I read the Fairfaxes and the ABC, and try to get international sources as well, but never any Murdoch (apart from George Megalogenis's blog, but I have ads turned off). Crikey is a paid source; I should just pay, really.
Another point I should make here is that everyone I know who supports Howard -- even marginally -- reads a Murdoch paper. Every. Single. One.
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― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I admit to reading Bolt's blog for a laff now and again.
Anyway, final proof that morans vote Howard.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Recently I've been checking Blot's blog (with ads off obv) just to see how the rednecks justify the unjustifiable. Everything's a conspiracy theory to him, and he never understands why nobody sees things his way.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
NOT SO BOLD PREDICTION: Germaine Greer will write an article in the Guardian sometime in the next week or two where she'll state that Australians are fucking stupid if they vote Howard in again. Bolt and the Murdoch Gestapo spend the next week whinging that she has no right to write about Australia blah blah blah.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Newspapers in Australia are really dire. There's The Age I guess, but apart from that there's absolutely nothing to compete with the best of U.S. or British newspapers. Half the non-Australian stories they just buy from British and American newspapers anyway.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep.
The Age was beautifully even-handed until Rudd became ALP leader, at which point it went gung-ho apeshit Rudd crazy. I'd be really annoyed at this, if it weren't for Howard being a complete arsehole and every Murdoch outlet licking his knob.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
So: tax cuts will save the day for the liberals? What do you think? They can always renege on all promises after the election, as is traditional.
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not going down well so far. I think the allure of a tax cut has worn off since the last five didn't help anyone much, what with property/rent prices and interest rates and petrol negating the gains. Also, since WorkChoices most people are suspicious of anything Howard does.
And yes, non-core promise.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Has Rudd agreed to Howard's one-sided debate? FUCK.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
But who honestly gives a flying ferret's fart about the 'mess-dabate' anyhow? Is there one instance of one single person anywhere in Australia ever changing their vote because one candidate did a better line of inane patter with George or Ray or Red Kezza or who-the-hell-ever than the other? As WOFTAM's go, The Debate is in the same league as Celebrity Big Brother.
― Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
No Worm, No Credibility
If anyone writes about Howard's decade in power, feel free to use that as a title.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Love how John Howard wants his debate on pay television only. Obviously people too poor/too intelligent to sign up for programmes of the genre "World's Blankest Blank" don't deserve to watch and listen to John Howard for over an hour.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Aren't you worried that K to the R seems like a bigger conservative than anyone in the Liberal camp?
― S-, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I think he might just be a little to the left of folks like Tony Abbott, Kevin "Enoch" Andrews and our old favourite, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey.
But not that left, mind you!!
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Here comes the new boss...
― S-, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
He's just a stooge in The Plan:
November 07 - Ruddster wins election. December 07 - Ruddster is "assassinated". January 08 - Comrade Gillard, Beloved Mother of the Nation, decrees that the Socialist Republic of Australia will nationalize every Bunnings Warehouse.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Well, I think he might just be a little to the left of folks like Tony Abbott, Kevin "Enoch" Andrews and our old favourite, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey."
And the judges have called for the developed print....
Rudd will develop a very mildly socialist leaning or two once he's safely in situ. I hope. He'd damned well better, anyway.
― Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh come on. The chance of anyone being more conservative than Howard is so tiny it's not worth thinking about.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a useful little swing-o-meter tool gadet:
http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
*gadget
― moley, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Rudd continues to turn down Howard's stacked debate.
Brilliant.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
But think of the children!
(overboard)
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Status is at play here. In 1998, 2001 and 2004, Howard had the high status position.
Rudd has taken that away. Since December, Rudd has very much been in the high status position, with Howard and his minions darting around him trying to throw him off-course. Rudd and the ALP have not been moved by this.
Monday's tax policy was the culmination of the Coalition's low-status behaviour: desperately chucking big money out there to blind everyone, then bullying Rudd and Swan into leaping early. Fortunately the ALP has said it will not move until it's ready - again, staying resolute, in control, relegating the Liberals to low status.
