Reasons not to vote LABOR.

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Werribee????

[IQS.RLOW]

Werribee????

Tim Blair gives some good advice for Werribee wannabe's or pretty much any safe Labor seat that has a population where voting intention for Labor and lack of teeth can be correlated.

As a former long-term Werribee resident who remains closely in touch with the general Lalor area, please allow me to assist. Simply mention the following Werribee talking points in every speech and locals will soon be convinced you’ve lived there for decades:

• The mist above Coventry Reserve didn’t evaporate as expected over summer and keeps absorbing more birds.

• Although put down last August by armed state government officials, a bid by Watton St traders to mint their own currency is still a popular topic at meetings of local secessionist groups.

• Despite several high-profile arrests, residents appear convinced they can legally stage pitbull fights by referring to the animals as “goldfish” or “ferns” in flyers and newspaper promotions.

• River access at the end of Pagnoccolo St remains barricaded by three men who won’t say who they are or what they’re doing.

• Debate continues over a carjacking operation’s childhood reading initiative sponsorship.

• The current most searched-for phrase at the Werribee Banner‘s website is “translucent sabre-fanged night beasts”.

• GPS systems are somehow providing accurate directions to unmapped locations at the shanty town outside of Wyndham Vale.

• Depending on who you listen to, a missing netball team is either “training interstate” or “active in the mountains north of Syria’s war-torn Idlib province”.

• That chewing sound people used to hear coming from the Synnot St storm drain has now shifted to a utility shed within the grounds of St Agatha’s Aged Care Hospice.

• According to council statistics, the number of kindergarten-age children with speech patterns suggesting they were raised by domestic pets has trebled since 1998.

• Visitor numbers at the Family Fun Walk pathway complex through Crippen Fields are up by 35 per cent. Survival numbers, however, remain worryingly low.

Just stick to these key issues, Lisa, and the outcome is guaranteed.

[Rorschach]

Rudd just can't help himself when it comes to adoration
* by: Lanai Scarr
* From: News Limited Network
* July 12, 2013 9:09AM

POPE Kevin. It has a nice ring to it.

One wonders if that's Kevin Rudd's ultimate goal. The adoration, the worship, the scores of faithful lining up to get a glimpse.

Blink and you might have thought an event at The Lodge in Canberra yesterday was a dry run for when Kevin Rudd - who now attends an Anglican Church but was raised Roman Catholic - takes the top job at The Vatican.

The nation's Prime Minister had more than 100 ambassadors and top diplomats lining up outside The Lodge for a chance at small chat and to shake the hand of a man resurrected.

The "real Kevin" was back. And his ego on full display as the line grew and ambassadors braved the Canberra cold on the gravel outside The Lodge.


Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson said on breakfast television this morning that Kevin Rudd's ego was "getting out of control … again".

He claimed he had changed, he claimed he would be more consultative, he claimed things would be different this time around.

But can a leopard really change its spots?

Commentators, including Mr Richardson, say that if Mr Rudd continues his tour of self-worship and a multitude of overseas trips he risks losing the momentum Labor now has.

Kevin Rudd is a great campaigner and has achieved much in his political career. But he loves power, he loves adoration, he loves media spotlight.

It may be his undoing … again.

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[Black Orchid]

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised for describing himself as a 'survivor' of the Kokoda track, after his comments angered Australian veterans.

On a brief visit to Papua New Guinea to discuss the government's asylum seeker crisis, Mr Rudd yesterday paid tribute to the Australian Diggers who lost their lives on the track - but also appeared to include himself on the list of survivors.

"I was one of them way back then and I am survivor of the Kokoda Track," the PM said.

The comments have angered some Diggers, News Ltd reports.

"Good on him, he is a survivor, but is he a contributor?" Kokoda survivor Bede Tongs, 93, said.

"That wasn't the right thing for him to say, but politicians always want to say something to bring prominence upon themselves.

Mr Rudd has this morning apologised to anyone who was offended by the comments, saying they were taken out of context.

"In my speech I said that, 3000 Australians walked the Kokoda a year and that I had done the same and survived that's actually what I meant. If people have taken that a different way, then of course I'm sorry about any misinterpretation", Mr Rudd said this morning.

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Foot in mouth disease surfaces yet again for Kevvy.

Where is the Messiah thread?

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bad enough we spend anout $12 million on every boat load of so-called refugees... and that the cost for housuing boat people etc is in the tens of billions (over $30 billion)

Detainee compensation claims hit $25m - and are rising fast
July 21, 2013
Natalie O'Brien

Compensation payments to immigration detainees have topped the $25 million mark as a record number of asylum seekers, particularly children, are being held in detention.

More than $17 million in compensation has been paid in the past five years to detainees who have been unlawfully held in immigration detention or suffered injuries while in detention, with more than 60 cases pending.

The figure does not include all legal expenses or the continuing medical and psychological care costs for injured detainees - a figure also estimated to be in the millions.

The compensation figures since 2007 coincide with a rise in the number of deaths in immigration detention. There have been 16 since 2007 of which six were suicides, six are still awaiting determination by a coroner and four were natural causes.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Immigration said all of the compensation payouts, bar one, were for detainees who were in the system before the original Rudd government came to power. She said many of the claims related to incidents between 2000 and 2005.

But legal experts are foreshadowing fresh claims, and figures from the Department of Finance show that in the 2010-11 year 16 new claims were lodged and two in 2011-12. The department could not release the numbers for this year.

But with record numbers of people in detention, lawyers predict a new wave of claims, including from the Indonesian boys who crewed some of the boats and were jailed as adults.

A spokesman for the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Greg Barns, said he had seen an increasing number of cases this year; the federal government was in an untenable situation.

''I would expect that children who have been kept in detention will make claims, because it is abundantly clear that the minister has an obligation to put the best interests of the children first,'' he said.

'There is no court that will say the children should be kept in detention, so there is a breach of duty of care. There is going to be a tail of these claims … through the next decade.''

George Newhouse of Shine Lawyers, who acted for Cornelia Rau and deported Australian citizen Vivian Alvarez Solon, who are believed to have received $2.6 million and $4.5 million respectively for wrongful detention, said more claims were inevitable.

''If the government is going to keep people in toxic conditions within detention then they must establish dedicated mental health centres to deal with the resulting damage,'' he said.

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Gotta love these people and their lawyers.

[skippy]

I thought the conga line would be happy to see Kevvy has stopped the boats.... but you have shown your true colours, you don't want to stop the boats.... you want to see Abbotts three word slogans while watching babies get their heads smashed against rocks, shame rightards shame.

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I thought the conga line would be happy to see Kevvy has stopped the boats.... but you have shown your true colours, you don't want to stop the boats.... you want to see Abbotts three word slogans while watching babies get their heads smashed against rocks, shame rightards shame.

Thought? You? Surely not.
Skippy, you couldn't draw a conclusion without a visual aid mate.

I don't care what party stops the boats as long as they are stopped.

As for the rest.... like I've often said... you are a retard.

[skippy]

I thought the conga line would be happy to see Kevvy has stopped the boats.... but you have shown your true colours, you don't want to stop the boats.... you want to see Abbotts three word slogans while watching babies get their heads smashed against rocks, shame rightards shame.

Thought? You? Surely not.
Skippy, you couldn't draw a conclusion without a visual aid mate.

I don't care what party stops the boats as long as they are stopped.

As for the rest.... like I've often said... you are a retard.

Your problem is your mothers brother didn't use a condom, you inbred lump of shit.

[Rorschach]

an uncouth aggressive retard.

[skippy]

an uncouth aggressive retard.

I am a dumbfvck:thumb

Glad you agree.