Mandy Vanstone is off and running in the New Year with a whinge about… whingeing.
“Australians used to joke about whingeing Poms but I fear we have adopted that rather unattractive trait as our own. True enough the federal Parliament, indeed most of the parliaments, did not cover themselves in glory in 2012. I am not defending that.
It is just interesting that so many people who are happy to put the boot into parliamentarians do not appear to have tried to excel in their own work. We have a new class of people who appear quite happy to just be critical of others for not meeting the excellence bar.
Yes, it’s the old “Parliament is a disgrace” gambit, and no, Mandy doesn’t ascribe blame. She just has a whinge that the parliament is a joke. By parliament” she means Question Time.
But the truth comes out in her statement: “I am not defending that.”
Why would Mandy feel she owns some of the responsibility for the goings on in QT? She’s not a parliamentarian anymore, so it can’t be that.
But Mandy is still a Liberal, and it’s the Liberals who have gone out of their way to wreck QT and this parliament. No wonder she feels it necessary to – almost – apologize.
Pointless points of order (most of which are struck down); defiance of the Speaker resulting in record numbers of ejected members; heckling and all the rest of it are all played out to a bored Press Gallery, sitting in their reserved box seats like so many indolent Roman patricians, who maintain the fiction that QT is the most important gauge of governance… why?
Because they can. They have the privilege of the ringside seat, so they flog it for all it’s worth. What’s important – and pointedly, exclusive – to them, is what rates in parliamentary and political coverage.
So it’s all QT’s fault that the nation has turned into one whingeing, seething mass of dummy-spitters, says Mandy.
Wrong. It’s the trash-talk about everything – the economy, industrial relations, retail sales, and yes, parliament – that does it.
It is self-evident that a government concerned with re-election, running the country, keeping the economy on an even keel and passing its legislation through the parliament, would NOT wish to trash-talk its own efforts to maintain peace, order and good government (Can-Do Campbell, with his notable “Queensland is the new Greece” ejaculation, being the exception that proves the rule).
So who is doing all the wrecking?
It’s the side of politics that never has anything good to say, that puts out the message to do nothing – sit on your money – until they get into power, that makes up outright lies about the effect of the Carbon Tax, that threatens continuous elections just to restore us back to “Australia, circa 2007”, that says interest rates are always too low or too high, that tells us no matter how good this month’s figures are that next month’s will be the worst on record, that introduces scandal, smear and outright abuse of the Courts in shady efforts to alter the numbers in their favour, that plays with the lives of boat people just to score political points… in short, the side of politics that never stops whingeing and moaning… they are the ones to blame for the depths to which our nation has sunk.
Once upon a time there may have been a point to it. There was a chance that if they could king hit the government early, convince the independent members to switch sides or express “No Confidence” in the government, we might have had to go back to the people (who elected the hung parliament, after all) and sort it all out. That option expired by about mid 2011.
After that it was just a mindless pursuit of bad polls for the government so that their captive journo mates could write up the next election as a lay-down misere. If the result was so certain then there’s no need to talk about government policy because the government won’t be around long enough to carry it out. There would be no need to talk about Opposition policy because Oppositions don’t “do” policy until the campaign. With no need to consider either government or Opposition policy, we could get down to The Vibe, such an easy ride for all concerned.
- Writing about The Vibe means you can just spew out whatever comes first into your empty head and pass it off as critical analysis.
- Writing about The Vibe means you can run the next election endlessly, day after day, week after week, quoting the same polling numbers each time, saying there’s no hope for the Prime Minister.
- Writing about The Vibe means you can fill columns with you personal political biases, your likes and dislikes, and get it into the newspapers.
- Writing about The Vibe permits you to dismiss the government and to treat the Opposition as the government-in-waiting, or even the co-government, even though the Opposition has never won a substantive vote or passed a serious motion in the House for the entire time since 2010.
- Writing about the vibe means you can then blame the government for all this, or at worst, not have to blame the Opposition.
Unfortunately, writing about The Vibe has a downside for it purveyors. Your readers lose faith in you, they stop buying your newspaper, you go broke. As for the wrecker-politicians, their approval ratings tank to almost unprecedented levels. The Economy sags due to low confidence levels. The nation stagnates.
The critical 5% of punters who make up the difference between a vibrant economy and one in the doldrums are too miserable to get out of bed in the morning – Mandy uses this exact “Get out of bed scenario”. They don’t go shopping, or get to work. What should have been an optimistic, energetic place to live becomes a dull ache somewhere in the backs of people’s minds.
