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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Boltageddon!

August 31, 2010 – 8:05 pm

Listen up warministas you can forget your carbon emission nightmares because the Herald Sun’s resident astronomical expert, Andrew Bolt, has discovered that life as we know know it may be in peril. Something a little more likely and potentially a lot more devastating for the global warming alarmists to fret over: An asteroid more than [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged , | Comments (26)

“If they spent less on bombs and more on levees”

August 31, 2010 – 7:46 am

You know that I don’t have a huge amount of regard for this particular News Ltd columnist, but even I couldn’t have anticipated this attack on our aid to Pakistan: If they spent less on bombs and more on levees… That’s Andrew Bolt, there, seemingly suggesting that if a country has a military budget of [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in ABC, Andrew Bolt | Comments (99)

Do the right thing.

August 30, 2010 – 4:30 pm

The Herald Sun’s parks and recreation correspondent, Andrew Bolt, has introduced a new scale on which to measure the validity of someone’s political position, videos of litter. Which crowd takes more responsibility – and for the planet, too? The mall in Washington after 300,000 evil conservatives gather in a plot to “restore honor”: The mall [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (38)

What Paul Sheehan forgets: “rural folk” supported the independents

August 30, 2010 – 2:44 pm

Paul Sheehan engages in some pseudopsephology to try to make the case that the independent MPs should back a Coalition government: Independents’ support for Labor would betray rural folk … Across regional Australia, a brace of electorates profoundly rejected Labor and the Greens at this election. When you add the combined votes of the ALP [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Paul Sheehan | Comments (13)

Open thread August 30-September 3

August 30, 2010 – 9:47 am

Let’s kick off a fresh thread as we head into Week 2 of Australia Waits 2010. With the final composition of the House of Representatives looking pretty settled and the independents continuing to hold meetings and access information, maybe we’ll find out who’s set to form government later this week. Or maybe not — let’s [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Open threads | Comments (95)

Weekend talk thread August 27-29

August 27, 2010 – 7:54 pm

Let’s kick off a fresh thread for the weekend. Had enough of Labor and the Coalition jostling for control of the hung parliament? Then don’t tune into Lateline at 10:10 tonight, where Anthony Albanese and Andrew Robb will be squaring off. Had enough of those madcap country independents who are (allegedly) holding the country to [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Open threads | Comments (50)

Documenting the flawed arguments about a hung parliament

August 26, 2010 – 11:30 am

With the vote-counting continuing and the critiques — of the independents, the delays in results and the impasse in establishing a new government — from some parts of the media becoming increasingly shrill, I thought it might be a good idea to pull apart some of the issues that are coming up in opinion articles [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in General media | Comments (35)

Breaking news: Greens’ performance insufficient to impress Young Liberal

August 24, 2010 – 10:08 pm

An hilarious “analysis” of the Greens’ electoral performance from former Victorian Young Liberals president James Paterson at that den of Leftist groupthink, The Drum. His arguments can pretty well be summed up as follows:

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in James Paterson | Comments (63)

The Australian’s “on-the-ground survey” — just take their word for it

August 24, 2010 – 12:55 pm

Today The Australian claims to have evidence that the three current independent MPs will face a backlash from their electorates if they support Labor in forming a minority government. The headline warns: Reject Labor: voters’ message to independent MPs But is that the message? It’s pretty hard to know from this article, because they don’t [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Andrew Bolt, The Australian | Comments (61)

Open thread August 23-27

August 23, 2010 – 9:43 am

With the election weekend out of the way, let’s kick off a fresh thread to discuss the aftermath — and anything else that takes your fancy. The new configuration of the parliament — which is likely not to be finalised for a while, but which appears certain to involve a minority government — throws up [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Open threads | Comments (177)