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| | Is Mark Latham the new Jeff Kennett? - www.theage.com.au |
 | | Jeff had his spats with the media, the courts, fellow politicians and public officials. | | | In the case of Kennett, by his final, overblown election campaign, the point was reached where the difference between Jeff and Victoria was one of terminology, not degree. | | | Greg Craven, dean of law at Notre Dame University in Fremantle, was Crown counsel to the Kennett government. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/03/1070351648871.html
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| | Carlo Carli MLA |
| | A characteristic of such politicians is that they are able to realign the voting patterns of many voters. | | | There the party can show that the coalition's local members and branches are all implicated in and responsible for Kennett's decisions. |
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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ccarli/archive/kennett.html
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| | Nexus - Talking Point: Dr Clem MacIntyre - Part 2 |
| | And Jeff Kennett faced the electorate in 1999 after John Howard had just won his second election at a federal level and I think there was a bit of a backlash from the Federal side that perhaps influenced some of the voters at state level. | | | You're right, Dunstan brought to his time in South Australia a strong and powerful feeling for social justice issues, for social reform and related areas. | | | Given that he did lose relatively recently, is it difficult now to assess his legacy? |
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| | The Official Unofficial Jeff Kennett Email |
| | Jeff has done some good to the State, but compared to his friends pork-barelling, and assest salle's and goverment "tender" corruption, he should be removed from office, and an immediate enquiry into his dealings... | | | All his mates that he helped when he was premier, especially uncle Lloyd williams givinh him the Crown Casino..... | | | Sincerely, S. Matthew Minas II My name is Rebecca Rogers and I offer nothing but praise to the admirable Jeff Kennet. |
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http://www.zip.com.au/~rocket/kennet/kennett_02.htm
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| | The social background of the Victorian state elections: A political comment |
| | After seven years in office, Victorian Liberal Premier Jeff Kennett has called a snap election, to be held next Saturday September 18. | | | Formerly the home of political liberalism and social reform, Victoria is now renowned for the crisis of its schools and hospitals, and an ongoing attack on democratic and civil rights. | | | Up to 60,000 Victorian workers recently demonstrated against the Kennett-Reith Industrial Relations laws. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/vic-s11.shtml
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| | press Release 58 |
| | Werribee residents will demonstrate outside the Supreme Court (William St, City) at 10 am calling on the Premier, Jeff Kennett, to support CSR and Werribee in their attempt to come to an agreement, thereby avoiding further conflict. | | | During the past few weeks the Wyndham (nee Werribee) Council and CSR have engaged in several mediation sessions, as required by the Supreme Court in matters of this nature. | | | Today (Monday, October 5) at 10.00am CSR and the Wyndham City Council will confront each other at the Supreme Court to determine the validity of a 1986 agreement which gave Werribee City Council (as it was then known) first option on the old quarry hole that CSR now wants to turn into a toxic dump. |
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http://www.21century.com.au/environment/wratd/press58.htm
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| | Jeff Kennett - A Twentieth Century Machiavellian Prince? |
| | Kennett believes in this rule so strongly that he has defied another of Machiavelli's teachings by amending the state's constitution (what Machiavelli describes as "the most difficult thing to handle and most doubtful of success") to prevent citizens challenging government legislation in the Supreme Court. | | | The untouchable Jeff Kennett' by D. Murphy and V. Kyriakopolous, The Bulletin, 4 June 1996. | | | Kennett's overwhelming majority in both houses has allowed him virtually unchecked power to maintain his state - power he has exerted to its fullest capacity. |
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http://www.australianpolitics.com/states/vic/kennett.shtml
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| | The Guilty Party - Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett Exposed? |
| | Victorian State Premier Jeff Kenett (1992-at least 1999) (top), his first Police Minister Pat McNamara (bottom left), and 1999 Police Minister Bill McGrath (bottom right). | | | This wasn’t the only time that paper was guilty of misrepresenting the facts by only printing what the government side wanted to hear (refer to the Press Council Judgement (number 990) against the Herald-Sun re the Silk/Miller shootings in 1998). | | | The Guilty Party - Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett Exposed? |
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http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/pc/kennett.htm
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| | JEFF KENNETT - PREMIER OF VICTORIA - CRIME, CORRUPTION, OTHER ILLEGAL DEALINGS. |
