Comments on: Tips and rumours

By: Steve

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

“Upon reflection” and his cronies should get on and do their bloody jobs rather than indulge in sour grapes and allow sabotage to become the “unofficial order of the day”. We pay your wage, you tool.

By: Greig White

Greig White — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

That charming anti-Catholic comic is onlne here:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0082/0082_01.asp
The site is full of this sort of material, all available for distribution at a low, low price, and each one more bizarre and demented than the last.

By: Dave Liberts

Dave Liberts — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Ooh, thanks Greig White for that link. As disgusting as the comic is (I’m no Christian, but I’d find it hard to be evil enough to come up with something like that), I’m deeply amused by the thought that it’s being handed out to pilgrims. Will undoubtedly cause the odd crisis of faith. In my experience, having a crisis of faith was one of the better things that ever happened to me. I went straight past changing faiths and just dropped religion altogether, and I’m so much more comfortable with the universe as a result.

By: JamesK

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

Ah Mark! Typically obtuse I see...... Perhaps you ought be there in Sydney attempting to correct SBS' wayward ways (they are part of the Conspiracy for sure.....) and telling the world the TRUTH aka: the New Gospel according to Mark:

The Pope (wait for it) is actually a Hitler-loving fascist!

I bet you scratch what is usually called a head and wonder why 6 billion other people don't see the Light.

By: Dave Liberts

Dave Liberts — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Steve and Bev have laid into the public servant behind the ‘upon reflection’ tip, but he/she might have a point. I didn’t read the tip as being about having to work as much as being about losing focus on what their work is supposed to be. Unlike Hawke or Keating, or even Howard, Rudd seems to spend a lot of his time in a reactive rather than proactive frame of mind, and when he is being proactive, he seems to water down his rhetoric as soon as the media start to ask questions. This would be a nightmare for the public servants involved. I spent plenty of hours of my own time last year campaigning for Rudd, and I’m really glad Howard is gone, but I just wish he’d start to look a bit more Prime Ministerial and leaderly, and a bit less like the up-and-coming Opposition leader who’s trying to appease everyone all the time which he played so well last year. The media aren’t helping - any time an announcement is made, the first question is always “can you guarantee that no Australian will be worse off under this change”, which for a newbie like Rudd means he just starts backpeddling. He ought to do a Keating and point out how stupid the question is.

By: Bill Cushing

Bill Cushing — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Melbourne clearways - Why does it not occur to people that the extended clearways times proposal in Melbourne is not at all about people driving around in cars. It is about trams trying to move, and keep to schedule, in streets that are uselessly blocked by parked cars. Can you imagine a tram loaded with 100 people stuck because half a dozen individuals want to pop into a shop and can’t be bothered with the off-street parking? Sydney Rd is one particularly egregious example. The idiotic, supposedly ‘green-oriented’ Moreland Council lets cars park on the valuable road-space for free while charging for its (usually empty) off-street spaces. Meantime, trams sit stuck in Moreland’s traffic jam. Yet Moreland Council, which could easily create more useable off-street space, is one of the loudest whingers about extra clearways! It’s simple, really. Moving trams with people in them should always take priority over empty, stationary parked cars. Period.

By: Bev

Bev — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I agree Steve - ‘upon reflection’ should stop whinging and start working. He/she has had 11 years of doing almost nothing and now doesn’t like it because the workplace has changed. I have kids working there too and they are having a ball. They enjoy actually doing something even if it is hectic at times. They feel they are a last earning their salary. So ‘upon reflection’ get off your butt - move on to another job and stop wasting taxpayer money. You may find that you cant make it out in the real world.

By: Mark

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

I am scratching my head JamesK - the accuracy of your typing is impressive… given you’re only using one hand.

By: JamesK

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

Oh that was why the Whitlam government was a total fu..up….bureaucracy! And when and if the Kruddmeister is shown to be as vacuous of substance as he is short of temper, will you turn your crossbow on him, Mr. Tell?

By: William Tell

William Tell — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

“Upon reflection” is redolent of the “I just can’t believe it’s happened” response to the election result. We saw just such fifth column reactions to the win by Goss in Queensland that terminated the Joh years The version in Canberra now is keyed by the Opposition questions of the “do you really understand what you are doing?” variety. After eleven years, the policy cupboard was empty - no foundation work done on vital issues. Now the public service is being made to do the work its preceding neo-con masters didn’t want done - water conservation; climate change; broadband; education etc etc. And worst of all - the upstart PM comes from what the Commonwealth Public Service scornfully refer to as “the regions”. How dare he enter the golden triangle and think he can set the agenda! Rudd’s big issue is to avoid the Whitlam treatment - being snowed by the bureaucracy.

By: Andrew Seagrim

Andrew Seagrim — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Re: The Pope is a smoker

When asked if he smoked after sex, the Pontiff dutifully replied that he hadn’t looked.

By: Mark

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

JamesK - shouldn’t you be busy handing out comic books in Sydney?