Comments on: The Australian’s incredible anti-Rudd tirade

By: fay

fay — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

oh gee, Kev gets some bad press and you get upset…

By: Bernard Freedman

Bernard Freedman — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Comparing the youthful staff supporting Kevin Rudd with the Gough Whitlam’s young staffers misses an important point: Peter Wilenski and Jim Spigelman were not simply young they had brilliant intellects. With Eric Walsh and Michael Delaney they made a great team with with very special qualities and experience lacking in the current young men supporting Kevin Rudd.

By: claret

claret — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It isn’t just this weekend’s Australian - I sent them a letter last week complaining about the anti-Rudd bias that has been in their reporting for ages. In todays paper Glenn Milne suggests that if Labor doesn’t win the upcoming by-election then Rudd will be at fault! No government has ever won a by-election needing a 6% swing! Is Milne ‘tired and emotional’ again? Rudd hasn’t threatened Rupert’s monopoly has he? Perhaps the Howard apologist journos are getting revenge, either way it’s time the Australian got back to reporting instead of biased commentory about nothing.

By: Ian McLaren

Ian McLaren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Seems as though Rupert has instructed all the lickspittles to lift their game. The one who sinks lower than the gutter wins. Ackerman, Bolt and Milne for the trifecta

By: curious

curious — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Curious, that your excuse for Rudd's in-experienced advisors is that Gough had very inexperienced advisors.

I was under the impression that Gough was the absolute worst PM this country has had and that we just recovered from his wholesale ransacking of the economy.

Perhaps we're in for another Gough-like government.

Oh Joy.

By: dermot j mcguire

dermot j mcguire — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

worst PM? the PM who gave us free university education provided funds for sewerage in areas of Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane?

Read your history

worst PM? Billy McMahon followede by Stanley Bruce.

as tothe young genius line when the whitlam advisers started they were unknowns and some performed in less than clever ways tillthey hit their straps. finally willenski a Genius b — -s — t!

By: Bob Cole

Bob Cole — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The problem with Rudd is he is trained as a diplomat.

Sucessful politicians and sucessful diplomats are very rare and in the case of Rudd his training is well to the forfront in that he is a diplomat through and through. We are in an era of appeasement. Appeasement of the elements of the labour party, appeasement of the Union movement, attempts to appease business and of course appeasement of the International arena.

For goodness sake Mr Rudd you have not really changed from when I first met you as the newly endorsed candidate for Griffith in that horrible cross left and right deal within with the labour movement. You see it's been part of the Rudd entry to politics and he always has had to watch his back as Con Scaccia, jim Elder found and Anna Bligh benefited.

Rudd make Australia your first priority not unions or labour pollies or in house deals. Australia needs strong leadership.

One area one could start is to make Australian citizenship worth of being Australian Not to be shared but if one is Australian one is not dual. I'm sick of having to pick up the pieces from those who entrer a country under a shared citizenship get into trouble and call on Australia to get them out. Please you enter as a xxxxx then that is what you are, not a part time Australian.

Make Austrralia proud, make us proud to be Australian and be decisive in your management of this country.