http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-13/kevin-rudd-to-retire-from-politics/5090108

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has announced his retirement from politics in an emotional speech to Parliament, adding "it really is time for me to zip".

Malcolm Turnbull's response:

So now that the ALP is electorally dead the parasite has left the host.

Electricity Bill can now lead the lost tribe of the ALP Primary Vote into the wilderness to search for a new Policy that will get them elected.

With [insert politician], everything is about [insert politician]

see ya kruddler, thanks for everything bro, you made australia a better place and steered us through some dark times.

australia thanks you!@

Not quite the same Nerf, Howard lost his seat in Bennelong in the 2007 election, where as Rudd won his seat of Griffith.

f*** me political fanatics are the worst kind of people haha.

well spoken by Turnbull ... he should have been the one that's PM.

good. now labor can rebuild. Krudd was a psycho.

Tuesday I hear a rumor that Krudd has a mistress from his church and his misses has left him. Wednesday he quits politics.

Howard quit after he lost the PM role too. Nelson quit after he lost the spill.

And? What's your point?

We are "frothing" because a terrible, incompetent, dysfunctional, chaotic, attention seeking, self absorbed PM has decided to call it quits.

Gotta laugh at the twits ragging on him, just wait and see what is coming up with abbott. Youll be pretty f*****g quiet in a year or so.

Tony Abbot can't possibly be as bad as Kevin. Kevin never use to listen to his cabinet or even fill them in/consult them on government issues, he also didn't get along with most of his minister. Tony does.

So that's 2 areas where he has passed Rudd already, and there is plenty of others. Tony would need to mimic rudd and THEN more to be worse than Rudd.

good. now labor can rebuild. Krudd was a psycho.

But they won't rebuild though. They still have the same incompetent, dysfunctional and chaotic people now in the shadow ministries.

I don't understand their logic where they would just go and plonk them straight back into the shadow ministries they were booted out from for being incompetent. It's comedy gold.

I liked Rudd, Gillard was worse IMO. Now we are stuck with Tone for 3 years.

Sad lol at these frothing partisans, Howard quit after he lost the PM role too. Nelson quit after he lost the spill.

Howard actually lost his seat because he was so unpopular in the end.

Why would or should he acknowledge Gillard?

She was the first to unsheathe the knives and is largely to blame for the entire Labor debacle. If you create a president and ride him to power then you can't complain when he acts like one IMO.

All Kevin did was refuse to give up after being shanked, she deserves none of his respect at all, from his chair its pretty classy to go out without slagging her out (which, btw, she did not have the class to avoid doing).

Gillard was just practicing a long standing tradition within the Labor party. Rudd-Gillard was the new Hawke-Keating

Within Australian politics, you mean. Unless like many youngsters you are buying into the neo-Coalition spin that their side of politics was born with the Howard Government?

Rudd was a meteorite consumed in the foggy atmosphere of his own ego. He never stood a chance.

I'm liking this Turnbull guy, how did thy choose Abbett over him?

It would of been worth acknowledging Australia's first female Prime Minister I think, for that alone perhaps.

Unless Australia can muster up a third major party to rival the 2 main ones, only then will we see Australia truly move forward..

Which is a pity because Abbott is a complete and utter retard in pretty much every arena.

Malcolm should have been a prime minister and he never will be...

I can't for the life of me figure out why people parrot this line except he supports some of Labors positions on things so of course labor supporters would say "oh yeh he should be the leader of the liberal party" Do you actually think the Liberal party would have different policies? It's not a one man show, it's about the team.

At least he wouldn't repeatedly say nothing else but "I want to stop the boats" to Leigh Sales and would actually offer up some sort of argument.

I am happy with the significant reduction in boats.

News coverage like this?

Latifa, a Rohingyan woman from Myanmar, gave birth in the Mater Hospital last week but was returned to a Brisbane detention centre while her baby remained in the neonatal intensive care unit.

For several days the Immigration Department only allowed Latifa to visit her baby at the hospital between 10am and 4pm.

The baby was discharged from hospital yesterday afternoon.

A spokesman for the Immigration Minister yesterday said doctors at the hospital had advised that it is not common for mothers to stay overnight because of bed restrictions.

Hmm I wonder if that was true or just an outright lie?

But in a statement to the ABC's AM program, the Mater Hospital suggested the mother should have been allowed to visit her child whenever she wanted.

