BigOl64 wrote on Aug 9^th, 2013 at 10:28am:


Why on earth would I place any stock in what Red says?
The OP has no quoted sources, no links to articles to verify
Just apparently Reds mates word,

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Well I spoke to my anonymous source in Defence & he said the plane was scheduled to go to "The Ghan" to cover lag time between the Yanks refuelers arriving to replace those going home.

So which load of bullsh!t are you going to back?

It is the VERY ESSENCE of what Kevin RUDD represents.

Rudd senses a patriotic media opportunity, knowing that an election is in the winds. In typical 'policy on the run' Rudd style; he  picks up the phone, tells the R.A.A.F. to get a plane ready, a f......g big one, one big enough to take maximum Media, journos, etc.

Then on a wing and a prayer he flies to Afghanistan with Therese in tow. Make his media presentation both he and Therese in their flak jackets.

You see this is where Kevin RUDD is like the mighty OZ a.k.a. Wizard of Oz. He is all smoke and mirrors there is nothing of substance to this Teflon coated fraud, he is putting on a masterclass in bullsh.t for the voting public.

Only thing is, the majority are not buying this flim flam for one solitary second.

I guess Howard must have overlooked the opportunity to re-jig DFRB....

Nah!!!
That couldn't be possible.....Could it??

Lobo wrote on Aug 9^th, 2013 at 2:35pm:



Sh1t why don't we blame whitlam for not reviewing the DFRDB when he had the chance as well.

Service members have been actively campaigning the CURRENT government for the last few years and the CURRENT government has chosen to ignore them; that is why howard, keating, hawke, fraser and whitlam have not been mentioned.

Lobo wrote on Aug 9^th, 2013 at 2:51pm:




As far as I know they have not been actively (important word that one) campaigning any previous governments, this has been a recent activity, well the last 5 years or so.


In a nut shell ONLY the current government has been actively campagned, there is always the odd whinging, but nothing like this.

Rudd / gillard could have done something about this but they refused, and this gives every right to those being screwed over on the DFRDB pension to be very angry.

It was LABOR that f......d over the Defence Forces Retirement Fund you wankers.

Hey, incidentally are all you Labor boys and girls enjoying Rudd reaming your kids savings accounts to pay the bills he can't pay?

Guess the Defence Forces aren't the only ones feeling the pinch of the Grim Reaper Rudd.

That would be the odd whingy bit that I mentioned in my post.


DFRDB has always been crap, but nothing as bad as it is now, hence the bigger campaigns. They we bleating back in my day to, but nothing major.


To justify rudd's inaction by stating that none of the previous PM did anything too is a p1ss weak argument. Rudd's in charge now and he has the abiility to do something and he won't, plain and simple.


All's I can say Im glad I didn't get sucked into the DFRDB sh1t fight, vet affairs is crap enough for me.
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I'm know the people involved at the time didn't regard their campaign as 'nothing major'.

But, and it's still a 'but', should Abbott win out at the coming election, don't expect any great changes.

And if/when they don't happen, we wont go back and blame Rudd, will we???