Julia Gillard: Australia gets a Barry girl in charge. Tidy.

[Hollis]

Hitler was a fucking Tidy orator. Gotta admire those skillz. What he used those talents for, well...

I think Linz tends to keep quite about him now. Probably thought differently in '33 though.

 

[Fedayn]

Australia agrees deal to reduce new mining tax

But a compromise agreement negotiated by his successor, Julia Gillard, has now reduced the rate to 30% for coal and iron ore miners.

 

[editor]

Australia agrees deal to reduce new mining tax

..and...

But petroleum and gas operations will still pay a pre-existing 40% tax rate, the government said.

But that will now cover onshore oil and gas projects as well as the offshore operations previously subject to it.

Smaller iron ore and coal companies, with annual profits below A$50m (£28m; $42m), will not be required to pay the new tax.

The plans are still expected to raise billions of dollars for the government, however.

So what do you think of this deal?

 

[Fedayn]

..and...
So what do you think of this deal?

You mean the deal where she rolled over to the big mining concerns? Pretty shabby frankly.

 

[editor]

You mean the deal where she rolled over to the big mining concerns? Pretty shabby frankly.

So you think it would have been a better option for her to refuse any kind of compromise and watch labour get kicked out of office, to be replaced by a party that would most likely roll over ever more?

You see, it's not your opinion that counts here, it's the voters of Australia - and they seem to have made their feelings known over the issue.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/gillard-reclaims-winning-lead-20100702-ztex.html?autostart=1

 

[Fedayn]

So you think it would have been a better option for her to refuse any kind of compromise and watch labour get kicked out of office, to be replaced by a party that would most likely roll over ever more?

You see, it's not your opinion that counts here, it's the voters of Australia - and they seem to have made their feelings known over the issue.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/gillard-reclaims-winning-lead-20100702-ztex.html?autostart=1

My opinion is that, she rolled over and allowed big mining to get away with paying less tax. It's an opinion based on fact, not difficult really.
As for the voters issue, as relevant as your opinion when Thatcher kept winning, after all it's what the votes wanted.... See how ridiculous your remarks are?

 

[Proper Tidy]

The girl from Barry doesn't seem to have gone down to well with the Oz electorate...

 

[Fedayn]

So you think it would have been a better option for her to refuse any kind of compromise and watch labour get kicked out of office, to be replaced by a party that would most likely roll over ever more?

You see, it's not your opinion that counts here, it's the voters of Australia - and they seem to have made their feelings known over the issue.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/gillard-reclaims-winning-lead-20100702-ztex.html?autostart=1

Yeah they have made their feelings known and funnily enough the voters of Australia don't seem too impressed..... Shame they didn't think it soooo brilliant that a woman from Barry was Prime Minister....

 

[Gromit]

The girl from Barry doesn't seem to have gone down to well with the Oz electorate...

Has she tried to introduce a law that curry sauce must have sultanas in it?
As per the evil custom they follow at Barry Island.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Has she tried to introduce a law that curry sauce must have sultanas in it?
As per the evil custom they follow at Barry Island.

Chip shop curry sauce should have sultanas. These savages need civilising damnit.

 

[William of Walworth]

Has she tried to introduce a law that curry sauce must have sultanas in it?
As per the evil custom they follow at Barry Island.

This is true????

I've not been to Barry .... yet ...

 

[Proper Tidy]

This is true????

I've not been to Barry .... yet ...

Doesn't all chip shop curry sauce have raisins in? Or is this a Welsh thing?

 

[Gromit]

Doesn't all chip shop curry sauce have raisins in? Or is this a Welsh thing?

Its not something I've ever come across in Cardiff or Pontypridd.

I'm sure I've seen Fruity Curry Sauce elsewhere occasionally. I've always assumed that it was Barry ex-pats that owned the establishment. Barry Island being the place I first came across it and having burned into my conciousness the continual disappointment on future visits that I couldn't have proper curry there.

 

[DownwardDog]

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com...australian/comments/newspoll_history_repeats/

Nine months later on and Gillard's poll numbers are worse than Rudd's were when she bladed him. The Australian public have failed to understand the nuanced subtlety of her position on a Carbon Dioxide emissions tax. When she went on TV before the election and said we definitely wouldn't have one the electorate failed to grasp that actually meant we would be getting one quite soon. Meanwhile former ACTU gimp and Harry Potter lookalike Greg Combet lurks in the sidelines honing the ceremonial ALP leader dispatching dagger.

 

[phildwyer]

I've not been to Barry .... yet ...

You'll love it William! Just your kind of town.

 

[1927]

If she's a proper Barry girl like the ones I seem to get involved with then I'm not surprised its all falling apart. A year in charge and she's been found out, these Barry girls can only hide their utter lunacy for so long before being found out! I'd say she's done pretty well to hide it this long!

 

[ddraig]

had to be rescued from an Aboriginal rights protest by bodyguards and riot plod!
and lost a shoe

dramatic pics!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...police-from-angry-protesters-115875-23720900/

 

[1927]

had to be rescued from an Aboriginal rights protest by bodyguards and riot plod!
and lost a shoe

dramatic pics!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...police-from-angry-protesters-115875-23720900/

Obviously not a REAL Barry girl then, she'd have been rescuing the riot police if she was!

 

[editor]

Looks more like they're having a little cwtch.

 

[editor]

If you watch the video there seems to be an awesome overreaction from the police going on.

 

[albionism]

indeed...attacked by protesters my arse

 

[DownwardDog]

There was an interesting article in The A this morning by Denis Shanahan. Amazingly the ALP is now moving toward the consensus that having Rudd assassinate Gillard shortly after the inevitable bloodbath of the Queensland elections on March 24th will be preferable to battling on with her particular brand of accident prone treachery leading the party and government.

Labor are going to get absolutely slaughtered in the 2013 Federals.

 

[redsquirrel]

ALP continuing its trend for suicide.

Rudd resigning as Foreign Minister. Either because he's going to have a tilt at the leadership or because he was going to be pushed.

EDIT: Didn't this thread used to be in World Politics?

 

[redsquirrel]

ALP politicos ripping each other apart , outright civil war. Whoever wins the party is going to be in even worse state than they are presently.

If Abbott doesn't win from this position, my god.

 

[DownwardDog]

If Abbott doesn't win from this position, my god.

He'll win, the only question is when. I'm not sure the ALP can stagger on in government for another 18 months. Even if Rudd manages to see off "Juliar" then he'll have to stitch together the governing coalition anew. Obviously the motley band of trots, tankies and bicurious crackpots in the Greens will be up for it but he'll also have to wrangle the narcissistic independents like Wilkie, Oakeshott, etc. All the time resisting the inevitable media firestorm that'll be demanding a Federal election in order to legitimise KR's premiership. Messy.

It'd be great if we can install a LibNat coalition government by July as the much hated Carbon Tax will never see the light of day then.

 

[FaradayCaged]

Julia Gillard = Hot?

Yes please.

Me = weird?

Your choice .