Funnily enough, I agree with Mandy, at least half agree with her.
There does need to be a resurgence of confidence and a cessation of whingeing. But it has to come from a recognition of the causes of the nation’s ennui. Australia needs to get a grip on itself and recognize that its salvation is in its own hands.
Confidence is highly under-rated as an economic output. We talk of prices and supply, taxation and industrial relations, market forces and government stimulus, but rarely do we consider confidence as anything more than some kind of waffly feel-good/feel-bad indicator, a product of an economy.
Confidence is not just a product of an economy, it is also equally its driving force. None of the other indicators matter unless the punters have enough confidence to literally get out of bed in the morning and believe their efforts will make a difference, and that their participation in the economy and society will benefit them, their families and ultimately, their society.
When conservative politicians continually trash-talk the economy for no good reason other than political advantage, a spike in the polls, a quip they can make about Pink Batts on Q&A, and when this results in too many people taking them at their word and staying in bed, the consequences can be serious indeed. We’re seeing that now.
A media that’s suffering decline seeks to spread its own misery to the rest of the country. Conservative – Liberal and National in particular – politicians continue a bad habit of negativity whose chance of success expired years ago. Economists, congenitally conditioned to never saying “Bet the house on this” take the easy option and tell their clients and readers, “Put you money under the bed, and then lie in that bed and stay put.” Here’s why: no economist ever got sued for advising their client to be cautious, even stupidly cautious.
Sound familiar?
Our economy is among the best in the world, our dollar is a reserve currency, our life style is rated No. 1, our debt is low, interest rates, taxes and unemployment ditto, we are on the Security Council doing good work around the world, our Treasurer wins prizes for his accomplishments, our Prime Minister is lauded all over as a Boadecia-like figure in the cause of women’s rights, big initiatives – the NDIS, Health and Education reforms, the NBN, anti-tobacco measures and many more – are either in train, or planned in a professional manner with proper consultation and hard bargaining… yet we are told we may as well stay in bed because Craig Thomson looks like he may have used hookers ten years ago, or the PM had a shoe malfunction, or her arse is too big.
Sound familiar?
The commentators are continually wrong about almost everything. Their predictions are laughable, and their errors are grievous. The government will fall, Rudd will come back, the states will never agree, the money can’t be found.
Sound familiar?
It’s not just Question Time or the parliament. It’s a national malaise, infectious and malignant, spread by political and business forces that have a vested political interest in maintaining their cosy pasts, to the detriment of their own present and future self-interests.
Working an extra hour and a half a day – Mandy’s suggestion – should not be the cause of recovery from this illness, it should be the result of it. But it can only become a reality if the conservative political forces that have so far been spreading it start helping to clean it up.
And to do that we first have to face the reality of where this disease is coming from, keep the carriers and spreaders of it from office, and drive a stake through the cesspits they have in place of human hearts.
THE PUB 
Hey C@tmomma. confessions copied and pasted true. I have missed you. But I can claim an excuse. I have been playing with my kids. You know, swimming despite the sharks, swapping stories. Hey, if this is a pub, where is the beer garden?
Catch you soon, I hope! It’s hot again tonight – am becoming a steamed pudding.
“I guess that’s a compliment. It took me two hours to find the images, crop and resize them, edit them so they had a more consistent “look”, strip out backgrounds and finally and paste them together.”
Well worth the effort. I like that graphic a lot. Amanda V has a resemblance to Uncle Fester, I had not picked up before.
This one caught my eye from U.K.
“Monster Raving Loony @LoonyPartyNews
The people who normally read the Daily Mail & moan about all the people on benefits are today moaning that they’ve lost their child benefit.”
good morning all. Hope you are all bright-eyed and busy-tailed, ready to face the heat of the day.
It’s already 24c in Cbr.
Good morning everyone, it is nice and cool here at the moment. Naturally Slipper is the lead news on abc radio, a quote from Brandis, it’s all Julia’s fault, blah blah blah.
Good Morning All!
It’s going to have gone from 18C at 6am to 30C at 9am to 38C at 12pm then 40C by 3pm, to finish at 43C sometime between 3pm and 6pm because it will be back down to 38C by 6pm.
We have extra supplies of cold water and electrolyte replacement drinks in the fridge, I have good company here, and I hope my laptop cooler keeps going after it hits 40C!
