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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has hailed the latest jobs figures as a sign of Australia’s economic strength, as the opposition stepped up its attack on her integrity and the carbon tax.
Just hours before parliament wrapped up after a fortnight-long sitting, the coalition moved to censure the prime minister over “a government that is paralysed by dysfunction and division and is now incapable of addressing the daily challenges facing the Australian people”.
Ms Gillard told parliament the government was focused on “building tomorrow’s economy” while the Opposition was obsessed with “smear and derision” by asking 18 questions about the Australia Day riot.
“(They are) so completely lacking in interest in employment, healthcare, school education and the future economy,” she said.
Ms Gillard cited figures released today showing unemployment had fallen to 5.1 per cent, its lowest level in six months, with total employment rising by 46,300 over the month.
However, the news was overshadowed by Qantas’s announcement that 500 jobs would go as part of changes to the airline’s engineering and catering services and more could be shed in the near future.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said the job losses showed the need to scrap the carbon tax, due to start on July 1, and for the government to get its economic house in order.
“While the workers of Australia are increasingly finding their jobs in jeopardy there is paralysis from the government in Canberra,” Mr Abbott said.
“This is a divided and directionless government paralysed while the faceless men try to work out who the prime minister should be.”
Treasurer Wayne Swan said the coalition were “licking their lips over job losses”.
In attempting to censure Ms Gillard, opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne told parliament the prime minister had overseen a “culture of evasion and deceit”, from seizing the leadership from Kevin Rudd in June 2010 to not properly explaining how a staff member had incited the Australia Day turmoil in Canberra.
“Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” he quoted Oliver Cromwell’s 1653 speech.
Leave was not granted for the censure, and a suspension motion was defeated with independents and the Greens voting with Labor.
Nationals MPs made their frustration felt, withdrawing from parliament when Speaker Peter Slipper – himself a former National before joining the Liberals and then sitting as an independent – threw their leader Warren Truss out for interjecting.
Mr Truss said later, “The Nationals support their leader. Can the prime minister say the same?”
History shows Mr Truss beat Mr Slipper for preselection in the Queensland seat of Wide Bay more than two decades ago.
Fifteen pieces of legislation, including means-testing the private health insurance rebate and abolishing the building industry watchdog, were passed over the fortnight.
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