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The tricky traffic pattern between Park Avenue and Broad Street is driving away customers, say two Park Avenue business owners.
Compton Ferreire, owner of Compton's Pancake House, estimates business is down about 22 percent since Stroudsburg enacted an ordinance making Lenox, Robeson and Bryant streets and Clermont Avenue between Park Avenue and Broad Street one-way heading west.
"I had to cut some employee hours. One employee left because of his lost hours," Ferreire said. "My hands are tied, though. What can you do except wait for the work to be over and hope for the best?"
On June 14, the Seventh Street Bridge closed for a $7.9 million replacement project, scheduled to be finished November 2012.
On June 27, Stroudsburg Borough officials enacted the one-way street ordinance to prevent people who are getting off Route 80 at the Park Avenue exit from cutting through these streets to access Broad Street rather than follow the state Department of Transportation's detour route.
Borough officials also expressed concerns that the extra traffic would damage the side streets' infrastructure and endanger the safety of children who live in those neighborhoods.
"Lenox should be two-way. If it were, my business would probably have only dropped off between 5 and 10 percent," Ferreire said.
Lenox Street is bordered by the Pocono Record office and a hotel on one side and six houses on the other.
Drivers who turn left off the Park Avenue exit and don't yet realize they cannot make a right onto Lenox Street end up making a U-turn in the middle of the street or turning right onto Lenox, despite the one-way sign.
Earlier this month, one tractor-trailer driver who made the wrong turn came into Compton's and asked a customer if he could move his car so the truck driver could cut through the parking area between the pancake house and the Budget Host Inn and through the Pocono Record parking lot, Ferreire said.
Last week, a five-foot brick wall that separates the Budget Host Inn parking lot from Compton's was knocked down.
Hotel owner Krish Patel said no one saw who knocked it over, but they assume it was from one of the many tractor-trailers they've seen exiting the wrong way off the interstate.
He estimates hotel business is down 30 percent since the one-way streets were enacted.
Customers check in at the front office on Park Avenue and must drive around the block in order to park in the lot behind the hotel.
"It doesn't look very good if you have a hotel, does it?" said manager Dee Patel. "If you drive somewhere for two hours, you just want to be able to get to your room and relax."
Some guests have checked out after one night when they found out about the construction and new traffic pattern, Krish Patel said.
He hired an attorney who sent a letter to the borough asking if Lenox could be made two-way, or a portion of the street made two-way for hotel traffic only.
Patel is still waiting to hear from the borough.
Borough officials briefly discussed the letter at their July 6 meeting, but did not take action on it.
Borough attorney Ralph Matergia was concerned that making Lenox Street two-way would make the traffic pattern even more confusing.
Borough Manager Barbara Quarantello said more signs are on order for the side streets.
To date, the borough has received 18 letters from residents voicing their concerns. The responses were split up the middle, with about half agreeing with the new traffic pattern and half against, borough officials said.
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Gillard's mud-slinging finale
Piers Akerman
–, Monday, December, 03, 2012, (5:45am)
JULIA GILLARD has branded Tony Abbott's fight for law and order as confirmation he is determined to "stay wedded to sleaze and smear" even in government.
What a finale to the parliamentary year.
It is an indictment on Gillard and her deluded supporters in the Canberra press gallery that she has not been publicly derided and held to account for her appalling performance.
Gillard has been given every opportunity to make a parliamentary statement about the events surrounding the formation of the AWU Workplace Reform Association slush fund (as she described it) in which she undoubtedly played a pivotal role.
She has strenuously rejected the very thought of addressing the topic in the forum in which she sits as leader of the nation.
Despite shrilly and frequently screeching her innocence, her responses have been those of a person in denial.
Rather than give a simple point-by-point explanation of the matter which ended her four-year relationship with the fraudulent former union boss Bruce Wilson and terminated her career as an industrial law partner with the Labor law firm Slater & Gordon, she has claimed loss of memory or, more laughably, said she was young naive at the time.
She was a law partner in her thirties at the time.
Gillard's image merchants have worked hard to sell her to a truly young and naive audience – girls who may be impressed with the fact that a female holds the highest office in the land.
That campaign stops at gender however as by no analysis can Gillard be portrayed as a successful prime minister.
She is prime minister only because of the ambition of three Independents, Rob Oakeshott, Tony Windsor and Andrew Wilkie, who have attempted to use her as a vehicle for their own overblown ambitions.
Gillard told the Ten Network's Meet The Press program yesterday: '"Mr Abbott is now going to ask the Australian people in 2013 to vote for him on the basis that the centre of his prime ministership would be continuing with this personal campaign of sleaze and smear."
"'The driving purpose of his prime ministership would be to continue a fight against me, rather than a fight for the Australian people.
"Well, I think Australians are heartily sick of this."
On my colleague Andrew Bolt's ratings-winning program which immediately preceded Gillard's appearance, the former NSW Labor treasurer and one-time union leader Michael Costa called on Gillard to co-operate with any police inquiry into the AWU slush fund affair.
Costa has changed his mind since 1996 when the affair first surfaced in union circles – and he was a union powerbroker.
His reaction today is more attuned to that of ordinary Australians not reliant on propping up union power.
Former Labor Opposition leader Mark Latham has decided that there was no conflict of interest in Gillard working for her former boyfriend though her firm's client was the AWU – because she didn't charge Wilson for her work.
That sort of thinking would see absolution for a dodgy tradesman who didn't bill for his work.
The Galaxy poll taken last week showed that only one-on-five people now believe Gillard has told the truth about the affair.
They would be the people not wedded to the notion of law and order.
Abbott has a range of credible policies for the election - to which he has now added the search for justice in this sleazy affair.
Gillard has only a record of broken promises, failed policies and evasion.
That any people still believe her is the miracle.
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Quote:- [That any people still believe her is the miracle.]
As you move around people . it's amazing that much of the support she receives comes from the academics.? Those highly educated people of the Australian society who appear to live with their head in the clouds. Yet believe they are the only people on the planet who know how things should be done , and a country should be run .
These people live in a deluded world , where they even believe in climate change, etc .
I've seen them travelling the outback , overloaded with every gimmick they've found on the TV adds , yet cannot change a wheel.
How many times do you hear of people lost in the bush , or in trouble at sea. And how often do you learn these people are being lead by a school teacher.
And the list goes on .
And of course, as you say Piers, you have the young girls , drooling over the fact Gillard is female .
One thing all these people have in common , they have little idea of reality.
Apparently , according to the polls, 46 % of Australians have little idea of reality.
That's believable .
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:22am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:02am)
That is because Barry, many of them do not have any understanding of what is going on in our politics. Twenty years ago a colleague told me that she had five votes because elder members of her family couldn't understand English or have any idea what the politicians were saying.
