Showing posts with label Hopelessly Inept Federal Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hopelessly Inept Federal Government. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

The Deceitful Mr Swan


The following article defies credibility.  That is, it won’t get past those of us who follow this rancid Government closely. 

Swan’s hypocrisy and sheer gutlessness to accept responsibility for Labor’s utter ineptitude is breath-taking.  The absolute gormlessness of Swan and his cohorts is reminiscent of episodes of Laurel and Hardy.  I have great fears, however, that the majority of Australia’s voting public may read reports such as this without applying a minute of scrutiny to the dishonest spin.  Worse, they may well swallow the deceit without question!

I watch Parliament Question Time the majority of the days the House of Representatives sit.  I have noted, during the 2012 Parliamentary sitting days that the vitriol Mr Swan alludes to comes from the Government, itself.   The haranguing, smearing and misrepresentation of the truth ladled out by the Gillard Government via constant assault on the Opposition, has not escaped my observation.  

Perhaps this government and indeed, some of the Lef-tard electorate and Left-leaning journalists, (see Fairfax Media and  taxpayer-funded Socialist-sympathetic ABC) have overlooked the role of the Opposition and what that entails.  A third-grader could enlighten them – but what’s the point of wasting a third-grader’s time when you are dealing with Fundamentalist Socialists who are prepared to go to any lengths to hang onto power?  And that’s where it gets dangerous.  Very dangerous, because nothing is sacred.  Just wait for the PM’s media jihadist (John McTernan on a 457 visa)  to cut loose as we approach an Election.

If you thought ex Qld Premier, Anna Bligh’s personal attacks on LNP leader Campbell Newman were repulsive during last year’s lead up to the QLD State Election, well folks – fasten your seatbelts… and I’m sure you all know the rest of that famous Bette Davis line.   With McTernan conducting the orchestra leading up to the 2013 Federal Election, we have no idea what is about to befall us.  I just hope Australian voters posses a modicum of savvy and treat the flood of lies with the contempt they will so richly deserve.

Australia has not really experienced filthy politics.  We are in for a vulgar awakening in 2013.

Swan is right in one area, voters have, indeed, been turned off by this Government’s continued blame-game.  It’s Tony Abbott’s fault;  Abbott-Abbott-Abbott.  Over and over and over again.

The fact that these hoons cannot concentrate on anything other than the Opposition leader shows how deeply Abbott has got under their skin.  Ministers, Albanese, Combet, Plibersek, Roxon, Shorten, Swan and of course, the misandrist, PM Julia Gillard herself have had a field day Abbotting rather than accepting responsibility for their abject incompetence.  Not to forget the screeching voice of Minister Macklin as she attempts vainly to kick a Government goal.  Roll out Senators Penny Wong and Stephen Conroy for their own honourable mention, too.  I don’t think I’ve heard one address from Wong that hasn’t been riddled with the Abbott word.  All of them repugnant blots on what should be a crisp and clean page.

Anyone capable of thinking for themselves and able to fact-check the spin should be rightly disgusted with and distrustful of the Gillard Government’s 2012 Parliamentary performance.

To say I am repulsed by the Gillard Government is an understatement.  How she assumed that role is simply outrageous.  As a person who has been exposed as somebody having very little moral fibre or fortitude and I refer to the AWU/Gillard gate scandal which I have covered previously, it’s insulting to this nation that she has led it for the past three years.  The fact that this woman seems to be pretty loose with the truth is deeply concerning.

Throughout 2012 everything under the sun has been Abbott’s fault, according to this Socialist regime.  They cannot and will not accept responsibility for their own sheer incompetence.  And there is plenty of that on record.  The NBN White elephant; the pink batt farce that ended up burning some homes to the ground and killed people; the school sheds project – millions of dollars frittered away whilst Australia’s education standards rating slipped to about No. 27 on a worldwide comparison chart.

 E-gad – these Socialist things think they are up to the task of running a country?  The only task they are up to is propagating deceit.  Deceit perpetrated on the Australian public.

I am counting down the weeks Australia must endure these fools.  Fools who have smashed and wasted the contents of the piggy bank former Liberal Treasurer, Peter Costello had carefully established.  They have flung and continue to fling bribes into the electorate in the hope they will win back the stupids.  You can’t get any more brazen or stupid than that with money that belongs to the Australian taxpayer.

