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Painting and Story by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
There is a story in the Australian newspapers that I find very interesting. It concerns a politician called Craig Thompson who has been accused of misusing the funds of a union when he worked there. There is proof that he used a lot of money on prostitutes, expensive meals, travel, etc; having free use of the union credit cards. Mr Thompson is now ain independent member assisting the federal government.
A government agency has investigated and released a report saying he acted fraudulently. Mr Thompson has refused to speak about this for months and months, but after this report came out, he went on television and said that he had been threatened by people in the union, who said that they would set him up to ruin his career by exactly the things that he has been accused of.
I’m not sure what it is that makes this case so interesting. Perhaps it’s the response of the press. That’s ridiculous, they all say. But actually my impression is that it is not at all ridiculous.
The press loves a good scandal. So it strikes me as particularly odd that they would not want to even indulge this new element in the scandal. It might be that they can see that the possible result would be the discrediting of the unions, and the undermining of the Labor government for all the worst reasons. The Labor government’s traditional base was unions, of course. And then, of course, it’s unusual for someone to come out and talk conspiracy after being so long silent. I guess he was expecting the report to have investigated his claims. But of course they didn’t. They limited their investigation to exactly what they were told to look for, and kept their eyes away from anything else that might have had a connection or been a contributing factor.
Yes, I well understand how they came to the conclusion that they did. But now, if Mr Thompson’s confidence in speaking out can indicate that he does have some evidence to back up his claims, it will be interesting to see if anyone in the press can get past their fear of this situation and take another look at it. At the moment, not even the Liberal, opposition, conservative press will touch it.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I have to say that the “moment” that the press was not talking about the story was a few days before the story was published, and the situation changed very quickly. Now it seems that the press is talking about it very much. So there was nothing sensible about my story at all. I’m sorry about that.
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A journalist fond of sense and sensibility will be quick off the press to disclose pride and prejudice. I observe the main stream press is neither illustrated or up to speed.
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disclaimer. I have no association with the Ramsay Health Group.
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I wish I did, though.
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While Gaston is sulking over his humiliation in the tavern, Maurice tells him and the other villagers what happened but they think he has lost his mind.
At the castle, the Beast orders Belle to dine with him, but she refuses, and Lumiere disobeys his order not to let her eat. After Cogsworth gives her a tour of the castle, she finds the rose in the forbidden West Wing and the Beast angrily chases her away. Frightened, she tries to escape, but she and her horse are attacked by wolves. After the Beast rescues her, she nurses his wounds, and he begins to develop feelings for her. The Beast grants Belle access to the castle library, which impresses Belle and they become friends, growing closer as they spend more time together. Meanwhile, the spurned Gaston pays the warden of the town’s insane asylum to have Maurice committed unless Belle agrees to Gaston’s marriage proposal.
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Back at the castle Belle and the Beast share a romantic evening together. Belle tells the Beast she misses her father, and he lets her use the magic mirror to see him. When Belle sees him dying in the woods in an attempt to rescue her, the Beast allows her to leave to rescue her father, giving her the mirror to remember him by. As he watches her leave, the Beast admits to Cogsworth that he loves Belle.
Belle finds her father and takes him home. Gaston arrives to carry out his plan, but Belle proves Maurice sane by showing them the Beast with the magic mirror. Realizing Belle has feelings for the Beast, Gaston arouses the mob’s anger against the Beast, telling them that the Beast is a man-eating monster that must be brought down immediately, and leads them to the castle. Gaston locks Belle and Maurice in the basement, though Chip, who had hidden himself in Belle’s baggage, uses one of Maurice’s inventions to free them.
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While the servants and Gaston’s mob fight in the castle, Gaston hunts down the Beast. The Beast is initially too depressed to fight back, but he regains his will when he sees Belle returning to the castle with Maurice. After winning a heated battle, the Beast spares Gaston’s life, demanding that he leave the castle and never return. As the Beast is about to reunite with Belle, Gaston, refusing to admit defeat, stabs the Beast from behind, but loses his balance and falls off the balcony to his death.
Just as the Beast succumbs to his wounds, Belle whispers that she loves him, breaking the spell just as the rose’s last petal falls. The Beast comes back to life, his human form restored. As he and Belle kiss, the castle and its inhabitants return to their previous states as well. Belle and the prince dance in the ballroom with her father and the humanized servants happily watching.
