Australia « both kinds of politics

July 30, 2010

Australia	Mining execs still lying to save their 32nd yacht (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Abbott still trying to push “Labor is terrible with the economy” rhetoric – probably feels cheated by RBA (NineMSN)	Leave a comment

July 29, 2010

Australia	The Christian vote, and why they are enormous hypocrites (SMH)	Leave a comment
Australia	Kenny calls bullshit on new dog whistle: sexism (The Punch)	Leave a comment
Australia	Why should we care that Abbott’s family are dutiful enough to be rolled out on the campaign trail? Or that Gillard’s living in sin? (Courier Mail)	Leave a comment
Australia	Gillard needles Coalition on water security, a bit vague herself (The Advertiser)	Leave a comment
Australia	Apparently only families are allowed to vote (the news with nipples)	Leave a comment
Australia	Coalition clings to hope, pray to Almighty Oakes to dredge up something else (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Abbott pledges millions for road upgrades. Micro-managing, or vulnerable seats? (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Hockey says something about party unity, or something (not sure what, was laughing too hard) (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Coalition promises action on gang crime, shows poor understanding of state-federal division of powers (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Gillard plays the “tough on crime” card too.	Leave a comment

July 28, 2010

Australia	Want to run in the election? You still have time. (AEC)	Leave a comment
Australia	Cory Bernardi manages to set a new record for ignorance and misrepresentation (Hardcore Conservative)	One comment
Australia	What is this truth shit? It has entirely no place in any discussion on refugees! (The Punch (I know! Truth, on The Punch!))	Leave a comment
Australia	Semi-famous smart guy: Australia, chill out and quite bitching about your white people problems (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	The Senate – serious business. (Wile E. Coyote)	Leave a comment
Australia	Mining company adds are partisan? No shit Swannie. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Family First suggest deal with Sex Party. Sex Party laughing too hard to respond. (The Daily Telegraph)	Leave a comment
Australia	At least there’s one pollie from Adelaide with the guts to call a spade a spade (but the AdelaideNow commenters are in fine bigoted form as usual) (The Advertiser)	Leave a comment
Australia	Abbott pretends to be working class (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Oakes goes after Gillard again with alleged leaks. Where’s the love for Tony, Laurie? (The Australian)	One comment
Australia	Gillard: I questioned expensive policies, to make sure they weren’t a waste. That’s a bad thing, why? (Herald Sun)	Leave a comment
Australia	“Oh, by the way: WORK CHOICES!” (Courier Mail)	Leave a comment
Australia	Gillard vows to live in sin. Abbott pissed he didn’t get the glossy feature. (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Greens forced to respond on preferences, thanks to scaremongers and the gullible (and come up with a pretty good selling point) (NineMSN)	One comment
Australia	A body made up primarily of old people needs a minister for old people now? (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Of course not, they’re all over the election bri… promises. (NineMSN)	Leave a comment

July 27, 2010

Australia	The pinnacle of political discourse – talking about earlobes. Great work, Kate Legge. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Also, not making all that much sense (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Abbott still in denial (about a lot of things, but this time it’s about being loathed by women for being a sexist prick) (Courier Mail)	Leave a comment
Australia	Still targeting election bribes, uh, spending. Just in case. (Sydney Morning Herald)	Leave a comment
Australia	Deputy opposition leader apparently thinks “Feminist” is a dirty word. Yeah, the female deputy opposition leader. (Herald Sun)	Leave a comment
Australia	Liberals about to come under heavy attack for their own “great big new tax” (Perhaps it’s not a tax when the Libs do it?) (Sydney Morning Herald)	Leave a comment
Australia	“Apolitical” anti-mining tax lobby seems decidedly partisan (still based on lies) (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	For all the talk of “Labor power brokers”, the Liberals have even more brutal back room fights. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Greens ‘anti-jobs’. Also “oogabooga” and would you believe blood libel? Cos we’re really just saying anything we can think of right now. (Sydney Morning Herald)	One comment

July 26, 2010

Australia	The nightmare of a Greens-controlled Senate looms (Some KD Lang lookalike)	One comment
Australia	Even Paul Kelly thinks Abbott is dismal (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Everyone is a pygmy compared to Laurie Oaks (Herald Sun)	Leave a comment
Australia	I’ve read this article before… Last week sometime… around here somewhere (Crikey)	Leave a comment
Australia	Liberal Party pretends that it didn’t sell off public infrastructure (YouTube)	Leave a comment
Australia	Caption this disendorsed Liberal candidate (SMH)	2 comments
Australia	This is what Liberals actually believe (Liberals)	Leave a comment
Australia	Liberal laments “You just can’t blow the racist dog whistle without being called on it anymore.” (Liberals)	One comment
Australia	Was there a knockout blow? Of course not, neither of them swung any punches. (The Drum)	Leave a comment
Australia	The only people who lost the debate were those expecting substantial debate. (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Some guy honestly thinks that the Obama and Gillard administrations are “centre-left”. No, I wouldn’t bother reading it either. (National Times)	Leave a comment
Australia	Just reminding everyone that some would prefer we live in an open theocracy, instad of the closeted one we have now. (Punch)	Leave a comment
Australia	Media narrative being deliberately manipulated to make it look like a close race? It’s more likely than you think. (Punch)	Leave a comment
Australia	Introducing the new standard for shit journalism covering an election campaign : the Gold Balkley (Groupthink)	Leave a comment
Australia	Oil company breaks pledge to stop funding climate change deniers (The Australian - via S.B.)	One comment

