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A Keneally masterclass in political body language

Tory Maguire

by Tory Maguire

29 Nov 09:20am

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Filed under: Body Language, Kristina Keneally, Politics

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NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has had enough. According to this morning’s Daily Telegraph: “Ms Keneally yesterday demanded the head of NSW Labor Party boss Bernie Riordan after his union told members to consider backing parties other than Labor at the March election.”

Yesterday Keneally was approached by the Telegraph and asked if she could pose defiantly to help illustrate the story. The Premier reluctantly agreed, shifting her schedule and time with her family to assist the paper. The result? Page one coverage and a lesson for politicians everywhere.

Picture: Liam Driver

Picture: Liam Driver

Picture: Liam Driver

Picture: Liam Driver

Picture: Liam Driver

And the pièce de résistance:

Picture: Liam Driver

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    • Macca says:

      08:33am | 29/11/10

      ahahahahah. Surely this is photoshop! brilliant!

      I think this is a campaign by The ALP to make KK seem tough to try to win some votes back. The Labor brand has been tarnished by factional intervention. This is their own propaganda attempts to dispel the public mythologies about the powerbrokers.

      Reply

    • Scarneck says:

      08:40am | 29/11/10

      It appears more like a model shoot than an angry politician…anyway, she doesn’t have to worry about the Unions, come March next year and the electors of NSW will fix that, her fury will be buried along with her party.

      Reply

    • CJ Morgan says:

      08:44am | 29/11/10

      I think I’m in love.

      Reply

    • Retired says:

      11:48am | 29/11/10

      Could someone broker a deal for (the gorgeous) Kristina to join the Liberal Party? She would surely bring her seat with her, given her personal popularity. Perhaps she could be Education Minister.

    • LoveFest says:

      12:59pm | 29/11/10

      Mmmm. Me too.

    • I think and I vote says:

      02:12pm | 29/11/10

      She’s doing a fine job for the liberal party exactly where she is - leave her there

    • NicoleG says:

      08:45am | 29/11/10

      They are some seriously angry looks. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I actually feel sorry for her. She has been thrown to the sharks, with no way out. She is being blamed for all the stuff ups of NSW Labor and I don’t think any of it is her fault. Even after Labor gets the boot, she will still be blamed. She was never up for the job to begin with.

      Reply

    • TChong says:

      08:58am | 29/11/10

      Nicole, ,you sound to have become all inner city latte-chardonnay shandie sipping chattering class since your trip to Capital city.
      Sympathy for Kennealy ?- yur membership of Pynes Pals page will have to be seriosly reviewed.

    • Gregg says:

      09:18am | 29/11/10

      She kinda has the more hurt look in a few shots Nicole and then ” I’ll get that bastard ” but I kinda agree in that she has seemed a reasonable sort of person/leader and it’s just what she has had to deal with.
      I do not know how much experience she has in Australian politics since immigrating, nor her US background but on a personab;le level and being up for the job, she’s probably no worse than the redhead who just immigrated a lot longer ago.

    • Phil says:

      09:19am | 29/11/10

      Yet she would have final say on matters that she has been able to preside over for the last year, correct? If the leader cannot be blamed, then who can?

    • Gerome says:

      09:44am | 29/11/10

      Great NicoleG, that’s one bimbo vote she can count on. The rest of us are sick of their cons.

    • Gladys says:

      10:16am | 29/11/10

      TChong: she’s not supporting Kenneally. Just sympathetic to her.

    • ayjay says:

      10:29am | 29/11/10

      There’s some truth in what you say Nicole - KK is not the person who has let us all down but she is the one in charge when we’re going to call them to account. Bob Carr did absolutely nothing other than secure and Olympic Games and it is his complete inaction that we are now all suffering from. Yet for some reason, he gets respect and admiration, Go figure.

    • NicoleG says:

      10:54am | 29/11/10

      Bimbo? Oh that’s lovely Gerome. As Gladys has pointed out, I do not support her one little iota. I feel sorry for her. I don’t support Labor, ever!

      Now, run along and brush up on your manners Mr.

    • onyabike says:

      11:06am | 29/11/10

      Yeah, but she’s heading for federal - peter garrett is going to make way for her.  Oh, he doesn’t know? So sorry peter, maybe you can do the club circuit? Oh, you don’t need the money - you’re a multi-millionaire and you joined the labor party to make a difference? Try telling that to the families of those that lost their loved ones in the pink batt debacle - and each and everyone of us should spare a thought for those same families that will have one less place to set at the dinner table this Christmas. And no-one is held accountable.  Don’t feel sorry for her NicoleG - power does awful things to people - if she can’t handle the heat she needs to get out of the fire. They have had their chance.

    • Reg says:

      11:25am | 29/11/10

      There’s nothing turns me on like a strong determined woman. Now no offense but “NicoleG does not do it for me.”  wink  sip sip sip

      Which brings us to the image of the opposition leader. “Insipid?”

