Much has been made of the Turnbull government’s successes in the last week of sitting in the federal parliament. Malcolm Turnbull is crowing but there is a broad understanding the hot ticket item, the ABCC legislation which passed through the Senate earlier this week, has been rendered a dud and that Derryn Hinch was played by the CFMEU to cough up concessions.
While being tricked by the CFMEU’s office bearers is hardly something anyone would want to put on their political resumes, Hinch would not see it that way. He may have his own explanation for it. I have no doubt he could spout some rationalisation at the drop of a hat. That is a talent he undoubtedly possesses.
More generally, I’d suggest voters should be leery of people like Hinch becoming representative politicians. Perhaps we should adopt a tacit rule that wherever a political party appears with the word ‘justice’ in it, that party is not worth the ballot paper it is written on. Where it appears featuring the name of a media personality before the word ‘justice’ you can put the house (or indeed the Senate) on it being a self-serving exercise in the sort of ‘look at me’ politics we have come to know and despise in this country.
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Once again the Looters are tearing themselves apart over a carbon tax. Truth is, Whyalla is still there and a leg of lamb is nowhere near $100! The fear campaign conducted by the Looters was based on a lie. The economy actually grew during the carbon tax era. Unemployment under Labor in 2012 was only 4.9%. Under Hockey? 6.3%! Wages rose 5.2% and the stock market grew 35%. Over seven quarters there was growth in GDP of over 5% and gross debt was $170 billion less than it is now under the Looters. Electricity prices rose 70% before the carbon tax was even introduced. The tax had little to do with power prices with the needy being generously compensated. The hypocrisy of the Liberals can be summed up by Abbott. In July 2009 he told Sky news: “I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more. Why not ask electricity consumers to pay more”.
Bassy, Whyalla steel works is broke and on life support.
Razor 07:37am
Many laughs around with Lathan joining Keating in insulting the ABC being” bias , racists and not keeping current news up to standard” .Keating served AbiasC up aggressively after the Warren Mundine show giving ABC time for a clean out in news and 7 30pm reports .
Lathan today in the Telegraph has completely expoded on fake and old sour tarts still having this compounding insults and hatred directed towards the choice of Trump win. This is what not long back Dennis Shanahan describing that 98% polls and articles got the Trump election wrong , needs investigating into lecturers having hate idealogy sending new student reporters into confusion with left wing bias careers .
Lathan describez today , Fairfax is nothing but a leftist sinkhole now attacking the Trump family getting about as low as you can get. His naming and shaming of bias reporters and signs that bigots are still at large , shows why Fairfax is at rock botton on assets and readers deteriating into oblivion .
Jean Baptiste
Just a quick last word on this AGW/climate change caper JB. It seems a tricky one, especially for those who are still wet behind the ears.
On the one hand we’ve had Senator Xenophon getting all hot and bothered, bleating to Barnaby about the dire consequences to the Murray-Darling delta including the future for its native aquatic-ecosystem dependent vertebrate species which are apparently vulnerable to climate change if seasonal flooding of the delta and its environs is not guaranteed.
While on the other hand, we’ve got your calm, thoughtful voice of concern about the consequences of climate change flooding being “horrific for the vast populations living in the deltas” (your 7.48am on 5/12 refers).
Its a paradox, surely me old mate.
No wonder the delta’s gave birth to the blue’s.
gee I do luv dem ironclad guarantees…luv em so much here’s one I prepared earlier.. this is article bullshit guaranteed
http://www.afr.com/business/adani-gives-ironclad-guarantee-no-457-workers-20161206-gt4sp0
https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/Visa-listing …who needs 457’s anyhow?
Yep
Are you happy with this Dismal?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/greens-under-fire-over-call-to-fasttrack-alcoa-smelter-closure-in-portland/news-story/2ea83fbec93223c096e5099506da212e
Happy the dirtiest coal fired power plant is shutting, yes. Happy the operators of the Aluminium smelter have not been proactive enough to put a plan in place to continue operating or had contingencies in place for a power outage, No. It is almost as bad as an entire industry relying on an itinerant workforce. Your pathological dishonesty knows No bounds. The Greens are being attacked for daring to suggest that a “transition task force” be set up, to you know help find other opportunities.
You really do not know how smelters and steel mills work do you? It’s not about hooking the 2kva Honda up and giving it a pull.
Before the ridiculous renewable targets and we were fired by Coal this didn’t happen. We are giving away our competitive advantage. We are giving away our children’s jobs.
