why did people vote labor?

Because it was by far the best option:

The real question should be how did we make such a huge error in 2013.

Hold it, Bruvvas an' Sistahs!!

The entire aim of the current destruction of Australia economically and socially is to ensure that NO boat people WANT to come here - it's worse than where they came from!

I mean - why would they leave the safety of mud walls that stop AK rounds well for a life on the ocean wave, followed by poverty and trying to live in the social and economic deserts of Australia these days?  Can't even get a QANTAS flight out!

Nope - no self-respecting refugee would consider coming here!      

Dnarever wrote on Feb 13^th, 2014 at 8:50am:




ahahahahah not so.... she talked the good miners in Kalgoorlie to hand over their fund to wilson...

it was in the local paper that the miners didnt like wilson...but she went there not as his lover but as a lawyer working for G&S



I would like to take you on a little trip to the WA Goldfields... to Kalgoorlie’s twin city, Boulder WA.

Where newspaper archives show Bruce Wilson travelled to Boulder/Kalgoorlie in 1992 to attempt to allay union members' concerns about his (Wilson’s) decision to transfer the management of large sums of union members’ money to a new AWU account in Northbridge, Perth. The money resided at the time in a separate account called, “The Goldfields Fatal Accident and Death Fund”. This money, donated from union members themselves, was to financially assist bereaved families of deceased union members. 

Wilson wanted management the account shifted to the AWU’s head office in Perth. Wilson was the then WA boss of the AWU. He and Ralph Blewitt were to be sole signatories on the account and union members were justifiably apprehensive. They were wary of Wilson’s alleged fraudulent activities and demanded a meeting. It was set down for 8pm in the Boulder Town Hall.

Wilson knew he would never convince members of the legitimacy of the proposed move himself. So he introduced to the stage, a person of high legal authority to assure union members there was no need for concern. The person he introduced was Julia Gillard. Members were unaware Gillard was his lover.

She was presented as an important Industrial Lawyer from Victoria and an official representative of the Labor stalwart law firm, Slater & Gordon.


Gillard addressed union members at length explaining why the money should be moved and that there was nothing to worry about. She insisted the members were in the good hands of Slater & Gordon and their best interests would at all times be protected.


SHE WENT THERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF TALKING THEM INTO TRANSFERRING THEIR FUND...


WHAT OTHER REASON WOULD SHE HAVE GONE???????


can you think of one reason she would go there.......other than to benefit wilson????


I am not even sure Slater and Gordon even knew she did go there even though she claimed she was working for them and they would look after the fund..

Just a few facts for a change...

Reality...
    * BEc, LLB (Syd), MA (Oxon).
    * Rhodes Scholar.
    * Journalist.
    * Plant Manager, Pioneer Concrete.
    * Press secretary and political adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Dr JR Hewson 1990-93.
    * Executive Director, Australians for Constitutional Monarchy 1993-94.

Reality...
    * Farmer.
    * President, Australian Council of Rural Youth 1973-74.
    * Member, Queensland Graingrowers' Association State Council 1979-90.
    * Chair, Sugar Coast Burnett Regional Tourism Board 1985-89.
    * Deputy Chair, Bulk Grains Queensland 1985-90.
    * Solicitor 1991-93.

Reality...
    * BEc (Hons)(La Trobe), Dip AgricSc (Dookie Agricultural College).
    * Animal health officer, Vic. Dept of Agriculture 1972-74.
    * Agricultural economist, Vic. Dept of Agriculture 1974-79.
    * Part-time tutor, La Trobe University 1976-79.
    * Economist, National Farmers' Federation 1980.
    * Executive Director, Cattle Council of Australia 1981-84.
    * Executive Director, National Farmers' Federation 1985-88.
    * Deputy Federal Director, Liberal Party 1988-89.
    * Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. AS Peacock 1989-90.
    * Federal Director, Liberal Party 1990-97.
    * Consultant, Ammirati Puritas Lintas 1997.
    * Senior Executive, PBL 1997-99.
    * Board member, Sinclair Knight Merz 1998-2001.
    * Chief Executive Officer, Acxiom Australia 1999-2001.
    * Chairman, Acxiom Australia 2001-04.
    * Business adviser 2001-04.

Reality...
    * LLB (Adel).
    * Advanced Management Program (Senior Managers) (Harvard Business School).
    * Barrister and solicitor 1979-98.
    * Managing partner, Clayton Utz, Perth, WA 1994-98.
    * Chair, Town Planning Appeal Tribunal of WA 1994-98.
    * Senate Member, Murdoch University 1997-98.
    * Director, Special Broadcasting Services Television 1997-98.
    * Director and Fellow, Australian Institute of Management 1997-98.

Reality...
    * BA, LLB (Syd).
    * Director of Policy to the Premier of New South Wales.
    * Banking and finance lawyer, Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Reality...
    * BA, LLB (Melb), LLM (Monash).
    * Research solicitor, Law Institute of Victoria 1980-81.
    * Co-ordinator, Continuing Legal Education, Law Institute of Victoria 1981-83.
    * Associate to the Hon. Sir James Gobbo, Supreme Court of Victoria 1983-85.
    * Barrister-at-law, Victoria 1985-91.

Reality...
    * BA(Hons), LLB(Hons I) (Melb), MA (Yale).
    * University Prize, Final Year Thesis, Melbourne University; Yale Fellowship; Schell Centre for Human Rights Fellowship, Yale Law School.
    * Captain, Australian Universities Debating Team 1990.
    * Articled Clerk, Malleson Stephen Jacques 1991-92.
    * Associate to Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court 1992.
    * Fulbright Scholar and Teaching Assistant, Yale University 1992-94.
    * Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, AJG Downer, MP 1994-95.
    * Senior Adviser to the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, AJG Downer, MP 1995-96.
    * Senior Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. AJG Downer, MP 1996-98.
    * Chief, Australian Electoral Observer Mission to Cambodia 1998.
    * Senior Fellow, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Melbourne 1998-99.
    * Engagement Manager, McKinsey and Co 1999-2001.
    * Director of Strategy, World Economic Forum, Geneva 2000-01.

Reality...
    * BBus (Queensland University of Technology).
    * Police officer 1990-99.
    * Company director from 1993.

Reality...
    * BFA (UNE), CPA, FCPA.
    * Farm worker 1989-91.
    * Accountant 1991-94.
    * Rural banker 1994-98.
    * Self-employed accountant 1998-2005.
    * Royal Queensland Regiment 1995-2003.

Reality...
    * Farmer.
    * President, Queensland Graingrowers Association.
    * President, Grains Council of Australia.

Reality...
    * BBus (RMIT).
    * Master of Business Leadership (RMIT).
    * Graduate Diploma of Management (RMIT).
    * Manager, Corporate Development, Shire of Hastings 1993-94.
    * Ministerial Adviser to the State Minister for Natural Resources, the Hon. CG Coleman, MLA (Vic) 1994-96.
    * Policy Adviser to the Federal Shadow Minister for the Environment, Senator CR Kemp 1995.

I voted for the third option, as bad as each other. I don't know why anybody would vote for Labor, the Coalition or the Greens the way that all the parties are now. Sadly about 80-85% did at the last election.

[quote author=Blue... link=1392238062/1#1 date=1392238218]and this my friends...

is why we are in so much debt..

why spending is out of control, one of the worst in the world "Quote"

Labor voters who care only about their pockets, not the country. It's a matter of "I'm right, mate and  damn you!"

No matter if union demands means that some will profit others will be retrenched.

Why did people vote Labor?

Sheer masochism........