There should be some kind of test before one can vote, especially if they cannot understand English.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:12am)
" That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. "
Abraham Lincoln
Something that Brand Bull-shite with their policies of envy, average & punitive punishment for productive type forget.
The above quote is equally apt inn all countries which makes a mockery of the excuses for the following.
That her biggest cheer squad, apart from her own staff, are those that are only want to bludge is damning!
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:13am)
"Academics who have their heads in the clouds"
Pull your head in clown. I was an academic and now run my business and it seems far more successfully than all the moners and groners here who run businesses here who expect as much teat as lefties. When you run a business you have take on all conditions.
But yes having worked at uni I only know full well how deranged some can be. But do look to Massachussets, California and other centres which will deliver many of the future miracles.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:16am)
Sadly Barry the vast majority of those academics have rarely if ever set foot in the real world nor had a real job outside the enclaves of their hallowed academic environment, with that sort of background their thought processes become and remain incestuous, they don't think for themselves but are happy to pontificate on their own version of groupthink.
Sadly much of what we see in the MSM follows that image. An aspiring young political journo daren't present too strongly their version of what is going on in Canberra that is too far removed from that opinion of the alleged. Doyens of the club, lest they become ostracised for having a dissenting opinion. Let's face it many if not most Australians are guided by the TV news for their political knowledge and don't we have balance there. TV presenters who don't have a (Coalition) chip on their shoulder but a chip on both shoulders.
Thank heavens we have the Internet and the views of Akerman, Bolt,et al can be shared around the country.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:56am)
They are also heavily subsidised by taxpayers money, at the behest of Labor. They support Labor because it means they can get more of their snouts in the Taxpayer Trough.
It's a blighted curse on our country.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:02am)
Paul C an academic? Certianly not in English. It's 'moaners' and 'groaners' Paul C, see?
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:31am)
"Well, I think Australians are heartily sick of this."
I'm sick of Gillard speaking for me ..... no I'm not sick of it as such, I want to see person/s held ACCOUNTABLE - seeing justice dished out one day is what keeps me going.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:32am)
Oh dear, Advance Australia if you are going to correct a spelling mistake it behoves you to ensure that your own spelling is flawless. Yours is certainly not.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:37am)
"Yet believe they are the only people on the planet who know how things should be done , and a country should be run" Vic says about academics. Paul C forever self promoting kicks another own goal "Pull your head in clown. I was an academic and now run my business and it seems far more successfully than all the moners and groners here who run businesses here who expect as much teat as lefties"
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:48am)
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You remind me of a case study we did. The admin officer sacked their leading salesman for not getting his paperwork right.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:51am)
Watch "The Shawshank Redemption" again. There's a running gag in it throughout , to wit:
"Hey Floyd, what you in for?"
"Didn't do it, lawyer fuqed me!"
That seems to be the current mantra of the ALP rabble, particularly the leader.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:02am)
PaulC......an academic eh! I'll bet you didn't major in English related subjects such as spelling which used to be a major part of our educational system. A system that has been dumbed down to the lowest denominator so those who would normally fail the system, get a free pass!
And you will look to two states in the U.S. for guidance that are almost bankrupt, both morally and financially!
Says a lot to me about your academic achievements!
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:09am)
PaulC, I think you are being a bit touchy there. I would say that Barry's comment was not a personal comment on you, but on the wider establishment, the whole academia/teaching indoctrination. I have been to uni too, quite recently - how I got through I do not know given the in-your-face bias/leftism of the lecturers and tutors.
The issue with universities today is that they only churn one philosophy and the young school leavers, who are already somewhat indoctrinated through school, lap it up and believe it. University today does not encourage any thinking outside of a certain script. This is the problem, just take a look at the Q and A audience.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:12am)
Labor Politics in Australia is at its lowest level since Federation and will certainly go down in history as having been the most corrupt, low level, moronic and self deluded bunch of buffoons ever to grace the halls of power in this country. That this country has had to suffer this, or that those three disgusting Independents can actually get paid for helping such low lives is a disgrace in itself.
The low standard of education is the reason that we have such a problem and this alone should be one of the first things to be looked at when the Libs get into power. I realise it is difficult to define whether it was the education that led to the pathetic standard of academics or whether it was the academics that caused the low standard of education but in my eyes standards have nose dived since about the 1970s. Perhaps the answer lies in the socialist agenda that has pervaded education for many years and we are just now reaping those "rewards". Just what kind of intellect does one need now to get into Journalism at Uni for instance. If some of our media types are the norm then the bell curve for norm has sunk to the lowest level it could reach.
Gillard is beyond explanation, even for many rusted on Laborites, and hopefully we will never live to see another PM like her and that includes her cohorts. If Gillard has such a bad case of forgetfulness regarding some of the work she did in the 90s then she surely has a very serious medical illness indeed and that should preclude her from being PM if nothing else did.
Its not just the young girls who are drooling over the fact that Gillard is a female it is also the likes of Lisa Wilkinson on the Today show and many of the psuedo educated females in journalism who think that Emily Pankhurst is alive and well and living in Australia - let alone that nasty bit of work, Germaine Greer. I will be ever so happy when we get back to the situation where a person who is the best suited and best educated for a position gets the job and gender is not the deciding factor.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:23am)
Cryovac, I truly get sick and tired of stereotyping. But I was acknowledging that many academics are wankers. I am anti-tribe. I do get sick of business people all but themselves at times.
Nemises, you really don't know what your talking about.
Shelley, I agree with much of what you say. Just trying to break down tribalism. I have read much of Barry. He makes good comments.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:35am)
The ratio of 1in5 of voters who still believe Ms Gillard are probably cradle to the grave voters who still cannot believe their Angel has feet of clay,these people will never be swayed from their beliefs that the ALP is still the working man's party even if the Liberals win the election and reveal how much the ALP has got our country in debt.
These people will whinge and complain of how hard they are being done by and will not attempt to vote out a crooked government in spite of all the lies that have told to them.
With them it will be case of "she'l be right mate" without considering a nightmare future.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:40am)
Well said Shelley. Brainwashing appears to be easy these days helped along by willing lecturers. Poor youngsters come out of school partially washed then hit uni for the final coat.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:47am)
PaulC, you are over stressing your Academic life and brilliant career in business. Your self pride is becoming too much for us to accept.. Many, here, are very intelligent and are modest enough not to flaunt it. Recently, you insulted people who have business concerns, by telling all how smart you are. Instead of throwing insults, just thank God you still have your business. My immediate family, all attended University and my husband has degrees in Engineering, Economics and Law, that does not give them the right to ' talk down" to others.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:54am)
Shelley, thank you for a sensible and understanding post on tertiary educatioin.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:59am)
Paul C. An academic who actually submitted "moners and groners". Unbelievable.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:36am)
Only goes to show that you can have a BA and be a BF.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:37am)
It's quite simple, really. Labor has the emotional advantage, and they have a massive emotional advantage. People WANT to vote Labor. It's romantic. They are the party that looks after the battler, the party that looks towards the future, the one that realises women hold up half the sky etc etc. The Liberals are just a party run by old white men, that only cares about the rich, and looks down on the workers.
