The Australian equivalent of the Mafia


 


Here are a few exerpt.


 


"An enormous amount of policy and process is there to be dissected. The government is so manically pushing legislation through the Senate that it has extended the final sitting day to Friday and given notice it intends to gag debate on 53 bills this week. This even includes the legislation that is the basis of the federal referendum, the Constitution Alteration (Local Government) Bill 2013


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This is preposterous. It is the latest dysfunction and dishonesty from the Gillard government, an insult to the electorate and to the democratic process. If the government is unwilling to debate the referendum measure in Parliament, and has allocated 10 times as much funding to support the referendum case as to put an opposing case, the referendum is clearly a Trojan Horse for extending federal power to local government and needs to be defeated. None of this would be possible without the Greens."


 


This is a typical ploy used by Gillard and Labor on many odious bills that have been ramroded and passed into law.


The damage that has been done using this tactic will take years to undo.



"Underlying the Prime Minister's determination to use power while she can, on Wednesday she was in the Parliament expressing her determination to prop up General Motors Holden, which has so far received almost $2 billion in government subsidies: ''Yes, this government will support jobs in car making! Yes, we will continue the co-investments we have agreed to with Holden. Yes, we will do everything we can to resist the opposition's plan to rip half a billion dollars away from that industry support and cost 2000 hardworking Australians their jobs … So let me be very clear that we will never endorse the reckless plan to see those thousands of Australians thrown on the unemployment scrap heap.''


Protecting the only power she has, Unions, she is using tax dollars to keep her butt in the Lodge.


 


"Under Gillard, even bills that do not appear to be about extending union power, such as this week's amendments to the Aged Care Act, are really moves to extend union power. The government is offering $1.2 billion to increase salaries for aged care workers - but there are always union strings attached. To access this funding it will be almost impossible to negotiate an enterprise bargaining agreement without a union being a party. The union beneficiary here is the corrupt Health Services Union, which will be getting an indirect billion-dollar handout to fund a recruiting drive and gain access to non-union workplaces."


Corruption anyone?



"It goes on and on. The bills being rammed through the Senate by Labor and the Greens this week are the tail ends of a massive shift in power to the unions, which has resulted in a marked up-tick in union militancy."


 


Sertting land mines


 


Union corruption is going to haunt Gillard, the Labor brand, and the Greens in the coming months. And let us not forget that Victoria Police are continuing an investigation, and issuing search warrants, into money laundering by former officials of the Australian Workers Union at a time when Gillard was providing legal advice to people who were union officials then and are under police investigation now.


 


Eventual demise of the Labor Party


 


Full story here



http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-held-firm-in-union-grasp-20130623-2oqkd.html#ixzz2X3i...

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australia has a mafia.  whoever thought of the OP is overly dramatic and possessed by the right wing media. as always.



 


I hear the dying gasps of a desperate supporter who is backing a failed govt and a failed leader who is in their death throes and dragging this country down with them, yet the desperate still back her..... 


 



 


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put a sock in it drongo

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wait until the feral media get stuck into lover boy:^O who's going to be sooking then ?

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And, for the record, I have never reported one of your posts, despite the many opportunities you present.   Whether you could say the same thing .... well, I'll probably find out very soon 😉

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Mr Abbott how come the boats havent stopped ? why did you cancel the NDIS ? the schools and hospitals are falling apart...  why are workers in the 'special economic zone' paid $2 a day to take australian jobs ? he's mincemeat 🙂

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how come my post is missing then? I should have know better than to ever aknowelege any post of yours.



 


Probably because you know how to report your own posts.


 


 


 

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Nothing new is happening.....it is the same old same old.....remember when Howard was chucked out?  Even lost the vote in his own electorate.

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JULIA Gillard will deny her MPs a secret vote in a special caucus meeting expected to be called as early as today to spill the Labor leadership - an unprecedented move to protect her position.


 


Just more weight yo my opening post. This is yet another typical Mafia tactic,  Holding a gun to the heads of caucus members threatening them by removing the protection of anonymity.


 


Desperation is ugly

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Gillard's perilous strategy

SIMON BENSON•
The Daily Telegraph•
June 26, 2013 12:00AM

DENYING Labor MPs a secret vote in a leadership ballot is nothing less than a threat - and a desperate one at that.

It is also un-Australian.

That is because the secret ballot is, in fact, known as the Australian ballot. Australians invented it in the 1850s when it was first used in Victoria.

It soon spread to Europe and the US as political parties saw the value in protecting votes which, if made public, could otherwise be influenced - in the case of Labor - by unions.

But if Julia Gillard wants to un-invent it, she may well find that results in more hands going up in protest.

Bob Hawke's attempt to protect his leadership form Paul Keating in 1990 by using the same tactic that the PM's office is threatening to use lasted a reported three hours.

He was quickly disabused of the notion that it was a good idea to force MPs to put their hand up in a ballot.

His leadership was ultimately decided by a secret ballot. Indeed, Ms Gillard offered such a vote in the last two attempts to unseat her. Although it was reported that she only conceded to such a course in the first one - February 2012 - when she realised she had the numbers and was confident of victory.

Not surprisingly, Labor MPs last night were whipping up indignant outrage.

The message was being sent to them, through the media, and not by a member of the parliamentary party but by a staffer from Gillard's office, that they would be told what caucus rules would apply.

It was a misguided and potentially fatal move.

The last time such a travesty of tradition occurred was on October 20, 1954.

Doc Evatt not only wanted his leadership reaffirmed by the "voices" - he wanted a show of hands.

"Get their names, get their names," Evatt yelled as he leapt up on the table.

No party knows how to prey upon the most powerful human emotions of fear and revenge as does Labor.

That the Prime Minister is contemplating this move shows only that she knows she no longer has the numbers.

And we can only assume she is contemplating it - by what we are told by her advisors.

What these advisors have failed to grasp is that such an assault on a well-guarded privilege of the caucus not only threatens to backfire and fuel a stampede of rebellion, it risks the PM being humiliated twice.

If she lost a vote on a motion to bring a spill, surely she would have no option but to walk away before a vote on her leadership even came.

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