| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3584 Registered: 05-2005 |
If you're in Ireland, I'm on Marian Finucane's program at 11.30am today. If you're not in Ireland you can listen here http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3588 Registered: 05-2005 |
I should stop telling people I'm supposed to be on the radio, because as soon as I do the piece gets canned because something vastly more important has turned up. Oh well. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1484 Registered: 08-2006 |
More important? What happened? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3590 Registered: 05-2005 |
I know! What COULD possibly be more important? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1485 Registered: 08-2006 |
I realize my above comment looked somewhat sarcastic (and no WAY does that ever happen!). Actually, I really was interested what got you bumped, PC. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3592 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, I took no offense whatsoever, honestly. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1486 Registered: 08-2006 |
I didn't think you did, Padraig - I know you, of all people, can glean the real meaning beneath my imprecise writing! I generally avoid emoticons, but there are times - especially in a forum - where they'd come in handy. Cheers, pal. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2368 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, can you please give us auslanders a primer on the Kevin Rudd/Julia Gillard situation? I think it was Nick Bryant (BBC) who wrote an unflattering piece on Rudd a couple weeks ago suggesting that Rudd is only barely a Laborite in terms of his background and personal tendencies. And I think it was Bryant who said that Rudd had been keeping Ms. Gillard out of the sunshine while she was deputy. But I seem to remember reading somewhere a year or two ago that Ms. Gillard was super ambitious, at that time suggesting that she'd be a bit of a viper in Rudd's breast. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 687 Registered: 10-2008 |
and she's bloody welsh!! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 679 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm dark on her and so is every teacher in Australia. She dudded us on the Naplan tests and I for one will never forgive her for that. My boss talked to her at a union meeting with her in Canberra a couple of months ago and said she's superambitious and absolutely uncompromising. Despite her pro-union background, she was going to fine individual teachers $50,000 if there was any protest action. A pox on her. I hope we get a hung parliamnet with the balance of power with the Greens. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3595 Registered: 05-2005 |
'I am honoured to lead this country which I love' http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/worl d/2010/0625/1224273270303.html Plain-spoken Welsh-born leader with common touch http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/worl d/2010/0625/1224273270332.html Mining magnates triumph over commies, gooses and Kevin Rudd http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/worl d/2010/0625/1224273270278.html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3596 Registered: 05-2005 |
And the first one: Australian PM Rudd stands down to make way for deputy http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/worl d/2010/0624/1224273189973.html | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 307 Registered: 02-2007 |
I agree Geoff. Most staff at my school hate her guts. The way she pushed the Naplan tests on us and the way they have been used to rank schools etc are reprehensible. I am a unionist and obviously dont wont a return to Work Choices, but the way a group of Right wing unelected union officilas can decide to sack an elected Prime Minister is a very scary thought. I wont be voting Labor again and will be looking to independent progressives to vote for. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2369 Registered: 03-2005 |
Reading Padraig's articles, it looks like Rudd overreached with the mining tax. He should have proposed something much more gradual. Re Gillard, politics is always the art of the possible. It might turn out to be true that she's done something to rescue the country from another long stretch of Liberal control. I'll read up on the Naplan tests; I've no idea what they are. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 191 Registered: 10-2006 |
..the Ides of March just switched to June 24 in Australia...I agree with David G....Rudd led Australia through an economic crisis, though spent bundles doing it...The Mining tax was always going to be a killer blow for him.....Gillard..mmmm..don't know yet..though the women execs in my work office are pumped up..wrong message, we will see how she performs..we have to.. |