Labor Surges Ahead in Polls!

More reality that doesn’t fit in with previous scare campaigns

Factors like rent are having at least as much, if not more influence on childcare fees than quality standards, a new analysis has shown.

A report by the peak children’s body Early Childhood Australia has found that high-quality childcare services are charging as little as $40 a day while low-quality ones are charging up to $140.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/childcare-quality-does-not-drive-up-costs-study-20141103-11fxxl.html

You better actually watch the program to understand the context of his answer to the specific question. He was not talking about people in custody.

Ouch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And here I was just thinking how peaceful it was here with those in the South pre occupied with a Horse Race

http://mobile.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/melbourne-cup-2014-geoffrey-edelsten-proposes-to-gabi-grecko-at-flemington/story-fnk825aa-1227112082221

A true romantic

“…Recon that’s why 2GB and the Un Australian is going hard on the Shortman rape thing and that Liberal stooge barrister Peter Faris QC is doing pro bono in a piss poor attempt to destroy him…”

I still think that the rape issue should has had more coverage. There seems to have been some degree of reluctance in the reporting of the accusations and it was kept hush hush (supposedly the worst kept secret in politics) until an announcement that no charges would be laid. doesn’t mean he’s innocent IMO, could be not enough evidence to convict etc

I would have liked more, especially as shorten will be running for PM.

Why was it suppressed?

“”Seriously what a creepy old fuckwit…””

Is that ToM and Fifi ?????????????????

“”So they can revive it later when it can really hurt.””

My Dog you talk some crap…………….so if it was pursued you’d be saying there’s no evidence and Life is all so unfair and now because the woman involved is taking some action you are equally outraged.

Seems to me you only care about your mate Shorten and you actually don’t give a ratz about the woman.

By the way AO I think I remember someone in the ALP saying the woman had mental health problems…….someone from the ALP “leadership” group…………………….perhaps Tony Bourke but cant quite recall who

You don’t need an election to talk crap !

You would have thought the accusation would have been enough to rule shorten out of contention for ALP leader.
It needed to be covered and dealt with prior to becoming OL to see whether it is an issue with voters. I don’t like shorten, I think he was forced upon us by Labors right wing (reform please) and any coverage pre election as tomR says could happen, would lose an election you would think.

Why would labor stick with shorten? Do they really think we deserve such little voting choice, shorten with the whiff of rape or nothing?

Another shit sandwich for the unrepresented in this so called democracy, how little they care about us.

“”Shorten was still voted in by Caucus … not the members “”

Yep and that power sharing was all demanded and arranged and agreed upon per Rudd

As I said………….thankyou Ruddster……………………ROFLMAO

I believe Tony of South Yarra was at the Cup…

Why not have a arts music thread?

Cos IronMaiden have LOTS of cool covers 😉

“Not trying to find any excuse to jump in with a personal obsession and compulsion disorder.

Anyone want to talk about the insidious influence unions have on the ALP?

Meanwhile, this is what the party with the insidious influence of big business, big pharma, big miners and big media has delivered us, on top of all their other acts of bastardry

The Defence Force Welfare Association’s Facebook page has been carpet bombed with negative comments about the 1.5 per cent pay rise across three years plus the loss of leave days for 57,000 members of the ADF with comparisons being drawn with the massive leap in politicians entitlements and Tony Abbott referred to as the “Slime Minister”.

“I saw my husband for 55 days in total last year and this is what we get,” wrote one woman who called the deal pathetic.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/slime-minister-abbott-diggers-families-and-supporters-vent-outrage-at-adf-pay-deal-20141104-11gnvx.html

I don’t think

And there you have it folks 😉

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-13/coalition-scraps-labor27s-marine-parks-management-plans/5156674

You really are quite slow aren’t you nil

I didn’t claim Labor created marine parks, I simply listed their marine parks legislation (which saw it massively increased) as a positive policy.

The fact that the libs are dismantling it doesn’t mean it wasn’t a policy and, if it had not been dismantled, would be in effect.

Try to get up to speed

Well that was my impression.

That’s your problem, not mine.

it would lock out recreational fisherman.

Again, that is a result of your ignorance, not the facts

“The marine reserves have been designed to have minimal impact on recreational fishers. They will not lock families out of our oceans and the places where a majority of families love to fish including fishing from beaches, lagoons and jetties will not be impacted. In fact, 96 per cent of oceans within 100 kilometres of the coast are still open to recreational fishers,” Mr Butler said.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/marine-parks/4931430

This is how the INSIDIOUS cartel which is the DEAD HAND of its liberal party puppets operates

A leaked tape from an oil and gas industry conference shows how Big Carbon uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who criticise the use of fossil fuels

http://www.independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/fossil-fuel-industrys-dirty-tricks-campaign-exposed,7064

Fact is Rudd/Gillard did not create a single marine park. The marine park network was created by the Howard govt.