People WANT to vote Labor, but they begrudgingly vote Liberal if enough of them realise that the evidence of Labor's failures is just too strong to ignore. Think about it - Keating was thrown out in 1996 because he'd delivered a recession and $96 billion in debt. Howard's government had been in for over a decade, but they were firing on all cylinders in 2007, and were inexplicably voted out because it was "time for a change". If a Labor Government was in power at this time,and were in such a dominant position, with such a story of success to tell, there is no way they would be thrown out, no matter how long they had been in power for.
These "highly-educated people", including the Canberra press gallery, are called true believers because they want to believe, no matter what the evidence to the contrary is. The reason is, as I said, because emotionally, Labor are much easier to support.
However, whilst PC socialism is warm and fuzzy on the outside, when you look at it properly, it is an absolute failure in Government. Labor just can't govern. They can't balance the books, or run a decent policy. They are divisive - whether it's class warfare, race warfare or gender warefare, they drive Australia apart. They don't unify Australians, or help Australia become successful. They just drag us down.
Gillard and Co are just the latest Labor disaster, and must go so that Australia can once again rebuild itself from years of left-wing waste.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:50am)
PC the academic:-
Moner - (n.) One of the Monera.
Groner - German: habitational name for someone from Grone (see Grone 1).
German: unflattering name for a lecher (see Grone 3).
But what i am not understanding is how you are associating
a small Brazilian town with an area in Germany, maybe if we got some more academics together and gave them some of our hard earned money they could come up with a totally ludicrous answer.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:52am)
AAiiiee! MartinJ. Hoist by my own petard, I am! Thanks for that. Those in glass housees 'an all…
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:56am)
You make valid points. I did not initiate this. I was responding.
I won't be thankful. I will make it happen. I don't blame my performance on other groups.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:02am)
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moners and groners
moaners and groaners
An essay by Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson was born in 1947, and raised in working class Balmain until the early 1960s when his family moved to Sydney's western suburbs. He left school at 14, working in a number of labouring jobs. At 20 he travelled overseas and returned to Australia not long before Gough Whitlam was elected in 1972. He got a job as a builders' labourer in the Sydney CBD, and was involved in the so called "Green Bans". In 1979 and 1985 Michael was awarded degrees in economics and law under the University of NSW's mature age student scheme. Since then he has been a senior adviser to the late Peter Cook, then federal minister for Industrial Relations, a consultant to the national law firm Clayton Utz, an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, and a consultant to Leighton Contractors. He is the author of Labor Without Class: The gentrification of the ALP (Pluto Press, 1999).
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:05am)
thing is barry that is 46 % do not know what is right and what is wrong.....people have lost that ability...can only lead to trouble...unless the 54% of us that do know can hold back the tide...cheers..
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:11am)
barry of vic: What makes you think that educated people are honest or decent.
Most of them are relying on hands out from the Government for Grants,etc.etc.
As you point out by describing that they can`t change a tyre,their productivity is zero.
They should all go in live in Greece and be propped up by Merkel and co.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:14am)
You sound like Gillard trying to make out an issue over trust versus slush fund.
Research is the one sector that produces yields of 100's of percent. Perhaps that doesn't concern you.
Ms Gillards main line of defence is "I did nothing wrong"
(correct me if I am wrong)
That line of defence works if you only have to convince a mob of sycophant journalists.
In the court of public opinion it 'does not work' with (in this case) approximately 70% of the public. What 'would work' with 70% of the public is 'open and honest answers' to fair and reasonable questions put by investigative journalists.
In the Legal and Justice system it is hard to imagine a person who is alleged to have committed a crime, to be found to have no case to answer, using "I did nothing wrong" as their defence.
If that were the case we would have no need for police investigators, criminal lawyers or goals.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:27am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:04am)
From Slater and Gordon reaction is doubt the "I did nothing
wrong" mantra.
Blewitt is talking to the police.
Never practising law again after leaving Slater and Gordon.
Getting two journalists the sack over their probing into this
Antics so Gillard does not have to make a statement to the
parliament . Why if she's done nothing wrong.
And what hypocracy to accuse Tony Abbott of smear - no
leader has had to take more smear, incitement against,
obsessive hatred and spin than Tony Abbott....why is that ?
Something is really bugging Gillard about Abbott to the point
where she and her cabal are unhinged.
The damage beng wrought on Australia by this mysterious
ambitious woman is horrifying in its ugliness
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:20am)
Prisons are full of people who say they did nothing wrong.
I wonder, does Julia really believe she did nothing wrong? If so, it's a real worry that she doesn't understand her wrongdoings.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:04am)
Bazza, "she" honestly feels "she" has done nothing wrong because the acts of theft, fraud, deception, lying, obfuscation and misrepresentation are just second nature to those on the left.
It's par for the course, the natural thing to do. Hang anybody else, it's what they can achieve for themselves by doing what comes naturally to all of them.
That's why the likes of carr, conroy, shorten et al come out strongly in "her" support. in this affair. After all, it's what they have all been up to over the years so it's all OK. Nothing wrong at all.
Then you have the likes of oakes, gratten, cassidy, marr et al who are all rusted on lefties who are so used to what goes on in their sphere, they also think it's OK because their champions have been doing it for years so it must be. There is just no way any of them could ever see the light.
As Piers said, Michael Costa seems to have changed tack a little ( I wouldn't say he has had a complete change of heart) as he said "she" should answer the questions put to her. Costa has gone up about one point in my estimation of him since I have seen him AB's show a couple of times. He does seem to be a little more balanced now than what he was before. But he is still a leftie, and was a member of carr's dishonest, failed and floundering ship so he still feels the "she" has not done anything too serious because it's what they all did in carr's "government".
In the show yesterday, when Peter Costello made mention of how bad carr's government was, costa jumped in quick with "I'll debate that with you another day"..
He probably feels that "they did nothing wrong" as well, but I think we all know differently don't we?
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:23am)
When you have no moral compass, saying " I did nothing wrong" is a natural reaction. You have to believe in right and wrong to have a moral compass and Gillard has shown many times that she doesn't have one.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:51am)
"I did nothing wrong"
It made her sound weak and juvenile.
Therefore, Slater & Gordon did wrong, in moving her on?
Didn't hear Gillard say that.
Please, someone, overthrow her.
I'm "haarduhly" sick of the sound of her ghastly voice.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:45am)
APOW, whats bugging Gillard is that Tony Abbott will be the next PM, because he is honest, not fulla bullshit and spin, that he has a workable plan, for the future of Australia, a workable plan that the people of Australia expect a PM to have, and he cares about all of Australia and every australian
And that galls her immensley
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:53am)
Mags. Did you note that last week it was Oakeshott that stated that he and Windsor had the moral compass. I wonder how many there are, enough to go round?
