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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
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 14, 2012
Obvious OECD tells Swan he should stop being so uptight about the surplus. (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
November 20, 2012
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
November 19, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Overwhelming support for voluntary euthanasia. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 14, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Even Abbott thinks that priests should be required to report abuse they learn about through confession. (The Hun) Leave a comment
November 13, 2012
Obvious Lessons for Abbott, pollies in general, in Romney loss. Leave a comment
November 8, 2012
Obvious Treasury and Government call bullshit on Opposition complaints about costing embarrassment. (The Age) Leave a comment
November 5, 2012
Obvious Cosy relationship between News of the World and Cameron. Duh. (ABC) Leave a comment
November 1, 2012
lulz | Obvious Thomson accuses Labor of pandering to the redneck vote. (ABC) Leave a comment
October 17, 2012
Human Rights | Obvious | Overdue The crime David Hicks was convicted of gets overturned. So… that means, after formal appeals, no conviction. Which means the condition that he not sue for human rights abuses goes out the window, too. Man, sucks to be DFAT right now. Leave a comment
Obvious | Overdue For everyone who says “Abbott doesn’t hate women, he has daughters”, Macquarie Dictionary has some ‘splaining that might help you understand misogyny. (SBS) Leave a comment
October 9, 2012
Bravo | Obvious Turnbull: Alan Jones isn’t being bullied, he’s getting a taste of his own medicine. (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious | Overdue Coalition senator: the Coalition is slipping further to the right. (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious Windsor: Turnbull would make better leader than Abbott. (ABC) Leave a comment
September 11, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Guy responsible for working out how to stop the boats finally admits that the boats can’t be stopped at our end, because they’re running from, not to. (ABC) Leave a comment
August 28, 2012
Obvious Howard not helping Abbott convince people the Libs don’t want WorkChoices back (ABC) Leave a comment
August 27, 2012
Obvious Australia sucks at dealing with refugees (The Conversation) Leave a comment
August 24, 2012
Obvious UN: “We want fuck all to do with Australia’s bullshit abuse of refugees”. #notarealquote #hashtagsoutsidetwitter (ABC) Leave a comment
August 20, 2012
Obvious Banks full of shit. Who knew? (Aside from everyone…) (The Age) Leave a comment
August 15, 2012
Hurrr | Obvious Even Republicans think Romney’s VP pick is a disaster waiting to happen. Leave a comment
August 9, 2012
Obvious | S.A. “…the Liberals appear to have a problem with women.” (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
August 8, 2012
Obvious Punch commenters aren’t racist, but… (Punch) 2 comments
August 7, 2012
Obvious Coalition full of shit on carbon tax… (The Age) Leave a comment
July 27, 2012
Obvious If Abbott doesn’t want to bring back Work Choices, why no details on his proposed IR reform? (The Age) Leave a comment
July 25, 2012
Obvious Christopher Pyne: full of shit (The Conversation) Leave a comment
July 20, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Human rights commissioner suggests that maybe we should allow refugees some human rights (ABC) Leave a comment
July 18, 2012
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
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 12, 2012
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
July 11, 2012
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
July 10, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Contraception saves lives. A fuckload, seriously. (New York Times) Leave a comment
Australia | Obvious Greens values are mainstream values (New Matilda) Leave a comment
July 3, 2012
Obvious Republican top dog admits he doesn’t care if people can’t afford basic health care (The Maddow Blog) Leave a comment
June 27, 2012
duh | Obvious News Ltd “journalist” implicated in Slipper setup/scandal (The Age) Leave a comment
June 26, 2012
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
/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
June 20, 2012
Obvious Solar schemes work. Dirty commie magic, probably. (The Age) Leave a comment
June 15, 2012
Obvious CSIRO launches cruel attack on defenceless oil and coal companies (The Greens) One comment
June 13, 2012
Obvious | Overdue Politics of “No” starts to bite back in the US (The Rachel Maddow Show) Leave a comment
June 12, 2012
Obvious Abbott’s lack of policy (other than “NO!”) doesn’t seem to be doing him any favours (The Age) Leave a comment
June 11, 2012
/sigh | Obvious New claims of anti-competitive practices by Coles and Woolies (The Age) Leave a comment
April 2, 2012
Obvious People are too stupid for democracy (Live Science) Leave a comment
March 14, 2012
Obvious Media rules for immigration detention centres modelled on *drumroll* Guantanamo! (The Age) Leave a comment
February 2, 2012
Obvious Oh, so the Howard government were actually fiscally irresponsible, eh? (New Matilda) Leave a comment
December 7, 2011
Not News | Obvious Breivik not insane, but a product of right-wing echo-chamber (Some Norwegian guy) Leave a comment
December 6, 2011
Obvious Cory Bernardi advocates for Dictatorship over Democracy (Cory Bernardi) Leave a comment
December 5, 2011
Obvious The Australian war on drugs is just as useless as every other country’s (SMH) Leave a comment
