A few friends, a few beers an' a group try at a quiz.
Nuff said!
Monday 19 July 2010
Sunday 18 July 2010
WorkChoices dead says Nats Kevin Hogan. Oh yeah?
This is what Leader of the Opposition and aspirant to the office of Australian prime minister,Tony Abbott, said in his Address in Reply to the 2010 Budget:
We'll seek to take the unfair dismissal monkey off the back of small businesses which are more like families than institutions.
We'll make Labor's transitional employment agreements less transitional and Labor's individual flexibility agreements more flexible. We have faith in Australian workers who are not as easily pushed around and exploited as the ACTU's dishonest ad campaign is already making out.
If elected, we will be faithful to the liberal conservative tradition......
This is Tony Abbott in 2009 on the 27 July ABC TV 7.30 Report:
Well, if we are going to have productive workplaces, we can never ring down the curtain on workplace reform.
Tony Abbott on 17 July 2010 in a speech at a Queensland Liberal Party gathering:
"Yesterday the Shadow Cabinet backed my recommendation that an incoming Coalition government would not seek to change the Fair Work Act at least for the three years of the next term of Parliament."
A senior Liberal Party MP Eric Abetz fleshes this odd promise out:
"We will not be revolutionising, or indeed reforming, we would only be tweaking and that is what our policy will confirm...
An incoming coalition government will seek to make Labor's individual flexibility agreements more flexible and seek to reduce the burdens on small business...
Nationals candidate in the Page electorate on the NSW North Coast Kevin Hogan, reported on ABC North Coast NSW last Tuesday, thinks that:
....it's silly to suggest Workchoices is back on the Coalition's agenda. "A lot of the things in Workchoices people didn't like - we realise that, we lost an election over that so there is certainly no way that we would bring back things that the Australian public and the Australian workers don't want"....
The unions and many local workers are understandably nervous about the Coalition's industrial relations intentions and Hogan does not inspire confidence given his own political inexperience and Abbott's track record on key elements of WorkChoices.
Boozing away...
Did you know that 1.8 million Aussies (11% of the adult population) account for 51% of all alcohol consumed in this country?
That's a hellva lot of booze over a lifetime!
Saturday 17 July 2010
2010 Election Campaign Day 1: And they're off!
If ABC News is correct Oz Prime Minister Julia Gillard is presently in the car on her way to meet with the Governor-General and once she exits Yarralumla the 'official' campaign period of the 2010 federal election will be underway, with formal writs to be issued later.
Media conference at noon today.
Keep up with the tweeted news at #ausvotes, #aus2010 and ABC News.
ABC election news site Australia Votes now live.
Media speculating on the motives of the two protestors outside Yarralumba as I write in this pic below - Rudd supporters or Lib subversives?
Here's the AEC guide Federal Election Timetable.
Here's a wise word from Gillard last night on Twitter:
JuliaGillard Don’t miss out on your chance to have a say in our future. Go to www.aec.gov.au JG via web
Proven attempt to ordain a woman - excommunication. Proven child abuse - er, non farlo di nuovo
Sometimes one has to wonder which century the Catholic Church thinks it is living in when media reports such as this are published:
The new rules issued by the Vatican puts attempts at ordaining women among the “most serious crimes” alongside paedophilia and will be handled by investigators from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), considered the successor to the Inquisition.
Women attempting to be priests, and those who try to ordain them, already faced automatic excommunication but the new decree goes further and enshrines the action as “a crime against sacraments”.....
Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, underscored how the ordination of women is “a crime against sacraments,” while paedophilia should be considered a “crime against morals” and both would fall under the jurisdiction of the CDF.
The organisation, which was once known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition, was previously headed by the current Pope when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Under the term Substantive Norms the Vatican apparently ranks the ordination of women ahead of child abuse as it lists mandatory major excommunication as punishment:
Art. 5
The more grave delict of the attempted sacred ordination of a woman is also reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:
1° With due regard for can. 1378 of the Code of Canon Law, both the one who attempts to confer sacred ordination on a woman, and she who attempts to receive sacred ordination, incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.
2° If the one attempting to confer sacred ordination, or the woman who attempts to receive sacred ordination, is a member of the Christian faithful subject to the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, with due regard for can. 1443 of that Code, he or she is to be punished by major excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.
3° If the guilty party is a cleric he may be punished by dismissal or deposition[31].
Art. 6
§ 1. The more grave delicts against morals which are reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are:
1° the delict against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue committed by a cleric with a minor below the age of eighteen years; in this case, a person who habitually lacks the use of reason is to be considered equivalent to a minor.
2° the acquisition, possession, or distribution by a cleric of pornographic images of minors under the age of fourteen, for purposes of sexual gratification, by whatever means or using whatever technology;
§ 2. A cleric who commits the delicts mentioned above in § 1 is to be punished according to the gravity of his crime, not excluding dismissal or deposition.
Guide to Understanding Basic CDF Procedures concerning Sexual Abuse Allegations:
B3 Disciplinary Measures
In cases where the accused priest has admitted to his crimes and has accepted to live a life of prayer and penance, the CDF authorizes the local bishop to issue a decree prohibiting or restricting the public ministry of such a priest. Such decrees are imposed through a penal precept which would entail a canonical penalty for a violation of the conditions of the decree, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state. Administrative recourse to the CDF is possible against such decrees. The decision of the CDF is final.
A marked feature of the Vatican's stance on admitted child abuse is that there is still no instruction that such abuse should be reported to state secular agencies such as the police or any child welfare authority.
"Expose the cow" - it isn't only their fearless leader who acts like a misogynist!
Leader of the Coalition Opposition Tony Abbott is well known for snarling "That's bullsh*t" at Nicola Roxon when he thought the microphones wouldn't pick up his temper tantrum and this week NSW Opposition Leader BarryO'Farrell was caught using a derogatory term for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, but it seems they are not alone in expressing a very masculine distain.
Electioneering behind a password protected Facebook account the Nationals candidate for the Labor-held seat of Page, Kevin Hogan, obviously allows insulting and sexist terms free rein when he thinks he is hidden from the view of average NSW North Coast voters.
This is an exchange on Hogan's webpage with a comment by Murray Lees, another National Party member and sometime campaign manager:
Kevin Hogan Saffin stretching truth on roads to save her hide. June 13 at 3:30pm · · Share
Saffin stretching truth on roads to save her hide, Nat candidate claims Page Nationals candidate Kevin Hogan has responded to a political challenge from sitting Labor MP Janelle MP by accusing the incumbent of being less than honest with the electorate now that she can no longer rely on Kevin...
Murray Lees likes this.
Murray Lees
nice work Kev, expose the cow [my bolding]
June 14 at 11:58am
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