To The Punch Moonday 9th August 10

Liberal diary: Spin master still in control
by Sophie Mirabella
Note: Labor MP Richard Marles and Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella are among our favourite contributors to The Punch, and we have asked them to write a piece every Friday during this five-week election campaign giving their take on events.
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It’s telling that the transition this week from false to “real” Julia Gillard was only discernable because of her embarrassing public declaration that she was “going to take charge”.

Which of course begs the question – just who has been in charge over the last six weeks of her Prime Ministership?
Sympathy from Gillard heralds the attempt to win back Rudd voters to vote Labor in order to give Rudd back a post in the Gillard Cabinet as a “senior Cabinet minister”.
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Labor strategists decided to dump Rudd as they deduced that they had a better chance of winning with Gillard as leader. Rudd refused to talk to Michael Richardson, so Gillard became the garrotte, and Rudd was squeezed out. Now with sympathy? Labor figured that the loss of Labor advocates over Rudd would be a worthwhile price to pay to diffuse the anguish that Australian non-socialists felt over the disaster of the conduct of the Labor Government. And they were right, as the growing movement to “Get rid of Rudd” from the general population did not translate into “Get rid of Gillard”.
There is still time for the voters to realise that Gillard is really a Green and Gillard cares nought for the Security and prosperity of Australia as a sovereign Nation.
Ambitious individuals enter Small Business (self employment) for the opportunity of increasing their own security and prosperity.
Small Business owners are in business to make money. SBO employ more employees to make more money. SBO do not go into business to provide jobs for unprofitable employees.
The desire to enter Parliament is held strongest by socialists. Non-socialists do not want their lives unduly controlled and do not want to control the lives of others. Non and anti-socialists get stuck into creating wealth to provide for themselves, their family and to ensure that their siblings succeed in life and so forward on their genes. The self employed and their employees (who have learnt to treat the business as their own) take time off from their work pursuits to campaign only in self defence of the protection of their property and livelihood and for the protection of the identity of their own Nation.
There is much to suggest that as leader Gillard called the election a full 8 months early to benefit the Greens. Had Gillard been fair (her favourite word) she would have remained PM for a reasonable period to allow the Australian electors time to judge her performance as PM. For Gillard the downside of holding an election next year before the due date of 16th April 2011 is that the Greens are polling so well now.
So, with a tear up of over $32m, never to be recouped, Gillard calls an early election (estimated to cost $200m), taking the gamble that the massive Rudd/Gillard/Labor ‘votebuy’ and the ‘fairness’ of super-taxing profits, and taxing employers with additional superannuation will pull Labor over the line and present the Senate with more Greens Senators.
The billions of dollars that Labor has cost and lost Australian taxpayers due to typically socialist ineptitude and massive interference in the market place still has not reached the amount lost in investment, mining and development stymied by the Greens.
Gillard is a present and real danger to the Security and prosperity of Australia and Australia may never recover from a term of her Green policies.
Mums and dads, uncles and aunts, grandparents, the retired, employers, employees and all who care for the continuance of Australia, protected by The Australian Constitution, must ensure that those they hold dear are informed of the danger of Labor and Greens. Counsel your friends and family to vote Labor second last and Greens last as the surest way to preserve Nationhood, parenthood, livelihood and neighbourhood.
jamesdarby@smallbusinessemployeespary.org 0406 553 333 Campaign rooms 07 5599 5277

AEC on making a valid vote: http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_vote/voting_practice.htm
Electors Survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AZECX7TMB
Candidates Survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AZF35896U
Link to Response to Gillard's Speech which she repeated in part when declaring the election
date: http://sbandep.org/pdf/SBANDEP_response_to_Gillard_Press_Club_170710.pdf
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ALP 'policy' is a failure. They say if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. ALP policy is so spur of the moment opportunism, and Gillard has been the driving force of it. Consider, before the GFC, Rudd, Swan and Gillard were all for driving up rates claiming that that was a result of the Howard government policy. In cynical terms that might have been true, because there was no identifiable policy for the ALP, but the politicized reserve bank didn't need to raise those interest rates and were being egged on by the ALP to do so. Then came the GFC and the interest rates are lowered and money is thrown away, much of it to ALP creditors, but much to waste too. Australia didn't benefit from the cash give away. We didn't build anything worthwhile .. like the Bradfield scheme. We will have nothing to show for it, but debt. THAT is ALP policy. - ed.