Abbott again
Feb. 15th, 2008 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenIn the Oz today:
KEVIN Rudd is preparing to invite Brendan Nelson on a road trip to a remote indigenous community in coming weeks as the first splits emerge with the Opposition over the Prime Minister's bipartisan "war cabinet" to tackle Aboriginal disadvantage.
As the Opposition Leader wrote to Mr Rudd asking for former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough to be included in the new cabinet, his indigenous affairs spokesman, Tony Abbott, warned that the Coalition would not accept anything less than equal say in the partnership.
Dear Tony: Back in November we held something called an 'election'. In that election, the Australian public decided to give 65 seats to the Coalition, and 83 seats to the ALP. Considering how often the Coalition has invited ALP input on indigenous policy (or any other) over the last ten years, you should be pleasantly surprised to be offered any role in this.
(My best guess is that Abbott is well aware just how difficult a project this is, and would rather stay out of it and carp from the sidelines than participate.)
KEVIN Rudd is preparing to invite Brendan Nelson on a road trip to a remote indigenous community in coming weeks as the first splits emerge with the Opposition over the Prime Minister's bipartisan "war cabinet" to tackle Aboriginal disadvantage.
As the Opposition Leader wrote to Mr Rudd asking for former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough to be included in the new cabinet, his indigenous affairs spokesman, Tony Abbott, warned that the Coalition would not accept anything less than equal say in the partnership.
Dear Tony: Back in November we held something called an 'election'. In that election, the Australian public decided to give 65 seats to the Coalition, and 83 seats to the ALP. Considering how often the Coalition has invited ALP input on indigenous policy (or any other) over the last ten years, you should be pleasantly surprised to be offered any role in this.
(My best guess is that Abbott is well aware just how difficult a project this is, and would rather stay out of it and carp from the sidelines than participate.)
