You’re not going to believe what slipped past moderators at The Australian today. Check this deranged, violent anti-union hatred spewed by someone named Grace Collier: IF you are going to take a baseball bat to a group of unions, you’d better not stop belting until there is none left alive. You had better finish them [...]
READ MOREOctober, 2011
Monday’s Experts
Monday’s Experts, Always know what’s best, Always tell you what you should’ve done. Monday’s Experts, Always know what’s cooking, How the game was lost and how it could’ve been won. When Monday comes around Everyone’s an expert in my town Monday’s Experts Monday’s Experts – Weddings, parties, anything I’m amazed that journos who are telling [...]
READ MOREElsewhere – Assange and Bolt, false and unsound
Assange and Bolt, false and unsound Now Assange wants to stand up for Bolt’s right to misrepresent people and keep them at a disadvantage. If the bastard hasn’t got his facts right then he can shut his cakehole. That is both ridgey as well as didge, dinky and di at the same time; not only [...]
READ MOREThe Tele and the Qantas phone call that wasn’t
Joe Hildebrand and Simon Benson have been caught out after claiming that the lockout of Qantas employees and subsequent grounding of the fleet was due to the Prime Minister refusing to take a phone call from Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. QANTAS CEO Alan Joyce would have abandoned his decision to ground the airline had Prime [...]
READ MOREOpen thread – October 31 – November 4
Welcome to a not very spooky open thread.
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Qantas: Some Of Us On The Board Will Still Call Australia Home
Qantas has grounded itself! Another excellent move from the Qantas board, improving the reputation of the airline others built. The Prime Minister is blamed for not helping the board move Australian jobs in the Australian airline overseas to avoid Australian pay, conditions and taxes. Tony Abbott demands that the naughty workers who object to this [...]
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Bashing the Greens again for the failure of something they actually opposed
You might recall a Southbank columnist back in March attacking the Greens for the problems with the Victorian desalination plant – even though they had opposed it. And here he is today, blaming them for the failure of a company involved in “carbon capture and storage”, something they also oppose: So angry! Can’t! Hit! Keys! [...]
READ MOREPure Poison Podcast #39 – The one where Dave gets angry
Curtsygate, Occupy Melbourne, Refugees, and a bit where Dave fails to see the lulz in the #LOLBolt section. You can download the podcast, find it at the iTunes music store, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or stream it online at our podbean page. For those of you subscribing through iTunes, we’d really appreciate it [...]
READ MOREWeekend talk thread October 28 – 30
Weekend time is almost here, so we need another open thread. Here it is.
READ MOREElsewhere – News Ltd Journos On Wrong Side Of Paywall
News Ltd Journos On Wrong Side Of Paywall It might be a new digital experience for readers but News Ltd staff are outraged that they’ll have to pay to access their own work, Via Adam Brereton at New Matilda
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