Not only is Julia Gillard being attacked by the Opposition and the media, she is also being undermined by her own so-called supporters, says Victoria Rollison

“We have a solemn duty and a moral imperative to deny Iran’s leaders the means to follow through on their malevolent intentions,” Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told an audience of about 300, including a large contingent of American donors who flew here to accompany him. “We must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option.”

As usual with state premiers, it was all about the money. Facing debt and deficit, the Sunshine State is crying poor. Queensland, the Premier claims, "has been bankrupted - is on the way to being bankrupted - by poor and reckless financial management".

The state needs to "right size" its public finances, and if it doesn't, then it could go the way of the indebted sovereigns of the Mediterranean.

Presently, the GOP is white-anting unions from within... Basically GOP is enticing workers to become free from the "oppression and rorts" of unions with a new bill called Employee Rights Act... Brother. The name is sneakily chosen to hide a hiding to nothing... Of course it's the old trick of presenting the carrot of greed and freedom when eventually workers end up worse off... Divide to rule... Nothing new, Here is Australia, the Liberal Party tried the Work Choices legislation that got them booted out... But the Work Choices is not dead as Rattus Detritus (Tony Abbott) would let us believe... Merely delayed by a thread...

Jones talks rubbish... He is a shit bag...

Companies that run aggressive tax-avoidance schemes will be forced to provide the Government with details of all their celebrity and business clients under a crackdown to be announced today.

To which the Chinese would respond: "didn't ya have floods of the century recently?..."

THERE'S a new phrase entering the political lexicon: "sensible centre". It's Tony Abbott's new favourite saying.