Roll on the Election.  Australia has to rid itself of these parasites if it has any hope of survival.  We have not fought wars to hand over our democracy to wankers with a definite agenda.  The Rudd/Gillard support of the pathetically inept and I am convinced,  less than honest and sincere United Nations.  They are in the business of appointing despots to head UN committees and the like, you know.  If you want to argue in favour of the United Nations then please be my guest and present the UN’s scorecard listing their so-called peace mission successes over the past 20 years.   Then list the conflicts they have ‘allegedly’ had jurisdiction over during the same time period.  OK – I rest my case!.    The UN has their own agenda they are pushing and Australian taxpayers have significantly increased the level of sponsorship to the rogue United Nations under this band of Socialist idiots.   How surprising?   Splash!  Where did those mega-millions go?  This is not a joking matter.

Meanwhile China owns us as our massive borrowings continue to balloon and the mega-dollar debt service rises daily.

If people scoff at the suggestion Australia won’t end up like Greece then I have these words for you:   You have no idea what’s around the fiscal corner.  Trust me – it won’t be a pretty landscape watercolour.  It’s going to be very ugly and will last a number of years.

Yes, I acknowledge this could be deemed a fair rant but I cannot express my utmost revulsion as to what has happened to Australia when we had everything to gain with an unprecedented mining boom and a reasonably healthy manufacturing industry happening during most of the tenure of these morons.  To see everything pissed up against the wall by Socialist incompetents is an utter insult to a thinking Australian.  It is going to take decades to extract Australia from the absolute mire these incompetents have belly-flopped us into.

I hope to never again see a Federal Labor Government in my lifetime!

I know I’ve got off the subject of the goose, Australian Treasurer, Wayne Swan but really, what else can you do but laugh at the fool.  We know he cannot balance the country’s books to save his seat and I am sure we will be informed of the horrific mess Swan has left the country in once some adults take charge.

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Don't blame us: Swan on vitriol
December 31, 201

Jacqueline Maley
Parliamentary Sketch Writer for the Sydney Morning Herald

THE Gillard government bears no responsibility for the negative and vitriolic tone of the political debate in 2012, says Treasurer Wayne Swan.

He admits the ''scrappy'' political year turned many voters off politics but denies the government contributed to bitter partisanship that defined it.

''I don't concede that the government has been behind personal attacks,'' he said. ''We want to have a policy discussion based on the facts, not on the aggressive negativity, particularly the likes of which we've seen from Tony Abbott … to say that's a personal attack on Tony Abbott, given the events of last year, I find quite extraordinary.''

This year, Prime Minister Julia Gillard labelled Opposition Leader Mr Abbott a misogynist, Health Minister Nicola Roxon said he had an ''issue with capable women'', and Mr Swan called him a ''policy weakling'' and a ''thug when it comes to personal attacks''.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet called Mr Abbott a ''wrecker'' and said everything the Opposition Leader had told the public about carbon pricing was ''complete bullshit''.

But Mr Swan denied the government was culpable in helping to set the low tone of what has been labelled the nastiest political year in memory.

''You've got to be kidding me. The negativity in policy and personal attacks have all been from Abbott. I mean, for god's sake, these are the people who are now hung out to dry for their activities in terms of Mr Ashby and company,'' he said in reference to the Federal Court finding that the Liberal National Party-endorsed candidate, Mal Brough, conspired with James Ashby to end the political career of former speaker Peter Slipper.

Despite the finding, Mr Abbott has since expressed his full confidence in Mr Brough.



Friday, 30 November 2012

McTernan - Political Jihadist Of The Left

Stolen from Michael Smith News (link to this speech at Michael's website is not working!)

