User:Timeshift9

Talk Page Awards Why do I choose to contribute to wikipedia? - Is wikipedia reliable? - 1000 APH references can't be wrong! The media, specifically The Advertiser in this case, continue to have a complete lack of knowledge and disrespect for our electoral system. Did the federal seat of Mayo become a potential Labor win after the Mayo by-election, 2008? Try reading Port Adelaide state by-election, 2012 results section sometime and learn what asymmetrical preference flows without a major party candidate is. Media ignorance is rampant, truly rampant, and it does more damage to our democracy than any political party can. The Weekend Australian reported that Ms Redmond told the party fundraiser she spent the first day of a strategy conference with her MPs "pulling knives out of my back." The newspaper quoted one senior Liberal MP saying that "there is a phoney war going on" within the party. Notably absent from the event was former Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith who refused to respond to response to Ms Redmond's alleged comments. Labor has posted signs throughout Port Adelaide in the final days of the campaign publicising Mr Johanson's former Liberal Party membership and asking: "How independent is that?" http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/poll-result-falls-in-my-lap-premier/story-e6frea6u-1226268232710 LOL! Well on the first para, I thought the deputy leader said "he was sure that the speculation was coming purely from the Labor Party". The above seems to contradict this? Or perhaps you're referring to Redmond's former ALP membership? Honestly, you can always trust the SA Libs infighting to flare up directly prior to any form of an election, even ones they aren't running in. They simply cannot help themselves! As for the second para, well I did always find it odd that a Liberal last year is an independent this year. I would have thought after the 2010 fed result that independent and Liberal DNA just don't splice! It's always good to have an election of some form here in SA :) Because after contesting every by-election since 1974 in Goyder and 9 of 12 general election wins, it becomes a rather nice expected regularity :) "Close call as Labor takes a hit in Port Adelaide": Sunday Mail (The Advertiser) - that headline was expected since Close entered the race. What a non-event, *yawn*. Obviously this headline was in storage for the past few months. I'm sure the same will be said when the city wakes up to the "headlines" in this one-paper town. But in the end, Labor easily retained the seat, despite so many variables - lol. Abbott harks back to the Howard days as if they served the country well. They didn't. What did a current Liberal Premier say recently? people should do without their Foxtel and air-conditioners before whining about electricity prices[1] Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is how the Liberal Party are when they're in power. But as far as backflips go, I guess Abbott has had the most practice... here's a nice paraphrase: "Climate change is crap and we need direct action to combat it, not a simple tax that I suggested in 2009 before Gillard did!" 2011, the year of delivery for Gillard Labor. They introduced plain cigarette packaging laws, put in place a flood levy to pay for the disaster caused by the 2010-2011 Queensland Floods tragedy and introduced the Clean Energy Bill to assist in the fight against climate change. Gillard reached an historic agreement for health care reform with state and territory leaders, and introduced an MRRT to fund various areas including a superannuation increase and cuts to the company tax rate. Agreements with Telstra have been reached in regard to the National Broadband Network, with the rollout going to plan. Labor reduced income tax rates in 2008, 2009, 2010. The unemployment rate is around 5%, interest rates are lower than during the Howard government, inflation is reasonable, and we have one of the lowest government debts in the world whilst successfully steering the country through the Global Financial Crisis. We are not in recession, infact we have one of the best GDP figures in the world. All of this with only 72 of 150 lower house seats, the Noalition now stifling all government legislation of the day, relying on the Greens and three independents to pass any legislation, the first hung parliament in 70 years, against the most disingenuous, policy-free, contradictory, hypocritical, regressive opposition and media Australia has ever seen. Gillard has gone further in a hung parliament than Menzies did, and with double the number of crossbenchers. All in all, hundreds of bills passed, all prior to gaining Slipper, changing parliamentary majority numbers for the government from 75-74 to 76-73, a bombshell on the last day of the 2011 parliamentary year. Only a staunch Labor supporter would have foreseen all of the above at the outcome of the last election. So please, News Ltd and Liberal fanbois, tell me precisely how this is an "incompetent government"? Abbott works on the theory that if you say something enough, people begin to believe it. Look how he went on about the 2010 result but would have done the same things himself, then we get his old tricks with a November 2011 Oakeshott counter offer to Labor's Slipper. Imagine what sort of a government and country would appear from an Abbott-led government. Last time they were in all they did was give us a GST and WorkChoices and rode off the back of a Labor-driven pot of gold economy in 11 wasted years of power. Why can't they win government by being liked rather than by not being someone else they paint as bad? Luckily for Australians, no opposition leader with a 50%+ dissatisfaction rating has ever been PM. Opposition leader material, but not PM material is what the public can see. This is shown in the polls only when you look at satisfaction ratings which are the only indicators that do not sway with the popularity of the other side. 2-4 December was the last Newspoll for the year in which Abbott sunk to a new low - 33% satisfaction, 57% dissatisfaction. For someone not having to wear the decisions of a currently incumbent government... wow. Even Turnbull's last result was 36% sat 50% dissat. I wonder how Abbott feels that his Preferred PM number is higher than his satisfaction number. When does party-leader hunting season begin? :) The opposition and media go to the extraordinary lengths of claiming the government has killed people and houses have burnt down as a result of the stimulus, when infact the pink batts program actually drove the statistics down. Where's the articles now? Are the batts really burning? No, but the right-wing media are. Fear the Greens! LOL At the 2010 election, Labor was the superior choice to, and won on many levels against, the Lib/Nat Coalition - by Timeshift9 A picture tells a thousand words. Need to find free Public Domain or Creative Commons images? These are the places I search most: USASearch and DoDmedia, US image repositories, usually under the license of {{PD-USGov}} or {{PD-USGov-Military}} Picture Australia - repository of many Australian image sites under various free or non-free licenses, depending on the source. Images older than 50 years are usually free under the license of {{PD-Australia}} Flickr.com Advanced Photo Search (tick the bottom three creative commons boxes when searching) (flickr users are often willing to change licenses (see here) if you message them) usually under the license of {{cc-by-2.0}} or {{cc-by-sa-2.0}}

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