The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

I’m glad COVID is over so we can all go back to taking bungs from property developers.

taking dong from people we sacked for bringing us into disrepute through corruption

Gladys &
Darryl &
Barry O'Farrell

She'll probably survive. This is Sydney, we love our corrupt premiers

I hope someone else is watching seenodonors squirm so much on insiders his earpiece strategically fall out.

We now have two former prime-ministers throwing shade on trump.

I respectfully request that Joel fitzgibbon fuck himself with a lump of coal for justifying his position with this (also for being Joel fitzgibbon)

"We also need to talk to aspiration - those coalminers on $150,000, $200,000 a year, who have big mortgages but have worked hard, and made big decisions on behalf of their family, who can't afford to have politicians specifically close down their industries," he said

won't somebody think of the real battlers doing it hard on $200k

just raise jobseeker to $200k, then we can get rid of coal and keep a livable biosphere. hire me as policy consultant Joel

Joel fitzgibbon having gas piped into his bedroom as a masturbation aid

battlers need coal for their $50k top range BBQs ya inner-city latte sippers

in other news, I didn't realise the Australian Labor Party was still an ongoing concern at Federal level... I thought they sheepishly gave up on life

The momentum to change one word in the national anthem is exhilarating.

it'll make everyone feel a bit better about themselves! especially when they sing it on 26 January!!

My usual trick of not being anywhere near Australia on January 26th is going to fail this year.

uh we JUST changed one word 36 years ago. if this spree continues we could be in danger of losing "girt" by 2303, just in time for reaching zero emissions targets

meanwhile an American billionaire's unprofitable TV subscription service have just been given $10 million in taxpayer money to broadcast "womens and niche" sports to taxpayers that individually give them more money - with no requirement to actually broadcast any sports - as an extension of a previous $30 million grant to broadcast said undefined sports, and also on top of $10 million in COVID grants, and another $7.5 million in COVID grants, and further on top of fees from the ABC's taxpayer-based-funding to licence womens sport to broadcast, as the rights had been granted to Foxtel without actually requiring them to bother showing them.

This latest $10 million cost the taxpayer an extra https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-13/foxtel-given-0-million-without-plan-to-spend-it-foi-reveals/1286870466 for Senator Colbeck's staff to take time redacting the few facts that he bothered to include in the grant.

unprofitable TV subscription service

just saw that NewsCorp's YTD losses have increased from $84M to $1.7B

Tbf, the only other thing they could have used that 10million for would be to fund a new bar at a golf club in a liberal electorate so it’s not like we’re loosing out.

Yeah, there's no more efficient way of getting women's sport onto the ABC, or they'd have done it already.

How did they lose so much money when everyone's been at home wanting to watch footy (or deranged right wing takes)??

not enough grants imo

Turns out, after 14 years, that Scott Morrison wasn't fired from Tourism Australia for corruptly awarding a $180 million contract to Saatchi, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves for believing that.

Instead, he was fired for lying to Senate Estimates about the existence of the external probity report that he'd claimed proved that he hadn't corruptly awarded the contract. Though tbf when asked at the time he'd told the government that the report proving he hadn't rorted their money was "commercial in confidence" so he couldn't show them.

shallow dweeb that I am, I've been enjoying the tag Scomo'sGapYear trending on the T platform.

it's official, war crimes

Quel surprise!

worse than that: doing a cashie at an Adelaide pizza bar

can't believe that insecure employment caused another rona shutdown

shades of Engadine

Gladys can't be trusted so now everyone needs a permit to come to Victoria.

"I want Scott Morrison to fuck off and we have another Prime Minister, even if it's just an Acting PM, just for a few days..."

[monkey paw finger curls]

first morning on the job as acting Prime Minister, Michael McCormack calls the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol (5 dead, including a police officer) "similar to those race riots that we saw around the country last year" pic.twitter.com/JrkklSKH6X

— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) January 11, 2021

JOURNALIST (@jekearsley): Shouldn't George Christensen be counseled? ...he has been pushing conspiracy theories and unproven COVID treatments during a pandemic?

ACTING PM, MICHAEL MCCORMACK: George Christensen also supports the Mackay Ringroad.

🙃

— James Elton (@JamesEltonPym) January 11, 2021

brilliant marketing from Scotty, get everyone clamouring for him to come back.

jfc he dropped an 'all lives matter' today

"Some of what my colleague puts up on Facebook is very much true, but the people on Twittersphere, they don't always like it. You know, toughen up, I say. George Christensen is doing a great job for the north."

He used to have the local coppers raid , beats, bars and restaurants in Wagga that drag shows or any gay theme

— BundythebearACT 😃🐯🐅🐻🌈 (@bundythebear) January 12, 2021

Some other prick of a senator is giving it the old ‘we had less deaths from Covid than from the flu so we shouldn’t have restrictions’ bullshit.

‘Perhaps people should stay the fuck home, wash their hands and wear a mask when they have the flu, you akubra wearing dickhead’ is what I didn’t respond on Twitter with.

I realise it’s January when liberals go on holiday leaving Nats in charge...

Every time I read an article about someone in far North Queensland being eaten by a crocodile I hope it’s George Christiansen but I fear the stand up paddle board big enough to support him has never been built.

That senator is just your standard Queensland conservative trying to understand how numbers work

David Oldfield:

My ex husband and I used to go scuba diving with him. Only bloke I knew who had a fly put in his wetsuit. Used to stay on the boat till everyone else was in the water and take a piss over the side. Such a weirdo!

— Gibbsy (@MsDugibbley) January 13, 2021

not quite Craig Kelly-level weird, however

Click through to the thread for some high-quality excerpts from his autobiography.

okay, he's Barnaby Joyce-level weird

But his balls are the most moist you will find anywhere, and will melt in one's mouth.

He used to live in an apartment next door to me in Manly, I must've been 12 or so and had to ask why was the man who looked like David Oldfield making silly faces at me from his apartment window. My dad said 'he's a strange man, let's go back (inside)' 🤷

— Di McIntyre Westwood (@dimcwood) January 13, 2021

i suddenly saw him and his now ex-wife coming out of the church in manly on their wedding day and, along with other bystanders, did not say aw<3

'Straya is rocketing up the 'dumbest racist dipshit leader' rankings -- and not just by default

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on #AustraliaDay: "It's all about acknowledging how far we've come. When those 12 ships turned up in Sydney, all those years ago, it wasn't a particularly flash day for the people on those vessels either."

— Stephanie Dalzell (@steph_dalzell) January 21, 2021

also sTiCk tO sPoRtS has finally come to our shores, an exciting moment

Morrison on Trump: "not for to me to give lectures to anybody"

Morison on Cricket Australia: "I think a bit more focus on cricket, and a bit less focus on politics would be my message to Cricket Australia,"

— Greg Jericho (@GrogsGamut) January 20, 2021

It’s been a great day to bury being an idiot. Dutton let out some refugees because he realised it’s cheaper to have them be productive members of society than keep them in a concentration hotel.

I’d hope this is a stopped clock moment but I assume he’s got something nasty up his sleeve.

Nothing says Australia is back to normal like giving a gong to an ageing homophobe.

Who in the name of fuck thought that was a good idea. I'd love to think this is Scomo's knighting Prince Philip moment, but I doubt it. Tired of being embarrassed by this country.

ScoMo has been on invasion day trolling his way around Queensland all week. All this culture war bollocks smells like an election coming.

Love having the whole tone of the country set by dipshits from Qld and Western Sydney.