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The NEXT coming Oz election thread!

 
 
hingehead
 
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Reply Tue 4 Sep, 2007 04:29 pm
PS I vote thongs, budgie smugglers and zinc cream for the APEC photoshoot.
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lezzles
 
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Reply Tue 4 Sep, 2007 10:38 pm
At least I had a laugh at breakfast. When they were showing Dubbaya's arrival in Sydney on the news, they sped up the film of he and his 700-odd aides getting into their cars at the airport and driving in a convoy to the city - all done to the music of Benny Hill's closing chase theme. Laughing

(And how many brownie points do you think Johnny scored by going to the Rugby League Dally M awards last night instead of being there to welcome his best buddy?) :wink:
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bungie
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 12:10 am
msolga wrote:
Pardon? Confused The prime minister of Australia has promised to stand by George Bush in Iraq. Most of the rest of us didn't want to be involved in the first place! JH does not speak for us!:


I think you are right msolga. bonzai and george dubya should both be standing together in Irag .... literally ...
Lead the troops from the front like in the old days is what I say.


bonzai = little bush
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lezzles
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 12:30 am
bungie wrote:
Lead the troops from the front like in the old days is what I say.


Off hand Richard III is about the last leader I can think of that did that and look at the raw deal history gave him. :wink:
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Wilso
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 12:47 am
Another bad poll for the libs today. 18% behind on 2 party preferred. Without a new tax to weigh him down, it looks like Rudd's not going to do a Hewson. I think the libs are so on the nose now that nothing's gonna save them. Let's hope so.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 02:45 am
hingehead wrote:
Hi Olgs

Thanks for posting these tidbits and toonies. I've sort of stopped watching the news during the week so I appreciate your filtering.

re Julia and Joe and 'the debate'. I guess the lack of passion (outside the union movement) is because we've moved into a new economic space - 'everyone' has super so 'everyone' is a shareholder. What's right or just doesn't seem to come into the equation any more. The only principle is 'how will it effect the economy.

A hundred years in the future historians will look back and say this was a transitionary phase from nation states to global corporatism.


A pleasure, hinge. It's more of an unfortunate compulsion, following this madness, than anything else. Perhaps therapy could free me? Razz

"A hundred years in the future historians will look back and say this was a transitionary phase from nation states to global corporatism."

Indeed. Poor fella my country. Tragic. Sad

The problem with the well off "everyone's", all on super, with their share portfolios, is the two million who now live in poverty in this country. Maybe things will not remain so peaceful & sleepy in the Oz of the future if this trend continues? We've been such a complacent society, believing that everyone has an automatic right to a job, own a home & to live decently. Not so any more it seems. The cohesive society we've taken for granted could well be a thing of the past.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 02:55 am
hingehead wrote:
PS I vote thongs, budgie smugglers and zinc cream for the APEC photoshoot.


I can't wait to see this! Laughing

Poor Helen from NZ. She looked so unhappy in that voluminous hat she had to wear somewhere (?) on one of these junkets. (The ABC did a humorous slideshow of the crazy get-ups over the years, the other night. Very funny.)

I rather thought they might be wearing drovers' gear. The rugged Oz outback & all that .... :wink:
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 02:57 am
lezzles wrote:
At least I had a laugh at breakfast. When they were showing Dubbaya's arrival in Sydney on the news, they sped up the film of he and his 700-odd aides getting into their cars at the airport and driving in a convoy to the city - all done to the music of Benny Hill's closing chase theme. Laughing


Wish I'd seen that! Laughing

(And how many brownie points do you think Johnny scored by going to the Rugby League Dally M awards last night instead of being there to welcome his best buddy?) :wink:[/quote]

He did that? Really? Surprised
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:02 am
bungie wrote:
msolga wrote:
Pardon? Confused The prime minister of Australia has promised to stand by George Bush in Iraq. Most of the rest of us didn't want to be involved in the first place! JH does not speak for us!:


I think you are right msolga. bonzai and george dubya should both be standing together in Irag .... literally ...
Lead the troops from the front like in the old days is what I say.


bonzai = little bush


What A good idea, bungie!
Actions, not words! :wink:

But seriously, it is disturbing, having a PM who appears to hold more of an allegiance to the "leader" (& a fading one at that) of another nation than to his own country & its citizens.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:05 am
Wilso wrote:
Another bad poll for the libs today. 18% behind on 2 party preferred. Without a new tax to weigh him down, it looks like Rudd's not going to do a Hewson. I think the libs are so on the nose now that nothing's gonna save them. Let's hope so.