    • Gladys says:

      11:30am | 29/11/10

      Gerome: I don’t think ‘she was never up for the job to begin with’ is something someone who is going to vote for Kenneally would say.

      Why don’t people read these things carefully????

    • Karl says:

      11:33am | 29/11/10

      ayjay - Actually, I think John Fahey was the premier in 1993, when Sydney was successful in its bid for the 2000 Olympics.  Carr was premier during the Games and for most of the preceding construction/preparations.

    • Jane says:

      11:43am | 29/11/10

      AYJAY, Carr did do one other thing of merit apart from the Olympics. He made it so the spouses of retired police officers were looked after after the officer died. Previously, once the retired officer died, the spouse would be left high and dry. Now the spouse gets 75% of what ‘Super’ they were getting while the retired officer was still alive until they die too. That’s a good thing. I’m guessing the respect and admiration you describe is from police families because what he did was a really big thing for them.
      As for everything else, meh!

    • Norm says:

      01:01pm | 29/11/10

      I agree NicloeG that Ms Keneally was never up to the job & has been thrown to the sharks but one thing you seem to be forgetting. When those in the NSW ALP, who threw her to the sharks, were making bad decisions she was sitting at the table of that Government. I know sometimes the innocent suffer for others mistakes but there is nothing innocent about Ms Keneally re the NSW Gov.

    • Seej says:

      08:50am | 29/11/10

      One hour and 55 mins to get my sorry arse from Brookvale to Redfern this morning. Keneally, you terminally endangered clown, ‘tis the people who are angry. Start packing your bags.

      Reply

    • TChong says:

      09:01am | 29/11/10

      Seej , what great plans has O’Farrel got to help you get from Manly to Redfern?
      More public transport? More infrastruture ? Great stuff. !
      Now, how is it to be paid for?

    • Phil says:

      09:22am | 29/11/10

      Was this via public transit, or in a car? It’s hard to believe that it took you almost 2 hours to drive anywhere between 20.2 and 26km (depending on the route). I expect it would be a different matter if there were even 5,000 less cars on the road through more effective public transit, or car pooling (where possible).

    • dovif says:

      10:09am | 29/11/10

      Tchong

      Simple the ALP had not done any infrastructure in 15 years, that is why you are confused and has no answers, it is because the ALP has no answers

      That is why the ALP will be turfed out, lets just hope not many machine men and party hacks are left

    • Moggy says:

      10:23am | 29/11/10

      T.Chong….the voting public have ditched Labor in Victoria, & Labor thought they would cruise in. What do you think is going to happen to Labor in NSW??? You would do yourself & us a big favour if you stopped trying to defend the inexcusable. Labor is, & always has been, hopeless at budgeting.

    • TimB says:

      10:47am | 29/11/10

      The sad thing is the fact that it’s all these Labor run states who failed in their responsibility to provide infrastructure (despite generous funding increases like the GST)

      ...yet the Labor drones continue to insist it was all John Howard & the Federal Coalition’s fault. Go figure.

    • Phil says:

      08:52am | 29/11/10

      Kristina Keneally, not looking after your rank and file is the death nail of you. Since the founding of Labour the party has been for the battler and the small communities, with the chase for dollars and hand in hand with big business, you and your party are floundering like a wet fish on land. You are suffocating with your inability to deal with simple issues because of faction power-plays, we the people see this as fat cats only looking after themselves.  Time to leave tour ivory tower and return to the town hall meetings and hear what the great unwashed have to say. Take the risk and abuse, this you deserve, give the people their say and rebuild from there. What would Jack Lang do?

      Reply

    • WTF says:

      09:03am | 29/11/10

      you really dont have much cred to offer mate as a man of the rank and file when you can’t even spell the word it’s the LABOR party.

    • Reg says:

      12:04pm | 29/11/10

      Phil you have just sounded the death knell of WTF’s criticism.  I agree.

    • Andrew says:

      08:54am | 29/11/10

      Wasn’t Nathan Rees really angry a while back? Just before they got rid of him.

      Reply

    • MarK says:

      09:17am | 29/11/10

      He was furious.

      Pissed off.

      And ........ stuff

    • Mike T says:

      11:18am | 29/11/10

      Bob Car…..slighlty peeved
      Morris….. Terse
      Nathan Rees….... boiling
      Kristina…... Really angry

    • rufus says:

      08:54am | 29/11/10

      I guess Keneally and other ALP MPs figure that although the March election is a lost cause, at least they now have a chance to get rid of the odious Riordan, who has wielded too much power in the party. In fact, they’d be a lot better placed now if he hadn’t won his fight against Iemma.

      Reply

    • Lucy says:

      08:58am | 29/11/10

      What a total fraud! Posed angry - direct from the Walt Secord/Bob Carr school of politics - when you’re actually ultimately to blame for something - just say you’re “ANGRY” about it - leaving the Opposition with nowhere to go.

      Keneally: “I am very angry about this…”

      O’Farrell: “Well…...I’m angrier….”

      Ho hum.

