The dying days of the Fourth Reich: it's the 2007 AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION

In the good old days, you need to be an alcoholic to be in the running for PM.

If you elect a new leader, will your countrymen please fuck off out of East London en masse?

I should mention that my local MP is totally hot and very much rootable.

-- King Boy Pato, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:12 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

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"I should mention that my local MP is totally hot and very much rootable."

I never knew you lived in Fabulous Phil Ruddock's electorate?

If you elect a new leader, will your countrymen please fuck off out of East London en masse?

Perhaps a new PM could negotiate a population exchange with all the Brit backpackers in Bondi?

Can we just drown both groups somewhere off the coast of Madagascar?

Although that chain of Ozzie pie shops in London have some good eating. Like a less council Greggs.

Pato election commentary. This thread is going to be GOLD. Please post pics of the candidates.

question: if im a US resident but an Australian citizen, do I need to vote?

Sadly, not that genuine stud (or that gay sex symbol himself, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey) but the rather lovely MP for Adelaide.

If you elect a new leader, will your countrymen please fuck off out of East London en masse?

That would be about the same time when your countrymen fuck off out of East Sydney en masse?

Aw shit, someone beat me to that cliche.

that would please a lot of people. (xpost)

if im a US resident but an Australian citizen, do I need to vote?

No, they changed the law so nobody under 50 can vote (I was told this by Triple J).

"if im a US resident but an Australian citizen, do I need to vote?"

The H of R and Senate seats you would vote in are both determined by where you live in Oz, and as you don't live in Oz at all, I would guess not. It might depend on whether you own property use in Oz, or how long you've lived elsewhere and whether you intend to return.

(KBP, is 'East Sydney' also known locally as 'West Dunedin'?

roffle of the day from JOHN LAWS of all people: he interviewed howard and rudd on his show this morning. an early talkback caller commented that he sounded quite pally with rudd and antagonistic toward howard, and asked if laws was getting paid by the ALP. lawsie asked the dude if he was being paid to be a fuckwit!!

Of course 'Disgusted of Drummoyne' wasn't being paid to be a fuckwit, Lawsy.

At least nowhere near as much as you are.

Paying Laws to be a fuckwit is like paying a rhinosceros to be ugly.

I never knew you lived in Fabulous Phil Ruddock's electorate?

I live there this week! Call me, Phil!

King Boy Deporto, not Estie.

Ask King Boy more questions, overseas people.

I should mention that my local MP is totally hot and very much rootable.

samez, she in middle: http://www.anthonyalbanese.com.au/images/400Richmond.JPG

Phwoar!!

KBP, is 'East Sydney' also known locally as 'West Dunedin'?

West Dunedin is the entire coastline from Sydney to Cairns!

I don't know why gangstas be hatin' on John Laws. Hegot dat bling bling, yo.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r154265_554938.jpg

What's that shining in his glasses? A gold plated console?

This morning on Kochie and Mel the phone in poll voted 90% to 10 in favour of spending the $30+ billion on better services rather than the tax cuts promised by Howard & Costello. It looks like Joe Public's going to need more convincing than getting their own money taxed then handed back to them.

OMG the public in thinking sensibly shock

is lawsy's ring a GOLDEN LION???

Yes, it appears so. There appears to be a ring of gold plating around the microphone too.

i think it's a gold plated behringer

Gold suits him: It, too, is malleable, flashy, cold, lacking in intelligence and bought and sold every day by influential stockholders.

Rudd has just announced a plan to release $6 billion [nine zeros] of Commonwealth land for housing. The subtext being that you can give anyone $20/week but it's freaking useless without somewhere to live.

Regarding polls: Even the Herald Scum website's poll [will Howard's FREE MONEY OMG policy make you vote for him?] was at 60% on 'no' this morning. Looks like the usual bait-and-switch tactic is not working this time.

Oooh, and Howard has just said he will only have one debate, and it will be this Sunday, and there will be no worm.* Not a good move, if his shambolic appearance on last night's 7.30 Report is anything to go by.

<i>* so clearly Howard will not attend</i>

when did the australian turn into an andrew bolt inspired howard fanzine?

Quote from Howard: "If (Rudd) doesn't turn up, I'll still talk for an hour and a half."

PLEASE do that. PLEASE. And watch the ratings nosedive because you're talking for an hour and a half.

when did the australian turn into an andrew bolt inspired howard fanzine?

