Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

[Bully]

So....when does Australia "open for business"???

when the public starts buying AUSTRALIAN made

[Psyber]

I like the way you have aged, you were young in 1967 and still young 8 years later in 1975.
The RRP for a Holden Calais which might be the equivalent model of a Prem, is $45k, which is $20k less than the equivalent in today's salary terms?

And I'm still young in 2014! ... At least I will have been when I'm looking back from 2024.
(I was 24 in 1967 and so 32 in 1975.)

Yes, you are probably right about the Calais, and they have a lot more features that the Premier had. So they have gotten cheaper in relative terms - just not as much so as the overseas competition.

By the way I traded the Premier in on a Bathurst Monaro HK 327 in early 1969 and got all my money back.
(IIRC the Monaro was $3700 odd.)

[The Sleeping Giant]

I would have thought Australian manufacturing started dying the day a cheap reliable Japanese made car hit the showroom floor.

[Psyber]

I would have thought Australian manufacturing started dying the day a cheap reliable Japanese made car hit the showroom floor.

Yes that was the very beginning. I think the start of it was the Isuzu Bellet in the late 1960s - the first really popular Japanese car.
Dropping the tariff barriers probably just hastened the inevitable process.

My first new Japanese car was a 1975 Datsun 260Z - I'd picked up a second-hand Datsun Fairlady 2 litre cheap a year or two as a second car.
Then when my first wife and I parted in 1975 she took the Monaro and I traded the Fairlady on the 260Z.

[tigerpie]

The asian cars built in the 70's and 80's even into the 90's have probably done more to hasten global warming than anything else!

Who hasnt been stuck in traffic behind one of these oil leaking/burning heap of shit cars?
Cheap and nasty junk!
Tariff protection.....what a disgrace!

[shoe boy]

So....when does Australia "open for business"???

Well that's debatable LL?
Abbot says and the clown hockey no more free rides?? while the fat cats in the mining game reap billions we support them with a free ride on the diesel rebate.

[mighty_tiger_79]

probably wrong thread so I apologise

but I heard recently that America with their population only let in half the car manufacturers that we do.

should we have been playing hard ball when it came to FTAs etc to make sure we were protected??

[bennymacca]

They have significant economies of scale advantages that we don't get, and their car industry is still shot.

[mighty_tiger_79]

they have a car industry and the industry has been repaying the money given to it from the GFC crisis

[shoe boy]

Just watching pyne at his best in the chamber after 4 minutes of the member from Gove in the NT expressing his displeasure at the lack of support from Abbot and his government to his members pyne steps up and puts a motion on the table to have the member "no longer be heard" a division is called and pynes clowns come back and have the member no longer heard!!! And this is democracy?

This crowd have no morals.

[Bully]

Just watching pyne at his best in the chamber after 4 minutes of the member from Gove in the NT expressing his displeasure at the lack of support from Abbot and his government to his members pyne steps up and puts a motion on the table to have the member "no longer be heard" a division is called and pynes clowns come back and have the member no longer heard!!! And this is democracy?

This crowd have no morals.

hmmm -

When Manager of Opposition Business Julia Gillard however attempted to mimic exactly the exchange of 25 May by moving the motion "that that snivelling grub over there be not further heard"[4] against Abbott on a health legislation amendment, and then stating that "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally", the Speaker asked Gillard to withdraw "without reservation". Gillard responded that "in accordance with your ruling yesterday, I have withdrawn effectively", but the Speaker then said that "I have no option...but to name the member", and subsequently by motion from Abbott, Gillard was removed from the House for 24 hours.

do as we say, not as we do hey ?

[woodublieve12]

Just watching pyne at his best in the chamber after 4 minutes of the member from Gove in the NT expressing his displeasure at the lack of support from Abbot and his government to his members pyne steps up and puts a motion on the table to have the member "no longer be heard" a division is called and pynes clowns come back and have the member no longer heard!!! And this is democracy?

This crowd have no morals.

hmmm -

When Manager of Opposition Business Julia Gillard however attempted to mimic exactly the exchange of 25 May by moving the motion "that that snivelling grub over there be not further heard"[4] against Abbott on a health legislation amendment, and then stating that "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally", the Speaker asked Gillard to withdraw "without reservation". Gillard responded that "in accordance with your ruling yesterday, I have withdrawn effectively", but the Speaker then said that "I have no option...but to name the member", and subsequently by motion from Abbott, Gillard was removed from the House for 24 hours.

do as we say, not as we do hey ?

I really hope the speaker had a stern talking too... Gillard nearly saved the Australian people from this joke of a prime minister... That may have been her best work

[mighty_tiger_79]

I think there is some office bonking going on with Pyne and Bronwyn bishop after yesterdays love in at question time

[tigerpie]

I think there is some office bonking going on with Pyne and Bronwyn bishop after yesterdays love in at question time

I dont think she's the right flavour for Pyne.....if you know what i mean

[tigerpie]

"that that snivelling grub over there be not further heard"[4] against Abbott on a health legislation amendment, and then stating that "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally",

Hahaha.....Straight out of the Paul Keating playbook.

Brilliant!

[tigerhutch]

I think there is some office bonking going on with Pyne and Bronwyn bishop after yesterdays love in at question time

not sure Poodles and Rottweilers are that compatible

[The Sleeping Giant]

Abbott on the young lad getting murdered by his father. "shit happens".

[Bully]

can you post a link to that or news report ?

[Jimmy_041]

I think there is some office bonking going on with Pyne and Bronwyn bishop after yesterdays love in at question time

not sure Poodles and Rottweilers are that compatible

A good likeness of them as well

[The Sleeping Giant]

can you post a link to that or news report ?

Heard Abbott talking about it on the radio.