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As I unambigiously forecast 10 days ago Kevin Rudd is finished as PM and Julia Gillard has replaced him. It was inevitable as the near certainly of an electoral defeat Federally loomed large for Labor. The change wasn’t due to the media campaigning against Rudd and, on this occasion anyway, it wasn’t primarily a foolish right-wing [...] Kristina Keneally forecast a loss of 30% in Labor’s Penrith by-election – in fact on the latest figures the final loss will only be 27.5%. The avalanche of support for the Liberals is likely to be a one-off. In any event, the issues of corruption and incompetence in NSW public administration have nothing to do [...] The inept Kevin Rudd has no future as Prime Minister of Australia – he will be displaced and fairly soon. He is an arch hypocrite and wind-bag who has been revealled as such on countless occasions and who is now trying to demonstrate that he has backbone by backing a ludicrous tax on the resources [...] This man a laughable nitwit. On the 7-30 Report Kevin Rudd has hotly rejected the notion he squibbed a double dissolution election on emissions trading, arguing he has worked hard on climate change and remains passionate about the issue. “…Penny Wong and I sat up for three days and three nights with 20 leaders from [...] A boring budget that should help Labor regain some votes. Labor didn’t have much money to throw around so that – making a virtue of necessity – not much will be thrown around – at least immediately. Watch for the big promises as the election approaches – particularly if rudd’s popularity continues to wane in the [...] Kevin Rudd faces a doubtful future as leader of the Labor Party and eventually I hope Julia Gillard will replace him. She is smarter than Rudd and has more spine. Things from here can only get worse for Rudd given his history of exaggerated claims but limited achievement. His popularity is sagging and, as the [...] Labor obviously squibbed it on tax reform with only a simple-minded tax grab – that will penalise superannuants and reduce the incentives to develop mineral projects in Australia – along with further moves to socialise savings in this country via forced superannuation transfers. Yes, you can say it is a reform agenda that is just [...] I have long held Kevin Rudd in the lowest esteem possible both as a human being and as a politician. He talks a lot, has few ideas, is inept, has no conviction or values other than those of a power-hungry bureaucrat – he took most of his ideas from the Liberal Party going into the 2007 election – [...] I am not really that surprised that intelligent Labor Party members in middle class Canberra dumped on party hacks and went for someone with intelligence and personality. The seat of Fraser is a reasonably safe Labor seat so Andrew should be heading into politics. The only negative I can see is a loss for applied [...] Malcolm Turnbull’s press conference.
[...] The Parliamentary Liberal Party is an illiberal, shambles at present and the National Party is worse – the performance of Andrew Robb, Nick Minchin, Tony Abbott and the ‘mouth frothers’ Barnaby Joyce and Wilson Tuckey has left this scribe’s perception of these political parties in tatters . The one positive that comes out of conservative politics in Australia [...] “No side of Australian politics has a monopoly of either virtue or merit. Each according to its own value system has attempted to improve the lot of Australians. In failing to acknowledge this last Monday, my successor diminished himself, and not the Liberal and National Parties”. (John Howard) [...] Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon’s friendship links with a Chinese national seem to have gone well beyond the point of occasional, friendly personal encounters. Free trips to China and gifts from someone also making hefty financial contributions to the ALP seem completely over the top. Particularly when Fitzgibbon lies about the gifts until they are revealled [...] This pessimistic – though I think accurate – piece from conservative columnist/journalist Doug Conway appeared in today’s Manly Daily: ANNA Bligh’s historic win in Queensland extends to 25 the number of consecutive state and territory elections where conservative parties have either lost to Labor or won fewer seats. The only aberration came last year in WA, [...] 7.59pm: Despite some good swings to the new LNP I believe Labor will be returned with a much-reduced majority. In the old Parliament Labor had a huge majority of 37 seats – LNP 23 seats, Labor 63. It was a huge ask for the new LNP to win. My prediction is based on the ABC’s extrapolation [...] For the right to operate the Australian Grand Prix in two weeks time the Victorian Government will pay Bernie Ecclestone $47 million. In a civilised society politicians who abuse public trust in this way should be sacked and then jailed. It is a totally disgraceful waste of public monies. The $47m figure has only [...] The Rudd Government was elected in November 2007 with a me-tooist approach to policy. Policies were replications of those of John Howard. There were two exceptions – climate change policy and industrial relations. By 2007 John Howard had designed an ETS but Rudd promised to get ‘really’ serious on climate change. After 15 months we [...] I’ve praised Julia Gillard’s abilities in the past but, at core, she is just a politician. In fact a politician who seeks to use our taxpaper dollars ($14.7 billion!) to promote her own political party. This is what recipients of Education Revolution packages must do for Ms. Napoleon in order to get their tax-payer funded dough: “To receive funding under [...] The Treasury isn’t adding much by saying that it supports Kevin Rudd’s package and rejects that of Malcolm Turnbull. It would have designed the Rudd package and so, in essence, is saying that it stands by its design. In essence this means supporting a large package rather than a smaller one. The claim by Ken [...] Rudd’s critique of neo-liberalism of course goes too far. His plan is probably to convert the global crisis into a historic failure of Liberal Party philosophy and its allegedly pro-market ideas. That’s a useful output for Rudd from a few hastily drawn-together conclusions that are vague enough to be reversed tomorrow and, even if this [...] |
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