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

You remember that dispute weeks ago with Caroline Overington (Australian journalist and Howard cock-licker) trying to bribe an independent into preferencing Malcolm Turnbull?

Today she turned up at Wentworth and slapped George Newhouse in the face.

Holy. Fuck.

One witness at the Bellevue Hill Public school polling booth said Ms Overington yelled abuse and appeared furious.

"At first we thought who was this woman yelling at Newhouse, then she slapped him and we realised it was Caroline Overington,'' the witness said.

Fucking psychos at The Australian srsly.

Rock on. Bring the drama!

Yes, I'm already drunk :)

As I walked into the school (snags $2 for two in a roll, beef or pork, with or without salad, three chef's hats, loses one for 'assuming' I wanted sauce), I was gaurd-of-honored by shoulder to shoulder glossys of the local Liberal member/candidate (and some other bloke who looked a bit like Simon the Likeable from Get Smart) all the way along the fence. but I had to be through the gate before I found the name of the local ALP candidate, and there was nary a glimpse of a Howard likeness anywhere to be found.

The 'local member with local profile' emphasis-shift might work in some electorates. but not mine, where the local member hasn't a profile to bless himself with.

My local labor candidate admittedly looks a little uhh....light on in the brains department, but I voted him in anyway. Don't have a lot of choice, I do live in Bogan-ville.

And don't the people in front of him look thrilled to be there:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200711/r205786_783363.jpg

See the old guy? The man on the right? With sensibls slacks and dribble down his chin? HE RUNS OUR COUNTRY.

But he's all smiles!

Caroline Overington must be seriously hormonal, or she's played too much hockey without a helmet.

I'm amazed at this story. I remember CO 10 or so years ago as one of Australia's better sports writers, memorably reaming out that past-it cantankerous little 'look-at-me-I'm-a-hero-I'm-so-unPC' turd Arthur Tunstall over the Cathy Freeman flag-waving imbroglio.

That's reassuring warmth from the colostomy bag.

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AEDT

3.20pm: Shower
4.10pm: Go out, buy present for friend's daughter
6.00pm: ABC
6.04pm: Shit pants

Revised plan:

3.55pm Shit pants

I'm about to watch Michael Kroger on Lateline. Wish me luck?

! even

Maybe shower after you shit your pants?

Top plan

God Kroger's a pathetic wanker.

An hour to go

Exit polls on SkyNews seem to lean slightly in faovr of Labor but didn't include any question like, 'Who did you vote for?'

Trayce, our local church is not doing voting this year. I went to cnr Inkerman St and Nelson St.

Ended up going down to St Kilda primary cause Rob had to do an interstate vote so we had no choice.

This meant we were entertained by RokWiz being done live on stage while we waited in line. Which was pretty fucking awesome.

Missed Tripod by half an hour. I LOVE ST KILDA.

The Overington incident has already been Wikipedia'd! Funny, and odd stuff. Is she insane?

Exit polls on SkyNews seem to lean slightly in faovr of Labor but didn't include any question like, 'Who did you vote for?'

7.0 swing to Labor in Bennelong.

WE HAVE BOUGHT CRISPS.

Let'z git it awn!!!

http://vtr.aec.gov.au/

Ooooh lovely, thanks.

Christ, channel 7's coverage is appalling. When it comes to political comment, Koshy & Doyle aren't a particularly credible source. Nice to see Kennett acknowledge his Nazi past though. Ray's immovable hair on 9 makes it unwatchable, which leaves us with good ol' Aunty.

Or The Simpsons on 10.

Simpsons, obv. It is after all where I learned all about Australian politics (mustachioed gentlemen, the boot, etc.)

I'm quite enjoying the Sky news coverage even if they are liberal biased.

It's nice to see some candour in the politicians after a year of lying their arses off.

I just think it's nice to see Bob Hawke :)

I'm enjoying Julia Gillard's lapels.

They are getting bigger, aren't they?

It certainly seems so. I predict she'll be completely engulfed by them by 7.30pm.

I was wondering why Kerry is looking a bit nervous, then realised that he knows that The Chaser boys are in the building...

10.5% swing to labor in bennelong!!! (based on 0.2% of votes)

The ABC tally room crowd went spastic when he said that.

Dumb question maybe but is there any good streaming radio/TV coverage of this I can tune in to over here?

omg, getting very excited here! but i have to cook for all these people who are coming so i can't post. but i'll try to check in in a bit :D

Ned: http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/

Nothing for Kingsford-Smith yet (that's Garrett's seat).

Go Maxine! :)

Thanks Autumn -- getting an invalid file format on the .asx thing I'm downloading. Weird!

Never mind, just launched the audio feed instead.

Sorry 'bout that.

Link to another network here ned: http://ninemsn.com.au/

"WATCH LIVE: Full election coverage"

Oh no worries, the audio is going just fine. You people need to clarify all your regional accents for me one of these days. I'm all "Okay, is this reporter a Scottish immigrant or what?"

Antony Green has a Scottish accent I think, yeah.

All good. Anyway what's this about an evil Tasmanian paper mill?

A paper mill was given the go-ahead to be built in Tasmania this year. Both parties supported it.

This is crucial because in 2004 (the last election) the Liberal party supported something equally polluting and Labor opposed it, and Labor lost that seat at the time.

This time Labor tried to avoid being wedged, and it looks to have paid off.

The obvious problem with this is that Peter Garrett had to support a polluting pulp mill.

(obvious to Aussies, anyway!)

Yeah, you wouldn't read about it. :)