Old plan: …costs were partially offset by abandoning arrangements with Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, forecast to cost $1.1 billion. New plan: Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said… the Government [was now] budgeting $1.3 billion. The difference? The Government revealed… an immigration budget blow-out of $200 million over four years. Was $1.1 billion, now $1.3 billion [...]
READ MORENovember, 2011
Herald Sun’s fair and balanced coverage of the “mini budget”
I’m heartily sick of the Herald Sun undermining its star saying-things-about-economics person, Terry McCrann. Here he is on yesterday’s “mini-budget”: THE best and worst thing that can be said about Wayne Swan’s mini-Budget is that it is completely irrelevant. OH yeah, Terry? The “worst thing that can be said”, Terry? You have no imagination, cried [...]
READ MOREGerard accuses the entitled of being un-Australian
You might recall a terribly sad story we ran a few weeks back about the Suffering Of The Samuelsons, a privileged Sydney couple asking Daily Telegraph readers for sympathy for losing 0.46% of their income each year on a worst-case interpretation of the impact of the carbon price if they made no change whatsoever to [...]
READ MORE#LOLBolt quarantine zone – 30 November
There’s no doubting the incredible work ethic of the Southbank Jester, Andrew Bolt, which is why we’ve decided to dedicate a thread to him each week where you can discuss his unique contributions to public discussion. Dump your #LOLBolt observations in here so we can keep discussions in the open threads a little more sane, [...]
READ MOREElsewhere – Coverage of the New Zealand Election
Coverage of the New Zealand Election On Saturday night ABC News 24 covered the New Zealand election with a five hour broadcast sourced from TVNZ and interspersed with ABC content, including half a dozen crosses to me in Auckland. However, the coverage seems to have been caught in a strange timewarp as two days later [...]
READ MOREElsewhere – The Elephant Men
The Elephant Men There have always been media figures who courted controversy. But the venom was traditionally in the service of a particular end. Now the circus is an end in itself. The advertisers and station owners are not interested in the message, they just want a noise – any noise – so long as [...]
READ MORECut and Paste Trophy – November 29
The arrival of the new Cut & Paste Trophy thread hints at something wonderful: that a new podcast has been recorded and it’s time to start collecting entries for the next one. PS – for those new to Pure Poison: What is the Cut & Paste Trophy?
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Is there any story that can’t be illustrated by a picture of a model in her underwear?
Guess what image News.com.au picked for a story headlined “Advocates push for an airline passenger dress code“. (Pretend that the post title didn’t give it away.) Picture after the jump. (Pure Poison is a family website.)
READ MOREOpen thread – November 28 – December 2
Sorry the thread’s late, I’m watching football #GoPats.
READ MOREPure Poison Podcast #42 – Deep Thought
Can someone please explain the banter to Jeremy? 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 if you could take the time to go to the [...]
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