The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

it's night time in such and such

Guardian australia, is their sports coverage going to be a comedically cack handed as guardian USA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia

The big first edition revelation was that Gillard is a fan of Game of Thrones and "barracking" (nice save on the use of 'rooting' there) for House Targaryen. This probably puts it ahead of The Age in insight.

we don't say 'rooting'

btw gillard is trying to be hip and cool and def and appeal to the yoof of australia, just after she pissed on marriage equality yet again

we don't say 'rooting'

well, not in that context anyway

*eats roots & leaves*

This probably puts it ahead of The Age in insight.

it does!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/bogan-test-abbott-gillard

we don't say 'rooting'

well, not in that context anyway

I was gonna say.

As for Grauniad, I wish HRaz3r would STFU about how amazing she is because she got published in it. Woop de doo lady, you wrote a review of a shitty TV doco on Whitlam. Call the Pulitzer poeple.

God I hate that woman.

she's pretty on-point, i rex

Oh re the doco itself, Im sure she was - havent seen it mself so cannot say tbh. She perhaps asks too much, that said. Her "INTELLECTUAL RIGOR OR DIE" angle is tiresome.

where are you hearing her?

reading. twatter.

its a long story why i bother (and shouldnt, tbh).

u have razerbeef

http://horrorpediadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/razorback.jpg

lol at "I wish HRaz3r would STFU on her tw1tter"!

Well indeede.

In Soviet Australia, ASIO gets spied on by YOU

did love that story. "once they have your building plans... you can either conduct everything at the highest level of secrecy in your own headquarters, or gut it internally and start again." - an academic

btw gillard is trying to be hip and cool and def and appeal to the yoof of australia, just after she pissed on marriage equality yet again

as i keep saying, "she’s just dancing with who brung her".

nuremberg defence is not good enough imo

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/1534381/rap-the-biggest-con-in-history-of-music/?cs=97

Things that look like ONion articles but etc

flunkies who can't sing as they mutter away to a thumping beat - chattering a useless, deviant monologue of prose

like ur fuccccin article, amirite

You see, the kids these days, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about.

Sam de Brito valiantly tries to inform mouthbreathing racist idiots that they get away with being racists here because, lord knows, if you tried that shit in america, all the black men in the room would beat the shit out of you and kill you!

...because THATS NOT AN UNHELPFUL RACIST STEREOTYPE OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE US AT ALL IS IT SAM.

oh dear

I mean his heart was presumably in the right place but what the hell was he thinking!?

flunkies who can't sing as they mutter away to a thumping beat - chattering a useless, deviant monologue of prose

HAS EVERYONE SEEN THE NEW CONSTANT LIGHT VIDEO CLIP Y/N

i didn't want to be the one to say it

looool

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/3853318-3x2-700x467.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c7K8JThDInY/TBBYM1RpecI/AAAAAAAAAd0/wQsdJScARuw/s400/kevin_rudd_tool.jpg

btw there is some quality swearing in "Paper Giants"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-09/julia-gillard-loses-significant-support-in-caucus/4742626

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-09/julia-gillard-loses-significant-support-in-caucus/4742626

#leadershit

i still have $5 riding on this fwiw

why is barrie cassidy going to be getting credible intel when his predictions have gone with the pack and been wrong for the last two and a half years?

http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/ruling-in-ruling-out.html - more like reality

yeah nah

they stay with gillard and lose what 35 seats, or they take a chance with the bloke who keeps winning lolpolls and lose fewer seats

congratulation, you still don't understand how leadership challenges happen!

congratulation, you're being pleasant

it is a non-story. who's talking to cassidy? crean? got burned last time. fitzgibbon? fitzgibbon is a fucking idiot.

who's going to stick their neck out for rudd when he has walked away and made them look like idiots twice in 12 months? which powerbrokers has rudd been courting to try and reverse their opposition? you will forgive my scepticism, we've been hearing the government will fall any day now for nearly three years now and it hasn't happened.

This is worth a read. I have it in a big compedium of Australian SF (edited by OG ILXor nf's dad, no less) and pleased to see it's free online.

Topical!

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/government.htm

is it gillard-rudd erotic fanfic or

or

okey dokey

i should have read it tonight, instead of getting lost in ancient clusterfucks

gillard introduces a carbon scheme and abbott wants her sacked

one of his own is responsible for an utterly revolting sexist 'joke' and he's all 'what, it's fine'