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[jb_nc]

The ALP are really pushing Four Corners tonight lol

It will be the best 4 corners in ageeeeeeeees..

 

[Comrade Ari]

LOL

Wayne Swan is getting cut up hard.

He has no idea what the NAIRU is.

Talking about parting gift, ect. Jeers all round. This speaker fucking owns the previous coalition fag0t.

wait what the fuck?
What happened?

 

[incentivation]

There is no word that aptly describes Wayne Swan... none whatsoever..

A question though. Why do the Coalition speakers wear the robe, whilst Labor Party speakers traditionally do not?

 

[Rafy]

wait what the fuck?
What happened?

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ents/politician_tries_to_rescue_wounded_swan/

 

[Comrade Ari]

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/politician_tries_to_rescue_wounded_swan/

Many thanks, Comrade James Mount of McMahons Point, formally of Beecroft.
You were a much nicer person in you primary school days before heading for the eletist The Kings School.

 

[Muz4PM]

Hahahahaha Wayne Swan is useless, a substandard Treasurer if ever there was one. I bet that Rudd is regretting when he promised he would be Treasurer in his government. I think Tanner will probably get the call up if Swan does not improve his act.

If it just me, but have, among others, Rudd, Swan, Elliot and O'Connor all have spoken from a prepared statement of some kind to a 'question without notice' since the resumption of parliament? Of course, they are Dorothies, they should be well prepared for the question, maybe some brief notes, but I expect more from ministers than simply reading from a prepared statement.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

HEAVEN FORBID A MINISTER BE PREPARED! I don't see what possible benefit could come of them not being prepared, apart from perhaps a bit of scrutiny which can be found elsewhere.

Poor Swanny. I like the guy, but everyone's picking on him.

That Deputy Treasurer did an outstanding job today. I even saw Kevin Rudd turn around and say "well done", or something to that effect. Very true.

I had no idea there were so many people who watched parliament here.

 

[Muz4PM]

HEAVEN FORBID A MINISTER BE PREPARED! I don't see what possible benefit could come of them not being prepared, apart from perhaps a bit of scrutiny which can be found elsewhere.

Poor Swanny. I like the guy, but everyone's picking on him.

That Deputy Treasurer did an outstanding job today. I even saw Kevin Rudd turn around and say "well done", or something to that effect. Very true.

I had no idea there were so many people who watched parliament here.

There is a reason why people are picking on him, he is inept, he has to go. He may have to keep an eye over his shoulder, I bet Bowen knows what NAIRU is.

There is a time and a place for ministers to read prepared statements, that is before or after question time, these are known as 'Ministerial Statements.' Question time is not a place for such a statement to be read. If they cannot do their job without a typist telling them what to say, then maybe they should not be ministers.

 

[chicky_pie]

shit, and we have him as this country's treasurer

 

[Comrade Ari]

shit, and we have him as this country's treasurer

I prefer state treasurer Comrade Costa. In his youth he saw the light and joined the Socialist Workers Party but he has since turned towards the evils of the centrist ALP.

 

[chicky_pie]

Taxpayers fund Lodge babysitter



TAXPAYERS will foot the bill for a babysitter at The Lodge for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 14-year-old son.

In an insight into the Rudds' private life, public servants today revealed that Mr Rudd and his wife Therese Rein have included a child carer in their official staff.

And Ms Rein, a multimillionaire businesswoman, wrote the cheque to pay for the Rudds' New Year's Eve party at Kirribilli House, their official Sydney residence.

Departmental officials did not reveal how much the cheque was for, but said it was drawn on a joint account held by the couple.

The Rudds have based themselves in The Lodge in Canberra, moving sons Nicholas, 21, and Marcus, 14, from the family home in Brisbane.

Nicholas is studying law at university and Marcus has been enrolled at Radford College, a coeducational Anglican high school in northern Canberra.

When all positions are filled, the Rudds will have a chef and a house attendant at Kirribilli and a chef, a junior chef, a child carer and two house attendants at The Lodge.

