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Call me brave, or even stupid, but after David Penberthy’s piece last week, I’ve decided to launch a defence of NSW Labor leader John Robertson on The Punch. I expect pundits are already commenting below, calling me a union hack – or worse – as often occurs when I contribute to this site.
One of the reasons I feel compelled to launch this defence is because I find it curious that we endlessly search for people with convictions in politics, but end up bagging a bloke who was willing to stand up for his convictions.
Unpopular as it appears to the Labor elite, his convictions were shared by the majority of people in the community and by the workers that he was paid to represent.
Continue reading "Robbo’s no yobbo, he’s all guts and brains" »
Amid the furore of Cyclone Yasi, it largely escaped comment that Tony Abbott had begun a slow crab-walk away from his trademark “just say no’’ approach.
In fact twice this week, he went all bi-partisan on us. Well, bi-partisan for him anyway.
First he proposed sitting down with Julia Gillard to work through possible budget savings to be made in lieu of her proposed $1.8 billion flood levy. Then within days, he went further pledging to support Ms Gillard’s moves to get the long-term jobless, under-employed casuals, and people with disabilities, off welfare and into the full-time workforce.
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Jasmine says:
Tony Abbott was condescending and just “playing the game” with his sit down with me crap to Julia. Funny him and Joe made a complete fool of themselves with their “cutting the fat” options, they looked like a pair of galahs up there. Cutting out foreign aid to Indonesia -… Read more »
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Rob r Charteris says:
Flexo says:07:31am; Killed off work choices when the Opposition still had the number in the senate. Show me in history where that has ever happened. I think the reason no one has bothered to aswer this three q crap thing is if you really think that then it is not… Read more »
South Australian Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond, who’s first action when she won the post was to ban swearing in the party room, has today said she’d be happy to be tasered.
So having 50,000 volts of electricity shot through your body might not be as embarrassing as say, sniffing a colleague’s chair, or being outed as having carried a teddy bear around in your uni days, but it’s pretty stupid.
And it makes you wonder what we’ve done to deserve politicians who think we’re so easily bought with cheap stunts.
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Andrew says:
At the end of the day Redmond will never be Premier, everyone, even her colleagues know that. Can someone worth voting for in the South Australia Liberal caucus please be brave enough to stand up to the job?? Cheers Read more »
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Nickk says:
Tim and Tom (haha), the media may have helped Xenophon rise, but at least he’s actually done what he’s supposed to and represented his state in the Senate instead of just following the party hivemind. Read more »
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