The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

Tony Abbott IS Dick Dastardly, sez Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/abbott-wont-guarantee-pair--for-thomson-if-wife-gives-birth-20110908-1jz5l.html

Ah, those classic Liberal Party family values.

It wasn't until I got past the second pic in that article that I was able to stop wondering "a pair of what?"

Yeah I'd never heard the phrase before either.

(btw i was posting the article for the deliberately "bad guy"pics, in case that was missed)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28/bolt-found-guilty-of-breaching-discrimination-act/3025918

Not yet sure whether we can legally call him a racist. Oh and Tony Abbott wasted no time in defending him so

WHile I personally find glee in this, it opens a can of worms, allowing these dickheads to cry poor on censorship/free speech grounds. Ugh.

The grounds are false though, because it's factual errors (i.e. making shit up about indigenous people) that clinched the judgement.

Also those dickheads falsely cry poor on those grounds all the time anyway, so this will just go into the mix and nothing overall will change. Meanwhile Bolt got served.

It's boosted Bolt from the middle of the paper to a front page story tomorrow & news bulletins all over the country, I think the PR effect will be significant. Whether the grounds are false or not will be immaterial to your average Australian racist.

indeed

i still enjoyed defacing the work copy of the sun with 'AUSTRALIA'S #1 CONVICTED RACIST', but

baaaaahahahaha

just today, just for today, you are my hero

Im glad we dont have the Snu at work but if we did I would likely have done the same.

Bolt found guilty of making shit up, responds by making shit up

STANDING outside the Federal Court on the corner of William and La Trobe streets in Melbourne yesterday, Andrew Bolt pronounced it a black day for the press.

''This is a terrible day for free speech in this country,'' he said, reading from the notes he had written in courtroom No. 1 after losing the case brought against him by a group of fair-skinned Aborigines under the Racial Discrimination Act (1975).

oh and the feral scum's headline is "THIS IS A SAD DAY FOR FREE SPEECH", hoping to get to its readers before the facts do

Also they gave him two full pages plus editorial support on two pages, which proves that there's no free speech. Also apparently the HS web site blocked all comments on its Bolt story that advocates free speech.

That last bit makes no sense, what kind of comments?

they just didn't enable comments for it on the web article

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lol i knew you would enjoy that gasp story, as did i.

tonight i have dinner with a very loud howard zombie, considering running a non-binding book on how many minutes before he bemoans the death of free speech

lol i knew you would enjoy that gasp story, as did i.

HAVE FUN SHOPPING AT SUPRE!!

The grammatical mangling was the most offensive part of it.

http://i.imgur.com/1wzWX.jpg

Apaz Gasp manager still completely unrepentant, now saying "loads of ppl now in our store ha ha sucks to be you lot, we are the best". Ugh.

So, jjj launching new stashun. Does anyone care n/n.

Is this the Australian-only one they should have launched 20 years ago but digital-only y/n

y

jjj launching "ipod shuffle"

Angry Anderson apaz some kind of tin foil nutter, who knew.

Angry - the garishly-inked caricature of a tough guy in the style of a pint-sized Hells Angel - is still very, very angry. His fury these days is directed at Labor's carbon tax, fuelled by a taste for dark conspiracy theories about a One World Government.

Indeed, he rants on one of his recent blogs: ''Do we really believe that this push for a tax on carbon pollution is anything but raising revenue for the government and the United Nations in league with the international banks using the new world order as a blueprint for the globalisation of the new free world?''

o_0

all those years as an ACA groupie were a giveaway imo

Yeah good point. Forgot all about that.

CARBON TAXXXXXXXXXXXX

bodies, bodies everywhere

Abbott pinned his political future on blocking the carbon tax so, um, WHOOPS. Also Rudd has been parading a hell of a lot recently.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/3552838-3x4-340x453.jpg http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/3552838-3x4-340x453.jpghttp://www.abc.net.au/news/image/3552838-3x4-340x453.jpg

rudd ain't coming back. it's a liberal fantayzee, they want ~~revenge~~ but it ain't gonna happen.

Hartcher disgrees

hartcher's got no fukkkkn idea. the press pack's infatuation with rudd vs gillard, abbott, and 'leadership wars' in general is basically because a) they're all vain, lazy and stupid, b) they don't like actually doing any work to get their stories if they're not being fed to them by party hacks and c) conflict is 'interesting' to write about. labor haven't forgotten how badly rudd treated everybody, and how he amassed all the power at the top and then froze and didn't get anything done. they might not like gillard but hey, guess what, they're actually passing bills through the house and stuff - and in six months' time abbott's parroting about it being a 'do-nothing govt' won't hold water, and he'll be fucked because he's got no backup strategy other than being a sexist pig.

I wish being a sexist pig (and a religious nut) was enough to stop idiots voting for him tho.

There was a poll on Whirlpool that overwhelmingly said ppl "used to vote labor but wont anymore" for one reason. The freaking censorship internet filter. WTH, idiots?

xp God I hope you're right about Abbott collapsing.

In any case, Rudd's approval rating is so far above Gillard's (or anyone's) that his return is not outside the realm of possibility. Remember this is a party that's fuelled by focus groups, not ~common sense~

There was a poll on Whirlpool that overwhelmingly said ppl "used to vote labor but wont anymore" for one reason. The freaking censorship internet filter. WTH, idiots?

― Occupy Kelly St (Trayce), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 10:44 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm 100% behind that sentiment tbh, although I won't vote for Abbott either. Informal votes indefinitely, unless we ever get a political party that's cunceless and responds to what actual human beings want.

Oh and last week Grattan made a very good point about Rudd, basically that his massive support will dry up the second he opens his mouth and people remember what he was like.

listened to an old Get This the other day with Rudd trying to clown Howard for his reactionary pre-election announcements, and sounding so hilariously bloodless that he was like a washed-out ghost of Howard, not an exagerrated parody

you know something? you're right

the press pack [...] they're all vain, lazy and stupid

this is my t-bomb 4 thee day, btw

protesters in parliament question time chanting "democracy is dead"

in parliament

during question time

this is akin to the convoy of no confidence, in which four protesters descended on the nation's capital

aforementioned protesters of change the carbon tax:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/3553804-3x4-340x453.jpg

presumably heading out to the greyhound bus that will take them home