Re: Aus Federal Politics thread (VI)

[lardbucket]

surely you just take yours in in a bag

[skully]

hmmn...I aspire to having kept receipts...I would drive poor embee bonkers

Hehehe, it is the great man's one weakness, other than beer.

[Paul Keating]

Can't find anything online but does anyone know what the 1998 comments were that Abbott made. Peter Van Onselen says they are truly sexist and despicable.

[lardbucket]

I would imagine that virtually everybody in Australia has made some comment at some time since 1998 that does not stand close scrutiny.

Isn't this all just a bit pathetic?

[skully]

Isn't this all just a bit pathetic?

Sagacity.

[JGK]

Squared.


It should be like cycling. We agree that everyone is farked up. Let's forget about it and move on.

[JGK]

Can't find anything online but does anyone know what the 1998 comments were that Abbott made. Peter Van Onselen says they are truly sexist and despicable.

From PVO's article in The Australian:

In a round-table discussion, former NSW Labor minister Michael Costa declared that he hoped that his daughters had the same opportunities as his son. Abbott agreed, before adding: "But what if men are by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command?" That was 1998, not 1958.

[embee]

"but what if black men are by physiology or temperament more adapted to running faster over 100 metres?"

[PeterCS]

Just seen the vid.

Well spoken Julia, despite yer grating SuperAussie accent. Abbott is a complete & utter arseclown.

[skully]

Phurt, the arseclownery award is easily picked up by the Vulture and her amateurish cohorts. To label Abbott a misogynist (a hater of women) outright on the day that she supported the retention of that known woman-hating grub Slipper will be the final straw for this bumbling clod of a spiteful, lying and untrustworthy PM.

The stoopid Pinkos have misjudged the Aus public and have overplayed their hand on this tack.

[skully]

Meanwhile, on things that really matter

"Fair Work Australia has begun court proceedings against federal MP Craig Thomson over his alleged use of union credit cards to pay for prostitutes.

The national industrial umpire today lodged its claims against the former Labor MP turned independent in the Federal Court.

Mr Thomson faces civil action over a range of alleged offences. As well as the unauthorised use of union credit cards to pay for prostitutes, the claim covers cash advances totalling more than $102,337.45."

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Hopefully the qunt goes down (pardon the pun).

[Paul Keating]

Why oh why when you have such a hot wife

[JGK]

Why oh why when you have such a hot wife

Why does a dog lick its balls?

[skully]

Roxs-in-her-head tries to rig Slipper case

"THE Australian government solicitor threw 17 lawyers at its defence of sexual harassment claims brought by James Ashby against former speaker Peter Slipper.

Despite the extraordinary resources devoted to the case, the secretary of the Attorney-General's Department told a senate estimates hearing last night it was possible not all of Mr Slipper's vulgar text messages were read before the Commonwealth attempted to have the case struck out.

It also emerged that Julian Burnside QC was paid $4800 a day to represent the Commonwealth with the huge team devoted to defending the case partly explaining how the Commonwealth legal bill topped $700,000 in a case settled last month for just $50,000.

It also emerged that Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, who conceded on Monday after days of claiming professional privilege she knew of the contents of Mr Slipper's texts before the Commonwealth strike out application, that she was likely briefed on June 9.

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The skank tried to have the case thrown out. $700,000 of tax payers money thrown at this by the greasy haired light weight.

This Pinko Govt is a sham and a fraud.

[baggygreen]

Being able to read the DailyGaff without tearing out your eyes and even being able to link n quote. If that's not fraud I'm impressed. For your next trick are you going to quote Piers Akerman?

[JGK]

{snigger}

[skully]

Being able to read the DailyGaff without tearing out your eyes and even being able to link n quote. If that's not fraud I'm impressed. For your next trick are you going to quote Piers Akerman?

Pinko alert.

A wozzie, a crazy pinko, a cricket fan. Do you follow the Weagles? Are you a new Zimmy ID?

[embee]

I think they need to take a "mummy look" .....


A FILE detailing Julia Gillard’s role in helping set up a union slush fund from which her former boyfriend stole hundreds of thousands of dollars has disappeared.

Law firm Slater & Gordon yesterday said it could find no documents relating to the work done by Ms Gillard — a former salaried partner of the firm — in establishing the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association in 1992.

Police believe the association was used by Ms Gillard’s former boyfriend and senior AWU official Bruce Wilson to steal more than $400,000, including about $100,000 which helped fund the purchase of a Fitzroy unit bought with Ms Gillard’s professional assistance.

