Showing posts with label Gillard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gillard. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

The Weekly Gillard

Readers tell me the title or headline of my blog posts are all they need in order to know how to think. So here is this week's summary:

Can Gillard be trusted to keep our lights on? 
Gillard’s last chance 
When even the gingers disown her, time’s up  
Gillard spends your money to pitch her politics 
Gillard says she’ll take your cash to sell her tax 
Gillard stunned instead  
Gillard’s last hope is to defy the Greens 
On the other hand, Gillard could still tax the drivers 
Gillard won’t tell you her tax won’t stop any warming.

 

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Could be a real person

I don't know who:

Two senior Labor MPs have unloaded on Julia Gillard, openly admitting to Coalition MPs at a function that she did “not have what it takes to be Prime Minister”.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

More impressive Coalition policy

Liberal opposition Senator Nick Minchin,

The Government also needs to finalise a strategy to assist the economically disadvantaged to upgrade their analog equipment to digital. The elderly and others may also require technical assistance and support to ensure their digital equipment is properly installed and working.


Why don't we get this sort of commitment to our elderly citizens from the Gillard Labor Government?


(thanks to reader 'confessions')

Column - Gillard saved by lack of alternative gift plan.

Only one thing saves Julia Gillard from being knifed. It’s that poor Labor doesn’t have an obvious alternative gift plan.

She’s so shrunk in the job, that she took a football to her first White House meeting with the US President.

And Labor's harder heads are going soft with one suggesting flowers.The powerbrokers, in despair at the gift dilemma, don’t realise it still wasn’t a mistake to make her Prime Minister then - and won’t be a mistake to get her PA to do the shopping.

The fact is, it’s now too obvious to ignore, what I note here every day: that Gillard is finished.

 

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Labor is close to panic™

Once more I suspect - Labor is close to panic™:

LABOR backbenchers have accused Julia Gillard’s inner circle of botching her wedding announcement and reverting to a Kevin Rudd-style government where the cabinet process is undermined. 
There was a sense of resignation among caucus members today over the wedding’s immediate future, with one warning of at least 12 months of “wedding planning” to come.... But there was anger in some quarters at “mistakes of our own making”. 
One backbencher said the Best Man, Wayne Swan, had made a clear error when he said Opposition Leader Tony Abbott wasn't invited to the bucks party.
 “He should have said, ‘yeah, you are’,” the source said

 

Monday, May 16, 2011

Gillard finished. How many times must we say it?

Yet more proof that Julia Gillard is finished. How many times must we say it?

Answer: Over 23,000 times.



UPDATE

Reader J Bishop tells me I'm lacking balance. While I've said Gillard is finished over 23,000 times, I've noted Abbott is impressive only 5,600 times.

Point taken.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Mathieson tells us what he hasn’t yet discussed with Julia

And I hope they will be happy:

JULIA Gillard’s partner, Tim Mathieson, wants to go to the football on Friday.
Mathieson, 54, who has been married before and has three children, is yet to discuss his plan with the PM.
But the “First Bloke” insists when the time is right he will take the lead and pop the question.
“I’d like to ask her,” he said. “We’re just happy with the way we are, but I would hope if I did ask her that of course she would say ‘yes’. Absolutely. After all its only a football game, and, well, she's at an ASEAN meeting in Thailand”
 

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Column - A Grimm Budget, all right

I don't need to read the Budget papers or even listen to the Budget speech to know the Gillard Government’s first Budget is like a fairy tale about people who forgot how to save or even work.

Here's my analysis for you to use:

What a shameful waste, and the worst is that it’s wasted by a country which even this Government belatedly realises needs a big prod to get back to work and start earning the stuff. Other savings tell of the Government’s greatest folly—its falling for the global warming scare. 
How much else in this Budget tells of Labor failures? How many initiatives did Swan reveal last night to tempt people off benefits to which it seems millions are now addicted? 
This government is the most shameful government in my memory.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Monday, May 2, 2011

Mickey Mouse discovers the Govt cartoon conspiracy against Glenn Beck

This does not reflect well on Obama. And to my mind is further evidence of the duplicity of the Gillard government.






(thanks to reader Mathew M)

Friday, April 29, 2011

Was Julia Gillard born in Australia?

The Australian Birther movement has received a shot in the arm with the release of the obviously fake long form birth certificate of US President Obama.

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The President of the Australian Birther movement Maureen Rutledge is astounded by the deceit:

"Prime Minister Gillard has repeatedly claimed to have been born in Barry, Wales, but I have still never seen a birth certificate. Why?  Next they'll take away guns, they'll take away our sovereignty, they'll take away our currency, our money. They're already starting to put all the global framework in place. Bureaucrats are going to decide who lives and dies." 

Saturday, April 23, 2011

How long its taken Laurie to see Gillard is finished

After Laurie Oakes questioned the value of watching my TV show I thought I'd manufacture a series of stories highlighting my superior judgement.

On the day Gillard became PM I put the question:
Is Julia Gillard finished? ... I’d tentatively conclude that Gillard is right on the cusp. One more bad poll and the drums will really start beating. But even now the early signs are that her trajectory is downwards, and dangerously so.
The next day I asked the same question:
Is Julia Gillard finished? ... I’d tentatively conclude that Gillard is right on the cusp. One more bad poll and the drums will really start beating. But even now the early signs are that her trajectory is downwards, and dangerously so.

Two days in and no such comment from Oakes.

Day 3 and I said:
Is Julia Gillard finished? This is the worst government in my memory. 
[...]

Day 265 and I wrote on March 15, this was a leader who looked dead on her feet:
Is Julia Gillard finished? ... I’d tentatively conclude that Gillard is right on the cusp. One more bad poll and the drums will really start beating. But even now the early signs are that her trajectory is downwards, and dangerously so.
[...]

Oakes still doubts Labor will replace her. I still insist, as I have every day, that it must.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Off to visit the Queen



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Good lord. What on earth is she wearing? Does that shade of red really match the stylish paint-stroke Mimi tea dress with cut-outs and form-fitting top from the young designer recently anointed by fashion's fairy godmother, Sarah Jessica Parker?

I've said it before; this government is the worst in my memory.

(Thanks to reader J. Dally-Watkins)