By the way keep with the dishonesty crap and I might have to bring your family tree and it’s many interlinking branches out for an airing again. You didn’t seem to like that very much…….. nyuk, nyuk, nyuk,nyuk
Go your hardest. You continue to show everyone just how cowardly and how badly lacking in any sort of morals you are. Pathetic keyboard warrior troll. Pathetic.
Every now and then you see driving skills that are truly gifted. The driver of the truck somehow corrects the slide and manages to hit the cop car head on, when it looked for all money he was going to T-Bone himself on the cruiser. Could have been nasty. Well done that man, or woman.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-beaver-hall-snow-slippery-1.3881744
Good heavens. Quite funny – if it’s not your car getting hammered!
Did a 360 once driving from Halifax to Antigonish. The folks in the other lane looked at me as I raised both hands and shrugged.
I also did a 180, coming back to Ottawa from upstate NY. Lucky the road was clear at the time. It’s very easy to do until you get the hang of driving in the snow – particularly with all-weather, rather than winter tyres.
The drive to Halifax is incredible and the Cabot Trail is a wonder to behold – on a par with the Great Ocean Road.
JackSprat 06:41pm
Yep agree that Mal is terminal bedding down with Greens the tragedy he is.The party long term propects weeding out the career criminals of CFMEU , will have now some resistence from the rent-a-crowd refugee ferals once they shifted accross to the US , then onto the the the frontline of the CFMEU who are totally against progress and future Australia .
It was a great blog I read saying the union thugs should be rounded up and shipped over to the infrastructure progress of Singapore and much of Chinese cities taking note on how much red tape damage they do in this country .
I am not against unions spent 37 years paying fees while acted appropriately , but against thuggery that sets this country decades behind other advancing nations comes to infrastructure,
Turnbull must show leadership in reforms , not being a exploiter of publicity following a trajectory devestation of continual disasters like trying to return the carbon taxes that failed Labor as Abbott 35 seat majority found out.
You are on the right track JS with Turnbull revitalization of the collective bargining we all see , is not even on the horizon.The resilient forces of Cory Bernardi is seeking revenge loading up pursuit forces with ominous signs the coalition inner fringes are under attack. Bernardi know for loading up both barrels , has means of securing inner circles of MPs finding the fault lines are opening up under the pandering Turnbull soon to wake up totally coloured green judging on the path of negotiations seen to date.
Turnbull must to gain respect
If i may be so bold, see below for Christmas crackers with actual funny jokes. Proceeds to Camp Quality. Has to be a good deal even if they lied about the jokes:
https://pozible.com/project/crackups
Hinch being no surprise, was highly likely to act in a presumptuous manner when tracking the Hinch history. Polictics lets face it , is all about prevaricating the public adding in the waffle and Hinch is just significal bi-product most times acting offensive against the interests of this country,
No surprise Malcolm plunging into quick sand over his time of a lackluster campaign performance never in the frontline of simplistic views of Trump politics putting the nation first comes to survival of jobs and security.
Shorten not much better comes tl economic structural reforms following on the old disasters of bringing back unsustainable reforms and barking on carbon taxes returns that seen Abbott rolled Labor by 35 seats .As mainstream media says, Labor opening up old wounds , just don’t learn from Gillard/Rudd mistakes leaving a record Abbott victory.
Turnbull now swimming against the tide cannot focus on designated targets into reforms never able to capture the voters .Hinch is making sure that cameras must be focussed on him being a confused immoral dope that cannot gage public sentiment where politics is heading .
Pauline now has the shadows of Dick Smith following like a lamb after milk , now sees his profile is back on track trailing the Hanson party. The prominant Pauline is gathering speed knowing she has buried Turnbull and Shoten while the ‘mouth from the south’ Jacqui Lambie is side-swiping the politicians leaving a little thought that politics is more about her suffering infatuation and betrayal heading into gutter politics being full of drivel.
Going to be interesting if Hinch Pauline and Jacqui Rambo unite in a room sometime down the track. These Hinch stow aways need to function in a political manner first instead turning into some shooting from the hip attitudes that only disrupt the political game and serve appropriately , not self satisfaction of some rogue blow in.
Our household has been selected for a survey by the ABS…..an “important” survey no less……lucky us!
I’d give them a two-word reply–the second being “off”.
Unfortunately I can be compelled to co-operate, under the same legalisation that covers the Census, fines and a court appearance.George Orwell eat your heart out.
portmanteau required
koff
you’re welcome
we get no end of them because of the industries we are involved in. The first few times they can be a fun exercise in creative writing but the novelty quickly wears off.