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wamberal

Absolutely. Green field projects you can do in your sleep. Brown fields not so much. I don't know - I do both and I don't fear either. Mostly, it's extremely poor project management that is the issue. Plenty of "Top-Flight" PMs can't actually project manage. In my somewhat ancient experience, the b...

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The latest edition of "The Monthly" has an article that tears Greg Sheridan to shreds, absolutely annihilates him. Worth buying anyway, but worth buying just for this. Brilliant. We are definitely going to have a fun three years. The tories used to have a smattering of intelligent and balanced membe...

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I bought a $2 plastic filter holder 20 years ago (at the Harris Coffee Shop in the Strand Arcade, oh happy memories!) I buy Lavazza ground coffee, keep it in an airtight container in the freezer, and we have great filter coffee every morning. Yes, you have to throw the used filterpaper and the coffe...

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Apparently Pyne has been behaving in a deliberately antagonistic way towards the states. In a meeting with state ministers last week, which was meant to be non-political, he brought up the South Australian investigation into child sexual abuse, then pointedly asked if they needed Commonwealth assis...

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The way this mob got into power was by behaving in an unprincipled, destructive, manner. The public held their noses, and voted them in. It reminds me a bit of the Fraser era - he knew that he had very little public goodwill, and he spent his whole time in Government trying to win the respect of the...

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Waratah wrote: Good thing that NewsCorpse has only 70% of Australian newspapers and can't possibly compete with the influence Wambers' wields in Aussie politics by posting on a rugby forum.

Don't encourage him, he has problems, poor chap.

wamberal

How long will it take for the NottheNewsCorp papers to start criticising these nincompoops (other than Dennis Atkins of course - brave man to go against the party line).

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Meanwhile the Mincing Poodle is busy, tearing up five years of work by an independent committee, and vowing to rip money from Australia's most vulnerable schools.

Gee, they're travelling really well, aren't they?

wamberal

So how will our resident Libs critics criticise this decision? (except for being too slow) There will be plenty of cricitism from his own side of politics, for caving in to the agrarian socialists. possibly, but selling control of Aus grain sales and distribution to a US company was never going to ...

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_fatprop wrote:So how will our resident Libs critics criticise this decision? (except for being too slow)

There will be plenty of cricitism from his own side of politics, for caving in to the agrarian socialists.

wamberal

Yep. Agreed. Wamberal is speaking out of his arse. What a charming turn of phrase you have. I repeat: Abbott is playing to his working class base. His base is actually not monolithic, they are sentient human beings just like you and me in some ways (as much as it galls me to equate myself with you)...

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Australia has never had trust for Indonesia in 60+ years. The "friendship" only ever extends so far as interests align. Of course, but why go out of our way to incite Indonesian anger and resentment? Tony Abbott could not have handled the fallout from spy-gate worse if he'd tried. Never, ever under...

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This policy of spying is bi partisan , you do realise this? Libs are not intending to stir them up they just have no skills in foreign relations Abbott and Bishop have been in the Federal Parliament for long enough to know what they are doing. Abbott is playing to his gallery, the claque of shock j...

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towny wrote:Hawke would have been good without Keating; however perhaps not 'great'. As a team they were great.

There were some very talented people in the Hawke ministries, apart from Keating. I reckon that they would have done well, even if Keating had never existed.

wamberal

It's all the fault of (a) the establishment (b) the Vichy regime (c) sheer bloodymindedness on the part of those bigoted idiots who do not accept that loig is The Greatest Game (d) all of the above. London. Huge population, large numbers of expat Aussies (some of whom, surely, loig fans), and they c...

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I have been amused by the letters to the editor in my favourite rag, tory supporters claiming that the listening in is all the fault of the previous government. :lol: :lol: :lol: Spies are spies, who says that these sorts of incidents have not been happening for years and years and bloody years? The...

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I for one do not believe that the ABC should have publicised the incident. The Indonesians would have been publicly pissed off about this, however it had been disseminated. But the fact that the public broadcaster did it will look like a deliberate (Government condoned) insult to them. If the ABC ha...

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The short summary is that scrums are hugely important to a team's chances of winning, it's just not the be all and end all. Nup. Scrums can be hugely important, but it depends a helluva lot more on the quality of the adjudication than anything else, in my humble opinion. That is the single biggest ...

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Chuckles1188 wrote:Typical SH pussies trying to turn it into league. fudge off mungoes

Do you actually believe that loig is for pussies? First time I have ever heard that said, I must admit.

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The short summary is that scrums are hugely important to a team's chances of winning, it's just not the be all and end all. Nup. Scrums can be hugely important, but it depends a helluva lot more on the quality of the adjudication than anything else, in my humble opinion. That is the single biggest ...

