[podcast]https://uat.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/crikey_cc_090506.mp3[/podcast]
Putting the budget aside, Crikey editor Jonathan Green and Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane discuss Malcolm Turnbull’s disappointing Press Club Performance and glasses of Pinot Noir.
Sadly with your new Website (with extra source) I can no longer save your audio as an mp3 and listen on my mp3 player. So it isn’t really a podcast, it is fact streaming audio. Can you make the mp3 available again.
It is truly a podcast, as it has an RSS feed with enclosures — you might want to play around with a podcasting client (like iTunes, but there are many more), so you don’t even have to bother downloading it manually! Very handy.
Meanwhile, I’ll fix up the lack of download links on the podcast pages. Thanks!
Not the view from this side of the fence, guys. I think Malcolm chewed up Kevin and Wayne, then spat them out.
You criticise his metaphors, but I would think he advisedly omitted reference to “drunken sailor” to avoid insulting our fine defence personnel. Speaking of which, it is baffling to know why so much money has been spent on new defence equipment, above and beyond many other pressing domestic needs, which are too numerous to mention. I would like to know the rationale behind this massive spend, considering Kevin’s apparent ability to avert any crisis or solve any problems with talk-fests. Surely he could utilise his great linguistic skills to achieve detente much more effectively (and far less messily) than any military force.
As for criticism of Malcolm Turnbull’s speech, ahead of the Budget: let us wait and see what gems are contained therein next week. I only hope there is sufficient allocation for adequate RAAF aircraft attendant hospitality training, lest defence personnel numbers plummet, leaving all that expensive equipment to rust.
I’m convinced Malcolm’s convinced he doesn’t believe in what he’s saying. As a self-interested player he’s signalling his foray into politics has been a complete disaster all tarnished by bad timing including the party he joined. It’s pitiful to hear him justify rescue packages as having failed (cash splash grrrrr!) because “not one job has been created.” In a recession its surely about SAVING jobs. Mal keeps dismissing the bleeding obvious including his presence in the Liberal Party has been stuffed by the Liberals.
Wasn’t it Labour who stated that the ‘rescue package’ as you call it was going to ‘create’ 70,000 jobs?
I can’t recall any claims about saving jobs at the time ?
Re Chris Johnson’s comment: It’s the political game, Chris. Cringe we may about expressions such as “cash splash”, but who can ever forget the “fork in the road”, “out the back door” (replete with ridiculous gesticulation), the irksome “ladder of opportunity” and “ease the squeeze” (oh, God I think I’m going to be sick!).
No matter which side of politics one is on, there is always “self-interest”, the crucial issue of timing and other party members/hopefuls who will litter the path of ambition (there’s almost another nauseating expression, so don’t quote me!).
Who can say with certainty whether the economic stimulus package is partly, wholely or not at all responsible for changes in our domestic economy? I think the figures are always rubbery to suit the purpose.