The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

people think he's coming back because (1) incumbent is shit (2) incumbent is hell of unpopular (3) they are desperate for anything atm (4) they don't know how caucus feels

i'm not exactly unignorant about such matters

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

hedging

anyway either way it will be embarrassing to the last

already is tbh

Yah I assume its more "he should come back because look at the fckin alternative".

Ditto Turnbull. Shit, if Turnbull was up, Labor might as well pack up and go home.

otm.

George Megalogenis did a piece for November's Communist Times Monthly in which he suggested Turnbull is the only fucking proper actual potential leader since Keating, and the only one who is willing to promote social issues and economic reform at the same time.

labor more like gaybor amirite

indeed

[Julian Knight] said if he was not granted parole he would be the first murderer in 175 years of Victorian legal history to be given a non-parole period and then not be paroled.

But Justice Osborn pointed out that in the past many murderers had been sentenced to be "hung by the neck until dead".

..yeah, great to know thats not an option anymore then isnt it, Justice Osborn! Bloody heck. I mean, it gasts my flabber that Knight keeps whining about wanting to be released, considering what he did, but ffs, what sort of help is it saying "well you're lucky we couldnt KILL you then arent we!"

...meant to ital those first 2 paras.

"I certainly don't wish to be appearing here on a regular basis, I have got much more productive things to do with my time," Knight told the court.

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yeah like making those number plates

the bart, the

Also, massive LOL:

Julian Knight
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This article is about the mass murderer. For the CEO, see Julian Knight (executive).

sooo sick of these you're-too-fat-to-be-normal shows

Rudd was actually quite good but had the misfortune of leading a party full of self-interested hacks (check out Simon Crean's rant today as an example).

Anyway, we're all fucked.

But I should say that Rudd's tea is quite good!!

Rudd started the internet filter, he can go to hell.

I'm still convinced that was more of a thing to pretend they care about " good morals" to those who still care about that/distract Conroy from anything important rather than any actual censorship.

Or more succinctly: giving the Catholic branch of the ALP a "win" without doing so.

not good enough

Well, it's a cautionary tale on why the ALP needs be reformed pretty sharply if it is to have any sort of future, but I'm still able to access hardcore pornography think pieces on progressive politics and US TV shows, so I'm still only slightly offended by it all.

alp needs the world's biggest kick up the arse (with john faulkner on vocals)

after the howard era they could have pulled in 15 years quite comfortably, but no

Never underestimate this current crop of self-serving dickheads.

cunce, the lot of them

so fucking devastated

even the monthly is doing regular anti-alp articles, that's how shit they are

By the way, it's 2012 and the Queen is still the fucking head of state, the Union Jack is still on the flag, indigenous people are still marginalized and you can't have a gay marriage, so a pox on the ALP's house.

At least Swanny has done a half-decent job on the economy (except that not passing the original mining tax is really going to bite us on the arse later on).

after the howard era they could have pulled in 15 years quite comfortably, but no

Mmmm I think that underestimates the flag-as-cape young voting dickhead mob.

Srsly read Whirlpools forums sometime - I would like to think fucking tech forums were full of leftish ppl but no, theyre all U NO TEK MY FREE PRON AND MOVIES U CUNCE IM VOTING LIB and also they all hate black ppl and wogs

neckbeards trying to overcompensate for their lack of real world machismo iirc

that's why they all import fucking katanas and get stroppy when customs detains such items

"Baby John Burgess joins Balls of Steel Australia as the game show host from hell."

Srsly read Whirlpools forums sometime - I would like to think fucking tech forums were full of leftish ppl but no, theyre all U NO TEK MY FREE PRON AND MOVIES U CUNCE IM VOTING LIB

Railing against Labor over the filter is fine because it was a RONG policy, but saying 'therefore I'm voting for the bigots' is well out of order, obviously. Problem is, you can't choose the not-bigot party because there isn't one.

Yesterday Abbott announced an indigenous ~thing~ that on paper looks reasonably sympathetic and even reconciliatory. I doubt it actually is, but my point is that Labor is now such a fucking duff party that Abbott can move into Gillard's social policy holes and just clean up. If he allows same-sex marriage to proceed, that's his last social policy manacle discarded and he will romp it in next year, guaranteed.

I mean I know carbon tax etc etc, he can make all the promises he likes on that front but it's already in so

"Baby John Burgess joins Balls of Steel Australia as the game show host from hell."

― Born To Meat Pie (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:58 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

January was a horrible month, that hit me at the arse end and I couldn't face it tbh

i used to work with a 'balls of steel australia' cast member iirc

were the steel balls metaphorical or

everything's metaphorical round here, u kno

Boss has given me an irritatingly complex and PITA new task to have to do every month and Im not sure I'm gonna get it right and its a report the Big Boss will be reviewing which is making me feel weird because I have to put the data in manually which means it isnt guaranteed to be accurate and AAAAAARGH.

I don't care either way but you know this isn't the deindexed mong thread rite

bllody hell it isnt either. LOL. What a morning.

(TBH I didnt know the mong thread was deindexed anyway, fwiw)

Anyway sorry, mispost, feel free 2 delete etc

joooooooooolz

when the abc leads with frivolous speculation you're basically dead

i fully expect abbott to be PM within a couple of months

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also call me an idiot but I would not be surprised if her anti-marriage stance is the tipping point within caucus

btw today's grattan put the focus on all the labor mps who are watching their own seats wither by her hand