      Reply

    • Keeping it Real says:

      08:59am | 29/11/10

      Whats the differnece between Angry, really angry and really really angry?

      Reply

    • MarK says:

      09:55am | 29/11/10

      About 3-4% on the Newspolls.

      Oh and about the line between when have the job and when you knifed in the back.

      Kenneally is lucky though. Everyone has resigned so there is actually no one left to give the leadership too.

    • Bobster says:

      11:14am | 29/11/10

      While Obeid survives, she has something to worry about. While Obeid survives, we all have something to worry about.

      He’d hand it over to O’Farrell in an instant if the alternative meant losing his grip on the party.

    • MarK says:

      11:35am | 29/11/10

      I agree totally Bobster. Scary but true.

    • Supercars says:

      09:00am | 29/11/10

      Someone should put her and Zoolander together!

      Reply

    • fairsfair says:

      12:00pm | 29/11/10

      Yes, I was thinking it is very blue steel. Me thinks she is going to have Owen Wilson’s nose by the end of this election….

    • Rosie says:

      09:00am | 29/11/10

      “Don’t be angry Kristina Dear! Be pathetic especially as a Labor Premier you find yourself demanding the head of the boss of the very Party that got you in, in the first place.”

      It is looking like another Labor Premier will bite the dust after the NSW elections in March because as the leader of the Opposition has stated; “The Labor brand has become toxic.” Australians are waking up to their style of electing their leaders just to remain in power!

      Julia Gillard will be next! Can’t wait! Lets hope it is before the Royal wedding as I don’t like her taking her “boyfriend” when she represents Australia if invited! For the first time I will be ashamed to be an Australian, will hide my face in shame!

      Reply

    • Helen says:

      09:05am | 29/11/10

      Really? Who cares?  I think she’s probably just read “the writing’s on the wall” and knows there’s nothing she can do now.

      Reply

    • Vince says:

      09:12am | 29/11/10

      those are some good deathstares !

      Reply

    • Robert Smissen, rural SA, God's own country says:

      03:24pm | 29/11/10

      Nah, I reckon Julie Bishop’s is way better

    • MarK says:

      09:20am | 29/11/10

      That is hilarious.

      You go girl. Hahahahaha.

      A true sign of desperation when to attempt to save ANYTHING you cannibalise your own.

      What a basket case.

      I just wish people outside of NSW knew how really pathetic this lot is and the depth of total disdain and indifference the electorate feels for these clowns. It will be a slaughter in March.

      Reply

    • Ask a stupid question says:

      09:52am | 29/11/10

      How can you feel total disdain and indifference at the same time ?

    • MarK says:

      10:22am | 29/11/10

      People who care about about politics feel the disdain.

      Non geeky normal people would be indifferent to anything she or Labor says.

      There are plenty of other adjectives you can toss in, some unprintable, to describe the many negative emotions people in NSW feel about this lot.

      Take you pick.

    • Mr GG says:

      10:25am | 29/11/10

      @Ask
      I dont know but some how they have managed it. Its feels something between wanting to vomit and wanting to punch some one in the face.

    • TimB says:

      10:53am | 29/11/10

      MarK you remind me of one of my favourite sayings:

      You can’t spell slaughter without laughter.

      I suppose it would be more funny if it was happening in a state other than my own. Nevertheless I know I’m going to be laughing hysterically watching the results roll in on Election night in March.

      Should we run a pool on just how early in the evening Keneally’s concession speech will be?

    • Ask a stupid question says:

      11:22am | 29/11/10

      So are “non geeky normal people” indifferent to anything any politician says ?

    • Scarneck says:

      11:31am | 29/11/10

      MarK @ 09:20am…believe me MarK, the NSW government could NOT possibly be worse than the current Tasmanian government…and dumb Tasmanians voted them back in - I assume the people of NSW are smarter than Tasmanians, time will tell.

    • MarK says:

      11:34am | 29/11/10

      @ Ask a stupid question

      It is certainly time to let your non de plume speak for itself

    • Get a stupid answer says:

      02:30pm | 29/11/10

      It’s the answers which speak for themselves, Mark, not the questions.

      So, are “non geeky normal people” indifferent to anything any politician says ?

    • Gregg says:

      09:26am | 29/11/10

      She does ride a bike to work so that’s something at least and could we see another Green Senator here, perhaps the Queen to take the throne from King Bobby.
      And then of course, there could be some parliamentarian entrepreneurial initiatives with a JKKJ school of deportment and body language specialising in pouts and stares
      What a formidable trio with Julia, Kristina and Julie.
      Be fun at a cocktail party!

      Reply

    • Temerarious says:

      12:11pm | 29/11/10

      She’ll be riding her bike a lot more come March 2011.

      Maybe while she is still in power she could fix up some crap Sydney roads so she can have a smoother ride after she gets turfed?

      It’s just grand when you live in a “world class” city that has a Premier, a couple of her predecessors and a Lord Mayor that don’t drive at all. No wonder our roads are so bad.

