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Great choice, Oz!
by stele Sunday, May 16 2010, 8:46pm
national / social/political / commentary

The Murdoch, Stokes and other mass media organisations in Oz are exercising their influence on the masses by offering THEIR alternatives to the now fully exposed (popularity trashed) POLICY FAILED, narcissistic PM, Kevin ‘show pony’ Rudd; who imagined that managing a nation amounted to slavishly following Washington in unwinnable wars, serving Wall St, the RBA and other unrepresentative minority interests.

This pathetic piece of Queensland dog excrement couldn’t even sell a FAIR tax increase on Transnational miners engaged in raping the nation’s wealth; notwithstanding there has never been any love lost regarding the rapacious, polluting, mining/energy sectors! What a thorough tragedy that sales FAILURE has been for Kevin ‘CENSORSHIP’ Rudd.

No previous policy failure compares to Rudd’s inability to sell a FAIR IMPOSITION on the plundering mining sector. Perhaps Rudd was too busy concentrating on his socially reviled information CENSORSHIP policy that he is FORCING onto the public via legislation – at the behest of media and other big business interests, I would add.

Today there is no doubt that Rudd is an upper case, capital “L” L-O-S-E-R! A fully exposed mirror-loving NARCISSISTIC INCOMPETENT that couldn’t manage a fuck in a brothel; but he WAS there in front of the CAMERAS on Sydney harbour (waiting three hours) to ‘welcome’ Jessica Watson’s return from her sailing voyage around the world – Watson is Oz’s latest corporate-SPONSORED (photo-op) teen heroine.

It is known that Kevin can smell a photo-op a hundred miles away – but he hasn’t yet been advised that the public are aware of his tragic personality flaws and his obvious POLICY FAILURES. Good sense would dictate -- to more balanced personalities -- that this is NOT the optimum time to be plastering a FAILED FACE all over the media.

Now consider who the MEDIA is offering as a replacement for Rudd; the current deputy PM, Julia 'fishwife' Gillard, who made her debut to the deputy’s job by acquiescing to Corporate sector wishes in an abortive attempt to allow private company personnel to snoop and spy on the PRIVATE EMAILS and other personal digital communications of their employees – bloody OUTRAGEOUS!

There are few doubts regarding Gillard’s Stalinist credentials AND her readiness to serve the totalitarian interests of the private Corporate sector. It does not escape our beer drinking population that Gillard, as Deputy PM, also shares a greater percentage of responsibility in the policy failures of her party.

Consider also the contender from the opposition, Tony Abbott, a Jesuit-trained Nazi conservative who DEFENDS very male, Vatican dictates on female reproduction and the interests of FOREIGN mining corporations facing the prospect of returning a greater percentage of their GIGANTIC, plundered, profits to the people -- no doubts regarding this LACKEY’S ALLEGIANCES and his clearly unrepresentative position defending minority Corporate interests!

Of course the APATHETIC Australian people HAVE NO REAL CHOICE in the matter; all future contenders to ‘high office’ are selectees, brought to you by the same people that have plunged the world into economic depression, destabilised countless nations with illegal and UNNECESSARY WARS and continue to poison and pollute the planet with their ‘industry’ -- all for what I hear you say?

WE CAN DO A LOT BETTER than the failed models and strategies currently IMPOSED on our society by a PROVEN bunch of policy bereft failures.

Remember to vote for the selectees presented to you in the next election.

Aussie Aussie Aussie, oink oink oink – you mindless morons!

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Gillard continues rise in 'polls'
by staff report via gan - Oz ABC Sunday, May 16 2010, 9:49pm

The latest Newspoll shows Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has gained support from voters as preferred Labor leader.

The poll published in The Australian newspaper is the first since last week's budget and shows Ms Gillard has cut Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's lead from 25 percentage points to just five.

Mr Rudd's standing as preferred prime minister stands at 45 per cent, down from his level of 57 per cent in February.

Support for his deputy jumped from 32 per cent to 40 per cent in the same period.

The poll also shows the Coalition has maintained its lead over the Government on primary votes, 43 per cent to 37 per cent.

The Opposition has also achieved consecutive 50 per cent or higher on a two-party-preferred basis for the first time in four years.

In a separate Galaxy poll published in The Daily Telegraph, 45 per cent of voters backed Mr Rudd against 34 per cent for Ms Gillard as preferred Labor leader.

The ongoing decline in Mr Rudd's popularity fuelled speculation last week that Labor may move to install Ms Gillard as leader before this year's election.

Ms Gillard laughed off the suggestions.

"Not one individual in the Labor Party has spoken to me [about that]," she said last week.

