Calling it now, if Carbon Tax does go the libs will ditch direct action as "unaffordable in the current environment"
Secondary call: Abbot will break more promises than Gillard, but receive only a fraction of the criticism for doing so (indeed I bet some, including those here, will label it...
I agree it's stupid for it t be an issue, but it's even stupider for Rudd not to have realized that it would have been made an issue of. As thegreatest99.5 said above, Rudd has been calling for a debate for weak, you think he might have actually been prepared.
Look I'm fairly pro-Labor (who would have guessed!) but even I think it was a bad move by Rudd for two reasons
1) it does go to character if the rules said no notes
But more importantly
2) now more people are talking bout whether Rudd used notes or not than the actual debate itself and the last...
However, Mr Abbott pledged not to negotiate for power in any circumstances. ''There's a commitment that I want to give you. There will not be a minority government led by me. There will not be deals done with independents and minor parties under any political movement that I lead,'' he said...
They're morally reprehensible to the point where I don't consider them the press. If Rupert wants to influence policy so much then he should run for parliament, or otherwise fuck off.
PS yes, certainly the 6 point 1 line word of editorial makes it patently clear that its an editorial piece...
Theoretically, if he visits the GG today it doesn't automatically mean the election will be on the 7th does it? He could still visit the GG and ask for the 21st yes/no?
If there wasn't so much paranoia about asylum seekers we wouldn't have needed to have spent the $60m (and hundreds of millions more) in the first place.