The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

Rupert Murdoch, tweeter

Rupert Murdoch, hypocritical entitled piece of shit

guy rundle does some good impersonations of the rupe-tweets

it's slightly sad for her to trot it out for a private audience but massively declasse of Farfax to report it, three degrees removed from any context.

Yeah this was my thinking.

rupert, next-level tweeter

classical music grants scandal

oooh where dis

classical music grants are the scandal really - if the rich want background music to network to, maybe they should pay market rate. everyone else has to.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/05/my-cup-of-tea-millions-for-a-tiny-record-label-with-powerful-players/

imagine how many CL records coulda been produced for that tidy sum!!

based on what the other two "cost", tens of thousands tbh

A spokesman for Crean told Crikey Melba’s application for funding would be considered “as just one of 450” competing requests for arts funding, and that Melba would have to take its chances alongside all the rest.

Rightly fuckin so, too!

http://i.imgur.com/1hAb6.jpg

what of k4te 4xf0rd in all of this i ask

Classical musicians don't even write their own songs! It's a glorified fucken cover band.

lol jim

Classical musicians don't even write their own songs! It's a glorified fucken cover band.

Haw!

far out, best t bomb all year

Classical musicians don't even write their own songs! It's a glorified fucken cover band.

thing is I blieve part of their remit WAS to support new/Australian compositions but instead it mainly went on Aussie covers of foreign or dead foreign ppl

Fuck The (Ben) Polis

That, and "GOBS 2012" sums up the week.

Energy(t)Watch

otm

nfi

#qanda #killyourselfifyouwatchit

twas hilarious watching pell completely not get science

why would u watch two dogmatic blowhards

why

I wanted to see what the audience would do tbh

tugging themselves off at their own cleverness for watching it, i'd wager

Why would anyone watch Q&A at all imo

#qanda #killyourselfifyouwatchit

― filippo pozzato's fluorescent sidis appreciation society (haitch), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:46 (49 minutes ago)

whole thing played out like a 1992 bbs flamewar

Why would anyone watch Q&A at all imo

Why wouldn't they iyo

I dunno, theres something about it that's never clicked with me. Maybe the piss irritating twitter banner.

also you don't watch tv

Didnt. Thats actually changed a bit since we got the giant plasma (tho I still only rly watch repeats of shit on the sub channels, heh)

works for me!

tweets on telly is the dumbest misunderstanding of technology ever

since we got the giant plasma

misread this as 'the giant placenta' for a sec

nice with blackbean sauce i gather

ian moss blames pussy for cold chisel no show

just like the old days eh

brown not green no more

christine wossface, ugh

don't know her from bar of soap (1)

she's the whiny one who goes on qanda all the time

k I think I just described all the greens there

qanda quango

senator m1lne's son is a work colleague of mine (braggin)

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/04/logies-apologises-for-using-wrong-in-memoriam-photo.html (link contains images of deceased indigenous people)

EXCLUSIVE: The Logie Awards has apologised after broadcasting a photograph of actor David Gulpilil during the In Memoriam section, when it was paying tribute to actor David Ngoombujarra.

In a statement, Nine and TV Week said, “Nine Network and TV Week apologise for the incorrect image of David Ngoombujarra used during the In Memoriam segment of the Logie Awards telecast on Sunday night. We regret any distress or upset caused to his family by this error and apologise.

“We also apologise to David Gulpilil and his family for the incorrect use of his image in the segment.”

does the link contain the right photo