| | Kennett refused his application to have the case reopened. | | | Finally it should be noted that Government corruption in the state of Victoria did not start the day Jeff Kennett became State leader. | | | Kennett stated on 20/11/97 that his wife had used the Visa card as the shop had not accepted American Express, which was another card his wife had. |
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http://www.smuggled.com/ken1.htm
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| | IPA in the News Left in the shade of monument to reform |
| | Kennett introduced sweeping reforms that were risky and innovative. | | | Kennett responded with a highly successful privatisation program. | | | Kennett tackled head-on the problems in the state's electricity industry. |
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http://www.ipa.org.au/files/news_1002.html
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| | Gary Foley's Koori History Website - Great Moments in Indigenous History - #3 |
| | In 1993 the newly elected Liberal Government in Victoria, led by controversial Premier Jeff Kennett, arbitrarily decided to close 300 of the State's schools. | | | They ultimately emerged victorious when the full bench of the Supreme Court ordered the Government to re-open Northlands S.C. in 1996. | | | Of the 300 schools closed by Kennett, today only one survives...Northland Secondary College. |
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| | Victorian Labor Party pitches for big business support - New leader installed |
| | Boyd said the unions were meeting with Kennett because the ALP had no chance of winning the upcoming election. | | | Bracks said there was a legitimate role for private participation in the provision of public infrastructure. | | | Bracks also promised that all contracts entered into by the incumbent Liberal Party government of Premier Jeff Kennett would be honoured. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/mar1999/vic-m25.shtml
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| | Press Release |
| | Jeff Tripp, Kennett High School, "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt". | | | "I would like to personally congratulate Jeff for his entry of "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt" as well as his instructor Susan Baker and the entire Tripp family. | | | WASHINGTON -- U.S. Representative Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) announced today that Jeff Tripp of Kennett High School is the winner of the 1998 Eighth Congressional District Art Competition. |
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http://www.house.gov/emerson/press/archive/pr-032098a.htm
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| | Picnic at Hanging Rock Information |
| | Asked for his thoughts on the federal Treasurer's departure from the Prime Minister's monarchist stance at the Constitutional Convention, Mr Kennett could only shrug his shoulders. | | | But domestic matters were ostensibly far from Mr Kennett's mind as he performed his duties yesterday in three country towns - Castlemaine, Kyneton and Bendigo. | | | Offering only terse responses to the media, he was none too keen to elaborate on his future as leader of the Liberal Party. |
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http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/rock/picn13.html
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| | The Guilty Party - Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett Exposed? (part two) |
| | While talking political appointments, the Winneke family has done well out of the Kennett government. | | | The Guilty Party - Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett Exposed? | | | Kennett (as part of the Research Unit), and – on a seconded part-time basis since around November last - on the staff of for Peter Costello, Deputy leader of the Opposition. |
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http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/pc/kennet1.htm
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| | Victoria: Liberals in trouble - independent MP - January 27, 2001 |
| | The consequences of Kennett's privatisation will linger also. | | | Maybe it is the voters who see Steve Bracks as being decent and competent, just as ordinary Australians see John Howard as being decent and competent. | | | One problem they have is that they either say it was entirely his fault, thereby admitting the weakness of key members of the current frontbench, or they say that they were not concerned about arrogance at the time. |
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| | THE RESIGN JEFF REVIEW: Number 1 |
| | The Age front page omits the Premier's name altogether in articles about the Greek-Macedonian tensions, even though the Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Minister, Senator Nick Bolkus, said in Melbourne yesterday that the "Premier was acting like a social pyromaniac...it's about time that little Lucifer was put back in his box." (HS 8/3). | | | David Wilson reports: "State Parliament will be asked on Tuesday to 'forgive' the Premier... | | | The "Resign, Jeff!" Review is an irregularly distributed broadside which hopes to provide a politically incorrect commentary on the Kennett Government's devolution of Victoria into a Master/Servant state. |
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| | Penguin Books Australia - Title Details |