Member for Mayo, Jamie Briggs exposes John McTernan for what he is.
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Mr BRIGGS (Mayo) (11:32):  Today I rise to speak in relation to my role as a scrutiny of government spokesperson for the coalition and a flagrant abuse of taxpayers' money. Earlier this year, the new SA Premier did a rare good thing and cut a program called Thinkers in Residence, a program that was simply a way for former Premier Mike Rann to abuse SA taxpayers' money by offering patronage to left-wing mates.
The worst example of this was the failed British political operative, Mr John McTernan, who was supposedly thinking during 2011. According to reports, Mr McTernan was paid some $200,000 for his time thinking. The topic of Mr McTernan's thinking was, ironically, delivering a more effective public service. Some 12 months after the completion of this thinking, no report has been prepared and there is no sign either of the two toolkits he was supposed to produce.
This disgraceful fact is that the SA taxpayer has footed the bill to bring a Labor mate to Australia. But what makes it worse is that the Prime Minister decided to employ this failed British headkicker, again, using large amounts of Australian taxpayers' money. This FIFO political adviser is employed in the Prime Minister's office on a taxpayer funded salary, somewhere in the vicinity of $200,000.
Mr McTernan is a self-confessed political fighter, a class warrior. He describes his approach to politics in the following way:
If you get to senior positions, you have to be able to kill your opponents. It is not pretty, it's not pleasant, but if those at the top can't kill, then those at the bottom certainly cannot. High politics demands very low political skills, too.
He affirmed this approach to Labor staff earlier this week, and Ben Packham at the Australian reported:
Julia Gillard's media director John McTernan has reminded ministerial staff that politics is a contact sport, urging them to hit back hard whenever the opposition attacks. Illustrating his point yesterday, McTernan borrowed countryman Sean Connery's classic line from The Untouchables: 'If they pull a knife, you pull a gun. If they put one of your men in the hospital, put one of theirs in the morgue.'
He certainly is obsessed by killing this character. That is what happened earlier this year. Mr McTernan started this year with a New Years' Eve tweet:
Happy New Year to friends, colleagues, commentators and combatants in Australia. 2012 is going to be fun.
He has not let us down. It all started on Australia Day and the infamous Australia Day riot when a member of the PM's staff on our most sacred day told a group of protesters that the Leader of the Opposition had said something he had never said. A young Labor staffer named Tony Hodges, a good young Labor man, took the rap for this; however, we know from the former Attorney-General, the member for Barton, that this decision was made much further up the line. That young Labor staffer was in effect collateral damage. Maybe this just confirms Mr McTernan's words from 2011:
Full disclosure is important, but-speaking cynically-only of what will eventually come out.
We see that in operation every day. More recently, we have seen the so-called misogyny speech and campaign that the Leader of the Opposition has been sexist and antiwomen. What is really interesting is that Mr McTernan wrote in the British Telegraph in 2011that the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has a problem with women. It is not just Liberals who have felt the full force of the attacks: look at what happened to the member for Griffith in February this year when he had his character systematically assassinated. This vicious brand of low-rent political muckraking should never be welcomed in Australia. The type of campaigns Mr McTernan brags about when he wrote:
Around the world, campaign after campaign shows that fear beats hope.
The 457 visa program—and well may you laugh—is designed to bring in skilled workers where there is no-one available in Australia. Surely, even this Labor government can find someone in Australia to be employed in the highest office in the land. As a seasoned political observer put it to me yesterday: 'Mr McTernan is an international political jihadist who is interested in raising his profile with no regard for the future of Australia.' I call on Mr McTernan to pay back the $200,000 he has fleeced from the South Australian taxpayer, and I say to the Labor caucus: roll this Prime Minister again, as you did earlier this week, and send this self-promoting British Labour reject and his putrid politics back to where they came from.

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Brandis Ups The Ante


The Coalition has stepped up its attack on the Prime Minister, with Liberal senator George Brandis using parliamentary privilege to suggest Julia Gillard broke criminal laws while working as a lawyer in the early 1990s.

Ms Gillard has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to her role in providing legal advice to establish the Australian Workers Union (AWU) Workplace Reform Association while working at Slater & Gordon.

She has said she believed the association's funds would be used for legitimate purposes.

They were instead used by her then-boyfriend and former AWU official Bruce Wilson as a union slush fund, although he denies financially benefiting from it.

Speaking in the Senate, the shadow attorney-general said it was clear Ms Gillard knew the association's funds would not be used for their stated purpose, which was for the advancement of workers' rights.

Instead, Senator Brandis said she knew the funds would be used for the "private purposes" of Mr Wilson and fellow union official Ralph Blewitt.

"There is no doubt - no doubt whatsoever - that at the time she was involved in setting up the slush fund, Ms Gillard knew what its purpose was," he told the Senate.

"Indeed, the choice of an incorporated association as the entity to hold the funds for union election purposes was Ms Gillard's brainchild.

"It is already clear, that from (the association's) inception, Ms Julia Gillard's involvement in this matter has been characterised by concealment, deception, professional misconduct, and it would appear several breaches of the criminal law."

