An orchestrated performance with a couple of plants in the audience to ask the questions on which she could score some big points with the electorate.

I wonder if Q&A has lost it's integrity.

deXtrous said...

Saw it.. Was not impressed.

I laughed a bit when she tried to diverge from giving an answer when Tony asked if she had any voice training.

I wish people would've pressed on harder issues and made her look more like a fool.

The last question was a kicker though!

I thought she was OK, but you can't make someone look like a fool when clearly they're not. Got sick of her starting every answer with "I understand...". Last question was a goodie.

Bonominator said...

deXtrous said...

Saw it.. Was not impressed.

I laughed a bit when she tried to diverge from giving an answer when Tony asked if she had any voice training.

I wish people would've pressed on harder issues and made her look more like a fool.

The last question was a kicker though!

I thought she was OK, but you can't make someone look like a fool when clearly they're not. Got sick of her starting every answer with "I understand...". Last question was a goodie.

I thought she started every answer with "That's a good question...". It ****s me when people do that. It comes across as very patronising - nobody ever asks for a critique of their question, get to the bloody answer!!

dirtyharry said...

Bonominator said...

deXtrous said...

Saw it.. Was not impressed.

I laughed a bit when she tried to diverge from giving an answer when Tony asked if she had any voice training.

I wish people would've pressed on harder issues and made her look more like a fool.

The last question was a kicker though!

I thought she was OK, but you can't make someone look like a fool when clearly they're not. Got sick of her starting every answer with "I understand...". Last question was a goodie.

I thought she started every answer with "That's a good question...". It ****s me when people do that. It comes across as very patronising - nobody ever asks for a critique of their question, get to the bloody answer!!

She does that to give herself thinking time to compose an answer. You or I might go um err and have awkward silences. Its probably also designed to make the questioner and audience feel comfortable and positive about her answer.

^^^

I doubt there'd be too many senior politicians on either side that would not have had coaching on how to present themselves, how to answer questions and so on. The further they get up the tree, the more coaching they'd have. Makes sense for both parties to try to make their front line-up look as good as they can get them.

Disagree with you though about not being smart. She was a lawyer in her former life so she can't be too dumb. Smarter than the budgie smuggler? Highly likely.

Liked most of it.

She manages to (most of the time) still seem human. She is very smart and can think on her feet extremely well.

Sick to kn death of the 'hands up' etc tho.

Copped it sweet on the govt fk ups but (finally) sung some self praise over the little things like sving our collective bacon (despite a few 'shonks' souring a small part of the deal).

Really liked that she (almost) straight out said "Oi don't need to appologise to Kev coz oi made a decission - it was for the boist and now oim the boss".

Would like to see IF the mad wingo could be anywhere near as 'real', relaxed, honest or informed accross a number of issues. He will never do a solo spot like that - he'd probably have the machismo to give it crack - but his party knows him best and would never allow it. What does that say - even they don't trust him.

Yeah, what was the last question, I forget

Don't believe a word.


Kevin didn't drink tap water so he was s m a t.

maxm said...

Didn't realise she was from SA originally. Probably accounts for the accent. I went to a party one time at a friends place. Was talking to this guy (about boats) ... he had a bit of a strange accent and so I asked him if he was from New Zealand. He said "No. I come from South Australia. We all talk like this!!"

I think you might find its Wales boyo. that'll make you talk funny.

frant said...

She's not smart. She's not nearly as articulate as Kevin Rudd

You are talking about a bloke who actually had the articulation and presence of mind to say "Fair shake of the sauce bottle".

I gotta be fair dinkum here but that ain't no Aussie colloquialism and is not articulate.

Well in fact it is, here in Qld anyway. It's just the sort of thing you would expect someone like him to say. So - not as phoney as some seem to think.

Ruddy is a tad prolix. Julia is a better communicator imo, but very much the politician ie a mistress of spin.

getfunky said...

Liked most of it.

She manages to (most of the time) still seem human. She is very smart and can think on her feet extremely well.


Only because everything is so well scripted for her, you said this yourself ;


Boy has Julia Goolia cleaned up her accent or what?? 50 yrs bogun - a few weeks in the top job and she sounds like a Toorak Cowgirl


she,, like kev,, is being trained to be as likeable to the public as poss .


Just because she was a lawyer doesnt make her smart , ask the people she wants to vote for her, most of them LIVE ,, life ,, know what the real world is like ,having commitments , educating their own siblings , trying to bring them up to be good people, paying bills on time ,etc,
politicians like the pointy nosed red setter dont know what REAL life is like , as I said ,everthing is scripted for them



Being well educated does not necessarily make you smart, (it makes you well educated)
living and experiencing all the ups and downs life throws at you and knowing how best to cope with them gives you a true perspective on how to deal with the different situations that are thrust upon us .

Shame there is not one politician like this,

She stuck the knife in her bosses back quite calmly and willingly ,, wtf will she do to us

Do yourself a favour and vote liberal before it turns into a muslim state paid for by your taxes.
They can leave the blood shed on there waters. asylum seekers and values have no place in a westernized world.
labour is finished. You wont have to worry about workchoices if you are a minority in a country flooded by polotitions who open the floodgates spending welfare
on housing terrorist rather than creating a hostpitable bed for you grand mother.
Seems the welfare handouts are to much labour as fast as you were voted in because of howard workchoices you will be voted out because of your blatent negelct to adress key issues.

Labour is finished.

I happened to see Abbot interviewed by that other ranga ALP stalwart on ABC last night. It is pretty disappointing when the interviewer takes on the role as opponent by pushing his personal opinion and makes jibes against the interviewee.
I think that this was a terribly biased interview and was unfair on Abbot. Shame on the ABC and Kerry O'Brien. The Australian public deserve the opportunity to make up their own mind, not have Kerry O'Briens view shoved down their throat.

busterwa said...

Do yourself a favour and vote liberal before it turns into a muslim state paid for by your taxes.
They can leave the blood shed on there waters. asylum seekers and values have no place in a westernized world.
labour is finished. You wont have to worry about workchoices if you are a minority in a country flooded by polotitions who open the floodgates spending welfare
on housing terrorist rather than creating a hostpitable bed for you grand mother.
Seems the welfare handouts are to much labour as fast as you were voted in because of howard workchoices you will be voted out because of your blatent negelct to adress key issues.

Labour is finished.

LOL. A total misunderstanding of the world around you. I really struggled to find any logic or facts in what you said. I have to put what you said into perspective:

If you really want a muslim state move to Saudi Arabia. That statement is crap.

It is modern western values that permit people to seek asylum from war, violence and starvation, so how you can argue that compassion is not a western value is bizarre. Xenophobes have been making that argument for decades and they're always proved wrong over time. First, it was the Chinese, then the Jews, then the Italians, Yugoslavs and Europeans, then the Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Africans and finally, now muslims, Sri Lankans and Afghans. Apart from the last few groups which still seem to elicit exaggerated political argument, all others are accepted as hard working Australians by everyone except the most extreme minority - and they're just crazy and beyond redemption.

It's amazing that you actually verbalise your paranoid beliefs about white Australians becoming the minority. That's what Hitler used to do when talking about Jews in Germany, to name one example.

What is it with this concern about welfare payments? I suspect you listen to too many radio shock jocks who continually regurgitate the same nonsense about welfare without any factual journalistic basis. Time and again those jocks are proven wrong, but people still listen, because it gives them something to vent their frustration with life at.

On Labour, you're just dreaming to put it plainly. More like the other way around. But I'm sure Turnbull will make a far better opposition leader and bring some sanity back to the LN Party. Australia deserves it.

May the BEST liar win on the 21st, the whole thing is getting boring