TONY WINDSOR… YOU DA MAN!
I just had a quick look in the mirror and it seems that despite years of abuse, I still have my two front teeth. Given that incredible fact, I have been forced to consider what else I may want for Christmas.
Watching highlights of question time in Canberra yesterday on ABC24, it seems odd that there are highlights, however, it suddenly occurred to me what I really want for Christmas.
What I really want is Tony Windsor (left) to form his own Party. How cool would that be? A Christmas gift to the nation. Well, kind of…
I came to this revelation yesterday, as I watched Tony Windsor sticking it to Tony Abbott during question time.
It was a brilliant display by our favourite Independent, holding Abbott to his words and taking him to task over his negative stance on carbon pricing, something that only a few short years ago he was in favour of, under John Howard.
Windsor kindly reminded everyone that Abbott told him, and others, during negotiations to form government after the election, that he would do “Anything, absolutely anything” to get the PM’s gig in the Lodge. The only thing Abbott wouldn’t do apparently, was “sell his arse”, but added that he’d consider it. How comforting.
Tony Abbott wouldn’t sell his arse, he’d sell ours instead.
Windsor summed up Abbott’s policy positions over the last few years on Climate Change.
“Climate change is crap,” Abbott says. Meanwhile his policy has a hideously expensive plan to supposedly address it.
A Carbon Price is the wrong way to address the issue Abbott states. Not that long ago however, he told a TV programme the best method to address the issue would be a “Carbon Tax”.
Abbott tells us the government’s Carbon Price will hurt families, yet, Windsor says, Abbott has the “audacity” to offer as an alternative, a vastly more expensive policy, that punishes families and pays polluters. Not only that, his Direct Action policy has more holes in it than Alexander Downer’s fish net stockings.
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76 Responses to this article
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AnnalisaW August 17, 2012
Awesome post Wixxy. I’d vote for him. We’re all just crying out for a party that just cares about Australia – all of us.
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Vanessa August 17, 2012
Go Tony!
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Juliet August 17, 2012
Imagine the possibility of an election run with integrity if there was a Tony Windsor led party, a Malcolm Turnbull led LNP, Gillard ALP and a Milne led Greens Party with its informed and passionate younger MPs/Senators. We might actually be able to discuss and debate … policies!
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lynda August 17, 2012
You must be joking….the greens are communists…Turnball is a turncoat, he was once touted as the next LABOR premier of N.S.W.
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Patsy August 17, 2012
What drugs are you on Peter??
Tony Windsor as PM!! Are you crazy… he’s two faced, lazy, stuffed up his own electorate – if he was PM we might as well all go and live in Ecuador!
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Heather August 17, 2012
Patsy, please do – (that is: go and live in Ecuador).
Tony Windsor is a true gentleman of great honour and a credit to this nation.-
Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
Are you kidding me? He rants like Rabbid.
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Rhoda August 17, 2012
You do realize he was originally a National Party candidate for the seat of Tamworth.
I thought he was going to retire at the last election actually. He sold the family farm to a coal company and leased it back which hasn’t endeared him to his country electorate. He was campaigning against the coal companies. Don’t know if he still does.
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Rosie August 17, 2012
Yes – many of us know that he was originally in the National Party – good on him for leaving it and standing as an Independant.
Yes – many of us also know he did a good business deal with a coal company, which is not illegal, and we also know that other farmers in the area are upset because they did not do enough research to get a similiar deal. And we also know he did not campaign against coal companies – his concern is coal-seam GAS! In fact he has mostly supported mining where it does not interfere with the underground water table.
Get your statements correct before you denigrate someone with the morals of Tony Windsor. Oh Mez is going to love this one. -
Wendy Green August 17, 2012
Then probably a good idea to check your facts before you post, Rhoda …
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lynda August 17, 2012
He sold the farm to the Chinese
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Rosie August 18, 2012
Lynda – this is just untrue. He sold the farm to Whitehaven Coal in 2010. Whitehaven Coal’s Chairman is Mark Vaile, who, you might remember led the National Party for a few years. You really should get your facts right before making a statement like this. The Chinese are not involved.
