There was no challenge


Gillard opened up the vote at a time when Kev was most vulnerable ... a very important week as foreign minister, with very important meetings across the globe.

Gillard is very cunning and very much a free agent now she has the rudd monkey off her back for a little while.

No one should underestimate the damage she can now inflict on Abbott. Be surprised if he lasts out the year as lame duck leader.

My Mother voted Labor all her life, up until the 2010, and the sole reason that she didn't then is because she despises Gillard. Most women that I know cannot stand her, and feel the same way.

This stunt will do the ALP absolutely no favour. It just shows that they have no respect for what the electorate wants, which is overwhelmingly Rudd.

corporate_whitey wrote on Feb 28^th, 2012 at 12:24am:



there are no battlers anymore...whingers YES..

people are paid to have a baby these days..they are paid to NOT work.[maternity leave]they are paid to go and get an education..they are paid to keep their kids at school.. instead of on the sofa.

god only knows what else we pay them not to do but you can bet your bottom dollar the so called battler knows all the ropes.

Politics is one big publicity stunt.
If people actually had a clue they would realise politics was never and is never meant to be about the politicians.

FriYAY wrote on Feb 28^th, 2012 at 11:20am:


Funnily enough, I agree.
We are a very lucky country.
If you don't care too much about keeping up with the Jones' and just focus on what is important to yourself, it's not too hard to make a good fist of it here.

A recent Lebanese immigrant work colleague of mine once said to me, "When I got here, I couldn't believe how easy it was to rip off the system. It's a playground!
But then I started looking over my shoulder all of the time, and I realized that you can become wealthy here just by working hard, and you don't need to be looking over your shoulder."

And so, his definition of wealth might be a little different to the average definition of wealth here in Australia. But on a global scale, we have ample opportunity to acquire wealth without any requirement to sell off our souls, as long as we don't define wealth with what the Jones' may or may not possess.

Hence, we certainly do not need politicians (servants of the people) compromising our moral psyche for a short-sighted promise of kickbacks.
If we are able to take the moral highground, then we should take it, because most countries are not in a position to do so, and others will experience only a short-lived spurt of wealth for their people by missing the opportunity to have them want to work for a nation of upstanding morals.