By: deemondo
4/07/2009
11:13 am Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
the whole front page on national news in the courier mail is dedicated to showing kev as a fool .
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/national/ |
|
By: deemondo
4/07/2009
11:31 am Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| Twice this week Mr Rudd has refused to answer direct questions about why he needed the use of a free ute and whether taxpayer-funded resources were inadequate to his purposes. In both instances, he responded to the questions by attacking the standards of political reporting in Australia. |
|
By: centrelink10
4/07/2009
12:10 pm Yahoo! Profile:
centrelink10 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
KEVIN Rudd may have failed to emulate Bob Hawke's "love affair with the Australian people", but his honeymoon with much of the media shows no sign of losing its ardour after 18 months in office.
Rudd's triumph has been to water down a ruthless political will with a warm-and-cuddly persona that has been sold to the public on media platforms that were regarded as beneath his predecessor, John Howard.
Members of Team Howard, including the former prime minister, have been shaking their heads at Rudd's extraordinary exertions of spin and the tolerance of the Canberra press gallery towards the exercise.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 ,25725994-2702,00.html
************************* ************
Oh dear! He is still as popular as he was 18 months ago! |
|
By: cry_misty22
4/07/2009
1:31 pm Yahoo! Profile:
cry_misty22 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
but the facts will come out now.
....................
The true facts of the matter will never be told. It has been covered up by spin, lies and inuendo,similiar to RUDD's involvement in the Heiner AFfair which has been well and truly covered up by his labor mates. |
|
By: simonhall1900
4/07/2009
1:32 pm Yahoo! Profile:
simonhall1900 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| And the GG who is Rudd's lap dog, he rewards her with top jobs and she travels the world looking for his next job....... |
|
By: deemondo
4/07/2009
1:33 pm Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
It's not every week a federal government walks away from an election promise, performs an about-face on a key budget measure and admits it is struggling to make headway on a social policy such as ending indigenous disadvantage - and then escapes sustained attack and widespread criticism.
Despite this escape, the Prime Minister goes on the offensive about the government's treatment by elements of the media - in this case News Limited publications The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Brisbane's The Courier-Mail, The Advertiser in Adelaide and The Australian - over the OzCar affair and coverage of the schools stimulus package.
Eight days ago, the government dumped its Grocery Choice website, infuriating consumer advocate Choice which was on the verge of launching a revamped version of the much-criticised initiative. It was a sensible decision because watching grocery prices was never going to keep them lower. However, it did represent the abandonment of the highest-profile element of Labor's 2007 promise to keep a lid on grocery prices.
By Monday, the furore had largely disappeared and Rudd, rampant in the polls after the opposition's bungling of the OzCar affair, was free to resume his hard-hat tour, where he seems on a personal quest to be photographed in front of as many of the government's stimulus package projects as possible.
Come Wednesday, new Assistant Treasurer Nick Sherry ended weeks of controversy over the budget-night crackdown on employee share schemes.
About 90 per cent of the pre-budget tax treatment of the schemes was restored. It came after their widespread shutdown amid almost universal outrage from both unions and major employers. Put simply, the original decision was a bungle but again the government escaped its bind with only a minimum of criticism. |
|
By: deemondo
4/07/2009
1:34 pm Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Then there was the question of ending Aboriginal disadvantage. Thursday's Council of Australian Governments coincided with the release of a Productivity Commission report showing that, despite two years of emergency intervention in the Northern Territory and years of talking about the problem by the states, the situation was, if anything, going backwards on combating child abuse.
Again, Rudd's argument that more time was needed for key measures to take effect was accepted with little criticism.
Labor is 12 points ahead in the polls, Malcolm Turnbull is facing the crisis of his political life and the economy, fingers crossed, is taking a turn for the better. And the government has escaped what could have been a very poor week.
But Rudd is furious. Newspapers questioned his word over the fake email and he wants redress.
