Federal Coalition Government 2013-?
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She is no Harry Jenkins.
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Mark Ella (57)
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Mark Ella (57)
A biased Speaker or a bunch of sooks? Labor outrage divides the House
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/a-biased-speaker-or-a-bunch-of-sooks-labor-outrage-divides-the-house-20140327-35l7b.html#ixzz2x97m35oV
EDIT: 99-0
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John Hipwell (52)
Great opening partnership from the libs. 98 for the loss of none. Will Bronnie get an ovation if she makes a century of ejections from the house with the openers still at the crease?
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Nev Cottrell (35)
What might be surprising is the independents voted with the government. Perhaps they thought the ALP "doth protest to much"
Leo Mclay was worse.
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Nev Cottrell (35)
May be they are just poorly behaved.
When has a speaker not been biased, it is pretty clear the libs considered labor's speakers unreasonable as well, as they watched Pyne do his regular walk of shame for a rest.
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Mark Ella (57)
Absolute crap. You could search the records and find numerous examples of both sides of the house praising Harry Jenkins as Speaker.
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Mark Ella (57)
Interesting post given that recently the topic in this thread has been respect for the office of PM. I don't think McLay was much of a speaker but what I remember most about that period of time was John Hewson always turning his back on the PM when he spake in the House.
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John Solomon (38)
The loss of Sinodinos from the front bench appears to have had an unexpected beneficial effect:
http://www.businessspectator.com.au...l&utm_content=626097&utm_campaign=kgb&modapt=
http://www.businessspectator.com.au...l&utm_content=626097&utm_campaign=kgb&modapt=
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Mark Ella (57)
Mathias Cormann: “We do not intend to reintroduce conflicted remuneration or sales commissions for financial advisers.”
and he was speaker for whole period labor was in government?
No. I thought Anna Burke did a pretty good job too.
The Coalition has decided that Bishop doesn't need to follow the standard procedure of the speaker sitting outside the party room.
Whatever your opinion, it was very clear yesterday that Bishop completely lost control of the house. She hasn't managed to shift away from the role she has played in parliament in both government and opposition for almost 20 years. Instead of taking the role of trying to facilitate the smooth running of the house she has very much taken the role of just trying to keep the ALP in check.
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Mark Ella (57)
Tony Abbott's pre-budget fortnight of blunders and stuff-ups
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbotts-prebudget-fortnight-of-blunders-and-stuffups-20140327-zqnkm.html#ixzz2xDDggZKL
"Even though it's depressing to see it play out every day and that it will directly effect Australia's future, this government is a text book case study of a political party elected for no other reason than effective (yet completely dumb) sloganeering and an electorate duped into punishing the opposite team by the invested commercial interests of commercial media"
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbotts-prebudget-fortnight-of-blunders-and-stuffups-20140327-zqnkm.html#ixzz2xDDggZKL
"Even though it's depressing to see it play out every day and that it will directly effect Australia's future, this government is a text book case study of a political party elected for no other reason than effective (yet completely dumb) sloganeering and an electorate duped into punishing the opposite team by the invested commercial interests of commercial media"
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