Howard's televised debate tactic is the same, and this is why it's absolutely crucial that Rudd stands his ground and refuses to attend a loaded debate. By refusing and sticking to his terms he remains high status, and as long as he remains high status he has immense power.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I should add that 2004's violent Latham-Howard handshake swung Latham even further into the low status position (i.e. publicly losing his cool), and from that point it was all over.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha oh guys
― haitch, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Almy, that makes sense.
― moley, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
JH is not cuet enuff to be lolcat
― moley, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
lolbaboon perhaps
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Experts predict the death of the entire Liberal party (state and federal) if Howard loses this election
John Hewson's hacking into Howard for being an extremist too. Brilliant reading.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/07/wilson_tuckey_narrowweb__300x460,0.jpg
can i has aborgine to tie down and beat with ironbars
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 08:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Y'know, they COULD be right that a massive split could happen in the Liberal Party. I often wonder what the wets/moderates will do without John Howard who is the only reason why the party has stayed stable on a Federal level. Combine that with the shift to the far-right and the party being totally fucked on a State level in, er, pretty much every state.
MAYBE DON CHIPP MIGHT COME BACK FROM THE DEAD??
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 08:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm so pissed at what Howard has done to that party. Not that I'm a raving Lib or anything but at least it once understood social responsibility to a degree, and didn't go round abusing gheys and chinamans and everything else it doesn't understand.
Before he got into power I was warned by a friend who said he'd do all this. At the time I thought he was ranting.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
As Menzies biggest fanboy, Howard being the one to bring about the annihilation of the Liberal party as an appealing irony.
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Just to backtrack a bit... the West Australian is CLEARLY the worst newspaper in the nation by a long shot. REF: Ben Cousins in DRUGS SHOCKAH hysteria knocking any other 'news' like federal election off the perch
― gem, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you know the biggest news story the Herald Sun has ever published?
War in Iraq? World Trade Center?
No, SIXTEEN pages of Wayne Carey rooting Anthony Stevens' wife.
― S-, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't expect any less from those fine publications.
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I just looked at all those LOLpollies pictures and they are *so fucking dreadful* that I'm no longer voting Greens in the Upper House.
I did chuckle at this one, through...
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Howard has told Rudd to 'grow up.' Gillard has responded by calling him out for schoolboy tactics, retaining the high ground.
I'm telling ya, status is where it's at.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Hockey calls unions irrelevant, which explains why he's attacking them. He looks better with green horns.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
"So: tax cuts will save the day for the liberals? What do you think? They can always renege on all promises after the election, as is traditional."
Well, they did say _if_ the strong economic growth continues, so when that inevitably peters out, they can fuck their promises right off the way they always do.
Got a SSAE envelope from bloody Alexander Downer yesterday, along with various bullshit screeds. Our dog once crapped on his front lawn. I wonder if he can be persuaded to crap into an envelope?
― James Morrison, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Alexander Downer is a talking pudding
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
who travelled back in time for some reason
― electricsound, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
to fetch his party leader frin the 19th century obv
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
from
Housing affordability figures and IMF world economic outlook report both released today. Both grim. The former makes the government look ignorant, the latter makes it look impetuous.
Oh and for all Costello's cries of GILARD OMG COMUMISM he was once a member of Australian Young Labor and did the same student union work as Gillard.
http://reasonsyouwillhateme.com/images/dfiu.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link
How's the situation in the seat of Bennelong these days?
― moley, Thursday, 18 October 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Last I heard [1? week ago] McKew was winning by a clean margin.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 06:51 (sixteen years ago) link
That is so fucking sweet.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 18 October 2007 06:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think it's quite so clean now, but who knows what will happen.
― electricsound, Thursday, 18 October 2007 06:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7303/071018homehowardmarx1bcww6.jpg
― badg, Thursday, 18 October 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link