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July 19, 2012
Media Rinehart chum gets Fairfax board seat (ABC) Leave a comment
Derp Small businesses want to do away with penalty rates. Minimum wage for working Sunday night or public holidays? Yeah, that’s gonna fly. (ABC) Leave a comment
Education “If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you?” (The Age) Leave a comment
It's fucking patriotism! US conservative conspiracy theorists undermining US foreign relations by being nuts (Video) (The Rachel Maddow Show) Leave a comment
July 18, 2012
Wait what? | WTF? The Advertiser provides free advertising – and implied credibility – for unscientific ‘medical’ practitioners. (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
Religion Proposal to force priests to divulge confessions of crime (ABC) Leave a comment
Obvious Abbott’s tow back the boats plan all kinds of illegal (ABC) Leave a comment
Obvious | Overdue CANdo finally get attention, like it wanted. Not in the way it wanted. (The Age) Leave a comment
July 17, 2012
Derp Running out of things to privatise? ROADS! (The Age) Leave a comment
Dirty Commies The Greens hate small businesses so much, they want to give them $300million. Bastards. (The Age) Leave a comment
It's fucking patriotism! Opposition admits it doesn’t care about the UN Refugee Convention, thinks it’s nice that Sri Lankan refugees were prevented from fleeing their country by the people they’re trying to flee. (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh Politicians continue to confuse refugees for some kind of human-shaped political football. (The Age) Leave a comment
Deeeeeeeerp “Well I’m not racist but what we don’t like is another religious like Islamic people pushing their religion, their halal food, their culture, their sharia law” (ABC) Leave a comment
Obvious Australian politics too messed up to properly address tax reform, people too obsessed with “When do we want it? TAX CUTS!” (ABC) Leave a comment
July 16, 2012
/sigh Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t feel like protecting the environment, apparently. (ABC) Leave a comment
Predictable Abbott resumes making noise about IR, Gillard seems more than happy to go head to head over it come election time. (The Age) Leave a comment
Facepalm “The coalition will support the recommendations of Angus Houston’s expert panel on asylum seekers – if the panel recommends coalition policies.” (The Age) Leave a comment
Douchebag Family First doesn’t care for graven images, thinks art exists only to be sold to pay for “real” things. (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
July 13, 2012
Bravo Stupid classification guidelines lead to invasive surgery. Also, call to show women what normal labia look like before they mutilate themselves to fit the airbrushed “norm”. (The Age) Leave a comment
lulz BAHAHAHAHAHAHA (The Age) Leave a comment
Overdue Gardasil vaccinations extended to boys, finally. (Also: Dear stupid ‘scientist’: 90% of people in a risk group not getting cancer is because it’s the risk group, not the cancer group) Leave a comment
Science Limited reporting is limited (ABC) Leave a comment
Science Nuts and boobs (and babies) don’t mix (ABC) Leave a comment
July 12, 2012
This is why we can't have nice things 110kg pre-teen? Rounder than tall? Yeah, that’s child abuse. (P.S. Parents, if your child is obese, who’s feeding them if it’s not your fault?) (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious Proposal to go after management’s personal assets if companies don’t have enough set aside to pay workers if they go bust. Industry groups complain about… being penalised for breaking the law? (The Age) Leave a comment
...huh? ACCC being criticised by business groups for not letting business groups lie about price hikes. Or something. (The Age) Leave a comment
FFS Truth in advertising doesn’t matter when it comes to political party names. Puppies and Icecream. (The Age) Leave a comment
Overdue Someone pointed out the Sex Party have sensible policies. I can only imagine they’re looking for a new job, now. (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
Bravo Bob Brown calls bullshit (The Age) Leave a comment
Classy Hardcore anti-gay speaker of Queensland parliament bans TV crews for covering anti-bigot protesters. Good to see media suppression is back to the good old days of Joh. (Star Observer) Leave a comment
July 11, 2012
lulz Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *snort* (WA Today) One comment
It's fucking patriotism! Abbott doesn’t need your expert opinion. He… thinks… things… (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious | Overdue Not everyone in Labor thinks vilifying the people who have positions most Labor voters agree with is a good idea. (ABC) Leave a comment
Deeeeeeeerp Abbott pretends to play nice while promising not to change his policy from what he claims is the only one shown to work (despite being a different policy from the one he claims worked, and that that policy didn’t work) (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh Oakeshott partly blames the Greens for Labor being snippy whingers (The Age) Leave a comment
Not News Government finds problem, fixes problem, and according to the Murdochracy, it’s a bungle (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
Pol. Sci. Carers Alliance deregisters (AEC) Leave a comment
July 10, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Contraception saves lives. A fuckload, seriously. (New York Times) Leave a comment
*speechless* Downer… afghans… should stay… buhhhhhhh One comment
lulz | Pot - Kettle Abbott thinks asylum seekers are un-Christian (also: “I don’t think it’s a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door”) (The Australian) Leave a comment
Derp Abbott wants Indonesia to bend over on asylum seekers (The Age) Leave a comment
Douchebag We’re not bigots, but “women in burqas will scare children” Leave a comment
Australia | Obvious Greens values are mainstream values (New Matilda) Leave a comment
July 9, 2012
duh Coalition talking points full of shit? The hell you say! (New Matilda) Leave a comment
Shocking! Abbott continues to be full of shit. (The Age) Leave a comment
WTF? Want a spot on the Olympic team? Have a rich family. 2 comments
Hurrr Labor does its best to alienate progressive voters, in an attempt to win back progressive voters (ABC) Leave a comment