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Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
Whitehaven is owned by the billionaire Tinkler. Shame on Windsor for getting in bed with the very resources billionaires that Swan rips into.
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Jane August 17, 2012
Brilliant ideas here I say Peter Wicks and Juliet – Tony Windsor is fabulous. Even more fabulous is the thought of MT as PM … we can’t have Abbott. The public good of all Australians is at stake here.
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Lindy August 17, 2012
I couldn’t stop cheering as I saw Tony Windsor take Tony Abbott to task. I am sick to death of his taxpayer funded , boy’s own tour of Australia trying to undermine our Government and economy all in the persuit of the Lodge. I agree that Governments need to be held to account but Oppositions need to be logic in their arguments and offer realistic alternatives not three word slogans and running away if the press try to question him. I am also sick and tired of fortnightly news polls that are also about undermining the Government. Time for the media to look at themselves and use the same beligerant questioning of the Opposition that they use on our Prime Minister. Well done Tony Windsor!
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my say August 17, 2012
Hear hear Lindy . I can only conclude that the MSM seem to be scaried of Abbott. Otherwise, there is faceless men out their pulling strings for him to be PM ,for self interest.
You may be able to fool some people but those who can not be fooled, see it. It is So obvious.
Now watch Abbott turn this back onto Windsor…making it about him. Whilst the media peddles Abbotts bullsh*t .-
my say August 17, 2012
Update. yep its been noted that ‘all the stories about Windsor’s speech today are focussing on Abbott’s arse instead of the fact that he promised to price carbon.’
Funny that.
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Wendy Green August 17, 2012
… And I noticed too, Lindy, that there was not a single mention of this on the news last night either … Why is that? Could it be because the media are only interested in bringing down our Labour Government??? What the media should be doing is showing Tony Abbott for the scoundrel he is!
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debbiep August 17, 2012
What I want for Christmas Peter is A Book by Tony Windsor . A book about what is in his Blackberry..
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Rhoda August 17, 2012
Excuse me. The coal company that bought Mr Windsor’s property is Whitehaven Coal. Coalworks Limited now operates as a subsidiary of Whitehaven Coal Holdings Pty Limited. It’s involved in the Ferndale project in the Hunter Valley which is exploring for coal seam gas.
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Rosie August 17, 2012
Yep and Whitehaven Coal acquired Coalworks in a take-over bid in July 2012! Windsor sold his farm to Whitehaven in 2010! Well before the takeover. I repeat – his concern is coal-seam GAS.
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Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
You’re as full of hot air as a coal seam is of gas.
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Norelle August 17, 2012
Hooray for tony windsor – abbot is singlhandedly the most damaging presence in Australian political, cultural and economic spheres. He is the reason for the feeling of insecurity and doubt. Go Julia – now turn yourself the main game, public education (let’s see Tony Abbott try to turn THAT into a negative oh and he will)
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Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
The federal government just cut federal educational spending by $499 million over the next four years in their mid-year economic review and then had the hide to tell them off when the complained.
They’ve frozen indexation on Student Start-up Scholarships, Austudy, ABSTUDY and Youth Allowance recipients at the 2012 rate.
They’ve also cut health, the other pillar of the ALP.
The Greens wouldn’t stand up for this.
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Margaret August 17, 2012
I wish I could vote for Tony Windsor now. It is said that politics is all about perception and Mr Windsor gives the feeling of being trustworthy. The sight of Kevein Andrews standing up and having the hide to complain about anything in Parlianment after his fiasco re the Haneef case is mind boggling. In fact the whole coalition contribution to the debate showed what a hopeless lot of juvenile misfits they are. Julie Bishop is particularly vicious. What is her problem?
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Di Pearton August 17, 2012
I’d like you to explain how the Greens ‘don’t seem capable’?
At a family function many years ago (where we had formal seating arrangements!?) I was seated between a farmer and a mining engineer, at the time very high up in a major Australian company. The farmer was amused, commenting on the greenie squashed between the conservative farmer and the miner. The engineer replied with sadness, “We will all be greenies in the end, but it will be the end” You see, the Greens policies may seem radical, but there is a reason for that.-
Rosie August 17, 2012
Di Pearton -And they are the only Party with consistent moral fibre. They don’t change their opinions in order to get more votes – something both the major Parties do.