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Beauty & The Beast: Belle’s Quest is an action, platformer for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Developed by Software Creations, the game was released in North America in 1993.[53] It is one of two video games based on the film that Sunsoft published for the Genesis,[50] the other being Beauty & The Beast: Roar of the Beast. Characters from the film like Gaston can help the player past tricky situations. As Belle, the player must reach the Beast’s castle and break the spell to live happily ever after. To succeed, she must explore the village, forest, castle, and snowy forest to solve puzzles and mini-games while ducking or jumping over enemies. Belle’s health is represented by a stack of blue books, which diminishes when she touches bats, rats, and other hazards in the game. Extra lives, keys and other items are hidden throughout the levels. While there is no continue or game saving ability, players can use a code to start the game at any of the seven levels.[54]
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Later that night, the robbers return and send one of their members in to investigate. He sees the Cat’s eyes shining in the darkness and thinks he is seeing the coals of the fire. He reaches over to light his candle. Things happen in quick succession; the Cat scratches his face with her claws, the Dog bites him on the leg, the Donkey kicks him and the Rooster crows and chases him out the door, screaming. He tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who scratched him with her long fingers (the Cat), an ogre with a knife (the Dog), a giant who had hit him with his club (the Donkey), and worst of all, the judge who screamed in his voice from the rooftop (the Rooster). The robbers abandon the cottage to the strange creatures who have taken it, where the animals live happily for the rest of their days.
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Oh. It seems to be over. Didn’t realize it would finish so fast. Oh well. I guess when the press get round to doing their jobs, they wind it up quick so they can go back to bed.
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I’m excited. Got my Special Viewing Glasses and some popcorn. Determined not to look directly at the source. I thought that my strategy might be to look for a general darkening of the surroundings.
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Just hoping that damned Moon doesn’t get in the way.
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Apparently it also works to put a tiny pinhole in a credit card, and hold it over a slip of white paper.
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Also important, I hear, to keep the Deeply Sensitive locked in a dark room, a sprig of Rosemary upon the door, until it is all over.
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though should they be strongly aligned they will see nothing anyway.
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1/2 Ton. Nite nite .
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Beat me to it.
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Whatever, we do just have to wait and see. At this stage it is just one union which appears to be discredited.
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Hi Viv. I am for unions. You may not think so from my rhetoric. However I believe that they did provide an essential balance for the workers of the world.
What I ma against is them getting out of their depth, trying to run countries.
Countries are the biggest businesses in the world, Catholicism excepted.
Unions see running countries as rearranging money. I see them as giant businesses. When you rake in the loot, like China, Poland, Germany and Brazil, the poor get looked after anyway.
NO1 criterion, is get the money. NO2 is rearranging it.
Just like your household.
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Or, the poor should. Is what I meant to say. Obviously China et al, have a long way to go, to catch up with our social services.
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Thanks for that VL but there are no unions running a country. They still do a good job but are failing to get membership in many workplaces as they aren’t getting the message across
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Well, that’s not strictly correct. Most of the leaders have come up through the unions.
Then of course there are the so called power-brokers. They culled Rudd.
Anyway, they are losing their grip. The public is on to them now.
The ALP, needs to attract some brains, not brawn 😉 Some of those know-it-all academics, from The Drubb.
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Not the same thing. And what is wrong with having a union background – those people get more involved in business than many people running a business. They see it from the point of view of the employee, the employer and the whole business itself.
What is wrong with power brokers – the Libs have them all over the place and some of them hate each other more than they do the Labor party. Trouble is the power brokers from the Libs and Lab don’t always make the right decisions and they both have the habit of jobs for the boys.
Fortunately there are more brains (i.e. intelligence) in the Labor party than there are in the Lib/Nats. The public will see more of that as they see was the Lib/Nats do in NSW, Victoria and now Queensland. Just cutting back services and breaking promises and amazingly making few headlines.
Now, VL – when are you going to write a cooking piece. I’d really like the complete version of your eggplant risotto.
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And what is wrong with having a union background ?
Everything….As you can see now. I suppose some background would be OK.But they’re all unionists. It’s a disease…Terminal now.
Off to jog with the unmentionables. Thinking of recipe.
