I don't get it. It's like they're pretending they're in government. As in 'if we were in we'd do this'. But the way Nelson is bleating on about it it's all about 'we're going to do X, Y, Z'.
Yep - more wanking about fucking performance pay for teachers. Sigh, and so it goes.
Nelson is now astoudingly being hypocritical about aged carer lump sum payments - wailing about how it's not included as a right in future budgets.
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According to the SMH ... "Be proud of what we've achieved - don't take any cheek from the other side." Read more »
Canberra is a small town. Sure it's 300k people and the centre of Federal government but it's still basically a small town in the sense that those that move in the same circles tend to congregate at the same places. Portias in Kingston, the Holy Grail etc. Basically within five kays of parl house eateries will abound with pollies, journos, staffers and the like. Read more »
I love the background Mr former ALP unionist now head of the Liberal party has at his press speakies, the "we're l Read more »
From yesterday's Crikey
Racism has become Liberal Party's bread and butter
Irfan Yusuf writes:
Having labelled Liberal Candidate Adam Held a "greedy f-cking Jew" for requesting extra campaign brochures, Victorian Liberal Party campaign director Susan Chandler defended herself by saying that she had "many Jewish friends". How Seinfeldian. Read more »
Isn't it awsome that Australia's favourite snedger has managed to survive a leadership spill?Just how bad is it in the Liberal party that they cannot find someone acceptable to replace a leader that will forever have the words 'Chair Sniffer' applied to him? Read more »
I'm going to put it in writing here and now.I don't mind Brendan Nelson.Yes, I know, it's a shocking thing to say. But if you read his stuff, read about his "listening tours", and so forth gone is the repellent free market is king, nig nogs should shut up, brown people are evil, generally blinkered unpleasant hard right crap that the Liberal party had been infected with under Howard et al. Read more »
Thank tax for public broadcasting. After pondering protest yesterday, SBS had an Insight installment dealing with my current questions. The discussion of Geoff Cousins action on the Tassie pulp mill was great. Read more »
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