Thursday 29 November 2007

John Howard, the Grunge who stole Christmas

Due to John Howard's stubborn insistence on a late six-week election campaign, up to 500 ministerial staffers will lose their jobs just a month out from Christmas.
You really were a piece of work, John!
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"Opps! I accidentally took that Sidney Nolan sketch", said departing MP

The Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services at her most diplomatic.
"Ms Penfold said many offices in the sprawling Parliament house were hung with significant artworks belonging to the national collection and on loan to MPs to decorate offices.
Pictures could also be inadvertently taken in the clean-up, she told local radio."
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Wednesday 28 November 2007

The only Nat I know who would try to milk a bull

In The Age on Monday the Nationals were casting about for issues to raise and casting doubt generally.

"Senator Joyce also raised concern about the future of rural issues under Labor, questioning whether any Labor frontbenchers had a country background."
 
Come on, Barnaby. Time for a reality check. The National Party is now littered of business men who wouldn't have any idea of what it was like to farm the land.
Take your recently unsuccessful candidate Chris Gulaptis. About the only time he steps on rural land is to survey it for subdivision into urban lots.
 
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Looks like the Nationals are running up the white flag

In the aftermath of its crushing loss in Saturday's election it's good to see some members of the Coalition have a bit of a sense of humour. How else could the suggestion that Luke Hartsuyker, the National Party member who is struggling to retain the seat of Cowper, nominates for the position of deputy leader of the Nats be viewed?

What's that? You don't believe such a ludicrous proposition could be aired in public because it would frighten the horses, cattle and little children?

See the publication of this very idea for yourself at
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/its-time-for-generational-change-vaile/2007/11/26/1196036812247.html
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Google Trends begins to chart Howard's exit from world stage

The red line in this graph represents global Google searches for Kevin Rudd and the other represents searches for John Howard.

For the first time since Google Trends began, John Howard has lost dominance in these comparative search term trends for Australian political identities.
Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22john+howard%22%2C+%22kevin++rudd%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0
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Business sector decides it's now time to worry about The Greens?

Inside Retailing shows post-election ambivalence towards John Howard, is cautious of Kevin Rudd, and worries that its once favourite political party the Liberals may now be locked out of government by The Greens.
Another amusing moment this week.
 
"The boot is now on the other foot with no viable parties on the right to weigh in with preferences for coalition candidates but with the Greens, on the left, electing Labor candidates with their preferences.
It is dangerous to predict too far ahead in politics as there are always twists and turns but the Greens ascendancy, an ageing party support base and business and industry leaders less partisan in their political charity all make the road ahead for the Liberals a steep climb."
Inside Retailing Online yesterday:
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The Greens have earned their bragging rights

"THE Greens have declared themselves Australia's third-largest political party claiming to have out-performed the Nationals by a "country mile".
The party says it attracted nearly 1.1 million (9.02 per cent) senate votes at Saturday's federal election compared with less than 6 per cent for the Nationals.
 
The Greens have certainly earned bragging rights after election night, and as a number of new Labor MPs in the House of Representatives gained their seats on the back of Green preferences, the incoming Rudd Government will ignore this party at its own future electoral peril.
 
WorkChoices may have been a principal concern of the Australian electorate last Saturday, but worry and alarm over climate change ran a very close second.
 
Technical aspects of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol are going to take some time to organise, so Federal Labor needs to hit the ground running with regard to domestic climate change mitigation measures.
 
The Rudd Government also needs to urgently consider facing down Monsanto acolytes in the agricultural sector and working towards a national permanent ban on genetically modified crops. In the meantime supporting state governments who have moratoriums on these crops and bringing Victoria back into line on this issue should be a priority. 
The Age on Monday:
 
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