The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

http://www.feelny.net/photo/Magda-Szubanski49373.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/think-melbourne-is-expensive-youre-right-20120214-1t3em.html

reesim, eh

sydney wants to be melbourne

small bars dude small bars

r0wland s h0ward lane

do u think there'll ever be a lanie lane lane

irl lol

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

make that days

can't wait to see who first tries to knife him once he ascends

country is a fucking joke

http://i.imgur.com/gyETT.jpg

btw the rudd spill has come from gillard's low polling and shithouse take on leadership – if she weren't such a mystifying bell-end they wouldn't be imploding

i.e. if the rudd forces hadn't arced up someone else would have by now

rudd forces have been on constant sputtering arc since Gillard spill tho, if the party had gotten behind Gillard she wouldn't look so rickety

ie they could have learned a lesson from watching NSW Labor for the last six years, but they seem to have learned the exact wrong one

rudd forces have been on constant sputtering arc since Gillard spill tho, if the party had gotten behind Gillard she wouldn't look so rickety

gillard's polling has been shithouse since she got in though, i mean abbott of all people keeps out-polling her ffs

i have eaten cucumbers that would out-poll that troglodyte

i'm not saying #spill is the solution, i'm saying it's understandable that they would want to save themselves from (a) electoral oblivion (b) just completely dying as a party

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/20/gonski-a-simple-sensible-model-for-a-terrified-government/

It’s clear, judging by both the outcome of the Gonski review and the government’s immediate dispatch of it to the purgatory of COAG, that Labor has lost any appetite for making good the damage inflicted by the Howard government’s SES school funding model, which continues to this day to allocate millions of dollars to Australia’s wealthiest schools.

That model was the Howard government at its most ideological, based on John Howard’s personal vision of a taxpayer-funded transformation of Australians into his ideal of Liberal voters — nuclear families, shareholders, privately schooled, using private health insurance. The conservative Catholic school system was a particular favourite of that government, serving as a low-income distraction from the direction of extraordinary levels of funding to Australia’s richest schools (and the rapid increase in that funding).

Eventually that vision morphed into a simpler mass vote-buying exercise, as Howard’s social engineering gave way to pork-barrelling on an extraordinary scale that left it with a structural budget deficit and a profound sense of entitlement.

guys i had never heard of air australia before it went bust

moi aussi

Yeah me three.

4

5, and the other person in the lift when it was announced, so 6

NAZI ROBOTS

We have a cinematic obsesson with sci fi nazis? What planet am I on?

read the article, it sez 'zeitgeist' in it

morgan geist should do a full album cover of zeit by TD

i should have kept that thought to myself

*laughs*

now i wouldn't normally judge someone on their looks or the name of their constituency, but...

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/state-election-2012/teenage-labor-candidate-quits-over-homophobic-rants-20120221-1tk95.html

Another person gaged and ruined by the "gay is great brigade".

I heard the interview, he sounds like nobody ever taught him how to position his mouth when speaking

The biggest lol about that twat is his defence was "this study shows 30% of pedophiles are GAY!"

..so, 70% of pedophiles - a VAST MAJORITY - are straight? Dude, wtf is the matter with u.

he looks like a mouthbreather deluxe if ever i saw one

The biggest lol about that twat is his defence was "this study shows 30% of pedophiles are GAY!"

..so, 70% of pedophiles - a VAST MAJORITY - are straight? Dude, wtf is the matter with u.

― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 14:41 (6 minutes ago) [IP: 203.34.175.62] Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god I hadn't even got that far, jesus christ what a wally

i wonder if the gay is great brigade have fancy uniforms like the fire brigade

http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2012/02/21/3058958/729-peter-watson-420x0.jpg

this looks like it was taken w/ fish-eye lens

looks like he failed the cast audition for an extra on shameless

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/risotto-king-jailed-over-childsex-offences-20120221-1tkkv.html

eww. Ate at this dude's restaurant a couple times :/

'risotto king' (euphemism)

chicken risotto was his speciality clearly

EWWWWWW

Never eating risotto again >:|

our work here is done

guys i had never heard of air australia before it went bust

hate to brag but i was telling people that their business plan of "flying bogans to phuket and hawaii in leased turkish planes" was never gonna be a going months ago

the most absurdist part of this whole saga was that "flying charters for mining companies" was the original plan btw

frank woodley stuck in a giant organic egg suit

fucking best aus show in decades

I've been saying "since Micallef Program/me." It's just wonderful. And amazing that something so well-thought-out, so good-looking, with production values that support the comedy, has made it through the system and onto air. I hope the absence of any necessary dialogue whatsoever lets it get sold to half the world and make Woodley rich (enough to make some more of these).

The utter contempt displayed towards public transport users with the current ad campaign on trams advertising just how much you're going to get fined. Oh, and Myki, again.