| | Why, at the height of his strength, did Kennett lose an election everyone expected him to win? | | | "Tracing Jeff Kennett's life through his 23 years in public office, it is impossible not to be curious about, if not admiring of, the individual and his idiosyncratic ways. | | | Jeff Kennett was only 34 years of age - the youngest MP in the party - when he was made leader of the Victorian Liberals in 1982. |
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http://www.penguin.com.au/SPOTLIGHT/spotlight.cfm?SBN=0670887781&Page=Extract
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| | ALOR - OnTarget Vol.32 - No.26 |
| | His first major act, after obtaining a monopoly of political power both in the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council, was to impose an amalgamation programme even more far reaching than that proposed by the Labor Government. | | | Jeff Kennett, leader of the Liberal Opposition, put himself at the head of the State-wide campaign of opposition, stating that no Liberal Party Government headed by Jeff Kennett would endorse forced amalgamation of the State's municipalities. | | | It was the State, which produced a Robert Menzies and a Henry Bolte. |
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http://www.alor.org/Volume32/Vol32No26.htm
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| | ALOR - OnTarget Vol.35 - No.18 |
| | Those who make no effort are guilty of a type of moral treachery. | | | Jeff Kennett, as Liberal Opposition leader, promised that if elected there would be no compulsory Local Government amalgamations. | | | During his recent visit to Victoria, Australia First leader Graeme Campbell referred to Jeff Kennett as "the Premier of Melbourne". |
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http://www.alor.org/Volume35/Vol35No18.htm
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| | A KenNett Work Web Page |
| | This is a long shot, but, my dad's father, an officer in the English Army during WW1, married a woman called Katherine, from Russia. | | | Christopher Bray Kennett is a happily married Kennett who was born on 10/21/42. | | | This is an address that turned up during a troll. |
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| | PREMIER TAKES ACTION TO ENSURE WORLD-CLASS TAXIS FOR VICTORIA |
| | The Premier, the Minister responsible for taxis and Roads and Ports, Mr Baxter, and the parliamentary secretary for Transport, Mr Craige, inspected the new taxi livery at the steps of Parliament House today. | | | Mr Kennett said he believe these reforms would be welcomed by all Victorians, as well as visitors to the State whose first contact was in many cases taxi drivers. | | | The Directorate had also issued 85 penalty notices; started court proceeding against eight drivers/operators for drinking while driving and for possession of hashish; issued 81 notices of unroadworthiness and defect notices; and completed 110 investigations, many resulting in disciplinary action against drivers and/or operators. |
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| | Saved Results Page For P@NOPTIC Sample Query |
| | Top of Page PROFILE OF INAUGURAL BOARD MEMBERS Honourable Jeffrey Kennett (Inaugural Chair) The Hon Jeff Kennett, Inaugural Chair of the National Depression... | | | Mr Kennett will be joined by Professor Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry at University of... | | | Mr Kennett led the charge to set up the project in Melbourne in the lead-up to last year's State... |
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| | Maritime Union of Australia: General: MUA poster raises controversy - 28 August 2002 |
| | "But today you've protested against the Prime Minister as opposed to CSL," said Mr Kennett. | | | The poster prompted Mr Kennett to invite MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin on air to debate the issues, giving the union extensive airtime to argue against the Howard Government shipping policy. | | | Meanwhile MUA national office has recieved no calls protesting the poster, but legal officer Bill Giddins said he is preparing in case we do get a writ from Mr bin Laden or his followers for the comparision made with PM John Howard. |
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| | REALJEFF.COM - Jeff Today |
| | Repeat after us: "I'm totally corrupt down to my rotten black guts. | | | The Real Jeff spoke to John Laws on the issue of insubordination earlier this week. | | | John Laws: I don't know why the insubordinators even bother. |
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| | Jeff Kennett's private prison industry |
| | Whilst working in those systems, he was found by the US Supreme Court to have violated the eighth and fourteenth amendments of the US Constitution regarding cruel and unusual punishment. | | | This is the person that Jeff Kennett wants to put in charge of the women currently suffering at the hands of the state-run prison service. | | | CASTLEMAINE -- With a minimum of publicity or questioning about the tendering process, the Liberal Kennett government has implemented its plans for the widespread privatisation of the Victorian prison system. |
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| | JEFF KENNETT A FUTURE PRIME MINISTER |
| | THE END RESULT OF SEPTEMBER 18THS STATE ELECTION HAS SEEN THE ALP GRAB 45 VOTES IN THE 88 SEAT VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT. | | | WELL ACTUALLY THATS INCORRECT BECAUSE THE ALP DIDN'T GRAB 45 VOTES THEY WERE IN THERE BECAUSE OF THE HELP OF THE INDEPENDENTS AND SO STEVE BRACKS IS GOING TO BE SIGNED IN TOMORROW MORNING AT 11:30 AS VICTORIA'S NEW PREMIER. | | | WELL WHEN I SAY ON THE NEAR FUURE I AM SAYING THE NEXT 10 YEARS ANYWAY AFTER JOHN HOWARD SAYS I'VE HAD ENOUGH |
