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Monday February 13, 2012

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  • Troy on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I have seen this family fighting day after day for months trying to get their kids/siblings back home. The dedication and ... more
  • Pauline on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' DHS have destroyed my own family. They failed in their duty of care to provide a baby moniter for the deaf , thousands of ... more
  • Christine on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' isn't it funny how DHS don't recognise the psychological effects of domestic violence on children and continue to allow ... more
  • Warrior princess on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' There is a family In the Cairns Area who are Foster Carers.Atherton Child Safety have threatened the carers and own ... more
  • duncan on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' i have spent time with this family. it is a house full of love. "mum", grandfather and older sblings.this cannot be an issue ... more
  • Tracey on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Family Law is different from the rest of the law in this country.. Ie. Family Law is based on probability: ie if it might ... more
  • carol annetta on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' having known this family for some time i am disgusted with the treatment she has received. it seems more of a witch hunt ... more
  • Maureen Hillary on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Derryn,I have counselled traumatized parents as a result of DHS staff.There are great staff workers who care but they ... more
  • Janet Tavener on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I am a visitor to this country.My attention was drawn to the case of these children and their foster mother by a relative of ... more
  • sam on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Happening in Tasmania also.Wewon a court case over 8 months ago and due process still hasn't been done.We spent 17,000 ... more
  • Anne Glover on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I just cannot believe what the DHS has put the Foster Mother, and the children through - I thought the DHS was supposed to ... more
  • Tracey on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' DHS are the most disgraceful organization I have ever had the displeasure of becoming involved with. They are so ... more
  • Vicki on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Hi Derryn,I have known this carer since primary school, she has always put others above herself. Being a carer myself I know ... more
  • Gran'ma Pam on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' As any of us with any sense know, these children should NEVER have been taken from this lady (mum) in the first place, they ... more
  • Dominic Lombardo on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I see my daughter every six months DHS are conducting a vendetta against me I have not been told why I can only see her ... more
  • cassy houghton on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Hello Derryn,Firstly i would like to thankyou for your support and the willingness to help this beautiful family.I ... more
  • Warrior princess on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Im a carer also in Qld. I see this happen way too much from our Government. They are starting to use Carers own children as ... more
  • paul on "I'll pay the fee," says Hinch I believe what Liberal Party has done is stupid. But I feel for candidates like Joh Bauch and James Buonopane who want to ... more
  • Andrea on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Why are these public servants allowed to blatantly flout the law without the same consequences the rest of society faces? I ... more
  • birth mother on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' i am the birth morther of these 4 children and i just want to say dhs dont care they just want the kids in care so they can ... more

Natives restless with 'basic' Rudd

Posted by: Derryn Hinch | 1 March, 2010 - 4:23 PM
Kevin Rudd has a new favourite word. Guess what it is?

PLAYING NOW: A package from Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's media conference on Monday.

HINCH: Five words on a placard held up outside Norwood Town Hall in Adelaide yesterday sum up the plight of not only South Australian Premier Mike Rann but Victoria's John Brumby, other Labor Premiers around the country, and the new 'Mr Mea Culpa - Kevin Rudd.

The protester at the official launch of Rann's state election campaign, in which the polls show his support plunging 10 per cent, held a placard which read:

'Real doctors, not Spin doctors'. And boy was that on the money. It sums up in those five words why our political leaders are on the nose.

All over the country the punters are angry. To be blunt, they are sick of the bulls--t.

They are sick of the slickness and the gloss and the spin doctoring that is epidemic in our leaders' offices.

Sick of the self-serving, truth-twisting, expensive TV propaganda campaigns. Sick of the ducking, weaving, sometimes lying, press releases that come out of the over-staffed and over-paid propaganda offices known as the Media Department.

Maybe the scales are falling from voters' eyes. Maybe the edict that 'bulls--t baffles brains' no longer applies. Even though both sides will be shovelling it in this an election years for many states and the Federal Government.

As George Megalogenis observes in today's Australian: "The terminal decline of Labor's state-governing brand has officially reached the level of satire."

On the federal scene Prime Minister Rudd has garnered headlines today after yesterday's deliberate unveiling of his hair shirt in his first appearance as Prime Minister on the ABC's The Insider program.

