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Liberal diary: Labor’s ruthless robotic machine

Sophie Mirabella

by Sophie Mirabella

13 Aug 05:45am

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Note: Labor MP Richard Marles and Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella are among our favourite contributors to The Punch, and we have asked them to write a piece every Friday during this five-week election campaign giving their take on events.

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‘In the 70s, the Labor campaign director was well-liked, a fair dinkum Aussie larrikin, not a member of the detested caste of ruthless robotic machine men that run Labor’s campaigns today’. - John Della Bosca, former NSW State Labor Minister and General Secretary of the ALP for 9 years, writing in the Daily Telegraph last Saturday.

It is somewhat ironic that Labor stalwart John Della Bosca’s frank assessment (above) was published on the same day that Labor’s campaign seemed to go completely haywire. 

In fact, the photo shoot with Rudd and confrontation with Latham last Saturday were so bizarre and outrageous that Della Bosca’s comments didn’t get much coverage.

Australians around the country were left shaking their heads on Sunday morning at images of the real Julia’s campaign being derailed by both the men she had campaigned fiercely for in the two previous elections.  Both men she had unequivocally backed for the highest office in our nation and pledged her support for. 

Her history with Rudd puts a big question mark over those recent declarations of loyalty, and her history in backing Latham as Leader just seriously brings into question her judgement!

But the irony comes that the low point reached last Saturday has actually been a catalyst for Labor to crank up it’s “ruthless robotic machine”.  The campaign has turned decidedly nasty and, far from throwing out the rule book, Julia has let her ruthless robotic machine men off the leash.

Having not gained any real traction in their campaign so far, the Labor machine has now turned to a personal attack on Tony Abbott.

To suggest that a Rhodes Scholar with a degree in Economics has somehow limited capacity in understanding budgets is utterly laughable.  Tony Abbott was a Minister for 9 years, ran one of the most important and largest Departments (Health), and never once had a stuff up that wasted billions of dollars like the Building the Education Revolution (BER).

Give me a break.  Please spare us from an economics lecture by the Labor Government that has admitted it is clocking up$100 million every single day on our nation’s credit card!

Labor now seems to think that endless personal attacks on Tony Abbott’s intellectual capacity is good politics.  And the sad thing is you can bet we’ll see more “smear and scare” tactics in the coming week. Labor’s machine men are desperate, they know how to play dirty, and they will say and do anything to scrape across the line.

I’m not pretending that negative campaigning doesn’t have any place in an election.  But let’s base it on facts and on records and policies.

Julia Gillard is running a mile from her Government’s record, and she’s yet to put up any substantial policies - amazingly she won’t even launch her campaign until Monday, less than a week before the election. 

I guess all the smokescreens are understandable when just seven weeks ago Julia declared Labor had “lost it’s way” - and the only direction they have been heading since then is at each other’s throats!

This was so clearly seen during the town hall meeting at Rooty Hill RSL in Sydney on Wednesday.  The depth of concern that the Australian public has about the deep divisions within the ALP and their past policy failures was obvious. The public record shows that Labor makes big promises but doesn’t deliver.

Julia would much prefer we forget about the past 3 years and focus instead on her good intentions.  It’s a strategy that worked for Labor’s machine men at a State level in Queensland, NSW, Tasmania and South Australia.

But real Julia needs to get into the real world.

It’s not about “wanting a world class education system” – it’s about whether you can deliver it.  It’s not about “believing in a better public health system”, it’s about creating one and making sure you’ve got the money to fund it.

What Australians want is real action. (For a full list of Coalition policies go to www.liberal.org.au)

Julia promised to throw out the campaigning rule book. If she was serious she would call off the “smear and scare” campaign that her ruthless, robotic machine men are planning for the coming week. 

But more importantly, she needs to articulate clear policies (instead of glib slogans) and also explain to Australians how she will actually deliver them and how she will pay for them.  How will her approach differ from the “lost” Rudd-Gillard Government?

Because Labor’s record over the past term suggests that they simply can’t implement policy effectively and efficiently.  There is example after example.

It’s no wonder Julia’s machine men will spend the next week attacking Tony Abbott. 

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    • Trajan says:

      06:27am | 13/08/10

      Remember that, as the saying goes;  “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

      I reflect on the rise of Ms. Gillard and realise that yes, she barged her way to the top with a ruthless streak.  Now though she is there, she reminds me of a rabbit transfixed by the oncoming Juggernaut’s headlights.
      Ambition can be your Achilles heel and the political spotlight is a harsh glare, very harsh - it shows all your blemishes and reveals one’s frailties too, it is not being kind to the incumbent.

      Reply

    • Jane says:

      11:47am | 13/08/10

      LOL Sophie….and you forgot Gillard the RED Dalek there chanting amongst them.

    • Joan says:

      06:57am | 13/08/10

      Gillards CV for PMs job is lacking qualities needed for job. She lacks power of good judgement- her poor judgement of Latham character, willing to foist him on Australia as PM,  poor respect shown to East Timor leaders in her scramble to gain points on asylum seekers,  a person whose word means little who vows loyalty one day then knifes Rudd the next, to gain position of power. Presents a phoney airbrushed supermodel Giilard for womens magazines with that done, and magazines on racks for sale, she goes to the Australian people and tells them she will now present the `real `Julia.  Daily she uses manipulative language to fool Australian people,  to discredit Abbott s personal economic credentials- .... yet Abbott with a Degree in Economics is better qualified than Gillard with Law degree or Swann with an Arts Degree. A power driven one dimmensional woman is not what Australia needs.

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    • haggis says:

      11:46am | 13/08/10

      Wiki says Tony Abbott graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (BEc) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB)[4] from the University of Sydney where he resided at St John’s College, and was president of the Student Representative Council.[6] He gained media attention for his political stance opposing the then dominant left-wing student leadership. He was also a prominent student boxer. He then went on to attend Queen’s College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) in Politics and Philosophy.[7]

    • Kevin says:

      01:07pm | 13/08/10

      Both John Howard and Peter Costello had Law degrees.

    • Joan says:

      01:40pm | 13/08/10

      Howard and Costello not running.- don’t you know?  Gillard ex Socialist Forum girl , is pretty dumb running around saying Abbott clueless in economic area, but then not surprising she talks about a Mr Rabbit and not Mr Abbott.  .... and she doesn’t know if she is real or fake Julia..

    • Kevin says:

      04:00pm | 13/08/10

      The last Treasurer who was a Rhodes Scholar was Kim Beazley.  I can’t imagine what his sport was but I’m sure it wasn’t a sport where the opponents keep punching each other in the head until one of them is knocked senseless.  Another Treasurer, Jim Cairns had a doctorate in economics.

    • Phil says:

      07:23am | 13/08/10

      Sophie, unfortunately for the true deceivers, they ignore the faults as the welfare is soooo good on the dark side.

      Those now sprouting Julia’s credentials for PM are the same ones who though Kevin Rudd was a great PM, Mark Latham was a serious contender who deserved keys to the lodge, and Simon Crean was a worthy challenger to JWH.

      When the rose coloured glasses come off surely they can see the complete farce this government has been, the money they have wasted, people killed and the disregard for convictions. (unless that means reelection)

      That Tony Abbott has won the forth week is simply, yes a few problems with the NBN, surely though your lot could do simple sums based on take up rates of everyone currently plus say 15-25% of homes and give us a costing per home per year to make a business case out of it.

      Just like some schmuck in Labor would have done their sums (laughs) of the economic benefits of a 2.45 billion dollar pink batt program, which at best got 1 billion worth of batts.

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    • True Blue says:

      07:25am | 13/08/10

      Yes agree. The NSW state ALP election handbook states ” Promise with as much sincerity, and know that when you promise there are no restraints on spending” “Let the party worry about the detail” “Nothing is a lie, because there is no statute of limitations” “Play the man not the ball” “Appeal to the lowest common denominator because hate is a powerful emotion”

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    • Tarzan says:

      07:25am | 13/08/10

      I tell you what, if Wayne Swann leaked those documents he should be charged.
      I don’t want to vote Liberal, but the underhanded methods Labor use are very concerning to me. I think the Liberals also need to investigate why we haven’t heard of any boat arrivals lately.  Could this be another underhanded trick from them?

      Reply

    • G. David says:

      09:26am | 13/08/10

      I suspect the people smugglers are waiting to see who wins the election. Their clients would be most reluctant to pay US$10,000 for a trip to Christmas Island if there is a risk the Coalition will win and send them straight back home again.

    • Peter says:

      09:40am | 13/08/10

      Swan was asked several times if he leaked the information and not once would he say no. He is a slimy little coward, I always thought he looked slimy and sneaky regarding favours for Rudds car dealer mate also.

    • Jeremy says:

      07:51am | 13/08/10

      Do you really think you’ll sneak into office banging on about personal disagreements on the other side, Sophie?

      Reply

    • E says:

      10:54am | 13/08/10

      ALP: we are smarter than you and your mates, you have sunk too low and need to fire everybody (including yourselves) and start again.

      OMG .. ‘slide into office’, did a mates heavy focus group, run by a marketing company full of mates (Hawker Britton)  claim that line had ‘cut through’? LOL, I am amazed at how stupid the ALP seems to think we all are! Although, having seen that Hawker guy on ABC breakfast clearly no level of intellect is considered too low for the ALP.

    • Nicole says:

      08:18am | 13/08/10

      What else do you seriously expect from the Labor Government? They make promises but don’t deliver. They throw money around like they’ve got it growing on some tree. The desperation is so obvious and all they’ve got left is personal attacks and smears on Abbott. Queen Jooolya is an amateur , is far from fit to lead this country and is nothing more than a puppet, but doesn’t realise this. She’s just thriving on the big power trip. She treats us like they’re total idiots, talks down to us and just doesn’t want to hear our concerns. That enormous ego is about to be deflated and I can’t wait.

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    • Youdy beaudy says:

      11:41am | 15/08/10

      The Liberal Party haven’t got a chance to get in. Their chance in buckleys. And the reason probably is that Tony Abbott hasn’t got a clue. Clueless. He must be paying the media a lot just to get his dial on the news.

      If you want Robert Menzies politics then dig the idiot up and re invent him. Well that’s what the liberals are good at. They re-gurgatated the proctologist, John howard and a very good proctologist for George Bush he was. He even brought George W Bushes policies back to Australia to make our lives a misery and Abbott, if he gets in will continue making Australia into the American System. Now they produce another bloke who won by 1 vote against a better man for the job. That’s all he is, a Mr one vote. He hasn’t got a clue, and anyone who votes for him hasn’t got a clue either. It must be so embarrassing being a Liberal Voter, having to continue to live the lie but really wishing they had Gillard running their party because they fear her, because she has a brain which can’t be said for their Bloke.

      Now the question is. Will the Gays and Lesbians vote for Abbott, him being a good Catholic and completely brainwashed by the Catholic Dogma. And the Women of Australia and in particular the Younger Women because of the same reason. The Disability Pensioners shouldn’t vote for Abbott as he is just a Replica of John Howard and guess what. Goodbye Pensions even for legitimate sufferers. Single Aged Pensioners. Howard gave them nothing. Abbott will do the same.

      Nurses and Doctors, Internet junkies, and Families who were helped by Labor to get though what could have been disastrous consequences for them had the Sub Prime hit us hard. Labor staved off that effect. Anyway see what happens next Saturday. You could pour a load of horseshit on Gillard and she will still triumph. But Abbott takes his orders from Archbishop Pell and the Papacy. He is a very good Catholic indeed.

      We the Australian People will have to think about the Religious Side of this campaign, it is important to decide whether Abbott will issue commands based on his Catholic Viewpoint. I can’t see that he wouldn’t as he says he is a good catholic and believes absolutely.

      His mob runs down Gillard as a Athiest and puts forward points that being an athiest, unmarried and unchildrened,  somehow makes an evil person who would lead the country towards the catholic devil man. You know the one. Has the Big Horns and the Hellfire and Brimstone. That’s the one. Then on the other hand promotes a Bloke, Abbott, who belongs to the Religion that has been insulting God and Jesus for 1500 years. Go Figure.

    • Rosie says:

      08:53am | 13/08/10

      Julia Gillard’s on Q&A was a top performance of an actress that we can all agree with. She loved it because it was easy for her to fool the audience by answering the questions with the Labor message that she wanted to get through. She tried to do the same at the Rooty Hill RSL forum but failed badly because the auidence weren’t stupid they knew it was coming and pulled her up for it, the reason she lost. Today the intelligentsia section of our society cannot see what she is really doing. They have allowed her to get away with it and so infuriating to now see Kevin Rudd doing the same, avoiding the questions and answering with the Labor message. It is about time the media told them what they are doing like the Rooty Hill audience.

      Thank God to the Rooty Hill RSL - You guys Rock!

      How can people trust her is beyond belief. The sad thing is all the Labor mob have become like her. Now we have an arguement on the costings which is in the hands of the Federal Police. Why? because of Labor again. At least I can be happy if Labor wins because they have stolen the election away from the Libs. Better to win by default than win by stealing.

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    • Nicole says:

      10:29am | 13/08/10

      Too true Rosie. That’s the Labor way, side step every question and just don’t answer. Swan was a perfect example of that motto yesterday, when hes was asked numerous times if he was the leak. Not once did he say no, so clearly it was him. And frankly Jooolya just can’t be trusted.

    • Holly says:

      09:07am | 13/08/10

      Good old Sophie I’ll give you a few points for honesty.  “I’m not pretending that the negative campaigning doesn’t have any place in an election”  Because that is all I have seen from the Coalition ” Stop the boats etc ad nauseum - even your campaign launch was strong on negativity and snide humour, and short on vision. 

      Really Sophie - the coalition never racked up any public spending waste - I beg to differ - it is on the public record for all to see.

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    • Judith V says:

      09:23am | 13/08/10

      Tony Abbott never made a mistake or wasted money , because HE never spent any, that’s why we have to wait for hospital bed’s. john Howard and the AMA cut places for doctors in Uni and jacked up the fee’s. The AMA said we have enough doctors and that is why we have the shortages . Put the nurses back in hospitals for their training and that would ease a lot of work also. And by the way, there is no saddle on Miss Gillard’s back so stop riding her unless you have some-thing constructive to say.

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    • Randal says:

      03:24pm | 13/08/10

      Judith, under the previous government the spend on Health in this nation increased by 88%, there was no cut back, no money taken from the system.

      You have fallen for a Labor lie, just like their lie about Health Reform, it’s not reform if you spend the same amount of money just in a different funding mix, and it’s not reform when you leave the same bureaucrats who have stuffed the Health system to keep running it.

      Just more smoke and mirrors from the ALP and it would appear that you have fallen for that mantra hook, line and sinker!

    • AdamC says:

      09:25am | 13/08/10

      I am getting extremely worried about this election. Increasingly, the most likely outcomes is an anaemic, narrow victory for Labor, possibly even reliant on some kind of deal with Greens or independents.

      Given that they are already a rabble and will lack much of a popular mandate, they will be unable to accomplish anything of substance and their popularity will begin steadily to fall soon after the election. The snakemen who actually run things will, despite being discredited by their original, disastrous decision to knife Rudd, be tempted to use their numbers to ditch Jools in favour of Shorten, Combet or even (shudder) Swansong.

      Basically, it will be a welcome to NSW situation. What a crummy outcome it will be. So, to any swinging voters out there (admittedly, I doubt many will be reading the Punch) use your vote to euthenase this government now, before its lingering death leaves us stranded in a Sydney cesspool.

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    • Joy says:

      03:34pm | 14/08/10

      Garbage, No one can beat labor at lying & vitriol. It’s all they know…..

    • Christian Real says:

      04:37am | 16/08/10

      Joy,
      You are wrong, Tony ( Don’t believe everything I say ) Abbott has mastered lying made it into an form of art.

    • The Badger says:

      09:39am | 13/08/10

      When skunks duel, wind direction is everything

      Michael A. Loduha

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    • raymond says:

      10:09am | 13/08/10

      Labor will get back with a reduced majority, not just because they are smooth, vacuous, efficient sandbaggers.  Sure, they are all of these, but Abbott does not offer a positive reason to vote for him.  It is a myth that government’s loose elections, not that oppositions win them. 

      Rudd offered a vision, however flawed it turned out to be, and won.  Dear Tony spends his time criticizing: take his launch for example.  Also, the pathetic NBN dogs breakfast of the Liberals is embarrassing to anyone with a slight knowledge of technology. 

      They will loses because they are too negative: if they has played their positives more, such as their excellent mental health policy that trumped Labor, they would win.  They are on the final stretch and all they have is criticism.  What a limp finish.

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    • Diamantina Dick says:

      11:39am | 13/08/10

      Raymond, there are people out there who say the Libs are not going in hard enough on the negative front, that there is so much ammo they are not driving home.

      I disgree with your general premise, I think Govenments do lose elections. IMHO Howard was replaced because the eletorate was tired of him and the Libs had not renewed. Rudd presented as Howard Lite with me too policys and was only lightly scrutinised on the way in because there was a mood for change. Major policy differences did not target the centre.

      Although the Libs may not have much sparkle in the campaign I suspect they are still viewed by the electorate at large as a safe pair of hands, explaining why Hawker-Britten is spending so much trying to erode that view.

      The problem for Labor is that a lot of voters who came over from Howard in 2007 may not have got exactly what they expected from Labor and be tempted to go back to the Libs.

      There will always be people such as Holly who are prepared to be shamelessly exploited by a ruthless machivellian machine that proports to represent them but the centre, in general will not stand for it.

    • E says:

      11:49am | 13/08/10

      I agree with your first two paragraphs.

    • Jason says:

      05:50pm | 13/08/10

      @raymond - I agree with your premise regarding Abbott’s lack of positive vision however as someone with a rudimentary knowledge of technology (network/system engineer for 20 years), the Libs proposal for a national network is actually much better value for money, is more flexible (can grow and change with technology advancements) and doesn’t place all the tech-eggs in one medium - especially important when more substantially more R&D money is going into wireless development than fibre these days.

