Stephen Conroy – the man whose dodgy preference dealing gave us Steve Fielding, and the man who’s determined to lock Australia’s access to the internet behind a Great Firewall like China’s – is now briefing people on the results of the net filtering trial. Birds of a feather – Fielding, Conroy and Wallace Did I [...]
READ MORENovember, 2009
Open thread November 30 – December 3
Here is this week’s open thread where you can feel free to discuss anything that doesn’t fit in with the other posts on the blog. This post, along with last weekend’s open thread, are linked in the sidebar so you can find them once they’re off the front page. The thing that’s stolen my attention [...]
READ MOREIf you want to be the government, you need people’s votes.
There is, unsurprisingly, a lot being written, said and tweeted about the potential outcomes of the Liberal party’s current round of leadership theatrics. Unfortunately a lot of this writing about the soul of the Liberal party completely ignores the electoral reality that they find themselves in. While writing about exciting the party’s base might allow [...]
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Goading them on
So. The Liberals are, according to The Australian, facing an “election rout” if they go with Abbott and Minchin and block the ETS legislation. Liberal Party meeting room, 2011 Should this deter them? NOT ON YOUR LIFE, declares one of their most enthusiastic cheerleaders, Andrew Bolt, presenting his four arguments why they should press on [...]
READ MORESome liberal media
If we’ve got such a “liberal” or “leftist” media in this country, then why can’t I find on any of the mainstream opinion pages anything about today’s nationwide rallies for Marriage Equality? Please, show me where they’re covering it at all. Is it because the alleged “progressives” in these papers simply worried about doing to [...]
READ MOREISSUE RESOLVED
According to one of the rightwingers cheering on the Liberals as they tear themselves apart, the issue of climate change is now resolved: VERDICT IN Who knew that all it would take is a Daily Telegraph web poll? I’m off to set fire to a pile of tyres.
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Joe Hockey and other “leftists”.
I know it seems like we’re paying way too much attention to Andrew Bolt this week – but the tragedy is, so is almost half the Liberal Party. The latest staggering absurdity: And it won’t be Turnbull opposing him, it seems, as his supporters look for another Leftist instead: JOE Hockey Joe “WorkChoices” Hockey – [...]
READ MOREWeekend talk thread November 27-29
Let’s kick the weekend off early with a fresh open thread to discuss the weekend’s news and activities. Remember that the links to the current open threads are always available in the sidebar to the right of the page. We’ll update with details about TV programming for political tragics as they come to hand. As [...]
READ MOREWell, they’ve snatched SOMETHING
Andrew Bolt thinks the Liberals (by which he means the right-wingers in the party) have “snatched back their party“: MALCOLM Turnbull is gone and all but buried. In a stunning revolt, the Liberals grassroots are reclaiming a party hijacked by a leader of the Left. Turnbull’s leadership was finally shot dead by frontbencher Tony Abbott [...]
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Those enterprising righties
Quick update to yesterday’s post about what happens when a blogger employed by a professional news organisation finds his comments running away from him, and suddenly shuts them down – another right-wing blog is trying to steal his commenters help: He is, however, allowing them to tout it on his closely-monitored comment thread. Of course, [...]
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