tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post7999055029648680271..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Up for negotiationAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-37911218132059290102014-08-05T20:06:02.238+10:002014-08-05T20:06:02.238+10:00Yeah, brushing off someone who's just being di...Yeah, brushing off someone who's just being dismissive is less of a challenge than you might imagine. I don't need a history lesson when we're in furious agreement, thanks anyway. There are more than 800 posts on this blog, look at how I engage with people and count yourself lucky I posted you at all ("weakness's"? Really?). Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-86653951210947752662014-08-05T12:55:29.338+10:002014-08-05T12:55:29.338+10:00Within a sociological context, she epitomizes the ...Within a sociological context, she epitomizes the traits of the upper Anglo-Australian female classes<br /><br />She's the product of all those traits so Andrews analysis is very good<br /><br />Watching Q and A last night and seeing numerous leaders of Indigenous background, it was incredibly thoughtful, inspiring and a privilege to watch people engage in a civilized manner.<br /><br />The best episode I've ever seen.<br /><br />Congratulations to all involved at the A.B.CAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-15989098969580167982014-08-05T11:31:16.530+10:002014-08-05T11:31:16.530+10:00C'mon Andrew your not a pack up my bat and bal...C'mon Andrew your not a pack up my bat and ball guy are you? If I hurt your feelings my sincere apologies . I know you claim to be ex liberal but by throwing a tantrum it makes you look like hockey , don't do it mate you expose your weakness's by reacting to criticism in a negative manner - I gave you a critique on your article so what , do you want everyone you meet to pat you on the back and say "another great post Andrew" accept criticism as a gift and with grace. ... Reith retired in 2000 a failed politician, hated by the unions embroiled in a misuse of phone card investigation - hes compromised .How much more width do you need?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-31152404112241332772014-08-05T10:34:13.677+10:002014-08-05T10:34:13.677+10:00Or c) challenge you in a way that leads to an inte...Or c) challenge you in a way that leads to an interesting discussion and debate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-65285452172393879092014-08-05T09:07:20.498+10:002014-08-05T09:07:20.498+10:00Yeah well, it's my blog and I'll write wha...Yeah well, it's my blog and I'll write what I like, and you can a) accept it with as much good grace as you can muster or b) buzz off.<br /><br />Compared to Abbott and the rest of the Cabinet, she is a gun negotiator. Thanks for echoing my points about Reith and foreign policy more broadly. Yeah.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-14552147649551721162014-08-05T09:04:45.172+10:002014-08-05T09:04:45.172+10:00Terry, your scenario for 2016 sounds a lot like Ho...Terry, your scenario for 2016 sounds a lot like Howard's playbook for 2007. People have stopped listening to Abbott - meeting his commitments does him no good at all. NewsCorp is having zero impact, and Fairfax and the ABC diminish their own standings by aping them. <br /><br />You can't just develop a small-l liberal political force overnight. Firstly, existing small-l liberals are so compromised as to be ineffective, and secondly small-l liberalism means different things these days - about which all too little thought has been undertaken.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-28878179599077715602014-08-04T21:23:08.558+10:002014-08-04T21:23:08.558+10:00Yeah interesting Andrew , but way too much topic o...Yeah interesting Andrew , but way too much topic on Julie, shes a competent lawyer with no charm who as the foreign minister for less than a year has made more enemies than friends (china is a big enemy), flapping your gums doesn't make you a good negotiator , what has she achieved? I missed that part ....<br />She had one vote at the UN and mouthed off about Russia. If shes the best LNP have got well their quite screwed' , shes a good at arguing with people on Q&A that's all. Anointing her the LNP's gun negotiator is a stretch mate . Reith is a moron always was always will be don't get to excited by his comments , he's compromised. The best thing you put across in this post was the amount of noise in the media as you say it is impossible to get the truth anywhere. The whole system is clogged up with opinionated sewage. I look forward to your next posts Andrew cheers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-29932878673436812302014-08-04T20:32:13.019+10:002014-08-04T20:32:13.019+10:00Rhwombat. ...
