fucking gold. that guy is an A grade asshole. dunno how he ever got to the top - certifiable

A Labor insider said the video could only have come from the Prime Minister's office, which stores such clips. If true, that would suggest a bitter escalation of the leadership crisis between Ms Gillard and the Foreign Affairs Minister.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/political-news/rudd-row-gets-dirty-20120218-1tg9j.html#ixzz1mjwvXsrz

Only 300 views? Whats up with that?

It gets stuck at 304 until next refresh or some shit.

Chk-Chk Boom

I sometimes feel Lib and Labor parties both need to be disbanded or something. Start again fresh.

Looks like everyone's starting to realise that the two-party system is like shopping at K-Mart or Target.

I'm starting to lean towards the greens more and more these days. can someone remind me why I shouldn't vote for them?

I could see how it might look like that if you were going around kind of dazed and confused, largely blinded by the narcissistic idea that you're somehow enlightened and everyone else is a drooling drone

for anyone in reality, it's clearly not a case of 'everyone starting to realise' at all - you'd only have to have read a handful of political threads on these forums over the years to see that

ensure that when regulators assess the risks of GMOs as manageable and issue a license, they specify the agencies or individuals responsible for the identified risks and mandate the management systems to be used.

ensure that environmental and social impact assessments are rigorously applied and implemented on all mining proposals and projects.
prohibit the exploration for, and mining and export of, uranium.
oppose the establishment of new coal mines and the expansion of existing mines
prohibit mineral exploration and mining as well as extraction of petroleum and gas in terrestrial and marine nature conservation reserves, including national parks, wilderness areas and other areas of outstanding nature conservation value.
establish a national mining insurance fund, based on mining industry contributions, to provide resources sufficient to rehabilitate the environmental impacts of existing mining operations.>
ensure that all new mining proposals include a fully costed and funded allocation for the restoration and rehabilitation of the impacted area(s) to world’s best practice standards.

40% would be achievable with huge subsidies for electric vehicles and a massive push to solar / wind / nuclear.

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2011/1/the-greens-agenda-in-their-own-words

http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2011/07/the-poisonous-policies-of-the-greens

Cya Kevin. He was poison to the party. With him gone now it just means they will lose less badly.

All Australian political leaders are governing our country on obfuscated, aged principles. For instance, there are no advocates of nuclear power stations, which are an obvious step forward from our polluting coal plants.

Rudd will never get the numbers. Most of the caucus hate his guts. He should just slink away silently.

So does this mean Rudd is backing down and putting an end to all the leadership challenge stuff? Or is he still in a position to do that?

"Julia has the overwhelming support of our colleagues.
She is tough, determined, forward-looking, and has a good Labor heart.
She has a consultative, respectful relationship with caucus while Kevin Rudd demeaned them.
She's cleaned up a lot of the mess he left her and has established a good, Labor agenda.
She's delivering major reforms, and getting things done that her predecessor could not."

shouldn't oh i don't know the PEOPLE decide? i mean seriously i come from the middle east (Syria) to be specific, i am used to seeing the party chose the leader but then again there is no democracy over there...

honestly to me krudd being ousted the way he was when he was PM and what is happening now is confusing as all hell... i just don't get how in a Democracy, where people vote for the leader, the people have no say in what is going on.. seems like communism to me.. but hey what do i know.

What if douche resigns from parliament altogether?

Interesting how senior Labor ministers are basically saying they would rather be defeated by Tony Abbott than serve under Rudd

I just saw Anna Blighs new advert. Oh Dear. I think she should seriously go back to:

Rudd is good at politics, bad at policy,; Gillard is bad at politics, good at policy.

First, the $50 billion waste of the National Broadband Network.

this entire ordeal is a pretty awful indictment of our political landscape but I must admit it's very compelling entertainment!

This is great entertainment, all my downloaded tv has to wait because I have the best comedy available already.

I can't wait to watch Gillard bitch slap Rudd and then watch Rudd cry (again).

It's also awesome to watch all his former ministers tearing him a new asshole.

Abbott must be wearing a top hat and monocle right now.

Because this kind of thing only happens with the Labor party right? Surely even you must concede that Abbott may be a good opposition leader, but would be a terrible Prime Minister?

So what was the go with Gough Whitlam, I thought he was booted out by the GG?

put bishop, hockey and turnbull in the other top jobs you've got a boss cabinet.

while I would much prefer turnbull as leader abbott will do fine as pm because he isn't surrounded by incompetent arse lickers and won't have his agenda set by bob brown and the unions.

