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

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.

LOL at the Liberal voting bogans of the mortgage belt having a whinge at RED KEV's $6b land scheme because it will devalue the properties that they have put a mortgage on (that they can't afford if the rate goes up 0.5% - that's the kind of stupidity that "Howard Battlers" are famous for).

Because HEAVEN FORBID that Generation Y should be in any danger of owning their own home or any type of land within 50km radius of any major city.

Thankfully, I get in inherit property so I'm pissing away my twenties. Huzzah! Vote Greens!

My husbands parents bought us a nice big house to live in....but there are strings attached....HUGE INVISIBLE STRINGS...but they are there, oh yes.

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

What do you mean "when"?

The fact that Andrew Bolt gets PAID to write that extreme right wing tripe is an indictment on journalism in this country.

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

Outside Shepherd's Bush tube.

It is a tad unfair to associate the Australian with the Blot. The Oz's intellectual and ideological avatars are a Causescu-esque Mr-and-Mrs team called Dennis (The Menace) and Angela Shanahan. Rabidly reactionary the Oz may be 99% of the time, but at least there are SOME two-sentence paragraphs, and not that many of the all-tortured-verb headlines that are such a constant feature of the more batshit-insane right-whinge bleat sheets.

Andy the B wields his poison crayon for one of those, the Melbourne daily tabloid Herald-Sun, which is a slightly less rancid version of the Fleet St Sun or Mirror - I suppose a bit like the Daily Mail.

It is not, however, the worst newspaper in Australia by a long chalk. That would be either the Sydney Telegraph (Telegraft?) of which one Piers Akkermann is the leading light, or the Hobart Mercury.

Floaters? As I remember from Minder, the under the Hammersmith fly-over was quite a good spot to start looking.

My husbands parents bought us a nice big house to live in....but there are strings attached....HUGE INVISIBLE STRINGS...but they are there, oh yes.

-- Kate, non masonic,

I imagine they would be strings as thick as ropes. What a dilemma.

A pie and pea floater from Harry's cafe de wheels would be nice right now.

Andy the B wields his poison crayon for one of those, the Melbourne daily tabloid Herald-Sun, which is a slightly less rancid version of the Fleet St Sun or Mirror - I suppose a bit like the Daily Mail.

I'm related to people who call that 'the paper.' They bring up something boring and inane that happened in the past week, like some kid in Meadowvale Height Springs winning first prize in a doughnut-making competition, and when we say we haven't heard about it the response is always 'DON'T YOU READ THE PAPER?!??'

Because it's in-laws I've not yet had the balls to say 'NO, ACTUALLY, WE READ A PAPER THAT COVERS IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE THE FUCKING WAR YOUR FAVOURITE PRIME MINISTER STARTED ON TUESDAY.'

The Scum got better last year/early this year when that new editor took over, but better doesn't mean good enough. It's still toilet paper with Howard-loving sewerage disguised as news (after all the primary school doughnut-making competition winners, obv).

Floaters? As I remember from Minder, the under the Hammersmith fly-over was quite a good spot to start looking.

Ugh that's a nasty flyover. Hello welcome new tourists, here's a giant dirty slab of concrete.

Wouldn't The Advertiser be the worst paper in Australia? I could say that but I won't because before Murdoch purchased it in the eighties, it was a good centre-left paper with an awful lot of soccer results. I've seen the proof.

Sunday Mail (SA) is easily the weirdest paper in Australia in terms of focus. From the usual ranks of the rabid Murdoch right-wingers to that camp leftist man about town, Peter Goers.

I almost exclusively read The Age and Crikey online as my major news sources, which says an awful lot...

A pie and pea floater from Harry's cafe de wheels would be nice right now.

I don't think so. You can only get real pie floaters in Adelaide.

OBVIOUSLY

I read the Fairfaxes and the ABC, and try to get international sources as well, but never any Murdoch (apart from George Megalogenis's blog, but I have ads turned off). Crikey is a paid source; I should just pay, really.

Another point I should make here is that everyone I know who supports Howard -- even marginally -- reads a Murdoch paper. Every. Single. One.

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I admit to reading Bolt's blog for a laff now and again.

Anyway, final proof that morans vote Howard.

Recently I've been checking Blot's blog (with ads off obv) just to see how the rednecks justify the unjustifiable. Everything's a conspiracy theory to him, and he never understands why nobody sees things his way.

NOT SO BOLD PREDICTION: Germaine Greer will write an article in the Guardian sometime in the next week or two where she'll state that Australians are fucking stupid if they vote Howard in again. Bolt and the Murdoch Gestapo spend the next week whinging that she has no right to write about Australia blah blah blah.

Newspapers in Australia are really dire. There's The Age I guess, but apart from that there's absolutely nothing to compete with the best of U.S. or British newspapers. Half the non-Australian stories they just buy from British and American newspapers anyway.

Yep.

The Age was beautifully even-handed until Rudd became ALP leader, at which point it went gung-ho apeshit Rudd crazy. I'd be really annoyed at this, if it weren't for Howard being a complete arsehole and every Murdoch outlet licking his knob.

So: tax cuts will save the day for the liberals? What do you think? They can always renege on all promises after the election, as is traditional.

It's not going down well so far. I think the allure of a tax cut has worn off since the last five didn't help anyone much, what with property/rent prices and interest rates and petrol negating the gains. Also, since WorkChoices most people are suspicious of anything Howard does.

And yes, non-core promise.

Has Rudd agreed to Howard's one-sided debate? FUCK.

But who honestly gives a flying ferret's fart about the 'mess-dabate' anyhow? Is there one instance of one single person anywhere in Australia ever changing their vote because one candidate did a better line of inane patter with George or Ray or Red Kezza or who-the-hell-ever than the other? As WOFTAM's go, The Debate is in the same league as Celebrity Big Brother.

No Worm, No Credibility

If anyone writes about Howard's decade in power, feel free to use that as a title.

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