PETER COSTELLO: What Wayne Swan won't say in his 2013 budget speech
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CLASSIC!
you know what I don't blame the labour party - I blame JH for not passing the baton to PC in the last election he contested.
you know what I don't blame the labour party - I blame JH for not passing the baton to PC in the last election he contested.
I found it hard to imagine TA as PM. He says the wrong things at the wrong place at the wrong time....
It's a dangerous place to be if he's in. On the other hand labour has messed up.
It's a dangerous place to be if he's in. On the other hand labour has messed up.
Come September it will be up to Australia to chose between a broken leg and a broken arm.
Which one will inconvenience us more?
TBH there are a lot of very good pollies in the Libs at the moment. They just have poor leadership and have made a number of very poor policy announcements (great big tax on business to fund women of the "right calibre" popping out sprogs is just the the latest). I am certain they will get in. But I hope they replace the current poor leadership team, which is frankly embarrassing, with one of the many talented people in parliament.
And then we have his offsider Christopher Pyne, who has been caught out in another lie this morning. He is the worst of the worst. Pyne said they didn't grant a pair because the Labor member said she had a sick 'family member'. Firstly, this makes no sense, and secondly, Warren Entsch wrote 'sick child' in his letter denying the pair, proving Pyne a liar (again).
We should institute a law that you can't run for parliament until you are 40. This would stop career politicians; they would have to get a real job first.
So basically, the Labor Party would cease to exist????
Nah. I think all political parties.
Look at the next generation of Libs - Wyatt Earp. Alex Hawke etc etc. Just making the move from student pollies to real pollies.
So basically, the Labor Party would cease to exist????
They'd still have Peter Garrett.
And he should have stuck with his musical career, only thing he was good at.
I'm guessing you're a Turnbull man? He did lead the party, he didn't do it well. He got replaced.
im a turnbull man and the only reason it didn't succeed was due to the JH aftermath and due to the fact that he has cow manure for brains mps at the time.
I'm an anyone but Abbott, Pyne or their ilk man.
Turnbull messed up over Utegate and deserved to be slammed for it, but I have much more faith in his leadership ability, and his ability as a statesman on a world stage, than someone who is forever putting his foot in his mouth and being a general embarrassment.
Yes, he got rolled. Many in the party don't like his moderate views so Abbott's mentor Senator Minchin organised his replacement.
Turnbull was going to resign but Howard persuaded him to stay.
Turnbull showed he was poor at playing politics, which proves my point.
We don't need people PLAYING politics, doing things like running out of the chamber when a vote is taken. We need people with policy ideas and the intellect to deliver.
It is all well and good to say that. However, in an adversarial political system, the Nash equilibrium dictates that both parties have to play politics (for better or worse) otherwise they will get defeated at the next election. You cannot run Government from Opposition.
Completely agree
The most apt thing i can say about the circus that is Fed politics at the moment is that there is no doubt the useless ALP deserves to lose but an Abbott led Libs as it is atm doesnt deserve to win either. It will be the Stephen Bradbury of elections.
I was looking forward to voting for my Perth member to replace Stephen Smith despite me thinking Stephen is one of the best of a bad bunch but after his atrocious stunt with Abbott with the "How many illegal boats have arrived in Australia under Labor" nonsense im not sure i can trust him.
That's because the ALP has systematically tried to character assassinate Abbott. Every interview/news conference on any radio/tv station is always Abbott this, Abbott that.
That's politics. The Libs do the same to Gillard.
That said, I don't like his politics, his style of politics, his juvenile activities or his general worldview. And that is because of factors far removed from the traditional Liberal party approach - refusing MPs a conscience vote for one.
Well, I will let that one slide. Her record speaks for itself. The attacks on Abbott are hardly justified - he's not even the PM yet.
I think people need to get over this gay marriage thing. The lobbyists tried, it was put to a vote, it failed. Forget it.
