There’s 11 long months before the next election unless she goes early, which I doubt. I have supreme confidence she will offer up more reasons why the voters should reject her between now and then, starting with ever more flimsy reasons why she hid the establishment of the AWU Workplace Reform Association fron the AWU.

Keep drinking the cool-aid , Ian

There’s 11 long months before the next election unless she goes early, which I doubt. I have supreme confidence she will offer up more reasons why the voters should reject her between now and then, starting with ever more flimsy reasons why she hid the establishment of the AWU Workplace Reform Association fron the AWU.

Keep drinking the cool-aid , Ian

How could you describe Julia Gillard as “shameless”, as though she lacked provocation when she turned on Tony. Tony after all was just simply trying to accuse her of hypocrisy on issues of gender if she was prepared to criticise such up-standing citizens as Alan Jones for sexism, while proposing to reject Tony’s motion that the parliament sack Slipper as speaker, and so defend Slipper’s too terrible sexism, revealed in once private text messages commenting on how female genitalia looked.

You suggest that only spite could lead Gillard to turn round and say “I will not be lectured on sexism by this man” and then give him both barrels. I think that she might have felt pushed a little to far by the long used GoP campaign book. In fact, since the campaign was in danger of being turned around it became more necessary to get back at her. True, you talk of the failed GoP campaign book and we can hope that its use in Australia will be equally successful. But I was simply taking the long, overall look at why we are now to be bored into the ground with repeated allegations against Gillard.

A spiteful attack on Abbott,poor Tony, he made the running and is still behaving like a spoiled child who has lost his dummy when he was rejected as PM by the cross benches.
Gillard’s advisers are much smarter and as the Abbott think tank is driven by the OZ and Bolt it spells doom. Gillard had to break the cycle and the Mysogony speech was the vehicle and she did a great job in repositioning Abbott and his popularity as waned accordingly.
For as long as the Liberals continue Gillard will be seen as the one who cares while Abbott is still trying to demonstrate his frailties.

It was not the October issues but that Abbotts sole policy - repeal the Carbon Tax was a fizzer.

He overeached with immoderate and hysterical comments which were with time proven to be wrong.

Slipper/ Thompson were all about having an election before 1 July.

The strategy failed and that’s when Gillard took the gloves off buoyed with the Carbon Tax being a non event.

The confidence is obvious and she needed to pass that on to a sceptical front bench. With Kevin gone, they needed to be reaasured that they backed the right horse.

There was some childish spite such as McLelland who sparked the AWU beatup but for the rest of the Party she looks a winner.

All she needs to do now is to keep winning and Dr Yes is perhaps a little late as he has a lot of ground to make up and Malcolm is lurking with intent.

The Body Language of the Opposition when Bishop was stumbling was very revealing, they did not want to be there.

The cross benches were engaged in other matters that were important to their electorates so they were token bystanders.

After last week Public Service as an MP was degraded to the level of journalism - the gutter.

Both are concerned with personal relevance - its all ego centric and stuff the electorate lets make sure we keep the advertisers happy.

Gillard can now be marketed as a winner and no one claps losers — “one hand clapping: as was demonstrated by the Opposition who the booed the Gillard announcement of Pontings retirement until they realised what she had announced.

So is the level of respect shown in the Australian Parliament — the South Africans today put our politicians to shame as well as our hopes of No1.

As a trade unionist I am acutely aware of an ongoing campaign to hobble the capacity of trade unions to represent their members on behalf of the disappointment of those in business who think that the industrial relations climate does not give them enough power over their employees’ wages and conditions. This campaign is in turn hobbled by connection with “Work Choices”, which did very real damage to the capacity of trade unions to defend their members’ interests.

So, I am not in the least inclined to support any campaign against union corruption that might serve as a trojan horse for the resurrection of individual agreements and loss of access to businesses or the ability to force businesses to negotiate agreements. Nor am I in the least inclined to believe that the Coalition is pursuing what happened 17 years ago because it believes thatby shining a light on union leaders who abuse their members trust it will strengthen trade union representation of their members. I am more inclined to think that they have shuffled through the US Republican campaign book for ways in which public character assassination will improve their chances to get in do what they like in government.

The good news from last week is that Gillard will never recover and is destined to be replaced early in 2013 or suffer a Queensland like defeat come the election. The anger out there is not reflected in the polls.

Easy. Its personal. They are both from the ALP Right and they both hate Julia. McClelland, especially, as he got sacked. Poor loser hasn’t been able to cope.

I’ll say this for the AWU of today. Their leader led a coup on 23 June 2010. He did this by reminding ALP MPs who they really report to and threatened their pre-selection if they did not support a change of Prime Minister. Such was his hubris, he even went on TV and boasted about it.

Gillard’s behaviour 17 years ago may be old, but she is the Prime Minister and there is documented evidence of less than appropriate professional behaviour. The opposition is going hard on it because it shines a window on how union officials do deals to get ahead and abuse and misuse their members trust.

I think you are in ddenial regarding the level of corruption in Labor and the Unions, take a look at the Corruption Commission in NSW, HSU, AWU, etc etc etc etc. So much evidence.

