Bimbonic Australian Politics Note

Abbott (the new leader of the Liberal Party – Australia’s major party in opposition – ie, busting a gut to get back into power) is a total MAD something! Why don’t women vote for him, not even the wives of his parliamentary colleagues?? Because historically Abbott is renowned for his aggressive stance against: safe, legal, medicare funded terminations, the supply of the abortion pill through GPs accredited through the AMA; sex ed in schools; and he tried to block the cervical cancer vaccine program that is scientifically proven to substantially reduce the risk of cancer if administered to young women – most of these efforts have consequently failed to do anything but put most women on their collective guard when it comes to equitable health policy here in Australia. And that’s just the tip of the melting ice-berg.

He is also a very verbal sceptic on climate change and does not believe that man is having any negative impact on our environment. In fact he was quoted only last week as having said, ‘Climate Change is Crap.’ Which is why he said in his speach this morning, ‘I want you to all accept me as I am from today.’…

oh god Mystic i can’t say i thank you for the mental image of abbott and ruddster perhaps bare-backing it mad monk style.

god.

i have to say, the only good to come of this is that abbott is practically unelectable, unlike hockey or turnbull. if he makes it to the next election, labor will win again.

So glad to know you folk are having Tea Party headaches, too. Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News over here have pretty much created and promoted the movement. The wiki doesn’t mention they’re anti-abortion/anti-planned parenthood, but they are. Uber conservatives who are knocking old line conservatives her off their long-standing posts. They style themselves after the Boston Tea Party Patriots of the American Revolutions, but geez, do they know the revolution was over the right to make cheap rum?

sigh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests

Can we blame this on Saturn/Pluto?

I’ve got nothing to say except tony abbott scares the shit out of me and I think he’d be more of a reptilian hard arsed leader than howard was and Joe Hockey’s been gunning for this surrupticiously (sp anyone?) for yonx I’ve had total psychic flushes of him being leader for a few years and I hope it’s him even though he did saddle his poor children with those mental names he seems kind of human and his wife has her own last name which means he’s into the independence of women or he likes strong women which means he’ll work well in opposition when Julia is Prime Minister – which is inevitable. Let’s have someone who’ll look good in a debate with Julia.

Did I just say that all in one sentence? I may have beaten my personal best SOC.

Entertainment factor 10+

Always love your “Bimbonic” Mystic.

Haven’t a clue guys and don’t expect a catch up as how I see it we have enough problems/issues/dramas over here…

Right now it’s Tiger Woods and wife who beat the crap out of him with a golf club cuz he possibly cheated….The Gate Crashers and possible criminal charges….Freak who shot four cops in cold blood sitting in a diner…..Obama on possible Brink…..(okay maybe the Obama part is farfetched but who knows…)

Too bad Dancing with the Stars is over. At least there was something fun on while I blogged at Mystic’s.

Well, I guess they are all doing the best they can, according to their lights – according to their inheritance.
I don’t agree with everything he says, but I think Malcolm Turnbull is one of the most interesting, passionate and complex politicians currently on show. That may be why he has been rejected by hard-line elements in his own party.
He is his own party.
I suspect he will end up being prime-minister.
That is my prediction: made by a crab just before the full moon – so hardly to be taken seriously.

It is so funny / bizarre to the rest of the world, how Americans react at the sheer thought of “socialist” health care.

Yes – I actually believe that sickness starts from mental / emotional imbalance. But it’s not necessarily something you can control. Sometimes the universe needs to knock you about for some higher reason you can’t find out about till later – it’s pretty harsh to not have $ to have treatment. While I was in the US I met a scary number of people who were massively in debt because of health bills, which they would just not have had in Australia. So – 45 years old and living with parents, those kind of side effects.

It is quite weird that no-one seems to see health as actually a community benefit. I used to keep stats for the health department on MRSA (antibiotic resistant golden staph). The strongest and weirdest and most antibiotic resistant strains of the disease pretty much always came out of 2 places: Aboriginal communities and old people’s homes. When groups of people are really unhealthy, that’s where the new superbugs come from – these have potential to affect all of us. Also when I was in the US – I couldn’t afford to go to the doctor for my bronchitis, so I stayed in bed at hostels for days, being ill, and no doubt gave it to a fair few other people. It is a stupid stupid thing that small health problems get much worse, simply because you can’t knock it on the head quickly (well, I thought $100+ for a doctors visit – a few days in bed would be cheaper).

anyway, enough preaching. The Australian health system’s not so wonderful either, thanks to not ever getting funded enough, but I’m hell glad it is there.

as to Abbott, Rudd etc…
I don’t know why, can’t account for it, I quite LIKE Tony Abbott. Because somehow he seems to be human / honest or something. His policies of course are all totally fuq’ed, especially the anti-women-mega-Catholic ones. But when I’ve seen him on TV, he actually comes across quite well in interviews etc (maybe that moon-Leo).
On the other hand, I’ve never liked Rudd. Sure, his policies (when there are any) seem ok — I just can’t relate to his slickness and spinmeisterness at all.
And Turnbull I liked too – a really good speaker. Interesting how the Liberal Party seems to attract Scorpio leaders (also John Hewson, in GST days) who kind of commit political suicide by being too committed to an identifiable policy line. Modern politics ala Rudd and John Howard seems to be all about trying to score brownie points by making bland statements on as many media outlets as possible, on a range of non-Prime-Ministerial topics – not about having a cause and committing to it. Despite their flaws, I think this is why I like Turnbull and Abbott – you know where they are coming from. At least you know what they stand for, even if you don’t agree with it.

I agree with you Aqua lion about Turnbull, but as for Abbott – maybe we should bear in mind that he has just successfully combined with some less-than-admirable rednecks in an attempt to destroy the integrity and political life of a close colleague. I guess that goes with the territory……that’s politics, which is why I stick to woodcarving.

This whole thing has really shown how divided the Liberal Party are about climate change – the hard line right wingers are all climate change sceptics who think the economy will solve all problems (not unlike God will solve everything for that snake Abbott). However, the ETS scheme is fundamentally flawed, as it makes no attempt to actually reduce emmissions or encourage cleaner technology research by these massive polluters who have been given zillions of $s of free permits to pollute. The increased costs will be passed on to the general paying public, which is not fair when the polluters can keep on making their profits, etc, however we have never paid the true cost of the resources we have used and abused – eg. the cost of petrol was often less than the cost of a litre of milk, yet the complete costs of using the stuff has never been included (environmental degradation involved in oil industry, damage from emmissions, etc). In other words the economic system has never taken into account that the environment acts as a waste sink and creates costs which must be taken account of.

Basically we need something like the ETS but it has been so bastardised by the amendments to keep the pro-business/profit Liberals and their big business mates happy that it is now effectively useless. Sorry to rant on, but this is all just basic environmental economics stuff. Can’t believe politicians are letting this stuff through, but then I’ve always believed the last people who should be allowed anywhere near the management of a country are politicians.

MM i think you might have got your moons mixed up in your article. kev’s moon is in leo, and tony’s in aries.

also nteresting to note abbot’s moon opposing kev’s sun mars and jupiter. tony’s n.node is also conjunct kev’s sun mars and jupiter.

tony is mostly fixed fire (leo) with least mutable earth (virgo). kev is mostly mutable earth (virgo). so i guess that tony will explode (as the libs continue to implode), and kev will throw mud and dig labor deeper into a hole.

waddya think?