tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post8319503913931669825..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Yesterday's Talking PointsBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-88512184842382278472012-01-28T18:56:34.068+11:002012-01-28T18:56:34.068+11:00Oh puhlease ... 'cut her a break'? The on...Oh puhlease ... 'cut her a break'? The only thing the voters want to cut is to cut her loose, over and out, and fast. She wasn't calmly looking for anything except opportunity, as always. With snake-eyes.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-90540462779611073982012-01-28T12:58:08.939+11:002012-01-28T12:58:08.939+11:00I realise I'm pointing out the bleeding obviou...I realise I'm pointing out the bleeding obvious, but imagine if a similar event happened half a dozen years or so ago and it was a John Howard staffer who incited the race riot.<br /><br />Reaction at 7.30 would be somewhat different I'm willing to bet.<br /><br />jupesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-51704600350059037142012-01-28T12:07:04.623+11:002012-01-28T12:07:04.623+11:00Katharine Murphy in The Age:
"The vision als...Katharine Murphy in The Age:<br /><br />"The vision also captured a Prime Minister keeping her cool in the middle of sharply deteriorating circumstances, working her way through the options, mapping the entrances and exits; no hysterics, taking the inventory. (We all here? Good. Let's do this vaguely unpalatable thing then.)<br /> <br />"Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott sit with this person most parliamentary weeks, but the voters glimpse her rarely. She certainly exists, and if the voters saw her more consistently - the calm corporatist declining to succumb to procedural or practical adversity - they might cut her a break."Imrenoreply@blogger.com