in the hot seat: The Hon Julia Gillard MP

Hangout with the Prime Minister

OurSay users join Julia Gillard as she responds to winning OurSay questions, as well as others questions chosen by Fairfax, from the 'Hangout with the PM' OurSay. This Google hangout was broadcast live across the nation on July 21st at 11am. OurSay users join Julia Gillard as she responds.

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Julia Gillard. It is clear that most people using our say don't know much about how your government works. People are harping on about every problem they have (Always a result of some sort of state action!) in a very paralysed and depressed sort of manner in my opinion. How do we tell people how to chill out and solve there own problems? Or is this a matter for some sort of government education? :) Would you entertain the idea that huge portions of the population is warped by schooling, to expect the world from there superiors, and to treat authority and the state as some sort of god to solve all ailments of the world? Do you think people get paralysed and afraid under the absolute mountain of legislation in Canberra?

Eamonn Collins · 10 months ago

I agree. The PM is doing a great job doing what she can.

Darrin Groenig · 10 months ago

What planet do you live on Robert?

Peter Weir · 10 months ago

The problem is she has demonstrated that the only thing she can do well is lie, so I must agree with you Robert she does do that better than anyone I have ever seen.

Larry Digney · 10 months ago

Unfortunately, for Australia's indigenous people the Govt has been playing around with thier autonomy since invasion and as you can imagine there are a few ongoing unresolved issues that are being rubbed in rather than given a true opportunity to heal. But essensially i agree, the govt and corporations for that matter are mostly an illusion and if we were to redirect that power towards self responsibility and self empowerment the world would be a much more authentic place.

Carrie-Ann smith · 10 months ago

It'd be great if you could spell the correct "their"!

beth jl · 10 months ago

Can someone explain how the comments now attributed to Darrin Groenig were first posted under the name of Robert Breini with a photo included?

Larry Digney · 10 months ago

Earth.. great question :) #REQUEST - Please delete both these posts. There immature.

Eamonn Collins · 10 months ago

Stop hating on my avatar and correcting my spelling.. waste of posts. REQUEST: Delete those 2 and this post.. how do mods work on this friggen site? lol

Eamonn Collins · 10 months ago

Google and watch "The Whitest Kids U Know - Teachers Union & Pledge" about 10 million times. It explains why kids hate school and don't want to work. :) And no matter how much regulation you put on these government schools it's just going to make them worse until we start treating them like adults and talking about big kid conversations and letting them study whatever they could possibly want to in school.. :) yeah? Learn to talk with other children about Sexual Subjugation or Mass Murder.. maybe.. whatever. Just stop putting arbitrary rules on them and breaking there minds... :S

Eamonn Collins · 10 months ago

Well, that is 59:55 mins that I have lost and will never get back! Google, you need to forget this "show" as I have not heard one answer to any question asked. All that the PM has done is make political statements and talk in platitudes. The "answer" given to David Jamieson re Military Superannuation was the loudest Non Answer I have ever heard. She did not give any reasons for her answer and the questioner was given no opportunity for a supplementary question yet it was given to and atheist. I WILL NEVER WATCH THIS 'PROGRAMME' AGAIN, EVER!

Dave Aitchison · 10 months ago

Hanging with the Prime Minister was much like watching ABC or Sky news,same parrot fashion answers. Given that the most votes were about same sex marriage we the people probably deserve this disgraceful mob in Government.

Bruce Pawley · 10 months ago

I AM WONDERING IF THE PRIME MINISTER KNOWS ABOUT PREMIER BARNETT CHANGING THE ENVIRONMENT ACT AND THE NATIONAL HERITAGE ACT SO HE COULD GRAB THE LAND AT JAMES PRICE POINT AND ALSO DI YOU KNOW THAT THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT HAS THE RIGHTS OF THE SHIRE I AM ALSO WONDERING IF THIS GOVERNMENT IS SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE USE OF GREEN HOUSE GASES WHY ARE ALLOWING THE BIGGEST POLLUTER TO PROCESS GAS IN THE MOST PRISTINE PART OF AUSTRALIA?

Kerry Firkin · 10 months ago

Fine point Kerry. I know the James Price Point area well and am absolutely shocked that the federal Govt allows the Wa Govt to push this agenda in such an underhanded way.

Carrie-Ann smith · 10 months ago

Ms Gillard, Do you actually READ any of the pointed comments directed to you? Or are they answered by your puppets? I am a very disgruntled vet who, like the other "surviving" vets awaiting some form of fair go from the Govt. in regard to indexation. Its not easy to be placid when we see your disgraceful increase to the pollies income (your salaries and then the flow-on to the retired leaches as well). Have you NO morals at all?

Rp Munday · 10 months ago

Concur

Christine Dunn · 10 months ago

A certain naivety is apparent. The ourSAY concept is good, but we are dealing with questions available in the public domain well before the answer session goes live. The stock answers by Gillard and the shutting down of attempts to get the PM to actually give an answer by the soft adjudicator, made the program just another government spin session. Gillard was never going to give a straight-forward answer and to expect otherwise from a sorely lacking PM is naive. John Washington

John Washington · 10 months ago

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“Dear Prime Minister, as the first female, atheist, unmarried Prime Minister of Australia, and leader of a self-described socially progressive party, how do you explain your opposition to same-sex marriage and "deeply held" belief that same-sex couples should continue to be discriminated against by a piece of legislation (the Marriage Act)? Why are heterosexual relationships more valued than same-sex relationships?”

Shane Bazzi · 11 months ago · 12749 votes · 556 comments

“Prime Minister, you discriminate against Defence Force men and women when you say the country can afford fair indexation that protects pension purchasing power for over 3 million age pensioners but cannot afford to protect the purchasing power for 65,000 military superannuation pensioners (around $20M in the first year). You compound your discrimination when you add that the country can also afford the latest indexation increase for superannuated MPs, a massive 30 times greater than that for military superannuation pensioners. Given that fair indexation was an employment condition upon enlistment and given that it is clearly affordable, why won't you index military superannuation pensions fairly?”

David Jamison · 10 months ago · 10933 votes · 683 comments

“Dear Prime Minister. Against the strongly expressed concerns of mental health professionals, teacher unions and secular organisations, why do you allow the outrageous situation to continue where largely unqualified, religious evangelists have access to young children in public schools, in the form of the National School Chaplaincy Program? ”

David Nicholls President Atheist Foundation of Australia · 10 months ago · 10756 votes · 644 comments

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