"Super" Mining Tax

[Leaping Lindner]

Gees. You Lib voters should love Julia. She has shown in the past 3 days that mining companies STILL run the country AND she is anti gay marriage.
She'd be your new poster girl wouldn't she.

[Psyber]

Gees. You Lib voters should love Julia. She has shown in the past 3 days that mining companies STILL run the country AND she is anti gay marriage.
She'd be your new poster girl wouldn't she.

She might be if we thought it would last, but what does she [or her backers] have in mind if she wins an election and can claim, "We have a mandate from the people!"
I still remember what she started to suggest before being muzzled in 2007, when Labor officials assured the public that the Libs were wrong in suggesting a vote for Kevin07 would get you Julia the Red!

[redandblack]

Even with a smiley, 'Julia the Red' takes us back to the heady days of years ago, Psyber.

Remember when the Communists were coming down through Vietnam to get us

[Psyber]

Even with a smiley, 'Julia the Red' takes us back to the heady days of years ago, Psyber.
Remember when the Communists were coming down through Vietnam to get us

I was merely suggesting that she was presented as a "red" left winger by the Libs during the 2007 campaign because of her union affiliations.
I was also referring to her hair, and that's the dual reference that was "smiley" connection.
Once again, mate, you are being a bit earnest, and taking light comments a bit seriously - reading things into them..

Right now she is behaving less "left" than her reputation leads us to expect, sensibly pragmatic in my view, but then she does seem to want to win an early election.
To be serious, I guess we will find out where she really stands if she manages to do so.

Vietnam? I opposed the war and voted for Gough partly because of that.
I never did swallow the Domino Theory of the time.

[redandblack]

You think my post was too earnest, even with the wink

I think you’re being a bit too earnest, mate

[Psyber]

You think my post was too earnest, even with the wink
I think you’re being a bit too earnest, mate

Because you seemed to ignore mine I assumed yours didn't mean anything - and you'd responded similarly in another thread, earlier, which added to the effect.
Also I responded primarily to your first line..

[Leaping Lindner]

She's now turning her attention to asylum seekers. People that make up 3% of our yearly migration intake.
Yes that's right 3%

If things keep up at this rate she would have found God, married her partner and adopted a baby by the time the election comes.

[Magpiespower]

If things keep up at this rate she would have found God, married her partner and adopted a baby by the time the election comes.

LL, surely you're not suggesting she's "lurching to the right?"

[mick]

Many grass roots Labor voters with real working class credentials (Western Sydney for example), see this as a real issue, even though as LL points out the overall numbers by boat are very low. Gillard is stuck with a dilemma that she must also apease the middle class ALP voters who favour a more humane approach to boat people. This issue could well decide the next election, I think Gillard can afford to offend the second group as they'll get pissed off vote green but the preferences will come back to the ALP.

[Psyber]

If things keep up at this rate she would have found God, married her partner and adopted a baby by the time the election comes.

LL, surely you're not suggesting she's "lurching to the right?"

She is, and it does seem a bit strange given her longer term affiliations with the left of the party.
I guess it is an example of typical Labor sincerity and transparency - trying to appear to be what the voters appear to want.
Mick is probably right - the disaffected green-necks will still vote for her indirectly.

[redandblack]

And Liberal politicians don't do that, Psyber?

[Psyber]

And Liberal politicians don't do that, Psyber?

They do, but I think to a lesser extent because they are not quite as scary to the middle ground of voters most of the time.
That's how John Howard kept the job for so long. Nobody loved him, but he didn't frighten them as much as Simon Crean and Mark Latham.

Labor had to find somebody who was so insubstantial he could pretend to be everything to everybody in 2007, to avoid the scare factor.
Even then, they still felt the need to promise we wouldn't get Julia if we voted for Kev07 when the Liberals suggested it would happen.
[Then it happened anyway - they just had to wait for an excuse to break that promise.]

I don't mind her present line, as it looks reasonably balanced, but I would be worried she would lurch left again if she won an election.
So, I'll probably support Tony Abbott even though I'm not fond of him either.
I fear he is the lesser of two evils.

[redandblack]

I've changed my mind and am now against this.

I was upset that Rio Tinto's profit only rose from 5 billion to 13 billion for the year.

Gillard's tax will destroy companies like these.

[Psyber]

I've changed my mind and am now against this.
I was upset that Rio Tinto's profit only rose from 5 billion to 13 billion for the year.
Gillard's tax will destroy companies like these.

Bugger! I don't own any Rio Tinto shares...

[dedja]

Just as well, they're still around half of their high from a couple of years ago ...

[Psyber]

Just as well, they're still around half of their high from a couple of years ago ...

Yes , I thought about whether to buy when they were down, then I waited to see how the BHP takeover bid went...

[Leaping Lindner]

Just as well, they're still around half of their high from a couple of years ago ...

Yes , I thought about whether to buy when they were down, then I waited to see how the BHP takeover bid went...

What's the word from the Adelaide club ? Surely the North Terrace boys are on top of this.

[Psyber]

What's the word from the Adelaide club ? Surely the North Terrace boys are on top of this.

Dunno - I've never been a member.
I also turned down the SACA when my name (put down in my childhood) came up, and never bothered to sit MENSA's tests...

[Leaping Lindner]

What's the word from the Adelaide club ? Surely the North Terrace boys are on top of this.

Dunno - I've never been a member.
I also turned down the SACA when my name (put down in my childhood) came up, and never bothered to sit MENSA's tests...

Two of my great grandfathers were "members". They'd be spinning in their graves if they knew my politics.

[redandblack]

Fortescue Mining - record profit

Hang on, isn't that "Twiggy" Forrest's company. You know, the bloke who put on miner's clothes to address the anti -tax rally, saying they'd all go broke and everyone would lose their jobs?

Some believed him

Oh, hang on again. He'll probably be disqualified from being a company director.....

It seems the anti-tax lobby on here have gone quiet?