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| | Kennett set to become Hawthorn president - AFL - Sport - smh.com.au |
| | Kennett, a life long Hawthorn supporter, was also named vice president and has won the support of the board to succeed Ian Dicker as president at the club's annual general meeting on December 14. | | | Kennett said he would welcome any other challengers for the president's position although he may well be elected unopposed. | | | Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett is set to become the new president of AFL club Hawthorn after being appointed to the board. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/afl/kennett-set-to-become-hawthorn-president/2005/08/23/1124562843390.html
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| | Inquiry into the Effects of Government-Funded National Broadcasting on Victoria |
| | Also, Mr Kennett has had a long hatred of the ABC and has often stated his wish to close it down. | | | This inquiry was announced by Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, in May 1998. | | | March 1999 where it reported that the Communications Minister, Richard Alston, had prepared a "Cabinet in Confidence" document in which Alston "wanted the ability to influence future ABC functions and activities more directly". |
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http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edevc/inquiries/Broadcast/EDCMay99-200.htm
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| | JEFF KENNETT: I don't miss the minutiae of politics. | | | JEFF KENNETT: I used to say I'd only stay in politics for six years. | | | JEFF KENNETT: When you see Sophie, 20 months as a politician doesn't seem long. |
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| | Kennett threatens comeback - theage.com.au |
| | Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett today suggested he could return to state politics after the Bracks government revealed a looming $1 billion budget blowout to maintain the state's public transport system. | | | Mr Kennett said public transport privatisation was not flawed, and the government should have held the private operators to their contracts rather than bailing them out. | | | But Mr Kennett hit back on radio today, saying he might be forced to return to politics if the government was unable to manage the state's finances. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/14/1050172515235.html
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| | AM - Jeff Kennett joins calls for inquiry into Rau affair |
| | JEFF KENNETT: It is absolutely vital, that any inquiry be a public inquiry with judicial powers. | | | JEFF KENNETT: Well again, I'm not arguing against governments. | | | That the current individual who has been selected to head it up, with due respect to his policing knowledge, does not have sufficient knowledge of understanding the health system and therefore he should be joined by another person, probably a senior bureaucrat who understands the health system to assist him in the inquiry. |
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| | Printer version - Jovial Jeff: "Playing any tennis, how are the lungs?" |
| | Jeff appears to have learnt nothing from his days as Premier because he joined a small but illustrious group of company chairman that ban the media from attending a public company AGM. | | | This person is a Liberal Party member in Melbourne and he appointed two proxies, Fraser critic Dr Charles Richardson and Kennett critic Crikey. | | | Remember how he sacked 10 departments heads in his first two weeks in office. |
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http://www.crikey.com.au/media/2001/09/09-kennettsofcom.print.html
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| | Articles - Liberal Party of Australia |
| | The most radically conservative Liberal premier, Jeff Kennett of Victoria, was defeated in 1999, and as of 2005, no Australian state or territory government is run by the Liberal-National Coalition. | | | Since the 1980s, however, the Liberals have become increasingly unsuccessful in state elections. | | | Throughout their history, the Liberals have been the party of the middle class (whom Menzies, in the era of the party's formation called "the forgotten people"), though such class-based voting patterns are no longer as clear as they once were. |
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http://www.centralairconditioners.net/articles/Liberal_Party_of_Australia
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| | THE RESIGN JEFF REVIEW: Number 4 |
| | Therefore, in his view, it would be better if he were controlling the funding and they were answerable to him. | | | Fear and Loathing in the State of Anxiety | | | You can bet the Liberal Party, State(s) and Federal, will come out sooner or later as the All Australian Family Party in order to get those votes back, but in the meantime the Victorian Liberals (who don't need the votes) are doing there best to make life hell for families. |
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| | Open Windows |
