You think Keating is bad, just listen to the applause of the audience.
As far as I can tell, Keating thinks that because China’s economy is growing we need to change our flag and constitution to accommodate the Chinese politburo. NEWSFLASH: China does not care nor have they asked and if they did no self respecting nation would comply. Australia was respected by Asia more under monarchist John Howard than of any other PM we have ever had or currently have.
UPDATE
Steyn’s take down:
….occupiers and worthless political class want more of the same fix that has made America the Brokest Nation in History: They expect to live as beneficiaries of a prosperous Western society without making any contribution to the productivity necessary to sustain it. This is the “idealism” that the media are happy to sentimentalize, and that enough poseurs among the corporate executives are happy to indulge – at least until the window smashing starts.
I’ve been very impressed with the speed in which local authorities in our cities have dealt with our own undesirables. Apparently things are a good deal slower in the USA. However, there is one occupy protest in Canberra that has been going for nearly 40 years and it is about time it was shut down.
The Greens are the death party:
Assimilate and die together. A vote for Greens is a vote for death.
The ABC is going into an apoplectic shock at the thought that Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, mentioned John Howard in his manifesto.
In a manifesto posted online under the Anglicised pseudonym Andrew Berwick, the killer quoted Mr Howard, former treasurer Peter Costello, Catholic Cardinal George Pell and conservative writer and historian Keith Windschuttle.
Is anyone seriously suggesting that Breivik was motivated to kill because of John Howard? Breivik also wrote about Winston Churchill, Bernard Lewis, Edmund Burke, Thomas Jefferson, Mahatma Gandhi, John Locke, George Orwell, Roger Scruton and Frank Field, amongst others. How is this news? It is simply one of the many tactics the ABC uses to try and slime conservatives; little better than News of the World.
If you are struggling to understand – as I am – why the left have a problem with the live cattle trade, the below video gives a brief glimpse into what was going on in Gillard’s head when she banned the export trade to Indonesia.
You know what, as much as I believe Kev was a poor performer, who can deny he has been treated very badly by his own party.
No one will forget the cruelty of how our sitting PM was deposed by unseen forces that lurk in the dark at the Labor party.
Now, with rumours aplenty that Kev has been gagged, how about this from former Labor Queensland premier Peter Beattie:
“I fully understand the difficulty of a by-election… But some time on the back bench followed by a dignified exit would put Kevin in history as a man interested in good government and not himself. Kevin has to put Australia first.”…
“What is killing Labor electorally, particularly in Queensland, is the continuing division over the leadership change.
Err.. right.. So long as the Labor party continues to harass Rudd without confronting their own demons, there will be no coming back from oblivion.
So what’s really killing Labor? Firstly, to correct Peter Beattie, the leadership contentions (and even the knifing of Kevin Rudd) are a symptom of the problem but not a root cause. In the eyes of the electorate, Labor lacks principles, it stands for nothing, and cannot be trusted.
There are many values that make Australians one of the greatest peoples on Earth, but few compare in importance to truth telling. In this regard, the Labor party has significantly inferior values compared to the average of the Australian collective. Being lied to about the Carbon tax, and then lying about the lying will not go unpunished.
Given the first opportunity, this electorate will dump the government. Labor is finished.
