hear hear mark....
there is no way krudd head fell on his sword, he was evicted kicking and screaming. the unions that lent him the power in the first place just asked for repayment in full.
Sad day for Aus...sure is IMO
The Prime Minister kicked out for trying to take some cash from some mega-loaded mining company owners, seems we don't have democracy, we have a banana republic, hope someone sends in the UN Peacekeepers to restore our democracy...c'mon the blue helmets.
I'm not judging who's right or wrong, I'm a permanent resident yet to be citizen so I'll keep my view for me until that day arrives.
All I have to say is that I find quite interesting that you can change the leader of a country without asking the 23 millions of people that live in that same country in the first place. It is a pretty scary thought come to think of it...
Somehow the Westminster Democracy regime has one word to many in it to describe it...
what the fark went wrong. was she so good at fetching coffees or something that they decide to let her do everything? I hope those elocution lessons have been helpfull or i'll willfully make myself deaf just so I dont have to listen to that nasal whining. No wonder shes not married. Can you imagine listening to that in the morning?!
My take on it.....
Rudders wants to introduce a profits tax on big multi national companies raping our remote areas.
Big companies think that tax will eat into our profits too much, shareholders will suffer cant do it.
Shareholders informed of how the tax will impact on their dividends.
Some Labor party facton members are shareholders "we need to change this"
They rat fu@# Rudders and stick in a shiela to take the focus away from the fact that Rudders has been rat f@#$ED and Australia now has its first woman prime minister.
Gillard steps up to the job like a good welsh chick, (LOL) and in her maiden speech says the tax needs to be re-worked.
In a few weeks i imagine there will be no tax on the table.
The power of corporations.
maxm i think you are confusing federal and state there.
infrastructure, health and education are state responsibilities. plus, the poor in australia were taxed less under howard. etc etc etc.....
back to the debate,
i personally don't think this was becasue of the super tax. i think the decisions were made in the back rooms when the ets was dumped and the super tax was just the icing on the cake. if it was because of the super tax then why did swan get a promotion.
the only one i liked in the labor party was tanner and he's walking. respect to him!
the rest are the same people that trashed the labor party with botched programs and failed agendas. even gillard admitted that in her maiden speech.
I would like to see profits* based tax up for discussion/consultation... And not just miners... lets throw it open... Banking, banking, banking... A profits based tax is a very good idea. The Henry model is not. The way it was sold to us was deceitful. Kev missed the point; this nation is full of people who DO understand, and CAN investigate for themselves.
It will be interesting to see the JG rhetoric, once she frees herself from the ruddribble.
* Real "profits" tax, not an invented resources super profit assessable income - otherwise known as revenue after allowance for deduction of some direct operating expenditure.
Don't forget it wasn't just the mining tax which sent the labor party into panic mode
Emissions trading scheme
Internet filtering
Internet monitoring
Health reform
Creative spending during GFC
and for those thinking that the mining tax will only affect the rich, just need to check their super funds again, guess what those blue chip shares are
Lets dig it all up and ship it out and make foreign companies, investors and directors rich even though china and japan cant get enough raw materials and are still willing to pay any price for it.
A government actually thinking about the future of environment,
na farkit! lets think about now and how we can make money through industry dividends and let our grandchildren breath our carbon monoxide.
People are only thinking about the now! cause your all up to your eyeballs in dept because your trying to pay of your two units and your house and have lost sight of the future ie conserving jobs over 100 years and not just 50 years in the mining industry and our morel obligation to the future inhabitants of this earth and keeping your lives simple and not a slave to some bul****e bank.
Ruddy boy was VERY....um "PROUD" with his speech today or is that "Proud" no it was "pRoUd" 
bloomin heck..never want to hear that word again 
Oh by the way...."what hand out to boost the economy" ?
I am single, childless 
and not on a pension...so Fraking nothing for me
Went to everyone with six kids and 2 wives oh yes and backpackers...lets not forget them
and not on a pension...so Fraking nothing for me
Rio Tinto's underlying annual profit surged to a record $8.22 billion
Woodside Net profit for the year to December 31 rose to $1.82 billion
BHP Billiton has reported an after tax cash profit of $6.5 billion for the six months to the end of December.
Newcrest says the net profit of $176.2 million for the six months to the end of December.....
Poor mining companies
One has to ask how can they afford to give something back to the Australian public
Actually a big chunk of those companies is owned by mum and dad Australians through super funds....
A big chunk of everyones super is owned by private corporations and they will do with it what they will. I cannot believe how short peoples memories are. How far in the past was it when we had so many on the cusp of retiring retirees crying that they now had to return to work because their super had been gobbled up by the system!
Whichever corporate spokesperson heads up parliament makes little difference in the long term.