Full story at link below:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-28/brandis-claims-in-senate-that-pm-breached-criminal-laws/4397254
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I watched Question Time again today and all I can say is:  This disgrace of a Prime Minister obviously doesn't want to incriminate herself in the House.  It's a serious offence.

Senator Brandis is no fool.  He knows the law and I am sure he has researched this matter thoroughly.  I hope he keeps the pressure up whilst the Senate is sitting.

Parliament rises tomorrow for the summer break.  I have no doubt this story will continue and eventually, the truth will out.  The fate of this Prime Minister should be known shortly.

Making Your Mind Up!

I've made mine up, Ms, Gillard.  How about you?


Sub-prime Credibility


I rather like the description “Sub-prime” as it may relate to our Prime Minister,  Julia Gillard.  I didn't coin the phrase but I wish I had.  In my opinion, she has to be the worst Prime Minister leading the worst government Australia has ever had the misfortune to suffer.  Even Gough Whitlam’s ALP government was not as bad as this current mob of incompetents.

The Prime Minister is not having a good week.  She is still fielding questions about her role in the AWU slush fund scandal as an equity partner at the legal firm, Slater & Gordon advising her boyfriend at the time, Bruce Wilson.  Wilson slushed nearly half a million dollars his own way after Gillard did the legal work on the AWU/Workplace Reform Account.

In my eyes, Ms. Gillard has zero credibility.  In the eyes of this nation, I believe her credibility is taking a fair whacking.  Deservedly.  The woman can’t or won’t answer a question directly.  Julie Bishop, Deputy Leader of the Opposition has posed a number of questions to her in Parliament.  This woman simply will not give a direct answer.  The average Joe can only take that one way.  The Prime Minister does have something to hide.  PM Gillard has attempted to deflect, Ms. Bishop’s forensic questioning for the 2nd day in Parliament Question Time by not answering, by deferring to her non-direct-answers during the 2nd of two long Press conferences and by blaming the Opposition for running a dirt file and a smear campaign.  Her hypocrisy knows no bounds!  Her Government IS the Government of smear.  Remember the Australia Day Race Riot orchestrated by her own staff to smear opposition Leader, Tony Abbott.  That’s just one example of the tactics of this disgraceful regime.

Gillard also lambasted Ms. Bishop for having a 10 minute meeting with the con man, Ralph Blewitt who played 2nd fiddle in Wilson’s two member band.  Hello?  This woman must have conveniently forgotten her own long association with Mr. Blewitt.  She was so familiar with Blewitt, she didn’t charge him for legal work.  You can only shake your head and shed a tear that this is the sort of untrustworthy creature currently running this country.

Gillard stupidly laid into Blewitt on Monday during the second of two lengthy press conferences.  After Gillard had finished unloading on Blewitt she said “His word against mine?  Make your mind up.”  Good question, PM Gillard and here’s my answer.  I’ll take Blewitt’s word over yours any day.  I deplore liars.

Last night, (27/11) the ABC managed the scoop of the week.  They wheeled out the ex-boyfriend, Bruce Wilson for an interview on the weekly television current affairs segment, 7.30.  Any person with a brain that functions watching Mr. Wilson trying to defend Sub-prime would have picked up the body language pretty quickly.  They would have fallen to the ground in fits of laughter when Wilson declared he had no case to answer with regard to his own involvement in the disappearance of monies from the unauthorised entity, the AWU Workplace Reform Association. 

Gillard’s credibility has now sunk below sub-zero.  The ABC, by pushing nice, ‘credible’ Mr. Wilson onto the public stage loaded more guns and handed them to the Coalition.  In particular, Deputy Leader, Julie Bishop.  There are two more days of Question Time in Federal Parliament left for this sitting year.

Get your popcorn ready!  

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Judgement & Credibility - AWU Scandal

Yes, this entire saga goes straight to the judgement and credibility of Julia Gillard who is currently Australia's Prime Minister.

Incredible!

Here's a News Limited article that covers quite a bit of ground.

http://www.news.com.au/national/awu-scandal-why-it-matters-and-what-you-need-to-know/story-fndo4eg9-1226522812935

Is is too much to ask for honesty from our Prime Minister?  Just a little bit of honesty?  Are Australians heartily sick of being lied to?  Let's start with the lie "There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead".

