2013 Federal election (5 Viewers)

[soloooooo]

Bolt is on 2gb, listen live.

 

[Okashi]

Bolt is on 2gb, listen live.

A bit extreme....

 

[kaz1]

Bolt is on 2gb, listen live.

convicted racist and scientifically ignorant

 

[soloooooo]

convicted racist and scientifically ignorant

Nope.

 

[kaz1]

I'm studying climate change at uni atm, 100% convinced it happening and that bolt is an idiot.

 

[soloooooo]

I'm studying climate change at uni atm, 100% convinced it happening and that bolt is an idiot.

Nope. I am fully confident I know more about the atmosphere and climate change than you do.

 

[SylviaB]

convicted racist

um

 

[kaz1]

Nope. I am fully confident I know more about the atmosphere and climate change than you do.

good 4 u

 

[Sathius005]

Albanese is a very effective member of Parliament. Without his due diligence, Labor would be forced to an early election. Albo is the one who is managing the Labor Independents and channeling votes for the federal government's legislation. Moreover, Albo as the Leader of the House is one of the most highly regarded Members of Parliament within the Australian Labor Party base voters. Without the strong moral fibre of people like Albo the Labor Party would be branded as a ruthlessly self interested political party.

 

[Sathius005]

ANTHONY Albanese won himself a promotion this week, despite openly supporting a move away from Julia Gillard and back to Kevin Rudd.
It upset supporters in both camps.

But I'm not sure it's fair to label Albo disloyal to Gillard because most of his spruiking for Rudd has been about simply checking with people how they feel the Government is travelling, rather than offering negative assessments about the PM along the way.

If he'd done more, we may have a new PM by now (or more accurately, an old one returned to the position).

Yes, Mark Butler's defection to the Rudd camp was probably engineered by Albo explicitly or implicitly but had the PM fired Albo for alleged disloyalty she would have only hurt herself, not to mention risked an early election.

Apart from being a clever play promoting Albo because it takes the heat off the fact the rest of her reshuffle had allies rewarded and enemies ignored it was also necessary.

Necessary to promote Albo and to keep him as Leader of the House.

Albo's day-to-day job, when Parliament sits, is to keep the independents happy and make sure the Government doesn't fall over. No mean feat given Labor operates as a minority government and the fact it hasn't exactly been setting the world on fire (as Albo must surely know, or else he wouldn't have spent so much time thinking about the benefits of a Rudd comeback).

Had Gillard sacked Albo there is every chance the independents would have walked away from the Government, forcing an early election. Instead, she promoted him, into Simon Crean's old portfolio of regional affairs.

Albo has held the portfolio before, so he should take it back with consummate ease. And the independents will be happy, too, because they'll now have even more to do with him.

The only problem? What's Labor's most inner-city leftie doing running a regional affairs portfolio? Political pragmatism my dear fellow, that is your answer.

 

[soloooooo]

Albanese is a very effective member of Parliament. Without his due diligence, Labor would be forced to an early election. Albo is the one who is managing the Labor Independents and channeling votes for the federal government's legislation. Moreover, Albo as the Leader of the House is one of the most highly regarded Members of Parliament within the Australian Labor Party base voters. Without the strong moral fibre of people like Albo the Labor Party would be branded as a ruthlessly self interested political party.

Albanese was also photographed leaving a brothel in Sydney last week...

 

[ObnoxiousTeaCup]

Albanese was also photographed leaving a brothel in Sydney last week...

Awkward. Have you got any sources to support this out of curiosity?

 

[soloooooo]

Awkward. Have you got any sources to support this out of curiosity?

Michael Smith has dared to cover it on his news site. Larry Picketing has also. The major newspapers are scared off by the media reform debate.

 

[Okashi]

Why is Sathius making pointless statements. No one cares about individual members. The problem is the Labor brand and not any individual member of the Labor party.

 

[Sathius005]

Okashi mate, unlike you I understand how powerful one member of Parliament can be. Without Albo, Labor would be obliterated at an early election with a defection of the Labor Independents. Labor is holding government by a knife edge and is very fragile as a result of the relentless negativity of Mr Abbott. Mr Abbott wants to seize power just like Malcolm Fraser did when he smashed Gough Whitlam at an early election.

 

[Sathius005]

Julia Gillard is now leading a new brand of Labor with a consensus, collegiate and consultative style of leadership. Gillard is promoting a more inclusive and caring society for the less fortunate. She is not turning the federal election into an auction. She is under promising and over delivering. Mr Abbott on the other hand is tired, out of touch and out of fresh ideas for Australia. Mr Abbott just wants to wreck Australia and leave his blemished mark on Australian history.

 

[Okashi]

Julia Gillard is now leading a new brand of Labor with a consensus, collegiate and consultative style of leadership. Gillard is promoting a more inclusive and caring society for the less fortunate. She is not turning the federal election into an auction. She is under promising and over delivering. Mr Abbott on the other hand is tired, out of touch and out of fresh ideas for Australia. Mr Abbott just wants to wreck Australia and leave his blemished mark on Australian history.

Oh yes tell me about taxing superannuation. Simon Crean statements are consensus indeed.

 

[Okashi]

Okashi mate, unlike you I understand how powerful one member of Parliament can be. Without Albo, Labor would be obliterated at an early election with a defection of the Labor Independents. Labor is holding government by a knife edge and is very fragile as a result of the relentless negativity of Mr Abbott. Mr Abbott wants to seize power just like Malcolm Fraser did when he smashed Gough Whitlam at an early election.

Labor has given the opposition fiasco after fiasco so the Opposition can continue to be negative. How can the opposition be negative if the government was doing their job properly? Labor only has themselves to blame and nobody else.

 

[townie]

Albanese was also photographed leaving a brothel in Sydney last week...

Who cares

 

[soloooooo]

Who cares

I'm not saying it's bad. Just like how the strip club wasn't bad for Kevin Rudd etc.