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March 14, 2013
This is why we can't have nice things World’s worst billionaires (Alternet) Leave a comment
March 13, 2013
*speechless* | It's fucking patriotism! Daily Telegraph goes full retard (Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
March 8, 2013
Media The fix is in, the media have chosen their anointed one (Independent Australia) Leave a comment
March 5, 2013
*speechless* | Australia Albanese says we might not get high speed rail because it’ll be too loud – seriously. (SMH) Leave a comment
February 26, 2013
Australia Assange successfully enrols to vote (SMH) Leave a comment
February 25, 2013
Australia | Pol. Sci. Bank Reform Party officially registered (AEC) Leave a comment
Pol. Sci. “Left has also come to mean anyone with an informed opinion contrary to the simplistic slogans of the extreme right” (Independent Australia) Leave a comment
February 23, 2013
Australia Meet the Mainstream Party (Mainstream Party) One comment
January 21, 2013
Pol. Sci. Pirate Party completes registration (AEC) Leave a comment
January 16, 2013
Pol. Sci. Banking Reform Party submits party registration (AEC) Leave a comment
January 15, 2013
Bravo Jimmy Carter cements self as the President too good for the US people. (The Age) Leave a comment
December 24, 2012
Facepalm | Hurrr Gun nuts in the US defend the 2nd Amendment – by attacking the 1st Amendment.   (The Age) Leave a comment
Bravo | Predictable For Christmas, the Uniting Church and Churches of Christ call bullshit on inequities and abuse of power, Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans offer generic platitudes. (The Age) Leave a comment
Glass houses ALP MP calls for AFP investigation into Brough and Co over Slipper/Ashby mess. Coalition questions if it’s a good use of taxpayer funds, apparently not seeing any similarity to their own constant calls for publicly funded investigations of their political rivals. (ABC) Leave a comment
December 21, 2012
bored now World doesn’t end. Stupid people everywhere don’t self-examine and wonder at their own gullibility. No, you don’t need a link for this. And I’m lazy. (Laziness.) Leave a comment
December 20, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Oddly, the ACMA finds that tearing an interviewee to shreds because they’ve got nary a leg to stand on isn’t bias, it’s journalism. (The Age) Leave a comment
Bravo “Americans – particularly white men – remain stubbornly enchanted by the freedoms that they imagine the gun represents. Too many of us still want our Man Card, and, in a way unique to our country, we will sacrifice our own children to get it.” (Daily Life) Leave a comment
This is why we can't have nice things Idiot moves in above nightclub, complains about noise. (The Age) Leave a comment
December 19, 2012
Derp | Facepalm Abbott hasn’t read the federal court judgement he’s dismissing. Doesn’t sound at all like something Abbott would do in an interview with Leigh Sales. (ABC) Leave a comment
/sigh | FFS Government swipes money from UN aid budget to pay for arbitrary imprisonment of refugees. (The Age) Leave a comment
December 18, 2012
Obvious | Religion “And as [Abbott] wrestles, too late, with the task of convincing a sceptical public that there is more to him than meets the eye, he might reflect on the words of Luke’s Gospel: “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses himself?”" (ABC) Leave a comment
December 17, 2012
Bravo | lulz | Meta-journalism “the judgement is so dismissive of Ashby and his colleagues that it’s a minor miracle it didn’t end with the words “Now piss off, ya fucken muppets.”” (A Baffling Ordeal) Leave a comment
Technology Internet stays free(ish) (for now). (Wired) Leave a comment
December 14, 2012
Bravo Journo calls bullshit on Coalition not answering questions. (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious OECD tells Swan he should stop being so uptight about the surplus. (The Age) Leave a comment
Overdue | Predictable Ashby case really starting to bite the Coalition in the arse. (ABC) Leave a comment
December 13, 2012
Overdue | Pol. Sci. Pirate Party finally registers (AEC) Leave a comment
Suuure Assange for Senate? O.o (The Age) Leave a comment
December 12, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Ashby’s case against slipper thrown out for being obviously a political and personal attack, and an abuse of the court system. (The Age) Leave a comment
...huh? | WTF? Women shouldn’t bake because it’s anti-feminist, or some shit. (Bullshit Mountain) 34 comments
December 11, 2012
