buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 14
th, 2011 at 7:44pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Jan 14
th, 2011 at 6:10pm:
buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 14
th, 2011 at 4:47pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Jan 14
th, 2011 at 4:20pm:
buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 14
th, 2011 at 2:56pm:
I ALWAYS know I'm on a WINNER when the best retaliation is a run of gay jibes
It just washes over me - and I doubt garners much respect from thinking people
YOU stick to your Gillard 'bitching' and I'LL keep an eye on Lord Baillieu
NEITHER of you need to hang on my every word
Well i doubt you are garnering much respect with your literally DAILY whinging, whining and complaining and a lost election.
And you STILL whinge about the NBA - despite going TWICE to an election
do you mean the NBN - which went to ONE election where the govt was massively repudiated?
On the NBN ?
Let's not forget the MAJOR factor that swayed the independents and Greens member to support the most VIABLE government
All without the need for large colored font
So it has nothing to do with;
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given almost $10 billion in incentives to regional Australia to help win the support of two key independent MPs and keep Labor in power.
Ms Gillard said the deal with the independents would mean the next round of the health and hospitals funding and of the education investment fund would focus on regional areas. There would also be $800 million for a regional infrastructure program.
All up, regional Australia would get in the order of $9.9 billion of benefits, and this was a fair share, she said. A tax summit will be held and there are indications the controversial mining tax will be reviewed again.
Labor has also offered Mr Oakeshott a ministry, although he has yet to decide whether to accept it.
Mr Windsor and Mr Oakeshott said broadband was a key factor in their decision, as was an expectation that the Coalition would try to go back to the polls quickly and likely target their seats.
''Philosophy died about a decade ago, or probably longer, this is about using the political system to advantage the people that we represent and the people of regional Australia,'' Mr Windsor said.
Mr Oakeshott said either Ms Gillard or Mr Abbott would be a good prime minister and this had made the decision more difficult.
Mr Oakeshott said he also took into account advice from former independent MP Ted Mack, indicating that they believed Labor had more to gain in working with the cross-benchers than the Coalition.
They considered ''which party has more to gain in working with us, as opposed to which party will try to knife us and go to the early polls''.
''I want to be very clear and upfront that this is not a mandate for any government. ... No one party has dominance over the executive or the parliament ... and that is a good reality,'' he said.
Spin it whatever way you want, the independents had more to gain for their own seats by siding with a government they knew would be too frightened to go to the polls again, and Bandt made it clear he would never side with the Coalition, the same coalition who's preferences got him into power in the first place. Wilke has a grudge and rightly so, I dont blame him for siding with labor.