Quality of our leaders

[the_hawk*]

If this is true we really need to wonder if he is a fit and proper person to be our elected leader

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/17/1089694611532.html

[boris1gary]

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@grandmoon wrote:

How do they know what money isn't required before the Royal Commission is finalised.

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The govt don't seem to know much about anything really.

[lalau74]

you are unfair there.

they have worked out how to lie to the majority of australians without them suspecting a thing.

hey have worked out how  to plunder australia

hey have worked out how to turn australia into some modern version of 19. century england (if the senate lets them)

[boris1gary]

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@lalau74 wrote:

you are unfair there.

they have worked out how to lie to the majority of australians without them suspecting a thing.

hey have worked out how  to plunder australia

hey have worked out how to turn australia into some modern version of 19. century england (if the senate lets them)

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yes your right but maybe their script writers are on holiday.

[lalau74]

they are very successful in their aim. (their true aim, not what they say it is).

now does tony really think that we do NOT want a double dissolution?

[lalau74]

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@boris1gary wrote:

This is a clear example (one of many) that shows just what a nasty, vindictive and lousy mob this "govt" is....... 

Child sexual abuse inquiry funding shifted to insulation scheme probe

The Abbott government redirected funds from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to meet a third of the cost of its royal commission into the former government's home insulation scheme.

The Attorney-General, George Brandis, has revealed that his department's $6.7 million contribution to funding the home insulation inquiry came from savings in the child sexual abuse inquiry's capital budget and from legal assistance that was not required for witnesses to that inquiry.

The revelation corrects a statement by Senator Brandis to a Senate committee in February, when he was asked if there had been any offsets from other inquiries to fund the home insulation scheme royal commission and replied: ''No.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-funding-shifted-to-...

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https://twitter.com/notTAbbott

"Look, it's not that I'm interested in defending institutional child abuse...it's just that I'm not too bothered about it happening again."

nailed it.

[freakiness]

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@grandmoon wrote:

How do they know what money isn't required before the Royal Commission is finalised.

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They don't care. They would have canned the royal commission if they thought they could get away with it.

[fourandsixpants]

to hawk:

  succinct description of our present PM :

 Liar in Chief, Tony Abbott and his Budget of Betrayal.

.... Abbott just came along with the cops to turn the music down 1 notch, and then the partyers realised how off their face they were.

Well I still don’t think they realise how off their faces they are. That’s the thing with drugs......

[fourandsixpants]

there are a few nervous Landlords about too LOL

[polksaladallie]

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@boris1gary wrote:

This is a clear example (one of many) that shows just what a nasty, vindictive and lousy mob this "govt" is....... 

Child sexual abuse inquiry funding shifted to insulation scheme probe

The Abbott government redirected funds from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to meet a third of the cost of its royal commission into the former government's home insulation scheme.

The Attorney-General, George Brandis, has revealed that his department's $6.7 million contribution to funding the home insulation inquiry came from savings in the child sexual abuse inquiry's capital budget and from legal assistance that was not required for witnesses to that inquiry.

The revelation corrects a statement by Senator Brandis to a Senate committee in February, when he was asked if there had been any offsets from other inquiries to fund the home insulation scheme royal commission and replied: ''No.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-funding-shifted-to-...

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Hang on, we've got to get our priorities right.   We must punish a coupla Labor members and then we'll think about the hundreds of abusers and maybe their victims.

[i-need-a-martini]

I don't understand. On the one hand he says: the allegation was "a long time ago, and it was a completely fictional incident".

And on the other hand it says: Mr Abbott said the case, details of which are included in a book to be released next month, took place in January 1978.

Either it happened or it didn't? Which is it?

And this is a very telling quote: "It's part of the Abbott story - it is not part of the Abbott present".