"I'm focused on my job as Deputy Prime Minister."

Ms Gillard says tough decisions are behind the Government's slide and she still supports Mr Rudd as prime minister.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told Macquarie Radio he believes he can win the votes of those who are disillusioned with the Government.

"We have to have a government. It will either be a Labor government or a Coalition government, and I think that eventually all of those that conclude that the Labor Government is not up to the task will come to us," he said.

"But what I've got to try to do in the meantime is demonstrate that we will be a credible alternative, that if you change the government life will be different and better."

© 2010 ABC

[Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that almost all political polls are carefully managed, deceptive, propaganda ploys. Ed]

Oz opposition leader dubbed, 'Phoney Tony'
by staff report via fleet - Oz ABC Tuesday, May 18 2010, 12:00am

Government MPs have pounced on an admission by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that he is not always entirely accurate in the heat of verbal combat.

It is the kind of slip-up the Government has been hoping for since the polls started heading south for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Government MPs have dubbed the Opposition Leader "phoney Tony" after his admission on the ABC's 7.30 Report that sometimes what he says in unscripted interviews is not the "gospel truth".

"Sometimes, in the heat of discussion, you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark," Mr Abbott told The 7:30 Report's Kerry O'Brien.

"Which is one of the reasons why the statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth is those carefully prepared, scripted remarks."

Mr Abbott was under intense questioning on his policy to introduce a new levy on big business to fund his paid parental leave scheme - despite promising a month earlier during a radio interview that he would not introduce any new taxes if the Coalition won the next election.

Government ministers pounced on his admission and conducted a rash of interviews and press conferences.

"How do you know each and every day which version of Tony Abbott you've got? Gospel Tony, who is telling you the truth, or phoney Tony, who isn't?" asked Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

"I think if you read between the lines, anything he is saying to soothe concerns is from phoney Tony. The truthful bit is that WorkChoices will be back."

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner said the admission was "kind of like the fine print on the bottom of the packet saying 'use this product but by the way it might kill you'."

"I stand by all my public comments. I am accountable for them. If I make a mistake I deserve to be criticised or attacked for it or marked down," Mr Tanner told the ABC's Radio National.

"If I say something that ultimately contradicts then people are entitled to form a view about that and to punish me accordingly if they wish to do so in a court.

"There is one simple, straightforward mechanism of punishment in this game and it is at the ballot box."

Environment Minister Peter Garrett said Mr Abbott had "revealed himself as the emperor without a script".

"Here is a bloke that doesn't really say what he means unless someone has written it down for him," Mr Garrett said.

"I think it raises serious questions about how seriously you can take somebody who says 'don't believe what I say, only believe it if someone has written it down for me to say'."

The Greens have also joined the attack, saying Australians deserve better.

Greens leader Bob Brown says politicians should be committed to telling the truth.

"We are all human beings but we have to try to ensure that people are not deceived by the politicians that represent them and who are managing this country on their behalf," he said.

'Straight shooter'

But the Opposition's energy and resources spokesman, Ian Macfarlane, sprang to Mr Abbott's defence.

"What we are seeing from Tony is very much a straight shooter," Mr Macfarlane told Sky News.

"Tony is a conviction politician and he has a very deep Christian faith. He thinks about things very deeply and last night he gave people an insight into that, but the reality is that he is an honest person."

The man demoted by Mr Abbott for making too many gaffes, Senator Barnaby Joyce, also defended the Opposition Leader.

"What someone might say to their lover in the heat of passion is entirely different - or should be entirely different - to what you would say to the lady checking out your groceries at the supermarket," he told ABC New Radio's Marius Benson.

"Tony has been there only for about half a year so ... we have to allow a person who is new in a job some liberty at the start."

But that defence opened up another front for the Government to attack.

"What Mr Joyce is saying is that Mr Abbott is inexperienced, that he is not ready to be the Opposition Leader," Small Business Minister Craig Emerson said.

"And if you are not ready to be the Opposition Leader of this country, how can you be ready to be the prime minister of this country?"

Mr Abbott is in Queensland to campaign against the Government's super profits tax on mining companies.

He was asked on ABC Radio about his candid, on-camera confession.

"I try to be fair dinkum with people. I don't like tax and I always try to avoid it. I think that the paid parental leave scheme is obviously a special case, as I made clear at the time," Mr Abbott said.

"But the thing is that I am very happy to let the public look at my record both in government and in opposition and compare it with the Prime Minister's record.

"Because the Prime Minister, let's face it, has broken promise after promise and he has failed to deliver on commitments time after time."

© 2010 ABC


 
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