It makes you wonder about everything you read in a newspaper and whether it could possibly be real.
Could it be, could it really be that our newspapers here in AmeriKa are filled with fiction meant to manipulate minds to advance an agenda?
"Labor keeps power as Australia deadlock ends; Keeping coalition together may be a delicate task" by Rod McGuirk, Associated Press | September 8, 2010
CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Julia Gillard barely retained power yesterday when the last two independent legislators made kingmakers by deadlocked elections ended a tense 17-day standoff and agreed to join her government. Her next challenge? Keeping the unlikely bedfellows of her coalition together....
The defection of a single lawmaker would bring down her administration. While Labor expels lawmakers for failing to vote along party lines, Gillard must get three disparate independent lawmakers plus one from the Greens party to support her legislative agenda.
That agenda includes imposing a new 30 percent tax on iron ore and coal miners’ profits, which are burgeoning with the voracious demand for raw materials from Chinese and Indian manufacturers, and making Australia’s biggest polluters pay for carbon gas emissions.
See: Around Asia: In a Land Down Under
China Challenges U.S. Superpower Status
Notice the Indian extractions have been kept quiet in my newspaper?
Her newfound supporters have their own agendas. The Greens want gays to be allowed to marry and Australian troops withdrawn from Afghanistan while independent Andrew Wilkie wants federal action to protect problem gamblers from poker machines.
See: Australian Election on the Barbie
They can forget about Afghanistan.
And WTF are the Greens doing in the gay debate?
Controlled opposition pushes one agenda they might as well push them all.
Gillard has rejected legal recognition of gay marriage, but has agreed to allow a parliamentary debate on the future of Australia’s deployment of 1,550 troops in Afghanistan.
Talk and nothing will change.
She has agreed to take legal advice on what federal powers the government has over the availability of poker machines, which are regulated by state legislation....
The government will be unstable by the standards of modern Australia, where parties have governed with strictly disciplined majorities since 1943.
Which means someone will have a hold of their balls.
How like AmeriKa you Australians are.
But some analysts believe that Gillard’s minority government would be more stable than one created by opposition leader Tony Abbott’s conservative coalition, which enlisted only 74 of the 76 seats it needed in the 150-seat House of Representatives.
Related: Abbott to Lead Australia
Gee, looks like the MSM Monitor was duped on that one.
Nick Economou, a Monash University political scientist, said Abbott, who rules out ever making polluters pay for their carbon emissions, could not deal with the Greens, who support charging polluters.
Winter not cold enough for you Aussies?
The Greens won 12 of the 76 seats in the Senate, where neither Gillard nor Abbott command a majority.
“If Tony had become prime minister, he would have quickly run into serious trouble with the Senate’’ which would have resulted in an early election, Economou said.
In return for the Greens’ support, Gillard has agreed to a range of their demands, including establishing a committee to investigate how Australia could introduce a price for carbon gas pollution.
I suspect this government will be turned out in the next election if not before.
Gillard has also agreed to give up some of a prime minister’s traditional tactical advantages for the independents’ support. While prime ministers have the freedom to call elections at times that suit their interests, Gillard has agreed to confer with allies before setting an election date.
What, another meaningless election?
Yaaaay, you can vote for change, Australia!
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