and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Which, of course is short for bimbos and douchebags.
Misogyny is such a difficult concept …
“Libs are led by a gutless douchebag and a narcissistic bimbo who aren’t fit to be MPs let alone PM and Deputy. Both should be sacked.” Steve Gibbons, Labor MP.
Not fit to be MPs, mmm …
Ms Bishop has confirmed she met Mr Blewitt for about 10 minutes in Melbourne last Friday.
She said she was seeking documents relating to Ms Gillard’s involvement in setting up the association.
“The documents would be documents of Slater & Gordon. He didn’t produce any documents, so I didn’t use documents from Mr Blewitt,” Ms Bishop said.
Asked if he seemed like a trustworthy character, Ms Bishop replied: “No, he’s a self-confessed fraudster”.
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese told Sky News …
“She’s meeting, as the deputy leader of the Opposition, with this bloke at a private, secret meeting to discuss strategy… to try and bring down a Prime Minister,”
“This says a lot about Julie Bishop’s values, it says a lot about the Liberal party.”
A presenter for the 730 Report met Mr Blewitt for 7 minutes and 58 seconds … what does that say about the ABC? You can watch it for yourself. Is he an imbecile as Julia suggests? Compare his responses to Julia’s in regard to this matter. Who sounds more truthful?
Ten minutes here, 7 minutes 58 there, back in the good old days Ralph recalls when Bruce Wilson and Julia would yarn the night away …
… as the three of them would walk the short distance across the road to The Fitz cafe, which still plies a healthy trade…
The 67-year-old says he is not bitter about the past and recalls fondly the long late breakfasts discussing union factionalism and politics over strong coffee…
Blewitt’s memory of those heady times is hazy at times. But he remembers fondly visiting the Fitzroy property and the three of them having robust yarns about the big issues of the day.
Now what does that say about Julia and the Labor Party?
This morning Slater & Gordon released a statement saying: “Slater & Gordon has consistently maintained, and still maintains, that at all times it has acted in accordance with its legal and ethical obligations in relation to all aspects of the AWU matter.”
It said it had obtained independent advice confirming that it: “was (and is) not permitted to divulge confidential and privileged information of one client to another client or any other party.”
The firm said it “acted for both a union and a union official (personally)” in the “AWU matter.”
“In acting for the official, Slater & Gordon obtained information: i). that was confidential to the official; and ii) the disclosure of which to the union would have represented a conflict between the interests of the union and the interests of the official,” the statement said.
“Slater & Gordon ceased acting for both clients after it became aware of this conflict situation.”
On the face of it this is a plea of not guilty, your honour, made by the entity Slater & Gordon, (commonly known as Slags, and it’s less typing). Implicit within it is that Slags as a whole at no stage did anything wrong. It might feel a little peeved that one of the Slags did some of the work in question without raising a file … it makes it hard for an entity to know what it was actually up to.
Within the not guilty plea is an admission. Whatever it was that the entity was up to led to a conflict of interest between two of its clients Bruce Wilson, Ms Gillard’s then boyfriend, and the AWU. A conflict so severe that dealings with both clients had to stop. Not guilty your honour but boy did we screw up.
Being in a relationship can interfere with the normal lawyer-client relationship. It can lead to the lawyer losing his or her objectivity, resulting in inaccurate advice and even a breach of duty to the court.”
If you were setting out to manufacture a fine product you would ensure a good quality control process was in place.
There was a time when that was the case in education, but gone are the days when an inspector would sit in on a class to directly measure the effectiveness of teachers. Indirect measures of teacher performance, testing the students, are also unpopular with teachers … but popular with parents because they would like to know how their kids are going.
The first national study into NAPLAN’s impact, in which researchers garnered responses from more than 8300 teaching staff, has found it is “plagued” by unintended consequences.
More than 80 per cent of teachers felt test preparation was adding to an already crowded curriculum while just over two-thirds believed it had led to a timetable reduction for other subjects.
That research was conducted by asking teachers whether testing kids was a good thing … what answer would you expect?
Ms Gillard said people would have to choose whether they believed Mr Blewitt – a self-confessed fraudster who she said had been described by associates as “a complete imbecile, an idiot, a stooge, a sexist pig, a liar” – or the Prime Minister.
“It’s going to come down to Mr Blewitt’s word against mine … his word against mine, make your mind up.”
Truly …
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