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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 01:22 pm
Prepare to be savaged, John Howard:
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has promised Labor will launch its most aggressive fight against the government in 10 years when parliament resumes next week.
In his first major speech of the year, Mr Beazley launched a scathing attack on the government’s handling of the AWB scandal, again accusing Prime Minister John Howard of a massive cover-up …
He said all Australians needed to understand what the AWB scandal really was.
“This scandal is Aussie dollars for Iraqi bullets,” Mr Beazley said.
“It is wheat for weapons.”
It is grain for guns, it is cereal for a serial killer! Michael Gordon makes a better case than Beazley for widening the wheat scam inquiry; latest news involves Australian ambassadors to the US and Jordan. Treasurer Peter Costello says the goverment would carefully considerany inquiry-widening request. More from Angry Kim:
He said that when the coalition was handed majority control of the Senate in July, the government moved away from Australia’s core values of fairness, mateship, respect and decency.
“The day our society started to become a lot more dog-eat-dog and a lot more insecure,” Mr Beazley said.
He does carry on.
UPDATE. Think you know your wheat? Take these fun quizzes, wheat fans!
- This isn’t really post of the oil-for-food scandal. You just posted this so Anonymous Lefty couldn’t accuse you of ignoring it. I’m onto you, Blair. Covering for your mates in the Liberal Party again …Posted by Gareth on 2006 02 01 at 03:59 AM • permalink
- Re Beazley’s: He said that when the coalition was handed majority control of the Senate in July, the government moved away from Australia’s core values of fairness, mateship, respect and decency.
“The day our society started to become a lot more dog-eat-dog and a lot more insecure,” Mr Beazley said.
See Liam Bartlett’s piece in the Sunday Times (Perth) on 29/1 (can’t link) on former Premier and gaol-bird Brian Burke’s current role as kingmaker/queenmaker of the WA Labor Party. The Police Minister (Michelle Roberts) acknowledged that she had “asked for his support” to help her get the premiership (taken, alas, by Alan Carpenter). Is this consistent or what with the Labor Party’s strangle-hold on ‘fairness, mateship, respect and decency’?
- I think Howard and Costello are threatening AWB’s monopoly on wheat distribution to keep the Nat’s in line.
Seems like there is a bit of argy bargy at the moment between the coalition partners.How will the Nats go explaining the loss of a monopoly to a bunch of agrarian socialists?
So the message is shut that lunatic senator from Queensland up or face the consequences.
- Maybe we should get the AWB to organise the Danish export drive outside the Middle East, given the economic trade sanctions speculaled to apply there to Danish products!Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 01 at 06:44 AM • permalink
- Sorry to digress, but a newly arrived Sudanese man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was brutally bashed by a gang of Middle Eastern youth in Auburn last night.
Are the media referring to this incident as a racist attack??? NO! despite a number of complaints by the Sudanese community in that suburb of harassment by Middle Eastern youth! I guess these thugs aren’t the right shade to warrant the lable ‘racist’ as far as the left-leaning media is concerned!!
- I watched Kim’s speech today, he made an interesting statement, almost a slip it was, about the belief in the existence of WMD.
One could be forgiven for their confusion about which bloody country he was referring to, such was his bleak vision of Australia. Unrecognisable as far as I, and I would contend, many, many others are concerned!
- Wasn’t Bomber Beazley part of a party that declared that ‘Saddam Ruled OK’, and should stay in power? And wasn’t he standing behind Mark Blatheram’s ‘Bring the Boys Home for Christmas’ pledge?
So what is he blathering on about? At least Howard and Co. had the guts to take away Saddam’s guns and end the oil-for- fraud scandal, and with minimal loss of life.
- I spent my lunchtime in a gym on a military base and Bomber’s press club lunch was on tv. Many hoots of derision when he started going on about Defence (because we all know what a great job he did when he was Minister).Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 02 01 at 07:34 AM • permalink
- “in the global game of musical chairs, when the music stops Australia will be the one who can’t find a chair.”
In this game, the US will walk over to one of the Axis of Weasels and firmly ask if France or Germany would like to give up their chair. Our good friend Australia needs it.
So as long as there are three chairs, Australia gets one of them.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 02 01 at 09:19 AM • permalink
He said that when the coalition was handed majority control of the Senate in July
Selected not elected? I’ve heard that somewhere before.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 02 01 at 11:06 AM • permalink
- wronwright — This is America. We believe in free enterprise. If it comes down to it, we’ll build a new chair for Australia if we need one.
Reasonable rates.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 01 at 11:14 AM • permalink
- Why build one? The little French prancing boy has a very nice Louis XIV chair. Gilded. Very plush. The German kid dressed in the
extremely gay Alpine outfit that would make the Brokeback Mountain boys fight over his very inviting backsideethnic costume also has a very nice chair. Bavarian hand crafted.I say this game is much too rough for the Euro boys. I say let’s tip the frog and kraut out of their chairs and give one to the Aussie. Then lean back and put our muddy jack boots up on the spare one. Preferably the damask covered one.
Unless McEnroe you think we should play nicey nice. Don’t want to hurt any sensitive feelings.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 02 01 at 12:55 PM • permalink
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