on 28-09-2013 09:43 AM
Lots of broken promises are made by governments. If the promises are broken because of economic need, I understand.
But what of the empty promises that they know they can never keep. Like the 'Stop the Boats' promise?
Or this one: where Abbott promised at the Garma festival in the weeks leading up to the election that he would spend his first week as Prime Minister in Yolgnu country.
To break promises like this is just a low act by someone who knew he would never be able to keep it.
See where he says it clearly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1OKujvU2wQ
I wouldn't bother to listen to the whole boring speech (although many of his off the cuff comments are a little eyebrow raising) but at 21:40 he starts making promises he can't keep.
on 28-09-2013 05:03 PM
yes, well, Crikey, where would you go from here? how far? lol
on 28-09-2013 05:04 PM
what do you mean, meep?
on 28-09-2013 05:04 PM
Howard aimed at the worst in us .. don't inspire, provide a whipping boy, a bogey man. take the publics eye off yourself and keep it on the monster. pretty basic GOP textbook stuff that.
on 28-09-2013 05:09 PM
Howard aimed at the worst in us
in your opinion
pretty basic GOP textbook stuff
LOL got a link to this so called handbook?
28-09-2013 05:12 PM - edited 28-09-2013 05:16 PM
@**meep** wrote:
@izabsmiling wrote:
@poddster wrote:Are you saying that the PM at time was not the leader of the government???
Amazing !!!!
Poddster , as Ian Robinson reported
Although in general it is not commendable to break commitments, it is not even clear that this is what has happened.
The Prime Minister's commitment not to introduce a tax on carbon was implicitly premised on her being in a position to keep the commitment, by leading a majority government after the election.
This didn't happen, so her pre-election commitment was effectively null and void.
Instead, she found herself in a minority government in which she was not in total control of all the outcomes. She therefore had to work out a compromise with the other stakeholders.
Abbott is reported as saying during the post-election negotiations that he would ''do anything'' to be prime minister. This implies that he, too, would have accepted a carbon tax as part of a minority government compromise.
Perhaps in hindsight the Prime Minister could have made the limitation to her commitment clearer by saying there would be no carbon tax under ''a majority government led by me''.
Mein Kampf? Really? Is that where you got your idea about our PM being a dictator?
Nazi analogies don't usually receive positive reactions and should not be tolerated, to say the least.
I added this for other reasons (the part I put in the post)...however did you read all the article. ?
and have you not noticed our media portraying our leaders and conroy as dictators in recent years ...republished here ?
No I didn't need this for any of my own or others opinions .Similar opinions are are being expressed elsewhere.
on 28-09-2013 05:19 PM
heresay
on 28-09-2013 05:20 PM
on 28-09-2013 05:26 PM
and btw ANYONE fleeing war/ persecuation is the same imo
what about people fleeing sea level rises?
on 28-09-2013 05:36 PM
The multitude arriving in Indonesia have passports otherwise they would not be allowed to enter but they all happen to lose those documents when they board a leaky fishing boat what a coincidence
on 28-09-2013 05:39 PM
The multitude arriving in Indonesia have passports otherwise they would not be allowed to enter but they all happen to lose those documents when they board a leaky fishing boat
The multitude arriving in Indonesia have passports otherwise they would not be allowed to enter but they all happen to lose those documents when they board a leaky fishing boat to welfareland
ftfy