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“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”
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“Rudd proved to be too conservative for the nation he led, while Gillard's campaign for re-election was too cynical. But the problem goes deeper than any individual's failure. Labor in office suffered a return of the identity crisis that has plagued it in its wilderness years in Opposition... the party had given up its soul to the machine. p208”
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
“Laura tingle: "So it's not jut that we see Gillard as a backstabber who brought down an elected prime minister, it is that we see her as the very reason we have minority government. Gillard has become the embodiment of a crushing number of uncertainties and disappointed expectations, both about politics and Australia's future, which makes voters uncomfortable -and in some cases angry.”
― Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
― Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
“Gay men are French women...with penises.”
― Gay Men Don't Get Fat
― Gay Men Don't Get Fat
“Government is weaker today because the public it serves is quicker to anger, and because the Opposition has realised the safest way back to power is opposition, not policy renewal. No mandate need be respected because the Opposition can trust the media to set impossible standards for government to meet. p237”
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
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