    • Norm says:

      01:11pm | 29/11/10

      She also falls off her bike. If those three women were put together I would advise them not to turn their backs on each other.

    • michael says:

      09:27am | 29/11/10

      ahhh what a shame she is angry. Time to go, you will not win the election kk, move on the voters will have their say and you will be gone.

      Reply

    • Lennie Sparks says:

      09:35am | 29/11/10

      The people of NSW are very, very, very angry at you Ms Keneally. If you wish console the people than resign now, along with your cronies.

      Reply

    • grumpy old man says:

      09:38am | 29/11/10

      so, she feels angry, disappointed, let down? welcome to the club, we’ve all been feeling that way about your govt for some time! Do the words “Pot, Kettle, Black ” ring any bells KK?

      Its a bad day at the office when you’re boss tells you your finished, and thats what has just happened to KK, but at least she’ll get a nice redundancy payout!

      Reply

    • Luke says:

      09:41am | 29/11/10

      Keneally failing, Anna failing….......Julia failing, seems to be a bit of a tend happening.

      Reply

    • Hawko says:

      09:42am | 29/11/10

      I agree with CJ Morgan. I’m in love too.
      What a hornbag !!!
      I also love the accent.
      Leaves Anna Bligh for dead…

      Reply

    • Macon Paine says:

      09:43am | 29/11/10

      Absolutely hilarious! Even when attempting to be serious Keneally somehow manages to make herself look ridiculous! Congrats to the photographer who got these shots as well.

      Reply

    • Pavlo says:

      09:44am | 29/11/10

      i can just imagine the photographer directing her: “Christina, now walk towards the camera with a purposeful stride and a serious look on your face”. Some of those shots are just plain silly, especially the head cocked and hand on hip pics.

      Reply

    • Carl Palmer says:

      09:44am | 29/11/10

      Being angry is one thing doing something about it is another. One thing’s for sure, she might be close to her friends but she sure hasn’t kept a lot closer to her enemies. Silly girl.

      Reply

    • AdamC says:

      09:46am | 29/11/10

      “Kris, give me angry, yes, [CLICK] angry. Angry, like a tiger angry, yeah [CLICK]. Grrr, Kristina [CLICK], grrr. Wonderful. Yes, more [CLICK] stare at the camera, Kristina, right down the barrell [CLICK]. Grrr.”

      I am sure that didn’t actually happen, but I couldn’t help thinking about what the photographer would be saying. Isn’t it a worry when an ALP pollie can’t even do sincerity properly when she is no doubt actually sincere?

      Reply

    • Rose says:

      09:50am | 29/11/10

      Well we are very angry too - nobody sacked you KK! Somebody wasn’t doing their job.

      Reply

    • Chris Lewis says:

      09:54am | 29/11/10

      I like her. She’s doing her best with what she has to work with.

      By the way, it’s easy to bag NSW politicians from left or right but people forget just how massive the state is an it *isn’t* just about Sydney! Yes I accept the M4, M2, M5 etc need fixing but they are nothing compared with the massive networks of roads the Government have to maintain.

      People who bag the way the income is spent forget how much it costs to keep the state running and we get the sheep constantly bleating “We pay too much in taxes” followed up rapidly by “We want more services!”. Well if you want the services they have to be paid for.

      The mass of problems the state suffers from is a result of factors almost entirely outside state control. When Labor lose control as they surely will it’ll be a short wait before the sheep start bleating about the Liberals, or Greens, or whoever takes the place on.

      Best of luck to whoever forms government, it’s a poison chalice. If I was Kristina Keneally I’d be furious not just ‘angry’.

      Reply

    • Mr GG says:

      10:31am | 29/11/10

      @chris
      Except when you look at the fact that spend obscene amounts on Politicians pay and super, the argument that pay peanuts get monkeys is now totally defunct because we pay a lot and have monkeys with brain injuries. We’d be better off with regular monkeys. All paying more does is mean that we get the greediest and most corrupt monkeys.

    • Mountains Man says:

      11:50am | 29/11/10

      Doing the best with what she has to work with? NSW Labor once had plenty of money to work with and they wasted it on failed projects, and then up went the taxes to get more money to waste. Most recent 100 million on the now failed dam project in the hunter valley, 100 million spent and now this bimbo pulls the plug what a joke. Well I am angry to KK, but my anger is not pathetic looking as yours. My anger will be to throw you and the corrupt wasteful NSW Government out of Macquarie St.

    • Temerarious says:

      12:03pm | 29/11/10

      ....and they waste an obscene half a billion dollars on a Sydney Metro when a shovel wasn’t even put in the ground. Well done, Labor.

    • Norm says:

      01:14pm | 29/11/10

      You are right about the fact that it is going to be a long hard road to recovery.

    • lennie sparks says:

      03:31pm | 29/11/10

      Thank you Chris Lewis aka (Ms Keneally) please don’t get your staff to reply. You are dead in the water anyway you go

    • Cassandra says:

      04:20pm | 29/11/10

      NSW Labor wastes the money it receives from the taxes.  There are hundreds of “displaced” public servants who are paid a salary for doing absolutely NOTHING.  They have no job and should be made redundant and yet they are still “employed” by the state government. 