I would think most normal people would get the impression from your list that Labor created the marine parks.

Fact is Rudd/Gillard did not create a single marine park

You’re not having a good morning are you nil

​Australia’s precious marine environments have been permanently protected with the proclamation of the world’s biggest network of marine reserves.

The process of developing the management plans for the new reserves will commence immediately.

http://frdc.com.au/knowledge/news_and_media/media_releases/Pages/Gillard-Government-proclaims-the-final-network-of-Commonwealth-marine-reserves.aspx

It is the management plans that are being reviewed by the current gubmint, the reserves are still there.

I prefer to live in a society rather than survive in an economy (for the rich)!

It is their way TB. No forward thinking, except when it comes to transferring public moneys to their private mates pockets

“We’ll find any way we can to take the money out of the universities,” Hockey told the Australian Financial Review on Tuesday.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/04/david-leyonhjelm-threatens-to-end-his-support-for-university-funding-cuts

this government is responsible for the slowing economy

but .. but … but

IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF SWAN!

🙂

Must make your work easy.

No. nil does that 🙂

“The unemployment rate was now put at 6.2 percent in September ”

Actually 6.2% was close to a record low point for the Hawke/Keating govt.

It should be stated that TB of Queensland voted for Keating when unemployment was at 11%.

“The government has cut almost half a billion dollars from research into carbon capture and storage ”

Actually………………that’s excellent news

Would it be too much to hope for the entire destruction of all this wind farm bullshit as well ?

Actually………………that’s excellent news

Well, perhaps yes, perhaps not (personally, I’m not much of a fan of it)

But, it is a center piece of ther direct action policy, it was much talked about and much hyped by the libs in their war against a Carbon Price. In fact, they lambasted Labor about not putting enough effort into it.

And yet now, when the rubber hits the road, their center piece is not even going to match what Labor WERE putting into it.

Just chalk up another round of utter bullshit to the libs I guess. C’est la vie

And with all three of ya’s

I thought you perhaps did a typo

Or was it the holy trinity

you, reb and wallys’r’us 🙂

#PM cool as climate debate flares:
There is a lot of horse-shit in that Paul Bongiorno post.

””’In the corridors of Washington, Berlin and elsewhere, there is genuine dismay about the lack of attention to climate change in the G20 agenda.”””
#Horse-shit, obama can`t get it thru Washington, teh-usa states are going-it alone, without their Feds, have done for ages now.
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”””The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is hoping the accumulation of evidence that a climate catastrophe is looming will convince world leaders, including our own, that real and meaningful targets must be set at the Paris conference next year.”””’
#Wish-in and a-hope-in by Ban-Ki won`t change a damn thing politically, he should know that by now.
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”””the prime minister boasted at the Business Council dinner that one of his successes is stopping “the demonisation of coal”. His government, fresh from its victories in abolishing the carbon””#tax
#true, but nothing new in the denial camp
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”””But the politics of climate change can shift as dramatically as a sudden summer storm.”””’
#Back to wishing`n`hoping
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”””The independent Climate Council has just released analysis tying an increase in the risk of””#what-ever
#They`ve released dozens of reports over the years, and all of`em have been ignored. Just toss this one on the heap with the rest.
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”””Labor’s Bill Shorten is convinced the pendulum is swinging back and that”””
Yeah, sure, the pendulum is swinging back(again) and unless it knocks-out our canberra dcikheads with a direct head-blow, there will be no change. Hang-on tight folks! We bought the ticket, and will have to take the ride. lts too late.
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”””Paul Bongiorno AM is a veteran of the Canberra Press Gallery, with 40 years’ experience covering””#his arse and failing to challenge power.

Over at new-matilda, brull is committing the same crime of lazy churnalism based op-ed they continually commit at my abc. The bleating about bolts size of audience is nonsense, 233000 viewers on the floundering network-10, about 30000 blot-blog viewers in the rapidly shrinking press, and what-ever he scores on radio. Big deal. Now for some perspective, the growing online/digital, facebook gets 11-million aussies using it twice a day. ldiots like brull and my abc could learn a lesson from the bbc, that now use `representative-balance`, meaning, denier-scientists are only 3%, so deniers only get to spread their propaganda on 3% of the airtime. Likewise, brull and my abc shouild do the same, and let blot/Limited-news flounder in their own muck, and just ignore`em most of the time.

There is a lot of horse-shit in that Paul Bongiorno post.

WTF are you talking about?

So!
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2014/11/03/climate-change-tony-abbott-paul-bongiorno/

@TB