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I can’t see any problem. But they do not all have a union background. Both parties have their fair share of lawyers and long time political adviser type positions. The Libs culled Nelson and Turnbull and well before that Howard got rid of any decent Lib left in the parliament. That may have been before your time in Australia but you ought to believe me when I say that the Liberals of today (in the main) are vastly different from those of the past.
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Actually, Nelson had a union background, he was the head of the AMA.
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Well spotted Big M.
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Odd creature Nelson, a Liberal with a social conscience. They’ve purged nearly all of them now.
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COMMENT FROM ROSS GREENWOOD (Financial presenter on Australian morning TV show)
Reality pill needed for Australians
This is really well put, in terms the average punter can understand ..
It cuts thru political doublespeak and provides clarity USA Today
Lesson # 1:
Why the U.S. Was downgraded:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts: $385
Got It ?????
OK now Lesson # 2:
Here’s another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
Let’s say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighbourhood …
And your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.
What do you think you should do?
Raise the ceilings, or pump out the (ummmm) “effluent”?
Lesson # 3 :
Australia today FROM ROSS GREENWOOD
Quoted by: Ross Greenwood of Money News..
Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone – including us the mug-punters and the International Monetary Fund, that it will not exceed its own, self-imposed, borrowing limits. How much? $200 billion. And here’s a worry.
If you work in a bank’s money market operation; or if you are a politician; the millions turn into billions and it rolls off the tip of the tongue a bit too easily. But every dollar that is borrowed, some time, has to be repaid. By you, by me and by the rest of the country.
Just after 5 o’clock tonight I did a bit of math for Jason Morrison ( Sydney radio presenter). But it’s so staggering its worth repeating now.
First thought; Gillard, Swan, Wong, before that Rudd, all of the Labor Cabinet, call these temporary borrowings, a temporary deficit.
Remember Those Words : Temporary Deficit.
The total Government debt will end up around $200 billion. So here’s a very basic calculation .. I used a home loan calculator to work
It out….. it’s that simple..$200 billion is $2 hundred thousand million.
The current 10 year Government bond rate is 4.67 per cent. I worked the loan out over a period of 20 years. Now here’s where it gets scary …. Really scary.
The repayments on $200 billion, come to more than one and a quarter billion dollars – every month – for 20 years. It works out we – as taxpayers – will be repaying $15.4 billion in interest and principal every year .. $733 for every man woman and child – every year. The total interest bill over the 20 years is – get this – $108 billion.
Remember, this is a Government, that just 4 years ago, had NO debt. NO debt.
In fact it had enough money to create the Future Fund, to pay the future liabilities of public servants’ superannuation, and it had enough to stick $20 billion into the Building Australia Fund …..
A note was sent to me which explains that the six leading members of the Government, from Ms Gillard down, have a collective work experience of 181 years, but only 13 in the private sector.
If you take out of those 13 years the number that were spent as trade union lawyers, 11, only two years were spent in the private sector.
So out of those 181 years:
– no years spent running their own business
– no years spent starting their own business
– no years spent as a director of a family business or a company
– no years as a director of a public company
– no years in a senior position in a public company
– no years in a senior position in a private company
– no years working in corporate finance
– no years in corporate or business restructuring
– no years working in or with a bank
– no years of experience in the capital markets
– no years in a stock-broking firm
– no years in negotiating debt facilities with banks
– no years running a small business
– no years at the World Bank or IMF or OECD
– no years in Treasury or Finance.
But these people have plunged Australia into unprecedented debt. Well, in a way you can’t blame them. It’s clear the electorate did not do their homework, because the Government is there by right. Ah, but they are Labor and people vote for them because Labor is good for the working family – right???
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David most of what you have written here is shit, pure unadulterated shit. To start off with Gillard was a partner in a Law firm for 10 years prior to entering politics, If I could be bothered to pull apart your list of nos I t wouldn’t be hard to demonstrate that nearly all of them are wrong.
Perhaps you could explain what might have happened if we had a Liberal Government in 2008 when the GFC hit, you know those three letters that don’t pass the Liberal partys lips, who blind supporters don’t even recognise. We could look to history. The great depression was unnecessarily extended and harsher than the rest of the world. In 1982 Howard as treasurer presided over a list of doubles, double digit unemployment, interest rates and inflation. A mess that took years to unwind. He sent private companies to the wall with business interest rates at nearly 30%, he capped home interest rates at 13.5%, less than the banks could borrow at and created a credit crisis.
