Three faces of the Opposition under two different Australian Labor Prime Ministers

Liberal Party MP Christopher Pyne during the 

43^rd Australian Parliament – Julia Gillard is Prime Minister

Liberal Party Senator Michaelia Cash during the 

43^rd Australian Parliament – Kevin Rudd is Prime Minister

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott during the 

43^rd Australian Parliament – Julia Gillard is Prime Minister

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott during the 

43^rd Australian Parliament – Kevin Rudd is Prime Minister

* Photographs found at Google Images

Does the Australian Leader of the Opposition ever tell a political truth?

This was Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott tweeting at 5:35 PM on 30 Jun 2013:

Now how on earth was Kevin Rudd (who was not sworn in as Prime Minister until 10am on the final day before the 43^rd Parliament had adjourned in the Senate) ever going to create and put to the House of Representatives a new bill  amending the Clean Energy Act 2011 and then send it to the Senate in less than 36 hours - much less get it passed in that time period?

Because that is what would be required as the Clean Energy Act creates a fixed price for carbon between 1 April 2013 to 1 February 2016 and, as of 1 June 2013 this legislation sets that price as $24.15 until 1 April 2015 – a rise of $1.15.

The very first opportunity for Parliament to consider amending the Act would be if it sits again on 20 August 2013, which will only happen if writs for a federal general election have not been issued before then.

Abbott’s political lies are never ending.

Australia picks Professor Hilary Charlesworth as ad hoc judge in ICJ Whaling in the Antarctic case (Australia v. Japan: New Zealand intervening)

Professor Hilary Charlesworth

BA (Hons), LlB (Hons) (Melb), SJD (Harvard)

Director, Centre for International Governance and Justice, 

Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow ANU College of Asia and the Pacific 

and ANU College of Law

Court President on the first day of the International Court of Justice hearings in Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan: New Zealand intervening): I note that, since the Court does not include upon the Bench a judge of Australian  nationality, Australia exercised its right under Article 31, paragraph 2, of the Statute to choose a judge ad hoc to sit in the case: it chose Ms Hilary Charlesworth.

MEMORIAL OF AUSTRALIA May 2011

COUNTER-MEMORIAL OF JAPAN March 2012

Declaration of Intervention by New Zealand November 2012

Written Observations of New Zealand April 2013

Written Observations of Japan on New Zealand's Observations May 2013

26 June 2013 hearing:

Day One transcript A

Day One transcript B

27 June 2013 hearing:

Day Two transcript A

Day Two transcript B

28 June 2013:
Day Three transcript

Public perception begins to run against Opposition Leader Tony Abbott again?

Essential Vision Poll 24 June 2013:

Tony Abbott is regarded by more respondents to be arrogant (59%), intolerant (48%), narrow-minded (55%) and aggressive (51%).

Full poll results here.  

Galaxy Poll released 30 June 2013:

Full poll results here.

The weirdness and hate that is inside the Palmer United Party

A letter to the editor in the Hervey Bay Independent from former LNP MP and current PUP candidate Rob Messenger……..

We Must Make a Stand (May 30, 2013)

There will come a time when Islamic terrorists will not only be armed with meat cleavers, knives, home-made bombs and guns.

In the not to distant future, terrorists (who now live among us, sustained by our welfare payments) could be armed with modern weapons – capable of killing many innocents, with the flick of a switch.

One of the greatest risks our children face is that meat cleavers, knives, home-made bombs and guns will be replaced with sophisticated modern weapons of mass destruction – poisonous chemicals, nuclear bombs and deadly viruses.

Just as the Islamic terrorists show no hesitation, shame or remorse butchering individuals and small groups in cold blood – so too will they have no hesitation, shame or remorse, destroying our cities or suburbs with the press of a button.

How do we stop these people and protect future generations? We remember the lessons of WW2, which showed that a policy of appeasement in the face of this kind of extremist evil, will always fail.

These terrorists will never stop. Dialogue and peaceful reason has no effect on them. They kill and terrorize because we will not bow to their god and live a life ruled by their extreme religious leaders’ demands and beliefs.

The terrorists cleverly hide amongst, us. They exploit our western, Christian democratic freedoms; compassion, generosity and love of a fair go for all – to escape public condemnation.

We are now too scared of being reported to our anti-discrimination councils or branded a racist for speaking out against the terrorists’ religious and world-views.

There was a time in the 1930’s in Germany when the Nazi’s were hounded from villages in a shower of rocks and curses. There was a time when the German people could have emphatically said “No” to the Nazi’s special message of hate and crazy.

We are living in similar times and face a similar evil. And the world will suffer a similar fate as the generation of 1930’s & 40’s, if we do not loudly condemn the leaders and followers of the extremist Islamic religious ideology driving this current world madness.

Rob Messenger
Palmer United Party
Candidate for Hinkler

Hilarious quote from the North Coast's very own right-wing 'political fibber extraordinaire'

“Bruce, there is one thing I am very particular about and that is making sure I get my facts right.” {Fred Perring in a Daily Examiner letter to the editor on 24^th June 2013}

The best of Tony Abbott

http://youtu.be/V-WqnTrG204