msolga wrote:
You know, working in the inner city here in Melbourne, I've taught lots of Effies. She got it exactly right!
Apparently she went to skool with Kate Ceberano, Effie was the cool one and Ceberano was decidedly unhip.
If Bad Boy Bubbie is showing its a must see Nimh.
hingehead wrote:msolga wrote:
You know, working in the inner city here in Melbourne, I've taught lots of Effies. She got it exactly right!
Apparently she went to skool with Kate Ceberano, Effie was the cool one and Ceberano was decidedly unhip.
I can believe that. And sharp as a tack, Effie!
Understandable, first 15 minutes is hard going - making the juxtaposition with the lighter moments so much more powerful.
Cool movie, probably in my top ten (at least for affecting me and my world view at the time)
In this forum( Politcis in A2K) I was the only person who dared to congradulate the person before election.
USA should learn something from Australia.
By USA I mean the people who reside in USA.
Ramafuchs wrote:In this forum( Politcis in A2K) I was the only person who dared to congradulate the person before election.
USA should learn something from Australia.
By USA I mean the people who reside in USA.
Yes, well, glad you clarified you meant the people...I HAVE heard the Rockies are slow learners....
This just raised my opinion of Rudd a great deal.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22880825-601,00.html
Quote:Rudd forces ministers to sell shares
Patricia Karvelas, Political correspondent | December 06, 2007
KEVIN Rudd has unveiled a tough new ministerial code of conduct that forces all ministers to divest themselves of their shareholdings.
The code sets four key rules: public registration of lobbyists; electoral fundraising banned at the official residences Kirribilli House and The Lodge; an 18-month ban on ex-ministers working in areas in which they had official dealings; and all ministers to divest themselves of their shareholdings.
"First of all, lobbyists will be required to registered to register their details publicly on a register of lobbyists to be established by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet before seeking access to Ministers or their offices," the new Prime Minister said after his first cabinet meeting, in Brisbane.
"Secondly, minsters will be required to undertake that when they leave office they will not seek to have business dealings with members of the Government, the public service or the defence force on any matters that they have dealt with in an official capacity in the proceeding eighteen months, one and half years."
... & to take it one step further, vikorr. From Crikey!:
7 December 2007
Dear Squatters,
Commentator Norman Abjorensen notes in today's Crikey edition, that Prime Minister Rudd's (can we please stop calling him Kevin) robust stand on ministerial standards, performance and accountability is all very well, but:
It is not good enough that the head of government remains the umpire, and it is an area in which parliament should take the lead not just on ministerial standards but on the whole range of parliamentary standards with public hearings and regular reports.
And surely that's the point. Rudd might look for the moment like a man boldly constructing a new Westminster from the dark satanic rubble of the ancien regime, but the test will come. Sometime, someone in Team Rudd will test the bounds of the Code of Kevin Conduct ... how will the Prime Minister act then? Will it be with calm, possibly fatal authority? Or will his will be tempered by self interest and self defence? We shouldn't have to ask. The next part of the job is to hand such matters of judgment to an independent body. Then we would truly have reform, and the beginnings of a new confidence in parliamentary probity.
~
If Rudd does something about the politician's superannuation rort I will be impressed.
dadpad wrote:If Rudd does something about the politician's superannuation rort I will be impressed.
Now wouldn't that be something? :wink:
... plus some of the lucrative "expenses" (travel, etc) & other assorted rorts ...
(Which reminds me: have J & J vacated Kirribilli House yet? The Lodge was a much easier matter, considering they never lived there!:wink: )
I see the seat of McEwan is still in doubt.
There is a recount going on.
Fran Bailey leading by 22 votes according to The Age this morning.
Must be very close, then!
Last I looked there were a few other such close calls.
Now I'm wondering about the senate count. (Been very busy the last few days & haven't kept up.)
msolga wrote:Must be very close, then!
Last I looked there were a few other such close calls.
Now I'm wondering about the senate count. (Been very busy the last few days & haven't kept up.)
According to the artical above McEwan is the only seat in doubt. The article gives results for the 7 or 8 other seats that were in doubt.
Senate counting does not start until after the house of reps is finished I understand.