(Sorry to bore those who have endured 40+ days for >1 day, but I’m the world’s greatest heat wuss. 🙂 )
janice,
Do you have air con? I refuse to succumb because I feel that would be giving in to the ‘Don’t Care About Climate Change’ set in a funny, round about way. So we just have fans, curtains and Pink Batts here. Though I was sorely tempted to buy a new type of fan the other day, what is known as a ‘Misting Fan’. It sucks water up and feeds it into the blades which spray it everywhere. Then I thought, nah, rusty fan quick smart and water marks everywhere! 🙂
Oops! I should have said,
“C@t the barmaid has opened the doors of The PUB for business to let the early risers in for their first sherbert of the day.” 🙂
If this hasn’t been said before I’d be surprised, but I’ll say it anyway:
Amazing that an abuse of process involving the Federal Court, trumped-up allegations, millions of dollars and connivance between an LNP candidate, a chain of major city newspapers and Coalition MPs against the most senior constitutional officer of the Australian parliament is dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders by the media, when a minor magistrate’s court charge involving amounts of money under $1000, said to have been spent three years ago, has the ABC running around in a frenzy of indignation.
how do i go backwards,, to the older posts.
c tomma , i dont do hot weather well either, i think it took me to yesterday after noon
to get me back what ever me is, at my age, and the old scolerderma
and
r a is much worse in summer than winter,
find your coolest spot and dont do anything.
bean bags or soft pillows for children colouring in books books ect
and lap top
sigh
i am a winter person, well autumn is my favourite time
the abc should stick to doing what they do best, giving our information about the fire season
and such things. one of its breifs is looking after that sort of thing, so surley looking after the nation and giving us facts about things not just headlines but in depth analysis
and l the 7.30 report last night that was actully watchable first time ive sat through that show since kerry
ive stopped listening to their breathless political commentary, i would say a lot have
evey trade person who has had a noise coming from his/her van these days in a c d of their choice,
or the local radio station , we have no talk back, i did notice deryn hinch is getting a gurnsey on one of the locals though this year, fed from the mainland
have written to the abc saying hw much i prefer their 7.30 presenter over summer
of course it want do any good there not goint to listen to just one perso n
The charges are believed to relate to Mr Slipper’s use of hire cars in January, March and June 2010, when he was a Liberal National Party MP. It is alleged he used the cars beyond the boundary of the ACT – breaching a little-known rule concerning MPs’ travel. The total cost of the three trips was about $900.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/mp-peter-slipper-faces-car-travel-charges-20130107-2cciu.html
I suspect that the charges relate to some “mysterious” trips Slipper made around Canberra in 2010…
Records from January 2010 to July 2011 show Mr Slipper, who has been forced to repay $20,000-plus in wrongly claimed entitlements, has regularly racked up hundreds of dollars in taxi fares in a day.
These include $680 in fares on January 20 and 21, 2010, including $172.55 for a listing from “home to Capital Hill” at 2.21pm.
His Canberra home is just a few kilometres from Parliament and a taxi trip costs no more than $15.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/new-speaker-peter-slipper-spares-no-expense-on-cabs/story-fn7x8me2-1226327150705
Interesting that the report says Slipper repaid the money for the trips in question, so perhaps the trips to which the charges relate were ones that “escaped the net” of the Finance Dept. investigation for some reason, or other.
“when a minor magistrate’s court charge involving amounts of money under $1000, said to have been spent three years ago, has the ABC running around in a frenzy of indignation.”
Which they are reporting inaccurately as being to do with the Ashby allegations and commentary from Brandis with no mention of summons relating to Canberra and during Slipper period as a Liberal.
[ Brandis with no mention of summons relating to Canberra an]
Jane Norman has just covered this properly with Melissa making the point about ‘when’ and the point he was a Lib at the time.
A little nugget of nastiness in Judith Ireland’s report on slipper:
In May, Mr Ashby dropped the travel rorts claims to avoid any delay in the court’s consideration of his civil claim of sexual harassment and discrimination.
Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/slipper-to-face-dishonesty-court-hearing-20130107-2ccgf.html#ixzz2HKL8Javu
Very nice of Ashby’s lawyers to be so concerned for the Court’s time, because this dropping of allegations was one of the main reasons why the Court found an abuse of process had been carried out.
Rares didn’t think dropping the allegations was doing him a favour. He found it unveiled an outright rort of the judicial system.
What i find somewhat strange and amazing, is the speed at which the investigation, charging and court hearing is arranged when it is in regards to a misdemeanour concerning the govt’ or its’ allies. Yet when a suspicion, INDEED! an act of apparent sedition is exposed, we have to await the blowing of Gabriels trumpet for any noticable action to take place!?
