Oops!
THE Rudd government has intervened on behalf of thousands of low-paid aged-care nurses in NSW and Queensland who faced significant wage cuts as a result of Labor’s revamp of the nation’s award system.
Nah, couldn’t be.
So the country tosses out a government because of Work Choices (see ACTU Propaganda campaign) that had most people better off for a government with a plan to make every one equal and in the first incidence the plan has to be changed because all people aren’t equal.
I’m not surprised but then I’ve lived under previous ALP governments.
I thought I’d watch some of the second day at the MCG so switched on the TV to be confronted by Kevin Rudd standing on the high moral ground in full ‘telling us how to behave‘ mode.
The Nanny State Supremo is lecturing us about binge drinking before we are allowed to watch cricket.
He even mentioned some cricketing greats so I can only imagine one of his staff looked them up for him.
Nanny State in full flight. I’m worried he’ll be at my place next lecturing me on drinking, swearing and not going to church.
Mind you, he could have a point. 
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has reissued a threat to 
Classy mob, the ALP and only the ABC would allocated a full article to a 
In my duties as a JP some months ago I had to witness a Stat Dec. When I queried the person, as I’m obliged to, he told me he was putting in a claim for compensation for mistreatment under the care of Queensland government departments when he was an orphan.
The basis of the declaration?
He was forced to have cold showers – lots of them.
I resisted the urge to hug and console him for this heinous abuse and while sitting there watching him apply his signature I wondered whether I shouldn’t have a chat with the Army.
Not to say, of course, that all stories are as lightweight but I have trouble seeing value from politicians apologising for sins of the past. The aboriginies are no better off for all the wailing, gnashing of teeth and breast beating that Rudd visited on us early in his campaign to become the Statesman of the Free World and I doubt if the orphans will benefit either.
If there are those, and I know there are, who gather strength from this weeks apology then I wish them well and trust life now has some closure even though I can’t imagine how, or for that matter, why.
I will leave the last word to FW Anning of Ascot Qld who wrote in this morning’s The Australian;
With the Australian lungfish, the Mary River turtle and Mary River cod now promoted up the food chain to a position higher than humans I trust 
Can you spare a dime….NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen may have successfully paddled a kayak in front of a US warship on Sydney Harbour, but it proved tougher in the High Court yesterday where he lost a defamation case against NSW north coast developer Jerry Bennette. Cohen now has a bill of more than $1 million. “The costs of the opposition’s lawyers were quite significant,” Cohen told Strewth, clearly unafraid of understatement. “I’ve had years of this hanging over me, when I’ve told myself I might lose, so I was reasonably well prepared emotionally.” Cohen is contemplating doing more on the public speaking front and expanding his range of cane toad skin fashions and accessories, but he’s also in no frame of mind to turn away any generous benefactors: “Even smaller donations will help keep me on my feet. I’m easy to find.”
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