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Rosa August 17, 2012
Mate, was I impressed with Tony Windsor. He has my vote at the next election and to think that for a while there I had been almost conned by Mr Abbott with his propaganda on the carbon tax and all this bad PM slogan stuff.
I now proudly admit out loud to everyone who will listen that I have abandoned the “tear down Julia” brigade and started to think for myself and this includes largely ignoring News Ltd media, other than George Megalogenis, having learnt that their agenda is to support Mr Abbott’s propaganda.
In fact, since my thinking has cleared I am now discovering just what a clever negotiator, thinker and manager Ms Gillard is and how Mr Abbott really is just the same old attack dog playing the fear card on the poorly informed and largely ignorant amongst us.
Although never rusted to any political persuasion if asked a few months back I would probably have criticised Mr Windsor. How sad that would have been.
Times have changed for me and it is truly a wonderful feeling to now enjoy the lightness and freedom of having my mind cleared of the crap and have my views now base on fact and not peddled propaganda.-
Wendy Green August 17, 2012
Good for you, Rosa!!!
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Rod August 17, 2012
Rosa,
Wonderful to have you aboard, Yes you sure have it correct,. Tony Windsor is a wise states man of courage, integrity and solid character.
He has my uncompromising confidence. You can rely on his words that budgie smuggling junk yard dog sure was prepared to drop his duds to get into the Lodge. Or words of similar meaning and intent. Prancing around in budgie smugglers is par for the course. Vomit.-
Mez August 18, 2012
Wonderful to have you aboard?! The Titanic?
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Steve Matthews August 17, 2012
Tony w mustve done something right as the right wing shock jocks were foaming at the mouth today
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Debra August 17, 2012
We have an elected PM, why aren’t we concentrating on making her accountable for the state of the country?
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Susan August 17, 2012
She is and she is doing a GREAT job I think!!!!!
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Wendy Green August 17, 2012
I agree, Susan : )
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Lindy August 17, 2012
Sorry to have to break the news Norelle but the opposition is opposed to the Gonsky review and this week also stated that they would get rid of about forty thousand teachers.
I also want access to Tony Windsor’s blackberry a revealing read it would be.-
Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
Don’t worry Lindy, while talking up the Gonski review the government said “gonski” to $499 million of educational expenditure. Actions speak louder than words.
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Susan August 17, 2012
He already has his own party-called Independent. These Independents have looked over every bit of legislation that has been passed in this term When you see the callibre of Tony Windsor everyone would want one of him representing them. There are many fabulous people out there who would stand for Parliament if they didn’t have to go through the hoops that both sides of politics put their candidates through. Their intention is always good but they end up having to sell their souls to tow the party line…. Imagine it -a parliament full of Independents…the thought..the thought…
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Fiona August 17, 2012
We did have a party that was great at this, they’re still around maybe it’s time we start putting the media spotlight on the Australian Democrats again
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liza August 17, 2012
I have just returned from a stay with friends who have property in Warwick.
This is a red neck piece of Australia and the people who have joined Lock the Gate still vote nationals.
nationals have encouraged Monsanto to “fertilise” their farms and they introduced the live animal exportation.
Nothing small business about them Plain ignorant.
No man made global warming perfectly natural !
Funny how what would have taken thousands of years to become an ice age is now happening in our life times.
Greenland is losing ice at a very alarming rate and the good old miners are there rubbing their greedy mitts. -
Alannah August 17, 2012
You have to be joking, this man Tony Windsor along with the other idiot inderpendants is responsible for putting in the most incompetant & stupid government in our history! Bring on an election before this idiot government destroy this great country. Have a look at the stats, anytime Labour is in they can’t run an economy, and it takes years to fix it. Has happened time and time again. Can’t wait to get rid of Gillard and Winsdor and Oakshot!!