FFS This is why I hate people. (New Statesman) Leave a comment
World Massive “success” has more to do with luck than skill (New Statesman) Leave a comment
July 6, 2012
bored now The whole Slipper things just gets stupider and stupider (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh | Predictable Abbott told, again, that “turn back the boats” won’t work, by a guy who knows all about boats. Continues to ignore the people who know better than him. (ABC) Leave a comment
Not News … uh huh. (ABC) Leave a comment
Religion Girl Guides less godly (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
July 5, 2012
Australia | Derp Coalition talking points. No, really. (PDF warning) (LNP) Leave a comment
Overdue Clergy who failed at mandatory reporting could be staring down the barrel soon (The Age) Leave a comment
Facepalm We laugh about the sad state of sex ed in the US. It’s almost as bad here. (The Age) Leave a comment
Transparency Woolies takes legal action to get out of legal obligation that’s moderately inconvenient (and could bring more attention to the fact that they make money by encouraging problem gambling) (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh Government investigates changes based on new information, Abbott whinges about “chaos”. This is why we can’t have nice things. (ABC) Leave a comment
lulz A Herman Cain TV network? Yes he can! (Crikey) Leave a comment
July 4, 2012
Predictable Atkinson keeping it classy (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
/sigh | Hurrr Attempts to blame carbon tax for closure of power plant that has really been active for 2 years, would have closed anyway. (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh | Predictable Already, businesses getting into trouble for trying to jack up prices and blame it on carbon tax (ABC) Leave a comment
duh Church realises that “Nuh-uhhh” and covering its ears yelling “lalalalalalala” isn’t going to cut it against sexual abuse charges (ABC) Leave a comment
Predictable Grocery prices skyrocket! By 0%. Zero’s a percent. (ABC) Leave a comment
July 3, 2012
/sigh Quote ‘ethicist’ who’s opposed to screening embryos for cancer genes. Fail to mention he’s Catholic, anti-choice. (The Age) Leave a comment
Stupid Talk about how much carbon tax will hurt one guy, but don’t mention how much he earns (if he’s not getting any compensation, “a lot”) (The Age) Leave a comment
It's fucking patriotism! Utility companies owned by Liberal-National governments refuse to tell the truth about price rises (The Age) Leave a comment
FFS Yet more evidence of the Catholic Church protecting sex offenders (ABC News) Leave a comment
Obvious Republican top dog admits he doesn’t care if people can’t afford basic health care (The Maddow Blog) Leave a comment
July 2, 2012
duh That other tax that was going to destroy everything started, as well. Everything: not destroyed. (ABC) Leave a comment
Yawn Australian democracy is dead (and anti-carbon-tax rally-goers are old) (The Age) Leave a comment
It's fucking patriotism! Really old (The Age) Leave a comment
June 29, 2012
/sigh Apple accused of faking evidence to support a court case (Game Politics) Leave a comment
Overdue Burnside calls bullshit on politics over refugees, offers obvious, simple solution (The Age) Leave a comment
WTF? Telstra engages in gross breach of privacy and telecoms laws, gets off scot-free. (The Age) Leave a comment
Yawn ATHEISTS ARE GAY (and the census is easy copy) (The Age) Leave a comment
lulz | Predictable Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude (The Age) Leave a comment
S.A. | Sad Child porn charges against state MP dropped. Replace with twice as many. (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
June 28, 2012
lulz | Media News Corp to split news and entertainment divisions into two companies. Fox News ends up on the entertainment side… (The Age) Leave a comment
Derp Derp. Derpity derp derpydoo. (Pure Poison) Leave a comment
Overdue What’s missing from debate (and bickering) over refugees. (The Conversation) Leave a comment
Hurrr | WTF? It never ceases to surprise me that anti-intellectual snobbery is a thing. Why do we really need culture anyway? (The Punch) Leave a comment
Facepalm Want girls interested in something? Make it pink and add hearts, obviously! (The Conversation) Leave a comment
June 27, 2012
/sigh Abbott encourages small business owners to attack the carbon tax for him, and let them take the repercussions (Pure Poison) Leave a comment
Wait what? Privacy? Pah! Telstra cares not for your petty concerns (ABC) Leave a comment
Derp When bigots turn to semantics, you know they’re desperate. (The Age) Leave a comment
duh | Obvious News Ltd “journalist” implicated in Slipper setup/scandal (The Age) Leave a comment
June 26, 2012
Hurrr Rinehart threatens to throw tantrum, throw toys and go home if she doesn’t get her way with Fairfax (which includes pushing an anti-scientific climate-change-denial agenda) (The Age) Leave a comment
Human Rights Tibetan PM in exile: “The Chinese are Confucian pragmatists. If they want to buy your coal and iron ore, they will whether you meet me or not. And if they find a cheaper source, they will buy it from there even if you do meet me.” (The Age) Leave a comment
*speechless* Vanstone rationalises ignoring international law and obligation, calls refugees ants trying to steal our sugar (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious Republicans admit they’re trying to stop people who don’t vote Republican from voting (The Maddow Blog) Leave a comment
June 25, 2012
Media Pushed? Jumping first? Everything’s happening at Fairfax. (The Age) One comment
/sigh | Obvious Abbott talks about bipartisanship, until it’s offered. Then, keeping an issue alive to wail about is more important (The Age) Leave a comment
Seems Legit Miranderp (Pure Poison) Leave a comment
Pot - Kettle Andrew Bolt, sharing the lulz (Pure Poison) Leave a comment
June 22, 2012
Religion The scourge of godlessness spreads (The Age) Leave a comment
/sigh No vested interests, of course, but the right wing really want Gins Rinehart to run Fairfax (Pure Poison) Leave a comment
Predictable LNP breaks election promises, attacks the rights of everyone who’s not married (The Courier Mail) Leave a comment
Hurrr Republicans are morons (The Maddow Blog) Leave a comment
June 21, 2012
duh Unilever, still douchebags (The Age) Leave a comment
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