Gillards Book A fantasy Of Affront

[lightningdance]

When is this whinger going to get anything right. A book full of her struggle, what struggle? ushered into parliament by Emilys listers and cosseted by the corrupt unions. The most divisive PM in history and the most incompetent:

Inventing misogynist insults, inventing conspiracy theories… Is is any wonder her prime ministership was so disastrously divisive and paranoid?:

True? Gillard, My Story, 2014:

(I ATTENDED the) 2010 annual Minerals Council dinner in Parliament House, while representing prime minister Kevin Rudd. The disputation over the Rudd government’s proposed resources super-profits tax (RSPT) was raging, so it was always going to be like entering a lion’s den. As the guest of honour, I was one of two women seated at the head table. Keeping me company was my chief of staff, Amanda Lampe ... at a hand signal ... (from MCA boss Mitch Hooke) ... a tray of what looked to be rum and coke was brought to the table. A glass was dutifully put in front of every man except (then BHP Billiton CEO) ­Marius Kloppers, who declined it. Neither Amanda nor I was offered one. The two of us exchanged a look and afterwards uproarious laughter about this rudeness.

Joe Aston, Australian Financial ­Review, yesterday:

BUT hang on, Gillard didn’t even attend the 2010 MCA dinner. Nobody in the Labor caucus did. She wasn’t representing Rudd that night, she was in his office ending his leadership. Gillard and Lampe did sit at the head table the year previously with Hooke and Kloppers. But the RSPT wasn’t announced until May 2010 — that’s when the miners’ disputation with Labor began. So why was attending the 2009 dinner “like entering a lion’s den”? This is supposed to be an authoritative telling of political history and (Gillard) can’t even get her basic facts straight? ... Hooke remembers the moment (not just the date) very differently. Ian Smith (… then of Newcrest Mining) asked Hooke what he was drinking (Hooke only drinks Bundy and Coke) and whether he could have one. Hooke then asked everyone at the table if they’d like one, including Gillard, who declined on the basis she was about to speak. Hooke’s reply? “So am I — that’s why I need one.” Shortly after, drinks arrived ... and that was that. Or so they thought ... In 2011, Gillard’s version of the story finally circulated back to the MCA. Hooke contacted Lampe’s successor, Ben Hubbard, who assured Hooke he needn’t worry. Hooke still sent Gillard an SMS apologising if any unintended offence had been caused. She never responded.

True? My Story again:

JOHN Howard skilfully rode the ­political momentum that can be ­created around ­asylum-seeker issues at the 2001 election. Coming after the terrorist shock of 9/11 and in the atmosphere of fear that it created, Howard took a hairy-chested pol­itical ­approach and deployed our elite military forces to stop a Norwegian freighter, the Tampa, from bringing rescued asylum-seekers to our shore.

Dennis Shanahan, The Australian, October 1:

JOHN Howard has called on Julia Gillard to correct a “false” claim that he used the September 11 terror attacks to take a “hairy-chested political ­approach” on asylum-­seekers and send SAS troops on to the Norwegian freighter, Tampa ... In fact, the Tampa episode took place weeks before the September 11 attacks in 2001. “Any storyline that we somehow played off Tampa or the September 11 attacks against each other is false and I completely reject it,” Mr Howard told The Australian _yesterday. “The former prime minister has her chronology wrong and should correct the claims in the book.”

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Remains answerable for corruption charges brought against her which are so mired in inconsistencies nobody either can, or has the stamina  to penetrate.

I think the subtleties of the English Language have eluded you again. An accusation' which can be made by anyone on the flimsiest of evidence - or no evidence at all - is not the same as a charge, which has to be brought by proper authorities  and answered to in a Court Of Law. when Julia Gillard appeared before the Royal Commission, she was answering questions - not pleading to charges. No charges of any kind have ever been brought against Julia Gillard.

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Get outta here with your "subtleties of the english effing language", she-el!

She was using the "subtleties of the English Language" to evade the questions the Royal Commission was putting to her.

