http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gillard-wins-a-verbal-stoush-and-maybe-an-election-too/
Mr T.Abbott has just cemented in being a man driven by hate and disdain for all of mankind during todays performance in Parliament. His reference to ‘dying of shame’ to Gillard referring again to Allan Jones pig-low remark of a ‘dying father out of shame for his daughter’ surely must result in revulsion and revolt against a man that is still trying to become a prime minister. I use ‘man’ with reservation here.
I hope someone will come up with a petition barring all support for this truly vile person. He would just be one of the most insensitive man Australia in its short history ever have had the displeasure of having witnessed in public. Of course his remark to a man dying of asbestos a few years ago, pointed the way to a sociopath. A man truly relishing the unhinging of others. Julia was magnificent in her reply.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/gillard-vs-abbott-on-the-slipper-affair/4303618
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Yes, yes. Must lose the election is pretty close to; yes, yes lose the erection. There has to be a lot there, I reckon. That swaggering walk by T Abbott could well be some kind of medical condition .
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Brkon :
11 Oct 2012 2:59:29pm
Interesting point. It has been well recognized by many that sexual dysfunction and hatred for women sometimes go together. The blame for not getting a bar-up is supposed to be the fault of partners. Men are reluctant to own up the fact that their boasted up prowess in bed is often sadly flaccid and wanting.
Even so, one would have thought with all the male ministers and their leader’s bicycling and filleting fish would be a stimulating and energizing experience. Mind you, those narrow and pointed bicycle seats together with all that Lycra wearing might well negate those benefits. Testes need freedom and not restriction; experts tell us
Who knows?
Thank you Gerard for a much needed different point of view.
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Giving it some deeper thought. Is erectile dysfunction the problem in Australian Parliament?
Why, with all the drinking and long hours, many men, especially politicians staying deep into the night in the hallowed but utterly sexless corridors of power and parliament must find it hard to get ‘hard’ once back to their partners.
Do those cheerless building not have some way of ‘discretely’ installing Viagra dispensing machines. After arrival back at home and hearth, some might get the relief that they so desperately need. It might just work and prevent the bullying and misogyny to raise its ugly head .(again
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I was tickled pink by Julia’s speech, and loved seeing the colour drain from Abbott’s face listening to it. What I also been happy about is how Penny Wong and Albanese replied to to Leigh Sales’ attack dog style interviewing on 7.3o. Pity I missed Plibersek on Lateline.
Kate Ellis put a good performance on Q&A earlier defending Julia against Alan Jones’ ugliness.
(Liberals have Julie, Sophie, Kelly and grandma Bronwyn…??
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Just watched it in full helvi, it was brilliant, the front bench of the tories dindn’t know what hit them. Julie Bishop couldn’t even look up.
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Good that she kept her face down, who can face that menacing stare of hers, she’s getting more and more robotic, her stare and Tony’s walk, double-robotic….
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She was on the 7:30 report didn’t answer the questions questioned Leigh about things in the speech. Then gave her a stare at the end. She just looked stupid and I’ll prepared for this interview and sales was a little soft on her compared to the other night I thought.
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Leigh was pretty unpleasant when talking to Albo and Penny, yet she allowed the Lady with the Stare rattle on how Abbott has good relationship with as many as six or seven women; Margie, three daughters, a sister, a mother and Julie Bishop herself, that adds up to seven…wow!
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Yep it almost made me vomit, the fawning going, but at the end Bishop just looked and sounded stupid. Thinking about it she just gave her rope to hang herself with.
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It’s been an interestng few days hasn’t it? Starting with the Jones affair and now Slipper and the attendant fall out.
The journalists of the MSM covering the last few days of parliament have almost all missed the point. While they keep banging on about the decline in the quality of the national discourse, all the time also contributing to its crippling, and bemoaning the fall in parliamentary standards, which they breathlessly report in such a way as to guarantee that fall continue, they have singularly failed to see the resonant reality before their eyes.
Gillard’s misogyny speech was a huge social media success and even garnered a substantial international audience. It did more to rescue and rehabilitate Gillard from the distorted phallocentric narrative spruiked by Abbott and Jones than any of the misguided and misconstrued interpretations coming from commentators locked up inside the political pot-boiler that is Canberra when parliament’s in session.
You see, nobody really cares about politics as politics any more. It bores us with its insulting idiot narratives and its idiot protagonists banging on as though any of it mattered beyond their respective party rooms. We get the lies, the duplicity, the cynicism, the self-serving party based cant that passes for debate. Politics has become just another form of bad TV.
But that speech was different.
Women, and many men too, I suspect, don’t care that Gillard’s speech may have been political hypocrisy of the highest kind, they don’t even care if it was just cannily expedient political manoeuvreing. In the end the conservatives were denied a win on the floor, (1 up for Gillard), and yet the parliament still managed to see off Slipper, (a win all round.)