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Wendy Green August 17, 2012
Oh Alannah, please!!! For goodness sake, take the blinkers off and stop listening to the shock jocks and the media and make up your own mind!
Only when a Labour Government is in power do we get anything done. As well as supporting workers, the ALP support the Arts, education, health, sports, etc … The ALP are the only ones to take any constructive steps to help resolve the Indigenous issues. The Libs are out to feather their own nests by keeping the big company bosses in clover.
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Mez August 18, 2012
Seriously Wendy, this Government has us in debt to China to the tune of 300 billion. 300 billion dollars and NOTHING to show for it.
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Rosie August 18, 2012
Still making statements with no RELIABLE facts Mez.
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Mez August 19, 2012
Sorry Rosie, I didn’t realise that mushrooms required spoon feeding.
The Labor Debt, run up in 5 years from a $20 Billion Surplus left by the Howard/Abbott/Costello Liberals has blown past $240 Billion as at last Friday.
Total Commonwealth Government Securities
on Issue – $241,076mAs at 17 August 2012
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Alex August 17, 2012
Why has it taken so long? Why Tony Abbott not ridiculed more often? He provides plenty of material.
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Mez August 18, 2012
Like what? Wearing speedos like every other life saver? Hehehe, let’s giggle like year 9 girls.
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Jules August 17, 2012
Your go Tony……………… ABBOTT
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Wendy Green August 17, 2012
So, Peter Wicks, you want a party with integrity, drive and determination with our best interests at heart?
We have such a party … It’s called the Labour Party and it’s headed up by a woman of determination, integrity and enormous drive – despite being attacked at every turn by the Opposition and the media. Take YOUR blinkers off and have a good look!-
Mez August 18, 2012
Wendy Green, your post made me sad for you. Underbelly Labor exists for the sole purpose of the corrupt, thieving unions and Gillard and integrity have never met.
Peter Wicks, something tells me you wouldn’t be able to back the winner if Black Caviar was the only horse in the race. Windsor is a malodorous traitor and a proven liar. He’s finally found his tribe in the ALP.
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lynda August 17, 2012
This man is a dickhead and a liar……Tony did not say what he said he did……….he is so afraid of losing his seat at the next election…his constituants hate him for supporting the worst government in our history
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Mez August 18, 2012
Oh dear, my post has been deleted. Shall I reword it? Mr Wicks, why would you support a bully and liar like Tony Windsor? Because he’s keeping the heat off Craig Thomson? What’s your opinion on Larry Pickering’s investigations and the allegations of Shane Dowling?
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Janet August 18, 2012
Mr. Windsor, I would move to your beautiful electorate to give you the vote.
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Lachemc August 18, 2012
interesting reading, especially opinions…. Nice to see support for our PM…
I have tried commenting on other websites like herald sun and yahoo and my non abusive non nasty comments have not made it on to site as they raised serious questions about Abbott and his lot and presented real and valid facts, nasty pro Abbott and anti Gillard abusive non-sensical comments were allowed. -
ChristopherJ August 18, 2012
The latest research illustrates a requirement for fibre optic cable “deep deep into the infrastructure” both for wired and wireless broadband connections. Thank you to my beautiful and courageous PM Julia and Team Labor for bringing us the NBN. As far as ‘those’ words Abbott uttered, this is not news, Windsor has mentioned it a few times before, it is not really offensive, meant to be funny, but he did say it.
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Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
Yes, the NBN is good policy and is a significant plus for the ALP. They should talk about this more instead of Rabbid.
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JoanneH August 18, 2012
It was great to watch Tony Windsor standing up to Tony Abbott in Parliament, and to see Abbott trying to deflect what he knew was the truth with that creepy insincere grin; bravo Mr. Windsor!
To @Mez – It was obvious why Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, and Andrew Wilkie chose Julia, and they said so at the time. She was better prepared, and a superior negotiator, Tony was brash and arrogant ‘ feet up on the table’ etc. just waiting to be handed the keys.