      A desalination plant was built for no reason for millions of wasted dollars.  We do not have a water shortage or crisis.  The water resources we have are mis-managed.

    • Brad Coward says:

      09:56am | 29/11/10

      When you don’t know how to get even…..get angry !

      When you don’t know what you’re doing….get angry !

      When you’re angry….get angrier !

      Reply

    • Brad Coward says:

      09:59am | 29/11/10

      There’ll be countless requests at Katies today for the Kristina Keneally “angry suit”.

      Reply

    • jamie says:

      10:15am | 29/11/10

      I can’t wait to see the inner Peter Beatie come out in Anna Bligh when she gets this angry, hopefully Queensland will finally see the yellow-toothed smile for what it is

      Reply

    • Jen says:

      10:16am | 29/11/10

      Whay are you angry KK, you forgot the simplest rule of public service…....serve. It is NOT called public mastery, but public service. No union has the power over the people that put you there. You are master of nothing, but servent to us all…....whoever remembers that will stay in power, the people that forget this and think that they are there to tell us what to do will be booted out!

      Reply

    • Get with it says:

      10:21am | 29/11/10

      Bring back Bob Carr.

      Better still boot out the redhead and have him stand for PM (he has to get a fed seat first - shouldn’t be a problem).

      That’s the only way Labor or Australia will have any chance.

      Reply

    • Jane says:

      10:29am | 29/11/10

      I had high hopes for KK, someone had to give her the benefit of the doubt, but not anymore and here’s why. A friend of mine was to visit here from the US. When she was 3, back in 1950, her father was working over here and passed away. He was cremated here and left here. She thought it would be nice to be able to take her father home with her when she went back. Back to his homeland where he belongs, back with her mother who passed when friend was a baby. She contacted KK because she didn’t know who else to contact because apparently to release her fathers ashes, she had to get permission off the family who signed for all the death and funeral stuff. She doesn’t even know if they’re still alive, let alone who they are. KK wrote back and said she couldn’t directly help, she would need to speak with the Attorney General and she would forward her letter onto them. This was earlier in the year. Fast forward to November when friend visits. She lands in Aus, and the first thing she did was ring the AG. They had NO IDEA who she was or what she wanted. KK had ‘forgotten’ to send the letter on, even though she said she’d do it as soon as she could. Friend left Australia yesterday and her fathers ashes are still in Sydney. I was so angry for her. If KK can’t even be bothered to help one of her own former countrymen, what hope have we got of her doing any good for us? Answer? ZERO. Actually, LESS than zero. You’ve lost my vote KK (even though you had already months ago and not that I voted for you in the first place).
      I wonder how these people can sleep at night sometimes. I guess you need a conscience, which she clearly doesn’t have. That was the last chance my friend had of getting her fathers remains home and it’s gone.

      Reply

    • Sean says:

      10:30am | 29/11/10

      I’m surprised they don’t have “Kristina is dressed by…” in there somewhere.  It’ goes to show how much publicity plays in Politics now.  No wonder people don’t believe pollies anymore, they don’t look like the avergare Aussie worker, so how can we believe anything they say?

      Reply

    • Jezabel says:

      11:16am | 29/11/10

      She’s probably to ashamed to admit she’s dressed by Millers!

    • Monica says:

      12:18pm | 29/11/10

      She looks like the average Aussie worker to me - just posing - as if she was working.

    • Norm says:

      01:06pm | 29/11/10

      Hey Jezabel.  What is wrong with buying clothes at Millers are you some kind of snob or something? I think having the name of Jezabel leaves a lot more to be ashamed about.

    • Badjack says:

      10:55am | 29/11/10

      She may be angry but she is still a real good looker.

      Reply

    • CC says:

      10:56am | 29/11/10

      Angry for what???  they can’t blame anyone except for themself

      Reply

    • Mike T says:

      11:12am | 29/11/10

      Im Glad to see Kristina is angry, I just wish her anger had been directed towards the governements track record in managing our roads and the state health system etc.

      As a realist i understand that governments have a dual role. That being to govern for the people aswell as to stay in power and that often these drivers are polar opposites. This governement, however, only seems to be driven by the need to stay in power….... think about the amount of time they spend spend on infighting, changing premiers, appeasing factions etc…...... i just wish ‘the people’ would be thier priority at some point, but no, the only time she decides to fire up is when somone has the gaul to threaten her power base.

      Kristina. Your governement no longer functions for the people. It is driven by the need for power (even by politicains standards). Please go away and turn the party into a credible option. Once you have done that, come back and challenge the current governement. But untill then stop Fu@king up our daily lives with your corrupt and greedy government

      Reply

    • Gerard says:

      03:38pm | 29/11/10

      Staying in power is not a ‘role’ of government. It’s an illegitimate ambition held by most individuals in parliament and the parties they serve. Such an ambition should result in their removal from power- and this is where the electorate has to accept responsibility for neglecting its duties.

