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Media Call Video – President Obama and Prime Minister Gillard
PA Pundits International ^ | 08 March 2011 | TonyfromOz

Posted on 03/08/2011 6:38:10 AM PST by TonyfromOz

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on a Sate Visit to the U.S. and she spent 40 minutes in private with the President at the White House, and then appeared for the usual media call video at the end of the talks. In a way. it's lucky the visit was planned for right now, because at home both Prime Minister Gillard and her Government have the lowest popularity polls in many years, thanks to her announcement that she is seeking to impose a 'Price on Carbon', even after promising in the recent election campaign that she would not be doing this in her first term if she was re-elected. This might just have been her only chance to be seen on the bigger stage with President Obama.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: australianvisit; juliagillard; presidentobama

1 posted on 03/08/2011 6:38:12 AM PST by TonyfromOz
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To: TonyfromOz

Sate Visit? ;)


2 posted on 03/08/2011 6:41:32 AM PST by Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
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To: TonyfromOz

"Together we can destroy capitalism..."

3 posted on 03/08/2011 6:42:01 AM PST by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: TonyfromOz

Tony, I try to follow Australian events because I want to move some money there. Will a carbon tax really be imposed? Isn’t Gilibrand caught in a lie now?


4 posted on 03/08/2011 6:42:30 AM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: DaxtonBrown

Sorry, Gillard, shows you how important she is to me.


5 posted on 03/08/2011 6:43:49 AM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: DaxtonBrown

Why she is proposing this now is that she hopes against hope that it can actually be forced through into legislation with the aid of The Australian Greens Party in the Senate, who are in fact the main drivers of this legislation. The hope is she can force it through now, even though it is roundly detested by everyone, and then the hope is that come the next election in three years time, the people will have gotten used to it and forgotten it. Fat chance. especially when it’s going to drive up the cost of electricity by so much.
This announcement has been poison, both for her as leader, and for her Government, and the polls have them in free fall at the moment.
It’s going to be touch and go if it does get up.


6 posted on 03/08/2011 6:52:39 AM PST by TonyfromOz
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To: TonyfromOz

Can she do that?


7 posted on 03/08/2011 7:05:52 AM PST by Michel12
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To: TonyfromOz

I thought I read somewhere she is the first head of state of any “Western” government who is openly atheist.

Am I right?


8 posted on 03/08/2011 8:12:41 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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