‘Good Politicians raise the standards of the country not slowly drag it down into the muck’
Malcolm Turnbull - Deputy Leader - Liberal Party
‘Politicians should not come from within the party machine. We need good citizens not incompetent party hacks or average functionaries. What we need is people beholden to people not to the party’
Malcolm Frazer - former Prime Minister - Liberal Party
‘A third who voted for the Greens would have voted Labor if it had a credible Carbon Policy. Even our biggest companies are crying out for some certainty over the Carbon Tax. They know its inevitable, they know it’s coming and want to be ready for it.’
Bob Brown - former Leader Australian Greens.
‘We need a Carbon Pricing Scheme to make us competitive in the global marketplace.’
Marius Klopper - CEO - BHP-Billiton (Worlds largest mining company)
‘Being Prime Minister means making decisions not running from them’
Tony Abbott - present leader of the Liberal Party.
‘What on earth were the Liberals thinking when selecting a xenophobic fundamentalist Christian who was also permanently on a disability pension for that seat. One would have thought they be a bit more careful after Pauline Hanson’
Andrew Peacock former Liberal Leader.
‘At least the Independents represent the people who voted them in and not those with the most noses in their arse.’
Andrew Hansen - Political Humourist
‘For their own good, stupidity is not one of their strong points’
Anonymous Labor Party source.
‘If in the last three years electrity went up an average of 61% without even a whiff of a Carbon Tax, who is kidding who’
‘A hung Parliament proves we don’t really need them except for passing bills written for them.’
‘Are the Nationals about to implode?’
‘Tony Abbott the Wing Nut’
The Mad Katter Rides Again’
Bob Katter - schism of the rural folk’.
‘I’m not realy left or right but what is good for the average citizen’
‘Politics is like an uncontrolled mob of adolescents, the party system is fucked’
Various doorstops one-liners - Tony Windsor - retiring Independent Senator of 23 years.
‘Mr. Rabbit is either a people smuggler or a budgie smuggler, you can’t have both.. Julia’s speech reminded me of Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds Are Go. We all know she was modelled on Barbara Cartland so stop the impersonations. Maybe have a go at Peter Garrett in his Midnight Oil days’.
Mungo Mc.Cullum - Political Journalist
‘Now we’ll see what it’s like to have political party power.’
‘It’s only going to happen once in a lifetime so enjoy every minute of it’.
Rob Oakshot - Independent Senator
‘Gay is not a minority issue’
Bob Brown - openly gay retiring leader Australian Greens.
Has anything really changed? These quotes may apply equally today as they did four years ago. Maybe one should keep these on file and pull them out in five elections time to see, even then, if our politicians have improved beyond incompetent creeps with sharpened knives who have trodden on corpses all the way to the top. There was a saying that absolute power corrupts. Moral corruption, if not provable criminal corruption, has become endemic within our political system.
Maybe we should once again have fourty days and fourty nights of rain and start all over afresh, at least the illegal boat people have a head start.
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