Month: February 2015
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Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Field Marshal Abbott’s Last Post at Gallipoli?
Part of Field Marshal Tony Abbott’s survival plan is to present himself as a modern-day heir of the ANZACs. The embattled Mad Monk is travelling to Wellington today to meet NZ Prime Minister John Key to announce a 400-strong joint training mission to Iraq. On April 25 when the 100th anniversary of the catastrophic defeat…
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Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Abbott is channelling President George Bush
Who’s speaking here? “We are a free and fair nation. But that doesn’t mean we should let bad people play for us for mugs, and all too often they have. Well, that’s going to stop.” Amazingly, it was the Mad Monk speaking during his weekly broadcast, a PR concept he’s borrowed from the White House.…
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Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Mad Monk
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is swinging from the yardarm like a piece of carrion; his party will cut him down and toss him into the sea when the smell becomes intolerable. Liberal MPs prefer to “give a man another go” so the fatally wounded corpse may hang around for a few months longer. Labor ruffians…
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Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Abbottwatch latest: he’s a goner
Tony Abbott is gone as Prime Minister. The only pertinent questions are how and when. All this week’s speeches, interviews and TV broadcasts are the actions of a desperate politician trying to save his skin. They won’t work. When he said that 2014 had been a “year of achievement”, voters shrank in horror. When he…