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:20am)
Bazza those two journalists were sacked by their boss.
Blame the weak sodded bosses.
Gillard wouldn`t want to try something to influence my Boss.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:48am)
I thought Costa was definitely having a bet each way yesterday---always covering himself---always wanting to be seen as the good guy.
Even while feigning disapproval about the unions etc, he was trying to protect Gillard.
He doesn't want an inquiry into the Gillard AWU scandal---just a general inquiry into aspects of unions---shades of the Bob Carr two-step that sucked so many in over too many years.
Costa wants the kudos for calling for an inquiry, so they can have a Beattie-style Claytons inquiry, for which he'll take a big chunk of credit.
The MSM will be impressed no end, and will flog it as 'job done' to the electorate----and the union bosses will just get on with their scamming.
But he was strongest on his claim that Abbott and Brandis had gone 'way too far' in parliament.
And then, blow me down if Bolt doesn't jump in to reinforce that statement emphatically---in a hundred miles an hour back-pedal.
''I thought it went way too far too', says Bolt self-importantly. Weasel words, in my opinion.
If it's close a few weeks out of the election, Bolt will throw Abbott under the bus and declare a win for Gillard, thereafter harping on that theme and influencing the vote negatively for Abbott.
It's what he does. Brave though he is in the topics he raises [ except that he's not brave enough to go near Heiner—has banned the topic in the past, and I think the ban still stands], he goes to water easily---in the interests, I suspect, if being seen in the wash-up to have gotten the call right.
I think you're absolutely right about them all ---Shorten, Conroy, Roxon etc etc-------being in the unions rip-off 'game' and cover-ups—hence the 'we'll all be history' letter.
It would probably take a standing Royal Commission---going on for many years ---to sort it out.
Latham disingenuously asks why Thiess didn't go to the police---- as Julia Gillard and S&G;have been asked.
Of course, even while he asks it, the malevolent Latham knows full well that employers for many years have been the victims of 'trick or treat' for many years--- the choice of paying up to union extortion demands----ie pay big for industrial peace---or pay infinitely more when the union bosses take their revenge and retribution for refusal by employers to succumb to extortion. Certain Labor PMs didn't have Mafia friends for nothing.
Latham knows exactly what was at risk for those companies---and he knows what's making Australia the world's most expensive place to do business now.
SKYNEWS is a contemptible network for the airtime and credibility they give to reprobates and scoundrels like Latham and Richardson---rewarded for their damage to Australia with lucrative television programs and the opportunity to peddle their lies and propaganda and their newly-fashioned personas as some sort of plain-speaking rough diamond truth-tellers, when they're the antithesis of that.
And it just makes me sick, putting it mildly , to see Coalition MPS, present or past, sucking up to the disreputable Richo , the multi-millionaire 'investor' who needed his Swiss bank account after the Offset Alpine fortuitous fire.
So many Labor stalwarts suffer fires, the poor unfortunate sods.
Gizzard maintains that she was "young and naive" in her early 30s as a salaried partner of Slater & Gordon. That is her excuse for sleeping with a crook and having brekkie with his bagman on numerous occasions. If Gizzard is to be held as the shining light to women in their teens, 20s or 30s, what should society think about their mental capacity to provide accurate quality work in their profesional careers.
It's obvious that Gizzard has broken through the "glass ceiling", but one wonders if another female in her situation in her 30s should be given that chance again. Why should clients trust a female lawyer in their 20s or 30s - she could be young and naive like Gizzard was.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:29am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:17am)
Great line. It seems that women should not be given senior positions when they as young as 33 and naive. Gosh what a sexist put down of women. She is not only a misandrist but also a misogynist. Obviously a total misfit.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:29am)
When the explanations are all false, the least obvious must be true. Although the labour spin is about the observation that Gillard is female, the other point is that she has serious problems.
How many people would organise to overthrow their leader, appear in public saying that they reluctantly made a decision that morning and then get found out to have been plotting even before the acceptance speech was written 2 weeks early? And then REFUSE TO ANSWER questions about it.
How many would allow a slow grilling of themselves and their party as more and more damning information is raised, yet REFUSE TO ANSWER questions or help, but as new information confirms the suspicions, start a new wave of denial and attack their opponents as the cause?
Who would be a leader in Australia's version of the communist party, then appear on TV and deny it. As information now shows, this is yet another deception.
How many would say that new policies will be implemented in full as they are from the party of truth, but when the carbon tax helped gain office, decided to ignore that little detail? And then claim it doesn't hurt anyway and opponents are smearing her.
Who would run a government that racks up billions in debt, giving away money to foreigners borrowed from other countries, and then claim that they are economic geniuses? And that the opposition is irresponsible despite years proving the opposite?
You need a serious mental illness to continue this way. I have lived with someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the parallels are striking. So call her a strong leader, or someone suffering a serious mental disorder. The truth doesn't lie.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:40am)
VIR. I find your comment quite offensive. Why don't we judge all young men in their 20s and 30s by AFL and NRL meat-heads; or older men by the standard set by Alan Bond and Christopher Skase? That remark really is idiotic.
I see "Emily's List" web site "Hoopla" is beating up the Global Warming fear campaign again. What a load of tosh and someone is impersonating John Jay there again with another moronic post in his name. There is nothing too low for the socialists.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:20am)
Q. Why did you lie?
A. I'm a Labor person.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (12:05pm)
Pauline that Fiona must be a little slow to catch on. She wants to start her own slush fund called ATOWPRA. I think the ATO would be much less understanding than the AWU.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (01:03pm)
Absolutely right!
She is the poster child for the dangers that can befall, when important matters that affect people's lives are placed in the hands of an unevolved, immature, naïve---yet not so young ---thirty-something woman.
A woman who combines the sociopathic tendencies that go with never having evolved past the egocentrism of a recalcitrant, tanty-prone three year old---with the 'I'm worth it' moral vacuum of the sisterhood's predatory female---and a big job with many opportunities for untold damage----that woman was always going to be an enormous risk for any employer , and S&G;may yet pay the price, if they haven't already done so in part.
Let other employers measure their young female aspirants against the Gillard benchmark, and beware.
It's a shame for the young aspirants who pay the price for her terrible example, but maybe they'll learn that real women are not at all as portrayed by the Emily's List sisterhood..
The fallout from someone who has no moral compass, but just wings it as she does, is massive and the damage often irreparable---as we're finding out now.
It's what happens when the worst of us are permitted to usurp the power.
After the 17 years since her demise as a lawyer, she is still unevolved---still immature---still winging it---and still tending to the sociopathic.
She has set booby traps and time bombs in the Australian economy for Tony Abbott and the Coalition for years to come –doesn't give a damn about Australia.