1996?

u should see the Rudd adverts up here in Qld. That guy is SO Queensland.

http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/8/4/26/f_BillyMooreWm_699669a.gif

etc.

"when did the australian turn into an andrew bolt inspired howard fanzine?"

No later than 1975.

At which stage the Blot was still being bullied at high school. Frank Devine (father of the dreaded Miranda) and Alan Reid were the Merde's chief mouthpieces then.

"Blot" seems somehow appropriate.

Blot's blog is insanely idiotic. Competely insubstantial rant after completely insubstantial rant, all stated as though it were all incontrovertible.

He tones down his opinions for Insiders because he knows they'd never hold up against the mettle of proper journalists.

I remain baffled as to how ppl like him get away with the shit they spout, I mean how is he not getting his pants sued off?

He works for Murdoch.

Blot is an A-grade clot.

At the Melb Writers Fest last year he took exception to some comment Hannie Rayson made, and walked out.

He was sitting about half a dozen seats from one corner of the theatre, and walked out of the door in the opposite corner. Show-boating clown.

Both my flatmates work for Murdoch :/

At the Melb Writers Fest last year he took exception to some comment Hannie Rayson made, and walked out.

and that is how conservatives mount an argument.

What was he doing at the Writers Fest anyway? Shouldn't he be hating on all the artists?

Guessed it in one.

Howard and Costello are still demanding Labor release its tax plan immediately. On day three of a six-week campaign. This bullying tactic can't be going down too well.

Aussie pie shops in London, where? I want a floater.

I want a floater.

-- Ed, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 07:35

Oh, I say.

Anyway our Abbott would do a much better job than yours so let's send her over so she can tell the Liberals to go away and usher in better times.

Huzzah! I'd vote that.

Holy shit. This is madness. Ah well, why worry, it's not as though I want the Liberals to get back in. Crazy-arse fascist numbnuts that they are.

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/01/2757994.htm

Then there's Tony Abbott - the great 'People Skills' himself, whose defiance of political orthodoxy is beginning to rival Mr Turnbull's own.

What other leadership candidate would have had the magnificence, on Sunday, to ignore not just one, and not even two, but three central tenets of the political picture opportunity?

"Don't wear silly hats" has been defied before.

"Don't wear budgie smugglers" has also been defied, though with tragic results for the former NSW Liberal leader Peter Debnam, whose photoshoot in the briefest of swimming costumes heralded his imminent failure at the polls in 2007.

"If you have an extremely hairy back, for God's sake keep your shirt on" is not so much an accepted political maxim as an article of common sense, but it is sage advice nonetheless.

And yet: There was People Skills on Sunday, prancing about in the shallows wearing naught but a scrap of lycra, a lifesaver's cap and a fascinatingly goatish pelt.

Countdown to media revival of abortion debate with new liberal leader Abbott, in 3...2...

Oh god no, aaargh.

I am enjoying the fun ride that is Barnaby Joyce: Shadow Finance Minister with policy ripped straight from the LaR0uche krew.

^ congrats on not c+p'ing T. Martin's tweet about Joyce

As if I'd steal T. Martin's work and use it on ILX.

Meanwhile, I am perplexed by my cousin's choice of Facebook groups. First she signs up to the group "No Kevin By 2011" and five minutes later she has become a fan of Bob Hawke. I...don't get it.

i met bob hawke in a bar last year

he was v orange

Are you sure it wasn't some drunk tanned bloke going "aaaaaarrrrrrrhhhhhhh"?

^remind me to show you my hawke impression

Can't be as good as my Hawke impression. It isn't next-level like my Howard impression, through.

what amateur hour horrors have you wrought with your reminiscing, jabba hands.

good thing i didn't mention the time i met the goatse guy tbh

Rudd out?

well this could be intersting

hmm

I so didn't believe this was going to happen.

I've completely missed all the hoo-haa tbh, work's been the worst busy ever in my life. Is this kind of ousting/coup really rare and unusual? Is this like what happened to whitlam? im shit at politics

no this is more like hawkey/keating

this is the third leadership spill we've had in the last year, pollies be forgetting how to be a party

i hope the sex party doesn't have a spill

Haw.

Well done, Ozmalia.

i kinda feel a little bad for the dude tho

Liberal candidate punched in face over asylum policy

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/18/2956861.htm

GAME ON

fuck wrong thread