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July 4th, 2005

I am so pleased that Barnaby Joyce has bouncer on his resume.
He’s going to need to draw on everything he learned from Griff at the Wicklow Hotel in Armidale to best the undesirable elements of this government that is out to alter his opinions.
Members of the Ministry of Alteration Tony Abbott and Mark Vaile were seen waiting around the back of Parliament House, one with a phone book at the ready and the other waving an auctioneer’s hammer.

Alexander Downer will no doubt need little persuasion to chase Barnaby down…

You grab his ankles and I'll grab his wrists
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What’s that smell?

June 26th, 2005

It’s the rancid mix of mediocrity, hypocrisy and selling out and it’s coming from the Labor party and its conservative stand-for-nothing leader.

Workplace Relations Minister Andrews said that the right to strike was protected in Australian law when it was genuinely in pursuit of better wages and conditions, but the rallies did not fit that criteria.

"Today is a political action rather than industrial action, most of today’s action would be unprotected in relation to the Workplace Relations Act."

Is there any surgery that can implant the hemisphere of Bob Hawke’s brain that he had devoted to workers’ rights into the vacuum that is Beazley’s IR brain?
Please.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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Senatophobia

June 26th, 2005

I am developing a very severe case of Senatophobia or "no-voice-in-Parliament" as the new Senate date looms. I have become more and more anxious as this week has been filled with exit speeches and farewells.

HoWARd’s go softly speech, with his history of lying, just made me more frightened.
It’s real now and I feel like a
kangaroo
in the headlights
of a roadtrain.

fearful of being run over by HoWARd's big agenda

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Laurie Ferguson – On the grass

June 23rd, 2005

I have just read Laurie’s first speech to Parliament. In Laurie’s 1990 speech we find this,

"In fact these apologists are attempting to legitimise the naked power and authority of management."

I think that Laurie sees Kim as management and himself as worker and he just has to be diametrically opposed to management as a matter of course. He does this despite humanity, logic and justice. He’s made himself a placard and he’s gone on strike.

It looks like Kim’s going to cross a picket line to sack his Minister for Immigration of 239 days.

Don't mess with me little piggy

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I love my job it’s the work I hate…

May 29th, 2005

Tony Abbott thinks that some jobs are really tough and if you just do your best, try your hardest, however poor that might be, then it’s ok.

This is Tony justifying Amanda (and let’s not forget Phil) breathing in and out somewhere near their office…

"What people need to remember is we’re talking here about very difficult situations. We’re talking about, in some cases, people who are in very difficult personal circumstances. It’s not always easy to know exactly what is going on in their lives, it’s not always easy to know exactly what’s happening in their home countries or even which are their home countries. These are difficult personal situations and the idea that you can resolve these questions in a moment is just wrong."

It’s been many moments strung together Tony, they go on to make weeks, months and years.

never, ever the children
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