Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser of The GWPF
Kevin Rudd has declared he will challenge Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard as leader of the Labor party on Monday, saying he wants to “finish the job” he began before she ousted him. Mr Rudd, dumped as leader in 2010, attacked Ms Gillard as treacherous and untrustworthy and insisted she would not be able to win the next election. Mr Rudd attacked Ms Gillard’s political record, saying she urged him to dump his carbon pricing scheme as prime minister – a move that is credited as initiating his decline. –Jonathan Pearlman, The Daily Telegraph, 24 February 2012
KEVIN RUDD commissioned advice on ”repositioning” his ill-fated climate change policy, including scrapping it, two months before he dumped it, leaked documents show. Mr Rudd yesterday placed the blame squarely on Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan for forcing him to drop the policy but the Herald has obtained a departmental briefing commissioned by Mr Rudd showing he began the process that led to the policy being deferred indefinitely. –Phillip Coorey, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2012
The bloodletting inside the Labor Party is nothing short of animalistic. This week, many of the parliamentarians of the federal ALP have cast aside any semblance of unity and torn at each other in unrestrained frenzy. Australian Labor makes the US Republicans look almost charitable to each other by comparison. Labor, at its lowest standing in the public eye in the 40-year history of the Nielsen poll, does not seem well-placed to afford the luxury. — Peter Hartcher and Phillip Coorey, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 February 2012
Labor’S chances of salvaging anything from the current leadership debacle are receding as fast as you can say “disunity is death”. This is not garden-variety disunity, it is a full-scale nuclear war that, almost uniquely, is taking place within the party of government. It is as crazy as the military acronym suggests – MAD, or “mutually assured destruction”. –Mark Kenny, Adelaide Advertiser, 25 February 2012
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For those of us with no clue….
….can someone give a quick description of their parties?
Labor, Liberal, and Green
I just figured it out. Carbon dioxide accumulation in the lungs cases us to breathe. So increasing background CO2 causes us to breathe more, hyperventilating and getting giddy on oxygen. That’s why we can’t resolve the carbon debate, we’re all bejangled in the brains. Can I have a grant to further my research please?
I believe its:
Labor = leftist
Liberal = conservative
Green = whackos
I believe their parties are similar to the UK, where “Labor” represents the social liberal party; but then they have an actual Liberal party too. And what party is considered the “conservatives” I hear about at times? I’d love to hear someone in Australia give us a deeper overview of the system and how it should be versus this current state of affairs.
Latitude,
Roughly:
Labor = UK Labour = US Democrat
Liberal = UK Conservative = US Republican
Green = Green
“Kevin Rudd has declared he will challenge Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard as leader of the Labor party on Monday, saying he wants to “finish the job”…*he was elected to do*”
Kevin Rudd is delusional. He seriously believes “the Australian people” elected *him* to be PM. Unfortunately Mr. Rudd, not only are you clueless about climate change, you are clueless about the parliamantary system you “work” within. Voters (In Aus) DO NOT vote for a PM. Voters vote for MP’s in their constituencies. KRudd747 WAS voted by some people to be an MP, in Griffith, QLD. The ALP voted Rudd to be LEADER of the ALP and usually the leader of a party becomes a PM if the party “wins”. Rudd, in todays speaches, is full of vitriol, he’s been fuming ever since the challenge on his leadership. The “faceless men” driving this know Gillard was the “right person” to “get the work done” (Climate change/carbon tax policy) through the houses, but as I has suggested before, she will be sacrificed to save the party. Gillard would never win the next election, Rudd is in with a chance. The only issue I see here is that with the utterly childish gutter politics being spat out on TV every day, I think this “spill” has done irrecoverable damage to the ALP and The Greens (Good). The Independents who “shafted” their electorates will be dealt to in 2013 (Or sooner).
These leftists really do love to rewrite history dont they? How they dare to spin a terminal decline in popular support for labour that started with the ridiculous Rudd and his anti plant food tax plan is simply staggering, how they get away with such easy to nail lies is a clear sign of how politicians have bought off and silenced the MSM. Rudds regime was quite popular until he unveiled his climate policies, when the public saw them he became about as popular as a funnel web spider in ones underpants.