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andy gee August 19, 2012
So here’s Hoopla, mature posts for mature women – great. So why do you have a male, apologist for the unscrupulous Tony Windsor, pro Labor and anti-Abbot. Is Peter Wicks a Labor stooge? Is Hoopla a Labor stooge? Windsor has been caught on numerous occasions going feral, because he;s now deeply unpopular for having backed in an appalling government.
What is it, Hoopla? what is this saying about you?
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maggie August 19, 2012
Thank you Peter Wicks for a view of Politics Abbott style…..A very frightening thought
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sue August 19, 2012
Yes, it’s high time everybody started scrutinizing Tony Abbott. Whoever said there is plenty to scrutinize is dead right!!
And when are people going to start questioning the ‘free air time’ Abbott gets from the abc? It’s the same old inane dribble every day. I am sick to death of hearing the man. He should be paying for these ‘advertisements’!
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Mez August 20, 2012
BTW, Wendy, when you’ve digested thishttp://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=13967
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JoanneH August 21, 2012
Mez – It is rubbish, putrid, toxic muck fermented in a blog written by a failed LIBERAL candidate who is a soft porn cartoonist,and a known fraudster, and picked up by News Limited as they see Labor making some gains.
The Prime Minister has been cleared, so this sorry saga says more about the character of those with dirty hands (Gretch, Ashby etc.) hurling the dirt once again.
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Phil August 28, 2012
It’s this simple, Labor lied about the carbon tax and gained power by shoddy deals with the Greens and “Independents”. The election can’t come quick enough for the majority of Australians to form a government that will be elected on its policies. I just received my first electricity bill yesterday for the quarter, it had more than doubled compared to the previous quarter. This tax is utterly futile, pointless and cause great hardship for average people.
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liza September 6, 2012
Educated people can read about the actual effect of the carbon price. The Poles and Wires that are gold plated explain why the electricity prices have gone up dramatically LONG before the Tax came in.
The electricity in Australia was way too cheap and led to so many mining companies wanting to do business here. They also receive enormous subsidies by successive governments to keep the price down. We needed to be cleverer and learn to turn our lights off more often jsut as they do in Europe.
Washing can be done on Sundays one hell of a lot cheaper than in the weekdays because not many are at work and so the coal fires do not need to be kept going
We have base load electricity available now. just look at S. Australia and educate yourself more Phil.-
Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
The poles and wires had to be upgraded to support the solar panels sitting on our rooves which were installed in anticipation of the pending carbon tax. If you had them installed as I have then you would know that you had to pay for an upgrade to the mains. Add up a street full of mains upgrades to each home and you have to then upgrade the backbone.
Strange that the pollies are pushing the NBN because of our increased data requirements but won’t publicly draw the same association with our electricity infrastructure. The amount of lies being told to the public is the height of deceipt. They should come out with the straight truth.
Oh, and by the way I am enjoying the benefits of my 5kW solar system. Everyone should do it – but probably won’t be able to afford it thanks to those increased bills shunting off additional $ to the tax man.
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Matt September 6, 2012
Tony Windsor wont retain his own seat let alone start his own party. He was a well liked man in Tamworth until he turned his back on his conservative constituents and aligned himself with Labor. Labor has zero support in New England, none, zero, zilch. Yet this ‘Independent’ jumps into bed with Labor to form Government.
Tony will argue that he is an Independent however as a federal member he is obliged to represent his constituent’s interests in Government. By going against their very obvious wishes he is doing the very opposite of that and the voters will undoubtedly let him know all about it come the next election. -
Trish Hunt November 12, 2012
Tony Windsor is a dud. He’s emotionally divorced from the Nationals as they divorced him…I never hear him speak of policy, only his emotional baggage against the National Party. His angry ugly divorce arguments are just as bad as Abbott’s tirades, and continue instead of discussing policy. He’s faux ALP, not the real deal. If he had courage he’d join them but he won’t unlike our PM who has guts and determination which is why she is the boss of this country. I’d rather that the ALP field a real ALP candidate who is prepared to publicly declare their loyalty and speak some sense about policy instead of this fake.
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Rhoda November 12, 2012
I’m sorry but I can’t like him. He has a handle on Abbott and is very good at huff and puff though.