I hope he'll do NDIS, but drop Gonski like the hand grenade it is, and concentrate on the ideology-free fundamentals in education---and drop the carbon tax as planned no matter what flak comes his way.
As Piers says, her claim of TA is that ' The driving purpose of his prime ministership would be to continue a fight against me'---the egocentric three year old being unable to imagine that it wouldn't be all about her.
Well no---he's not that obsessed with her--- I think we can be certain of that.
If he's the prime minister, hopefully she'll be well and truly gone ---the stuff of nightmares past---- and what he'll be consumed by will be the monumental task of cleaning up her disgusting mess, and defusing the time bombs and booby traps she set for Australia.
The only thought of her will be that we must never again allow such a malevolent person to take over our country.
Julia Gillard shows how important to herself she is by thinking that Tony Abbott's whole election campaign will revolve around her.
Some of the election will be about Her Royal Dodginess and her FAIL scorecard but more importantly it will be about refreshing the nation and bringing back optimism, morale, good governance, accountability, stopping boats and increasing our defence capabilities.
Her time as a screaming ranter is over. It's time for the adults who can handle responsibility and show respect to us to take over.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:30am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:35am)
julia gillard is right about us being sick of hearing about the slush fund.
yes we are sick of hearing her avoid the truth ... sick of hearing her smear everyone else and then with breathtaking hypocricy claim victim status ... sick of seeing that arrogant face - sick of hearing that ghastly voice
we are sick of her telling us what we are allowed or not allowed to think do and say in what used to be a free country.
we are sick of her robbing us with taxes she promised not to impose .. destroying jobs so people cant pay their bills, and telling us its the 'roit' thing to do.
we are sick of this dressed up bogan embarrassing australia when she's overseas, fawning over obama and actually gloating about her lying rant against tony abbott.
the only way we will feel some justice has been done is if - for once in her tawdry life - gillard is held to account instead of benefiting from, then waddling away from the wreckage she creates.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:09am)
Get out
Add to your list the picture of the cheering illegal so called refugees in Java who have just learnt that they will receive money and housing benefits if they make it to Australia on a boat.
On the issue of border protection alone the Labor government should be decimated at the election because all presence at stopping this invasion has been dropped and we the Austra
Ian taxpayers will bear the massive cost and expected social problems for years to come.
I can truly say I hate every bit of this toxic government.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:03am)
Brian, you are correct. That is one non policy that should win the Coalition government in its own right. What makes me angry is that chemotherapy drug subsidies for Australians patients and dental health plans for pensioners and low income children could easily be affordable if the billions in wasted money and resources were diverted from illegals back to Australians who should be first on the list to benefit from our money.
On Michael Smith's blog today there is an interesting old newspaper story about the 'Fatal Accident and Death Fund' that was set up to look after the widows and orphans of deceased miners.
There is no doubt that Julia Gillard was at a meeting with the miners. At the time of the meeting she was on the payroll of Slater and Gordon and was working for that firm's client, the AWU. During that meeting, Julia Gillard helped her boyfriend, Bruce Wilson, to convince the miners that their Death Fund should be handed over to the AWU; that is, to Bruce Wilson, to protect it from fraudulent activities.
There is nothing to see here, folks.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:37am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:20am)
The Wilson scandal becomes more sickening.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:37am)
An association was formed here as well which was deregistered the same date as the Awu Welfare Reform Association. This newly discovered association has Awu in the name and refers in it's name to being a Death benefit fund. This is not it's exact name.
This new information is coming through on Michael Smith News blog site now.
For heavens sake someone go and save that file from disappearing!!!
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:46am)
Guardian Angel, yes there must be a file. There must be minutes of the meeting that allowed the funds to be tranferred from the Death Fund to the new AWU Trust Fund, or is that the new AWU Slush Fund?
Bruce Wilson, Julia Gillard and Slater & Gordon all knew about this new Trust Fund. I wonder if the AWU knew about it.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:57am)
"Julia Gillard helped her boyfriend, Bruce Wilson, to convince the miners that their Death Fund should be handed over to the AWU; that is, to Bruce Wilson, to protect it from fraudulent activities."
The same way she convinced us to hand her the Australian Government's cashflow so she could make sure it was out of reach of strong economic managers.
Barney, ther's a pattern here. We have been getting played.
Very well put Piers. And we are truely sick of her unadulterated, down in the gutter sleaze and slime. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
SOS ...---… ...---… Will someone in Labor ranks please have the guts to pull her off the stage. Don't you understand that we are not interested. We clearly don't believe her, and we've stopped listening.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:43am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:03am)
Yes the sleaze and slime line is so applicable to her and her cronies. Yet in true Goebbel's style she used it 8 times in 6 minutes on Meet the Press. Swan called Abbott a thug in Question Time. They are lower than a snake's belly
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:37am)
Honey Badger, I think, a good phrase puts it this way that " they are all so low they could parachute out of a snakes bum and still free fall"
It is very presumptuous of the mendacious Gillard to announce how Australians are sick of Mr Abbotts attacks based on sleaze and smear. Mr Abbotts attacks are based on Gillards less than professional conduct as a lawyer, behaviour that facilitated a massive fraud. A search for the truth in what has obviously been a grubby cover up is not "sleaze and smear", it is an attempt to get to the truth and right a wrong.
Not that Gillard and her fellow carbon blobs in the ALP would even know what this concept entails. They were quite happy to vote down Nick Xenephons attempt to shed light on the chronic abcess that is the Heiner Affair, so we can see their value system clearly...if the cover up of a gang rape of a child doesn't move them to do the right thing, then nothing will..
As an ordinary Australian, I am sick of a government that accepts obvious corruption. I am sick of a government that continually tells lies and breaks promises. I am sick of a government whose only tactic now is to attack a decent man who is doing his job i.e holding the Prime Minister and her inept government to account.
Good work Mr Abbott.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:46am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:22am)
Mandrake, absolutely right.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:32am)
Mandrake put perfectly, thank you..
All I can say is HEAR, HEAR!
To Piers and all the bloggers a very Merry Christmas and lets make this a really Happy 2013 for all concerned, and get rid of this 'cancer' of a gubmint.
TA and the Oppostion, keep at it! We are with you.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:43am)
agree with every word you say Mandrake!
i am so sick of gillard and the rest telling us what they decide is the 'roit' thing for the plebs - and what we must believe - and that if the anyone in the press dares to question her edicts they will all be silenced.
... telling us that we are world leaders in taxing the air - but dont look behind ... because no other country is following our red and green masters who are intent on destroying our industry and our economic independence.
the only thing that gives slight comic relief to the tragedy that has befallen australia - is the incredulity gillard shows - when after giving a couple of press conferences (too scared to talk about her murky past in parliament) and declaring that its all over - a few pesky reporters and the plebs still dont kowtow to her and say - yes dear leader, despite all evidence to the contrary, we believe every word you say.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:15am)
She searches for relevance. Position and self is all she considers. She has nothing inside. In contrast, Abbott is fulfilled without position. He considers others.
