Tony Abbott has told the National Press Club that he’ll be campaigning on the theme of Australia needing a “competent, trustworthy, adult” government. Naturally, the national media immediately called him on his record under those themes transcribed his words and repeated them as if they were in some way credible. Here’s a thread to discuss [...]
READ MOREJanuary, 2012
Uncovering the red menace
The man formerly known as Hilary Bray wants you all to know that Senator Lee Rhiannon has a deep dark secret to hide. MOST Australian teenagers setting off on a trip to Europe collect as many contacts as possible before they leave, but Lee Brown’s were more colourful than most. A meeting was set up [...]
READ MOREOpen thread – January 30 – February 3
Is anyone awake, or are we all still recovering from our ordeal sitting up to watch the tennis last night? Here’s your new open thread.
READ MOREFirst with the speculation
As if the story of who said what about Tony Abbott’s comments and whereabouts to members of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy wasn’t already a first class clusterf*ck, we’re now treated to up to the minute pieces of speculation from our gallant press corps. First we hear from Misha Schubert at the Age: Labor figure Kim [...]
READ MORE“Riot”? “Peril”? Are the rational journalists away for the long weekend?
Apparently most of the journalists with some grounding in reality took the long weekend Friday off, because it’s been a hideous day of bullshit about the incident in Canberra yesterday, now apparently being called a “riot” (although oddly none of the footage they’ve been repeating actually shows one). Naturally the Opposition and its cheerleaders at [...]
READ MOREOh Piers, you almost had me
I have to say that I found myself in a bit of shock reading Piers Akerman’s column last Saturday. Piers was highlighting some of the deficiencies in the policy in NSW mandating that regular unleaded petrol be replaced with ethanol blended fuel this year. In fact the article was so cogent, and even handed I [...]
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Where to go for the worst commentary on Julia and Tony’s big day in Canberra
There’s been a lot of hideous drivel written about the incident in Canberra yesterday involving Mr Abbott’s provocative remarks about the 40-year-old Aboriginal tent embassy (“I think a lot has changed and I think it’s probably time to move on from that”), a group of protesters responding by banging on the window of the restaurant [...]
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Australia Day 2012
Modern teenagers laughing at the stupid outfits worn by previous generations Just in case there are any absurd media beatups on the subject – filthy leftist journalists questioning whether there’s much sense in being “proud” of being lucky enough to be born in a fortunate country, for example – here’s a thread to discuss them.
READ MORENeurons firing all over the place: Margaret Court tries to explain why you must live under her religious rules
The best way to deal with Margaret Court’s bingo card of crazy ranting against marriage equality in today’s Herald Sun might be for each reader to pick their favourite bit and take a moment in the comments to truly savour everything illogical, mad, arrogant, or silly about it. This deranged non-sequitur is the bit that [...]
READ MOREI see Left people.
Poor Andrew. He seems to feel that he’s perhaps not being recognised for all of the things that he does to help our community because of his political beliefs. TOO late for me. But if you still hope to be a National Living Treasure, learn from my mistake. Take a left. The road on the [...]
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