Tag Archives: Gillard

  1. Some More Car Stickers for Team Julia

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    June 25, 2013 by kate ahearne

     If you would like me to email these stickers to you in their original size – 9″X2″, please leave a …
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  2. Petition: Murdoch, Fairfax, ABC, SBS and all other Australian media outlets.

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    June 23, 2013 by kate ahearne

    Dear readers. Yesterday’s editorial in The Age asking Julia Gillard to step down has outraged many people. Here is a …
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  3. Julia Gillard: ‘I don’t know how she finds the courage to get out of bed in the morning.’

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    June 18, 2013 by kate ahearne

    Last weekend I had a conversation with my sister, who said something that jolted me out of my despondency about …
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  4. An Open Letter to The Moderator(s), ABC Online

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    May 20, 2013 by kate ahearne

    Part One (Thanks to turnleft2013 for the pic.) In my previous post, ‘An Open Letter to Leigh Sales and Jon …
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  5. Paid Parental Leave: Desperately Spinning

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    May 9, 2013 by kate ahearne

    On Sunday, 5 May, a nasty, yawning hole opened up under Tony Abbott’s feet. A highly inflammatory article by Liberal …
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  6. ‘How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?’ Abraham Lincoln

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    May 8, 2013 by kate ahearne

    Part One I first posed this question to a group of students learning English as a second language – a …
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  7. “There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead, but lets be absolutely clear. I am determined to price carbon”. Julia Gillard

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    April 26, 2013 by kate ahearne

    I love a good conspiracy theory – I especially love to laugh at them. One of my very closest relations …
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  8. The Pollsters and the Pollies: Polling for Political and Pecuniary Profit – With Particular Reference to Newspoll

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    April 20, 2013 by kate ahearne

    If you’re a big player in the media with self-interest to protect, and you’re not entirely scrupulous about how you …
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  9. Superannuation Part 2, The Battle of the Brains: ‘Shades of Cyprus’ by Tony Abbott versus ‘This is a crazy statement that no person of reason could make.’ by Julia Gillard

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    April 15, 2013 by kate ahearne

    The story so far: On Friday, April 5, Wayne Swan, the Treasurer, and Bill Shorten, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for …
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  10. Superannuation: Tax Breaks for the ‘Fabulously Rich’ Under Threat from Gillard: Tax Breaks for the Lowest 30% Under Threat from Abbott.

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    April 4, 2013 by kate ahearne

    Yesterday morning I received an email from GetUp! asking me to sign a petition about tax breaks which are benefiting …
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