I think wer'e pretty familiar with the "subtleties of the English Language" thank you.

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Which still doesn't lter the fact that an accusation is NOT the same thing as a charge and Gillard has NEVER been charged with corruption - or anything else for that matter.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Yeah well. Same as Alan Bond.

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Not qute.

Alan Bond DID get charged.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

He (Bond) wasn't a FORMER Prime Minister.

No, 'course not, but he did establish a precedence of losing his memory when confronted with questions he couldn't  (wish to ) answer.

Not much of a book discussion this thread then,  if nobody much has even read it. Sept 24 it was out. I wonder if OP got a advanced copy.

Not like the Jane Austen Book Club is it? Maybe she should have put out a pattern book of "How To Knit A Toy Kangaroo".

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She 'couldn't recall things' because (as she stated) they never occurred. The investigations and equiriues backed her up on this.

Alan Bond "couldn't recall" things that DID occurr and his investigation and those events were proen very easily.

Just a slight difference lol...

[lightningdance]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

(((hugz icy))) have a lovely night.

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Stop trying to invade my personal space, Freddie 

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Have you got a circle around you icy? Have you noticed how Tone invades peoples personal space, he near kisses people? and when he shakes handes he neally shakes their arm out of the socket, it's like he's begging for them to be his friend, real desperado actions. 

Now do you know where I can buy Julia's book?

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So just offer to shake my hand pls, Freddie, in future, never mind about hugs, I'm not a touchy- feely person, thx.

Re Julia Gillard's book -  I find you can pick up all sorts of pollies and sportsmans books in the oppies if you're prepared to wait a while.

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I found my copy in the sale bin along with all the other failures, she was true to form in that respect.

[freddie*rooster]

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@lightningdance wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

(((hugz icy))) have a lovely night.

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Stop trying to invade my personal space, Freddie 

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Have you got a circle around you icy? Have you noticed how Tone invades peoples personal space, he near kisses people? and when he shakes handes he neally shakes their arm out of the socket, it's like he's begging for them to be his friend, real desperado actions. 

Now do you know where I can buy Julia's book?

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So just offer to shake my hand pls, Freddie, in future, never mind about hugs, I'm not a touchy- feely person, thx.

Re Julia Gillard's book -  I find you can pick up all sorts of pollies and sportsmans books in the oppies if you're prepared to wait a while.

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I found my copy in the sale bin along with all the other failures, she was true to form in that respect.

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I think you might be telling porkies lighning but I understand your predicament

[lightningdance]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

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@lightningdance wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

(((hugz icy))) have a lovely night.

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Stop trying to invade my personal space, Freddie 

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Have you got a circle around you icy? Have you noticed how Tone invades peoples personal space, he near kisses people? and when he shakes handes he neally shakes their arm out of the socket, it's like he's begging for them to be his friend, real desperado actions. 

Now do you know where I can buy Julia's book?

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So just offer to shake my hand pls, Freddie, in future, never mind about hugs, I'm not a touchy- feely person, thx.

Re Julia Gillard's book -  I find you can pick up all sorts of pollies and sportsmans books in the oppies if you're prepared to wait a while.

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I found my copy in the sale bin along with all the other failures, she was true to form in that respect.

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I think you might be telling porkies lighning but I understand your predicament

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So you are flat out calling me a liar?? please explain what you base this hostile insult on and why are you making it interpersonal.

[azureline**]

there are lots of accusations flying around......................

[lightningdance]

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@azureline** wrote:

there are lots of accusations flying around......................

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And yet here you are................. Are you accusing me of something and if so spell it out.

[freddie*rooster]

(((hugz lightning )))

[azureline**]

Aaahh Freddie is a lovely poster. 🙂

"yet here you are" can you explain that please LD?  and no, I am making no accusations, not sure why anyone thinks that.

A poster surely can't accuse another of bullying, targeting, racism, interpersonal, hostile etc and then proceed to do so, again,  themselves,  without stopping to think pot/kettle, can they?