Will the Abbott Government call an Early Election?

I’m pretty sure they will. I mean, do you think they really want to have to go through another budget humiliation?

Bring it on 😉

doesn’t want Unionland bosses to have the same sort of responsibilities as company directors.

Is that because they have a different function than company directors, or because the levels of corruption for Unions is so vastly lower than companies?

and fer “accuracy” and “context”

VOTE INFORMAL!

I was just going to wear a T-shirt and jeans

Love good satire,/i>

That was satire? I thought it was a re-enactment. My bad 😉

An update from the qanda where the Labor grubmint had to defend itself from Greens attacks for Greens decisions and a grubmint too scared to defend itself.

FactCheck: Could a whistleblower go public without fear of prosecution under the Border Force Act?
……
Verdict

Marles was correct in his statement that medical professionals employed under the Border Force Act 2015 are able to make public disclosures about their concerns.

https://theconversation.com/factcheck-could-a-whistleblower-go-public-without-fear-of-prosecution-under-the-border-force-act-44467

Are those numbers in the figure correct?

Now TB, THAT’S how you do satire 😉

This Royal Commission into unions is a set up! Union guys are only trying to get better jobs for members!!

The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has boycotted a royal commission hearing in Canberra that has heard a formwork company owner was forced to pay $135,000 to secure work.
The claim by Elias Taleb at a Royal commission into trade union governance and corruption hearing came as lawyers for the ACT branch of CFMEU decided to not attend the opening day on Monday, protesting over the timetable.
Counsel-assisting Jeremy Stoljar questioned Taleb throughout the morning, but there were no representatives for the union present.
The 35-year-old company owner detailed how he gave more than $135,000 to a CFMEU organiser named as Fihi – who is now no longer part of the union – during 2012 and 2013 to secure jobs in the capital.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/13/cfmeu-boycotts-unions-commission-which-hears-of-massive-bribe-payments

Tom R see here and here:

So, not “cash”, as you keep implying.

who is now no longer part of the union

Probably a pertinent point 😉

I’m pretty sure you really don’t believe it was corruption but I’m not going on with that argument.

Corruption would imply that one party benefited at the expense of another. Both parties appear to have benefited (employee and employer) That’s just good negotiating.

Cash is bundles of money, this was wages paid for an individual

and another…

How many has this $80 million “uncovered” (as opposed to rehashed from what Union members have already exposed)?

Indonesia live beef trade reduced by 80% from 250,000 to 50,000 because Tony is the best friend the farmer ever had

And if Labor did not ban the cattle trade maybe Indonesia may not have tried so hard to develop their own market and to find a more reliable supplier.

Actually the current economic numbers….

De facto bankrupting of an SRC is the traditional way to purge anathematised socialist clubs and activities, yes. Viz. Raisin’ Debtor Joe: if we don’t reduce the debt’n’deficit disaster now (and we didn’t, we doubled-down), sadly, much larger cuts will have to be made later.

And for “historical” purposes only 😉

Oh yes that Great Big Tax is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

How much compensation will there be this time Bill……………………………..None ?

Boats Policy and Carbon Tax will be the election battlegrounds

Boats Policy and Carbon Tax will be the election battlegrounds

True Dat. And already, the journos are asking the in depth questions

“But isn’t this a carbon tax”

Was always going to happen

Labor should answer,” if it, then so is direct inaction.”

Well, he thought his last two budgets were victories too reb 😉

• Doubling the Deficit in less than 2 years

That cannot be correct The results for Hockeys first budget (May 2014) are not known until September this year. Until then they are just projections.

But it will be hard to be as wrong as Swan. Labor predicted a $20B surplus for their first budget and it ended up being a $20B deficit. A $40B turnaround.

• Insulting Indonesia
• Damaging the Beef Industry

It was Rudd/Gillard who tapped the Indonesians phones and banned some of their food supply.

I think it’s an accumulation of slights tomM.