| | Another factor is constant criticism of government contract management by state and federal auditors-general. | | | Mr Kennett, who met the brothers at the beginning of the year, says compulsory competitive tendering and its associated statutory reporting requirements increase the need for such products. | | | Jeff Kennett has thrown his weight behind Treasury demands for tighter Department of Defence cost management, urging the adoption of automated management systems for all Defence contracts. |
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| | Crikey Website - Jeff Kennett and the DCL EGM |
| | Crikey's Kate Jackson was the only journalist there and reports that a small group of 20 or so shareholders gathered to vote on the sale of Commcord Communications, the radio infrastructure division of the strife-torn company which owns 3AK and 3MP. | | | Yep, loud-mouth former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett, who we all though had sold his DCL shares to 3AW's owner Southern Cross Broadcasting in a generous bailout, was firing off aggressive questions from the back of the room. | | | Using all the experience gained from almost a decade as opposition leader, Kennett was blunt in his questioning and asked "has Commcord ever made a profit?" before demanding what Commcord's trading performance had been for the last three months. |
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http://subscribe.crikey.com.au/articles/2003/10/22-0007.html
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| | Jeff: the state of Kennett |
| | In the middle of yet another no-contest election campaign, Paul Lyneham attempts to break through the legendary Kennett antipathy for journalists and normal democratic procedures, to give an insight into the man and his eccentric style of government. | | | Ask Australians the names of the premiers of states other than their own, and most would be hard-pressed to come up with any. | | | But everyone knows Jeff Kennett, and a good many would wish he was running their state. |
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http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/1999_09_12/story_31.asp?MSID=209d9f92179e49709d1f1e404904288d
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| | Forums - vote kennett |
| | Jeff Kennett FUCKED the state over for the FINANCIAL BENEFITS of international/private corporatisations and now he wants to bring his butt ugly FASCIST head back into PARLIAMENT. | | | If that piece of shit ever rears his head in parliament again I'm leaving the state. | | | Found funny the last line "until next time - vote jeff kennett for premier. |
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http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=52695
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| | Sydney Taxi Services - 12/10/1995 - QWN |
| | At the following Cabinet meeting one of his colleagues told him that he was an idiot and asked him why he said that. | | | was really a trick by Jeff Kennett to take public attention away from his closure of more than 150 schools. | | | Jeff Kennett made a comment about Sydney cabs - and the only reason he made a comment about Melbourne cabs - was to take people's attention away from other things, such as the magnificent budget which the Carr Government introduced two days ago. |
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| | jkennent |
| | Kennett: "There are a number of people who were available to do the job on an independent commission but I can I just say this, I accept there has been a change and I worked for that in terms of the personalities at the top. | | | In a state dominated by AFL is this the best we can hope for?" | | | A strong advocate for an independent commission to run the soccer in Australia. |
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| | Corporate Trends Management magazine |
| | He needs to be a bit more humble with the people, if he wants to be "re-purchased" or in his case, "re-elected." | | | Jeff Kennett knows the promotion game inside out and because of his expertise, Victorians are basking in the international financial limelight. | | | Just about anyone who has lived in Australia for the last few years, would be aware that this man has been on a personal and professional "promotion" mission extraordinairre. |
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| | Jeff Kennett, Premier of Victoria |
| | So, John Howard has to deal with his situation as he sees it. | | | Some Federal Liberals have said to me in the last week, can you imagine what Jeff Kennett would have done in the travel rorts case? | | | Do you really imagine he would have rolled over and sacked three ministers and two advisers? |
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| | Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life |
| | Australian Liberal candidate Jeff Kennett joins the FPOe and Presidential hopeful George W. Bush in attempting to shut down Internet opposition--in Kennett's case, www.realjeff.com, which mocks Kennett's www.jeff.com.au. | | | Also, Kennett's www.jeff.com.au now merely defaults to the Liberal Party website, as if to avoid comparison. | | | Today, many Internet visitors will visit www.grayday.org hoping to learn more about "GreyDay," an annual call for stricter copyright laws for the Web. |
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| | REALJEFF.COM - da fame |
| | However, there is no reason to have that sort of man in office. | | | For Jeff and those like him, success is its own justification. | | | If that is the case, you must ask yourself a question: How wrong can you be? |
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