Tony Abbott today promised to make poor people do whatever crap we want for however little we want to pay on penalty of having their pitiful $214/week cut off (thereby also undercutting working class wages), and to magically cure 60% of disabled people by demanding that they work (IS HE THE MESSIAH?) – and Labor [...]
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Selective cut and paste
In today’s Australian, the Cut and Paste column has a collection of nasty things that foul mouthed ABC types publish: It’s okay to be foul-mouthed as long as you work for the ABC and attack only the Liberals THE Left is never offended by its own off-colour language — only when it comes from the [...]
READ MOREBolt in court
Joint post by Dave Gaukroger and Jeremy Sear. Regular readers of Pure Poison are no doubt aware of the fact that Andrew Bolt is currently before the Federal Court in Melbourne as part of a civil case bought by a group of Aborigines who claim that he has contravened the Racial Discrimination Act. The claim [...]
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Carbon derangement in NSW
There’s a narrative starting to build that the repudiation of the New South Wales ALP last Saturday is a result of the federal ALP’s announcements this year regarding a price on carbon. Today, the Australian’s Tom Dusevic attempts to draw some kind of meaning from that rorschach blobs of information that the election has left [...]
READ MOREAnd now Tony Abbott misrepresents Flannery; will the media call him on it?
Further to the shameless and idiotic noisemaking of the trollumnists on which we commented yesterday, it now seems that the unpopular Liberal leader Tony Abbott is now outright misrepresenting Flannery’s remarks in Parliament: But yesterday, as the role of the carbon tax in Labor’s massive loss in the NSW election dominated federal political exchanges, Mr [...]
READ MORETaking pride in stupidity
Andrew Bolt apparently thinks that the following two quotes are incongruent – “Twenty years or 1000? One of these “experts” is hopelessly wrong”: Andy Pitman: If we could stop emissions tomorrow we would still have 20 to 30 years of warming ahead of us because of inertia of the system. Tim Flannery: If the world [...]
READ MOREOpen thread – March 28 – April 1
Welcome to another week and a fresh open thread. If you’ve got anything to say you can say it here. As for me, I’m only talking to Gladys.
READ MOREPure Poison Podcast #18 – Bob Browns (sic)
(This week’s actual podcast. It was recorded on Friday, before the election and before the Insiders commentary we released earlier today.) Dave and Jeremy discuss the No Carbon Tax rally, schoolyard bullying, the National Broadband Network, Q and A, hard rubbish confusion, the New South Wales state election and plenty more. You can download the [...]
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Pure Poison Unplugged
This is not the Pure Poison Podcast, this is Dave and Jeremy watching Insiders over breakfast. A raw and unedited one off, the regular podcast will be along later today. Download it here, or stream it from our podbean page.
READ MOREWeekend talk thread (25-27 March 2011)
It’s Grand Prix weekend in Melbourne and Grand Pricks weekend in NSW. Predictions for both events, along with anything else you want to discuss goes right here.
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