Within Striking Distance but no Shirtfront!

You mean it was all just empty rhetoric & lame posturing designed to impress the easily impressed domestically?

How surprisement…

Maybe he did shirtfront but, but boris thought it was a blowfly?

Really, I hope the media point out just how much of a tool yabot has made of himself and our country on the international scene. But I’m betting they’ll eulogize him no matter what he does.

And the gubmint shows again that they are quite happy to wrap themselves in khaki to try and impress, but will abandon that khaki as soon as their purpose is done (in their view)

Two Western Australian World War II veterans who received honours for bravery have been invited to a lunch with the Australian and British prime ministers, but will have to pay their own way to Canberra and meet all expenses for the trip.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-10/no-free-lunch-for-wwii-bomber-brothers-who-won-highest-honour/5880230

“…Two Western Australian World War II veterans who received honours for bravery have been invited to a lunch with the Australian and British prime ministers, but will have to pay their own way to Canberra and meet all expenses for the trip…”

Fck, now that’s an outrage. They have no trouble paying for all their mates and their hangers on via taxpayer, but the people who have served this country and not themselves can go jump!

Every three years it’s just a different set of snouts in the trough.

but the people who have served this country and not themselves can go jump!

Well, it’s not like it was a wedding or anything.

“”I am now recanting and fully support them in their derision of this most petty and vindictive worm.””

So you now support prepaid booing ?

By the way………………..got any proof………..?

And how come they also booed John Howard ?

The hunter hunts his prey

What a fucken whimpering moron

Meanwhile, the people who are doing the actual fighting for yabots posturing, are being hit harder than was initially reported

The wife of a serving RAAF member about to be deployed to Iraq has lashed the federal government’s “insulting and non-consultative” pay offer and cuts to allowances.

“I could live with 1.5 per cent but it’s the other stuff they are cutting, they don’t talk about the allowances. It’s kind of a low blow,” she said.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/raaf-wife-lashes-governments-insulting-pay-offer-20141110-11jut2.html

“Interstellar” = “Interstinker” apparently

I have already had one review on the filum around the office TB. Dominated by mood music apparently, at the expense of discernible dialogue

I AGREE!. It was vomit inducing yomm.

But what is your opinion of a catty attack on Gillard doing it by bishop, and saying that pollies should be above that sort of thing, and then turning around and doing the same bloody thing later on.

Do you not think it hypocritical?

She doesn’t need to yomm, it is just obvious, to most of us.

But the question remains, do YOU think it is hypocritical?

Hypocrite!
No. You are
Am not. You are
Takes one to know one
Duh
La,la,la,la,la. I can’t hear you

It’s about time we got back to basics in politics.

Didn’t I say- the outrageous hypocrisy?

Now….la,la,la,la,la…

honets ❓ 😯

Obviously I was having difficulties with honest y:)

Poor widdle hockey. It’s all those nasty numbers fault.

Treasurer Joe Hockey has declined to deny independent analysis indicating a $51 billion hole in his budget, blaming tumbling iron ore prices for putting pressure on the bottom line.

What happened to “no excuses” grubmint?

The Treasurer has put Labor on notice saying the opposition will need to eventually help the government address the deficit, if it is serious about restoring the budget to surplus.

Sorry hockey, but how much “help” did you give the previous Government?

Although, this opposition has a good reason not to back this budget, unlike the previous opposition, whose reason was “well, it’s what oppositions do”

But Labor’s Treasury spokesman, Chris Bowen, said the opposition would not back the government’s “unfair budget” because it was “fundamentally bad for the economy”.

And Mr Bowen said Mr Hockey’s warning about diminishing revenues flew in the face of his previous claims in opposition that Australia did not have a revenue problem and accused the Treasurer of abandoning his May budget.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/joe-hockey-does-not-deny-analysis-showing-51-billion-hole-in-the-budget-blames-falling-iron-ore-price-20141111-11k70l.html#ixzz3IixJGEo2

Of course, they could simply re-instate the Carbon Prie and Mining Tax, that would go a long way to fixing the issue. So would getting the money from foreign companies evading their fair share of tax. Oh, that’s right, hockey sacked most of the people who used to do that.

facepalm

“Oh, your dog alright … you must be desperate if that’s the first thing you thought of …”

I only found out the meaning from a gay girlfriend who was describing a couple of police arrests in a park near where she lives a few weeks ago by chance.

