tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59456402012-01-31T09:43:03.143+11:00Don't want to lose your head over being the messenger? encrypt your thoughts here. Help avoid embarrasment down the track when the fashion wears thin. Aussie leaders and those who would influence them, meet here.journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945640.post-53811390150882039852012-01-31T08:21:00.004+11:002012-01-31T09:43:03.318+11:00

Bern : You have become famous ...again Sir H   (Jonathan Lyn's Play in Melbourne this week ) SirH  ; What I want to know is who is featured most;  HIM or ME Bern : Don't you want to know HOW you are being portrayed ? SirH   No No No . I know myself well enough and Anthony Jay knows me well enough . I just think Jonathan might not get the balance of power quite right. I have a feeling that like

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Prime minister Gillard  and former Prime Minister Rudd hug and kiss on the floor of Parliament yesterday,  as do many others after the vote to establish a Carbon Tax is passed.(Wednesday  12th October 2011) PM Gillard talks of grabbing the future with both hands. The main apparent difference between Gillard and Peter Costello's "Future fund" is that the Greenlabor have nailed "the future "to the

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Bern : How do you think Julia is going? Sir H   She is obviously very , very clever . Labor caucus too are very clever--If they do anything well they can move fast . Who else could introduce a tax without that tax hurting anyone you know . Only the big sinners of all time will suffer - the big bogeymen of big business . Bern  But won't a few Labor people see through this old lie and this

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We can't let Julia go . The TV series would have been the drama of the decade - so real , so scary,  so painful .Hamlet without the blood - nothing better than vicarious engagement for entertainment. If only the ABC could get it , they would produce something honest and engaging instead of  reactionary predictable and lilley puddlian loud wars on everything .

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Bern  Do you think Julia  is being a bit simple ----thinking the people just need a few facts on the carbon tax ? Our Prime Minister  wears out her shoes to explain new taxes and failed policies  .  SirH  Of course Bernard You know new leaders always think they know.  Doesn't matter which party . The difference in Australia in 2011 is that....... I'm not there now and you're not there now

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The unbelievers have had a hard month . First we get a hung parliament ( which gives power to the truth ) and now,  we have a hung grand final ( which gives power to the unpredictable ) .The wannabes  may talk about paradigm change,  but the reality is ; they are not driving it , it's driving them  !   The hung ( sometimes keeping their place on the ladder is all they know )  think they are in

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Bern   Do you really think they ( whoever they are)  thought long and hard ( as Shorten and Julie  stated) before Julia cut Kevin off ? SirH   "How long and how hard they think" ---- you have got to be joking putting all those words together mate.... in the one sentence .I thought I was getting you beyond the preooccupations of your limited education at  the school of mere description   Bern  

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Bern to Sir H  Did you hear Kevin Rudd ( our PM ) give Kerry O'Brien (730report) a serve on the ABC last week . Lighten up Kerry Thought Rudd was right on the mark .The interviewer ,not the interviewee  , has the problem "  I was only joking mate !" What's O Brien  pushing the polls, the pedantry  and tea leaves stuff  .Both parties should know the fickle and avoid it - whenever they can . We

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You have a problem ? Well just ban it ! That will solve it The news . 'Too many knives and knife damage' . MY decision: I've banned them The scene is a happy one . The minister feels he's done the right thing ; made a tough stand and dealt with the problem . Sir H is smiling too , in a way which means , he too is quite happy. Bern is not quite sure Bern to SirH  ....  but you

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The labor party is riding high, and YES, it worries us .See the LOCAL NEWS Our Mr Cheeseman is on a roll in Colac this week with another of his seminars on the future. This week its windmills, and he's is there fighting. Bern to Sir H Doesn't it ever worry you to see newchums always picking the new brumby called "the future" to ride . I know you sometimes think its good for ministers to get

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Bern Do you think The PM is worried that his love affair with hot air around the world could cost him the election? Is he worried by Barnaby 's reminder about John Hewsons advance of a new tax and its cost this week ? Will he, like Chamberlain, please the United Nations, but lose the people? Sir H I haven't detected that , I think they all still believe that they are doing the right thing and

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Bern:Gee, you were hard on the PM's ideas yesterday. Have you ever really welcomed one of his ideas? SirH Not that I can think of. bern There was, I remember, that time when HE wanted YOU to look after some new department the govt had just created . They were really concerned about the environment being neglected , so they created a new deparment to focus on it . You didn't respond very well

