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Bob Brown retires; Christine Milne new leader of the Greens

April 13, 2012 – 12:11 pm

Predictions from the obvious quarters of the imminent demise of the Greens (again) in 3… 2… 1… UPDATE: Senator Brown’s twitter account linked to Pure Poison yesterday. Today he’s no longer leader of the Greens. Coincidence? Or the first example of a devastating political effect? UPDATE #2: There’s a shock. The Herald Sun headline? Maybe [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in David Penberthy, Dennis Shanahan, Miranda Devine, Open threads, Terry McCrann | Comments (69)

Monday’s Experts

October 31, 2011 – 2:47 pm

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 [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Posted | Comments (13)

The Tele and the Qantas phone call that wasn’t

October 31, 2011 – 10:09 am

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 [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Also posted in Joe Hildebrand, Posted | Comments (26)

A quick #loltelegraph

June 17, 2011 – 12:03 am

We’ve had our #lolstralian for the day, now check out News’ tabloid pisstake: Greens with envy try out Julia Gillard’s seat GREENS leader Bob Brown is often accused of behaving like the defacto prime minister but no one expected him to take it seriously. HE SAT IN THE FRONT OF THE PLANE ZOMG. Everything about [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Daily Telegraph, Gemma Jones | Comments (10)