That's a slight increase on the 7.4 staff employed by former prime minister John Howard and his wife Janette, who were based fulltime at Kirribilli.

But the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) said that was because the Howards lived alone.

"The staffing has changed because it's a larger family," PM&C deputy secretary Louise Morauta told a Senate estimates hearing.

"It was effectively only two people under the previous government in residence.

"This is a family with two children living at home."

Liberal senator Michael Ronaldson accused the Rudds of misusing public money.

"It's started already, the riches of office," Senator Ronaldson said.

"What remarkable restraint. We talk about restraint ... about wage restraint, but does that apply to the Prime Minister, who's independently wealthy?

"He's happy to whack the taxpayer for another .6 of a person."


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23234862-29277,00.html

Teresa needs Jenny Craig, every time i see her smile, i see an image of a pig's face.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

There is a time and a place for ministers to read prepared statements, that is before or after question time, these are known as 'Ministerial Statements.' Question time is not a place for such a statement to be read. If they cannot do their job without a typist telling them what to say, then maybe they should not be ministers.

I don't think that what happened in the past in question time should be grounds for saying what should happen in the future. Prepared statements answer questions and inform everyone much better than impromptu answers ever could. I'd also argue that they allow better scrutiny of ministers actually, since it shows that they're doing their work. If an answer is subpar even with a prepared statement, it shows that there's a problem. If everyone was improvising and speaking mostly crap like Costello and co used to do on a frequent basis, then very little real scrutiny can occur. And frankly, if it's a change from the lousy answering techniques employed by Howard and co then I don't see how anyone could regard it as a problem.

 

[chicky_pie]

I prefer state treasurer Comrade Costa. In his youth he saw the light and joined the Socialist Workers Party but he has since turned towards the evils of the centrist ALP.

Dr Evil Costa?

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn...og_archive/2005/11/drevil_million_dollars.jpg

 

[ari89]

http://liberal.org.au/info/news/detail/20080218_MemotoTreasurerWhataboutjobs.php

 

[withoutaface]

Tanner for treasurer.

 

[incentivation]

Tanner for treasurer.

Amen to that.

Reba Meagher would do a more competent job than Swan in question time.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Tanner for treasurer.

Oh my yes. I'd like to see Tanner made treasurer, Swan deputy treasurer and perhaps put the current deputy treasurer in the finance portfolio. I think that could work out for all. It would allow everyone to save face, it'd give Swan some experience and so on. Everyone would be happy...Except maybe the opposition

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That Four Corners program tonight was rather fun to watch. It's always enjoyable to see all the losing members scrambling on to the "I knew it" bandwagon. Apparently Tony Abbott is one of the few members who has the guts to stick by what he had said in the past, instead of backpeddling once annihilation is struck at an election. It's quite funny to have watched Joe Hockey swear that Howard was the most awesome leader ever before said annihilation, and then say that he knew it all along after. Poor Johnny. Poor, poor Johnny.

I must admit that watching his defeat admission speech allowed me to relive one of the happier moments of my life.

 

[Triangulum]

We don't have a generic politics thread anymore, so I guess I'll chuck this here: tomorrow's Newspoll shows a 57-43 lead for Labor, but more hilariously the preferred prime minister question splits 70-9 to Rudd. Poor Brendan.

http://www.pollbludger.com/805

Edit: a check of the Newspoll archives reveals that Brendan's 9% is the lowest ever PPM rating since they started asking the question in 1987, the previous lowest being a 14% that Crean got just before he resigned the leadership.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

I was hoping that this polling would largely become irrelevant and boring to the masses once the election was over. Apparently, I was incorrect. That saddens me somewhat.

Don't you pollute my beautiful parliamentary thread with your toxic polling sludge!

 

[Triangulum]

I was hoping that this polling would largely become irrelevant and boring to the masses once the election was over. Apparently, I was incorrect. That saddens me somewhat.

Don't you pollute my beautiful parliamentary thread with your toxic polling sludge!

Never! I heart polls. Not that they're at all relevant or meaningful three years out from an election and in the middle of a new PM's honeymoon, but oh well.