The hospital says it encourages new mothers to be involved in the baby's care wherever possible to help establish a strong bond, and does not place restrictions on visiting hours.

"Once a mum is clinically well enough to go home, she is discharged from hospital, but is encouraged to be involved in her baby's care wherever possible to help establish and strengthen her bond with her baby," the statement said.

Yep!

link

Here's the article written by those NYTimes journalists who went on a boat ride. It is a bit too advanced for some of the slower people posting in this thread but for those who actually appreciate good journalism it's a good read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/the-impossible-refugee-boat-lift-to-christmas-island.html?_r=0

"Discarded like a meal on a lazy susan at a vietnamese restaurant."

Classic Line Turny.

If the baby is born in Australia doesn't that make the baby an Australian ?

yes.
(I wanted to say "only if it's white" but is hard to be sarcastic posting on a forum.)

So you wanted to say two wrong things then?

What do you mean up there fpot?

Basically -

Mother gives birth
Baby is ill
Mother is only allowed to stay for 6 hours a day as she is in detention for her terrible crime of

If the LNP just came out and said yep she wasn't allowed to stay there all day because we have a hardline on keeping people who have committed no crime indefinitely detained, that would be kind of cool because they're c**** and everyone with a brain knows they are c****. Instead they tried to blame it on the hospital for not having enough beds or whatever. The hospital then said that wasn't true and that she was always welcome to stay and that it is actually encouraged. The only way you could safely attempt a lie like that is if you knew you had a drooling support base who never read anything and just believe everything that you say. And guess what?

In other news, and I was actually wondering about this because maybe I am just a bit cynical - at the recent CHOGM just about every world leader who attended (I'd like to say all but I am not sure) condemned Sri Lanka for their human rights violations. Everyone except Tony Abbott. He said it was all good and actually gave the Sri Lankan government a couple of patrol boats to help stop people fleeing the country. What the f***ity f***? If it wasn't so f***ed up, it would be comical.

Everyone except Tony Abbott. He said it was all good and actually gave the Sri Lankan government a couple of patrol boats to help stop people fleeing the country. What the f***ity f***? If it wasn't so f***ed up, it would be comical.

sorry dude- I can't look the other way to illegal s*** anymore. both online and offline.


I'm a legitimate trader now. I don't have assets that can be taken away from me ( heh ) - though friends do.


Don't be my friend if your dodgy - electronically and verbally


ya know - I get the feeling I have said this in the past

last edited by koopz at 00:48:52 18/Nov/13

at the recent CHOGM just about every world leader who attended (I'd like to say all but I am not sure) condemned Sri Lanka for their human rights violations. Everyone except Tony Abbott. He said it was all good and actually gave the Sri Lankan government a couple of patrol boats to help stop people fleeing the country. What the f***ity f***? If it wasn't so f***ed up, it would be comical.

Nice attempt at blatantly trying to misquote and twist Tony Abbot's words. He didn't say Human rights abuses was "all good" and Sri Lanka knows Australias position on their human rights abuses, they don't need to be lectured and reminded every 5 minutes. Which is Tony Abbots position.

Don't say such f*****g stupid things(i guess you can't help it)

The only way you could safely attempt a lie like that is if you knew you had a drooling support base who never read anything and just believe everything that you say. And guess what?

Yep.

In a country that thrives upon mining and other industries, the carbon tax is a stupid, stupid idea. I, for one, would appreciate our cost of living stay low.

Why hinder our most powerful export?

What's Australia when we don't have mining?

Oooohhh someone mocked us! Quick change our policy!

Incorrect, there is plenty of coverage, it just depends if you are willing to listen to it or not.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to rulesofbooks. He is probably still butthurt over the total destruction of the greens.
He is a dyed in the wool greens supporter. Who normally rattles of on misguided uninformed rants, where anything that isn't in favour of a full open door on immigration is racists and backwards. He believes all control of countries should be handed over to the U.N. And that is no joke.
He also likes to cherry pick what information he chooses to acknowledge. he turns into an ostrich quick smart when ever evidence or news comes out that doesn't support his views/agenda...Dogma

rulez is somewhere to the left of Nerfy.
Brother #1 perhaps.

f*** me political fanatics are the worst kind of people haha.

yeah - we have stopped watching the religious peeps at work now.


it's back to the labour/lib/green zealots zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz