Tony Abbott’s copping it from, of all places, Peter Costello - who took him and his parental leave policy apart with great gusto in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning. The former Treasurer also gave it to Kevin Rudd too, but expect the piece to feature quite heavily in Question Time today - live here from 2pm.

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    • Eno says:

      02:25pm | 17/03/10

      Damn - we shut off the blog two minutes too early - the house has just descended into farce! The Pynernator has just called a motion that the PM be no longer heard ‘cause he’s answering a FIGJAM question about the Liberal’s handling of the Health portfolio! ROFL!!

    • jamie says:

      02:42pm | 17/03/10

      Yep, it was pretty funny stuff. A FIGJAM question with no relevance to anything, Jenkins weak as piss letting it go, Pyne acting like a spoilt prefect.

      : )

    • Peter says:

      02:39pm | 17/03/10

      It’s amazing how even “right” thinking people can be dragged along by their political party. Every fibre of their being, their “right wing extremist nut being’, knows that this paid parental leave is BS, but looking at them, there are just barracking for a politcal party. We need to start changing things in Australia for the better. Politics has descended into barracking for your favourite sports team, even though you might hate the players.. We need structural change, we need political change, we need lots of changes…

    • Eno says:

      12:05pm | 18/03/10

      Peter, we need a benign dictatorship - I’m feeling pretty benign today - I’ll do it! smile

 

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