“On Tuesday I Will Blow The Bloody Show Up!”
From The Daily Telegraph’s Simon Benson: Bill Shorten, who is doing the dance of the seven veils, says publicly he still supports Julia Gillard. But he will only support her until he doesn’t. And that...
View ArticleAussie Jobs For Aussie Workers? Not In Our Capitalist Corporatocracy
From Tim Colebatch at The Age: Rudd’s efforts to reach out to business have got nowhere. Some groups made impractical demands for Labor to withdraw its legislation to stop rorting of section 457 visas...
View ArticleWhat. A. Total. Wanker.
The Ego has landed: Mr Rudd said today he was happy to be returning to Indonesia, where he’d been on at least 10 previous occasions both as “a somebody” and “a nobody”. “I’m back to being a somebody,”...
View ArticleGet ‘Em Naked – Rudd’s Deal To Buy Youth Access
Next, a revival of his 2009 proposal to lower the voting age to 16? From the Sydney Morning Herald: The Labor Party’s advertising agency has been offering “exclusive” interviews with Prime Minister...
View ArticleIMF Says Rudd’s Depositor Guarantee Scheme “Increases Moral Hazard Greatly”
It’s yet another Rudd Labor disaster, just waiting to happen. According to the IMF’s November 2012 technical note, Australia: Financial Safety Net and Crisis Management Framework, page 26, not only is...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Support An ETS, You Are “Ungodly”: Rudd
Two standout observations, for mine, regarding today’s Kevin Rudd interview on Channel Ten’s ‘The Bolt Report’. First, Rudd’s defence of his failed border protection policy introduced in 2007 was to,...
View ArticleLeading Social Democrat Answers Rudd’s Question On AAA Rating
Kevin Rudd has made much of his being — according to him — a Social Democrat. He has also made much of Australia’s AAA credit rating. Interestingly, another leading light of the so-called “Left”, who...
View ArticleÀ la folie … pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not)
Poor widdle Kevvy. That awful Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire backed him for PM in 2007 … Crikey, November 2007: The biggest surprise is the strong support for Labor in the Murdoch press — a marked...
View ArticleHow To Proclaim That You Are A Moral Vacuum Too
JIM HACKER MP: What is the purpose of government if not for doing good? SIR HUMPHREY: Government isn’t about good and evil. It’s about order or chaos. JIM HACKER MP: It’s in order for Italian...
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