The Aussies get it, why can't McCully
I have been saying for many years that our policies over Fiji, whilst deeply hypocritical, are also not working and allow China to increase its influence in the Pacific to fill the void left by...
View ArticleA reverse wedgie on the press gallery
Awesome quote about Gillard’s fleet footed appointment of Bob Carr: What Carr did not know when he proffered his advice was that he would become the centrepiece of a plan to address the talent question...
View ArticleBacking Down from a Sledge
If you are going to sledge make sure it doesn’t undermine your own leader’s sledging: LABOR MP Steve Gibbons has caused a stir by calling Tony Abbott a ”gutless douchebag” and Julie Bishop a...
View ArticleNow that’s what you do when you win
Julie Bishop has wasted no time in wielding the axe and getting rid of Labor troughers. She certainly shows John Key how it should be done. Former Victorian premier Steve Bracks has been sacked from...
View ArticleBishop shows how to be a good minister
Julie Bishop has shown up the troughing civil servants almost immediately and now marked herself as a prudent guardian of the public purse. Incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop has already clashed...
View ArticleAbbott sets a good example
Tony Abbott, like Julie Bishop, also sets a good example. Let’s hope they have started as they mean to go on. TONY Abbott has decided to bunk with Australian Federal Police recruits in a $120-a-night...
View ArticleSuffer in ya jocks Kevin
Kevin Rudd has found out what happens when you go from hero to zero…you become Nigel No Mates. Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd cut a lonely figure on the streets of New York on Friday –...
View ArticleAbbott’s government taking the long handle to ratbag green taliban
I’m liking how Abbott’s government are dealing to the green taliban ratbags…like the ones just released from jail in Russia. It seems that Greenpeace’s PR machinations aren’t washing with the Libs and...
View ArticleAmnesty International caught lying again over Fiji
Amensty International has duped Radio New Zealand into manufacturing news that simply is not occuring in Fiji. It is outrageous and published without a shred of evidence. Amnesty International is...
View ArticleTony Abbot walks the talk
Tony Abbott has been telling Australians that times are tough and they need to tighten their belts. He also practices what he preaches. Undeterred by the threat of deep-vein thrombosis, Prime Minister...
View ArticleHeadline of the Week
From the Courier Mail in Queensland. The story itself is hilarious: FORMER foreign minister Bob Carr was last night labeled “arrogant” and “foolish” for risking diplomatic ties after leaked extracts...
View ArticleAussies are “rascals and cowards”
I thought newspapers were supposed to tell us things we didn’t already know? Australia is an outpost of “rascals and outlaws” that will soon adjust to the shifting realities of power, says a Chinese...
View ArticleAussies flip the bird at UN climate fund
Good on the Aussie government, they have flipped the bird at the UN climate fund refusing to contribute anymore to it. Australia has refused to pay into the UN’s Green Climate Fund, designed to pay for...
View ArticleThe Aussies get it, does our government? What about the opposition?
Julie Bishop, Australia’s Foreign Minister, has returned from the US and a briefing about foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria…and she is rightfully concerned. I wonder if our government is concerned as...
View ArticleWhy are the Aussies surprised at their snubbing in Fiji?
It seems the Aussies are still up to their old tricks. This morning’s Fiji Sun has a story which may give us an insight as to what awaits NZ and how we will handle what is likely to be the same...
View ArticleMove against Abbott underway
Tony Abbott is under intense pressure, with a leadership spill underway. West Australian Liberal MP Luke Simpkins will move a spill motion against Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleSo what if they were paid, at least they aren’t here
Labour really does need to finally admit that people smugglers are trying to send ships and illegal immigrants here. They have denied it for so long I don’t think they can actually see what has been...
View ArticleAfter months of white-anting by the Media Party, Abbott is rolled by Turnbull
Ever since Tony Abbott became the PM the Media Party has white-anted him in Australia. They finally created enough negativity that Malcolm Turnbull felt emboldened enough to knife him in a leadership...
View ArticleAngry Andy doesn’t disappoint: pities Australia
I would have thought Andrew Little would have had a lot of empathy for Malcolm Turnbull. The Australian government and the NZ Labour Party are actually very similar when it comes to not being able to...
View ArticleFace of the day
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia would risk caving into the fear mongering of terrorists if it turned away refugees. Ms Bishop said she did not agree with calls to close the nation’s...
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