It is eleven and three quarter days since Craig rose and spoke to the House, sometimes in tears, of his persecution and our politics forever changed. Abbott has been ruined and the Liberal Party put in mortal danger. The Nielsen will show on Monday, probably, a near-equivalent 50-50 or 49-51 score of the parties, and further heads will roll.
Among them should be those media editors who suggested a six thousand dollar expenditure on whores ‘overshadowed’ a trillion-dollar balanced Budget. Among them should be those cowed and grovelling fellow travellers like Michelle Grattan who said Labor was trying only to ‘save the furniture’ in a time of certain defeat. Among them those like Fran Kelly who said a Labor gain of six hundred and twenty thousand votes in a month ‘does not change the overall picture’ of an imminent Labor massacre.
Among them, of course, are the Channel 7 peeping-toms (if any) under Mrs Thomson’s bathroom window. Among them the jovial, sneering sadists who in breach of the Crimes Act wanted Craig to resign and save his sanity, and only incidentally deliver government, and a trillion dollar cash cow, to Abbott’s bullying, shrieking, crazed front bench.
This was misuse of power indeed. Andy Coulson will go to gaol for it soon, and so should many, many of the media lackeys of Abbott’s wolf-pack, daring to presume the Australian people could not smell a rat, or a con-man, or a schoolyard bully, when he was there before their eyes.
It used to be the habit of the media commentators to say who won the week, Labor or the Liberals. Pray note that they do not do it any more.
They have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow. Lord, Lord, the days that they have seen.
Name:
Abbott has been ruined and the Liberal Party put in mortal danger.
Wish fulfillment at it’s finest. But without the fulfillment. Never mind.
You forgot the Carnarvon investigation, hopefully it won’t drag on for too much longer. You could call it Craig’s Climax.
You have elsewhere been banned for life, but I note that your letter breaches the Crimes Act, and I will consider informing the authorities.
Was it the Sarcasm Clause? Well excuuuuuuuse ME!
Getting your panties in a bunch a little, Bob?
God, you’re not witty.
Seek help.
One million, six hundred and eighty years.
Carvnavon has nothing to do with Craig Thomson, it is about Michael Williamson, Kathy Jackson and their cronies from 2008-2012.
Do try and keep up.
Now last month Jackson denied driving an expensive
Volvo – but Wicks has got hold of the $84,000 docket plus the $5,000 missing dollars. the news that Jackson was hiring Michael Lawlers kids on huge salaries, the large sums paid on consultants for nothing tangible and even legal services in Hong Kong.
Again Carnavon has zero to do with Thomson.
But the media are still peddling their made up lie that Thomson is accused of stealing $500,000, a number invented by Tony Wright and copied by the apes.
In fact $270,000 was claimed to have been not declared for his elections, it was all declared and presented although Jackson was late to file $17,000 of it.
That brings us down to the claim of $100,000 over 5 years on a credit card that has all been paid for and accounted for years ago without anyone wanting it back.
Then $6,000 on hookers when what we see they did was roll all the claims against Jeff Jackson using hookers into the claim that Thomson was.
Yet it was Jackson’s enemy Pauline Fegan who said Jackson was using hookers and to cover up it was Kathy Jackson who claimed that it was Thomson.
But Thomson really was travelling with his wife when it is claimed he rented out his dick in Sydney.
So let’s look at what is left.
$3,000 of the hooker claims were actually Jacksons so with $370,000 accounted for we are left with just $3,000.
But Kathy Jackson and her boyfriend are in a world of trouble even though she thinks she is calling the shots.
Think about this – Kathy claimed to be a poor worker for the poor.
But – $270,000 salary
$84,000 Volvo
$63,000 for HESTA payments over 3 years.
$74,000 bonus last year.
Hundreds of thousands claimed for consultants and on and on it goes.
Interestingly it was Jeff Jackson who claimed that Pauline Fegan was the thief but she faces just $4,400 in fines and he faces $22,000 in fines if the court doesn’t do the right thing and laugh Terry Nassios and FWA out of court.
