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Weekend Open Thread 25 May 2012

May 25, 2012 – 11:13 am

Life. Don’t talk to me about life. -Marvin Sometimes it gets in the way of writing new posts on Pure Poison! Well, here’s a weekend Open Thread in the meantime. (There is a half-completed podcast we hope to finish later today and upload shortly thereafter.)

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Open thread – May 21 – 25

May 21, 2012 – 11:37 am

Here’s your new open thread, where you can discuss things that are off-topic elsewhere.

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Weekend talk thread May 18 – 20

May 18, 2012 – 10:32 am

Hello there Friday. There’s a new Pure Poison Podcast coming up soon along with the usual shenanigans. For those of you looking for an adventure this weekend, the Dubbo Show is on. Why not make a road trip and visit the Parkes Radio Telescope on the way? Avagoodweekend.

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Open thread – May 15 – 18

May 15, 2012 – 10:42 am

It’s not late, it’s just being avant garde. UPDATE: Ron Tandberg hits the mark precisely in today’s Age:

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Weekend talk thread May 11 – 13

May 11, 2012 – 9:14 am

For those of us who’ve managed to survive Budget week, here’s a new open thread.

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Worst budget in the history of the world balanced media discussion open thread

May 8, 2012 – 11:47 am

And this is what we demand of Wayne Swan: He must cut government waste He must not cut any services any of us actually like He must produce a surplus He must not increase revenue by raising taxes He must keep interest rates low although this means the economy’s COLLAPSING He must not tax the [...]

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Open thread – May 7 – 11

May 7, 2012 – 9:46 am

Budget week. The Federal budget brings with it a familiar pattern in Australia’s media, lists of “winners and losers”, complaints from rent-seeking industries who don’t believe that they’ve been given enough handouts and subsidies, concern from welfare lobbyists that the government hasn’t done enough for their area of interest, while they ignore what is being [...]

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Weekend Open Thread – May The Fourth to the 7th.

May 4, 2012 – 12:30 pm

Another weekend! The last before the Budget. From our national media we predict more leadership speculation and something on news.com.au about crocodiles and an internet meme. We don’t know what The Age will run with, but it will be hideously laid out on their website. And the ABC will run with whatever The Australian asserted [...]

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Open thread – April 30 – May 4

April 30, 2012 – 8:56 am

Time for a fresh open thread. So here you go.

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Weekend talk thread April 27 – 29

April 27, 2012 – 9:27 am

Yep, almost the weekend. I can almost hear the siren song of two-stroke yard machinery already. Floating around the Internet today is this great article on marriage equality by Jacob Holman, who edits the Pure Poison Podcast for us each week. It’s good news because the only thing they have lost is an argument. Because [...]

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