Spot-on!! I was thinking the same thing. Why did the people let the Mafia control this beautiful country?
A good many hold Coal shares, and Abbott leads that team with "Coal is good" How many are into mining iron ore? The LNP are a pick and shovel party, they have no other ideas, if it cant be dug it cant done!
Abbott unhappy at Australians success in repelling Japanese armed aggression, has taken it upon himself to ensure next time Japan is fully capable of wiping out Australia's Submarine Fleet. Australians blood, not Abbotts, made Australia our home. Australian is secondary Citizenship for Abbott, and it shows! What does it take to get it through to the LNP.
It's because we are stupidly apathetic, and we are getting the governmentS we deserve. I put a big S on the end there so our resident stooges can't twist it in either direction.
I know individuals like Lambie & Hanson are not the true academic intellectuals of our society, but they seem to have an impressive unbiased view of what is happening within Australia, and I think we need more of them, because the others, are just a bunch of self-serving sewer rats.
I have always been of the belief that the senate should be made up of independents. This would allow for a better cross section of society.
It was supposed to be, well, sort of. States reps. Not any more - party hacks, apart from a few genuine independents. Still better than that bloody House of Lords in Westminster and the Senate in Canada. Now, they really are "unrepresentative swill".
"COUNTER-terrorism authorities are reeling after an Islamic State-inspired plot to kill a member of the public was averted at the 11th hour" The LNP spent three months pleading to be allowed to join in the killing of ISIS people. The LNP were sure that would bring terrorism to our shores, and Abbott could preen as defeating its every turn. Using Australians as the props for Abbotts I will save you, I will revenge you! Just how low will the LNP go?
Blah, convenient (yet delusional) re-writing of history. The IS was a nation level threat back then, and were bearing down on Baghdad. These things (evil) shouldn't be allowed to get momentum. It's not the best strategy to stick your head in the sand when evil gets momentum - but I know a few of you here are used to having your heads stuffed up a warm place
We are told to go on and live our lives without fear of terrorism and low and behold Murdoch throws this story on the front page of the teledaft...it's a game of politics. Not hard to smell a rat!
She is of the opinion that the proceeds from Halal certification bodies are going to Islamic radicals. - - - Updated - - - Rudd - there goes the bloody neighbourhood. I wish he'd rack off.
Hang on a second. ALP could of blocked this race to defeat ISIL, they have control of the senate, and didn't old rotten teeth fully back Abbott on this?? Please don't go throwing stones, remember you lot live in a glass house. What is worse? making the decision or subserviently backing it. If you lot don't want this action overseas then I think it might be a good idea to let your supreme leader know this, or is it just the green version of red that think this way? All that said, I agree TV the timing seems very convenient. The tried and tested diversion tactic. For the Libs it is national security, and for the ALP it is corporate terrorism. Same story different story teller.
Abbott clones Rudd, "Adopting a bunker mentality will not solve his problems. Trying to exercise tighter control over the media will not do it either. The “command and control” approach of his office to just about everything helped to create those problems in the first place." Hi ho hi ho its off electioneering Abbott go, "Abbott visiting a new electorate every day". Abbott is so in touch he can run government from his Twitter account, and now only needs Rudd's pubescent girl fans, and bobs your uncle.
Today, "Mr Abbott said as a prime minister who had put 'our military personnel in harms way' it was incumbent on him to 'pay tribute to all who have served our country in the military for more than 100 years" as a mark of my tribute to Australian service personnel, I have slashed their pay rates!
Good, maybe the military will now start thinking, and stop acting like a bunch bloody mindless sheep for these politicians, who send them off to die on a whim. Maybe the military will wake-up and realise that the citizens have respect for them, but the politicians DONT. After all, the military was established to serve and protect Australia & the Australian citizens, who pay their wages, NOT a hand full of scummy politicians. The Australian military should be doing what the majority of the Australian people want, not what a hand-full of politicians want. I hope more of their salaries get slashed.
Unfortunately our service personnel took oath to obey the commander in chief, and it not be their fault that such now be Tony Abbott.
The "oath" needs to be changed to serve and obey the citizens - not some scummy politician. The military are human beings with thinking minds, and are not mindless robots. They have the intellectual capacity to understand the difference between right & wrong, and good & bad, and they need to start acting on that, and not just behaving like mindless automatons. Its time they were held accountable and responsible for their actions like every other adult, and not just constantly excused all the time like a bunch of little kids, by them saying, some one else told me to do it. Can you do something seriously wrong, and get excused by acting like a little kid, by saying, someone else told you to do it? NO. So why should military personnel?
LNP still don't get it, but they will! Senator Leyonhjelm, "There is still a determination to introduce a price rise into medical services. I don't think they have abandoned that idea,' he said. Mr Leyonhjelm said he welcomed the idea of introducing a price rise but that the government was not 'locked in' on the method to achieve this.
"Sussan Ley 9health minister) said there was general recognition of the need to charge a Doctor fee" Like who?
LNP have been exposed. Secret deal to build Australia's submarines in return for Japan backing Coalition Coal. Today "While some countries want coal-fired power to be phased out by the middle of the century, Japan is at the fore of the fight to ensure it stays a prominent part of the global energy mix"
The first time the ASC heard about a new 'competitive evaluation' process to replace the Collins class submarines was on TV last Tuesday, when Defence Minister Kevin Andrews announced it, despite the ASC having met with the minister only hours earlier.The minister never mentioned the new process at any stage of the meeting, a Senate inquiry in Canberra heard on Thursday.