December 1, 2011
duh | Obvious News Ltd carbon coverage was campaigning not reporting (Conversation) Leave a comment
Obvious NIMBYism causes urban sprawl (ABC) Leave a comment
November 30, 2011
Obvious No news better than Fox News. (Reason) Leave a comment
November 15, 2011
Obvious “if Tony Abbott’s political strategy is to repeal pretty much everything Gillard does, why is he so unpopular?” (The Punch) Leave a comment
November 11, 2011
Obvious | Religion Churches dying off because of *drumroll* homophobia One comment
November 9, 2011
Obvious Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest full of shit (SMH) Leave a comment
November 8, 2011
Obvious | Pol. Sci. Liberal voters do what they’re told. (Wile E. Coyote) Leave a comment
November 3, 2011
Obvious Painkillers more deadly than marijuana. That’s why painkillers are illegal, right? (Think Progress) Leave a comment
October 28, 2011
Obvious Katter: still nuts (The Punch) Leave a comment
October 27, 2011
Obvious Detention doesn’t deter refugees (prison is nicer than persecution by people who really know how to do it) (The Age) Leave a comment
October 22, 2011
Obvious | Science Junkfood addictive. (Auntie) Leave a comment
October 20, 2011
Obvious Owner of three businesses misses point of anti-capitalism protest (The Age) One comment
October 18, 2011
Meta-journalism | Obvious Mainstream media lazy, shiftless (News with Nipples) Leave a comment
October 17, 2011
Obvious German Pirates > Australian Pirates (New Matilda) Leave a comment
October 14, 2011
Obvious Abbott the economic anti-christ (National Times) Leave a comment
October 13, 2011
Obvious Study : “identifying as a Christian can be a general risk factor for mental illness” (New matilda) Leave a comment
October 5, 2011
Obvious “The more the clubs argue, the more they concede their business model is built on problem gambling.” (Australian) Leave a comment
September 28, 2011
Obvious Abbot clarifies he is for coal seam gas mining whether you like it or not. (ABC News) Leave a comment
September 23, 2011
Obvious Wait, Abbott’s a hypocrite? Say it ain’t so! (Courier Mail) Leave a comment
September 22, 2011
Obvious Anti carbon-tax ads found to be misleading (The Age) Leave a comment
September 21, 2011
Obvious World’s best treasurer: not Joe Hockey (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
September 19, 2011
Obvious Majority support for mining tax (and the “anti-business” Greens want tax cuts for small-business) (The Age) Leave a comment
September 14, 2011
Obvious Malcolm Farr: The coalition is full of shit on the ‘carbon tax’, but people are buying it and that might be all that matters (The Punch) Leave a comment
September 13, 2011
Obvious “Helping the poor – or resenting them?” (Pure Poison) Leave a comment
September 5, 2011
Obvious So Justin Bieber is actually gay and in denial? (Pink News) Leave a comment
August 31, 2011
Obvious “The Murdoch media empire has cost humanity perhaps one or two decades of time in the battle against climate change.” (Conversation) Leave a comment
August 29, 2011
Obvious Fear and loathing in Melbourne (The Age) Leave a comment
August 25, 2011
Obvious Greens support NBN rollout plan (Fin Review) Leave a comment
August 23, 2011
Obvious Convoy of No Consequence misrepresenting size and impact on local economies (Canberra Times) Leave a comment
August 15, 2011
Obvious Victorian Liberals not disclosing funds raised for election campaigns (The Age) One comment
August 8, 2011
Obvious Ahmad Breivik (ABC Drum Unleashed) Leave a comment
August 2, 2011
Obvious Abbott, master of the flip flop (The Courier Mail) Leave a comment
July 31, 2011
Obvious Conservative white men more likely to be climate change deniers (Guardian) Leave a comment
July 28, 2011
Obvious 5 reasons why the climate change debate in Australia is full of shit (ABC) Leave a comment
July 26, 2011
Dissection | Obvious Mid 30 year old male from western country has played videogames. (ABC) Leave a comment
July 25, 2011
Obvious A big chunk of Canada has a harsher carbon tax than Gillard’s. And their economy is kicking arse (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
July 19, 2011
Obvious People most affected by climate change more likely to support measures to mitigate it. (Crikey) Leave a comment
Obvious Because you say so doesn’t make it so. (ABC News) One comment
July 18, 2011
Obvious Greens policies popular with just about everyone (SMH) 2 comments
July 15, 2011
Media | Obvious Abbott rejects calls for media inquiry… Into media that supports coalition. (ABC News) Leave a comment
July 13, 2011
Obvious A National with no political conscience? Perish the thought! (New Matilda) Leave a comment
July 8, 2011
Obvious Murdoch’s business a pox on democracy (New Matilda) Leave a comment
July 7, 2011
Obvious Educating parents is the key (ABC) Leave a comment
July 6, 2011
Obvious “…criticism of the Greens has been facile…” (New Matilda) Leave a comment
July 5, 2011
Obvious Video(games) killed the radio movie star (The Conversation) Leave a comment
July 1, 2011
Obvious Industry continues whinging about IR (The Australian) Leave a comment
June 30, 2011
Obvious “The Liberals just don’t get it” (Australian) Leave a comment
June 27, 2011
Obvious Washington Post a mouthpiece for big oil. (Climate Progress) Leave a comment
June 22, 2011
Obvious “It can make you paranoid and irrational, prone to making stupid decisions with bad consequences, and can ultimately cause serious harm. Yes, it’s the moral panic over drugs” (The Punch) Leave a comment
June 21, 2011
Obvious UNHCR: Suck it up you pussies, you’ve got nothing to complain about (The Age) Leave a comment
 
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