If we fast forward to 2008 what would they have done. They were going to build a road to stimulate the economy. A road, tell me how many that would employ, how many small businesses would it help. Oh and on surpluses, like the fictional one in Oct 2007 of $20b, the one that was actually a deficit according to the ABS. And what of the rivers of gold that the government raked between 2005-7 from the mining boom why couldn’t that future proof the country instead of being pissed against the wall by the Liberals.
My business for one benefitted from stimulus in 2008 like many others, it meant that I could pay wages, it meant that my local shops had money spent in them and didn’t go broke; it meant that the economy kept ticking over.
You go and work out the cost of people losing their houses, the livelihoods their communities, if the money had not been spent, it’s not hard it’s a damn sight more than $200b. BTW $200b is about 1/7 of the Australian economy, so how about some reality instead of Liberal party horseshit and totally inaccurate lies.
Oh and have a look at how much real work experience that Tony Abbott has apart from the employ of the Liberal Party, it’s not hard its less than 18 months.
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Bloody hell, VL what can’t you just write under the one pseud like the rest of us! Phft!
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Agernon1, if you have a quarrel, take it up with the author, Ross Greenwood, who is a financial reporter.
I am just a blog follower.
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I thought it was a Liberal writing, but I never thought it was you, VL.
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Just forn the record, Helvi. I didn’t write it.
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Vl, I never thought you wrote it t:)
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Fair enough VL, If I’d have clicked onto the name I’d have seen it was you and ignored it. However one of the problems is the financial reporter or anyone for that matter, write ssome stuff that is crap, but on the internet, crap is regularly taken as some sort of truth.
Just out of curiosity, why do you use so many different pseuds here. I understand at say the ABC buut why here.
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In this particular case, owing to the demise of Voice and atomou’s contributions, I was trying to ‘pad’ out the blog. Thinking that I was helping me old mate Emm.
It seemed topical as the subject had come up, earlier. I had a friend around who mentioned this article/quote whatever – and I decide that he could post it here,to get some comment.
It never occurred to me that you would think that anybody else had written it other than the stated author- Greenwood.
It certainly got you rankled – which of course was amusing, since (I’m guessing) that Greenwood is more tuned into to finance than you are. in fact you are what I would call a blinkered socialist. You mean well, but cannot see (and don’t seem interested,in) anything outside of local issues. It seems to elude you that the money has to come from somewhere.
You seem oblivious to sovereign debt, and keep comparing it with other countries.
It is OK, to borrow money to built a port, because you will get the money back. But giving people food parcels will jusr exacerbate the problem. Like dropping a food drop over a tribe in Africa,. They will need another the week after.
That’s the short “quick” answer!!
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Well thats your opinion VL, actually I do have many interests beyond local issues but what the heck. I also understand what soveign debt is and ones ability or not to to pay it off. I also understand what destructive things recessions are and when politions make mistakes to remedy them. On top of that I also think that history especially in politics has a habit of repeating itself. Something from recent writings you chose to ignore.
I think regardless of what conservatives think that the governments response to the GFC was the correct one. Funny, the World bank and the IMF, ratings agencies, as well as much of the rest of the world think the same. So If I’m a blinkered socialist then I must be very good and very well qualifies company. I suspect that the World bank, the IMF mean well.
Now Ross Greenwood as you say is a Finance reporter, whart you failed to say was that he plys his trade at 2GB, the cash for comment station, in other words his comments will always be spun from a conservative and somewhat extreme point of view, and it bares out my point that it you can write crap and people will believe it. Given that he reports for 2GB and those who listen to this station are the most gulliable.
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I’ve never heard of 24gb and the coalition supported th 1st tranch of handouts.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Greenwood_%28journalist%29
Here he is. Seems quite a clued in dude to me. However your entitled to your opinion.
I’d have to say – on balance – I’d take his!!
No offence, I hope.
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You’ve heard of Alan Jones, 2GB also goes uunder the name of the macquarie network. Yes the coalition did support the first tranche then complained daily about the spending after they supported it. Also, they still spin the lie about borrowing $100m per day.
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None taken, all part of a vigourous debate.
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Anyway, Lehan is nearly up for half a ton. And we’re going broke. (According to Greenwood.)
