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19-10-2014 12:18 PM - edited 19-10-2014 12:21 PM
D wrote: That is patently mendacious and you are just perpetrating Pliberseks scare campaign.
You haven't established that Tanya Plibersek is engaging in a scare campaign about Ebola virus.
Frankly, there is a great deal to be scared about re the Ebola virus. Name calling, MP bashing is not even relevant in the big scheme of things.
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on 19-10-2014 12:55 PM
Plibersek is blatantly engaging in a scare campaign just like she did on the Central Coast and was exposed for it.
She has form for this type of grubby politics.
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on 19-10-2014 01:01 PM
LABOR PLAYING POLITICS WITH EBOLA:
HEALTH Minister Peter Dutton has accused Labor of playing politics with Ebola, suggesting the response to the disease crisis had driven a wedge between Opposition leader Bill Shorten and deputy leader Tanya Plibersek.
Addressing reporters in Brisbane today, Mr Dutton batted away criticism from Ms Plibersek that the Australian government was not doing enough to combat Ebola in West Africa.
He said the government had already given $18m to the cause and was looking at funding work by the Gates Foundation and Australian drug company CSL on using plasma from Ebola survivors to treat patients with the contagious disease.
INTERACTIVE: How the Ebola crisis is unfolding
The Health Minister renewed his calls for Labor to swing behind the government’s response, which has seen financial support for aid agencies that use Australian volunteer workers.
“It’s hard for Australians to understand why the Labor Party would want to play politics with Ebola,” Mr Dutton said.
“I think it’s very important for people to have a look at the difference in words between Tanya Plibersek and Bill Shorten on this issue. Bill Shorten repeatedly talks about volunteers … we are already doing that … yet Tanya Plibersek, when you look at her words, has it very differently.”
“I think there is a big divide now, in Labor, about the response to Ebola, and I suspect that’s because Bill Shorten himself doesn’t want to play politics with Ebola but Tanya Plibersek certainly is.”
Mr Dutton said Mr Shorten should explain why he refused to “rein in” Ms Plibersek on the issue.
CRISIS: US failures a concern here
“Mr Shorten has spoken about volunteers, which is an entirely different proposal to that which Ms Plibersek is talking about in terms of sending defence assets, defence personnel and health workers, essentially on a conscription basis, which is very, very different,” he said.
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19-10-2014 01:01 PM - edited 19-10-2014 01:03 PM
Where is your proof? You have barely written anything on topic in this thread and when you do you just repeat the same statement.. scare campaign.
Do you really think you can influence other people politically by doing that? Just repeating the same statement over and over again, without giving any details.
The Australian (bias favouring LNP).
Is that the only media outlet that is running with the scare campaign accusation? Why aren't the rest of them publishing the same?
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on 19-10-2014 01:07 PM
@am*3 wrote:Where is your proof? You have barely written anything on topic in this thread and when you do you just repeat the same statement.. scare campaign.
Do you really think you can influence other people politically by doing that? Just repeating the same statement over and over again, without giving any details.
The Australian (bias favouring LNP).
Is that the only media outlet that is running with the scare campaign accusation? Why aren't the rest of them publishing the same?
After the way the motley pack of morons in government behaved while in opposition it amazes me that they have the gall to attack anyone about playing politics.
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19-10-2014 01:14 PM - edited 19-10-2014 01:18 PM
I like this one better. No mention of scare campaigns. It is on topic - Plibersek, Ebola
Labor's Tanya Plibersek steps up attack on Abbott government over lack of Ebola action
19 October
Mark Kenny Chief political correspondent
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.
The response came after Health Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop wrote to the opposition branding its calls for sending in Australian health workers, reckless in the absence of third-country agreements to treat them if infected.
The Deputy Opposition Leader said it was curious that the government had seen fit to deploy Australian Federal Police to Ukraine even before any agreement on access to the crash site of MH17, and had deployed hundreds of defence personnel and assets to the Middle East before any decision to participate in Iraq, but was effectively sitting on its hands regarding the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
"Well I think it's a bitrough to call for bipartisanship when the government's plainly doing the wrong thing," she told the ABC's Insiders program.
"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.
US President Barack Obama has told his nation that the US cannot simply cut off West African nations affected because that would merely make the situation worse.
To date the heavy lifting in response to the crisis is being done by the US, Britain and France, with many other countries hanging back and offering only piecemeal support.
Australia has reportedly sent $10 million to the fund but has allocated a modest $18 million to the Ebola effort so far.
Over the weekend, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned excessive international caution, noting that his proposed $US1 billion Ebola fund had so far attracted just $100,000 – and that was from Colombia.
"We can't just cut ourselves off from West Africa … trying to seal off an entire region of the world - if that were even possible - could actually make the situation worse," Mr Obama said as some Americans have begun to campaign against US assistance for fear of an outbreak at home.
Ms Plibersek said the disease had to be contained in West Africa.
"This becomes a greater risk not just to the African continent, but to the world more generally – the best way that we can protect Australia and protect Australians is to help stop Ebola in West Africa.
The government has written to the opposition arguing that campaigning for greater involvement, including through putting Australian medical professionals on the ground, represents a reckless disregard for health workers because there is no reliable evacuation arrangement with another country, and Australia itself is too far away.
Ms Plibersek said, however, that other countries were putting in place facilities to deal with infected health workers such as proposed hospital ship in the case of Britain.
"It is beyond me why other countries are able to make arrangements for their health workers, including now Japan, are able to make arrangements for their health workers and the Australian government's not able to do that," she said.
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on 19-10-2014 02:43 PM
Not all of us are rich enough to subscribe to The Australian
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on 19-10-2014 03:45 PM
@polksaladallie wrote:Not all of us are rich enough to subscribe to The Australian
I would rather throw my money into the toilet.
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19-10-2014 08:14 PM - edited 19-10-2014 08:16 PM
@boris1gary wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:Not all of us are rich enough to subscribe to The Australian
I would rather throw my money into the toilet.
which is where Pliberseks fearmongering belongs.
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on 19-10-2014 08:43 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:Not all of us are rich enough to subscribe to The Australian
I would rather throw my money into the toilet.
which is where Pliberseks fearmongering belongs.
I just watched Plibersek on insiders on iview, She wasn't fear mongering. She gave answered the questions and talked about the advice she'd been given by professionals appropriately qualified people.
Unlike Abbott, she doesn't have to rely on bully boy school yard language, nor does she run off and refuse to answer.
