At any rate would Ralph Fiennes look good in a Australian Building and Construction Commission uniform.

Darlene, I think he would look much better than I imagine he would have, half dressed in a Qantas Hosties uniform just recently.

I would not hold out any hope for “social justice,” as there is no such thing.

And don’t tell me you aren’t aware of disgruntled ALP members who spend a fair amount of time moaning about how the modern ALP is nothing like the old ALP (by which I think they mean the party is nothing like Gough).

When the ABCC starts torturing and executing people, then you can call them Gestapo. Use of Nazi/Gestapo shows a poor understanding of history and a poor grasp of the english language.

“I think BBB is saying they shouldn’t be emphasising the dividends angle, but rather the employment angle.”

That’s right. Sorry for the confusion, Mark.

Liam,

“No way. It’s like the line that insidious cult AA take towards drinkers: the sickness is inside you. For the rest of your life you’ll just be taking it one day at a time.”

Damn. Having to repeatedly announce ‘Hi, I’m BBB and I’m a Young Liberal’ is really going to fuxk with my social life.

Cheers
BBB

A: None

1 idiot in Sydney, Sammy Manna, did commit perjury and spent 3 months in Silverwater for it as well.

$60 million, dozens of lawyers, phone taps, every disgruntled anti-union grubby subby in the country through the dock and Abbot didn’t get one scalp.

Piss weak, and this has been used as the justification for the new Gestapo.

How have they got away with it? I blame the labor affilated union leaderships with their lie low strategy. Get out your history books. Anti-union laws aren’t defeated in Parliament. What would Monty Miller think?

Their stratgey is largely discredited now as the ex-federal police won’t be going straight to Hungry Jacks.

Lastly, why did Terrence Cole get two massive politically sensitive Royal Commissions in a row? Just after he was named for the Construction Commission I was having a beer with one of Australia’s best loved ex-union officials who told me “don’t worry, they’ve got something on him.”

The trouble with a lot of Labor apparatchik is they expect too much from Labor sometimes.

Hahahahahhahahaha!!

Oh. You’re serious?

As Bismarck has suggested, the coercive powers of the Australian Building and Construction Commission are thoroughly integrated into the mainstream of executive practice.

It would be UnAustralian to assert otherwise, and perhaps even tantamount to seditious.

PS, if the executive suspects on any grounds at all that you are seditious, you will become subject to a whole different regime of coercive executive powers.

If you don’t like it, you don’t deserve to leave it.

Instead you’ll be locked up.

That tells us ACCI could not attract enough funding to pay a good advertising agency, and thus that member organisations were reluctant to fund the campaign. This also means there won’t be funding to run the ad much, so it’s doubly useless.

It’s nothing more than a trophy ad, probably pushed through by one or two ideologues.

It’s instructive to compare this amateurish effort with the first class creative and effective work of those who represent Australia’s working people.

It is really is time for the dopes in suits to piss off.

I’m all for them putting their strongest case, the adverserial system shaking out the truth and all that. It was a Grisham-esque build up, the prosecution had the joint in uproar, what would the defence pull out of the hat??? … and then Lionel Hutz walked in the court room.

The trouble with a lot of Labor apparatchik is they expect too much from Labor sometimes. Mind you, Goss could’ve at least allowed the apparatchiks more time to celebrate in 89.

I think it’s a side issue, but it’s a reasonable metaphor for a body that proceeds in secret and accords people none of their usual legal rights when they haven’t even been charged with a crime

By that reasoning, you could describe the Qld Crime & Misconduct Commission, the ACCC and ASIC as Gestapo-like. All are empowered to question people in secret, under oath and with no privilege against self-incrimination. As a metaphor it is so diluted as to be meaningless.

Ralph Fiennes is too skinny and has bad taste in tarts. I’ll see your Raiphe Faines and raise you a Sonny Bill Williams.

That’s the real subtext in the business Workchoices ads: The old fait accompli.

What they’re really saying is: “If ya don’t like it, tough. It can’t be un-done. Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyaaaaah.”

That’ll go down well.

Am I off the hook if I also admit to resigning from the movement, having grown well and truly out of them, whilst still a teenager?

No way. It’s like the line that insidious cult AA take towards drinkers: the sickness is inside you. For the rest of your life you’ll just be taking it one day at a time.