Kevin Rudd lies like a rug and not one MSM source has highlighted the time line or compared a graph of the point labour polls fell through the floor and the point at which Rudd unveiled his carbon pricing and tax, and those two points in time match exactly. So the politicians feel able to lie, it is no wonder when the MSM fails so miserably to bring them to account for those lies. This is the CAGW fraud at work, the sheer dishonesty that the political class engage in and can walk away from and then rewrite that history at their leisure.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of “No-carbon-tax-in-our-government” people. I feel embarrassed for my Aussie “cousins” when Juliar appears on TV.
Latitude: *very* roughly, assuming you’re in the US – Liberal=Republican, Labor=Democrat, Green… well, they’re the same the world over.
“Latitude says:
February 24, 2012 at 7:32 am”
Left (Labor), not so left (But “We can too” type thing Liberal) and extreme left (Like humans are bad, get rid of them. Not us “Greens” of course, we still have all this Chardonay to drink).
So Rudds arguing he wanted to keep the CO2 tax, sorry air grab, darn. Carbon pricing scheme?
You don’t curtsy to the Queen … see what happens…..
John says:, February 24, 2012 at 7:50 am
“I believe its:
Labor = leftist
Liberal = conservative
Green = whackos”
No it is:
Labor = communists
Liberal = conservative
Green = whacko communists
Clarke and Dawe – This Story Has Never Been Seen Before (Repeat)
http://youtu.be/yQgL1KdW_cg
John says on February 24, 2012 at 7:50 am
Almost. In reality it is:
Perhaps Queenie will dissolve their government, lock them all up in a prison hulk in Botany Bay and send her first born son, Big Ears out to rule the damn colonials. I actually think that she is technically able to do some of that!. Dunno about the supergreen, Tree-hugger Charlie boy though. We have been trying to get that parasite out of Cornwall for years.
Latitude see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Australia
Australian Labor Party — Social democracy — Socialist International
Liberal Party of Australia — Liberal conservatism — International Democrat Union
National Party of Australia — Rural conservatism — none
Australian Greens — [self-snip] — Global Greens
Democratic Labor Party — Social conservatism — none
Katter’s Australian Party — Agrarian economic nationalism, social conservatism — none
Looks like Julia Gillard is a Socialist.
LOL…..thanks guys!
Cassandra King
That is exactly the way I remember it also. And if you did not spell Labor like a Canadian or Brit (labour), I would assume you an Aussie. Gillard gained the upper hand by promising not to implement a carbon scheme, She not only broke that promise, but commenced to see how she could destroy the mining industry, commercial farming,forestry, etc.
All political groups in the UK are essentially the same, hence they all support: AGW/CC et al; mass immigration; the failed Euro and floundering EU; tax and waste; sound-bite (X-factor) policies; dismemberment of the Armed Forces; inhuman rights; ‘elf-n-safety (“not our fault/responsibility”) culture; etc, etc,etc! Bring back Freedom and Democracy, all is forgiven.
Labor Party in OZ are the incumbents. Comparisons to GOP are non-sequitur. Bloody press!
The Coalition means the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party together. The chucked one of their leaders along with his climate bill and went to a 55-60% approval rating prior to Australian Labor Party picking it up and pushed it into law. Australian Labor Party is at its lowest approval rating in 40 years according to JoNova’s site.
Gillard and Rudd are unlikely to maintain support and the Australian Labor Party needs to kill the bill to improve its approval rating.
The only place greens belong is in a salad….
Labour = Labor for those of you who are on the downslope of the peak u graph.
Not sure of the Aussie political spectrum but here is the Canadian spectrum relative to the USA.
Canadian NDP, they are moderate socialist (there is no USA equivalent)
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Canadian Conservative = slightly left of USA Democrat
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Canadian Liberal = left of US democrat (it was a Canadian Liberal Paul Martin that balanced our federal budget! It seems if you want a balance budget go for a liberal, can you say Bill Clinton)
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NO Canadian equivalence = USA Republican (Canadians view US Republicans as capitalist extremists that can’t get rogue bankers, business’s and wars under control. This will eventually sink America, the same as socialist extremism has in the EU. Left and Right political extremes lead to the same place.
I am a social Liberal and fiscal Conservative; I will swing my vote depending on what the times require. BTW I believe Unions are essential to balance the large corporate extremists, it’s all about balance.