    • notsurprised says:

      11:19am | 29/11/10

      Wow, a staged photo opportunity, haven’t seen one of them before!

      We need a leader not a mannequin?

      Reply

    • Mike T says:

      11:20am | 29/11/10

      I cant work out if this is Blue Steel or Magnum…..

      Reply

    • nosthow says:

      11:43am | 29/11/10

      To show you and bloggers my sensitive side Tors I have penned a poem to Kristina :
        “It seems you were sent straight to me from above

      Your smile is bright enough to bring the day

      Your eyes so blue, I just have to say

      There couldn’t be anything more perfect in one place

      Your beauty is much deeper than just your face

      They say love takes time but yet . . . .

      It feels as if we’ve already met

      It feels like we were meant to be

      Together forever . . . You and Me ”

      Reply

    • NicoleG says:

      11:49am | 29/11/10

      OMG ! Someone pass me a really big bucket.

    • fairsfair says:

      12:03pm | 29/11/10

      well whatever you do Nosthow don’t predict her election win. It will be the final nail in her coffin. Remind me never to ask your tip for the melbourne cup…Stick to the fishing! wink

    • Rosie says:

      12:12pm | 29/11/10

      Poor Poor nosthow! Kristina will have a life after politics even if she uses her looks but you, I am sorry is another statistical basket case!

      I may be obessioned with Julia Gillard’s atheism and living in sin with her boyfriend in the Lodge but Hey they are the facts and I have moral standards that I abide with.

      Nicole perhaps we should be feeling sorry for nosthow?????

    • Ben81 says:

      01:09pm | 29/11/10

      ahaha, now all you have to do is crash a press conference and recite that, you’re obviously meant for her and she doesn’t know it yet! ;p

    • Ben C says:

      01:15pm | 29/11/10

      Sorry Nicole, I’m still using it

    • Feral Wombat says:

      03:35pm | 29/11/10

      Nosthow, that’s just beautiful! Would it be possible to commission you to compose one for the right-wingers? Here’s some ideas to get you started:

      The Mad Monk
      Head full of junk
      He talks like he’s drunk
      But, Oh, what a spunk!
      I want a piece of that hunk
      Whose policies smell like a skunk

      or

      Oh Big Ears
      You sh!t me to tears
      You play on our fears
      The Master of Smears
      What’s with the shandy? Real men drink beers

    • luke Whitington says:

      11:48am | 29/11/10

      how did the song go??—im so angry, i couldn’t live without it, or your so angry you couldn’t live without it, or, i know—vain???

      Reply

    • Bluesteel says:

      12:03pm | 29/11/10

      Zoolander style!!!!

      Reply

    • Bruce says:

      03:12pm | 29/11/10

      Bluesteel: Classic ! Well Done.  I wonder what her U Googly will be ? She is vewy, vewy angwii !!

    • BobbyDan says:

      12:06pm | 29/11/10

      KK could do with a travelling hair dresser and makeup artist if she is going to do photo shoots.

      The best part is the TELEGRA Dam will not be built and all the valley folk will still be able to farm and sleep in dry beds into the future. Next move is to keep the coal miners out as thre is plenty available without rooting up more food bowl ground.

      I know the area very well with relatives in Newcastle we have done the wineries up The Hunter and watched the sunset over the valleys and mountains. Too good to spoil.

      Reply

    • Against the Man says:

      12:06pm | 29/11/10

      KK and JG are the same kind of chicken running around and making lots of noise and getting little else done.

      Reply

    • Robert S McCormick says:

      12:09pm | 29/11/10

      So Chrissy is angry! Not that she was here then but so too was Gough Whitlam! he got very,very,very,very,very angry with the Governor-General he appointed when the G-G tossed him out of office!
      I said it before & I say it again Chrissy CHOSE to accept an Arsenic-filled Chalice when she accepted the job as NSW Premier.
      She could have waited until after next years election when the ALP is going to be almost eliminated in NSW, they may even lose Party Status, assume Leadership of the NSW Opposition & given that she seems to be a really pleasant, fun person she would have led the ALP out of the wilderness they will find themsleves in in 2011 in about 2020. Ambition, Chrissy, is a terrible master. I would have thought that Chrissy, being the intelligent woman she is, would have realised she was being set up. Get rid of the only decent woman in the NSW ALP & that chauvanistic body will forever be able to point out to the Party: “Well look at what Chrissy Kenneally did. She led us to our biggest defeat ever so we can’t ever risk having another woman as leader”
      The same will happen if Junket Junkie Julia leads the ALP into it’s second defeat - the first being in Ausgust 2010 - For all the rhetoric the ALP is every bit as chauvanistic as it was racist under Calwell.

