Comments on: Keating on Abbott

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:56:12 +0000

That reminds me. I’ve got about 4 super accounts I need to consolidate into one!

By: joe2

joe2 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:51:48 +0000

anthony, the trees that must be cut down, for letters sent to people with 5 dollars in an account and dwindling, would probably fill 50 acres a year.

By: anthony nolan

anthony nolan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:28:20 +0000

Joe: I play super roulette when the time is available which means trying to roll all of my super, currently spattered around the countryside, into one account without coughing up admin fees. It is an amusing way to idle away about a day a month.

By: joe2

joe2 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:19:45 +0000

Yer it’s pretty good anthony@49. I must say his self interested spruiking of super is pretty repugnant. He seems to have no understanding of it’s failings.

I would like to see the present scheme cleaned up. It is an unfortunate imposition on much of casualised labour. Many need that money right now.

It is often eaten up in charges and tax if you need to pull it out because of dire straights and it is not designed for people holding down different jobs or moving from one job to another often.

By: anthony nolan

anthony nolan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:42:26 +0000

I think that ole’ billy @19 puts it elegantly.

By: Mercurius

Mercurius — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:32:36 +0000

Big ups to Spana on this one. Australian governments of both stripes and five PMs from Whitlam to Howard were bathed in blood in East Timor right up until Howard finally sent in the troops.

Keating’s hugs and handshakes with ‘Bapak’ Suharto in the mid-90s made me physically ill.

I was in the street protests calling for the INTERFET force. The one time in my life that I felt protests actually made a bloody difference. Howard got a couple of things right in his term of office. One of them involved removing guns, the other involved using them.

By: Spana

Spana — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:57:50 +0000

Peter Kemp. And your point? Mate, I was in East Timor when the referendum proposal was announced. I saw the militia and was yelled at by these gun totting thugs. I know what Howard and Downer did. I know what they covered up. The fact is that Keating and Howard were both great appeasers of dictatorship. They both supported training the Indonesian military whilst Timorese died. I met Australian trained troops in East Timor who boasted of their time in Australia. This was under the ALP. The ALP has a history of shame when it comes to East Timor as does the Liberal party. Sorry, both are appeasers and both turned a blind eye to attrocities. Both!

By: PD41

PD41 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:08:33 +0000

I miss Paul. He told it as it was, regardless of whether people wanted to hear it. He was a man way ahead of his time and Australia lost out greatly with his defeat. I find it hard to believe that I was a Liberal Party supporter during most of his time in power, considering I agreed with almost everything he did even then, but am glad I came over to the Labor fold before he left office

By: billie

billie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:33:53 +0000

hear hear

By: Patricia WA

Patricia WA — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:21:53 +0000

Yes, ‘Fine’ @ 2,
Count me in too.
I’m so Okay
With PJK
I’d talk all day
Simply to say
That ’96
Just made me sick.
We had a chance
Of real advance
And chose instead
The living dead,
Those criminals,
The Liberals.
Coward Howard
Over powered
Democracy.
Hypocrisy
Ruled ten long years,
Played on our fears.
So here we are,
And its bizarre
That Kev and Wayne
Are yet again
The media’s prey,
The same old way
That PJK
Was done for
By a media war.
This time let’s win
And get Rudd in.
Leave News Limited
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