The dying days of the Fourth Reich: it's the 2007 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION

O happy days are here, when we can confidently answer your question about Bill Heffenidiot with 'who cares?'

Who cared in the first place?

I fkn cared that he was bandying about archaic bigotry apropos of... absolutely nothing. Hate mongerer.

On Chaser this week Craig Reucassel basically offered Heffernan man sex. He didn't take it very well at all.

congrats Australia on having your first (openly) gay minister.

does Don Dunstan count for nothing?

Wasn't really a Minister was he? At least not at Fed level.

Tony Abbott becomes spokesman for families, community services, indigenous affairs and the voluntary sector.

WTF I MEAN HONESTLY

Four groups that couldn't be more ideologically opposed to Abbott's shitfuckery.

You're forgetting about his 'reasonable people skills'.

The dreaded Bronny Bish makes a comeback: Vets Affairs.

Half those poor old sods now have a good reason to be thankful they're stone deaf.

Re Tony Abbott's new role - I love the way Brendan Nelson says, "I think it will be the making of him."

Abbott's already announced his plan to topple Nelson in 2009. To me this looks like Nelson's deft way of digging a lovely big trap for Abbott. All it takes is for Abbott to exist and breathe, and within weeks his public image will be so fucked he won't get a job kicking arses in an arse kicking factory.

Okay worded badly, but meaning to say such a trap for Abbott requires little effort because he's a walking disaster.

This article is badly worded but I think it's saying Rudd will treat gay people like humans as early as next year.

Roffle.

Why 48.5% of this country is still shit

Yeah well they can all suffer like we've all had to for the last umpteen frickin years. I hope Andrew Bolt chokes on a copy of the Age.

that's what happens when the dumb and lazy are forced to vote.

ahahaha you're telling me about the dumb and lazy like I'm not related to most of them.

ha ha - after posting that i recalled one mr. george w bush and began reconsidering my theory.

STOP FIGHTING OVER THE APOLOGY YOU SELF-ABSORBED FUCKS

soz

omg Julie Bishop on Lateline just then

'Labor's dot points don't contain the word sorry! Not once! Never the word sorry! It doesn't say the word sorry!'

NOT FUCKING 10 SECONDS LATER

'Well I said "deep and sincere regret!" That means sorry!'

OMG SORRY DAY

I just dug out an old TAPE WALKMAN because it's the only AM radio I have.

omg

HE SAID SORRY

THREE TIMES

I haven't even got a radio! But I've read what purports to be the text when it was posted somewhere last night/early this morning and I felt it looked quite satisfactory. Not overly fussy, good job, I think.

Definitely.

Wow, and he just brutally hacked into Howard for being the cold racist little cunt he is.

OMG NOW HE'S SAYING A PERSONAL SORRY. '*I* AM SORRY.' THREE TIMES.

Yeah I liked the text too. And I like the way my friends list on facebook is filled with 'sorry' status updates too. I know it's a little corny but the whole thing is giving me quite a buzz.

Nobody at work gives a fuck. They keep pulling me away from the broadcast to hassle me about pointless shit.

^ I am really angry about this

Now he's announcing POLICY! Getting kids into school &c.

I mean I'm not surprised, but it's wonderful to be hearing all this. THE FOURTH REICH IS DEAD.

He's just asked the opposition to cooperate with him to close the gap.

HE SAID 'CLOSE THE GAP.' EVERYONE IN THE GREAT HALL GASPED.

I am so proud to be Australian right now.

'REAL RECONCILIATION'!!

WE ARE CATCHING UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD MONGS.

He just finished and the hall is going sick. I cannot wait to see the vision of this tonight.

this is really, truly moving.

See, it's not that hard to say sorry.

''Let us remember the fact that the forced removal of Aboriginal children was happening as late as the early 1970s. The early 1970s is not a point in remote antiquity.

''The laws that our Parliament enacted made the stolen generations possible.

''This is not a black armband view of history, it's just the truth, the cold uncomfortable truth.''

and this

"These stories cry out to be heard, they cry out for an apology.

"Instead from the nation's Parliament there has been a stony and stubborn and deafening silence for more than a decade.

"A view that somehow we the Parliament should suspend our most basic instincts of what is right and what is wrong.

"A view that instead we should look for any pretext to push this great wrong to one side.

"To leave it languishing with the historians, the academics and the cultural warriors as if the stolen generations are little more than an interesting sociological phenomenon.

"But the stolen generations are not intellectual curiosities, they are human beings, human beings who have been damaged deeply by the decisions of parliaments and governments.

"But as of today the time for denial, the time for delay, has at last come to an end."

(addressing those who still think Howard wasn't racist)

Wow! MOST people in the great hall either turned their back on Brendan Nelson or just left.

I only just found this out.

I think Tony Abbott's about to get up and talk. I'll be surprised if the dirty little cock isn't pelted with random objects.

wait, no he's not

I didn't think they did political speeches like that (Rudd's) any more. Great stuff!

Nelson's--well, not so much. Some good bits, but he did some very weird things. He just can't get it right, can he?

He was on the back foot to begin with, having supported Johnny Cocknose for however-many-years, but when he doubted the word 'stolen' etc. he had no hope. It shows how out of touch the Coalition really is.

Fed Square in Melbourne

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2008/02/13/nelson_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg

ha! awesome.

FB status I just saw on my page:

R**** E**** will not apologise for something he doesnt mean.

What a tiresome reactionary turd that friend of mine is, sigh.

(You'd think, being Jewish, that he'd... oh no, no, thats a pointless strawman I suppose... anyhoo).