Tony Abbott's Support Page

[icyfroth]

A reminder of the debt that Australia has, while Labor can bury their heads and deny it exists the fact remains we have a huge problem with debt and sooner than later the chips will fall, no business, no state and no country can keep operating in the red, eventually those we own the money to will own us. Who will own us?
The state of Qld has debt of $80 billion dollars, Labor are saying they don’t think it’s that bad, Bill Shorten on Australia’s debt, there is no debt crisis, there is a crisis and we are in this situation because of Labor, no one else and the bottom line is Labor can’t fix this problem, their speciality is creating debt not fixing debt.

[moonflyte]

Apparently only those for homosexual marriage are allowed an opinion according  to some on here, and calling them names, .............not helpful

[Anonymous]

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@djlukjilly wrote:

Apparently only those for homosexual marriage are allowed an opinion according  to some on here, and calling them names, .............not helpful

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the patronising and insulting attitude was

again on display on q and a 

labor's sam dastyari said to one of the

panelists that her views come from a place

of hate and:

I think this American evangelical claptrap is the last thing we need in the debate.

there were many other examples.

brendan o'neill summed if up well:

Here is what freaks me out about gay marriage. It presents itself as this kind of liberal civil rightsy issue but it has this really ugly intolerant streak to it.

Anyone who opposes gay marriage is demonised, harassed, we have seen people thrown out of their jobs because they criticised gay marriage.

We have seen people ejected from polite society. You know, 200 years ago, if you didn't believe in God, you wouldn’t have a hope in hell of getting ahead in public life.

Today, if you don’t believe in gay marriage, you don’t have a hope in hell of getting ahead in public life. There’s a real, ugly element to this and I think, you know, you really see it with the whole cake shop phenomenon.

This whole thing around the western world where people are going to Christian traditional cake shops and saying to them, "Hey, you stupid Christians, make this cake for me", and if they don't they call the police.

There are equality cases. Shops have closed down. It’s like a 21st century form of religious persecution. It’s horrendous and I think, you know, of course some people support gay marriage, as we’ve heard.

That's absolutely fine. But what's extraordinary and unacceptable is that they cannot tolerate the existence of people who do not support gay marriage and I think we sometimes fail to understand how extraordinary that is and I think the reason Tony Abbott is very defensive on this issue and is erming and ahing and shifting from the free vote to the not free vote and all this stuff, he clearly has a problem with gay marriage but he can't articulate it because we live in a climate in which it’s not acceptable, as we have just seen in Sam's attack on Katy, calling her hateful and saying she’s talking claptrap, it’s not acceptable to express this sentiment in public life.

[moonflyte]

Ahhh...a breath of fresh air and sense is what Brendan O'Neill is, I wish he's come back here for good this time, he shines a light on all the things the mainstream media get on the outrage bus for.

I didn't watch Q&A, never do,  I was tempted to but the audience is stacked against anybody not of the left with a sensible opinion, name calling and hate is their stock in trade.

[icyfroth]

Miranda Devine:

SO let’s get this straight. The biggest scandal in Australia is that trade unions royal commissioner Dyson Heydon, AC, QC, did not speak at a function that was not a Liberal fundraiser.

This beat-up consumed Question Time yesterday, and has filled front pages for days.

Labor and the unions want to destroy the royal commission because it is forensically exposing their criminal extortion racket. And, with Bill Shorten due to be recalled over allegations of hundreds of thousands of dollars of employer donations and kickbacks when he was AWU leader, they face an existential emergency.

Heydon could have picked his nose and they would have turned it into an outrage. His real crime is that he’s doing his job too well.

Less straightforward is the motivation of the media salivating over Heydon’s minor transgression of not immediately reading an email attachment which advertised the $80-a-head Sir Garfield Barwick legal lecture with a Liberal party logo.

No, this confected scandal is not about Heydon accepting an invitation to deliver a prestigious law lecture. It is a proxy for bringing down the Prime Minister.

Six months since the February leadership spill that wasn’t, various media grandees and Coalition strivers have hit the reset button, making up the excuse of opinion poll jitters within the margin of error and an entitlements scandal which cost Abbott loyalist Bronwyn Bishop her job, but let off worse offenders in Labor scot free.

His best defence is offence. It’s time to pull the circuit breaker and call a double dissolution election on industrial relations issues. With any luck, the Canning by election in WA might even be able to be postponed until then.

This week provided the perfect trigger, with Labor’s attempts to close down the trade union royal commission coinciding with the Senate’s rejection of legislation to make unions abide by the same rules as companies.

Seizing the initiative will save Heydon, and show up Shorten for the lightweight phoney he is.

It gives the PM the opportunity for a quick image makeover and a ruthless battle-ready reshuffle that elevates his best and dumps disloyal underperformers.

After all, Abbott unleashed is a formidable warrior — as he showed yesterday when he read the riot act to leakers in his party room and then launched a stinging attack on Labor in Question Time.

Entire Article Here

[watta*drama*queen]

Why not post the entire article ?

You left the following out :

Heydon, frankly, is a victim of the weakness of the Abbott government.

The PM talks about loyalty — to Treasurer Joe Hockey, to chief of staff Peta Credlin and the utterly graceless former Speaker. But his greater loyalty should be to the Australian people and those, like Heydon, he has called to serve.

Passivity and inaction are no longer tolerable. Abbott can’t keep being the dope on the ropes, turning the other cheek over and over, waiting for the killer blow that will finally finish him off.

[icyfroth]

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@watta*drama*queen wrote:

Why not post the entire article ?

You left the following out :

Heydon, frankly, is a victim of the weakness of the Abbott government.

The PM talks about loyalty — to Treasurer Joe Hockey, to chief of staff Peta Credlin and the utterly graceless former Speaker. But his greater loyalty should be to the Australian people and those, like Heydon, he has called to serve.

Passivity and inaction are no longer tolerable. Abbott can’t keep being the dope on the ropes, turning the other cheek over and over, waiting for the killer blow that will finally finish him off.

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I picked out what I found to be relevant and provided the link for anyone that wanted to read more.

You've picked out what you find relevant. This is your prerogative.

goodnight.

[watta*drama*queen]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@watta*drama*queen wrote:

Why not post the entire article ?

You left the following out :

Heydon, frankly, is a victim of the weakness of the Abbott government.

The PM talks about loyalty — to Treasurer Joe Hockey, to chief of staff Peta Credlin and the utterly graceless former Speaker. But his greater loyalty should be to the Australian people and those, like Heydon, he has called to serve.

Passivity and inaction are no longer tolerable. Abbott can’t keep being the dope on the ropes, turning the other cheek over and over, waiting for the killer blow that will finally finish him off.

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I picked out what I found to be relevant and provided the link for anyone that wanted to read more.

You've picked out what you find relevant. This is your prerogative.

goodnight.

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Indeed it is my prerogative ( to post the six lines which had been omitted ) but not based on what I found relevant .

Omitting only six lines of the article because it does not suit your purpose is a ' smoke and mirrors ' exercise .

Of course that is your prerogative 

[watta*drama*queen]

Spoiler

By the way it was also my prerogative to say six lines instead of five because I could 

[icyfroth]

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@watta*drama*queen wrote:

Spoiler

By the way it was also my prerogative to say six lines instead of five because I could 

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Don't worry, nobody's counting.

[moonflyte]

It is a criminal offence to  to besmirch a royal commissioner to suit a certain party line. Labor has stopped short of trying to get him removed but have left it up to the criminal unions to do their dirty work for them.