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conundrum...

Mike Carlton gets it wrong again...


That destruction continues apace. Rather than tossing overboard such respected party elders as Simon Crean, Martin Ferguson and Kim Carr, a leader more wise and confident than Julia Gillard would have kept them on. By acknowledging their right to dissent, extracting a pledge of loyalty and retaining them in the ministry, she might have healed at least some of the government's self-inflicted wounds.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/labor-gets-some-good-advice-far-too-late-20130329-2gywb.html#ixzz2P0EqkKmc

Yes Mike, three bags full, Mike... Everything you say is fool's gold, Mike... Now Mike, SHUT UP. Or go and get a tummy rub while Tony raids your cookie jar.
Respected party elders?... No matter how capable Crean is or was, he is a turncoat and a silly old fool to believe he had the right to challenge the Prime Minister to a duel with his poltroon challenger... Crean has been a fool before, remember when he was led by the nose by John Rattus Howard. Crean was a fool not to have known that he was going to do far more damage to the Labor party in two minutes than say Graham Richardson can do in a year... Lucky Julia Gillard has a solid personality...
Martin Ferguson is not a bad bloke but he has his limitations... He has real problems dealing with the climate change issue, for example.
Kim Carr has always been okay but would he have pledged loyalty to Gillard?... Doubtful... and Gillard knows this. She cannot afford fakes anymore... All of these old men are too much "catholic" who travel too swiftly and too often between sinning, confession and redemption, for us to even trust their word, should they swear allegiance on the glorious bible...
Fitzgibbon has turned out to be a massive loose cannon without any self-respect and who has a sorry mouth that leaks from both sides, far more than Noah's arch when it hit an iceberg in its Titanic days...
Labor "wounds" only happened because Rudd has been a vengeful little man, nothing to do with government business or successes, nor were the wound "self-inflicted"... One needs to note that Julia Gillard has been quite generous with her acceptance of disloyal members previously, showing far more forgiveness than the little catholics ragbags. But they have abused her trust.
By removing the fester, or letting it go, Gillard has now a clean slate. Despite people clamouring the ranks of Labor have thinned out in ministerial calibre, Labor is still far more capable than the troop of loonies — the clowns of the absurd — that are polishing the seats of the Liberal (conservatives) front bench....
Let it be know — rather than dwell on what happened, which for all intent and purposes was silly Crean's fault — that the government is still governing and pushing on with all stops at the grand organ for background music... Let see what the next steps are... Be patient... Don't pre-empt...
So Mike, stop rubbishing things and refrain from preaching like a retired monk, Mike... You've turned into one of them grumpy old men whinging about anything, including your rotten nest egg that no-one wants to raid anyway, apart from Tony Abbott... Do us a favour: sing Julia's praise or go away...

 

bipartisanship on chinese cash...

The Coalition has backed a plan by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to secure a currency conversion deal with China.

Under the deal the Australian dollar would be directly converted into Chinese yuan, to avoid the cost of currency conversion.

Shadow parliamentary secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Arthus Sinodinos, says the deal would cut the costs of doing business with China.

"This is something which Australian business I think including the banking sector has been pushing for some time," Mr Sinodinos said.

"The United States and a couple of other countries have already gone down this route.

"The bigger picture for us with China is encouraging them to keep growing the consumption base of their economy and moving away from perhaps some of the exchange rate issues that have been there in the past, which will be good for our prospects going forward."

A report in The Australian newspaper said Ms Gillard might sign the deal in Shanghai soon after attending the Boao Forum for Asia in early April.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-30/coalition-backs-gillard-in-china-currency-deal/4602190

indestructible...

Leading into the 1996 election, Paul Keating faced a daunting challenge.

A decision was taken to go with his most defining (positive) characteristic and thus Labor's campaign slogan was reduced to one word: ''Leadership.''

Focus group testing conducted after the loss found it was Keating's leadership that had rankled most and that the slogan had merely reminded people of it.

But if Labor strategists are not thinking about strength and toughness right now, they should be.

Forget about the risk of reinforcing a negative, Julia Gillard's toughness may be their last best hope after March rounded out the first disastrous quarter of election year 2013.

Labor's stocks are again at rock bottom with a primary vote of just 30 per cent, a riven unresponsive party and a leader whose popularity has nose-dived from an already low base.

For productive purposes, there are two take-outs from Labor's phantom leadership contest. One is that it has stripped away the government's remaining authority to campaign on its claimed strengths of economic management, education, support for modern working families, and disability insurance. Voters have switched off. These narratives remain valid but the message is being obliterated by the antipathy felt for the messenger.

The second take-out from Labor's Ides of March calamity is marginally more positive. It offers at least a slim chance of redemption - perhaps not of survival, but of partial recovery before September 14.

Simply put, it is that Gillard is indestructible.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/simply-put-gillard-is-indestructible-20130330-2gzsb.html#ixzz2P4UQ2mOj