I don’t know….perhaps ‘Scotch-on-the-rocks” tastes better drunken from crystal tumblers rather than the old vegemite glass!
Morning all.
More than 20 uncontained fires are raging across NSW as thousands of firefighters remain on standby in the face of some of the worst fire conditions in the state’s history.
As the mercury began its steady climb on Tuesday morning, there were 100 fires burning in NSW.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/national/15780409/100-fires-in-nsw-21-uncontained/
Today is not going to be pleasant for the firies. I hope this doesn’t become a disaster with today’s high temps and strong winds.
Brandis!!….christ…do any of you remember that advert’ from years ago where a voice would screech out..: “WHERE do you GEDDIT!!!”… every time I see Brandis I hear that voice….as for talking bullsh*t, he can stretch a point frther than ‘Brandi Brandella”!…….at least HE (Brandi) “don’t give a darn”…
Yesterday, here in the mallee, I stuck the thermometer out in the direct sun from 43* in the shade and it immediately leapt to almost 50* in a matter of moments!!….hotter than the hobs of hell and as dry as an Arab’s fart!
I just posted this over at PB, so you lot might as well see it too. We need to keep on nagging about Abbott’s hunger for money and his rorts, eventually someone might take notice.
If Mr Slipper spending a measly $900 is such a huge rort that it warrants a court apparance then why has no-one yet asked the AFP to investigate Abbott’s (and others) ongoing rorting with the Pollie Pedal scam?
As we all know, Tony Abbott claimed $349 a day ‘travel expenses’ for last year’s Pollie Pedal, saying it was ‘Official Business. He also claimed $345 a day in 2011. I didn’t bother with claims for earlier years, but I’m sure he’s happily fiddled his expense claims for every ride since 1998. That’s a nice little earner he has there.
Here’s the link to the expenses of all MPs for the first six months of last year. Bookmark it, it might come in handy.
http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/parliamentarians-reporting/parliamentarians_expenditure_T30.html#nsw
This year the ride began in Geelong on March 25, went through the Victorian towns of Warragul, Sale, Lakes Entrance and Orbost then into NSW to Bombala and Cooma, before finishing in Canberra on 1 April. So it’s easy to see that Abbott claimed for the nights he spent in those places. He also claimed more than the $276 a night commercial rate that is allowed under the guidelines for travel expenses.
Click to access senators_and_members_entitlements.pdf
And the link for Tony’s 2011 expenses
Click to access ABBOTT_Tony.pdf
Abbott would argue that he was entitled to the money because the ‘Official Business’ was the pressers and meetings he held every day of the ride. I call them stunts.
And a bit more –
Last year Kevin Andrews, Greg Hunt, Sussan Ley, Bruce Bilson and Andrew Southcott joined Abbott for part or all of the ride. Kevin Andrews, Bruce Bilson and Andrew Southcott did not claim any travel expenses during the time of the ride. Sussan Ley claimed $240 a day for the 24 and 25 March in Geelong and Frankston, referring to them as ‘Official Business – Shadow Minister’. Greg Hunt claimed $354 for one night in Melbourne, 25 March, again ‘Official Business – Shadow Minister’. Abbott isn’t the only greeedy politician rorting the expense account.
Surely this is just as worthy of investigation as Peter Slipper taking a car out of the ACT on official business three times.
C@t,
Sorry for my tardy answer but got waylaid when I noticed a sorry calf looking for his Mum. I found her and pushed her up to where her baby was bawling and she gave me a couple of looks as if to say “I know where he is – he’s been fed as well”. She’s a very laid back mother 🙂
Anyway, to answer your question. I have an air con – what No.1 calls a ‘wall rattler’ but I hardly ever run it because of the cost to my budget. I have a mister fan – bought a cheapie from Homeart ($99) after getting good reports of the worth of these fans. Pleased to say it does the job in my small space.
Of course, I have pink batts. As well, last summer I bought a “full length gel under-blanket” for $50 from Bright Life Australia (www.brightlife.com.au)and it has been worth every cent. I put it underneath the bottom sheet on my bed and it keeps me comfortably cool all night without the need for the fan or aircon.
Hey!…has anyone figured that these “excessive taxi fares” could have been dealt with by Slipper in a manner more suitable to the method adopted by Mr. Mark Latham?
Seems OO readers are unhappy with the PM being nominated for AOTY by the paper. But this is stretching credulity:
I AM outraged that Sid Maher, when he nominated Julia Gillard for Australian of the Year (“Resilient Julia, a prime pick for nomination”, 7/1), thinks the bullying tactics used by her are acceptable behavior and worthy of praise.