      Reply

    • Norm says:

      01:23pm | 29/11/10

      Politics is a cyclical thing, you know, like the weather. NSW Labor deserve to be destroyed & it would be a self inflicted wound but they won’t be destroyed.  There are enough die hards to keep several of them there. The real problem is that we will have no opposition to keep the new Gov accountable & on it’s toes. Also voters are fickle, when the Coalition has not fixed it all up in 6 months, then the complaints will come thick & fast.  People, you had better prepare yourselves for a long, long rehabilitation & do not also forget that for the people of NSW, having this current Labor State Gov is also a self inflicted wound.

    • Lee from WA says:

      12:17pm | 29/11/10

      What a poser!!!

      Reply

    • Razor says:

      01:47pm | 29/11/10

      Did she stamp her foot while clenching her fists down by her sides to make her point?

      Turn on her heels and stride off?

      I can’t wait for the makeup &*()

      Reply

    • Greg says:

      03:40pm | 29/11/10

      No, but she has threatened to hold her breath until she turns blue….......

      But at least she has finally found one thing that she is good at - throwing a temper tantrum.

    • jj says:

      01:52pm | 29/11/10

      She is so HOT!

      Reply

    • Christopher Boyce says:

      01:57pm | 29/11/10

      Too bad for Keneally - she told Parliament that her conscience has primacy. That’s why she voted for gay adoption in defiance of Cardinal Pell who wrote to all politicians about the issue. Now a Labor union leader also follows his conscience and tells his people he cannot stand by the Party. Her reaction - sack him!  Primacy of conscience for me - obedience for you. Make up your mind, Kristina!

      Reply

    • KB says:

      02:01pm | 29/11/10

      Well, really, what does anyone expect?  Labor will be sent into the wilderness for a few years.  The Libs will inherit a mess, but the problem is how can anyone expect Mr O’Barrell to lead?  He might win the “Barrie Unsworth Brown Cardigan” award for inspidness, but that’s about it.  Is he in the Jeff Kennett or Nick Greiner league?  Not even close.  NSW is heading down the same path as Vic and Federal, and that is a whole lot of indecision.  Until there is a real difference between the parties (other than “we can do this” and “so can we but only better” and “yes we can / no you can’t”) we will only get carping whingers who will go on and on about how hard it is to achieve anything.
      Just get someone to develop the rail freight corridor through the central west, Newcastle as the second airport for Sydney, high-speed rail started between Wollongong-Syd-Newcastle, I’m sure the list could go on.  But there is NO-ONE that will push anything through anymore.

      Reply

    • Tom says:

      02:53pm | 29/11/10

      How delightfully witty you are KB calling him Mr O’Barrell.

    • HappyCynic says:

      03:23pm | 29/11/10

      @Tom

      If the shoe fits…  smile

      Just because he’s a Liberal doesn’t mean he’s entitled to any more respect than the other crooks out there.  He has to earn it first.

    • amused says:

      02:02pm | 29/11/10

      I have to be completely honest here and say I hate this woman. She drives me crazy with her upstart attitude.  She made a comment once about not being sorry for being late to something because her kids came first and she was at one of their soccer matches, whatever. It got me thinking that women who have careers and children are always going to put their kids first. Which is the right thing to do, but for a politician she needs to be fully into the job. Otherwise stay home and be a mother. This is why I have respect for someone like Julia Gillard. She doesn’t have kids, so is therefore able to concentrate fully on the job. Have your kids if you want them, but don’t expect sympathy when you can’t do your job because of them.

      Reply

    • INCREDIBLY Angry KD says:

      02:09pm | 29/11/10

      You stupid woman Keneally.  Take that anger, multiply it by 100, and then you’ll start to feel a smidgeon of the anger that most of NSW feels towards you, and your current and past party of greedy, inept, corrupt fools.  Take your bat and just go - anywhere.  I believe Antarctica’s nice at this time of year.  See how much damage you can all wreak down there.

      Reply

    • Barry says:

      02:58pm | 29/11/10

      You would think the Premier of NSW would have something better to do than to pose for photos. What a joke

      Reply

    • Against the Man says:

      04:03pm | 29/11/10

      Barry the ALP at any level of government is a joke. The average Australian family is feeling the heat of a badly run country. Everyone needs to wake up and vote Labor out and send KK, Gillard and friends a message that they need to grow up and act like responsible adults.

    • Against the Man says:

      04:03pm | 29/11/10

      Barry the ALP at any level of government is a joke. The average Australian family is feeling the heat of a badly run country. Everyone needs to wake up and vote Labor out and send KK, Gillard and friends a message that they need to grow up and act like responsible adults.

    • dudley says:

      03:12pm | 29/11/10

      Costa once described Riorden as a 15 watt light globe in a 1000w socket. What an absolute grub this man is - bully boy and thug - nothing less. Ask the ETU workers how well he has looked after them as a double agent. Couldn’t lay straight in bed. Loyalty - the man has never heard of it.

      Reply

    • Greg says:

      03:36pm | 29/11/10

      Maybe Kristina is preparing for her next job as a dominatrix, by giving a naughty boy a spanking, while assertively wearing her no-nonsense haircut and her Hillary Clinton endorsed power pantsuit.

