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Not surprising with the Federal Labor Govt. Neville Gillmore. Confusion rules for assessors over Green Start program Nicola Berkovic From: The Australian July 10, 2010 12:00AM ENVIRONMENTAL assessors are demanding answers from the government about its new Green Start program. They want to know how much work will be available and whether it Continue Reading →
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The campaign hopes to inspire young people to cast their vote. (ABC: Damien Larkins)
The not-for profit advocacy organisation GetUp is recruiting thousands of volunteers to inspire one million unenrolled Australians to vote in the federal election.
Gillard under pressure to reveal post-election portfolios Posted 9 minutes ago The Federal Opposition says Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be taking Australian voters for “mugs” if she does not reveal her preferred candidates for the foreign affairs, defence and finance portfolios before the election. There is speculation former prime minister Kevin Rudd is Continue Reading →
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 06:20pm
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard’s giddy rush to hoist the Mission Accomplished banner has blown up spectacularly in her picture-perfect face.
Just two weeks ago she announced that she had resolved the mining super tax fiasco only to see the secret deal she had personally brokered with the big three multinationals of ore extraction explode.
Gillard had bought only temporary peace at the expense of thousands Australian mining operations with a new, improved tax that would undercut the going company tax rate and leave other miners (and superannuantion investors) uncertain of their fate.
Even Treasury boss Ken Henry, who devised the initial dud super tax on mining profits and who stood four-square with Treasurer Wayne Swan, another super-tax spruiker, has distanced himself from the Gillard Government’s cobbled-together new tax, saying it will be worse for jobs and investment than the tax it replaced.
The media who cheered Gillard’s intervention have been left looking like fools.
Now that Julia Gillard has defined the parameters of the debate on asylum seekers, she is trying to swim through the politically perilous rip that runs through the middle of it.
You don’t ever need help
From nobody else
All you got to do now
Express yourself
Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band
JUST in case you hadn’t heard, your freshly minted Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, would like you to express yourself.
She reckons you should have the right to say what you like about asylum seekers – sorry, “unauthorised arrivals” – without being branded either a redneck or a bleeding heart, soft-centred liberal.
Which all sounds great in theory. At least until you go to the footy and hear Aboriginal players referred to from opposing cheer squads as “black —-s”, and others of varying ethnicity as “reffo bastards”.
Greens leade Bob Brown tips election date in late August
GREENS leader Bob Brown is tipping an August 21 or August 28 election.
The election date would be the top priority on Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s agenda at a Tuesday cabinet meeting, Senator Brown said.
“I think either this week or next week she’s likely to go to the Governor-General’s office asking for an election,” he told the Nine network.
“The Labor strategists who changed the prime minister so readily over the mining tax will now be looking at the best time for the Government to go to an election.”
The Greens lost ground at the polls after Ms Gillard was installed as leader.
Senator Brown said he put it down to her popularity as Australia’s first female prime minister.
“I raised a glass to that myself, it’s an historic breakthrough,” he said.
New PM is a dud like Rudd