It’s amazing that both Jeff Jackson and Craig Thomson are accused of using the same hookers at the same time.
But what the media have to do is read.
The AEC have comprehensivley destroyed Nassios report but they refuse to believe the AEC because they want it both ways.
A very fine summary,Robert Ellis.
The Rabbit can be censured for attempting to deprive a member of parliament of his lawful vote;
“appalling”, as a recently banned blogger might have said.
Oh dear Douglas Quixote, this is the 4th time you have posted this identical sentiment.
Do you really believe it to be such an insight, such a revelation, that it deserves multiple postings?
Retract your tongue Douglas.
It has achieved it’s catamitic purpose.
You are in breach of the Crimes Act and I need your address, as I must, as your publisher, inform the authorities of where you are.
Bob, you are in breach of the Integrity Act and I need your answer to the simplest of questions: why are you banning me?
Why?
Declare your reason.
Honestly.
You have my email. If you want my address just drop me a line.
Definitely guilty of woeful poetry… I’m sure there is a statute somewhere – oh yes the McGonagall Act.
Until Albanese takes note, it must be asserted. Troll or no troll.
No-one said that he is wrong on every detail and in every argument. After all, the opposition have some reasonable people in parliament who voted for Abbott, as did 25,000? or so in Warringah; they can’t all be wrong, can they?
46,398 apparently. misguided and deluded, but not on all points.(?)
Change your minds, Warrigahites – do a Bennelong!
We live in hope.
Three miilon two hundred and eighty thousand years.
To Tiny Dancer, you twat. Primary definition of illiterate: unable to read or write. Can you explain how this applies to Marilyn? Moron: a stupid person. Because you think she is, does not make her so. She is extremely well read and I find her arguments to be well researched and well reasoned, in contrast to yours.
It would be to the benefit of this blog site if contributors desisted from ad hominem attacks. But there, I’ve just fallen into the trap. Tricky, isn’t it?
Six million, five hundred and twenty thousand years.
Wayne Swan’s surplus, a fart in the bathtub, inaction.
To advocate for a surplus is to advocate for an underdeveloped Australia. The only reason for a surplus is hollow 90′s political rhetoric that should of been made bunkum then, just as it is acknowledged no one really has had any control over the independent reserve bank when it comes to interest rates.
I think the ALP should be held to account. $72 billion behind Norway’s education system.
$100 billion worth of roads nationwide that need building.
How much for an east coast rail link? How many jobs would all of this create?
5 years of government. Yep, +50 points for “avoiding” the GFC, but that was pragmatic, not visionary.
Is the carbon tax really that momentous? The disability scheme is great, but that’s bipartisan, I can’t really think of much that the ALP has done, that the Liberals would not have identically.
#Afghanistan – check
#US troops in Darwin – check
#Uranium to India – check
#No to Gay Marriage – check
#1700 slaves for Gina – okay maybe 10,00 by now under libs
#Watered down mining tax – state Govt’s would have all upped royalties by now anyway.
#Stupid surplus – check
#Great barrier reef coal ports- check
#inaction on gonkski report – check
#Offshore processing – check
#Kimberly coast LNG project – check
#Selling the ASX to Singapore – almost got away with that one Swanny.
#No denticare – check
#no republic – check
#no constitutional reform – check
Point being, if Rudd had lost the 07 election and say Costello took over PM ship, or Turnbull, the govt that would have ensued would have been almost identical in my opinion to the past 5 years of ALP govt.
Some kind of weird distorted double act, an impersonation. A real ALP PM doesn’t stand in front of the box and say jobs 50 times in three minutes.
If this Govt. really has a problem with murdochism then why would they continue to play the game by the same rules? and they do, and Bob Brown has shown everyone how it is done.
Turn left. No wants an Abbott Govt. but enough of the bunkum. Australians want independence and representation from elected officials.
