Plibervola Outbreak :)

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Got a good laugh out of this one, he sure nailed her. Poor Bill had to try to cobble up some kind of response that didn't make him look like the empty showbag his comrades know he is.

Rowan Deans nails the posturing of  Plibersek:

Authorities within the Australian Labor Party were scrambling this week to try to contain an outbreak of the deadly Pliberbola virus, with frantic calls for the exposed leadership of Bill Shorten to be immediately quarantined…

The Pliberbola crisis came after Mr Shorten recklessly wandered into the national security debate with no protection against the extreme risk of being infected by a deadly dose of bipartisanship, caused by getting too close to Tony Abbott.

“Pliberbola is the most virulent strain of undergraduate socialism the world has ever seen,” said a spokesman for Mr Shorten…

The virus is believed to have mutated in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of Marrickville in a freakish contact between batty undergraduates and hard-core Marxist union enforcers, or apes, which in turn infected the gibbering idealists of the Greens.

How the virus crossed the species barrier to infect normal, sane, rational human beings is not known, although the first identifiable case has long been rumoured to be a large man with a booming voice known only as Gough.

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nah. But I know what you’re doing, keep it up I can’t be bothered replying to your requests.

 I am discussing the topic, an  endeavour that seems to elude you.

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lol, sounds exactly like Plibersek., you got it in one.

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ABC 7.30 Report has a story running right now about the reality of trying to fight ebola on the ground in Africa.

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What I am doing is asking a simple question  which you obviously can't answer. So what is it do you think I am doing? I'm no pleb when it comes to politics nor with politicians. I'm not combative so when I ask a question, it is simply me asking for an answer to something that I don't know about.

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Yes you have to do a bit of reading if you want to  make an educated comment and no, I am not going to do it for you.

good luck.

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TANYA PLIBERSEK: No humanitarian mission like this is without risk. It is absolutely right for the Government to be up front about the risks involved. In the same way that when we send Australian Defence Force personnel to northern Iraq on a humanitarian mission, we are up front about the fact that there are risks involved.

But in the same way that our Defence personnel are highly trained and highly experienced, and in many instances are wanting to go into situations like this that they know are dangerous, because they choose this work because of their commitment to helping on a global scale. So too, our health personnel that are highly trained, highly skilled, have chosen this work because they feel they can make a difference to humanity. So too, they should be supported by their Government to give the help they know they can give.

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@briefed on why it's not More politicking by Plibersek. Of coourse she agrees with the governments stand on sending troops into ebola countries then she reverts back to her hype knowing that she has already been bluecat*dancing wrote:
TANYA PLIBERSEK: No humanitarian mission like this is without risk. It is absolutely right for the Government to be up front about the risks involved. In the same way that when we send Australian Defence Force personnel to northern Iraq on a humanitarian mission, we are up front about the fact that there are risks involved.

But in the same way that our Defence personnel are highly trained and highly experienced, and in many instances are wanting to go into situations like this that they know are dangerous, because they choose this work because of their commitment to helping on a global scale. So too, our health personnel that are highly trained, highly skilled, have chosen this work because they feel they can make a difference to humanity. So too, they should be supported by their Government to give the help they know they can give.

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Then we get the hype from this scare monger even after she's been briefed by the top level advice she's been privvy to.

Anybody can say what she say's, anybody can make political mileage out of it and that's what she's doing. , she's an expert at it, has form and is whipping up fear and anger.

Read into it what you like but I'll bet she doesn't bring it up in parliament again, she knows what she's doing, she's been exposed for it.

Her weasle words are transparent.

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Tanya Pilbersek comments are in line with requests from the UN and WHO (assistance required to control the spread of eBola)? She is not obliged to agree Abbott and the LNP on anything.

One article from The Australian and a quote from an opinion piece in the AFR doesn't prove anything.

Wishful thinking on your behalf 'I bet she doesn't bring it up in Parliament again'

"Labor's Tanya Plibersek steps up attack on Abbott government over lack of Ebola action"
The Abbott government's hopes of pulling the opposition into line over Ebola have evaporated, with Labor's Tanya Plibersek stepping up the criticism of the current hands-off approach as short-sighted and wholly inadequate."

Weasel words - that the best you got?

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""We were briefed at the beginning of October about all the impediments to Australia sending volunteers to West Africa to assist to get this virus under control, and in the weeks subsequent it appears that the government's made little to no effort to overcome those impediments.

The strong comments came as world leaders rejected isolationist tendencies from some countries following the outbreak, with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron calling on the developed world to "wake up" to the crisis."

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:
TANYA PLIBERSEK: No humanitarian mission like this is without risk. It is absolutely right for the Government to be up front about the risks involved. In the same way that when we send Australian Defence Force personnel to northern Iraq on a humanitarian mission, we are up front about the fact that there are risks involved.

But in the same way that our Defence personnel are highly trained and highly experienced, and in many instances are wanting to go into situations like this that they know are dangerous, because they choose this work because of their commitment to helping on a global scale. So too, our health personnel that are highly trained, highly skilled, have chosen this work because they feel they can make a difference to humanity. So too, they should be supported by their Government to give the help they know they can give.

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she went on to say:

A number of health workers have been evacuated to different European countries. We know that the UK and the US are building hospitals specifically for health workers in West Africa. The UK is apparently sending a hospital ship. It is beyond me why other countries are able to make arrangements for their health workers, including now Japan, able to make arrangements for their health workers and the Australian Government is not able to do that.

I would be interested to know whether the Prime Minister, for example, has spoken to prime minister Cameron or to president Obama directly and said "What support can you give our Australian medical personnel who wish to go to West Africa to help?"

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so which one is it?  are we able to make our

own arrangements or do we have to rely on

cameron and obama?