Just co-incidence that you used the term just now LOL

“… are you a lesbian? Mmmmm ”

Mrs Walrus’ high school friend lives in an apartment overlooking Sydney Park in inner city St Peters (near Newtown in Sydney). It has a growing gay population and is starting to rival the traditional Oxford Street Surry Hills/Darlinghurst area. In fact it has much better restaurants

She witnesses a lot of …………ahem………..””incidents” ………..even during the day.

LOL

Lots of rustling in the bushes there these days apparently. And the rustlers don’t have 4 paws.

“Kneel believes that nothing should be done about foreign companies evading their fair share of tax, because…LAAAAAABOR!!!”

No. I just find it strange that Labor people are all of a sudden interested in this particular topic. It just seems insincere.

“Even Bill Heffernan can smell the stench…why can’t freemarketfundamentalist Tony of South Sewer?”

Bill Heffernan? You think he adds credibility to your conspiracy theory?

Next you’ll be quoting some leftoid-captured consumer advocacy group or other.

Speaking of Sydney, this seems balanced –

”IT’S one of the great cities of the world. Fantastic culture, infrastructure — and paradise for sports lovers.
But every time I go there, I leave frustrated.
Frustrated with Sydney, for failing to get it right.
———-
It shouldn’t be like that, but I know I’m not the only Sydneysider who feels this way.
We should look to Melbourne and learn from Melbourne.
Otherwise the gap is only going to widen.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/why-melbourne-makes-me-angry-as-a-sydneysider/story-fno61i58-1227119731285

“no amount of critical scrutiny of the TPP”

You’re all over the shop. You complain you’re not being told what’s in it, but claim you’re giving it critical scrutiny. Neat trick.

”””Two Western Australian World War II veterans(#pensioners.?) who received honours for bravery have been invited to a lunch with the Australian(#WHY.?) and British(#why.?) prime ministers, but will have to pay their own way to Canberra(#Why.?) and meet all expenses for the trip.”””

#is it punish old codgers week.? there doesn`t seem to be any up-side here.?

”””make sure you wear your CPA* lapel badge”””

and if you really want to impress, mention you have your `own` cubicle

”””they will rush it through without requisite consideration of the `actual` public good.””’
#of course they will, `public good` is an expensive non-requirement these days
.
”””I’m not suggesting they’ve seen the text yet.”””’
#hell, l wouldn`t even suggest that they`d even bother to look at the text in this case, each `team` will take their `turn` in fcuking us over with it, and they know it

For the last 6-years (between-knifings and internal self-destruction) teabag-lite `could` have changed this trough-snouting arrangement.

Were you asleep during those years, or so busy banging out inanities on your keyboard that reality passed you by?

One of Treasurer Joe Hockey’s first acts in office was to roll back Labor’s measures to tackle profit shifting and improving tax transparency – effectively handing back $1.1 billion to big global firms.
……
In government, Labor introduced tax integrity measures that would have kept billions of dollars of revenue in Australia, and as a constructive federal opposition, committed to policy solutions, Labor is working on new ways to tackle tax avoidance.
……
So while Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey keep working to open corporate tax loopholes, Labor will keep working to shut them down.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/australias-stance-on-tax-avoidance-out-of-step-says-bill-shorten-20141030-11ea47.html

as we all know,
painting `things` an ugly green color repulses people to the extent that they no longer wish to use those `things`,

You obviously slept through all those articles posted by the Kouk exposing the oz’s pale attempts to make similar claims that you are alluding to. I get it, you don’t like the green packets on ya smokes. Then it works!

lol Dianne 🙂

It’s official, yabot IS Brave Sir Robin

This paragraph sums it up pretty well imo ao

Let’s just be clear what these trade deals are about. They have nothing to do with “free trade,” in spite of the fact that the media routinely use that term to help sell TPP and TTIP. The formal trade barriers in the form of tariffs and quotas are already very low. This means that the traditional argument of gains from trade does not apply. These pacts are about putting in place a set of pro-business rules and regulations that would never pass through the normal political process.

