- Aust. Deputy PM Julia Gillard is holding a press conference on today's unemployment figures which show unemployment unchanged at 5.8% #
- Gillard: economic evidence is in.. shows that economic stimulus has worked in sustaining jobs and building infrastructure for the future. #
- Gillard: economic stimulus will continue in schools, road programs, broadband network and similar. #
- Gillard: even most optimistic forecasters say global recession still to hit us and will impact on unemployment. Not the time to pull back. #
- Gillard: monthly figures will continue to be volatile, unemployment will continue to rise, will peak in June 2011. #
- Gillard: unemployment is a lagging indicator, full effects seen later. #
- Gillard asked whether govt sticks to its forecasts… says forecasts may be revised in the mid-year forecast at end of calendar year. #
- Gillard: we seem to be seeing a substitution of part-time for full-time jobs as employers & employees strike bargains to maintain jobs. #
- Gillard: unemployment variations from state to state – eg. WA and Qld affected by mining and terms of trade. Vic affected by manuf. downturn #
- Gillard asked about Andrew Robb Liberal leadership speculation – says Robb is climate change denier, WorkChoices supporter. #
- RT @Woywegian: New Zealand Unemployment Rate Sees Largest Quarterly Rise in History http://bit.ly/1nAN5 #
- RT @markgkenny: How lucky is this Rudd fellow? Oppn imploding for no good reason .. even the jobless rate fails to worsen.. #
- Copy of a real Grech email via Peter Martin's blog: http://is.gd/24bfr Priorities anyone? RT @rod3000 #
- @rod3000 As Costello said yesterday, this is not the behaviour you expect from a "senior public servant". Exposes Turnbull/Abetz as fools. in reply to rod3000 #
- @rod3000 Not even in hindsight, I suggest. Mature politicians would have heard alarm bells ringing all over the place with this. in reply to rod3000 #
- The bushfire Koala, Sam, has died. The famous video from earlier this year is here: http://bit.ly/14f078 #
- RT @downesy: Email from teacher: "All your daughters are looking extremely forward to catching up with you". Extremely forward. Yes. #
- (1) Why do people waste time thanking others for retweets? Surely it's excessive courtesy which creates (2) idiots who retweet thank-yous… #
- "Integrity and Accountability in Queensland" – http://bit.ly/147G5R – Anna Bligh Green paper issued this week. #
- RT @Pollytics: So Fielding supports Senate inquiry into Grech & called hospital to try & talk to him? This twat reckons he's Sherlock Holmes #
- @Pollytics To paraphrase "Silver Blaze", I draw your attention to the curious incident of Steve Fielding in the Senate… in reply to Pollytics #
- Deputy PM Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull are about to appear on ABC's #qanda #
- #qanda Why consider lowering the voting age to 16 when so many people of that age are disinterested and ignorant? #
- #qanda Only took 30 seconds for Tony Jones to show up the Young Lib's argument against lowering the voting age! #
- #qanda Gillard avoids committing either way on voting age being lowered except to say it should be all-in or all-out, not optional #
- #qanda Turnbull says 18 is the right spot – "you've got to draw the line somewhere". #
- #qanda Turnbull doesn't accept the "no taxation without representation" argument since others work but can't vote if they lack citizenship. #
- #qanda Turnbull tries to ask audience whether they support compulsory voting…Gillard says he's auditioning for new job as moderator… #
- #qanda What characteristics define a truly great politician? #
- @CraigThomler No, she meant if voting age is lowered to 16 it should be compulsory, not optional. in reply to CraigThomler #
- #qanda Oh dear, the Young Lib is so pretentious… and so lacking in doubt… #
- #qanda Gillard says Australians lack of a sense of hierarchy is a good quality…describes 10-year-olds yelling for John & Kevin… #
- #qanda Gillard talks of the relentless nature of politics…Jones suggests Turnbull would agree… #
- And the night has turned out @iamtheblob – funny who you bump into on Twitter… #
- #qanda The Young Lib thinks the Oppn acted "on good faith" with the Grech email… #
- If only I understood what the helmet met… RT @babyexpat: You're about the only one tweeting #qanda without a helmet. Be careful. #
- #qanda Viewer asks Turnbull why he can't say sorry to Rudd… how bloody touchy-feely do we have to be? #
- A very old Young Lib wants to know why leakers to the ALP are heroic whilst leakers to the Libs are crims… #
- RT @Pollytics: Now there's a future Godwin Grech if ever there was one! #
- #qanda Gillard, never one to miss an opportunity, raises the question of Turnbull's judgment and character… #
- I blame the teachers… RT @MacYourselfhome: I've never seen #qanda so orderly. These poor kids still think they have to put their hand up. #
- #qanda Turnbull restates his argument about relying on Grech's Senate committee evidence…says it's difficult to know what else to do… #
- #qanda Turnbull cannot bring himself to admit that Grech's behaviour would have rung alarm bells for a mature politician… #
- #qanda I hope Gough is watching this young jerk talking about equal opportunity for university entrance and youth allowances… #
- RT @thewetmale: "not everyone is meant to go to uni" – Young Liberal douche. #qanda #
- #qanda I must confess I'm not up with the intricacies of youth allowances… #
- #qanda Viewer asks whether Building the Education Revolution money should be targeted to lower class sizes rather than buildings. #
- #qanda Gillard says we're doing both… #
- Thank god I had a studentship… RT @Pollytics: Am I getting old if I say "In my day, we use to revel on our Uni induced poverty!" #
- #qanda Audience member asks: "Who's gonna pay the debt?" #
- #qanda Audience member asks: "Is any of this money going to go to Aboriginals?" #
- #qanda Young Lib says he was taught about "patriarchy" in Othello but can't spell the word… then mentions "post-modernism"… #
- #qanda Gillard blames Howard government for postmodern curriculum!! That's what Turnbull would call chutzpah. #
- #qanda Turnbull says the stimulus money is going to "Julia Gillard Memorial Halls". I'm not dead, she says. They're "living memorials"… #
- I like everyone… RT @robertmenzies: I get the feeling you don't like Liberals. Why don't you just declare now that you're a COMMUNIST?! #
- RT @BernardKeane: I hope at least one of these young adults you're all tweeting about raised not being able to drink in pubs. #
- RT @firstdogonmoon: I hate young people. #qanda #
- Just don't tell my mother… RT @RicRaftis: Breaking News: @mfarnsworth alleged to be a Red Under The Bed by @robertmenzies #
- RT @sarahinthesen8: if govt wants more people to have access to youth allowance they should have put more money in the pot… #
- #qanda Gillard and Turnbull in furious agreement about refugees and multiculturalism… #
- #qanda Next week on QANDA: Pyne and Akerman together! #
- #qanda That episode of QANDA was a classic example of the ABC talking to itself. The "youth" audience didn't look very representative to me. #