Right Pulse

Looks like the mining industry is ready to go to war on the ALP and their new defacto partners the Greens:

Small and medium miners, including Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group, are considering restarting the advertising campaign against the government’s mining tax.

Mr Forrest, the chief executive of Fortescue, has told a teleconference in Perth this morning, his company and its counterparts not only remain opposed to the tax, but they now hold grave fears because the Greens may win the balance of power in the Senate.

The Greens of course want to basically abolish the mining  industry. I think the mining industry will do a much better job at attacking the ALP than the Liberals are currently doing through their advertising campaign. Hard but true. Still we don’t have a new attack ad. Is someone asleep in Liberal HQ? They should be rolling out a new ad every two to three days and bringing forward their party conference to rest back some momentum.

Noticed that Rudd is back in the news. Apparently he wants a job with the UN. Typical. Rudd would rather serve the UN than Australia, and don’t confuse the UN for the world. It also shows how self serving Rudd is and how quickly a politician can fall. Rudd has been leaking to the media as badly as a people smuggler’s boat since he was deposed as PM. For someone of his ego he must be raving mad at Gillard. A pesky journalist with a bit of courage could probably pry some type of public reaction out of him. That would make for juicy news. Better still, a punch up or stouch between Gillard and Rudd in a Westfields in Brisbane. Gillard would probably win.

ABC has launched its 24 news channel tonight. Just in time to help get the ALP across the line this election. Your tax dollars at work. I have a feeling that the ABC presence may move Sky News to the right to help them retain some market share. Here’s hoping.