I agree AO-
* It was clearly a dreadful affront to tap the phone of the president and his family
* Stopping the live cattle was perceived as slight about their civility
* The harping on about stopping the boats has been more than an irritation
* There is no way the Australian government should have been any more diplomatic about the executions, but this appears to be the issue that the current regime has taken the greatest offense about

The Indonesian politicians get plenty of political mileage from being tough on Australia

Insulting China

I wonder what the Chinese thought about Kevin Rudds comments?

China observers held such high hopes for our Sinophile PM.

From famously telling journalists covering the Copenhagen climate negotiations that those “Chinese ratfuckers are trying to rat-fuck us”, to advising Hillary Clinton that it was in Washington’s interests to prepare for armed conflict with China, or criticising China’s human rights record at a public lecture in Beijing, history tells us that Rudd was very much our false messiah.

http://confuciusinstitute.unsw.edu.au/in-the-media/gillards-china-visit-silver-platter-abbott/

“………….destined to be a commercial powerhouse in the next decades,”

Heard it all before

Point to one single Muslim nation that can claim that status now and I might believe you.

But I doubt it

* It was clearly a dreadful affront to tap the phone of the president and his family

Yes, Labor should not have continued Howards policy. And yabot shouldn’t have told them to “harden up” about it.

* Stopping the live cattle was perceived as slight about their civility

Actually, it was perceived as a stand against their treatment of cattle. And it worked (to date)

* The harping on about stopping the boats has been more than an irritation

Telling them that we don’t care if it infringes on their Sovereignty makes it FAR more than an irritation, and sending our warships INTO their territory makes it far more than far more than an irritation.

* There is no way the Australian government should have been any more diplomatic about the executions, but this appears to be the issue that the current regime has taken the greatest offense about

I don’t think the executions make much difference to the diplomatic position one way or another. Mind you, holding up our aid as some kind of bargaining chip won’t help.

Let’s face it, the Indonesians have pleaded then warned yabot about his actions and words, but it falls on deaf ears. To try and blame anything they do to us now on years old actions when right here and now we have their PM and FM telling us to change our tune makes it clear what any action they take is in response to.

The only other excuses for this is either they are not selling the cattle domestically any more, or they have found another source. Both of these scenarios “should” have been anticipated. If they are the case, why were we not aware? Were our trade ministers asleep at the wheel? Too busy threatening Dogs with murder and ramping up fear about SSM?

Apparently this was Photoshopped

I’d assumed they’d photographed him after walking out of 2 days of #turd

“stopping the food” by the previous ALP government

Perhaps you can link to the cases of starvation and mass food shortages experienced in Indonesia following the ban?

* Stopping the live cattle was perceived as slight about their civility

Got a link to prove that’s how the Indonesians perceived this?

“Perhaps you can link to the cases of starvation and mass food shortages experienced in Indonesia following the ban?”

It was inflationary.

That’s why they now want other sources.

From a call I made today ( I have a rather large investment in agriculture) we will manage to eventually ship or package the animals but packaging requires our northern pastures to be used to fatten them prior to packaging. Live cattle are shipped lean not fattened.

If anything the Indos have shot themselves in the foot because informally they said they required 250K which were gathered to be ready. Now they noone will rely on their informal requests in future which will mean they will need to issue permits earlier or get the scaps if its presold.

Apparently they forgot we now have a very large abbatoir in Darwin (previously no major one in our Deep North)

But hey my family has been involved in cattle since 1841. What the fuck would my cousin know

“…………what sort of “business” people rely on “informal requests” … for 250,000 head of cattle!”

I suppose when there is a certain level of trust built up between traders over many many quarters they prepare if official rumours are circulated. Especially up North.

Apparently the word was out last Thursday about what was about to happen

Indonesia was in the past a major departure point for vessels carrying migrants to Australia but departures have almost entirely stopped since Canberra introduced tougher border controls. ..

And Rudd/Gillard/Labor said it couldn’t be done.

trying to shoot the messenger.

