" Answer the Questions Bill Shorten!! 

People someone in authority should inform Bill Shorten the Minister for Employment and Work Place Relations that he is no longer the Secretary of the Australian Workers Union when asked to answer questions in the house of Reps he is supposedly a Minister of the Crown!!

The parliamentary Despatch Box is not a rostrum at a no holds barred Labor Party & Union meeting slug fest where obviously Bill Shorten had learned his debating skills and where he had become accustomed to attacking anyone and everyone that had the effrontery to dare question him with the ferocity of a small terrier ? the little man syndrome??

Oh dear now the PM Gillard has an excuse to divert from the major issues of the day concerning the majority of Aussies such as her and her governments failure to manage the nations economy and borders to discrimination against short people?? that's ofcourse when she has finished hypercritically weeping buckets of crocodile tears of self pity in regard to the political discrimination against females?? shame the poor darlings.

However never mind the PM Gillard has just got herself a $12,000.oo per year increase in her already $400,000 plus salary and perks which ofcourse will boost that payout when she gets dumped on the 14/15 of September this year ?? so that should help dry those crocodile tears?? what do you reckon people???

Anyway I digress.

Late last week I watched via the ABC the house of Rep's question time where I believe I witnessed a parliamentary spectacle not worthy of any pollie and especially not a Minister of the Crown!!

Bill Shorten was asked quite legitimate questions by the opposition - led by Malcolm Turnbull - about the Telstra phone pits and the problem with their removal in regard to asbestos??

Well do you think Bill Shorten would answer the questions put to him without spitting fire and brimstone and vitriol at the opposition going way back to the Johnny Howard days?? in regard to these pits/asbestos?? no way!!

Repeatedly Bill Shorten was asked by the opposition to come back to the Despatch Box on a point of order in regard to his reply/answer and relevance?? so many times he was like a YO - YO with the string being attached to the Despatch Box!! yet even then after being urged by the Speaker Ms Anna Burke MP many times to address the question properly and make it relevant the cocky little bugger refused to until the very end of this uncalled for tirade by Minister Shorten when he appealed to the opposition for a partisan effort in regard to asbestos problems in general and not just the Telstra pits?? this ofcourse could have been done/said on Bill Shortens first trip to the box instead of Bill Shortens pathetic and desperate attempt to score political points!!

However the ironical thing is that although the Speaker Anna Burke agreed with Malcolm Turnbull many times in regard to Bill Shortens behaviour in regard to his answers not being relevant Anna Burke ejected Malcolm Turnbull from the chamber because he kept reminding the Speaker of such ?? so people you figure?? what a bloody debacle?? is there any wonder the country is on the slippery slide down hill??

Mind you even though Bill Shorten is touted as being the next Labor Party Leader ?? if there is a Labor Party left after 14/9/2013?? he only got elected to the Reps on the 24/11/2007 so therefore he has still got his political training wheels on!!

Now why am I going on about this incident when this disgusting behaviour promoted by our PM Gillard who by far is an expert exponent of not answering questions put to her by the opposition and where this devious female - whoops there I go pointing out that the PM Gillard is a female!! tut tut that will never do!! pours scorn and vitriol at every opportunity on Tony Abbott and the opposition in a desperate and pathetic attempt to score political points instead of answering the questions and being accountable to not only the opposition but to the good citizens of this great nation of ours and it is because of this attitude that " We are the Untouchables " that this bunch of pollies - I include the Greens in this!! are allowing this country to fall apart at the seams!!

PM Gillard and this Labor mob plus the Greens are asking the voters to re-elect them based not on their pathetic  track record in so many area's but future very expensive unfunded - borrowed funds?? - educational and disability unproven programs where these current pollies will be long gone out of politics enjoying these well funded tax payer funded retirement plans when the proverbial hitsthe fan when these unfunded bureaucratic controlled programs unravel due to the lack of funding and expertise!!

Ok people speak up or cop the consequences because if you don't then you deserve all you get so don't whinge!!!

Mike Howe.