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

Meanwhile I have to listen to her tanked father scream 'YA BLOODY POOFTER' over and over in front of ~50 people and put up with it.

yo is it true that adam got sonned by a wife in a facebook relative beef??

TS tolerating family bigotry vs selling out

Hi Ned!

What was cool was that our boss gave everyone the morning off yesterday to go to Elder Park in Adelaide and watch it on the big screens. And this morning she's aske dme to make a big poster with the text of the beginning of the speech to hang on our wall.

I like working here.

James, could you get me a job at your work?

(I live at Ridleyton so I could walk to Elder Park if your boss needs me to do so.)

WELCOME TO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MALCOLM "IN TOUCH WITH REAL PEOPLE -- AS LONG AS YOU LIVE AT BONDI" TURNBULL AS OPPOSITION LEADER

I know that replacing the Bag of Sawdust is going to be more effective for the Liberals, but good heavens, I want to punch that man in the face so many times.

(I still maintain they should have Tony Abbott as leader for the LOL factor alone.)

What surprised me is it didn't make page 1, or 3, but page _5!_ of the 'Advertiser'. Of course, most of page 1 was an offer for cheapo soccer t-shirts.

Turnbull is very left-sympathetic for a right-winger. Could be all right.

Turnbull is an ultra-capitalist opportunist that pays lip service to "political correctness" for his own benefit. I'd trust him as CEO of my ASX-listed company but not of my Federal Government.

Still, if it gets us closer to a Republic, I'm all for it.

He's no Howard.

turnbull came up rough. i heard he used to live in a rented house

Wow, that's harsh. And he was forced to go to Sydney Grammar School. How he overcame those odds I don't know.

a triumph of the human spirit

I am enjoying Turnbull vs Costello (aka Two Liberal Spivs with Handbags at Dawn).

They might as well give up the next election already.

lol Hewson

still my favourite moderate spiv

Any specific link for all this, for interested readers?

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/you-missed-your-chance-peter-20090221-8e70.html?page=-1

Hewson was a great moderate but.. er.. a hopeless politician who gave off a scary right-wing loony vibe when nothing could have been further from the truth. I think we are far better off not having had him as Prime Minister, but far poorer for him not staying on in parliament. Ideas people tend to scare Australians.

Which is why Kevin Rudd is such a colourless, horrible drip. He's only slightly better than Howard!

Week's events in review: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/daggers-are-drawn-between-costello-and-turnbull-20090220-8dkp.html

Hewson lets rip on Costello: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/you-missed-your-chance-peter-20090221-8e70.html

As an aside, did anyone see highlights of that memorial service? Ruddy does the small-c conservative nationalist bullshit better than Howard does (I mean, he even flew in Princess Anne for it).

Still, between this and the GHEIGH MP SEX BLACKMAIL SCANDAL, politics is interesting again.

Unfortunately, I fear it'll just be some random Labor backbencher.

Rang a mate in the Young Libs. He's got NO idea, except he noted that the way the article was worded - i.e. didn't KNOW which state they were from, blackmailer lived in Sydney most of his life, meant it could well be outside NSW/Vic where he lived and was charged, and that he reckons it's likely someone that's been repeatedly smeared before.

Even googleproofing won't get me to reveal the name. It's gonna be revealed n a week anyway.

Two years later...the Liberal Party was considering today to make Kevin Andrews its leader!!

Why not just kick back, relax, and give the next decade to the K-Rudd Krew?

haw

(I still maintain they should have Tony Abbott as leader for the LOL factor alone.)

― Assault! Assault! (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:59 PM (1 year ago)

still otm

Better than Kevin Andrews, that would be like making a particularly racist plate of blancmange your leader.

possible leadership spill tonight!!!

:(

they should just split the party and be done with it

I really want Kevin Andrews to be leader, it's difficult to think of someone simultaneously so evil and so uncharismatic. It shouldn't be possible to describe someone as "like Ruddick but with a personality bypass."

Duelling Kevins. Feel the charisma.

Kevin Andrews so crappy on 7.30 Report last night. "Malcolm should embrace everyone in the party, whatever their view" over and over again. Difficult to see what this means practically apart from Malcolm folding and agreeing with the Minchin Crew.

So five lib frontbenchers have resigned, and I'm completely confused now. Which'll learn me for not bothering with political news. Its oer the emissions trading scheme - were the resginees aganist there being one at all, or did they want it more tough, or..? (Im assuming the former but god knows)

Basically the resignees/anti-Malcolm faction are a coalition of two only slightly different position - the hardliners who are all "no ETS no way no how", and then recalcitrants who want to wait until after Copenhagen before agreeing to an ETS (as if Copenhagen will make a difference one way or another). Either way they think agreeing to ETS now is a disaster.

At least some of it is a more generalised, inchoate protest vote against Malcolm Turnbull emphasising the Liberal Party's liberalism at the expense of its conservatism.

So what's happening now.

joe hockey going to push for leadership takeover tomorrow

You people have funny names down there.

Your names are funnier. You people have names like Preston Schifflebein, Faith Popcorn, and Rudi Dangler.

America is just wonderful that way! :-D

Yeah but we have Abbott and Costello! :D

Or er... we did, until this week.

wish i could find the offending paragraph on abbott & costello that got removed from bob ellis' book

about one changing political persuation after banging the other's then-girlfriend

ABBBOTTTTTT

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Oh FUCK NO. WAAHHT. Stupid little head-bigeared bastard!