Instead, he should be saying this is not the kind of behavior we respect in this country.
RJ Spillane, Blackburn, Vic
It takes a rusted on partisan Liberal to in any way declare the the PM has been bullying others after the behaviour meted out to her by Liberals over the last few years, and the sexist rubbish that’s been printed in the OO.
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/the-pillorying-of-peter-slipper/
The pillorying of Peter Slipper
Posted by admin in Crime, Politics on 8 January, 2013 7:34 am
The pillorying and persecution of Peter Slipper has now descended to the AFP charging him with an obscure law about crossing state borders in taxis — something no-one knew about, least of all him. Bob Ellis comments on what has now become, officially, a farce.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/lnp-defector-considers-senate-hop-20130107-2cd0t.html
LNP defector considers Senate hop
January 8, 2013 – 12:01AM
Daniel Hurst
brisbanetimes.com.au state political reporter
A Queensland Liberal National Party defector is considering a Senate tilt, just a month after joining Katter’s Australian Party as its state leader.
Rural-based state MP Ray Hopper’s Senate run is one option the party is considering ahead of this year’s federal election.
Another would involve federal MP Bob Katter leaving his lower house seat of Kennedy and running for the upper house himself.
Mr Katter’s son Rob Katter, a state MP who could then run in Kennedy, said his family name may help him win the electorate long held by his father.
“Jane Norman has just covered this properly with Melissa making the point about ‘when’ and the point he was a Lib at the time.”
They caught up on A.M. as well. Though knowing ABC they will run inaccurate report on News a few more times just to let Brandis say the something like “the important thing is, Julia Gillard should never have appointed him Speaker.”
Govt needs a spokesperson feeding similarly irrelevant lines, to present matters, like ” LNP should never have conspired to bring down the Speaker of the House”.
I have mentioned a couple of times to Senior Ministers on Twitter, the Govt is too slow in responding to the propaganda that gushes from the mouths of Tory front benchers. At times the Govt ignores completely, appearing to prefer to ride it out.
I don’t know who is on their strategy team but there are times blind Freddy would be more on the ball.
Govt needs a spokesperson feeding similarly irrelevant lines, to present matters, like ” LNP should never have conspired to bring down the Speaker of the House”.
Or more to the point, why was he preselected when they knew what he was like.
Sunshine. coast. daily front page. bold type
SLIPPER CHARGED
When. Ashbys case. thrown out nothing
They have had it in for ages even b4 he became speaker
It seems the OM, after a short break, have rediscovered Peter Slipper. I’m glad that his $900 matter is being deal with with the full force of the law. Its not as if its a minor as say millions of dollars of bribes to Saddam Hussein’s regime, for example.
I cant believe that Brandis is trying to tar the PM with this given it happened when Slipper was a coalition member. And if their argument is that the PM should have known about the rumours and disqualified him as speaker, why did they not disqualify him as an LNP candidate?
Of course, none of this matters. All that matters is getting Abbott into the lodge, finally, for THIS Christmas. The OM, with the ABC now a trusty companion, will do all they can to facilitate this.
Hey, “foreverjanet’..I had one of those ‘gel underblankets” years ago….it was called ;” a snotty-nosed child with a bad cold”!…..sometimes I would “wear it” all down the back of my shirt!
Janice
Good morning. I have ordered the gel under-blanket. Thanks for your info and help. The person I care for has MS, so unfortunately we have to use aircon, but hopefully this will help with her sleep, and if she says it works, I’ll get one for myself. Not that I don’t trust your word, I totally do, but finances are tight and I can manage without.
Morning all
This on twitter
The most nervous person in NSW will be @barryofarrell . He’s ordered cuts to NSW Firefighters in the worst conditions faced. #NSWFires
victoria:
Oh dear.
According to a lawyer on twitter
Last day for #AshbyGate Appeal Thursday 17 January 2013
Those sad OO readers. We all saw what happened to Rudd when they named him, they just went harder. At least they can’t go any harder than they have with Julia. I know they can make up more lies and stuff, but I think they may have used all their almost believable ammunition. As for Peter Slipper, this charge is ridiculous. Again one has to ask, who are the AFP working for? They seem to never find anything against the Liers Party, yet find a trivial law to prosecute someone that is not working with them. Unfortunately, the average person does not know much about any of this, and will be fooled by the media reports and not think anything more about it. Perceptions are all that count.
leone,
What you need to do with all the information you have collected about Tony Abbott et al., is forward it to Gary Gray’s office, he’s the Special Minister of State, and ask them to send you a reply detailing what they are going to do about it. As a concerned taxpayer, of course! 😉
Of course it’s a rort because what we have all seen is that Abbott uses the Pollie Pedal to get around to electorates which the Liberal Party targets for special attention each year. They use it as ‘soft electioneering’ whereby they pre-arrange blanket favourable coverage in the local media, interviews with Abbott on the local media stations, public meetings, Abbott book signings, the works!