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Bern :I notice that Bruce Esplin is still the commissioner of MDM for the B Victorian government . You'd think after all the many big fires and disasters during his term that Mr Esplin would have found something else to do? SirH Yes certainly you or me Bernard definitely. The point is Mr Esplin may not be appointed on how much he understands about disasters ---to know the extent of them within

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December 2008 MIN Could you please make sure we send ALL of our old staff a christmas CARD in the next week or so . I have got a letter drafted and it needs to go soon !SIRH Certainly sir I can try > we don't kep forwarding addresses for staff who leave?MIN why not ? SIRH sureley you don't want the PS to grow even bigger keeping track of files on subjects - esp those "no longer relevant" ?

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Bern : What do you think about Brumbies mob trying to eliminate the influence of people with an interest in something in particular SirH Well , it's better that having people with an interest in everything and nothing in particular ----dominating ! Bern So what then do you do about those increasing numbers of people who just "want to have a day in the top job " or just want to push their own

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Bern How do you think his THINK ads are going ? lots of calls on the 1800 number? SirH Don't ask. As far as ads go its going better than most, I feel sure. Nothing like distraction to add dollars to ours and others pockets. The idea is so lateral , its brilliant; it doesn't say anything: it doesn't say they are going to do something. Every paper and station in the country is rejoicing. Think

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Bern : Do you think Kevin's visit to the end of the Murray will prove a turning point for his revolution in carbon taxing ? Sir H Dear Bernard ---it may seem to you, as it does to many, that we think ourselves wiser than those in charge . Tis of course true - most of the time . I just hope though, that noone ever forgets that some kings, like the famous old one one who gave counsel at the sea

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Bern to sir H How do you think the Minister for childrens services will go defending the governments carbon trading policy tonight on lateline ? Sirh Ask me another question Bern " Do you think the PM Wong and Garret have read the Manhattan Declaration? SirH Well who are they ? Bern over 500 scientists ....at a conference on climate changeSirh are they the sort that agree with our current

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BERN ;( to sir humph: What did you think of Garnauts report BERN : rather thin eh? SIRH What did you expect, bernard the wannabes want it simple; so we give it to em that way BERN But it says nothing . really I mean the cow cockies wouldn't know whether the government wants their cows to piss, fart or belch . SIRH Me neither . tha'ts the idea bern - we need money to find out. to decide (

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Copyright Bern How do explain this behavoir- Former PM's Mr Keatings outburst . He has had all the power in the world , and yet he seems like he can't leave it alone .Sir H Well , it is not a well known fact ( esp amongst the plebs) that having power is not the same as having power .Bern What has that got to do with the price of grumpy old men mate ? Sirh we'll you see; I expect that like

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Bern Did that Podger bloke talk to you Humfrey before he told the world we were just doing what we were told? That we were losing our independance . Sir HCome on mate don't be too depressed we don't ever DO what we are told do we bernard? Ever ? Not yet surely . Bern It just appears that we do ? .......Fair enough SirH because they like to go "offsite "sometimes . we like to embarass the

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PM Did you notice how the opposition were really lost for words -watching the treasurer give the budget speech this week .Bern . Father christmas in may - pretty irresistable ! SirhH The cat and the cream PM VS the mangey dog? bern yes and opp comment " not what he said but what he didn't say" is a stale old one liner that that's crass and ........ Independant Insider ( thinking).

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Bern . Did you hear what the PM said in his major speech this week ? He seems to be taking the issue of climate change very seriously NOW . SirH . Yes I had noticed that he has banked on it being an issue at the next election . I think he's right . There will be a climate change before the end of the year . It' s been a bit dry, hasn't it.You heard it first on blogger .

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Bern : Sir H, Don't you think it's good that Mr Howard has expressed concern over all the experienced people who have left our ranks over the last few years . The experienced ones's that leave early. SirH Yes Bernard , of course , but if they are going to stop them leaving, leaders need to make up their minds about who they really want in the job. Do they want Hares OR Tortoises? I don't

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Bern ...One thing is starting to really disturb me about my job ? i thought the job was about integrity, telling the truth and doing what we agree on Sir H Whats the particular problem? B.. well nearly every time the PM says something "WE MUST DO " you almost always try to do the opposite ; stop him- and that means I don't know where to goSir H Look at it this way, He doesn't often know what