I’m off for some fantasy, courtesy of the goggle box 🙂
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Complete drivel from Ross Greenwood. Known as a celebrity speaker for hire and giver of tips. Who in the Lib/Nats has any business experience. I have asked that question on the Drum often and no one has ever answered me. If Labor had not saved us from the worst of the GFC we would still have debt plus masssive unemployment and misery. VL, posting Greenwood’s ravings is just useless here.
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Yes, I see what you mean Viv. Greenwood’s comments are, quote : “Complete drivel from Ross Greenwood.”
And yours are not. Mmm, can you see anything wrong with that attitude?
Which of his points did you disagree with?
I’m sure that he won’t mind you saying.
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BTW, wordpress keeps changing my name!!
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All of them VL. Can you answer my question re business experience in the Lib/Nats.
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http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/
Ask him yourself.
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I know the answer and have posted it on the Drum. But you Libs keep repeating the Greenwood style drivel and ignore your own total deficit. The answer is two. The Lib/Nats are full of lawyers/pollie hacks. Add the Nats and you get three if you count running a farm (Heffernan).
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Both hockey and robb were involved with family businesses.
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So you find two (I said there were two) but even then you have them involved in a family business. Didn’t establish their own a la Greenwood list.
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Actually, I didn’t even look. I had to go to the airport to pick my mother up. She came back from Sydney.
I knew that they were in finance: that’s why I picked them. And quickly typed what I remembered.
There are loads of other points in Greenwood’s article anyway.
Off out again…
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Well you came close but fact is niether worked in any small business. Robb was an agronomist and worked in Dept of Ag and then later I think for some farmer union org. Hockey’s family may have been in small business but not Hockey himself – another lawyer. It is Turnbull who comes closest to having been in ‘business’. Actually the Nats Barnaby Joyce comes close as he had an accounting shop – his own I believe but apparently he can’t do arithmetic and I wouldn’t be relying on him to do my tax return if I were you.
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neither… typo extraordinaire!
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Good on ya, Viv, tell those Libs how it is… 🙂
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The problem is for the Liberals is the GFC didn’t happen and they keep peddling the same lines.
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You wrote: The problem is for the Liberals is ???
Their only problem will be allocated ministries out of their huge surplus of MPs. The one’s that they will have in 17 months.
There are only problems for Gillard/Rudd/Combet’s party.
None at all for the liberals. They’re home and hosed.
A poll in Qld, just showed that the ALP, will get 23% of the federal vote here.
A problem that is NOT a Liberal problem.
Ho hum, yawn, I think I’ll take a break for 17 months.
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We’ll see won’t we. Gloat Gloat Gloat, look at the polls we’ll see what happens in 18 months.
In the meantime one Liberal senator has been charged with assault over the weekend. Another today has to front the privileges committee to explain why he was trading in a company whilst insolvent.
On top of that Mr Thompson made allegations under parliamentary privilege today. Will these allegations be investigated? Now if what he says is true it could lead a path all the way to Abbott’s office. If his accusations are found to be true and Slippers case is thrown out of court, what direction do you think the Liberals vote is going to go?
However, if he has lied to the parliament then he is in contempt and will be jailed as a result. Like all the Liberals you’re counting your chickens before they roost.
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Assault? He should have said F**ken poofter. And whacked him on the bridge of his nose. That’d sort the little squeeler out. Poofter.
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Thomson’s a wanker too, IMHO.
He couldn’t lie straight in bed. He needs a whack on the bridge of his nose. And a boot up his bottle 🙂
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I noticed tonight that Kathy Jackson appears to have links to the Liberal party, her partner is deputy president of Fair Work Australia. she is being represented pro bono by the same law firm as Ashby. There are some rather interesting links here and they all seem to be pointing to the same source. Thomson might be a wally, but I think there are some turns to come in the fetid affair and some are going to blow up in some peoples faces.
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Maybe she planted the thermite in TWTC?
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Interesting conspiracy theory, Lehan… but I won’t hold my breath waiting to see how it all turns out!
🙂
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I don’t know if Thomson is guilty of anything or not. On balance he has questions that need to be answered, and a court maybe the place to answer those questions. He has the presumption of innocence until such time as he is proven guilty in a court of law. The parliament is not a court however there are those in the extreme right party that want it to be that want the parliament to be that way, essentially a star chamber.