July 25, 2010

Australia	Explaining preference deals to ~~retards~~ people with an analogy they should be able to understand (Left is Right)	Leave a comment
Australia	Is Penny Wong a self-hating lesbian? (Left To Think)	2 comments
Australia	Despite not investing in it for decades, and actively selling it off when they could, the Liberals now pretend to care about infrastructure (Liberals)	2 comments
Australia	Democrats still think PDFs are a good format for policies (Australian Democrats)	One comment
Australia	Labor gets around to releasing some disability support policies (ALP)	Leave a comment
Australia	“the Liberals presided over queue-jumping on a massive scale as foreign students rorted the student visa category” – Liberal immigration proposal could harm skilled migration more than any other kind (Crikey)	Leave a comment

July 24, 2010

Australia	Is Tony Abbott a puppet for the Nationals? No, because that’s a fucking stupid assertion, Fiona Nash. (Nationals)	2 comments
Australia	GetUp to challenge enrolment law, encourages people to keep enrolling (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Abbott tries to play down misogyny (NineMSN)	Leave a comment
Australia	Peter Best piss-takes Senator Online accidentally (Punch)	3 comments

July 23, 2010

Australia	Jenny Macklin – “It’s really great to be here today…” drink (YouTube)	One comment
Australia	Bogan Bribe Watch – July 23rd – What woman problem? (Things Bogans Like)	Leave a comment
Australia	118,000 reason for Rudd to hang around (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Australian of the Year calls bullshit on asylum seeker rhetoric (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Turnbull: Immigration isn’t an issue, piss-poor infrastructure spending is (Sydney Morning Herald)	Leave a comment
Australia	It seems a lot of important people agree. Funny that. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Apprently, dishonestly only counts when it’s done by someone other than Bolt or the Liberals or the miners or the climate change deniers or… (Herald Sun)	Leave a comment
Australia	The same miners pretend to be non-partisan (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Holy crap! Women don’t like Abbott? When did this happen? (The Advertiser)	Leave a comment
Australia	This is why Tony Abbott can’t make people believe him on IR: his own party loves contradicting him. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	The Age notices the internet (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	“We’ve got a left-wing Prime Minister backed by a pro-refugee union leader who is dragging the ALP to the right on asylum seekers. That’s not real.” (Too bad about the stale joke the article’s built around) (The Punch)	Leave a comment
Australia	Youth poll suggests young voters not as taken in by bullshit as others. We can only hope. (The Age)	2 comments
Australia	Daily Tele’s Piers Akerman concerned about competition in the biased reporting market (The Daily Telegraph)	Leave a comment

July 22, 2010

Australia	Someone at Crikey has been reading BKOP (Crikey)	Leave a comment
Australia	Bob Brown gets interviewed (Ch 10)	Leave a comment
Australia	Ignoring everything else he’s said in the last 6 years, Fielding thinks that him being in Afghanistan for the start of the election has hurt his chances. (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Are the Greens little league? (The Punch)	5 comments
Australia	Greens pitch to inner city students (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Julia the rash (Herald Sun)	Leave a comment
Australia	Someone other than BKOP points out that journalism in this country sucks (Punch)	Leave a comment

July 21, 2010

Australia	Mark Latham gets his revenge on the ALP (SkyNews)	Leave a comment
Australia	Rudd gaffe – puts electorate before journalists (Groupthink)	Leave a comment
Australia	Tony Abbott preaches to the converted (YouTube)	Leave a comment
Australia	Simon Birmingham, Liberal Senator for South Australia, demonstrates his complete lack of understanding of the preferential voting system. (The Punch)	4 comments
Australia	Labor introduces another candidate by not allowing them to speak (YouTube)	Leave a comment
Australia	Politician holding a baby drink I really can’t take much more of this. (YouTube)	2 comments
Australia	One nation, under plasma (Groupthink)	One comment
Australia	Who needs policies when you can morph people’s photos? (Liberals)	One comment
Australia	Antony Green breaks out his enormous brain and breaks down the ACT (Wile E. Coyote)	2 comments
Australia	“all the political savvy of a waterlogged horsebiscuit, and all the feminist credentials of a suburban football team’s end-of-season trip to Phuket” (The Scrivener's Fancy)	Leave a comment
Australia	Liberals can’t manage their own campaign, want to manage the country. Great sign. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Abbott angry at Joyce: “Announcing policy ideas without consulting the party is my job, dammit”. Too bad it’s his first idea in a long while that doesn’t make ears and eyes bleed. (The Australian)	Leave a comment
Australia	Poll gives kick in the teeth to climate change deniers who think it’s election-winning gravy (The Daily Telegraph)	Leave a comment
Australia	Bribes, er, donations still a concern (The Age)	2 comments
Australia	Who was it that said “social media fail”? (The West Australian)	One comment
Australia	RBA embarrasses Coalition on debt rhetoric, has Gillard worried about interest rates (The Age)	Leave a comment
Australia	Kelly slams Abbott’s IR white flag http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-waves-white-flag-on-labour-reform/story-fn59niix-1225894775175 (The Australian)	Leave a comment