There's been another one since the Newspoll (Australian newspaper) one a couple of days ago? (coupla pages back) Gosh.
Whose poll is this?
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:11 am
They're here. JH must be wetting his pants with excitement! Laughing :

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/05/lf_bush.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:19 am
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5640382,00.jpg

(Newspoll's latest: Only 41% of polled voters say they intend to vote for John Howard's Liberals in the coming election.)
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:29 am
Sydney's CBD blues. It feels pretty damn good to be in Melbourne today! Very Happy :

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/05/CARTOON_gallery__470x326.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:37 am
Though some Melbourne secondary students skipped school this afternoon & added their voices to the protests taking place in Sydney.:

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5641911,00.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 03:50 am
Meanwhile in Sydney ...:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/05/copwat2py.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 04:04 am
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/09/05/0509_cartoon_gallery__470x340.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 04:15 am
Howard, Bush show relationship remains strong
Posted 27 minutes ago

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200709/r174069_658973.jpg
LtoR: Prime Minister John Howard and President George W Bush have agreed to forge closer defence ties between their nations. (AFP: Jim Watson)

Prime Minister John Howard and US President George W Bush have spent the day demonstrating the strength of their relationship and have agreed to work towards making the military ties even closer.

Iraq is a politically sensitive topic in both countries, but Mr Bush and Mr Howard have both defended their positions.

Mr Bush says progress is being made in Iraq, while Mr Howard says he will keep Australian troops in Iraq until they are no longer needed.

"Australian forces will remain at their present levels in Iraq, not based on any calendar, but based on conditions in the ground," Mr Howard said.

Later in the day, they joined soldiers, sailors and airmen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan for a lunch that Mr Bush was anxious to get to.

"Looking forward for you to buy me lunch today, I'm a meat guy," he said.

There, Mr Bush thanked Australia for keeping its forces in the Middle East.

"Thanks for making the sacrifice necessary for peace," he said.

"The work you're doing is necessary work and we're going to win."

Also at the top of their agenda, the two nations agreed to forge closer defence ties between their nations.

Mr Bush has agreed to make it easier for Australians to buy high-tech US military equipment.

Mr Howard also told his guest that a US President is always welcome in Australia.

"We have no closer alliance with any country in the world," Mr Howard said.

Mr Bush will meet Labor leader Kevin Rudd tomorrow.


Nuclear deal

Meanwhile, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says Australia will not be taking nuclear waste as a result of a plan to sign up to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.

Mr Howard announced today that the US would support Australia's bid to join the partnership, which was proposed after talks between the Australian and US two leaders.

But Green groups and the Federal Opposition maintain the agreement could lead to Australia taking nuclear waste from overseas, a suggestion Mr Downer has quashed.

"We're not signing up to every detail of the drafts that have been promoted publicly and one of the things we won't be signing up to is accepting nuclear waste in Australia, we've always said that," he said.

But Greenpeace chief executive Steve Shallhorn says the plan does not commit Australia to nuclear power immediately, because Mr Howard is aware of its unpopularity amongst voters.

"Today's announcement by the Australian Government seems in fact to be a non-announcement," he said.

"They've gone through great pains to distance themselves from any commitment on nuclear power in the short term."

The discussions on nuclear power between the two countries stemmed from climate change issues, with the US President praising the Australian Government's support for nuclear power as an anti-greenhouse measure.

http://www.abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/09/05/2025245.htm
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 04:25 am
Thought he'd slip this one in while everyone is focused on APEC. Honestly, is this pig headedness, or what ...? Rolling Eyes :

Appeal lodged against return of Haneef's visa
Posted 3 hours 1 minute ago

The Federal Government has lodged an appeal against the decision by a Federal Court judge to return doctor Mohamed Haneef's Australian visa.

Last month the court ruled federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews made a jurisdictional error in cancelling the Indian doctor's visa, after he had been granted bail on a terrorism charge. ... <cont>

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/05/2025148.htm
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Wilso
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 05:25 am
You thought facism died in Germany in 1945, but it's alive and well in Sydney in 2007.
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Wilso
 
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Reply Wed 5 Sep, 2007 05:30 am
msolga wrote:
Wilso wrote:
Another bad poll for the libs today. 18% behind on 2 party preferred. Without a new tax to weigh him down, it looks like Rudd's not going to do a Hewson. I think the libs are so on the nose now that nothing's gonna save them. Let's hope so.


There's been another one since the Newspoll (Australian newspaper) one a couple of days ago? (coupla pages back) Gosh.
Whose poll is this?


Not sure, I was on my way home from nightshift, so some of it went straight through. There was a comment from Gilmore MP Joanna Gash that they'll have to work harder to get their message across. These scum are so arrogant, they ignore the fact that the electorate have got the message, and simply rejected it.
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