Congratulations Murdoch on what looks like a win.

[i-need-a-martini]

...and commiseration Australia on your loss.

[izabsmiling]

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@icyfroth wrote:

If ridicule is all you have, you know you have lost the argument.

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Icy, have you been reading the boards over recent years ? 

[*pepe]

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@icyfroth wrote:

If ridicule is all you have, you know you have lost the argument.

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if only it was ridicule - its a statement of fact.

the man is inept at public speaking/relations and is an embarrassment. 

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

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@icyfroth wrote:

If ridicule is all you have, you know you have lost the argument.

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I suppository your comment was meant to be deep and inciteful.

[icyfroth]

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@*pepe wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

If ridicule is all you have, you know you have lost the argument.

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if only it was ridicule - its a statement of fact.

the man is inept at public speaking/relations and is an embarrassment. 

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Yet the majority of Australians have voted him in as their representative. In a landslide vote. How do you argue with that ms pepe?

[nevynreally]

I do not understand why the nastiness to those who didn't vote the way you wanted them to. Seriously, it's an election. The majority of votes wins. Get over it.

[*pepe]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

If ridicule is all you have, you know you have lost the argument.

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if only it was ridicule - its a statement of fact.

the man is inept at public speaking/relations and is an embarrassment. 

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Yet the majority of Australians have voted him in as their representative. In a landslide vote. How do you argue with that ms pepe?

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your hostility is unbecoming and unnecessary thank you very much.

i don't need to argue, his constant gaffes speak for themselves 

i hope i am proved wrong, but past performance makes it unlikely.

[icyfroth]

Past performance of Labor Party is why this election was so easily won by Mr Abbott of the Liberal Party, thank you Pepe, and no hostility intended, just the facts.

[*pepe]

i am neither a liberal nor labour supporter, i just don't feel tony abbott is up to doing this job.

[*mrgrizz*]

kevin rudd is behind in his seat

[izabsmiling]

past performance ?

In Australia, to bludgeon his readers and viewers into believing the opposite of the truth, Murdoch has a battery of  high profile economists fudging the numbers, says Alan Austin.

THE WEAPONRY in Rupert Murdoch’s global arsenal includes paying corrupt police, illegal phone-tapping, fabricating malicious stories, lying to official inquiries and a range of other criminal activities.

In Australia, to bludgeon his readers and viewers into believing the opposite of the truth, Murdoch deploys other heavy artillery, including a battery of credentialled economists.

Fairfax does the same. But Murdoch’s economists are more numerous, are arguably better writers and, by virtue of their broader reach, have greater influence.

How do they manipulate their readers? Through six strategies.

read more:http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/we-really-must-talk-about-murdochs-tame-economists...

Consider economic growth in these 13 comparable countries in calendar 2006:

• Australia  3.1%
• Austria  3.8%
• Denmark  3.1%
• Germany  4.3%
• Hungary  3.8%
• Iceland  3.3%
• Ireland  3.4%
• Italy  3.0%
• Netherlands  3.3%
• Norway  3.3%
• South Korea  4.6%
• Spain  3.9%
• Switzerland  3.5%

Average 3.57%. Australia was below average.

These are the members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development with 2006 growth between 3.0% and 4.6%.

Where are they now — growth during calendar 2012?

• Australia  3.1%
• Austria  0.7%
• Denmark  -0.9%
• Germany  0.0%
• Hungary  -2.7%
• Iceland  1.4%
• Ireland  -1.0%
• Italy  -2.8%
• Netherlands  -1.5%
• Norway  1.9%
• South Korea  1.5%
• Spain  -1.9%
• Switzerland  1.4%

The average, excluding Australia’s aberrant number, is negative 0.33%. Australia is now in a class of its own.