The messenger shot themselves when they told Shorten not to answer questions in a manner that prove he did nothing wrong. This lot is so obvious, if the media weren’t so far up their arse, it wouldn’t get any legs at all

You seem to think the Indonesians can’t understand why the live trade was stopped temporarily.

You seem to think they didn’t regard the action as a slight against them.

the Indonesians said there were only isolated examples of mistreatment of cattle.

Except for the widespread cases exposed I guess, unlike #turd, which has seen rare cases blown up out of all proportion

are you defending the actions of Boss Ludwig’s son in peremptorily suspending the live cattle trade?

Yes, because it was clear that the industry could not govern itself. We now have a vibrant industry with worlds best practices ……. oh, that’s right, looks yabots killed that one too.

Tom R still seems to think that the Indonesians weren’t offended by the Australian Government stopping the supply of this food to the country.

…that’s because it was an ALP government that stopped the food.

I reckon ltdnews can put this under a banner “mission accomplished”

http://www.news.com.au/national/pew-research-concludes-australians-most-fear-the-threat-of-is/story-fncynjr2-1227443702918

Link-

Actually, it was perceived as a stand against their treatment of cattle.

Do you really think this is how Indonesians perceived it when the Australian Government stopped the supply of this food to them?

They considered it a politically driven over reaction and a slight. Do you disagree with that?

https://theguttertrash.com/2015/07/13/will-the-abbott-government-call-an-early-election/#comment-110200

nice one wally

Indonesia flagged its ambition to make its beef market self-sufficient before the Four Corner’s story went to air but we reckon………… wawawa

Do you really think this is how Indonesians perceived it when the Australian Government stopped the supply of this food to them?

The LINK I put up confirmed that. They were upset other nations didn’t get the ban cos they reckon they were just as bad.

My first “link?” query was in fact asking if you could show where I said I think that the Indonesians weren’t offended? cos I never said that. I disagreed with your claim that they took it as a slight against their “civility”

Them defending themselves with “others are as bad” isn’t a slight against their “civility”. It is them accepting (perhaps) that they have an issue, but pointing the fingers at others they think also do (and probably do)

when the Australian Government stopped the supply of this food to them?

Like the insertion if “this” 😉

How many aussies swore they wouldn’t holiday in Indonesia after the state murders of chan and sukamaran?

We are right to stop sales of cattle when they are brutally and inhumanely slaughtered as they were. The cattle industry had long needed reform on that issue. If youre going to raise cattle for profit then you should at least have some morals and ethics regarding their slaughter.

The Indonesians took it as a slight, they considered that they were being singled out, they thought the decision was an over reaction.

I don’t disagree with that.

But a “slight” is far different than what yabot has been dishing out to them, both from opposition and when in grubmint

We are right to stop sales of cattle when they are brutally and inhumanely slaughtered as they were

I AGREE!

Nothing to see here…………LOL

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/cfmeu-denies-commission-boycott/story-e6frfku9-1227443840249

Great. How many CFMEU officials have been convicted over the past decade?

Per head the CFMEU officials must have more convictions than about any other occupation.

Is it the culture or their shoddy selection processes?

He claims he resigned but he got a redundancy payment.

And TB still believes him ………………………………………hillarious

Cant wait to see this new carbon tax and the “household efficiency scheme (HES)” they tried to keep secret.

There was talk amongst Green types awhile back of requiring people to get a Certificate of Energy Efficiency in order to sell their house. I wonder………………………….LOL

Abbott cant be that lucky…………….or can he ?

Australia’s decline in union membership (density) has been more significant than most other industrialised countries.

That’s probably because of the entirely warranted reputation of a number of Australian unions

Unions have to get out of partisan politics and refocus on their members.

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=UN_DEN

Meanwhiler, verrry quiet from certain sections over bronnie the kero’s rorting of taxpayer money. Keep yer heads down peeps 😉

Yes, she SHOULD go

Under current rules, Mrs Bishop was required to sign a form confirming that the charter was for her “office holder duties”. The form states that “knowingly giving false or misleading information is a serious offence” under the Criminal Code.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bronwyn-bishop-could-lose-job-despite-helicopter-expenses-refund-20150716-gie093.html#ixzz3g5qzucoz

Andrew Elder looks deeper into bronnie territory, and reckons someone (hockey??) is guning further up the chain.

Now the rorting spotlight has fallen on Bronwyn Bishop. This, however, is no grassroots campaign from far beyond the manicured lawns of Canberra. It’s not even a NewsCorp stitch-up, and it certainly isn’t opposition research. It’s an inside job from the government.

http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/the-smell-of-kerosene.html

Labor has a document leaked (and it could be from them, or it could be from one of the business interests they were working with, which would be more likely?) and it’s LEADERSHIT!. In fact, I never even read about the business interests except in some back water blogs. The msm had assumed it was a Labor leak, and run with that.

Nothing about this angle in regards to bronnie or yabot in the msm though. It’s as uninteresting as ashbygate etal apparently.

“Nine out of 10 suburbs worst affected by the combined impact of the Abbott government’s two budgets are in Labor-held seats.”

Well what do you expect ?

If a government is trying to cut the abuse and proliferation of Welfare its naturally going to have an effect on those seats that are full of Society’s overflow of Labor voting welfare cheats and deadbeats.

They do tend to gather together where the Centrelink Offices are plush and where there are plenty of shops and clubs for them to get their smokes in the morning, booze on in the afternoon, pokies in the early evening, baked beans on toast for dinner, and a warm bed to continue the entire breeding cycle at night.

Then back into the rythym when they crawl out of bed with a hangover by 11am the next day.

Of course Welfare cuts will affect their wretched lives

Once upon a time, the Liberals would expel a member speaking at a racist rally.

Being anti-Islam is not being racist. Islam is a belief system which a lot of people disagree with. The person who should be expelled is the person who said being anti-Islam is racist.

By the way why does “the left” spend so much time defending Islam?

without the union adverts no-one would have known nor understood what Workchoices was really going to do …

You may be right or you may be wrong. Where i used to work you can now cash in your annual leave which is something Workchoices allowed you to do and Unions were against.

So Islam is a race?-
• So are Christians (though Catholics are a separate race, so are Baptists)
• Jews are a separate race too (particularly the Polish ones)
• Buddhists are a race
• Egyptian Muslims are a separate race to the Christian ones

“I’ve probably hired and fired more people than you’ll ever avoid taxes for …”

Ya not much of an “expert” if you have never heard of “Constructive Dismissal”.

Although there was no hint of that in this case at the RC.

But you still believed the ex CFMEU guy anyway……………here I go again ROFLMAO

Well, since you raised Bishop… what a shocking rort.

I was at a political dinner a few years ago (an annual non partisan event) while Gillard was PM, Gillard gave the (incredibly uninspiring) speech. I sat next to Bronwyn.

Bishop hissed under her breath throughout the speech – “lair, bitch…” (quietly), but it seemed like some form of compulsive disorder.

Ask Tony Burke.

About bronnie kero?

Why the unhingement over Tony Burke?

Does this explain it?

But will the AFP stir from their slumber?

So, what excuse will the AFP use in order not to look into it this time?

Pat Conroy's letter to the AFP on Bronwyn Bishop http://t.co/l7xNZDzsQy—
Adam Gartrell (@adamgartrell) July 17, 2015

Well, hasn’t taken the AFp long to run to protect their benefactors.

Will this go further.? Seems to be a lot of angst amongst keyboard warrior. Will it make any difference?

I’m not expert on “guidelines”, but even yabot makes up bullshit “pressers” or “factory visits” to hide his expenses when attending party functions and claiming them. Now, it appears these are being stretched.

On Saturday, she not only stuck by that view, but said she would keep using taxpayers’ money to attend party fundraisers, something that is clearly unacceptable, regardless of whether it is within some nebulous guidelines or not.

http://www.afr.com/news/politics/bishop-digs-a-deeper-hole-for-herself-20150718-gifc1a?stb=twt

Is bishop just the test case so that yabot won’t be burdened by these extra ‘hassles’ and he can concentrate on what the taxpayers are paying him for, pushing his political agenda within his own party?

