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I agree she's attractive. The physically /intellectually attractive woman on the right are scary, as in school head mistress with a cane type scary , looks in the direction of Julia Bishop (yep I was repeatability caned as a child growing up for being a "naughty boy" as you would imagine I appose all forms of corporal punishment.


Thankfully corporal punishment was ended in Queensland schools circa late 1990's

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Julia Gillard got the top job because Kevin Rudd stepped aside. JG challenged him for the leadership.

UM i don't think he 'stepped aside' I guess Abbot was right all along when he said Kevin should watch out Julia has knifes in her handbag. At least the surgeons are now able to cut back the operating times on his gall bladder operation all they would have to do is work from the incision left by Jules and the baby faced assassin.

The election's on the day of my orchestra's concert. I might vote for our conductor.

BRONWYN FOR OVERLORD!! !

i met bronwyn bishop a few years ago at an awards night at tammy's club house.

she got very drunk and she had to be guided out of the place by her minders who held her elbows as she waddled to her government car.

My orchestra's conductor is not Bronwyn Bishop.

peter costello is the most impressive politician in my mind.
he was the best treasurer that australia ever had i believe.

he was seen to be extremely arrogant by the population, and they disliked him very much. he used to slouch and smirk in smugness during question time because he was very relaxed about the fact the he was amassing a major surplus for the country. he seemed to have an almost midas touch, and when the australian people voted his government out with contempt, we had a surplus that the current government used up rapidly.

we stayed out of recession because the current government had a sizable inheritance that they raided, and moreover, they plunged us into extreme debt by borrowing after the surplus ran out.
the current government is borrowing $100,000,000 per day to keep us afloat, and they smile and expect credit for the money sloshing around in our economy.

i find it hard to believe that the australian people vote based upon their impressions of the "likeability" rather than the crude ability of the candidates they favor.

rudd got in because people liked his appearance in comparison to howards appearance.

costello was consigned to the back bench by his unpopularity in the australian psyche even though he pulled us out of a $96 billion "black hole" left by the previous government, and he turned it into a $22 billion surplus. he just looked like a smug "dickhead" to the average joe, so they voted the government out because of that and the shape of the eyebrows of the prime minister.

they voted in a sycophantic rubber duck (rudd) who was preened and personable because they liked him, and there has been a litany of fiscal disasters due to the present governments gormless inefficiency ( the same side of government that gave us a $96 billion deficit when they lost last time that costello fixed)..

people are stupid and they go with the most attractive personality and presentation rather than stick with tried and proven talent.

oh well that is the only bronwyn i could think of pertaining to this election.

if bronwyn bishop conducted an orchestra, then it would iterate a cacophany that is amusing to the extreme to behold.

sorry if i replied erroneously to your post.

Hi Guys and Gals,
I am very sorry if I agree or disagree with any of the comments or opinions or ideologies espoused in this thread,
all I know is every one of them is parochial.
I like to stand back and get the big picture before I submit an opinion.
Nobel Laureates are especially helpful.
Joseph Stiglitz seems to know what he is talking about :
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2976087.htm
from minus seventeen

I'll vote for the one who takes a major pay cut. The one who's happy to run the country on the same wage as a nurse or a teacher. The one who wants to run the country because he/she loves the country, and not because of the pay, the perks and the whole high and mighty lifestyle that goes with the title of prime minister (no capital letters deserved in this particular title).

...hang on...there is no such person...yawn...oh well...back to being bullied into voting and giving a very greedy person out there the power to call the shots...

It tortures me that voting in this country is compulsory.

Men pay for things like that.

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I wonder how long it would take for some one to make such a remark , I had similar thoughts a one nighter may be fun , though waking up to that each morning

KERRY O'BRIEN: There's been a lot of criticism of waste in the way some of Australia's stimulus money was spent. Is it inevitable if you're going to spend a great deal of government money quickly that there will be some waste and can you ever justify wasting taxpayers' money?

JOSEPH STIGLITZ: If you hadn't spent the money, there would have been waste. The waste would have been the fact that the economy would have been weak, there would have been a gap between what the economy could have produced and what it actually produced - that's waste. You would have had high unemployment, you would have had capital assets not fully utilised - that's waste. So your choice was one form of waste verses another form of waste. And so it's a judgment of what is the way to minimise the waste. No perfection here. And what your government did was exactly right. So, Australia had the shortest and shallowest of the downturns of the advanced industrial countries. And, ah, your recovery actually preceded the - in some sense, China. So there was a sense in which you can't just say Australia recovered because of China. Your preventive action, you might say pre-emptive action, prevented the downturn while things got turned around in Asia, and they still have not gotten turned around in Europe and America.

I think B 9 is Peter Costello

When I want economic commentary and opinions I prefer to get it from the horse's mouth if I wanted a legal opinion I'd listen to Costello , on economic matters why would I want to get that from a lawyer?

Macquarie Bank economist, Rory Robertson,

“the economy has done more for the government (Liberal) than the government has done for the economy”.

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