It’s a rort at the taxpayers’ expense, basically.
#RFS says people need to leave the Monaro area, with the fire expected to impact in the next 20-60 minutes bit.ly/Vyzqu4
In Cbr it’s 9:30 and 30C. Strong gusts on wind.
Hang on to your hats, ladies & gentlemen.
Seeing as these charges relate to Comcar travel, not taxis or hire cars, I would like to know the logic behind these benefits not extending to outside the ACT borders.
If so many politicians do NOT know about them, then how many others have broken the rule?
This smacks of the Highway Patrol going over a car they have stopped, looking for defects, ANY defects.
gravel,
I smell a rat wrt Peter Slipper, and it’s not the man himself as portrayed by The Daily Terror.
I think it’s all just a bit too coincidental that this charge comes right at the beginning of the election year, when everything else the Liberal Party have thrown at him has failed. My bet is that the Liberal Party Dirt Unit, and their attendant legal retinue, have been trawling through the statutes since Slipper resigned from the party and themselves found this little known law they could use against him.
They have all the records in the Liberal Party files of which MP went where and when. So they line up these 3 trips with this little known law, and then present the ‘evidence’ to the AFP after sending them a letter like Graham Perrett did about Brough et al., and they demand the AFP investigate the matter. Then they keep the pressure on the AFP and dog them until they get a response to their action.
It’s smells to me like just another Credlin/Liberal Party Special. Use the law as a 4×2 to whack your opponents around the head with.
No wonder I turned down the ‘opportunity’ to do Law at Sydney Uni. I could smell these sorts of people who do Law for all the wrong reasons, a mile away. And they stink! Though good on those who do Law for the right reasons, like Craig Thomson’s lawyer. He has my undying respect. 🙂
CTar1,
In Cbr it’s 9:30 and 30C. Strong gusts on wind.
That’s a ditto from my neck of the woods! 🙂
Looking forwards to the Southerly Buster some time tonight so I can sleep.
Agree, Andrew with everything you said, and of all the twats in the coalition fb, Brandis is just about the biggest. However when is the ALP going to come up with someone to counter this crap, or better still get in first? I know they’ve got a country to run, but it’s an election year FFS.
adrian,
I was just thinking the same thing myself. It’s long since time to start fighting fire with fire!
leone’s investigations are a good place to start.
I’m sure there’s more that could be dug up against Bronwyn Bishop, serial offender wrt entitlements too. God knows she deserves it if anyone does. From friends who know her personally I have been told that she tried to destroy her husband’s second marriage, just for the simple reason that he no longer wanted to be married to her but someone else!
Tip: half fill plastic bottle with water. Place in freezer (on side; even better, on a slight tilt) so that, when it freezes, it isn’t all at the bottom and the lid isn’t blocked by ice.
When frozen, remove from freezer. Fill with water. Place in fridge.
Iced water. (Great for car journeys…)
C@Tmomma
Abbott does indeed use his ride to target certain electorates. In 2011 he carefully chose a route that went through both Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott’s electorates. Abbott said that was just coincidence. More lies.
Thanks for the advice, I didn’t know how you would go about making a complaint. I’ll think seriously about doing that. I’ll be a bit busy for a few days – daughter visiting – but after that I’ll get onto it.
c@tmomma
After the AFP investigation last year, a brief was provided to the DPP. It now appears the DPP finds that Slipper has a case to answer. $900 worth. Go figure. Having said that. Slipper is a fool. Hopefully the AFP are just as dliigent with investigating Ashby/Brough etc
From Simon Cullen
RT @NSWRFS EMERGENCY WARNING #Yarrabin Fire (Cooma-Monaro): ow.ly/gCfb2 It’s now 2 late to leave. Shelter in place as fire impacts
well the oo readers complaining
perhaps its is only the rusted ons that now read the oo
i doubt too many people will really care aboout the 900 dollars
i think with the fire season ext most will say s o what
if i was advising i say just dont talk about it.
if you start saying this and that she said he said they said
it grows