about every citizen in the world knew which was:

*that Aust economy was the best in the world

*that Aust ticked all the good economic boxes all at the same time - never been done by any other country in the world

*that Aust currency went into the bag of world currencies for the first time ever

*that Aust received a triple AAA credit rating for the first time ever

* that Aust was one of the most egalitarian country in the world

ALL of this occurred under LABOR when every other country was desperately floundering (eg.Greece/Spain/Ireland, and the USA) due to the GFC. Although, the mining helped it certainly would never have got all the above acclaimations without EXCEPTIONAL management of Australia's economy.

I do not support Labor on a lot of occasions (disliked and still do..Bob Hawk) BUT certainly give credit when it is due and my opinion of this particular Labor govt was that it was BRILLIANT for Australia.

Same as Whitlam... this govt. got kicked out because it was doing too much for the people and not enough for the greedy pigs that run the show.

If you list some of the so called 'bad' stuff, we could both go through it together and examine whether it was megacorp MEDIA bull dust, real issues that had been twisted or lied about, or simply bad aspects of the labor govt of that time.

toot2000

9 yrs ago

Awful result for the LNP.

Tony Abbott has hung on to the leadership of the Liberal Party, with MPs and senators voting 61-39 against a spill motion.

hahaha, how much longer can he last ?

Hoped I would wake up to different news, maybe just maybe there will have been enough of a scare to make him think before he acts in future?

Vivity

Did you really say "a scare to make him think before he acts"..... yeah, nah, I don't think there is any possibility of that.

1. he seems very limited in the thinking area; and

2. he never does any 'acts' unless told to by Murdoch and his ilk... then it is less of an act and more of a marionette jig.

PlanB

9 yrs ago

Tony Abbott keeps leadership of Liberal Party following failed spill motion

Updated 14 minutes agoMon 9 Feb 2015, 9:34am

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has hung on to the leadership of the Liberal Party, with MPs and senators voting 61-39 against a spill motion.

Follow all the developments in our live blog and read our full story.

Daisy

9 yrs ago

I like what Wyatt Roy has to say in that article:

"I think for too long we have spoken at the Australian people instead of with them."

Daisy

9 yrs ago

Now we have the submarine fiasco. Exerpt from an article: 'Good Government' offers few tender mercies' by Annabel Crab on The Drum ABC yesterday. Quite funny!

But Mr Andrews was woefully under-resourced for the mission. He was equipped only with three words - "competitive", "evaluation" and "process" - and no matter how often he rearranged them, it could not disguise the fact that nobody in Australia seems to know what they mean. Here's a section of the press conference, carried out by an impassive Mr Andrews in front of a sardine-packed fleet of blue-tie-wearing Liberal colleagues.

REPORTER: Just a yes or no, is it a tender process or not?

ANDREWS: I will use the words I choose to use. What we are doing is a competitive evaluation process. We have to evaluate this, we have to do it in a way which is methodical, cautious, that is, a process that goes forward into the future and obviously there has to be a competitive element to that.

REPORTER: But it's not a tender process?

ANDREWS: It's a competitive evaluation process.

REPORTER: Why did Sean Edwards say it was a tender process and he was mouthing the words of the PM?

ANDREWS: There were various reports in the media using all sorts of different words.

REPORTER: That's what he said.

ANDREWS: I am the Defence Minister. I am deciding the way in which we go forward with this and the way which we're going forward with this is a competitive evaluation process.

REPORTER: What have you actually promised today that is any different from what has been promised or not promised here before?

ANDREWS: Well, as the new Defence Minister I have spent the last few weeks looking at this in detail and decided the way in which we should go forward with this, particularly following my last visit here to Adelaide, was to ensure that there is an evaluation process and one which is competitive.

REPORTER: Just confirming what Sean Edwards said on Sunday about an open tender process is incorrect?

ANDREWS: I'm not a commentator. What I'm doing is saying to you, and to everybody who may be listening to me now, that the process that we are going to undertake is going to be a competitive evaluation process.

It made for transfixing television. What will happen next? Will Senator Edwards be harmlessly detonated somewhere far from shore? Will the hopeful manufacturing workers of South Australia - once they establish what a competitive evaluation process is - not mind about it meaning perhaps not quite such good news as seemed likely at the weekend? Is this an early insight into what Mr Abbott meant yesterday when he promised "socialised" decision making? Will everything be forgiven, since technically the whole exchange happened on Sunday, the day before Good Government? Will Mr Abbott's colleagues overlook the possibility that, even as their chastened leader promised to make no further bungles, he'd already made another that was about to blow?

Perhaps they'll just overlook the whole thing. After all, as we all know: Ship happens.

Robiconda

Well thank you for that very amusing excerpt. Are they ALL stupid, every single one of them, or are they just FOOLS!!!!!!

Laughed out loud (oh, okay lol) at your last sentence: "Perhaps they'll just overlook the whole thing. After all, as we all know: Ship happens"

thank you

Daisy

9 yrs ago

I can't take credit for "ship happens" Mussi. My own bit of that post is only the first paragraph, the whole of the rest is Annabel Crab. I wish I could write like her :)

Saw Abbott repeat the same three words on the news tonight regarding the subs. "It's a competitive evaluation process" he said. Ha ha ha, not only are they all fools + stupid but they obviously think we plebs out here are just like them and will swallow their crap. They are incapable of learning and changing!

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