None of that matters to woman who for years have put up with Abbott’s misogyny, his shoot from the lip insensivity. What matters to these woman is that Julia Gillard roasted Abbott live. It was something real in parliament, based in true emotion and hardened by Gillard’s undoubted ability as a speaker.
It gave all those women an uplifting sense of having found a voice like their own, a feeling that at last someone had got up in parliament and served Abbott the bitter pill of his own past misdeeds, piece by sorry piece. (Resonances with the campaign to nobble Jones.) No wonder he’s bleating about moving on from the Slipper Affair. There’s no joy there for him and the “power” has shifted to Gillard. A great many women find this highly satisfying.
Journalists going on about the quality of political debate these days is like council workers complaining that an overflowing sewer smells; an obvious no brainer that misses the point that they’re there to fix it up. Being part of failing media business models is a similar predicament and doesn’t help at all. In fact the two are intertwined. But the solution is simple. Remove the shit and the smell goes away. And that’s true no matter what political persuasion the shit may be or who is commenting on the smell.
These social media trends are far more important and far more difficult to read and interpret than empty opinion pieces full, as they so often are these days, with open partisanship and barely hidden agendas.
Reality is shifting in the media and it hasn’t sent out its new address just yet; but in this age of social media absolutely every one is invited to the house warming and they will all have an opinion on the renovations.
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Yes, it was astonishing how quick the world reacted on the Internet media. I don’t understand how it really works but according to one article, those that were still advertising with A,Jones and 2GB were forced to withdraw their advertising. Their business e-mail in-boxes were clogged by thousands of e-mails from everyone who signed the petition. They simply could not operate anymore until they withdrew from 2GB.
Finally 2GB had to separate themselves from any advertising during the A.Jones breakfast show. Amazing.
While there are many things about the Internet that are dodgy, including so much rubbish and advertising, the good things are when something like the Parliamentary debate got on the world’s spotlight within seconds of it happening.
Millions saw Julia Gillard in action and millions approved of her. The local media is getting scared stiff. Toe the line or get sacked. A cruel world.
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I originally made this reply to a regional Fairfax news piece predictably bemoaning the disrepute that Gillard brought down on the parliament for not answering the accusation of sexism levelled at Slipper for the sexual content of his texts to Ashby. The social media aspect of the public response was unmentioned in the piece; which had no byline so I couldn’t be sure whether the writer believed what they had written or whether it was just a commitment to the editorial policy of the local rag in question. No matter. I was moderated into oblivion.
This however did get up. The only comment so far, and that seems a little unusual to me. The blogger signed as “No Policies”
“Who had any confidence in the labor, greens independens in the first place pray tell.”
I have to say that some of the regional Fairfax rags are even more egregiously partisan than the Murdoch sewer.
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If the Liberals win the next election, how will Tony Abbott represent Australia with female world leaders. The video of Julia Gillard’s speech has gone worldwide and enthusiastically approved. He is now known world wide as a misogynist. One wonders
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Hi Marian. Welcome to the Pig’s Arms.
Great question !
I find Julia a bit too much of a plain speaking person on the world stage, but she’s nobody’s fool.
But Tony Abbott is purely and simply no better than the classic unspeakable peri-revolutionary North African leaders of the past, regarded, I imagine, by European and English-speaking leaders as a hick, yokel, bicycle-riding banjo player. (Apologies to Steve Martin, who is an intelligent, humorous and witty virtuoso on said instrument).
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It was one heck of a Question Time.
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Put those two in one bag, save some hessian..you never know when you need it.
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Is this Alan/Abbott Affair going to lead to what’s called in Twitter world An Australian Spring 🙂
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Turnbull?
😉
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Newscom:”That Julia Gillard speech is mesmerising. You can see the colour drain from him. (Abbott). Wonderful
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Finally got around to watching this. rather Paul Keatingesque, I thought!
The colour certainly drained from Abbott’s face, but I’m not sure that he has learned anything.
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He won’t leopards don’t change their spots
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http://www.news.com.au/news/gillards-misogynist-abbott-blast-echoes-around-world/story-fnejlrpu-1226492476680
Cop this Mr Misogyny.
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Watching him parrot the same lines as the it was quite vomitous. He just prostitutes the parliament, has absolutely no respect for its principles. Its time for someone more principled to take over like Malcolm Turnbull.
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It’s going world-wide already. The power of tweet. Thanks Big M. Abbott will be taught a lesson yet and it won’t be in the missionary position..
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You need help.
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Try this: http://www.change.org/petitions/sack-tony-abbott-as-leader-of-the-opposition?utm_campaign=share_button_mobile&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=30970232
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