Facepalm | FFS Idiot pranksters somehow didn’t think that something might go wrong with illegal invasion of privacy through deception, are surprised when it does. (ABC) Leave a comment
December 10, 2012
Bravo | lulz “irresistible garden of penis-witchery” (Jezebel) Leave a comment
December 7, 2012
Economy Gillard stands by surplus promise. (ABC) Leave a comment
Facepalm Idiot goes more than double the speed limit, records it, posts the video on youtube. (ABC) Leave a comment
December 5, 2012
Douchebag | This is why we can't have nice things Israel casually announces the re-commencement of war crimes. Everyone too polite to mention the fact that Israel is blatantly violating the Fourth Geneva Convention. (The Age) Leave a comment
December 3, 2012
FFS Coalition still lying about carbon tax causing most of power price increases, media letting them get away with it despite definitive proof to the contrary being on public record. (The Age) One comment
lulz Abbott only wants to talk about policy. Also, moving into comedy. (The Age) Leave a comment
December 1, 2012
Hypocrisy | Transparency Tony Abbott and his slushy character question (Independent Australia) Leave a comment
November 29, 2012
Pol. Sci. | Queensland Katter’s Australia Party to lose party status in Queensland (Brisbane Times) Leave a comment
Facepalm | Hypocrisy Bishop lies to be better at accusing Gillard of lying. (The Age) Leave a comment
November 28, 2012
Predictable | Stupid Coalition keep slinging the same mud that won’t stick, hoping it will stick. (ABC) Leave a comment
Overdue UN human rights committee votes unanimously to ban female genital mutilation. Leave a comment
November 27, 2012
Overdue Labor MPs agitating for Palestine support (The Age) Leave a comment
Overdue Catholic Church taken to International Criminal Court Leave a comment
November 26, 2012
/sigh Bigots. Again. Still. (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh | Stupid Coalition still clutching at straws, trying to get mud to stick on Gillard. Per crossbencher: with all the attention, if there was something to find, it would’ve been found already. (ABC) Leave a comment
FFS LNP in turmoil as Newman continues to channel Joh. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 23, 2012
Hypocrisy Coalition and Labor support a visa policy that allows people to effectively buy their way in (unless they’re refugees, then buying your way to a country is illegal and horrible). (The Age) Leave a comment
Wait what? | WTF? Church groups working to make refugees’ lives easier asked by government how to make refugees’ lives harder. (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh Out with one dictator, in with another. (ABC) Leave a comment
/sigh | Douchebag Abbott would cut overall refugee intake. Quite the humanitarian. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 22, 2012
Predictable Abbott gets called on “illegal” lie (again), doubles down on the lie (again). (The Age) Leave a comment
Douchebag Abbott criticises government for getting better deal on chemically identical chemo drug, tries to pretend they’re cutting funding for cancer patients. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 21, 2012
Douchebag Israel hasn’t had enough of killing Palestinians to convince voters in their upcoming election that they need to stay afraid. No quite yet. (ABC) Leave a comment
Douchebag Racist douchebags get caught on camera, likely to face charges. Leave a comment
November 20, 2012
/sigh Western kids want fame and money, kids from the developing world want jobs that do good. (The Age) 16 comments
Overdue Federal government to finally plug hole in federal anti-discrimination law.   (The Age) Leave a comment
FFS The five day working week is offensive to the business lobby. (The Age) Leave a comment
Meta-journalism | Obvious | Overdue And to the Catholic Church I have to say this: you certainly did fuck an awful lot of kids, and at some point, this is going to make you wildly unpopular with the powerful anti-kid-fucking lobby. Leave a comment
Overdue Some (but not much) federal government money set aside to fight human trafficking. (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
November 19, 2012
Hurrr Barnaby Joyce: lunatic. (Canberra Times) Leave a comment
Obvious | Overdue Overwhelming support for voluntary euthanasia. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 16, 2012
Religion | Science What the bible has to say about when life begins (spoiler: it’s not at conception) (The Christian Left) 13 comments
November 15, 2012
FFS | Well... shit. Abortion bans kill, or Why ‘Pro-Life’ is a gratuitous misnomer. (Huffington Post) Leave a comment
Hurrr Americans being stupid. (Yahoo!) Leave a comment
November 14, 2012