I mean, look at the Japanese ‘free trade’ deal. They retain a large portion of their subsidies, while we have given away all of ours. And that is after giving away our automotive industries for them, and who knows what was promised in regards to submarines.

Free Trade ROFL

It just begs the question, what did yabot get for his family out of it? It seems to be how things are determined in this country now.

DOH ao, not s subscriber at Crikey anymore 😦

(We are in an alleged Budget Emergency (although mine seems to have been going on for 20 odd years )) 🙂

But this might be tied in

The most detailed breakdown yet of global fossil fuel subsidies has found that the US government provided companies with $5.2bn for fossil fuel exploration in 2013, Australia spent $3.5bn, Russia $2.4bn and the UK $1.2bn. Most of the support was in the form of tax breaks for exploration in deep offshore fields.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/11/rich-countries-subsidising-oil-gas-and-coal-companies-by-88bn-a-year

It’s a classic isn’t it Ricky. And it doesn’t look shopped at all 😉

Meanwhile, Labor making the right move here imo.

“Labor held a number of talks with Abbott government ministers to explore any options we could find to get this policy back on the rails and restore investor confidence,” Mr Butler told Fairfax Media.

“On that basis Labor has reached the view that there’s no value in continuing these discussions because there is no prospect of reaching an agreement.”

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-walks-away-from-ret-negotiations-20141111-11kkze.html

Will they grow a spine though with regards to sending more soldiers back into Iraq? Mission Creep? or the plan all along?

ELECTION NOW! TB? ❓

I don’t know, it sounds ideal, but all I can see is Chaos. No-ones ever happy, no matter what happens. Next thing, we’ll be having parents voting Principals in and out 😯

As tempting as it is to get rid of a wanker like pyne NOW() , we’re stuck with him for the interim. How else do we learn not to make such an abysmal mistake again? It would become a revolving door of vested interests pushing their barrows. A constant election footing.

That’s how I see it panning out anyhow 😉

I’d also ask Tony, did the letter above change anything, or is the TPP still as secretive as it was back then?

Has the ISDS system changed in any way since then?

(I think we know the answer to both) 😉

Yeah, I’ve been trying to tell you guys democracy is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Especially when you lose 😦 😉

I don’t know much about ISDS, Tom R, but I did find this enlightening.

I found this enlightening. It is a link I have put up before. While I see the use in IDS, I don’t think we should be pursuing any until the system itself is rectified. Their is far too many examples of it being misused imo for it to continue in the form it presently has.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/isds-the-devil-in-the-trade-deal/5734490#transcript

http://thekouk.com/blog/consumer-sentiment-moribund-wage-growth-remains-at-record-lows.html#.VGK9VX8aySN

A couple of dozen independents like Andrew Wilkie or Ted Mack (or Senator Xenophon) would make a huge and beneficial impact.

Mind you, at the moment, the pups are the ones responsible for holding up some of the worst in the budget, so …………..

“…If only anyone could have foreseen that a billionaire buying his influence in parliament could go bad … oh wait…”

I think everyone knew that, who the hell voted for him and thought he would be good for the nation anyway?
Next we’ll have Gina and twiggy running for office or buying up all the media for their own political propaganda and public influence, we already have that other squillionaire Malcolm turnbull deciding how best to get more $ to his business mates.

Big business is writing government policy and openly siphoning off government funding while telling the paupers they have to tighten their belts, tells you exactly what kind of people are representing us.

IT’S TIME
to turf the lot of them out along with their think tanks and secret funding vehicles that show no donor names or amounts. Lets start again from scratch as they are all corrupt and corrupted, as is our entire political system.

“*while shamefully, Xenophon is pure evil for trying to obstruct the exploitation of gambling addicts…”

Xenophon is an answer looking for a question. A rulemaker looking for a rulebreaker. A cause looking for a rebel.

Plus, he’s from South Australia!

“In a speech to the Senate on 17 November 2009, Xenophon labelled the Church of Scientology as a criminal organisation, making allegations of members experiencing blackmail, torture and violence, labour camps and forced imprisonment, and coerced abortions, echoing other criticisms of Scientology… In September 2011, Xenophon said he was disappointed with a Fair Work Ombudsman’s final report into the Church of Scientology.”

I think you’re a bit picky Albert

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