More liberal dissent, I’m hoping for an epidemic!

February 9th, 2005

Petro Georgiou has called for a complete reassessment of the immigration system, specifically the way Australia treats Asylum seekers on people who hold TPV’s.

This is what Petro had to say,

"I believe in brief, that we need to release asylum seekers in detention, of whom there are only a couple of hundred, and who have passed health and security checks, into the community until their applications are processed. And I believe that thousands of genuine refugees, who have temporary protection visas, should be given permanent residence in a one-off amnesty."

Amanda Vanstone had something to say,

"Oh look, it’s a measure of the Liberal Party. People are entitled to have different views. We have people with different views. There are different views in the community. Hello? This is a free country. You’re entitled to a different view. I’m not going to lie on the floor and die like Louis the Fly because someone’s got a different view."

Kim Landers, Reporter:

"But you outright reject his call?"

Amanda Vanstone:

"Yeah."

Now the image of our Amanda buzzzzzing around like a fly just has me running for the Mortein, however, because she came out on the side of pro-choice in the abortion debate I will blink on behalf of enemy and give the enemy a chance to retreat.

Amanda, take note of the humanity in Petro’s request, and understand that his is a widely held position and dismiss it out-of-hand at your peril.

Queenslanders, liberal, Women, Goddesses!

February 8th, 2005

I know these women are currently on the wrong side of my usual Politics, but I am so impressed at their stand that I am making them honorary Labor party-ites/Democrats, and alumni of Emily’s list.

Powerful gender representation was, and always will be so important.

Pro-choice women from all around Australia thank you liberal women of Queensland.

Not willy-nilly Alan, there was a willy…silly!

February 4th, 2005

I can’t believe that this is not a spoof!

What is this man being paid to do, I hope his only responsibility is to untangle coat hangers in the parliament’s cloakroom, because he is beyond clueless!

The only way to counteract this level of incredulity is to visit Crikey, where this opening line greeted me

"Mungo MacCallum memorably describes John Howard as an "unflushable turd". Will the unfolding abortion debate turn out to be Howard’s turd?"

and somewhere a rebalancing occurs.

I am not concerned about the access Australian women enjoy to abortion in this country with MP’s such as Cadman opening his mouth on behalf of the pro-life lobby.


With special thanks to the girl-child for finding this image.

Vicarious stupidity.

January 30th, 2005

Our Prime Minister is at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland proving to the entire world just how stupid he is with statements such as this.

"Can I just say, I mean, the negative mindset of the last five minutes is ridiculous – of course America has made mistakes."

"I think some of the criticism of the Americans by some the Europeans is unfair and irrational and I have said so."

Meanwhile in America, Gore Vidal has responded to Bush’s second inauguration speech – found over at WhatROOLYhappened.com.

Gore Vidal responds to this excerpt from Bush’s speech,

"America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal, instead, is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way. The great objective of ending tyranny is the concentrated work of generations. The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding it. America’s influence is not unlimited; but fortunately for the oppressed, America’s influence is considerable, and we will use it confidently in freedom’s cause."

Vidal’s comments,

"Well, I hardly know where to end, much less begin. There’s not a word of truth in anything that he said. Our founding fathers did not set us on a course to liberate all the world from tyranny. Jefferson just said, all men are created equal, and should be, etc, but it was not the task of the United States to go abroad to slay dragons, as John Quincy Adams so wisely put it; because if the United States does go abroad to slay dragons in the name of freedom, liberty, and so on, she could become dictatress of the world, but in the process she would lose her soul. That is what we – the lesson we should be learning now, instead of this declaration of war against the entire globe. He doesn’t define what tyranny is. I’d say what we have now in the United States is working up a nice tyrannical persona for itself and for us. As we lose liberties he’s, I guess, handing them out to other countries which have not asked for them, particularly; and what he says – The reaction in Europe – and I know we mustn’t mention them because they’re immoral and they have all those different kinds of cheese – but, simultaneously, they’re much better educated than we are, and they’re richer. Get that out there: The Europeans per capita are richer than the Americans, per capita. And by the time this administration is finished, there won’t be any money left of any kind, starting with poor social security, which will be privatized, so that is the last gold rush for (as they say) men with an eye for opportunity."

"Events are made so horrible people like Saddam and so on are demonized, and we all have to immediately begin by saying how awful he is for 25 minutes before we can get down to the fact that he was no threat to the United States, no threat at all. He was not involved with al Qaeda. He was not involved with 9/11. He was not. He was not. You can say it a million times, but there you have a president with the help of the most corrupt media in my lifetime buoying his words across the land and telling lies about the – We’re 45 minutes away from being blown up by the weapons of mass destruction that this master of evil has in his hands. – To which the answer is: Why? Why would he do that? There must be some motivation. You see, they are now beyond motivation, and that is insanity. So, an insane government is not one that you can look to with any confidence."

John HoWARd follows Bush and his administration without applying facts, truth, logic, analysis, common sense or humanity.

Supersizing the Compassion combo…

January 28th, 2005

Today Kim stated a vision for the party. He says:

“We believe you can have a modern dynamic economy with compassion.”

Here’s my list Kim:

  1. Compassion for Iraqi civilians – Troops out.
  2. Compassion for scared pregnant women (young and old) when they seek termination services – expand access to Abortion services and the morning after pill.
  3. Compassion for the environment – Sign Kyoto.
  4. Compassion for Asylum seekers – welcome all with no need for TPV’s.
  5. Compassion for refugees – expand immigration.
  6. Compassion for freedom of speech – A Bill of Rights.
  7. Compassion for dissenting voices – repeal the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Bill [No. 2] 2002 (“the ASIO bill”) and promote tolerance.
  8. Compassion for Medicare – embrace, fund and respect free public healthcare for all.
  9. As much compassion as a wealthy society such as Australia can provide to all it’s citizens – reinvigorate Public Housing, raise the dollars for pensions such as DSP, PPS and PPP.

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