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.”

[icyfroth]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

A wonderful Prime Minister who was derided and attacked by the jealous boys who so desperately wanted her job.

Well done Julia Gillard you are a women of substance stand proud and tall there are many Australians who admire you.

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Yeah wonderful.

Came into her Prime Ministership by stabbing her boss in the back.

Couldn't retain her Prime Ministership because her own party saw her as a liability.

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

Can see why she's no longer in politics.

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What corruption charges?

She has answered every accusation about corruption clearly, numerous times, including under oath at a royal commission.

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Yeah well I suppose "I can't recall" is an answer of sorts, lol.

[icyfroth]

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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 

[debra9275]

Perhaps she watched the procession of " I can't recalls" at the ICAC hearings, popular line that one 🙂

[karliandjacko]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

A wonderful Prime Minister who was derided and attacked by the jealous boys who so desperately wanted her job.

Well done Julia Gillard you are a women of substance stand proud and tall there are many Australians who admire you.

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Yeah wonderful.

Came into her Prime Ministership by stabbing her boss in the back.

Couldn't retain her Prime Ministership because her own party saw her as a liability.

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

Can see why she's no longer in politics.

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What corruption charges?

She has answered every accusation about corruption clearly, numerous times, including under oath at a royal commission.

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Yeah well I suppose "I can't recall" is an answer of sorts, lol.

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Can you recall where you ate dinner on a specific date 20 years ago?

Can you rcall what you had for breakfast on the 7th October 1996?

Can you recall which chair you sat in on the 25th july 1997?

Can you recall who you had coffee with on the 18th May 2994?

Or would your answer to such mundane questions be "I can't recall"?

Why do you expect Gillard would have prefect recall to answer that type of question?

[cherry*135]

Aww - hugs are better for all than violence, hate and anger.

[cherry*135]

Yeah well I suppose "I can't recall" is an answer of sorts, lol.

Did she use those exacts words? those words have the smell of LNP MP's  and a Senator or two, past and present at ICAC's inquiries. Howard & Downer in the AWB inquiry too.

[cherry*135]

JULIA GILLARD: I had no knowledge at that time or knowledge at any time about the banking arrangements for the Workplace Reform Association

JULIA GILLARD: $5,000 in those days was a lot of money. I think I would remember it, had it occurred.

JULIA GILLARD: None of us get to go in a time machine and go backwards. Obviously, if one got to do the whole thing again, you would do things differently given what I know now.

JG  No. This would have been a job that took me in total- oh, I don't recall specifically, but I would have said inthe order of three, four,  five hours work at most.

Yes, there were a few I don't recalls.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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.

[boris1gary]

So some still harping on with disappointment that the waste of money witch hunt was a dismal failure, so much so that brandis decides to extend it - $60 odd million so far and nothing but an LNP rat. Why bother wasting all our money on a political witch hunt, it doesn't matter when the court of the daily smear have already decided - guilty, guilty of something.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

JULIA GILLARD: I had no knowledge at that time or knowledge at any time about the banking arrangements for the Workplace Reform Association

JULIA GILLARD: $5,000 in those days was a lot of money. I think I would remember it, had it occurred.

JULIA GILLARD: None of us get to go in a time machine and go backwards. Obviously, if one got to do the whole thing again, you would do things differently given what I know now.

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Thanks Am.

All of the above equate to: I CAN'T RECALL!

sheesh.