A sad morning for the political circus
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A sad morning for the political circus. So Clive Palmer is not coming to Canberra as a politician. What a pity that his concern for the plight of boat people has caused him to abandon his plans to seek Liberal National Party preselection in Queensland. He would have added a touch of seriousness to political debate in the national capital.
I want to believe the correction. I was quite gob-smacked last night when I heard Tony Abbott say he had not actually read the BHP Billiton statement on the decision about Roxby Downs while continuing to assert that the abandonment was all the fault of those terrible Labor Party new taxes. It just sounded like the height of laziness from the man set to become our leader. For all our futures sake, I hope this morning’s correction that he had read the document before commenting on it is the correct version. A Prime Minister shooting from the lip would be a truly dangerous thing.
No uranium led revival. Factor into the future course of this graph the impact that adding a new world’s biggest source of uranium and the growing apprehension of Germans and Japanese about nuclear power and BHP Billiton’s Roxby Downs decision does not seem so strange.
Forbes has got them on its list. Julia Gillard heads the list of Australians to make the annual Forbes magazine list of the world’s most powerful women.
A scientific research report for the day. Traumatic mating may offer fitness benefits for female sea slugs.
A quote for the day.
“Aside from questions Ms Gillard is yet to answer about her legal work for former boyfriend and AWU boss Bruce Wilson, the imbroglio has provided an insight into the bubble that is modern Labor’s political base.
The ALP and the nation would be better served if politicians were drawn from a wider gene pool.”
— Editorial, The Australian, 23 August 2012
Some news and views noted along the way.
- What the GOP platform represents — the extreme is now the mainstream.
- Are your skinny jeans starving the world?
- The crime committed in France, by France — François Hollande on the holocaust.
- Assange case: how is r-pe defined? — a BBC guide.
“I hope this morning’s correction that he had read the document before commenting on it is the correct version”. A Prime Minister shooting from the lip would be a truly dangerous thing.
So instead we get someone who wilfully misreads, or simply fails to comprehend the statement instead.
I’m really trying to figure out which is worse.
Richard,
Aside from the very valid point that Frey makes it would be quite
simple to find out if he was telling the truth
His diary would indicate what he was doing at the time he
claims to have read the report. If he was in meetings
for instance then hi is proven to have lied.
I must admit that I am dying for somebody to ask the questions
Well Mr Abbott if have read the report as you claim why did you
so misprepresent it/ Didn’t you understand it or were you being wilfully
and intentionally dishonest.
Can’t imagine anybody from News Ltd answering the question can you?
So which version of Mr Rabbott’s story do we believe: did he read it at 3.45pm yesterday or didn’t he?
In one of those versions he was more than tinkering with fact.
So Crikey and other media have finally noticed that Tony does no work. This has been obvious to any observer for many years now.
Even his three word slogans are taken word for word from the Republics or the Tea Party. I discovered when in the US earlier this year that Tony’s ONLY personal contribution is contribution to Australian policy debate is ‘stop the boats’. He had to stretch to this becuase in the US the asylum seekers come over the land border!
What about the Catholic gene pool that is the Liberal Party executive? George Pell’s policticans.
I watched that interview, twice, and seen abbott answer the question
half a dozen times watch his answer yeah he didn’t read it when he said
made him look like the fool he is.
In 2004 Abbott stumbled mumbled and crumbled when he lied in responding to query about a recent visit to his mentor Cardinal Pell.Seven years down the track I watched his eye twitching gobsmacked stumble over his self inflicted trivialising a diggers death in Afghanistan with his appalling “shit happens”blunder.Now another pathetic showing with his response to last nights questions on the Roxby mine slow down.Any day now we can expect his sad spin capering explaining that personal standing as an alternative PM is down because he has to keep telling us how bad Gillards government performs.About time Tony manned up to fact that he lacks the skills for the job and got out of way for a better operator.Tony Abbott is the only chance the ALP has for an election turn around and the Libs should act to remove this recurring blot on its copy book.
Since as far as I know Mr Abbott hasn’t written down that he read the report, and the fact that at the time of the interview he seemed to be totally unaware of both the content of the report beyond what was in the news headlines and also of the tax environment in which BHP operates, I assume that Mr Abbott did not read the report and in that the interview Mr Abbott was making stuff up to push the Coalition’s message of the day.
same message the fool’s been pushing everyday scince the last election
Sorry to introduce a note of seriousness into this euridite conversation - I have three boys (17 to 23 yrs of age) who are in the process of sorting their various political opinions and all have independently come to the same conclusion - why bother when both political sides are so obviously inept. When I explained that Australia is the last truly free country on this planet and it is their opportunity to contribute positively; the youngest asked where he could go to buy a gun. This is how revolutions start. Gen Y are not a patient lot.