Tough!
BENNELONG community groups and constituents have accused Maxine McKew of turning her back on the electorate since the federal election.
You voted for her, now wear it!
Month: August 2008
Rudd reaches new depths
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd witnessed a heated discussion between US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over Russia’s invasion of a tiny neighbouring country as athletes paraded before them in the Opening Ceremony on Friday night.
And then told the press about it …the little lickspittle.
How embarrassing!
GroceryChoice starts
The Government will this morning launch its grocery price watch scheme, GroceryChoice. Similar to the controversial FuelWatch scheme, the website will allow people to compare prices for a basket of goods, including meat, vegetables and milk, to find the cheapest supermarket in their area. The prices will be updated monthly through a survey of 600 supermarkets across the nation.
the website will allow people to compare prices for a basket of goods, including meat, vegetables and milk, to find the cheapest supermarket in their area.
Sorry, it’s not going to help the housewife or husband plan their shopping trip. Monthly updates will never beat the weekly brochures stores drop in their letterbox for free. As the site is only updated on the first business day of the month then unless one shops that day or the next the prices will be out of whack.
I can’t see the major players responding to, or being frightened of, a government website that will have neither currency nor item prices. They are already competing with each other on a more frequent rotation and advertise this regularly with letter box drops and TV adds.
Time will tell but it’s typical of this government to set up monitoring websites when there are practical steps they can take. As groceries are delivered by trucks then it might be a good idea to give the bona fide small truck operators a fuel discount like the major companies receive. Now that has a good chance of lowering grocery costs.
Keating supports Costello
PAUL Keating has called Peter Costello a “slow acting dope”, and has slammed the Liberal Party for reconsidering him as leader.
Looking better for Peter all the time – anyone Keating dislikes has to be good for the country.
Top Gun BBQ
Couldn’t resist putting this pic up.
From old Army mate Len.
Costello has the ALP running scared
And he hasn’t even thrown his hat in the ring yet!
Clinton Porteous on Costello
WAR GAMING against Peter Costello as the next Liberal leader has begun inside federal Labor ranks and one senior figure believes they have already struck gold.
“We will run advertisements saying: ‘This man is only in politics because he can’t get a job outside’,” the Labor Party source said.
Labor has plenty of material to work with, but the planning is also a further sign of how desperate things have become for the current Liberal leader Brendan Nelson.
True, but that is only one way of looking at it. The other viewpoint is that the planning is a further sign that the ALP are desperate to keep Costello out of the leaders seat.
Costello will crucify Wayne Swan and put paid to his blaming the coalition for all our economic woes. He is an attack dog and we need someone to call the ALP to question.
No one else is, not even the media.
As a matter of interest, I can’t recollect a Government ever running ads to influence the outcome of an election for the leader of the opposition before. A sure sign that the ALP don’t want him anywhere near the front bench.
Surprise! China is being China
A HUMILIATED Kevan Gosper has accused the International Olympic Committee of betrayal, condemning the world sporting body for striking a secret deal with China to censor the international media during the Beijing Games.
A red-eyed and crestfallen Gosper, a senior IOC member for 31 years, told The Australian that both his reputation and that of the controversy-plagued IOC had been seriously dented by China’s decision to restrict internet access for journalists covering the Games.
Surely no one ever believed that a communist country would give free reign to foreign journalists or give way on human rights issues.
How much is buck passing and how much was anticipated before hand we’ll never know but one thing is for sure – I don’t believe that the IOC believed what the communists were telling them and they gave the games to Beijing for reasons of their own.
Maybe it will force China into softening, there may be a positive but I really think we are about to be hit with mobs of communist propaganda.
Over the next few weeks I think I’ll stay away from tabloid TV more than I normally do.