      Then again, don’t write her off yet. She has both the feminist and the masochist votes in the bag already.

      Reply

    • N says:

      03:39pm | 29/11/10

      You got it wrong..She’s HOTTTTTTTT

      Reply

    • Mike Lomman says:

      03:48pm | 29/11/10

      Was there a swimsuit shoot as well? and if not why not??

      Reply

    • Victor says:

      03:51pm | 29/11/10

      This tax payer funded photo shoot is not going to change anything. Labor will be thrown out come March 2011. I too am angry with the Labor Party…..don’t see me wasting my time posing for the camera….and getting paid for it. Silly exercise…...absolutely futile!!!

      Reply

    • Josh says:

      04:01pm | 29/11/10

      Loving it! Princess Precious discovering that blonde hair and batting eyelids don’t work anymore. If the people of NSW had wanted a bimbo, we could have hired one for a lot less.

      Reply

    • Graham The Great says:

      04:18pm | 29/11/10

      Hey yeah she looks great when she’s angry, but that close up, she seems to have a few miles on the clock!

      Reply

    • Michael says:

      04:20pm | 29/11/10

      Blue steel? What about stunned puppet out of her depth? What about reality check? Or maybe that’s just a look of the puppet hand up her backside clenched in a fist and twisted?

      Reply

    • George says:

      04:38pm | 29/11/10

      Aaah Kristina, the acceptable face of NSW Labor

      Reply

    • fed up of the labour lies says:

      04:41pm | 29/11/10

      The only reason she is upset is because of the joke of a reform the new election donation and campaigning rules are.. she was expecting all the unions to support labour in effect giving them extra funding because the greens are a bunch of idiots with very little true moral responsibility. Maybe we should set up employer unions so that they can fund and support the liberal party within these new rules. Bet they would try to change the definition of a union then.

      Reply

    • Cameron says:

      04:48pm | 29/11/10

      My God Kristina’s sexy when She’s angry!

      Reply

    • jane wallace says:

      05:02pm | 29/11/10

      Kristina Kenneally is the greatest New South Wales Premier of all time and she leads the greatest New South Wales State Government of all time.
      Labor deserves to win the March 26 2011 New South Wales State Election by a record election landslide.
      Despite this ,Kristina Kenneally is a perfect person with excellence in mind, beauty,personality, competence, and talent.
      The Australian Labor Party might struggle to form the next NSW State Government with support from only 22 elected Labor MPs and 25 elected Labor leaning Independents.
      However thanks to the Mass Media, The Liberal Party, and the National Party,
      may not get a single seat in the New Souith Wales Legislative Assembly after the next state election.
      If this happens, there will never be a shortage of taxi drivers in NSW ever again.

      Reply

    • Nigel Catchlove says:

      05:19pm | 29/11/10

      I thought this was an opinion blog, not the cutting room floor for Saturday Night Live.

    • jane wallace says:

      05:22pm | 29/11/10

      ALP will have zero seats in NSW Lower House after March 26 2011 NSW State Election.
      Kristina kenneally deserves to switch to federal politics or get an Ambassador’s job to USA

      Reply

    • nlcae says:

      06:02pm | 29/11/10

      Look, for those of you lamenting the loss of Triple-K, given how BOTH NSW Labor and Liberal have opposed the federal schools curriculum for being behind NSW’s curriculum, Peter Garett, with no factional support, will be rolled before 2013. Then we’ll introduce Kristina Kerscher Keneally, the federal member for Kingford Smith.

      Reply

    • Seano says:

      06:16pm | 29/11/10

      I like Kristina, I don’t like NSW Labor any more.

      Unfortunately NSW is looking very much like a lose, lose proposition, replacing one bunch of no hopers with another. O’Farrell controls the Libs about as much as Kristina controls Labor.

      My recommendation is we boot the lot of them over the course of the next 12 years keep kicking them out in the hope that eventually we will get state pollies who a) are about doing a good job and b) about serving the public….all of the public.

      Reply

    • nosthow says:

      06:38pm | 29/11/10

      Sir Robert Menzies once turned to the Queen on stage with him and uttered some immortal words. May I now use those same words to express my deep admiration of Ms Keneally:
              “I did but see her passing by
                but I know I will love her till I die”
      Nosthow is having a very emotional day today.

      Reply

    • Pete says:

      07:16am | 30/11/10

      If my mum gave me a look like that, I’d be hiding from her. Kristina stop wasting your time in NSW, run for the next federal seat

      Reply

    • Mr Bob says:

      09:08am | 30/11/10

      The ALP is a failure at State and Federal level. Why? Because they don’t have the basic understanding on how to run a country. Just give up Kristina and move far away.

      Reply

    • Daniel says:

      06:15pm | 30/11/10

      I like this woman but she belongs to Labor and they are the most rotten bunch of mps NSW has ever seen and had to contend with.

      Reply
 
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