She has no moral compass. She has nothing. She says anything to get her way. She feels nothing for others. She has a hollow sense of righteousness, if that.
The upbringing of Gillard was a failure.
It was remarked that Howard would welcome people with a cup of tea, asked after family, a hearty handshake etc. Not aloof. Aware of greater things.
The Queen thanks all her subjects every Xmas and emphasizes the value everyone contributes.
Gillard is nothing.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:37am)
Very well put Mandrake,I think when the stench of Gillard and her bunch of misfits are well and truly thumped at the next election and a good and decent man like Tony Abbott is installed then let Australia start to heal and part of that healing process will be an investigation inot the Unions and Gillard.I detest that woman so much.Matbe the lefty journalists will hold a mirror up and have a good hard look at themselves.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:18am)
Thanks Mandrake. This home is sick of the lies. Surely it can't continue. Are Australians that silly? Not loading supply ships was a warning to union thinking. Nothing has changed. Foul mouthed thug leading us now. Wake up people.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:08am)
Good morning Mandrake Of course you are speaking for most of us here and half the country, and may I add that as an ordinary Aussie, I am sick of the other ordinary Aussies (esp. in the Media) that accept the entire governments obvious corruption. If it weren't for those blind sheeple cross ostriches, this government would not even exist to see the 2013 election year!
We are going to see a more self assured Tony next year, which I think makes him look sexy! I didn't even have to picture him in his red budgies watching him on Bolta the other day he was so focused and ... let's just say it made me happy!!
How many times did Gillard say 'sleaze and smear' to Paul!!! Even he was getting frustrated by her evasiveness, now THAT was pure poetry Mandrake!!
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:27am)
Thank you Mandrake, you put that very well indeed, and would only add that for some reason Julia Gillard and her cronies seem to be under the misapprehension that they should be above the law and held to account for anything.
Not so Julia and the more you screech and name call the more people wonder if you are indeed guilty. All you had to do was allow those documents to be tabled and to answer straight questions. You have heard that you could have also have said, " I can't answer that on the grounds it may incriminate me, and will wait until the case is taken to court". Simple really.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (02:04pm)
This (your statement) should be repeated weekly and spread around for ALL to see and support.
It astounds me, and profoundly disturbs me, that this AWU scam has been allowed to go so far without legal intervention.
Bottom line a crime has been commited, several in fact.
Shadow Attorny General Brandis has stated thus and blind Freddie knows it too.
And yet Gillard cackles on like an indignant headless chook avoiding the issue and almost half the nation finds this acceptable.
There is a cancer spread deeply throughout our country and those with the disease are in absolute denial. Including most media commentators and ex Labor leaders!
I reckon Tony Abbott and the Liberals should make it known to Gillard, and the people of Australia, that when they assume government they will prosecute these crime to the fullest extent of the law, and go after endemic, systemic Union corruption.
Make it part of their election platform.
We need to restore law & order!
That any people still believe Gillard is not a miracle in my opinion, it is a reflection of how far down the totem pole the Laborites and the lefties have fallen.
Anyone, anyone, supporting this government, this leadership, this behavior are foolish and complicit, and accessories to the facts that crimes have been committed.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:47am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:56am)
pa the problems are deep seated.
Whilst the police are now investigating Blewitt's claims, don't forget the police and judiciary are tarred with he same left brush. Yes Thomson and Wiliamson are being investigated. But the amount of time it's taken, makes you wonder what is going on. At this rate Gillard will be dead from natural causes before any charges are laid.
The police are also unionised. And many of the judges lean a long way to the left. I can just imagine if Gillard ever gets in front of a judge, that judge could be Murphy, who was also associated with Gillard in the past, and in fact Gillard elevated him to his current position.
Many other judges are also close to Labor - a simple way to get any charges dismissed and get a fair hearing the Labor way. .
"That any people still believe her is the miracle. "
A miracle? Or a Tragedy?
I think the biggest threat to having a certain change of government at the next election is public apathy.
Yesterday, at a Christmas party for one of my suppliers, I got chatting with a bright, intelligent, thirty-something physiotherapist who is just starting her own business, specialising in female health, having worked for an employer all her working life.
A lifelong Labor voter, she feels somewhat "uneasy" about Julia Gillard - but not enough to change her vote.
I started talking to her about free enterprise, government red tape and bureaucracy in relation to small business, climate change alarmism, the health effect of low frequency windfarm noise on nearby residents, the plight of farmers being forced off their land by coal seam gas mining companies, the government announcing policy after policy, like Gonski and the national disability scheme - with no funding, etc, and she was genuinely horrified.
She kept asking "How do you know all this?" "Where did you learn about these things?" "What can we do about it?"
Here is a person genuinely in the dark about the serious stuff that doesn't get reported in the mainstream media, except for one or two exceptional commentators, like Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt, and the odd shock jock radio host, like Alan Jones.
This lady is not alone. There must be tens of thousands of good decent Australians working their own businesses or in jobs around the country who are just too busy to take a serious interest in politics, who would be rightly horrified to learn the truth, instead of accepting the lies and lack of information fed to us by the mainstream media.
What can we do about it to help educate our fellow Australians - good people all, who are simply ignorant of the facts, never having been exposed to anything other than government propaganda and lies, and the pap fed to us by the TV news services, the ABC and the free press?
I think I went some way to convincing this one lady to take a closer look at the really serious situation Australia would be facing with the re-election of another Labor government.
But she is just one person, and I am just one person.
How can we reach a wider audience - quickly - and overcome the lack of coverage these issues are getting from our lick-spittle mainstream media?
Word of mouth is a powerful medium.
But are there enough of us, and are we reaching out to everyone we know with enough passion and information to change voting habits?
I know the other side is using every trick in the book to weld supporters onto the Labor camp.
What more can we do? If we lose this next election, Australia will be changed forever with little hope of ever coming back....
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:48am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:50am)
I have had many similar conversations with people. I had one only last week, caught up with an old colleague and the conversation got around to politics (by me). This person could not, or possibly would not, believe some of what I was telling him (AWU, dubious backgrounds of many of the government members). I even went so far as to talk about Emily's list and their late term/pro abortion stance - he did not believe me. I think when I finally said about Gillard's 'wives are prostitutes' that I really caught his attention. He asked me to send him links to this information, which I have duly done.
I also have a friend who is a small business owner - and like the young woman you were speaking to - was not the slightest bit aware/interested in issues strangling businesses like green and red tape - let alone aware of any of the wider community interest issues. I have had several (frustrating) conversations with her and she still isn't seeing the light. One day in absolute annoyance I asked her how she came to a decision as to which party to vote for. Her answer - when the local member puts the brochure through the letterbox near election time, she goes by all the 'good' things they have done. I further challenged - 'and what do you compare those things to'. Um, dunno, was the answer...Urgghh…
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:20am)
Jim, my wife and I have, over the last 12 months, lost one couple as very good friends (academics) and another couple who were occasional friends because, when politics raised it's ugly head, we tried to get the message through to them about this government.
