My word, Clive!

Mr. Palmer caught uttering a JFK speech verbatim as being one of his own?!

What was he thinking? Does he think at all? Or, is he just another buffoon taking his place in the Canberra vaudeville show?

Meanwhile, 'bye to Kevin '07.

Adults back in charge?

Yet another hubris-tinged slogan uttered by our new PM. in the immediate aftermath of the recent election.
Less than 24 hours into the new parliamentary first session... and, the unruly, unedifying and barely articulate slanging match has resumed with his own new ministry minions actually leading the charge!

Nothing has changed at all ... except the idiots have swapped deck-chairs!

The Supermarket Duopoly.

Wesfarmer's honcho Richard Goyder has made a pre-emptive strike at the possibilty that an ACCC interest in breaking the supermarket duopoly in Australia (Coles and Woolies now reckoned to own a whopping +/-70% of the market) might be taken up by the new Abbott government. He claims any move to interfere with the present 'competition' set-up would rebound on consumers in the shape of higher prices.

As a shopper myself, I don't feel prices have dropped that much (if at all) since the resurrection of Coles. I reckon if you strip out the ridiculously false low prices they charge for market leading items like milk and bread etc ... then cost some of the blatant sucker deals like 15 cents a litre off petrol (which the big-hitters also largely control retail-wise)... I'm far from convinced we're not actually worse off than when Coles was on it's knees.

Whatever, they must be mightily concerned about the possibilty of a government investigation into alleged stifling of competition by the duopoly. One thing is certain.  Their main concern will not be centred on the welfare of customers!

Meaningless sloganeering!

The world runs on slogans. Reason appears to be that leadership figures apparently believe their audiences are incapable of deciphering truth from platitudes and/or duplicity ... if the message is cut to the bare bones?

Sadly, they appear to be right.

Rhetoric and realism.

Chest-beating and encapsulating policy into trite slogans may win friends and influence people during election madness ... but, they don't go over too well in the world of real-politik. It's called painting yourself into a corner TA.

I'm surprised that dictum wasn't in your suppository (sic) of wisdom?

When the boat comes in!

Independent investigators called in to scrutinize evidence of illegal assaults performed by naval cadets whilst 'hazing' new recruits, have been temporarily thwarted by the absence of the alleged miscreants in a ship at sea on 'border control duty'.

I wonder why this inquisition was put in train when someone in 'Defence' must surely have known the suspects were on overseas duty? Or, is it just another example of the mess that department is dealing (or, maybe not dealing) with?

Back! he barked.

Well ...
Our lot says 'back to where you came from!' to a group of rescued asylum seekers. Indonesia responds with initial words to the effect ' No way Jose!'

Now follows a test of who blinks first?