Labor had plenty of time for the plethora of Dorothy Dixers!

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Subject: Labor had plenty of time for the plethora of Dorothy Dixers!.... Anna Burke speaker is a disgrace!

Labor had plenty of time for the plethora of Dorothy Dixers!

The Speaker of The House of Representatives is compliant in allowing Julia Gillard to not need to respond to the Opposition questions.

The last day was a disgrace as the PM was asked many questions by Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, Christopher Pine and others.

She refused to answer them.

Indeed - Gillard’s non – responsive abuse and disparate classical stonewalling was what we got. Pure farce.

Labor had plenty of time for the plethora of Dorothy Dixers!

The Speaker Anna Burke felt no need to request any remotely sequiturial answers – even when she was asked to rule on the abomination that she had allowed question time to degenerate into.

And to add insult to injury, the media only showed the girly PM’s [oops!] pathetic abuse – creating the impression that she was in control.

Then you have the lamentable Tony Windsor in the Bib and Bub show on Lateline with Tony Jones who kept feeding him puerile lines like:

‘’TONY JONES: Was today Tony Abbott's Godwin Grech moment? ‘’

These players care not that they are a blight on our democracy!

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/chamber/hansardr/9b96ae59-96ca-4e39-b984-8b520b432ef5/toc_pdf/House%20of%20Representatives_2012_11_29_1566_Part.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf#search=%22chamber/hansardr/9b96ae59-96ca-4e39-b984-8b520b432ef5/0000%22

Tony Windsor discusses the major issues from Parliament

Independent MP Tony Windsor talks about the the so-called 'slush fund affair', the Gonski report on education, poker machine legislation, the NBN and energy.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, 29 November 2012

CHAMBER

Mr Pyne: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of

order on relevance. She was asked whether she would

support a judicial inquiry into this very grubby deal.

The SPEAKER: The Manager of Opposition

Business will resume his seat. The Prime Minister has

the call.

Ms GILLARD: And there we have it, even in the

interjection—more sleaze, more smear, more

unsubstantiated allegations. He had 15 minutes to

explain why his deputy did not tell the truth publicly

about her dealings with Ralph Blewitt, 15 minutes to

deal with these issues, and spectacularly failed to do

so. No amount of carry-on, no amount of grasping at

straws is going to change the fact that the Leader of the

Opposition is drowning in a sea of sleaze and smear,

and there is a reason for that.

The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will return to

the question.

Ms GILLARD: There is a reason why this man is

drowning in a sea of sleaze and smear, and it is that he

does not have one idea for the nation's future. Instead

of wasting our time, as we are invited to do by the

Leader of the Opposition, we will get on with building

great Labor reforms like the National Disability

Insurance Scheme, using our time to improve the lives

of the Australian people—

The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will return to

the question.

Ms GILLARD: something the Leader of the

Opposition will never understand.

Nation Building

Dr LEIGH (Fraser) (15:13): My quest