Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

[Sky Pilot]

Perhaps she might have just installed a hydroponics set up and didn't realise those lamps chew power?

[gossipgirl]

its really difficult to take any politician seriously with the amount of dribble from all sides of politics.

I want Norman Gunston back when he was running for PM.

[Leaping Lindner]

its really difficult to take any politician seriously with the amount of dribble from all sides of politics.

I want Norman Gunston back when he was running for PM.

He never tried for PM only Governor General

[gossipgirl]

I am sure i saw him running for PM as well but i was just a kid and so perhaps the memory is fading. I would vote for him

[Leaping Lindner]

I am sure i saw him running for PM as well but i was just a kid and so perhaps the memory is fading. I would vote for him

Same. NG for PM!!!!

Are you thinking of this maybe???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hZ7kjgFh4

In what other country could a comedian get that close to a PM on such an important day? Love it!

[bulldogproud2]

Bring back Susie Cheesecake and the Party Party, or whatever it was called!

[GWW]

I saw Julie Bishop on ABC tonight doing an interview with Leigh Sales.

Bishop quite unimpressive when questioned about Abbott, Sales made the Liberal MP look quite silly.

[Sky Pilot]

I saw Julie Bishop on ABC tonight doing an interview with Leigh Sales.

Bishop quite unimpressive when questioned about Abbott, Sales made the Liberal MP look quite silly.

I saw that interview as well and thought Sales was being opportunistic and precious. Julie Bishop is a seriously bright and educated person who is a loyal deputy leader of the opposition. Leigh Sales is also very capable but she is worse than Kerry O'Brien was in masking their Labor Party bias. But that's the ABCand we all love it regardless

[Squawk]

Leigh Sales interviewed Penny Wong last night and asked some hard questions of her.
Tonight, she probably wasn't as hard on Julie Bishop as she was last night on Penny Wong, but Julie Bishop really struggled I thought.
The best thing the Libs could do now would be to re-install Turnbull.
The last thing Labor would want now, if for the Libs to reinstall Turnbull.
If, as has been suggested, the Libs will win the next election in a landslide, they would surely put Labor into electoral oblivion for a decade with Turnbull at the helm.

[Sky Pilot]

Leigh Sales interviewed Penny Wong last night and asked some hard questions of her.
Tonight, she probably wasn't as hard on Julie Bishop as she was last night on Penny Wong, but Julie Bishop really struggled I thought.
The best thing the Libs could do now would be to re-install Turnbull.
The last thing Labor would want now, if for the Libs to reinstall Turnbull.
If, as has been suggested, the Libs will win the next election in a landslide, they would surely put Labor into electoral oblivion for a decade with Turnbull at the helm.

Yeah you are probably right. Abbott would be seeing it differently but I suspect Turnbull - like Rudd - would be rubbing their hands together in anticipation of a coup in both camps.

[overloaded]

Bring back Susie Cheesecake and the Party Party, or whatever it was called!

I can remember a Happy Birthday Party in a state election many years ago

[Jimmy_041]

its really difficult to take any politician seriously with the amount of dribble from all sides of politics.

I want Norman Gunston back when he was running for PM.

He never tried for PM only Governor General

IIRC, when the republican debate was on, the possibility of Norman was raised as a reason why not!

[Psyber]

Bring back Susie Cheesecake and the Party Party, or whatever it was called!

Suzy Creamcheese and the Happy Birthday Party, I think it was...
IIRC he changed his name back after the election and went on with his Law degree.

He probably drew on Suzy Creamcheese as a fictional vocalist and character on and in a number of albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

[bulldogproud2]

Bring back Susie Cheesecake and the Party Party, or whatever it was called!

Suzy Creamcheese and the Happy Birthday Party, I think it was...
IIRC he changed his name back after the election and went on with his Law degree.

He probably drew on Suzy Creamcheese as a fictional vocalist and character on and in a number of albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

Yes, Psyber, my friend, I do believe you are right.

[dedja]

Are the Coalition natives getting a tad restless?

[Sky Pilot]

Are the Coalition natives getting a tad restless?

Hell yeah! Our poll results are terrible and surely it's time to act.

[dedja]

I'm no fan of Abbott but this story is a beat up ... not sure why it's a newsworthy story to be honest

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati ... 6571738051

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott vouched in court for the good character of a Catholic priest later struck off the clergy list by the Vatican following a child abuse case.

Fr John Gerard Nestor, who attended Sydney's St Patrick's Seminary with Mr Abbott in the 1980s, was a priest in the Wollongong diocese in NSW when he was charged with the indecent assault of a 15-year-old altar boy in 1991.

Fr Nestor, then aged 44, was convicted in Wollongong Local Court on February 18, 1997, and sentenced to 16 months in jail, with the magistrate describing the case as a ''gross breach of trust''.

In court, the priest admitted he had - while dressed in boxer shorts and a singlet - slept on mattresses on a floor in the presbytery with the boy and his younger brother some time between June and September 1991.

He denied assaulting the boy.

Mr Abbott, then a federal parliament backbencher, told the court Fr Nestor was an upright and virtuous man who he had known since 1984.

''He was ... a beacon of humanity at seminary,'' Mr Abbott said.

Four other witnesses also testified to Fr Nestor's good character.
Fr Nestor was bailed pending an appeal and never served time behind bars.

In October 1997, Fr Nestor won his appeal in the Wollongong District Court.

District Court Judge Joe Phelan said Fr Nestor was of good character but should have been ''more prudent''.

''Inappropriate conduct does not prove that a criminal offence took place,'' the judge said.

However, the church never allowed the priest to return to ministry and about four years ago he was struck off the clergy list, or ''laicised'', by the Vatican.

It is understood Mr Abbott communicated with Fr Nestor twice after the court cases, but has had no contact with him for almost 15 years.

''In 1997, Mr Abbott provided a reference for Mr Nestor in an open court. He was subsequently acquitted by a District Court judge,'' a spokesman for Mr Abbott told AAP

[RustyCage]

Northern exposure as Tony Abbott goes troppo

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/northern-exposure-as-tony-abbott-goes-troppo/story-fndo1uez-1226572126324

TONY Abbott will take to the election a radical plan to reshape Australia by splitting it into different personal tax zones and forcibly shifting tens of thousands of jobs to the Top End.

The secret draft economic policy document, entitled Vision 2030, also proposes to carve $800 million from the foreign aid budget to be diverted to a mega-project in northern Australia.

In an embarrassing high-level leak to The Daily Telegraph, the 30-page document outlines plans for the mass migration of public service workers to north of the Tropic of Capricorn to Karratha, about 1500km north of Perth, Darwin and Cairns.

later in the article....

Parts of the plan, however, may be unconstitutional, with federal governments prohibited under section 51 of the Constitution from discriminating against states on the basis of income tax.

WADH

[Q.]

******* cookoo

[RustyCage]

So he plans to spend a mammoth amount of money moving a whole bunch of government departments up north putting a shitload of people out of work (22000 people in Wst Syd alone), and replace them with cheap foreign workers here on visas. Not to mention moving defence facilities up north means we lose what we have here in South Australia