He says his government deserves a 'whacking'. Has deservedly been 'taking a pounding'.

His confession: ' ... where we have to improve our game – where I need to lift my game – is in delivering in the key outstanding areas of reform, in health and hospitals, in education, and getting on with the  business of action  on climate change'.

Well, that just about covers the waterfront. What the hell have you been doing for two and a half years?

It is refreshing for a politician, any politician, to say 'I was wrong'. But the electorate doesn't seem to be buying the mea culpa.

The blogs are flooded with comments like:

"So what Kev is effectively saying is that it's harder being in government than he thought."

"So what were the first 2 and a half years, Kev, a practice?"

"Lift my game? Mr. Rudd, I don't think you've been 'in the game' since Day One."

"Kev, I suggest you go back to the job you were very good at - opposition!"

"The spin master has switched to another cycle as easily as my reverse cycle air conditioner."

It's pretty obvious, the natives are restless.

Blog comments Your Say

  • This Rudd government has been the most inept government of all time , they blatently , repeadedly ignore experts in the fiekds of insulation, health , population , and freedom of information that will be unavailable on the internet once their censorship filter is in place.
    They will not be open with the Australian public and hold themselves above public scrutiny.
    As a mother of five Im still very angry that Ive been insinuated as pro child porn because I disagree with censorship.

    Dee Thursday 8 April, 2010 - 11:04 AM

  • The cRudd governement is the most dangerous enemy this country has seen. Hes government would have us censored (re todays radio show) and believes most Australians are incapable of looking after the wellbeing of their own children , being called basic is just Rudd looking down on the Australian public .What a meglomaniac.

    Dee Friday 12 March, 2010 - 5:56 PM

  • Who is Rudd appealing to? Idiots? Does he really think we are that BASIC? It's laughable! And tragic - this "mate" of ours is our elected Prime Minister!
    Our "mate" needs to go back to a few basics himself.
    Number 1 - listen to industry (the people in the know) when they are tell you something WILL NOT WORK!!
    It would have saved us 4 lives and BILLIONS of dollars that we don't have.....
    But I guess that was a bit too basic for you Kev, you bloody galah.

    Justine Tuesday 2 March, 2010 - 11:15 PM

  • Barbara - what??? An apology - FOR NOT RUNNING THE COUNTRY PROPERLY - makes it okay with you?
    I would rather Rudd had DONE HIS JOB in the first place, thereby making an apology completely unnecessary! It would have saved Australia a hell of a lot of time, trouble, MONEY and a few LIVES!
    You would put the "nice bloke" act ahead of the actual JOB a Prime Minister is supposed to do...?
    I have friends if I want nice conversation - I expect much, MUCH more of a country's leader!

    Justine Tuesday 2 March, 2010 - 11:01 PM

  • Dan, you're a typical Liberal Party spin doctor & talking absolute CRAP~! There was never any WMD's found, in fact the Chief Weapons Inspector openly stated that regardless of whether they were given more time or not, it would be unlikely they would find any WMD. Even their own intelligence indicated the program had been completely dismantled. Blair also later openly stated that he would have invaded Iraq, regardless of whether he had known WMD would not be found. Dan, 'potential consequences' & specific UN resolution(s) which actually authorise military action are two different things. The United States did what? No Dan, it was actually Cheney who dictated foreign policy & pulled the strings. Bush merely formally authorised military action. Dan obviously suffers from 'convenient' memory. No Danny boy, they were never entitled or authorised to use military force. Blair wanted a regime change, Bush/Cheney wanted to control the price of oil. There was no direct connection between Al Qaeda & Saddam Hussein's regime, and Hussein had nothing whatsoever to do with the 9/11 attack, which precipitated the Iraq invasion.

    Lenny Tuesday 2 March, 2010 - 7:50 PM

  • Is this a joke?

    Because if it isn't, Mr Rudd has lost the plot.
    Or is he back to subliminal brain washing jargon.

    repeat repeat repeat

    Let's get down to basics then shall we PM.

    Mate!

    You still are no good!

    and that's a basic fact!

    chrissy Tuesday 2 March, 2010 - 4:58 PM

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