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The D-Day Stuff Up of 2014

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I first found out about this on Twitter…

and since then, it’s gotten awkward. The New Matilda has a summary of the story, and the PDF of the original speech is here.

Please tell me how a speech about following War Veterans to France for D-Day commemorations links into blatant political messaging about how getting rid of the Carbon Tax and telling the rest of the world that “Australia is open for business” is going to make anyone want to trade or do more business in Australia than they already do.

Somehow, I don’t think Tony Abbott is going to make any headway going around Europe and the Americas, telling people that “Australia is open for business” and that:

We welcome investment and we are making investment more attractive by scrapping the carbon tax and the
mining tax, cutting 50,000 pages of red tape and ending the “analysis paralysis” on major projects.

The “analysis paralysis”? What has this got to do with D-Day Veterans attending the 70th anniversary commemorations in Normandy to remember the beginning of the end of a deadly war?

This has been stirring up social media, and I can understand why – it was meant to be about the Veterans, not a chance to slip in a political message that at the moment is completely irrelevant. It shouldn’t have happened at all.

The video is still on YouTube (as at 10:55pm AEST on June 1)

Leadership Spill – The Speeches Part II

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Kevin Rudd

  • 2007 the people elected his party into govt
  • He’s back and happy to do it
  • Julia is intelligent, strong and formidable
  • She and her ministers were amazing
  • If it were not for Julia, education would be awful
  • Very positive about Swan and Gillard
  • He simply can’t “stand idly by” as Abbott comes to power
  • Abbott steeped in Negative politics – has no positive plan for the Country
  • Australia a great country compared to others
  • Owe a lot to those before and after us
  • We have a great future but it isn’t guaranteed
  • We as a nation create our own luck
  • China is a major part of the economy
  • Doesn’t want to be the PM of a nation that doesn’t make stuff
  • Wants to work closely with Business
  • Tells young Aussies to come back, it is important and they need their support
  • Challenges are great

Anthony Albanese

  • Thanks Kevin for his support
  • Thanks the party for voting for him
  • Creating fairness and supporting the economy
  • Will do his job with enthusiasm, passion and commitment
  • Labor focussed on the long-term and the people
  • Coalition focussed on short-term and….

Well then the ABC cut him off, so I don’t know/

Leadership Spill – The Speeches Part I

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Julia Gillard

  • Sent letter to Governor General telling her to allow Kevin to be the PM
  • Will not contest the next election as promised
  • Being the PM was a “great privilege”
  • Thanks the Labor MPs for giving her the chance
  • Says being PM has not been easy
  • Very proud of what her government has achieved
  • Happy about carbon price and other policies
  • Calling Liberal campaigning “reckless”
  • Happy with the Gonski reforms and that 60% of students will have a better education
  • Proud of the Royal Commission and foreign policy achievements with USA and China and India
  • Proud of the Armed forces and their courage
  • Thanks her colleagues for their support despite the media calling for the change of leader
  • Tells her colleagues to win the election – “It can be done”
  • “Heavens knows no one knew I was a woman till I raised it” – good on you –  I laughed a bit
  • Thanks her staff both in Canberra and Melbourne
  • Thanks her family, especially Tim.
  • Warns her pregnant niece that there is one meddlesome great-aunt coming her way

Wayne Swan

  • Driven by social justice
  • Everyone should get a fair go
  • Proud of the Labor governments record
  • Proud of Australia’s avoidance of a major recession and the fact that Australia’s economy is 14% larger than at the end of 2007
  • 1 million jobs created in the last 5 or so years
  • “It say a lot about the Labor Party”
  • Julia is one of the “toughest” and has done a lot for Australia
  • 3 years in a minority government is a substantial achievement
  • Talking about his electorate in Queensland
  • He will contest the election
  • Thanks his family for being so supportive
  • “good team work” in the cabinet
  • Thanks the colleagues and the electorate office staff and his staff in Canberra
  • Labor deserves and can win the election