2007 Federal Election - Coalition or Labor/Howard or Rudd? (2 Viewers)

[chicky_pie]

see the news about Abbott and Nicola after the debate?



Nicola "Tony i have a crush on you"
Tony "that's bullshit"

 

[withoutaface]

lol. Penrith. I feel a sense of belonging in my ex home town.

Not. Really.

Our local member is Independent but is basically stuck up the butt of the lefties anyway. She hasn't really done anything for anybody, she only won the last election on the back of preferences, she didn't get as many votes as the Lib guy.

Um, there aren't any female independents in Federal parliament...

And the Debus quote was "Take 10 paces that way and say it again, you grub".

 

[katie_tully]

Sorry, should have clarified. Our local state member for the electorate of Dubbo is an Independent. Our federal member for Parkes is National Pty.

EDIT: Theyve changed the electorate for federal now though. Parkes has been amalgamated into Calare, despite the fact that the Parkes electorate is 1/3 of NSW itself. :s Lot of people not happy about this.

 

[Triangulum]

Tony "that's bullshit"

Video on this page. Wow, this is a really bad day for Tony Abbott, isn't it?

 

[katie_tully]

Yeah but not as lol as the time he thought he had a love child.

 

[Iron]

What a bad day for Abbot. Tony Jones even suggested that he should have considered resigning. Gillard was ruthless. That was a messy interview.
I love this campaign

 

[Enteebee]

Someone just photoshopped kevin rudd's face onto a mudkip, creating 'Ruddkips', so yea... I'm voting Labor now.

 

[Triangulum]

Trade debate was last night at the Lowy Institute. Hey, what's this? Coalition rolls out the same tired attack lines:

"A Rudd government would be hopelessly compromised by the union heavies in their midst," [Truss] said.

and thinks that we have a chance of getting wages low enough to be competitive with China and India in the unskilled labour market:

Mr Truss said Labor would struggle to keep a check on wage rates compared with Australia's lower-wage Asian competitors.

while Labor comes up with an actual valid criticism:

Mr Crean said a Coalition weakness remained its historical deal that the trade portfolio would "default" to Nationals figures such as Mr Truss. The arrangement meant the Coalition's thinking on trade never went much beyond "broad-acre agriculture and resources", at a cost to manufacturing and services, he said.

And Marcus Einfeld turned up, for some reason.

 

[Triangulum]

Plus: irony alert. John Howard, of all people, has accused the Tas government of 'playing politics' over the Mersey hospital for the sake of the election. Howard's motives for taking over the hospital in the first place are as pure as the driven snow, of course.

Also: the ALP's new ad on WorkChoices.

 

[katie_tully]

And Marcus Einfeld turned up, for some reason.

The free booze.

 

[jb_nc]

If the Coalition keeps up its "anti-business union bosses" crap I'm not going to vote for them.

They have no positive things to talk about at all.

 

[Triangulum]

The free booze.

Touché!

They have no positive things to talk about at all.

I thought it was telling that for the entire first week of the campaign the only thing we heard from Howard was tax and unions. Although they're bringing out more policy now, they don't really seem to have much of a vision.

 

[Triangulum]

From the department of nutty minor party candidates: far north Queensland candidate for Family First demands that ]all candidates should reveal their sexual orientation. "I think the public have a right to know the values that you're going to pursue in Parliament." Because sexual orientation = values, yeah?

 

[katie_tully]

The Far Nrth Queensland candidate (not sure from which party) doesn't think women should be allowed to contest that electorate because it is too big for a woman to handle.

 

[Muz4PM]

Touché!

I thought it was telling that for the entire first week of the campaign the only thing we heard from Howard was tax and unions. Although they're bringing out more policy now, they don't really seem to have much of a vision.

The ALP have a vision? Oh yes, they do, it is the same as the Coalition.

 

[Muz4PM]

Katie_Tully, I think that was The Nationals candidate for Leichhardt Ian Crossland. I thihnk he even called his National's colleague Deanne Kelly a 'dumb blonde' or something along those lines.

 

[katie_tully]

That was him. The bleached blonde guy.

 

[LCollins]

The ALP have a vision? Oh yes, they do, it is the same as the Coalition.

Last time I checked, the coalition 'vision' included work choices, sitting on your ass in regards to climate change and faking interest in aboriginal affairs.

 

[katie_tully]

sitting on your ass in regards to climate change

Not everybody can be engulfed in this ridiculous global warming hysteria.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Not everybody can be engulfed in this ridiculous global warming hysteria.

Though, those that aren't are delusional and need to be removed from power.