November 14, 2009 – 11:56 am
God it’s shite finding yourself on the same side as Bob Carr. The sinister little gollum is in the Oz today, whining about the PIR campaign he helped lose.
A director of Dymocks and the ‘face’ of their front-group the Coalition for Cheaper Books’, Carr lost to a motley bunch of basketweavers and it shits [...]
November 11, 2009 – 6:18 pm
Not least among the joys of Four Corners gobsmacking report on the climate change lunacy among the Libs, was Nick Minchin’s remark that climate change was just another stage in the anti-industrial campaigns of the Left ….first communism now the Green movement.
The esteemed Keane has pointed out the way in which the Right has [...]
November 10, 2009 – 1:03 pm
Hal GP Colebatch (as opposed to Hal ‘urologist’ Colebatch) has a piece in the Oz op-ed about the split in US conservatism. He’s particularly exercised by a mag called The American Conservative, home of the ‘paleo-conservatives’, founded by former Reagan communications director Pat Buchanan after the pro-war neocons drove the anti-war paleo-cons out of [...]
November 5, 2009 – 6:03 pm
Good God, when you’re Miranda Devine you don’t want to begin an op-ed piece with an image of a plane on autopilot. But that’s what she did, to talk about bureaucracy. Bureaucratisation is just like a hi-tech pilot’s cabin, she twittered.
It obviously bloody isn’t, it’s the opposite.
November 4, 2009 – 7:12 pm
Oh dear. The World Cup is nine months away, but we may not see a greater own goal than Greg Craven’s attack on the neo-atheists in today’s Age (sorry, National Times, the brave new collection of all the stuff that was available on Fairfax anyway) .
The neo-atheists – Dawkins, Hitchens and others – [...]
October 29, 2009 – 10:57 am
David Letterman’s recent troubles – boffing members of the young female staff – has given a less-than-gruntled ex-staffer the opportunity to fire a pot-shot at the sexist culture of the Letterman (and every other) writers’ room.
To this old writers’-room-runner and participant, it sounds like the standard whinge, which ignores both the nature of comedy [...]
October 27, 2009 – 11:17 pm
Lateline gives us another classic – the Tony Abbott interview, in which the mad Monk suggests that the problem with the Indonesian solution is that it is less humane than the Pacific solution.
Wow.
So now, the refugee debate has switched to how humane the various responses are?
I don’t think so-
October 27, 2009 – 3:08 pm
Sinclair Davidson’s post in the daily tells you everything you need to know about the problems besetting libertarianism in Australia.Davidson focuses on the new laws surrounding abortion provision in Victoria – which oblige a doctor with a conscientious objection to abortion, to refer a woman seeking such a procedure to a doctor that the [...]
October 26, 2009 – 2:52 pm
The new pendulum reminds us of a theme alluded to in previous Crikey reports, and picked up by the poison dwarf on the weekend – if the Nationals don’t do something, they’re going out backwards. Two of the Coalition’s seats in the nine seat ‘lagoon’ – which Labor need only a 1.5% swing to [...]
October 25, 2009 – 1:39 pm
There have been so many people queuing up to decry the Greens’ choice of Clive Hamilton for Higgins, that one immediately starts to look for a counter-argument.
The argument itself, first: Higgins is the one of the foremost ’social liberal’ (or doctors’ wives) seat in the country. It was one of the few seats [...]