What are the real reasons tax revenue is shrinking? Who will be the first to step up and label me a xenophobe for saying all the profits are going offshore, all the jobs are going offshore, everything is getting bought up by offshore interests, the housing market is so over inflated because of offshore pressures. Tarrif is such a dirty word innit?
Why am I wrong? Why shouldn’t I vote Green/Independent?
Cripes, The Greens? Have you read the policies? Euthanized by 30 see ya later How are you with the tofu and no power?
When was the last time you walked into a nursing home?
I rarely eat meat anymore. My Dad was a butcher. He doesn’t either.
The Carbon Tax is Milne’s policy, as much as it is Garnaut’s or Rudd’s or Gillard’s.
Bill. Grow some balls
I’m sorry?
Nursing homes?
Been there done that. Your perfectly crafted and carefully nuanced point is what exactly?
So you don’t eat meat.
Thanks for sharing that with us.
And if your Dad is in a nursing home I understand why he doesn’t.
The Carbon Tax? I knew that.
Personally although a nearly rusted on Labor boy I think the CT is a crock. Anyway, no Brown no Greens in the very near future.
Really I just like the sound of my own voice.
The day you are shitting yourself, immobilized and in a home begging for death @ the end of your consumerist nightmare, surrounded by an eroded landscape with poisoned water table.
The point is only raised in response to “Have you read the policies? Euthanized by 30 see ya later How are you with the tofu and no power?”
Nah! “Anyway, no Brown no Greens in the very near future”
“Grow some balls!!!”
Read a book Clive.
Also enjoy your pink slime.
Num num.
Ah haw haw.
Vote Green by all means, just ensure your preference vote goes to Labor. Their philosophy is surely preferable to that of the Rabbit and the Bunny Party.
As for Brown, I thought he was going to be there for another decade; his exit was weird and I’d like to know just why, when he at last had a chance to maker a real difference.
Is there a hidden agenda?
Not as weird as Arbib.
I thought ill health. I still wouldn’t be surprised to find out.
Brown resigning, gave the Greens the spotlight for a few days amidst all this other nonsense. It wasn’t hidden really, and the Greens executed it well.
A whole generation and then some of disengaged voters were reminded that the greens are a viable alternative. Perhaps that is the only agenda?
I can’t think of any others though. I think the CIA stuff has worn itself out and isn’t that funny anymore so I won’t even bother with a joke.
Milne is formidable, so any suggestion the greens are going to die and go away is purely wishful thinking.
Come the next federal election I reckon you will see a large portion of Green hating Baby boomers waking up and voting green, as they see the farmland swallowed up around them.
Be interesting to see what happens in Liberal Camden, SW Sydney, where they couldn’t get a mosque up and where they “try and keep it rural”.
If I was the greens this is where battle should be focused, that green chain at the foot of the mountains where you can’t go walking but for the $10,000 fine for walking on water board land, but where there will soon be a CSG well every 300 meters.
How many people will hack having methane eruptions in rivers and lakes?
Possibly Bob Brown was aghast at his party being hijacked by weirdos
Like other groups, Greenpeace as an example, the Greens seem to be getting involved in things far far away from the original purpose.
Things evolve a bit but I really don’t get the connection between saving the rainforest and some of the more contentious and obnoxious
things that some have been espousing.
For your ailment I recommend an urgent B12 injection.
Lack of iron from poor diet can affect the Hb levels in the bloodstream.
In turn this affects the flow of oxygen to the cerebral region which can result in fuddled thinking.
The only Clive I know of is the one who declared himself a public intellectual and waffles on about green things.
He’s the one who wanted to suspend democracy because he, like so many minorities, knows whats good for the rest of us.
Apparently.
This isn’t wit.
This is worn.
What is even Utopia Clive?
This is what happens when your tree starts growing sidewards and finds its own tongue.
In the end it smothers itself and develops root rot.
There is no under story, see.
Not with a whimper but a wet pillow.
Clive