Barrie Cassidy summed it up perfectly - Rudd is good at politics, bad at policy,; Gillard is bad at politics, good at policy.

lol as if you idiot^
that is a pretty retarded statement. the Coalition is in favour of returning to past Coalition government policy which worked. politics threads always brings out lots of retardation, so entertaining.last edited by infi at 19:15:30 23/Feb/12

One topic that became prominent in the 2000s (decade) are its implications in the case of a hypothetical attack by the People's Republic of China against the Republic of China on Taiwan, who would likely receive American support. While Australia has strong cultural and economic ties with the United States, it also has an increasingly important trade relationship with mainland China.

Annual bilateral meetings between the US Secretary of State and the Australian Foreign Minister replaced annual meetings of the ANZUS Council of Foreign Ministers. The first bilateral meeting was held in Canberra in 1985. At the second meeting, in San Francisco in 1986, the United States announced that it was suspending its treaty security obligations to New Zealand pending the restoration of port access. Subsequent bilateral Australia–US Ministerial (AUSMIN) meetings have alternated between Australia and the United States.

The alliance engenders some political controversy in Australia. Particularly after Australian involvement in the 2003 Iraq war, some quarters of Australian society have called for a re-evaluation of the relationship between the two nations. Nonetheless the alliance enjoyed broad support during the Cold War[12] and continues to enjoy broad support in Australia.[13] One commentator in Australia has argued that the treaty should be re-negotiated in the context of terrorism, the modern role of the United Nations and as a purely US–Australian alliance.[14]

Australia is also a contributor to the National Missile Defense system.[15][16]

Health aspects of DU

Depleted uranium is not classified as a dangerous substance radiologically, though it is a potential hazard in large quantities, beyond what could conceivably be breathed. Its emissions are very low, since the half-life of U-238 is the same as the age of the Earth (4.5 billion years). There are no reputable reports of cancer or other negative health effects from radiation exposure to ingested or inhaled natural or depleted uranium, despite much study.

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs): These reactors are still at the design stage but will be very well suited for using thorium as a fuel. The unique fluid fuel incorporates thorium and uranium (U-233 and/or U-235) fluorides as part of a salt mixture that melts in the range 400-600ºC, and this liquid serves as both heat transfer fluid and the matrix for the fissioning fuel. The fluid circulates through a core region and then through a chemical processing circuit that removes various fission products (poisons) and/or the valuable U-233. Certain MSR designs [c] will be designed specifically for thorium fuels to produce useful amounts of U-233 – eventually leading to the self-sustaining use of thorium as an energy source.

Accelerator Driven Reactors (ADS): The sub-critical ADS system is an unconventional concept that is potentially ‘thorium capable’. Spallation neutrons are produced d when high-energy protons from an accelerator strike a heavy target like lead. These neutrons are directed at a region containing a thorium fuel, eg, Th-plutonium which reacts producing heat as in a conventional reactor. The system remains subcritical ie, unable to sustain a chain reaction without the proton beam. Difficulties lie with the reliability of high-energy accelerators and also with economics due to their high power consumption. (See also information page on Accelerator-Driven Nuclear Energy)

* The high cost of fuel fabrication is due partly to the high level of radioactivity that builds up in U-233 chemically separated from the irradiated thorium fuel. Separated U-233 is always contaminated with traces of U-232 which decays (with a 69-year half-life) to daughter nuclides such as thallium-208 that are high-energy gamma emitters. Although this confers proliferation resistance to the fuel cycle by making U-233 hard to handle and easy to detect, it results in increased costs. There are similar problems in recycling thorium itself due to highly radioactive Th-228 (an alpha emitter with two-year half life) present.

makes me wonder if there isn't a third player about to enter the race and Rudd was just instigating this ballot for them.

Another election is simply not going to happen.

didn't Rudd officially apologise to the abo's? what the fuck did it solve, nothing..

That's what they said when Hitler was in office..

I was pretty sure that rulings by the high court have made that impossible due to it now being illegal to ship people offshore when the country isn't legally bound to protect them.

who is best equipped to defeat Tony Abbott

children of the Kevolution

due to it now being illegal to ship people offshore when the country isn't legally bound to protect them.

your previous statement discusses a completely different issue. unaccompanied minors would be a very minor cohort of the asylum seekers.

What a fucking shambles of epic proportions. I consider mysef a swinging voter, but I couldn't seriously vote for the ALP with the interests of my country in mind - we are being completely embarassed.

I said it when it happened - not firing Rudd completely when gillard ousted him was the dumbest thing ever. It was only a matter of time until this was going to happen. If you take someone down you gotta do it for good, caesar style. ALP = lol, none of them have ever had a real job.

Another election is simply not going to happen.

Au contraire, it certainly is going to happen within about year.

That's what they said when Hitler was in office..

STRANGEST GODWIN EVER