The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

Why the fuck is Clive Palmer advertising on sky news and not in prison?

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 19:25 (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the answer to all your questions is either (a) rupert murdoch or (b) australia

got THREE (3) spam letters from the neo-nazi party today, all moaning about communist dan and his ~being nice~ policies

seven in two days, what the actual fuck

and the envelopes are plain on the outside, so essentially neo-nazis are trojan horsing their way into our home

melbourne full of “NOT HAPPY DAN” billboards without any direct accreditation or even a policy position. turns out they’re paid for by cashed-up gun lobbyists. this vic election campaign is going to be fuuuuuuuuucked.

Derryn Hinch continues to fascinate me

We are with @drkerrynphelps and @JimmyBarnes for #KidsOffNauru pic.twitter.com/ohOQ5Pw7WK

— ASRC (@ASRC1) November 27, 2018

What are his flaws?

Repeatedly breaking the law re ongoing court cases on air while drunk

Being given a new liver when hes a screaming alcoholic is probably a contender also.

also: v shouty

Being partly responsible for the whole preference whispering phenomenon

he's calmed right down, seems to sit somewhere in the centre now (although this week he was blaming dan andrews for the libs setting that $2bn time bomb just before they got voted out in 2014)

I reckon Hinch only looks calm in context (the freaking Senate of Australia!!!!)

Billy Nomates

PM Scott Morrison during the ongoing debate on amendments to the encryption laws @AmyRemeikis @GuardianAus @murpharoo #politicslive https://t.co/tj67JpI7ls pic.twitter.com/TTj694uIBh

— Mikearoo (@mpbowers) December 6, 2018

Can we have Frydenburg spayed and then taxidermied?

On the plus side, these clowns are on holiday, on the minus side we're still in child torture the business. Fuck all these clowns.

Still in the child torture business, no longer in the “having an internet” business

I’m still pre-nbn and I miss my water damaged Comcast connection from Pittsburgh. Having an internet is not something that has happened to me in Australia.

Also didn’t they give up on passing the delete the internet bill so they could keep child torture?

I mean they could have worked after 4:30 and had both but who would get in the way of an Aussie summer.

Nope, Labor shit the bed. Passed the security laws, held over the asylum seeker changes to next year.

The last week had me almost ready to consider voting Labor first or second for the first time next year. What a fucking waste of a skerrick of hope for reform, they’re back down to just above male Libs now.

agreed, what is the fucking point honestly

it’s almost like they’re all there exclusively to rort the system

Labor never met an ethical challenge they couldn't fuck up.

Also tonight, got polled by robot and asked who would get my first preference: "press 1 for the liberal party, press 2 for the liberal party"
I imagine this poll was paid for by the Liberal Party, and organised with their usual shitwittery. Bear thi

Argh fuck

bill shorten totally fucking things up? never saw it coming

Looks as though they finally got this cunt: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/australian-court-convicts-once-powerful-vatican-official-on-sex-abuse-related-charges/2018/12/12/da0d909c-fe20-11e8-a17e-162b712e8fc2_story.html?utm_term=.afb4b2a9a21b

Even though it can't even be reported here, ffs.

real normal prime minister

#auspol story of 2019: our latest PM (ScoMo) had nice white shoes photoshopped onto his feet for his official https://t.co/eXNtcX7xTa site?! Yup. Regular bloke. Our tax dollars hard at work. #shoegate pic.twitter.com/kA0gG0yy9L

— luxe (@lukerhn) January 8, 2019

still kind of amazed his schtick ISN'T going down well, given how stupid the Australian electorate has revealed itself to be

I mean, a gurning turd in a series of baseball caps doing a perpetual thumbs-up is about their level

*the prime minister fires the starting pistol for culture war season*

if he even gets to 26th january before dutton fires off the first libspill of 2019

I see that he's 'firing' up the 'base' with pissweak Menzies-isms.

While Dutton is 'firing' up the 'base' by sending a family back to Sri Lanka to face likely torture.

This should be just in time for me to become a citizen. I need to buy some board shorts and thongs so I can make hem as daggy as possible in time for the ceremony.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/09/05/07/4FB8D25500000578-6133129-image-a-91_1536129341652.jpg

you must be this classy to become a citizen of the commonwealth of australia

I will really have to let myself go to get my moobs back,.

Why is ScoMo barbecuing eggs in the smoking cage of an RSL?

That is the most bizarre photograph of a politician I've ever seen.

Well, at least since the photoshopped shoe thing.

https://i.ibb.co/hFDFV4H/4964.jpg

not sure if the weird unit is kissing that can of xxxx gold or pretending to drink it

why didn’t you turn to your left and ask him

another photoshopping there, I won't stand for it

maybe this pointless fuckbiscuit can stop fighting culture wars nobody asked for and ~run~ ~the~ ~~~country~~~

or, bin himself

can't believe the kids aren't into James Cook, thank heavens the current prime minister is addressing this serious problem with a very expensive wooden ship

don't worry, the fearless opposition leader has a strong opinion

Shorten says the Endeavour's tour around Australia "sounds very nice"

— Josh Taylor (@joshgnosis) January 22, 2019

if my opponent were a massively unhinged and hilariously stupid fucktangle i’d keep a low profile too tbh

I dunno, it might not to be so smart to keep such a low profile, it's a long game and it's not like Scott Morrison can fuck up everythi-- oh.

'What they've done to us is appalling': Liberals fume after Scott Morrison intervenes in key seat | @michaelkoziol https://t.co/gurAeXTwwL

— The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) January 22, 2019

in the brexit thread andrew farrell said they’ve got a roomba in charge of the country, which means we’ve got a broken racist jack-in-the-box with one hand pungent with blisters from wanking himself into a coma over his own photo in charge of our country