They are obviously rusted on leftoids and now will have nothing to do with us because we made our positions quite clear that we were conservative through and through, despised "her" and "her" "government" and believed nothing "she" said.
So despite how much we might try, we won't reach everybody, mores the pity, but you seem to have had a little success.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:23am)
Shelley, the sad thing is that people like your friend accept all the propaganda on those dodgy Labor party leaflets as absolute truth, instead of spin and lies.
Have we become so conditioned and trusting that we accept everything at face value and question nothing anymore, but just simply swallow every dodgy argument that Labor and their media supporters throw up at us?
Where is our good old-fashioned BS alarm warning system, and why is it not working?
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:32am)
Jim, when I receive a pamphlet from our local federal labor member it is immediately deposited in the garbage bin, I do not even give it the pleasure of putting in the recycle bin, garbage it is and the garbage bin is where it goes.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:10am)
Boofhead, I usually write on it what I think of their scum "government" and send it straight back to them, Reply Paid of course.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:54am)
Shelley, the 'wives being prostitutes' thought has been ingrained into the sick minds of the empty headed left women by Gillard. It's nothing short of a crime. That troll Yasmina, had a rant at me which I posted on page 5, 2 blogs back, and in it she called me a 'Menzies W-I-F-E'. You'd have to read it for yourself to believe what those initials mean to them! These are women--- WOMEN, speaking about the roles of their mothers and sisters and nieces and grandmothers, simply because they were fulfilling their roles as wives, well! Gillard has brainwashed a generation, I don't know how it can be undone? Send your friend that post, and tell him it's from a lefty blog called Hoopla, he'll get the message.
Tony Abbott is seeking what the Government promised, and that is an honest transparent Government. How can anyone call searching for justice a sleaze and smear campaign. And, where is the justice for the two reports who reported the truth. I would also like to see how big a list of sexist comments that have been said from the despatch box to the Libs. One quote springs to mind, Roxon told Abbott to grow some balls. I'm sure there are many more out there.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:48am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:42am)
Michael, You would think a Royal Commission into the unions would please Gillard..... if she was innocent. But maybe she is seeing it through the eyes of a senior labour politician/ unionist , where a royal commission would NOT be an honest event. We have to stop the unions running this country.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:19am)
Roxon told Abbott to grow some balls.
Abbott should have replied: take a shower and comb your hair.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (01:34pm)
The Australian electorate has every right to know the
calibre, warts and all, of the people they are asked,
nay compelled , to vote for.
Gillard removed Rudd to attain the PMship and all others
who stood in her way to the top.
Australian voters tried to remove her and PC socialist Labor
from office in 2010 - this was democracy in action -
democracy stymied by the Labor moles Oakleshott and
Windsor who betrayed not only their constituents, but also
the Australian people as a whole and of course our
The wishes of the people were ignored, set aside,
trashed so this woman could continue to get her own
way as apparently she had done employing various tactics
through her life.
Gillards trail of disasters throughout her life - personal and
professional tell us this woman has no moral compass
instead like Karl Marx she employs "the end justifies the means" to get her own way.
Gillards own mother told the nation
"Julia always gets her own way"
That she does, Mrs Gillard, that she most certainly does
mores the pity for my beloved country.
My sorrow at what Gillard Labor have done to Australia
knows no bounds can the destruction every be redressed
or has Labor Gillard well and truly inflicted terminal damage.
Newsflash, March 2013:
Tony Abbott's Coalition Party wins the Federal Election, and he becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
Prime Minister Abbott turns-back an illegal-boat arrival and has the boat safely towed back to Indonesia.
In a two-pronged attack on Australia, two million Indonesian soldiers invade Australia's top-end through Western Australia and the Northern Territory, with the quick capture of Canberra as their ultimate objective.
One million Indonesian soldiers die of thirst in the Gibson Desert.
One million Indonesian soldiers die of thirst in the Simpson Desert.
The illegal-boat arrivals have stopped.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:50am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:04am)
Sorry to rain on your parade Barney - look in today's Courier Mail where the "Asylum Seekers" in Indonesia are celebrating Gillard as a hero.
Why is that?
Because they all know they will all receive benefits when they arrive in Australia.[/i
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:16am)
Indonesia gets $200M of foreign aid from Oz per year.
Not all of that goes to the outer suburban slum dwellers who are hungry.
So why would they do anything to de-rail the gravy train.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:37am)
Nice one Acto
Italic off
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:41am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:45am)
There is something radically wrong when a Prime Minister who is encouraging illegal activities is classed as a hero by the people committing these illegal acts. Where does that leave Australia?
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:07am)
Yeah Aktosplatz, i just heard that on the news. No doubt we will see a massive increase of these leeches, as the next 10 months unfold
This news is the deathKnell of this sham of a government, and no amount of bullshit and spin, will save Gillard and her government, from total annialation
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:32am)
Halcyon Days, I reckon we should tell Indonesia that we will reduce the aid budget by $10K per person and do it until the traffic stops.
Who was it told the Oz government to take the sugar off the table.
The Indonesians should do the same and stop issuing visas to Muslims on arrival in Indonesia. The Indonesians know where the vast majority of these people are trying to get to and how. They should do their bit to halt the traffic.
There is only one person Juila Gillard can blame for this one, and it is not Kevin Rudd.
If I were Kevin I would say to the ALP "Ïf you want me back, you will have to say you're sorry, it was a mistake, and that you will not do it again".
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:50am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:55am)
We, the people, do not want Rudd back either.
Gillard is not only an unsuccessful Prime Minister.
Actually, she hasn't been very successful in anything she's done.....
Union Hack......communist......Fail
Personal life and relationships......Fail, Fail, Fail.....
Policies......all failures
She's even failed with all her lies.
Really, I am now referring to Gillard as the Crime Minister......it's the title that fits her best.
Resign now Gilard......you are useless.........4 out of 5......that's 80% of the population think you are a liar! That should be enough to shame anyone into immigrating to another country......try.......or.......or maybe.......actually, you've pissed off that many countries, you probably won't be welcome anywhere. Just move to Christmas Island! Maybe an Afghany will give you a job representing the illegal boat people......that would be right up your alley!
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:52am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:45am)
Be that as it may, TOP no one can deny Julia Gillard has been highly successful at scaling the heady heights of the
ladder of opportunity to the PMship of Austalia.
An astoundint feat and a tragedy for Australia.
How in the hell did this happen is what I'd like to know.