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The Ozzies lost the Lions series because of the scrum. We lost the series to a better team on the day in the Third Test, although funnily enough we could easily have been two Tests up by then. Did we win the Second Test, and almost the First, because of the scrum? Most independent observers accept ...

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The Greens suffered from delusions of grandeur under Bob Brown. They actually thought that they could overtake the ALP as the principal centre left party. They never will overtake the ALP, simply because most Australians do not accept their basic ideologies. Inner city latte sippers, most of whom ar...

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It must be hard for the GG to be formally stating her support for the Lib's policies. Ceremonially of course she supports the Government position. I wonder what personal views she holds. That will be all fixed when John Howard becomes GG next year :lol: Let's hope so. That move alone would be worth...

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Gerard Henderson is a bore. f**king this!! He's a tired old relic. A joke. He would enhance his standing a bit if he would, just once, say something even mildly critical about Abbott's destructive performance over the last few years. Whatever happened to the Alan Ramsays of this world? Political jo...

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Gerard Henderson is a bore.

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Demilch, What, exactly, is your motive in posting on a thread that is clearly not going to be complimentary about your favourite code? Do you enjoy beating your head up against the wall? Do you think you are going to convert rugby followers to watch loig? Are you a masochist? Do you work undercover ...

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In case you haven't noticed, we aren't in a pessimistic mood right now. We're in a feel good mood at the moment, why can't you feel happy for us? Do you feel happy when a Rugby World Cup succeeds far beyond any reasonable expectations that you could have for your code? You can feel as good as you l...

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So, Kurt, you really don't care about marketing your game. You would rather wallow in self-pity.

No surprises here, really. 1944 and all that. All those elite forces aligned against you.

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Field hockey doesn't claim to be one of the biggest global sporting events of 2013 :P Well they, like rugby league, arent known for being the most effective marketers of their game. How can you market a game that does not have a name? "Rugby" is taken, Kurt. Even the dimmest mungo knows that. Why d...

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Yeah? I'll take the cheap energy please. The cheaper the better! We're losing our manufacturing industry due to high domestic costs and any suggestion which further increases cost is just economic vandalism. The current value of the AUD is far more significant. We simply have to adapt, or we will b...

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Australia's remaining handful of Labor voters need to buckle down for a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ng time in the wilderness. Any one of the Williamson, Obeid, McDonald, or Craig Thomson stories would sink a political party for years. Add them all up, and the future is definitely blue as far as the eye can see....

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It will be interesting to see how they play opposition, do they emulate Abbott and oppose everything or do they try to be constructive? Abbott's objective was to bring down the government as quickly as possible, that is why he opposed everything, told lies and untruths, etc etc. This nonsense shoul...

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Shorten is more electable, but I feel a bit sorry for Albo, he is such a sincere, hard-working, tough and honest, sort of Labor operative. Not many of them around these days.

I reckon Tanya will be our next ALP PM, though.

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Does the new system hold the possibility of a fringe group effectively gaining control of the party in the same way as the tea party has control of the republicans in the US? The Tea Party's control over the Republican Party is caused by the ludicrous gerrymanders that are allowed for electorates i...

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The question you could ask is why are so many senior coalition MPs in a sudden rush to repay claimed expenses dating back as far as 7 years? My guess is that the ALP when in government put these questionable claims aside to be used in the early days of the Tory dictatorship to try to throw the bugg...

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It's pretty obvious that intelligent and capable women are not drawn to the Liberals, let alone the Country Party. On a related subject, the female tories were universally silent when Gillard was being insulted, called a witch, and generally being totally disrespected - mostly, it seemed, because sh...

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with media bias when it comes to editorial opinion, or the opinion pages in general, cartoons, even the whole front page of the Terrorgraph (which most thinking people know is more of a comic book than a serious newspaper). However, when media bias is dangerous, is ...

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Whilever there are taxpayers to provide the facilities, and the big end of town to splash the cash, Uni will do okay. They don't produce any juniors, of course. But who cares? Only the mugs like us who believe in the game at the grassroots. They think the grassroots is what the polo ponies eat.

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Worth a bump. This coming Saturday, the modest lads from the working class suburb of Eastwood take on the taxpayer-subsidised, mostly private school educated, big end of town supported, Sydney University, in all four grand finals at Concord Oval. Be there, to cheer on the underdogs in this classic D...

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Six years of ummmmmm, ummmmmm, ummmmmm. Don't know if I can stand it. Do his daughters actually work for a living, incidentally? Or just follow Daddy around from one photo opportunity to the next? Maybe, in this new age of political incorrectness, we can look forward to them being employed as hostes...

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