Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (XI)

[skully]

... better education outcomes for Oz is improving school attendance via punitive measures on families and truants...

Hmm, you are sounding dangerously like a pompous i-Gener, h. The approach that you are bagging is exactly what you and I grew up to, and I dare say we turned out a shitload better than the spoiled tattoo-ed & pierced drivel that the education system is churning out now, with their "you can't impose discipline on students because it's discriminatory" palaver, and "oh dear, my son/daughter is so stressed - the education system is so hard and stressful on youngsters" sookery.

Give yourself an uppercut, man. One of your more poorly considered posts.

[horace]

so when some nth shore nob takes his kids out of school for an experience in paris you will support fining them...

schools are getting more success in getting kids to stay longer...those that hang on by a fingernail will not enrol iif they are being fined...if you want to push kids into crime Pyne has the recipe...

sure I got flogged at school and for my pains can recite the rhyme of the ancient mariner and recite the times table...I would prefer to leave teaching methods and school engagement policies and practice to eductationalists than to nob pollies...similarly I would prefer nob pollies not decree on the efficacy of various methods of surgery from a basis of abject ignorance..

sure most boomers can recite their times table but remain mathematically enumerate...sure most boomers can recite poetry learned from detention or being beaten, but few are moved by it....

[skully]

Tenuous at best, complete bullshit at worst.

You fit right into the "let 'em do what ever they like, they'll turn out just fine" but-then-whinge-&-moan-when-they-turn-out-whiney-useless-sooks brigade.

And yet you high five the Chinese for their draconian one-child policy.

[insert "parenting" sledge here]

Hmm, you are all over the place like Midge usually is.  

[horace]

Skully......I would rather educationalists develop curriculum than the MM, Pyne or even worse, Noel Pearson....these policies go back to button up boots

[JGK]

so when some nth shore nob takes his kids out of school for an experience in paris you will support fining them...
.

Move along. Nothing to see here....

 

[G.Wood]

Do DOCS know about that?

[JGK]

Well I figure that it's nothing most of the rest of the North Shore hasn't done at some stage...

[horace]

and of course it was an educational experience

[horace]

gives new meaning to experiential learning

[horace]

good grief....yet more foeign affairs stuff ups from Australia...

China is understandably miffed at the blind support Oz is publicly giving the increasingly bellicose nationalist Japanese govt

and in another spy stuff up the E Timorese are accusing Oz (back in ljh's day) of spying on the ET govt when the off shore gas fields rights were being negotiated...the ET Govt wrote to the ALP govt and got no response - seems the current thickheads are adopting the same position....

The MM's govt seems to have problems with govts led by non white folks...

[embee]

...except the Japs?

[horace]

them especially...that is why they are tugging the foreluck in time honored pig iron bob fashion

[horace]

them especially...that is why they are tugging the foreluck in time honored pig iron bob fashion

[embee]

China declares airspace defence zone over uninhabited islands

US flies two B52 through the area

Japan continues to fly their commercial airliners through the area

Bishop says Oz position is same as always

Horrie declares a foreign affairs stuff up by Oz

[horace]

China declares airspace defence zone over uninhabited islands

US flies two B52 through the area

Japan continues to fly their commercial airliners through the area

Bishop says Oz position is same as always

Horrie declares a foreign affairs stuff up by Oz

 

chinese have ticked Oz embassador off ...bishop says one thing and then another...maybe it is her unforch second name or that she is a worrier that makes her such a dill...but daresay Carr would have done the same...but not publicly rebuke the Chinese....bizarro that we are siding with the uber nationalist regime running Japan these days

[Hass]

I think I now have a ready reckoner for how to judge Abbott's foreign policy depending on what action he takes.

Abbott criticises China = stuff-up for upsetting China
Abbott stays silent on China = stuff-up for being craven

Abbott critices Sri Lanka = stuff-up for upsetting Sri Lanka
Abbott stays silent on Sri Lanka = stuff-up for being craven

Abbott refuses to apologise to Indonesia = stuff-up for upsetting Indonesia
Abbott acknowledges spying and apologises = stuff-up for being craven

So in short: Abbott does anything = stuff-up

[embee]

You've cut and pasted that from Fairfax's Political Reporting Policies and Procedures

[JGK]

You've cut and pasted that from Fairfax's Political Reporting Policies and Procedures

Actually, the whole thing is like a Fairfax v News competing editorial policies. Clearly Abbott knows which side his bread is buttered.

[JGK]

Hockey chokes at his first test...

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hockey-prohibits-adms-graincorp-bid-20131129-2yf7j.html

[horace]

lap band Jo takes it up another notch

[JGK]

Grain Corp shares fall 25% today because Hockey is Barnaby's Bitch.

[Big Dog]

Grain Corp shares fall 25% today because Hockey is Barnaby's Bitch.

Graincorp is a poorly run organisation. Blocking the sale will not only stop foreign companies from setting prices on Australian wheat but should force Graincorp to get its house in order & fully represent our graingrowers in the international marketplace.

[embee]

Another Pinko leader being investigated by the police ...

[JGK]

Which one? Robertson?

[embee]

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