The phrase infamously used by Bob Hawke during an election campaign when approached by a pensioner in Whyalla.
BOB BELL: You get more a week than we get a year.
BOB HAWKE: [inaudible] you silly old bugger.
ABC
Twenty years on, Labor's ...
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Silly old buggers
28 July 2010 20 Comments
Gillard’s credibility in tatters
9 July 2010 3 Comments
Julia Gillard has only been Prime Minister for two weeks and already her credibility is shot to pieces.
All three planks of her new leadership are riddled with termites.
Her supposed resolution of the mining tax fiasco has seen three big mining ...
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Andrew Bolt: But if Gillard says it, it’s good
9 July 2010 9 Comments
An excellent column by Andrew Bolt on the utter hyprocrisy of the left over Gillard's offshore refugee processing:
So gather round, children, and watch Mr Burnside, the human rights activist and QC, show what not to do.
First, here is Principled ...
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Julia may be an atheist….
7 July 2010 11 Comments
But the devil is in the detail as far as her "new" policy on illegals:
She said that even if all boat people were found to be refugees, they would still make up just 1.6 per cent of all migrants to Australia in a year.
Daily Telegraph
Gillard's ...
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Gillard can’t be trusted on border protection
7 July 2010 9 Comments
Julia Gillard cannot be trusted on border protection, despite flagging a new “tougher” approach.
By her own admission, Gillard was the architect of Labor’s failed policy which has seen more than 4,000 queue-jumpers arrive illegally since ...
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No hard questions for Gillard on Lateline
11 April 2010 1 Comment
There was a time when John Howard was Prime Minister that going on “Lateline” for an interview with Tony Jones was something of a concern for government ministers.
These days, Rudd ministers must rub their hands together with glee.
On ...
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Will the unions wheel out “Tracey” to take on Rudd over his workplace reforms?
8 March 2010 13 Comments
"Tracey" was the character created by the unions as part of their hysterical scare campaign against the Howard government's 'work choices' in the lead up to the 2007 federal election. Gillard and Rudd had promised that no worker would be worse off ...
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Prime Minister Gillard and the AWU–WRA scandal
Prime Minister Gillard was a lawyer during the 1990s who was employed by the law firm Slater and Gordon in Melbourne. She was also a partner of that firm and as such there were certain legal obligations that were required of her while being employed ...
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