Slater & Gordon managing director Andrew Grech told The Age last night that the firm had not been able to locate any documents relating to the controversial transaction.
‘‘We have not been able to identify any such documents following extensive searches of our archival records,’’ Mr Grech said.

‘‘If there are such documents, we don’t have them. They could have been misplaced, or lost. I simply don’t know.’’

Ms Gillard resigned from Slater & Gordon after being challenged in September 1995 about her role in setting up the association without consulting senior colleagues and without opening a formal file on the firm’s computer system. She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Ms Gillard did, however, keep an unofficial file detailing the work which was found in a cabinet in her office after she initially claimed to have sent it to an undisclosed third party.

During a meeting with then senior partner Peter Gordon and general manager Geoff Shaw, Ms Gillard was shown and acknowledged the file, described in a transcript released two months ago as being ‘‘exactly right in front of’’ her.

Confirmation that the file is missing comes a day after the federal opposition called on Slater & Gordon to make public all records relating to the formation of the association to see whether a fresh police investigation was warranted.

Shadow attorney-general George Brandis claimed Ms Gillard may have broken the law by vouching for the bona fides of an organisation she later confirmed was a union election slush fund.

Registration documents prepared with her advice declared that the association was formed for the purpose of ‘‘development of changes to work to achieve safe workplaces’’.

But Ms Gillard confirmed at a media conference in August that she had told Mr Gordon and Mr Shaw that the association was a ‘‘slush fund’’ for union election campaigning.

A report in last Saturday’s Age revealed that the association had only been registered after Ms Gillard vouched for its legitimacy to West Australian authorities.

A copy of a letter she wrote to answer objections raised by the WA Corporate Affairs Commission about the association’s union connections is believed to have been contained in the missing file.

In response to a series of questions from The Age, MrGrech said Slater & Gordon had been unable to find any documents about the forming of association — including any letter sent to the Corporate Affairs Commission.

‘‘These matters relate to events occurring more than 18 years ago. In the ordinary course of events client files are destroyed after seven years unless there is some regulatory or other reason not to do so,’’ Mr Grech said.
For the past five weeks lawyers representing Ralph Blewitt, the former AWU state secretary and close associate of Bruce Wilson who registered the Workplace Reform Association, have been seeking access to records held by Slater & Gordon.

In a letter dated September 24, partner Leon Zwier of Arnold Bloch Leibler, representing Slaters, challenged Mr Blewitt’s claim.

‘‘It is not sufficient to claim that any documents we hold concerning the AWU Workplace Reform Association belong to your client simply because he was at some point an office holder of the association,’’ MrZwier wrote.

In reply, lawyers Galbally Rolfe, representing Mr Blewitt, said: ‘‘We note your admission on behalf of Slater & Gordon that they hold documents concerning the AWU Workplace Reform Association.’’

Mr Grech rejected as ‘‘highly defamatory and wrong’’ claims the firm was withholding information from former clients.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-files-missing-say-lawyers-20121016-27pfq.html#ixzz29W5dTpt3

[G.Wood]

Being able to read the DailyGaff without tearing out your eyes and even being able to link n quote. If that's not fraud I'm impressed. For your next trick are you going to quote Piers Akerman?

Pinko alert.

A wozzie, a crazy pinko, a cricket fan. Do you follow the Weagles? Are you a new Zimmy ID?

BG has made a sensible comment about gayball - he can't be zimmy

[skully]

Good to know.

[G.Wood]

he also hasn't called you a qunt

[skully]

FMD, the Mac Dic editor is a rad-lez-fem pinko

"THE opposition has attacked the Macquarie Dictionary for deciding to water down the meaning of the word "misogyny" following Julia Gillard’s use of the term to attack Tony Abbott.

Macquarie Dictionary editor Sue Butler told The Australian Financial Review today the political debate on the subject highlighted the need to expand the meaning of the word in its next edition."

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Dear God, pinkos are hiding everywhere, even behind library pince nez glasses.

[skully]

he also hasn't called you a banal qunt

Fixed, and give him time.

[bodyline]

Wilson has asked for (and been denied) immunity to tell the full story including documents.

[skully]

Interesting. She must've been a mega-dud root.

Is this inferring that he has the original unofficial file with all the true facts on it (like where he got the $100K deposit from) - you know, the one that went missing from the Gator and Slater offices?

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