There must be a full investigation into the Union movement and the lead players in Australia.  Why?  Because whilst this federal Labor government has the power, it's Union power.   The Unions control this government.  Full stop.  Remember, those faceless (Union) men who dislodged a sitting Prime Minister and installed Julia Gillard into the role.

We have one Union-related scandal after another at the moment, all involving corruption.  The HSU, the AWU, the CFMEU, and the appalling case surrounding NSW State Labor currently in the spotlight as the dirt flies via an ICAC Inquiry..

How can we have faith in the leadership of this country when the Unions are operating sock puppets?


Sunday, 18 November 2012

Keep An Eye On This Man

John McTernan, Prime Minister Gillard's Media Advisor

Here's a nice observation piece by Samuel J at Catallaxy
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John McTernan: taking Julia Gillard down
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Those in Labor seem to treat Gillard’s spin merchant, John McTernan, with awe and reverence. He is supposed to be the brains behind Gillard, and is responsible for the present attacks seeking to brand Abbott as a misogynist.

I think she has chosen badly – McTernan’s tactics have always failed. Rather than helping his master stay in a job, McTernan has ensured the master’s removal.

From a range of relatively junior positions, McTernan became Tony Blair’s spin merchant in late 2005. By June 2007 Gordon Brown had unseated the Prime Minister.

Then he helped take out his next master, Des Browne, Secretary of State for Scotland in 2008.

Then he saw off Jim Murphy, the next Secretary of State for Scotland in 2010.

He took up his present role in Gillard’s office just over a year ago (September 2011), and it is only a matter of time before McTernan takes her out too.

McTernan’s true genius is making people think he is helping while quietly undermining them.

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2012/10/13/john-mcternan-taking-julia-gillard-down/

Gillardgate - The Series

The Gillard/AWU/Wilson saga keeps on giving.  I haven't included the background yet but this post is a start - towards the end, I suspect.

Readers who are unfamiliar with this scandal may go here  if they are interested in a truckload of serious background information.

How can important Court, Government and Law Firm documents just disappear?

Surely, we are not witnessing a massive cover-up!


The People Smugglers Song

Saturday, 29 September 2012

Watching The Children Play A Game Called Politics


Repost from Andrew Bolt's Blog:
Nicola Roxon made a goose of herself in June, playing politics with a court case: 
The Federal Government has launched an attack on the sexual harassment case against embattled Speaker Peter Slipper, saying it is politically motivated.
Lawyers for the Commonwealth yesterday told a Federal Court that former staffer James Ashby, who is suing Mr Slipper for sexual harassment, colluded with another staffer, Karen Doane, to undermine Mr Slipper’s reputation and advance his political opponents…
They allege Mr Ashby gave information to former Howard minister Mal Brough and to News Limited journalist Steve Lewis.
Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says it shows the case against Mr Slipper was politically motivated…
“It will be clearly shown and this will be argued in the court that there was in fact clear intention to harm Mr Slipper and bring his reputation into disrepute and to assist his political opponents and that was the purpose for the bringing of this claim,” she said.
So much for that conspiracy Roxon was going to prove: 
In a bombshell development, the federal government has settled its case with James Ashby, the aide to the stood-aside Speaker of the Parliament Peter Slipper, for $50,000 and a commitment to introduce training for all MPs and senators regarding sexual harassment.
The settlement between the commonwealth and Mr Ashby was reached on Thursday and detailed in a three-page letter of offer from the Australian Government Solicitor.
Mr Ashby’s lawyers, Harmers Workplace Lawyers, accepted the deal on his behalf. Mr Ashby had sued the commonwealth, alleging it had failed to provide a safe workplace.
Separately, Mr Ashby has sued Mr Slipper with allegations of sexual harassment, supported by records of lurid text messages sent by the Speaker to Mr Ashby.
Mr Ashby’s case against Mr Slipper continues and is listed for an interlocutory hearing at 10.15am on Tuesday. 

And doesn't Australia’s Socialist Government’s ineptitude show itself again with the case involving Australia’s Attorney General, Nicola Roxon.  In my opinion, Roxon is too inexperienced in Law to have been appointed to such an important position, given her comments made whilst matters were before the Court.

The political motivation behind this deplorable situation is not that of the Coalition, but that of this Federal Government and it’s disgraceful.

I hope James Ashby follows through with his threat to now sue the Commonwealth and Roxon for defamation and contempt of court.