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Copyright mreforce@telstra.com Bern: The people are really worried about the drought. I mean really worried! Sir H: no ----they are worried by the possibility of climate change Bern: well thats makes 2 things to worry about ? PM: double trouble then SirH ? what do suggest ? SirH: I am not worried, neither are scientists who do not work for the climate change centre. bern : you pay them to worry

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RUDD speaks OUT "Oh No! now both leaders are talking about religion. I thought we were agreed about keeping that stuff out of politics ? Is Mr Rudd seriuos? To sir H What do you normally do, sir h, when politicians start talking religion?Sir H I panic Hope the media will join us and give em no press. Bern Surely they will get over it and don't really mean to give these things some sort of

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RE Tony Abbott responds today to calls for advertising control to "warn the public"Minister : All this concern about FAT that's hanging around makes me feel bad - guilty! SirH It's Ok minister. if you lose too much at your age, the wrinkles will show and frankly the longterm picture is that such an outcome, if you should be so lucky to achieve it ( ha ha ) , will be be threatening for your

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Bernard( in frustration at long winded nothingness meetings) Does the truth ever matter here? How do you tell what the truth is when so many put spin on it? What did Solzhenitsyn mean? "One word of truth outweighs the entire world." PM well he lived in prison for too long didn't he . Bernard " Don't we ?"Prison is the key reality for too many in our so called free country. If you are a public

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TENNIS ANYONE Bernard to SirH Love watching the tennis, don't you? Sir H You bet Bern You play a bit too , don't you SirH ?Sir H Nomore-- dealing with the hourly wild lobs of the PM is enough for one day, let alone a week !Bernard . Whats your favourite retort then ? SirH A volley of any desription .Beranard that doesn't sound very effective, or responsible? Sirh The point is bernard

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Minister I can't see why the public are so resistant to the idea of more choices at work . Sir Hum Well they used to be offered the choice to work on days when family gatherings were a premium- now they can be expeceted to have less choice, long term. Minister That not true. they can negiotiate now - they didn't have that choice before .Bernard yes technically perhaps BUT in the courts

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Bernard The people are really concerned about the way politicians seem to rush into solutions-- to solving our relationship problems in particular . Sir H Yes they don't seem to live long enough now in them to understand that people in love too quickly tie knots and repent at leisure.

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MA ON win win You want to know something that pleases both the minister and his court? The research solution . More time to defer decisionmaking by both parties . Vic health minister today calls for "more research" B Well it works as long as the media and the people are sucked in by the technological fix idea They don't say ASK like children and sensible practical persons might - is it

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If a government minister meddles rather than managers, he will create a 3 headed monster rather than have one with just two heads . "The eyes don't have it "---the feet do . Find some eyes you can trust - they will be firmly connected to the ground via a body that's at least working - not just active ,well dressed and dancing about.

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FTA --What the majority of people wanted to hear --more freedom, more trade, more agreement "You are so clever!!" "Why didn't anyone else think of leaving your job to the market before? Its a real win ! ". Trouble is , Mark Latham would then be right because you don't have anything left to govern and you are getting paid more than enough not to do what you no longer need to do .

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You are right minister . Someone is to blame . Sir humphrey is not always willing to tell you why neither of you are getting what you want - chances are, since you voted for yes men incorporated that he doesn't know much about practical things either. Best you keep a list of people who have got a bad reputaion with him and the department because they know what they are talking about and have

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We know what you said Minister, but we've heard it all before, infact we've tried it all before (admittedly with a different name ) It doesn't work You're confused! .( there is a more polite way of saying this but I don't have time to beat around the bush ) Accountancy and accountability are too different things ,living in quite different paradigms. News about Doctors leaving December 17th

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The lesson in the sheep story ...and how to stop it dragging on? - Don't jump at noise like the silly blighters who bob up and bleet at a moments notice - -------running the mob ragged ! Stay calm. --Don't take the responsive ABC bleeters too serioulsy either --they don't know much about the environment , real risks and dangers and it will come out --Keep in touch with the battleground out

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Whose going to tell our iching ears leaders that using consultancies is often an increasingly expensive road to non decisionmaking . How much duck shoving is being done in the name of good governance all over Australia from this abdication by ministers of ministry responsibility Got to stop . False idealism is driving it http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf see Rod Mackenzies letter Geelong A 22 October

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whose going to tell Hon Hearmeyerand cabinet their preference for expensive heavenly minded solutions( the helicopters) is of limited earthly use in improving the real life dilemmas facing people on the fire forest issues on the ground.

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