But as for the AFP, they have been on the nose for a while now, especially since their harassment of Slipper and Thomson at the libs beckoning.

Bishop is of the hook regarding labor’s referral of the matter to the Australian federal Police. The AFP, which went after Peter Slipper for the dodgy use f $900 in Cabcharges, has dogged it on Bishop and left it up the Finance Department, led by Secretary Jane Halton, to investigate the mater. That as good as kills it off.

We may never now know whether Bishop declared the chopper ride as “official business”. She won’t release the form and Halton, who helped cover up the children overboard outrage in 2001, is unlikely to do anything to hurt the government.

Something stinks in the state of Australia

The confrontation shows what ALP/Greens people are like. They believe in their own moral superiority and do not like other people having different opinions. They also like locking people up like all the asylum seekers ALP/Greens people locked up.

People should be allowed to have a peaceful rally but ALP/Lefties often will not allow it.

Slimy, slinky and definitely stinky!

I think Bishop should resign. But it is hard to beat this for stinkiness.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/07/31/young-looking-refugees-sent-offshore

Young-looking children were chosen to be transferred to the harsh Manus Island refugee detention centre to discourage other refugees from coming to Australia, an inquiry has heard….Gregory Lake, the former director of offshore processing and transfers at the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, told the inquiry he was directed by a ministerial staff member to choose the youngest-looking children from among those eligible for the first transfer of detained people from Australia to Manus Island in 2012, when Labor was in government.

Brought to you by the people who voted ALP/Greens in 2007.

I went looking for comments to Bolt’s story and was sadly disappointed … nary a letter … or expletive

It was commented on during the week but since you lefties took Bolt to court he needs moderators to review the comments before posting. And on the weekend he does not have moderators.

Another example of lefties banning things they do not like

upon Peter Slipper for less rorting of similar ‘entitlements’

I am not up on this case but Slipper i believe is somewhat different. Visiting winefields has nothing to do with politics. Furthermore i am guessing he offended multiple times, was given multiple warnings and still kept offending.

But Bronnie should go. Just goes to show that with age doesn’t mean you have increased wisdom.

The internets memory holes

The Opposition is calling for Peter Slipper to stand aside until he has been cleared of all the allegations against him, as the embattled Speaker faces new claims of travel rorts.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/slipper-should-step-down-until-all-matters-cleared–pyne-20120422-1xfoy.html#ixzz3gJVbBjzC

While Bishop just burbles and burps bullshit … values? LNP nil …

I agree with the bit about Bronnie but you are on dangerous ground saying the ALP has higher standards.

Every convicted child abusing member of Parliament has been a member of the ALP.

Also check out this list of crimes. See if you can match the crime with the pictures in the link

http://pickeringpost.com/story/those-who-aspire-to-lead-us/1121

Labor MP: Found Guilty of immigration fraud, conspiracy to defraud, bribery and soliciting. He was sentenced in 2002 to six years’ jail.

a reminder that The Firm is a German family (changed their name in WWI for obvious reasons)

Sounds like you are racist against Germans. I do remember from my school days that the angles, saxons and jutes invaded and settled England. I think the English have lots of German blood in them.

About James

James was Campaign Director for both the Queensland Liberal National Party and the Northern Territory Country Liberals in their successful election campaigns in 2012. Previously he was Deputy Federal Director of the Liberal Party with responsibility for campaigns and campaigning with specific overview of target seats in Queensland for the 2010 Federal Election.

In fact I’m against “royal Firms” in any shape or form

One advantage of a monarchy for the British is that it gives a non-political head of State. When there is a major disaster like a school shooting that happens the Queen can turn up and offer comfort. With the USA the President will turn up but he will always be a Democrat or Republican politician.

Also for the British the Monarchy is a tourist attraction. Nobody would visit Britain to see where the President lives but they will turn up to see Buckingham Palace