tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post7575603180744746393..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Decisions from the CoalitionAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-66035924622850487862012-01-15T00:07:04.300+11:002012-01-15T00:07:04.300+11:00I look forward to Mr Rabbits
``strong, positive a...I look forward to Mr Rabbits <br />``strong, positive agenda``<br />(of NO)<br />and analysis of <br />``unrestricted, unrestrained, uncontrolled`` anything business, <br />when his mob are the one`s suffering from privatisation fever.<br />I can`t see Mr Rabbit`s lot, State or Federal, cutting Corporate Welfare to the Auto companies either.<br /><br />Interestingly, the so-called Left press `Crikey Crew` suggesting that the working class in the Auto Industry should absorb business risk with their `super` fund as well as having jobs that will eventually go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-67732076458588874192012-01-14T22:28:54.368+11:002012-01-14T22:28:54.368+11:00Oh, I get it, the Coalition are going to be positi...Oh, I get it, the Coalition are going to be positively negative this year. That is, Truckwit Tony inserting the word 'positive' into a sentence before he goes hard and negative, as per usual. That'll convince the sceptical punters. Not.<br /> As for the NBN, they've already tried every which way but loose to 'demolish' it, but the facts keep getting in the way of attempts to mislead. I can't see that changing this year, either. As far as I can divine it(and, no doubt the Coalition will also be calling on the likes of the Devine Miss M to help out), their arguments centre around a slow/low take-up rate, which somehow equates to it being an expensive White Elephant(and the first farmer's leg saved after being pinned under his tractor,via instantaneous remote telemedical help to the local First Aider will put paid to that), plus the spurious technical arguments Malcolm Turnbull is half-heartedly making, as he trys to bamboozle the bogans with jargon he hopes they know nothing about. Good luck with that one, MT. Doesn't he know everyone goes to Whirlpool to chat, or reads Wired, ZDNet, Delimiter, or countless other mags. They need to to be able to operate their gadgets!<br /> Finally, as for the 'Productivity' frame the Coalition are trying to put around their desire to just go back to BusinessNirvanaChoices. That's not going to fly too high, either. Especially as Stephen Long has already demolished the canard that lower productivity is due to 'the units of production'. His piece on The Drum this week nailed down the real reason. It's the Mining Companies, Gina, Twiggy, Clive and their mates, whoi are in the process of gearing up to increase production but are yet to put the productive wheels in motion. Oops!<br /> I look forward to journalists and bloggers who 'don't write crap' running around after the slippery eel, masquerading as the LOTO, in order to pin him down on facts such as these.Hillbilly Skeletonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-10563051115713989872012-01-14T12:52:28.391+11:002012-01-14T12:52:28.391+11:00I don't think mainstream Australia really care...I don't think mainstream Australia really cares that much about the car industry. Or rather, we don't care about it enough to buy Australian, and we certainly wouldn't want subsidies going into the pockets of American auto companies that won't even commit to their continued presence. If pollsters wanted to justify their own existence, they might do a survey on this. <br /><br />Abbott's move sounds dumb, it alienates the economic rationalists in his party all for a questionable "populist" gain. I bet that core of voters will turn out to be an illusion.pknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-73491709361105810182012-01-14T11:58:14.086+11:002012-01-14T11:58:14.086+11:00GG, the US auto makers are busy repatriating jobs....GG, the US auto makers are busy repatriating jobs. Part of <a href="http://andrewelder.blogspot.com/2012/01/oh-say-can-you-see.html" rel="nofollow">the criticism I had with the reporting of US politics here</a> is that the MSM has (with the exception of the AFR) failed to realise this and report it. The conservatives always get wrong-footed when they find themselves against the US, as they are here. Your final par is solid gold.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-45647686584659401632012-01-14T11:02:11.087+11:002012-01-14T11:02:11.087+11:00The Libs seem divided between those that would eas...The Libs seem divided between those that would ease Australian Manufacturing in to its grave through higher doses of morphine and benign neglect and those that would throw a hand grenade and then proceed to bayonet the wounded.<br /><br />Regardless it exposes fluro shirt Tony "friend of the working man" strategy for the nonsense it always was. For a lazy $100 mill the Government has exposed a fair degree of uncertainty about the motivations of the LNP regarding jobs.<br /><br />Say what you like about the purity of the policy and its long term effectiveness, the Government has demonstrated clearly that it will do all it can to protect jobs (even sending "Carr to Detroit")In an electorate sensitive to jobs, this is a winner for the Government.<br /><br />The Opposition have demonstrated they are at best, ambivalent to these workers. Well may Barnaby complain that you can't be a populist Party unless you are popular. Pissing on workers legs and telling them it is raining is a sure way to kill the popularity of pissants like Abbott.Greensborough Growlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-47054407502250254232012-01-13T22:55:10.344+11:002012-01-13T22:55:10.344+11:00SK, Fairfax are stumbling close to it but not quit...SK, Fairfax are stumbling close to it but not quite hitting the mark, whereas others don't know or care.<br /><br />Anon: thanks, fixed.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-77978441999257494632012-01-13T22:33:18.253+11:002012-01-13T22:33:18.253+11:00Typo in about the 11th last para: "holding an...Typo in about the 11th last para: "holding an inquiry with the end result predetermined, bu what's clever for them" - the "bu" should be "but".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-19225863268720959542012-01-13T19:15:43.677+11:002012-01-13T19:15:43.677+11:00Andrew, on your final two questions, one can only ...Andrew, on your final two questions, one can only wonder why our current media aren't willing to ask them.Space Kidettenoreply@blogger.com