      Fibre is great in the data centre for SAN and fast network (rack to rack), but it’s a massive waste of money on a national scale - especially when the servers you are downloading from have aggregated copper links at best.

    • Duff says:

      12:10pm | 13/08/10

      I don’t go for this “governments lose elections”.  In sport, a winning team makes the other guys look bad by playing better.  You don’t lose because you’re playing bad.  You lose because the other side played better.  In politics, a government can stuff up all it wants, but if the contender can’t be seen to be offering something better, they won’t win.  Simple as that.  If you want proof, think of the Kim Beasley vs Howard years.

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    • John says:

      01:38pm | 13/08/10

      The Libs have a lot of positives that are not emphasized enough.  Less bureacrats, less redtape, more flexibility for businesses.  These are the fundamental differences between the Libs and ALP.  Need to emphasize these qualities in your final week ads.

      Reply

    • Not as stupid as some here says:

      03:22pm | 13/08/10

      Less “bureacrats”. All they have been announcing for the last few days is more “bureacrats”.

    • Shane From Melbourne says:

      03:37pm | 13/08/10

      Meh, same bureaucrats, same redtape, same middle class welfare. Not much significant difference between parties except the Liberals can lie better than Labor….

    • Barry says:

      05:31pm | 13/08/10

      Sophie Mirabella’s ruthless robotic propaganda.

      Reply

    • Peter Simmons says:

      05:55pm | 13/08/10

      Thanks for looking after my Dad,  Sophie. You are a true member of your constituency.
      You are also a person who will show the bias of the media and attack your ALP opponents on facts, rather than dirt.
      The ALP in this election have resorted to absolute filth to get their hypocrite Left winger over the line.
      Keep up the good work .

      Reply

    • Annie says:

      09:29am | 14/08/10

      Sophie why is your party not highlighting the issues such as NSW Labor announcing $400 million dollars to get faulty heaters out of schools Verity Firth was publicly humiliated the next day because the Labor Govt didn’t have the 400 Million to replace the heaters, but last Friday State Labor committed $500 Million dollars to the epping-parramatta rail line WTF no money for a childrens health issue but because Federal Labor steps in they can find 1/2 billion for rail plans!!

      Also that maternity units in places like Cobar have been closed & woman have to drive 450 K’s to Broken Hill to give birth, apparently Bourke is another regional area that is losing it’s Labour ward.

      Cuts of $750 Million dollars to primary health like pap smears which has seen a rise in woman with cervical cancer going undetected??

      Also cuts to pensions where the rate of 40 cents in the dollar for income have risen to 50 cents in the dollar, couple pensions where the partner recieved 167% of a single pension this has been slashed to 150%
      If a pensioner earned extra income above their pension the amount reduced was 40 cents in the $ this has b now been raised to 50 cents in the dollar so the effective rate has risen from 40 to 50 %

      or that the deeming rate has been boosted by 50%

      Why are these issues not being raised???

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    • Christian Real says:

      07:13am | 15/08/10

      Sophie, why does your ‘born to rule party’ believe that they do not have to abide by Parliamentary rules but all other political parties does.
      Tony Abbott breached parliamentary rules twice by not declaring an $100,000 trust fund that he had set up in late August,1998, but Tony Abbott failed to declare it in Parliament until December 3, 1998
      The second known occassion was when Tony Abbott failed to declare a $710,000 mortgage to Parliament for almost two years.
      Sophie, the Parliamentary rule covering both of these failed declarations by Tony Abbott clearly state: “Parliament requires all MPs to register any changes to interests,benefits or liabilities within 28 days.”
      It was your party Sophie that continued to attack and hound Joel Fitzgibbon for beaching the same Parliamentary rule, when he failed to declare ‘gift trips’ on the same members register.
      If it was good enough for Joel Fitzgibbon to stand down and resign from his portfolio, then Tony Abbott should abide by the Parliamentary rules by standing down and resiigning his portfolio as Leader of the Opposition.
      How can anybody trust Tony Abbott when he has failed to abide by the Parliamentary rules,for which he has shown contempt.
      As for Tony Abbott being honest in his promises and policies, it depends whether they were written statements or unwritten statements, or even the gospel truth, coming from a man, who said “Don’t believe everything I say.”

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    • joanne wilson says:

      06:02pm | 15/08/10

      I was hoping that someone at the Rooty Hill RSL would ask Gillard why she can’t tell the voters who will be Finance Minister, Defence Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister if Labour wins office. I find it very suspicious that we can’t be told.

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    • les says:

      04:28pm | 16/08/10

      Fear and smear,can’t labor offer anything else,and how they have any economic credentials is beyond me.

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