yes. he's a Liar. he knew beforehand. anyone who knows how the senate works would..  he knows .

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@lurker17260 wrote:
I thought the first thing he was going to do was stop the boats? Seems the first thing he actually did was axe Bracks.

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He can't do ANYTHING lurker.

He's got the Greens/labor for a year and then once this current crop takes it's place in the Senate, he has the Greens and a ragtag assortment of crazy right winged independents to make deals with. Admittedly, the loony independents will most likely side with Abbott but there is NO WAY that the Greens will agree to many of his policies.

So I say that, yes, Abbott is a LIAR. And the worst kind too - that makes a huge deal of the issue he is going to lie about and then quietly hopes no-one will remember.

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@lakeland27 wrote:

yes. he's a Liar. he knew beforehand. anyone who knows how the senate works would..  he knows .

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He's pretty thick though. So maybe he didn't realise?

will any of the  left here tell us about their tertiary qualifications that they can call a rhodes scholar an idiot

must be pretty impressive, can hardly wait to hear about them

perhaps he just didn't have a script and it wasn't the Gospel Truth?

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

yes. he's a Liar. he knew beforehand. anyone who knows how the senate works would..  he knows .

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He's pretty thick though. So maybe he didn't realise?

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 thats why he has advisors. him being a nonk makes little difference. they could draw him some little diagrams on the whiteboard (he still uses a whiteboard, he thinks it edgy and techy..)

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@*ibis wrote:

will any of the loony lefties here tell us about their tertiary qualifications that they can call a rhodes scholar an idiot

 

must be pretty impressive, can hardly wait to hear about them

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As an aside...........  what exactly was his study of, for his  postgraduate course that was offered by the university with his scholarship?

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@*ibis wrote:

will any of the loony lefties here tell us about their tertiary qualifications that they can call a rhodes scholar an idiot

 

must be pretty impressive, can hardly wait to hear about them

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 i'm not a $$rhodes scholar. i havent cauliflower ears from skipping classes and getting my head punched in in the gym either.

 can you name any othe rhodes scholars ?

''Hawke was educated at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. At age 15, he boasted that he would one day become Prime Minister of Australia.[8] He joined Labor in 1947, and successfully applied for a Rhodes Scholarship at the end of 1952.[9][10] In 1953, Hawke attended University College, Oxford to commence a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).[11] He soon found he was covering much the same ground as his did in his education at the University of Western Australia. Hawke then transferred to a Bachelor of Letters, with a thesis on wage-fixing in Australia which was successfully presented in January 1956.[12]

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@azureline** wrote:

As an aside...........  what exactly was his study of, for his  postgraduate course that was offered by the university with his scholarship?

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He did a 2 year Master of Arts through a St Andrews reciprical exchange. Not sure what his major was - political studies I think.

Ibis - a Rhodes scholarship isn't rare because you have to be an intellectual to get it. It is rare because so few are given. 

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

As an aside...........  what exactly was his study of, for his  postgraduate course that was offered by the university with his scholarship?

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He did a 2 year Master of Arts through a St Andrews reciprical exchange. Not sure what his major was - political studies I think.

 

Ibis - a Rhodes scholarship isn't rare because you have to be an intellectual to get it. It is rare because so few are given. 

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University of Sydney he graduated with bachelor of economics and bachelor of laws degrees.

As a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Queen's College, he graduated with a master of arts in politics and philosophy.