Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (III)

[Bradman]

Wasn't being a column mouthpeice what the Parrot got in trouble for in London?

Passing a passage from a Frederick Forsyth novel off word for word and claiming it as editorial content didn't help much either. Though it didn't seem to affect his standing with the dipsh1ts he claims as "battlers".

[Big Dog]

I sort of can see both sides of this. If it wasn't Bolt I might(maybe, perhaps) have problems with it.

Rights come with responsibility ???.

I was always taught with great privilege comes great responsibility. I think if you're lucky enough to score a national column/mouthpiece gig you've got a duty to use it responsibly.

Doesn't seem to have stopped the ABC from having a left wing bias.

[Bradman]

I sort of can see both sides of this. If it wasn't Bolt I might(maybe, perhaps) have problems with it.

Rights come with responsibility ???.

I was always taught with great privilege comes great responsibility. I think if you're lucky enough to score a national column/mouthpiece gig you've got a duty to use it responsibly.

Doesn't seem to have stopped the ABC from having a left wing bias.

Well I'd say the ABC generally has an anti-govt bias. Though when your head right winger gives you so much material......?

[skully]

In the news...

Carbon tax cost-of-living rises no dramas for Pollies

"THE nation's 226 federal MPs are in line for a major pay rise and backbenchers are tipped to almost double their salary to $250,000 a year.
And if the expectations of some MPs are realised, Cabinet members, the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader would earn much more than that.

The Remuneration Tribunal is reviewing MPs' pay and is expected to report at the end of the year. The tribunal, which was handed the power to determine MP pay rates earlier this year, has already claimed parliamentarians are underpaid for their work."

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I suppose we need to pay the pollies a decent salary to attract suckers to do the job, but FFS, DOUBLING their pay??? And considering the qunt of a job the pinkos have done, that's clearly money for jam.


AND...


The stubborn Vulture won't but

"DUMPING the unpopular carbon tax could deliver a boost to Julia Gillard's sagging electoral stocks, according to a new opinion poll.
One in three voters said they would be more likely to vote Labor if the Government got rid of the controversial tax."

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So the pinkos could gain the votes of up to 32% of voters if they dumped the useless and grossly unpopular carbon tax policy. But the stubborn Vulture will soldier on "doing the right thing". I hope she is signing her and her party's political death warrant.

[Bradman]

Unpopular doesn't ’mean wrong”

[Mick Sawyer]

Doesn't seem to have stopped the ABC from having a left wing bias.

ffs Big Dog.

No one is saying that Bolt isn't entitled to conservative views. What I'm celebrating is that one of these prominent media types is finally held to account for telling flagrant & deliberate lies.

[skully]

Unpopular doesn't ’mean wrong”

Spoken like a demented communist.

[Bradman]

Fred Hollows was a communist. I,m in good company.

[Big Dog]

Peter Cundall is also a Communist & he is a complete Twat.

[Bradman]

Tony Abbott is a complete twat and he,s not a communist.

[embee]

He might be one tomorrow if it suits his agenda

[Bradman]

Might.

[lardbucket]

Peter Cundall is also a Communist & he is a complete Twat.

twatsky?

[Bradman]

Royal Navy. Looks old enough to have been in a mutiny. sh!thouse gardening advice if you love near the equator.

[lardbucket]

Aye, I know who he is. I've marched with him ...

[Bradman]

Got a good friend who owns some land around the proposed pulp mill and loves the guy. Watched him prune a climber once which involved cutting the thing from the top down and keep going to it resembled a Bon
Sai.

Just another good reason to love the ABC.

[G.Wood]

I'm confused (again)

How could the pokie reforms do nothing to reduce the amount of money the problem gamblers waste but will destroy the clubs by reducing the amount they get from pokies?

Yes I have been in the billy sun and have gone slightly pink

[JGK]

Aye. It's like plain packaging for cigarettes. Won't reduce cigarette use but will drive retailers out of business.

[G.Wood]

I can't believe that nobody has come out and said how abhorrent it is that the clubs think that it is their right to be able to continue to profit from the misery of these poor farkers

I should have worn a hat

[JGK]

Plenty are saying it. They just don't have an advertising budget (other than GetUp during the GF).

[horace]

Aye. It's like plain packaging for cigarettes. Won't reduce cigarette use but will drive retailers out of business.

not those flogging the x hundred thous fake designer cigarette cases that have been imported and will be snapped up

[Big Dog]

I can't believe that nobody has come out and said how abhorrent it is that the clubs think that it is their right to be able to continue to profit from the misery of these poor farkers

I should have worn a hat

Its up the the "poor farkers" to take responsibility for their own actions. Wilkie is meddling in area's that should'nt concern the Government. Just another example of Big Brother, Nanny State politics that is slowly removing our freedom of choice.

[G.Wood]

I can't believe that nobody has come out and said how abhorrent it is that the clubs think that it is their right to be able to continue to profit from the misery of these poor farkers

I should have worn a hat

Its up the the "poor farkers" to take responsibility for their own actions. Wilkie is meddling in area's that should'nt concern the Government. Just another example of Big Brother, Nanny State politics that is slowly removing our freedom of choice.

err that is what the legislation is designed to allow.

They get to set their limit when they are relatively sane, and not rely on making decisions after they have become hypnotised by the evil things

[JGK]

I can't believe that nobody has come out and said how abhorrent it is that the clubs think that it is their right to be able to continue to profit from the misery of these poor farkers

I should have worn a hat

Its up the the "poor farkers" to take responsibility for their own actions. Wilkie is meddling in area's that should'nt concern the Government. Just another example of Big Brother, Nanny State politics that is slowly removing our freedom of choice.

We should scrap the pension while we are at it. If you can't afford not to work then you shouldn't retire.

[JGK]

And we should sell cigarettes and beer at school canteens.

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