Especially in view of this scandal hanging over her which
Labor must have known about.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:18am)
Unfortunately GB Labor and the Unions think Australia is their own personal fiefdom. They think they are beyond the law and answerable to no one. Beggars the question what did she have to do to become PM, what does she hold over others? It appears nothing is too grubby and respect and courtesy are foreign to her limited vocabulary and behaviour.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:25am)
TOP, "she" has no shame and won't be going anywhere.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (08:30am)
And another thing TOP,I agree with you "she" may have been unsuccessful in all the things you listed but "she" has been very successful in implementing "her" socialist agenda on our once great nation.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:12am)
The only personal lives and relationships that have failed, have been the ones that Gillard has destroyed, because she has been screwing the husbands
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:22am)
Family break up artist......Tick.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (11:11am)
"Crime Minister", definitely the best description of her yet TOP!
Mon 03 Dec 12 (12:16pm)
We now address JG as the crime minister. Well said Top.
And now details of the Boulder Miners Accident/widows and orphans Fund ......or whatever it may be titled are surfacing......
Julia was there at the meeting with Wilson in 1992 and her attendance is noted in the local paper......
Oh well to quote the old saw........
' the mills of God grind slow...but they grind exceeding fine..."
Of course the visit was probably quite innocent and Bruce Wilson was just being his usual helpful self with other peoples money.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:54am)
Given all the sackings recently at the cash-strapped Channel 10, I wonder whether they have got the A.L.P.'s Paul Bung-Journo on half pay?
I watched his "Meet the Propagandists" show yesterday (for as long as I could stand it) and it is obvious that his script was written by Goebbels McTurdan and/or the Prime Spin-ster herself. Surely THAT must cut down the expense.
Every time Bung-Journo opened his mouth, you could see the distinctive brownish discolouration of the tongue which is highly symptomatic of the more acute cases of "Grovel-Rash". Bung-Journo shares this condition with Laurie Oakes, Michelle Grattan and everybody at the A.L.P.B.C. and S.B.S.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:55am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:40am)
Actually, I thought Bongiorno did an ok job. I was expecting less challenge. He insisted that she hadn't answered the question. He drew out he blatantly saying that she wasn't going and she was only going to give the answers she wanted. Bongiorno basically had her nailed. The "Meet the Press" interview hurt Gillard.
I'd have to say well done Bongiorno. He got the right focus. He got to the nub of the issue and effectively had Gillard step in her own poo and state her intransigence explicitly.
I am only too aware of the traditional bias of the program. Could this be journo's more generally getting fed up with Gillard's flouting of accountability. Certainly not on Crikey or the ALPBC.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:49am)
What about Gillard's Filibuster.
She kept going around in circles, saying nix, until they had to throw to a commercial.
This is the Barrie Cassidy tactic of choice. Delay the damaging issue until...... unfortunately time has beaten us (phew).
Not taking someone's words at face value, and just a little background checking could have prevented so many mistakes.
I was only the tea lady, Fairfax settled with me, Its only an attack on my character (Gillard/Thomson/Slipper)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:58am)
This is an interesting article from Hedley Thomas, in The Australian (Sat 1st Dec):
Time for union inquiry, says Michael Costa
Rather than cut and paste, it's better to read the whole article. Of particular curiosity is the paragraph fourth from the end ... it seems somewhat cryptic.
Looking at all the players in the sordid business, not one of them can hold a candle to the integrity and honesty of Bob Kernohan.
Frankly, I don't think the Opposition should be demanding a Labor Government initiated inquiry into the AWU scandal. It could be considered a foregone conclusion the result would be a whitewash. Tony Abbott has made a wise move to commit a Coalition Government to a Royal Commission. Best left at that, unless in the interim period, the police uncover facts that leads to indisputable evidence that requires charges to be laid.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:58am)
I absolutely agree with all of the points made. It is a shame that the Christmas season and Parliamentary recess will help to take this story of Union corruption off topic on TV and in the press.
Unfortunately, some members of the public are easily diverted from the important matters overtaking the nation. I hope that Gillard and her cronies do not escape examination, it is vital for the truth to the told and an investigation to be made into all the relevant facts of the AWU affair.
I have been chatting to people in the supermarket and generally about the area and all those I have spoken to do not believe Gillard is innocent. In fact one man in Woolworths was so focal that the "chat" turned into quite a discussion with shoppers. People need to discuss and compare their thoughts !!
Have a wonderful Christmas and a well earned rest.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (06:58am)
Gillard talks of the Coalition trolling about in the mud bucket.
Well they have been and who do you think they found at the very bottom ,Juliar Gillard .
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:01am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (09:07am)
Well said Stan, the Coalition have to trawl around the bucket to meet with JEG.
Sinister "prime minister" Gillard lives at the bottom of it.
That any people still believe her is the miracle.
Those that believe her include the ABC, Fairfax and Laurie Oakes.
Anything that is bad for Abbott is seized upon and used to loudly condemn him to the nation.
Anything bad about Gillard? Can't see or hear. If they have to write something bad about her, it is done in a piece which also condemns Abbott.
Mon 03 Dec 12 (07:05am)
Mon 03 Dec 12 (10:13am)
I think the Gillard-loving press corp are digging their heels in because they are dead scared of losing face. They have championed their pin-up girl for so long that now, despite the daming evidence against her that they are now locked in to the 'Julia has done nothing wrong' manatra try ing to protect their reputations.
Maybe they are hoping for some miracle that will prove she is indeed telling the truth. It will be very interesting, and revealing, to see what happens if she is found guilty as charged. How sweet it would be to see all the sycophants running for cover.
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To get there, we're going native and using one of the el cheapo airlines, RyanAir, that flies between most European cities. Here's the catch: Really, really tight luggage restrictions. This is going to put our Jedi packing skills to the utmost test. Can we get everything we need for a week into five carry-ons, each weighing 10 kg or less?
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- Gillian in WalesMarch 6, 2014 at 10:57 PM
If you are wearing it, it doesn't count as luggage. If it goes in a pocket, it doesn't count as luggage. Layers, my dear. Lots and lots of layers on the plane. Plus a thin bag screwed up somewhere to shove some of those layers in once you are on the plane - Noone checks how many bags you carry OFF. Oh, and you can have a single bag of airport shopping each, too. Buy one small thing, get a big bag, and use it for your extra layers.ReplyDelete
We've been doing this for a while, us Brits :-)
Have a great holiday!
That's what I'm talking about, Gillian!ReplyDelete
Happy to learn from a true Jedi master of the RyanAir experience. ;-) I'll let you know how we fare when we see you next month!
Gillian, that is impressive advice. I believe all 3 stereotypes about Americans are indeed true. I'm surprised there wasn't a #4 that read: Americans are too loud.ReplyDelete


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Have you ever Googled your name? Most of us have, curiosity and a little bit of fear create the interest. But you're not the only one Googling you, in addition to nosy people, prosecutors and employers, airlines will soon start Googling your picture once you buy a ticket. Seem a little creepy?
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