Religion Victims of abuse call bullshit on Pell playing the victim. (ABC) Leave a comment
Obvious | Overdue Even Abbott thinks that priests should be required to report abuse they learn about through confession. (The Hun) Leave a comment
Derp “the community won’t tolerate violence against the elderly”, but by ommission, apparently violence against anyone else is… okay? (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
November 13, 2012
Obvious Lessons for Abbott, pollies in general, in Romney loss. Leave a comment
November 12, 2012
/sigh | Sad Homeless rate up by 17% in 5 years (ABC) Leave a comment
Overdue Increasing pressure for royal commission into child abuse in the church (ABC) Leave a comment
November 9, 2012
Classy Palmer calls out potential corruption in LNP, severely pisses off LNP. (ABC) Leave a comment
Bravo Australia to get on board with Kyoto 2 (ABC) Leave a comment
FFS Iran trolls US, attacks drone in international airspace. (ABC) Leave a comment
Overdue | Technology ‘Net filter squashed, ACL still providing lulz. Leave a comment
November 8, 2012
Bravo Nate Silver is awesome, just saying. (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious Treasury and Government call bullshit on Opposition complaints about costing embarrassment. (The Age) Leave a comment
November 7, 2012
Hurrr Opposition complain about Swan asking Treasury to assess their policies… mostly because they don’t want people to realise how terrible those policies are. (ABC) Leave a comment
/sigh | Predictable Dodgy voting booths are dodgy. In favour of Romney. (The Age) 111 comments
November 6, 2012
/sigh High Court to hear mining tax challenge (The Age) Leave a comment
November 5, 2012
Predictable Coalition tax policies would help large corporations, harm smaller businesses. (The Age) Leave a comment
Hurrr Idiot stores breast milk in lead crystal decanter, surprised when baby has lead poisoning. (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious Cosy relationship between News of the World and Cameron. Duh. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 2, 2012
lulz Combet trolls the Libs on leadership tension. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 1, 2012
/sigh UN calls bullshit on Australia’s handling of refugees. Again. (The Age) Leave a comment
lulz | Obvious Thomson accuses Labor of pandering to the redneck vote. (ABC) Leave a comment
October 31, 2012
/sigh Businesses call for surplus promise to be abandoned so they can get more money (and then probably criticise the government for reneging). (The Age) Leave a comment
Douchebag King of like how the Coalition vote down spending cuts so they can complain about excess spending and the government maybe not being able to keep its promise on balanced spending. (ABC) Leave a comment
Bravo | Classy Republican Governor praises Obama for Hurrican Sandy response, tells Fox he doesn’t give a shit about presidential politics when there’s a natural disaster (when they try to deflect his praise for Obama). Leave a comment
*twitch* Cory “Gay-Marriage-Leads-To-Bestiality” Bernardi keeps top spot on ticket ahead of more senior Lib, despite Abbott’s comments last week that seniority should determine position (but only when it can be used to embarrass the government). (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
October 30, 2012
Overdue Farrell hands top spot to Wong after pressure from PM (and probably others) (ABC) Leave a comment
Douchebag Fuckwits’ uppance  comes. (ABC) Leave a comment
October 29, 2012
Deeeeeeeerp | lulz Public dental, NDIS, school funding – “distractions” according to the Opposition. Yeah, who cares about … healthcare… or kids… or disabled people.   (ABC) Leave a comment
Wait what? Opposition treasury spokesperson says 2.3% growth is “flatlining” and 0% growth would be a recession. Maybe Joe Hockey just hasn’t heard of negative numbers… (ABC) Leave a comment
Energy | Environment When is wind power a problem? When it produces so much that other countries can’t cope with the supply. (Some Guy) Leave a comment
October 26, 2012
Bravo | lulz Tracy Spicer unloads a bucket full of smackdown. (The Age) Leave a comment
October 25, 2012
Facepalm Abbott tries to play the victim, as though he’s being persecuted for being a father. (The Age) Leave a comment
*twitch* Rape babies are God’s work: Republican (The Age) Leave a comment
October 24, 2012
Predictable Head of ASEAN calls Coalitions’s boat policy stupid fucking bullshit. Slight paraphrase. (The Age) Leave a comment
lulz | Overdue Abbott getting to be known internationally as effectively “that sexist guy”. (The Age) Leave a comment
 
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