The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

EXCLUSIVE !!!

hard-hitting ACA exposé on Chinese-owned butchers in Hurtstville putting 'help wanted' signs in their window written in "probably Chinese"

omg they did not say "probably chinese" did they!?

PS just watched Gillards speech, and wow. Why cant she be like that all the time ffs!?

omg they did not say "probably chinese" did they!?

well, they didn't

they asked an old Vietnamese-looking lady what language it was, and 2/3-of-the-screen-vertically captioned her reply "Probably Chinese, because there are a lot of Chinese people" [lady waves at street]

so

ah, so.

(haha sorry)

gillard was great, if you ignore her cutting welfare payments for single mothers today and blocking marriage equality the other week

iow fuck her

Sadly, we're at the juncture where we're forced to back the person who would cut welfare payments for single mothers against the person who would steal babies away from single mothers then make them work in a Dickensian workhouse built from the bones of gay people (probably).

been a fucking long time since someone on the federal front bench has made a speech with as much passion as that

really hope she starts destroying the joint in all areas from this point forth

that was thrilling and magnificent.

KYLE SANDILANDS DIABETES FEAR

fear that he will survive it?

that was me soz

he's put on so much weight that he had to sell his lambourghini, because he no longer fits in it, show some respect

lmaoborghini

mangle his pig junior

gillard is being condemned by courier-mail commenters for giving an unladylike speech.

"Toy undeterred by heart complaint" - thought this would be a story about some dildo that gave a bloke a heart attack, but was disappointed to find it is some fotball player.

joe hockey in the spotless libs share house kitchen that's clearly never been used: "do we need salad?"

Didn't Hockey and Rudd once share a house? Losr opportunity for a Classic odd-couple sitcom there...

apparently brendan nelson was living out the back of this share house, in a shed, while he was defence minister AND while opposition leader!

saw that gillard speech on twitter, i guess it's gone viral. p awesome.

it was pretty spectacular (and about time that misogynistic piece of shit was brought to account)

Abbott's comeback

http://images.theage.com.au/2012/10/11/3704444/art-bill2-620x349.jpg

Yes that one was delightful.

Also can someone tell me how the fuck a "pensioner" is going thru $700 a quarter in elextricity let alone twice that? Does she live in a 6 bedroom mansion in Peppermint Grove or something?

FYI 'Scandalands' is the worst book title in history.

btw I hope they discover all that controversial electricity that pensioner has been charged for has been used to power a gnarly hydroponics setup

Electricity services are odd. Despite usage being unchanged, our bills says CO2 emissions have doubled. Did they find a seam of extra-dirty coal or something?

they've finally switched on our ass chips

sfart meters, amirite

some creepoid came round to allegedly install ours and tried to enter the house without asking (thankfully the screen door was locked). apparently they needed access to the mains (the website and other documents contradict this) and when told to ring me to organise a time when i was there they declined and disappeared in a hurry. scamola!

Oh shit!

And yeah no they dont need to get into the house to put a smartmeter on, they did mine when I was at CHusan st with a locked up house, so Im sure they just replaced the main box on the front outside wall.

Maybe that was a robber :(

i was thinking opportunist sex pest

Oh ew. :( Have you told the fuzz?

lol i just googled "smart meter scammers" and came up with a jillion websites that say STOP SMART METERS and SMART METERS ARE A GOVT SCAM .. wow, the tinfoil contrail parade are out in force on this one! I had no idea.

Ha. Smart meter installators came to my folks' house, insisted that a smart meter be installed, then refused to do it because the point where the 'leccy comes into the house isn't in an OH&S suitable spot to connect to. They're now in an interesting position of making all the demands and holding none of the cards.

Oh noes! They might have to use a LADDER! *homealoneface*

ha

ours is afaict the only house in the street w/o one

ours never showed up and never came back

My new house doesnt have em I dont think, but tbh I havent checked out the meter bocks. Its a row of 4 townhouses so I dunno how it works in such situse.

we have two at my house. one is showing 888888888888888 on every display.

Awesome =)

world's luckiest meter

melbourne festival opening night flop disaster

https://twitter.com/alisoncroggon/status/256356297971228673

lol what was the show causing all the walkouts!?

something called 'After Life' - "Dutch contemporary opera" apaz!

My, sounds... exciting.