He is probably right about one thing. The media hasn't had the best of weeks. But not for the reasons he says. On real things like groceries and tax and even ending child abuse he has avoided the level of scrutiny he deserves. |
|
By: slr2007mclaren
4/07/2009
1:37 pm Yahoo! Profile:
slr2007mclaren Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
deemondo
these issues are still there to be scrutinised
if Turnbull was going to take a hit from the polls...its better to take a hit 18 months out than to take a hit a week out from the election
. |
|
By: deemondo
4/07/2009
1:38 pm Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
he has avoided the level of scrutiny he deserves.
the election is not far away he will have to answer questions sooner or later.and after taking a swipe at the press it wont be easy for him. |
|
By: deemondo
4/07/2009
1:40 pm Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
these issues are still there to be scrutinised
more so now that he is pulling the high almighty act.come election time he will be grilled |
|
By: simonhall1900
4/07/2009
1:43 pm Yahoo! Profile:
simonhall1900 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
What a vindictive little SNIP FOR ABUSE is Rudd.
Still, the brainless dolts who consider him the "bees knees" won't worry about this. All they care about is watching the preening ponce appear on garbage TV shows such as Rove.
Talk about a dumb nation - Gold,gold, gold to Australia. |
|
By: qikvtec
4/07/2009
2:45 pm Yahoo! Profile:
qikvtec Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| Interestingly, given the next federal election is likely to hang on the results in Queensland, Mr Rudd is likely to be handed his defeat by one from his very own fold. Commandant Bligh. The QLP's utter contempt for the Queensland Public will come back to bight Mr Rudd at the next federal election. As for the next state election, Bligh best be looking for alternative work; if she makes it that long. |
|
By: simonhall1900
4/07/2009
2:49 pm Yahoo! Profile:
simonhall1900 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Seems that his holiness might have bitten the hand that feeds him:
Rev from Kevin Rudd is without merit
If he's done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide, why make such unfounded accusations? To a media outlet who can rub you in the dirt, no less!
I did laugh at this, though:
"We believed John Howard's government had run its race and Mr Rudd and Labor had a fresh, imaginative and considered plan for the nation. We also believed that, along with Wayne Swan as treasurer, Mr Rudd would make sure the interests and concerns of Queensland and Queenslanders would have a prominent place on the national agenda. To a large extent, Mr Rudd and his Government have met these expectations."
(Bold mine). We're all still waiting for that plan… |
|
By: cry_misty22
4/07/2009
3:26 pm Yahoo! Profile:
cry_misty22 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| Fortunately or unfortunately, we are in the hands of the spin doctors. You will note that every announcement that has an effect on the general public is hidden in another document or not released until late Friday afternoon or at a time that the press has put its paper to bed. Rudd is the epitome of a social democrat, it is not the message that he give but what is not said in that message. A very clear Marxist politician. |
|
By: m1nokey123
4/07/2009
3:49 pm Yahoo! Profile:
m1nokey123 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
"WHEN this newspaper endorsed Kevin Rudd's bid to become prime minister of Australia,......."
An therein lies the problem with politics in Australia in this age. The media should be reporting the facts not trying to shape opinion. Where did it start, the media manipulating the politics or the politicians trying to control the spin? It's a chicken/egg scenario. |
|
By: m1nokey123
4/07/2009
3:52 pm Yahoo! Profile:
m1nokey123 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| When an advert for a "current affairs" program declares that I "should be outraged!!!" I am. Outraged that a purported "news" program tells me how I should feel, that's propoganda, not media. |
|
By: vegitamite97
4/07/2009
4:15 pm Yahoo! Profile:
vegitamite97 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
garbage TV shows such as Rove.
Talk about a dumb nation - Gold,gold, gold to Australia
=======================
yeah, remember Howard and Costello on Today tonight and the up and coming lib leader dancing around with shrek ears on kerri anne MrJoe Hockey |
|
By: deemondo
4/07/2009
8:25 pm Yahoo! Profile:
deemondo Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Joe Hockey is funny.
kev rudd has the personality of a dead fish. |
|
By: qikvtec
4/07/2009
9:15 pm Yahoo! Profile:
qikvtec Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
When an advert for a "current affairs" program declares that I "should be outraged!!!" I am. Outraged that a purported "news" program tells me how I should feel, that's propoganda, not media.
************************* *******
A goodly portion of the population are too fuggen dumb to know what to think, so they take their opinion of the world from a news paper, report or god forbidden current affairs program.
It seems quite a number of them frequent these boards. |
|
By: qikvtec
4/07/2009
9:16 pm Yahoo! Profile:
qikvtec Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
kev rudd has the personality of a dead fish
************************* ************************* *********
I liken him to a druggy in rehab; no substance! |
|