There are other questions that need to be answered, like how the whistleblowers husband now has a brand new Volvo yet he can’t explain how he managed fund it. He’s also an ex staffer of Tony Abbott. You know him, the only person currently in the parliament that has had to defend a charge of indecent assault in a court. A charge that he was acquitted of. He correctly had the presumption of innocence.
Its a bit like Peter Slipper, I can see these charge more than likely being thrown out of court and the political interference. What a joy it will be to see the mincing poodle and that stinking grub from up north totally discredited.
I have little time for these colourful characters, but I fear for their health and that they may do something dramatic. What will the extreme right party do then say it wasn’t us, will the just say it wasn’t us. Will the Australian people the wake up to the fetid stench of the extremist party and their complete and utter unfitness to govern this country it its current form. The founder of this once great party must be turning in his grave for what it has become.
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Advice on buying a car.
Go to your nearest garage; choose one and sign a loan document. If people are curious, tell them that you passed a test at the age of 18. That should take care of that little query.
As far as Slipper goes. The Federal Police will (it seems) decide whether he is a larcenist. The homosexual slurs are, I agree, an unnecessary distraction…I guess we will just have to see how it plays out.
In your last paragraph, are you referring to The ALP right or The LNP (Coalition)?
PS. Who’s the mincing poodle from the north? Do you mean Slipper,or someone else, Algy?
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Pyne is the mincing poodle from South Australia.
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Oh I see, cheers Viv 🙂
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Is he gay, Viv? Not that it matters; just curious.
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I think he is suspect. He is married with kids. Whatever he is, I think he is weird and up himself!
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It hass been suggested that he is however, he is married with 4 kids, I suspect that he’s not. He does mince a lot though.
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I’m aware how to purchase a car., however, this person cannot explain how he came across this new car.
Agree on the Federal Police, the last paragraph I’m talking about the Liberal party.
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The story is also adapted in the Japanese OVA, Super Mario’s Snow White which King Koopa playing the role as the Evil Queen, Princess Peach as Snow White, Mario as her rescuer, and seven toads instead of seven dwarfs.
Atomou would have told us the story better. I’m a novice.
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It’s the salicious issue of the prostitutes that keeps this population spellbound. Oh, at last something of importance happening, can’t wait for the details to come out and fill my life.
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Yes, it’s odd that gerad. Weird actually………………………….it’s almost as if they’re…….(ghostly alien voice now- with echo)…………………………..they’re stutter………..stutter……..HUUUoooman?
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I dunoo why these oversexed blokes can’t just keep it to themselves, you know, maintain some sort of man to hand relationship that involves no one else.
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I read the articles, Stuffed Olive.
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Lehan, I have remembered the Azaria Chamberlain case while viewing the responses of the journalists and key figures to Craig Thompson’s assertion of his belief he has been set up. Witnesses who are educated in some of the key scandals of our social history will see the parallels from their respective platforms but basically was it a dingo done it to Craig or not and who wants to say there might be a dingo in their room. The compelling evidence is from history we are experts in fraudulent behaviour, in that of mime and the theatre of the absurd.
You have written an excellent essay of comment, Lehan. Thank you for it.
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I’m innocent Guv, honestly.
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I don’t think he’s innocent, VL. All the more reason for me to think that he’s got something worth listening to.
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But what is this “innocence”, anyway? Innocent like Snow White? – “oh give me the stays, old lady, give me the comb, give me the apple! I want it ALL!”
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It was standard vernacular, from all the villains that were pinched by Dixon of Dock Green!
I just put it in – flippantly – to show you that I had read your article.
Just being polite really.
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You are sooo nice, VL 🙂
Helvi (not gez)
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I also find myself wondering whether there was anything demanded of Snow White by the Huntsman. After all, the dwarves demanded full housekeeping duties AND made her into a tourist attraction, putting her in glass for all the world to see. Just sit there, at the back, every day, and don’t open your mouth.
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Or I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff and I’ll BLOW the house down.
Oh. Wrong story. Are you sure you can’t help me out a bit with this, Atomou? I just don’t seem to be able to get it right.
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I’m sure you have a story for us, Atomou. Not too big, not to small, but Juuuuust right.
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“Oh, give me that Slipper!” said Cinderella’s Step-sister. “I’m sure it’s my size!
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