Fantastic observation of the politi...Rhwombat. ...<br /><br />Fantastic observation of the political climate now.<br /><br /><br />This Anglospherist vomit just annoys me to some degree where we have a great Multicultural success story<br /><br />It's ludicrous to change an act to appease a silly old shock jock. <br /><br />What's wrong with some bloody diversity and intelligence? ?<br /><br />Disgusting yet very accurate article about the younger generation of aspiring liberals in the Queensland newspapers.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-627139226580245082014-08-04T20:23:43.754+10:002014-08-04T20:23:43.754+10:00Abbott will not go to an early election given the ...Abbott will not go to an early election given the polling. Given the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd fiasco I doubt Abbott will be replaced before 2016. Prior to 2016 Abbott will unleash tax cuts paid for by the cuts he is attempting now. With an aggressive News Corp, a compliant Fairfax, a tamed ABC and a public with a woefully short memory I think it is a better than even bet that Abbott will win a second term. I hope I am wrong and more Australians turn to alternative media sources like this.<br />We need a resurgent liberal [small L deliberate] Party rather than the rabble of Tories we have now. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444773822923963234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-48064175652432944072014-08-04T17:36:24.440+10:002014-08-04T17:36:24.440+10:00You were 'wrong' about him not being elect...You were 'wrong' about him not being elected... but you surely weren't about him never being PM, except in the strict encyclopedic listing sense.<br /><br />Abbott makes William McMahon look like a mixture of Mandela and Metternich.<br /><br />No-one - no-one - in Abbott's gumnint is up to the jobs they hold.<br /><br />They were Howard's Thirds, the only ones left with any 'bums on seats' record in government after 2007's election. They were on training wheels when Howard was turfed out, and nothing happened until the beginning of The Abbott Error, September's election last year, to elucidate for them what governing meant.<br /><br />In fact, with Abbott's unbroken attacks on the Labor government founded on his totally spurious statement that Labor was "the worst government ever", none of his shadow ministers believed they had anything to learn - they were intrinsically better, 'in their DNA', "adult".<br /><br />Untutored, incurious, self-convinced of innate superiority and high calibre claim on their positions, any of them opens their mouth, and they immediately prove their incompetence. That is most definitely "in their DNA".Michael Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228940480351071082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-32726456942137629132014-08-04T16:05:54.215+10:002014-08-04T16:05:54.215+10:00Yeah, yeah, I was wrong about him not getting elec...Yeah, yeah, I was wrong about him not getting elected, right that he'd be no good in the job. I've made my case. <br /><br />Is your case nothing more than "you were wrong about this one thing, therefore you must be wrong about everything"?Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-53486493705390223952014-08-04T16:02:28.189+10:002014-08-04T16:02:28.189+10:00I agree, they have finally twigged to the idea tha...I agree, they have finally twigged to the idea that there is no connection between what Abbott says and what happens.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-32742713908649654902014-08-04T16:01:19.641+10:002014-08-04T16:01:19.641+10:00I doubt Bishop would stick around after a defeat. ...I doubt Bishop would stick around after a defeat. Apparently she is good at connecting with people at meetings, but whether she's much good at connecting with people where they work ...Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-43026645697476626532014-08-04T13:08:50.326+10:002014-08-04T13:08:50.326+10:00"Hockey is finished after that budget, and al..."Hockey is finished after that budget, and all the journos and other Canberra denizens who doubt this are fools."<br /><br />Yeah, yeah. And Abbott will never be PM. You wish, I wish, we all wish. But that don't necessarily make it so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-55186942780011264792014-08-04T11:34:24.242+10:002014-08-04T11:34:24.242+10:00Another brilliant piece Andrew. I can't help t...Another brilliant piece Andrew. I can't help thinking that the LNP is now entirely in thrall to the Big Corporate model, the control of which cannot be shown to the voters/people/punters/marks lest its real powers (Rupert, the Banksters and the Energy (local coal & transnational oil & gas) & Mining Reavers) lest the money stops flowing further to those who need it least. The PM position, as demonstrated by all LNP leaders since Frazer, are middle management, and thus subject to the inertial sexism and domineering triumphalism that prevails in Anglophone Corporate culture. Julie Bishop may be as acceptable as Gail Kelly (or, indeed, Julia Gillard), but the deep fear of negotiation from weakness which drives both LNP & Corporate misogyny, will prevent Bishop's ascendancy over the spoilt prefects of the current LNP. rhwombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-35877805188771718582014-08-04T11:30:45.633+10:002014-08-04T11:30:45.633+10:00Ms Bishop doesn't get vilified for her status ...Ms Bishop doesn't get vilified for her status at all but is labelled as badass...<br /><br />Bias?<br /><br />She's too impersonal in my opinion and could learn a lot from Penny Wong in her demeanour and sweetness.<br /><br />She's a heartless b......ch<br /><br />Sorry but gen y refer to her in that respect<br /><br />Joe Hockey was probably nicer then Andrew..<br /><br />He's ambitious and we saw that with this nasty budget<br /><br />Ms Bishop needs a partner to make her look normal and nice Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-49874413764305880122014-08-04T09:59:23.932+10:002014-08-04T09:59:23.932+10:00Malcolm Farr embarrassed himself last Sunday on th...Malcolm Farr embarrassed himself last Sunday on the ABC "Insiders" using very similar phraseology to that of Reith and Hartcher. <br /><br />A cabal of journalists extolling the good performance of Julie Bishop is so out of touch with reality that it suggests that there is a serious effort being made to replace Abbott.Notushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173819673356724711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-11069283366130634732014-08-04T07:15:59.261+10:002014-08-04T07:15:59.261+10:00"imploded in a piss-blizzard of dishonesty&qu..."imploded in a piss-blizzard of dishonesty". I love it. I've always wondered why a confirmed liar is given media space. Perhaps this is our media showing their spots - being a proven liar on a national stage deliberately disparaging vulnerable desperate people for political advantage doesn't really matter as long as you have connections? I also like the sly reference to not going overboard.<br /><br />Thanks for you thoughts and continued commentary.<br /><br />MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-48430539531489530302014-08-04T07:03:30.479+10:002014-08-04T07:03:30.479+10:00Excellent piece as usual Andrew. You have such com...Excellent piece as usual Andrew. You have such common sense. <br />You see things as they are not how you wish they were.<br />When I survey the candidates I cannot see anyone other than Julie Bishop to take over from Himself.<br />I do not think she would fare well though.<br />I am convinced that old-fashioned sexism was the engine which brought down Julia Gillard, not because she was a woman but because she had chosen not to have children. Bishop has also made that very reasonable decision.<br />She will be punished for that.<br />Male leaders have always wheeled out wives and children so they can sit at the heart surrounded by love, admiration, devotion and familial loyalty. The nation writ small.<br />Gillard had a partner and a small dog.<br />I think Bishop has a husband but I have not seen him. <br />Even Margaret Thatcher, Iron Maiden , had devoted Denis and the twins.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com