Ex Labor Minister Costa recommends a Judicial enquiry as well? Ex Labor AG McLelland was the FIRST to raise the AWU scandal in Parliament. Explain that.

You need to weed out corruption and fraud from top to bottom in every organisation where it has taken hold.

It is one of the disappointments of the Liberals is the presumption of guilt- rather than that of innocence. Thompson/ Gillard and Slipper. It also suprises me about Brandis as he could be our next Attorney General - heaven forbid - he should have known better and other lawyers in the Party room should have warned Abbott and Bishop that they were running a high risk strategy by being fed from a fishing expedition by Michael Smith.

They trawled the depths and came up with nothing tangible and when they left Abbott with nothing and Julie looking the fool (Julie I would have “lost it” as well for what they did to you )

Abbott came up with a judicial enquiry in the hope that the issue would have gone away an dhe could ” save face” .

Cameron did that with the ‘phone tapping ” scandal in the UK (especially as he was implicated in his appointment of Andy Coulson) and all it did was to come back and bite him, so much so he now rejects the key recommendations.

Fitzgerald in Queensland brought down the JBP Government.

It may well spell the end of Cameron as well and like Abbott he does not have public opinion on his side any more.

Remember how that ended up?

Gillard will probably be rolled early next year anyways because the ALP know they are stuffed with her. She’s damaged goods since her “No Carbon Tax under my Government”.

No one believes a word she says anymore… and you don’t take that kind of liability to an election.

Now look what you done —  — you have Brandis taking off his parliamentary protective gear off and sledging. Perhaps he wants to bat and control the Senate?

He could not do worse than Abbott- or could he, but the News / Bolt/ Smith team as coaches don’t seem to think so.

Now they are all in the nets with Abbott and some crazy idea for a judicial inquiry - how much is that going to cost the taxpayer?

So far this circus has cost the country millions as we demonstrate Liberal Policy is driven by num- nuts who can’t bowl, can’t bat and can’t throw —  — telling the Opposition Leader his tactics to win the next election.

It defies logic and if Abbott thinks he is onto a winner then think again, the dummy spit behavour has not produced one iota of success so far ( remember the carbon tax) and all you are doing is crying over what might have been and because you aren’t at the crease and you thought you deserved to be. You were not ready.

Abbott you have to prove that you can bat and bowl.

You do not deserve to be on the team let alone captain at the moment and the best “go to” players are on the bench but you won’t give them any time in the nets in case they are able to bat or bowl better than you and Julie demonstrated when given the chance this week.

Brandis is not a threat, neither is Julie after her poor bowling preformance, but the rest need net practice if you have any hope of winning this test series.

The Perth Test is a case in point - Mitchell Johnson, written off by the pundits and look at the score board he is taking valuable wickets but not before he has prepared himmself wih a lot of practice and game time to get his confidence back, to be selected and then to reward his captain and preform.

Abbott you need to get the score board ticking over and wasting taxpayers money on a judicial commission is not the way to do it.

A strong policy on Workplace Reform, NOW that’s a different story.

Pity you made a blue by NOT voting for Peter Reith as Chairman of Selectors, he would have been an useful ally.

The News / Bolt/ Smith need to be seen to be relevant while they are making you irrelevant to the electorate.

This is an election for once for an opposition to win rather than for the government to lose.

Romney thought otherwise and look at what happened to him egged on by US num-nuts HE LOST THE UNLOOSEABLE election in a landslide.

And why is it pecul iar that a partner in a law firm did not consult others when doing something as simple as incorporating an association?
And how are the simple tasks you outline not “limited advice”

This will backfire on the libs in the polls because the only people who beli eve Gillard has questions to answer (despite answering every question journalists could think of twice and giving Abbott 15 minutes to make an allegation) are ultra right wing, everyone see’s it for what it is.

And why is it peculiar that a partner in a law firm did not consult others when doing something as simple as incorporating an association?
And how are the simple tasks you outline not “limited advice”

This will backfire on the libs in the polls because the only people who beli eve Gillard has questions to answer (despite answering every question journalists could think of twice and giving Abbott 15 minutes to make an allegation) are ultra right wing, everyone see’s it for what it is.

There are too many inconvenient questions and probable truths for Gillard and her supporters. Statements like ” I can’t recall” , ” I have answered …”, ” so what? ” enforce my impression that she is either incompetent/ doggy , willfully blind or acted unlawfully.

A judicial inquiry is the way to go because Gillard and union officials seem untouchable. It may clear her if she didn’t do anything wrong.

As for the WA kerfuffle, a fraudulent scam was built on the back of a legal creation. Gillard did the routine lawyer stuff on the legal creation then got on with her day job. Later the scam developed. Files and funds went missing, authorities were conned. Gillard dumped W. There’s not a shred of evidence that Gillard was in on the scam, stole the files and funds or conned the authorities. Lawyers assist creation of companies. That’s what they do. Some companies later do bad things. That’s what THEY do. Abbott and the narcissistic - er, you know - are debasing the parliament and the nation.

She did not say it had no links to the union, just that it wasn’t a union - do try to keep up.