FW: [Powderworks] 7:30 Report - NMOC
Tari, Vince
Vince.Tari at nmhg.com
Thu Oct 14 19:39:27 MDT 2004
>
> Have to agree with Rick on this. Whilst i'd love to see PG as
> Labour leader (& eventual PM of course) Australia seems to be
> much more conservative these days, sticking with the status
> quo, given the fact that the two key issues (interest rates &
> unemployment) are in relatively good shape. (If it aint
> broke......blah blah blah....)
>
> The Liberals ran a clever campaign, highlighting Latham's
> incompetency during his time as Mayor of Liverpool (local
> government - 2 levels below Federal). The catch-cry of "if he
> couldn't manage the local council, how can he manage the
> country?" scared a lot of voters into avoiding him like the plague.
>
> I think Howard has a job for life, unless his understudy
> Costello gets the ambition bug & the numbers up to overthrow
> him during this current term.
>
> But in the meantime i'll be watching question time with
> interest as i can see PG getting invloved in some fiery
> exchanges with his counterparts.
>
> vt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff and Jane Scott [mailto:jscott at iinet.net.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:40 PM
> > To: Powderworks
> > Subject: [Powderworks] 7:30 Report
> >
> >
> > When someone said Pete was going to be on the 7:30 Report tonight, I
> > didn't think they meant he would be the entire show!
> >
> > But it turned out to be a in-depth 30 minute examination of his
> > political campaign, and I wish now that I'd taped it!
> >
> > It included some footage of the Byron Bay on-stage
> > performance with Rob
> > (basically we saw the first verse of "My Country" and the last few
> > seconds of "Progress" - I'd like to see/hear the full version of
> > "Progress" in particular, as it would be an interesting thing done
> > acoustically). There was also a bit of Rob and Paul Greene doing
> > "Secret World".
> >
> > The other thing that really struck me was a bit where Pete
> was out and
> > about with Mark Latham (Labor Party leader for those not in
> > Oz). If you
> > didn't know who was who, and were asked to pick which was the
> > experienced party leader and which was the newby with the "L"
> > plates on,
> > you'd get them the wrong way around. Garrett just
> dominates any group
> > of people (I don't mean that in a negative way), and it was
> Latham who
> > was talking inane rubbish as though he felt like he had to
> > say something
> > but couldn't think of anything to say.
> >
> > I'm putting money on now that Peter Garrett will be leading
> the Labor
> > Party in the 2010 election, if not the 2007 one.
> >
> >
> > jeff...
> >
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