Abbott’s Agenda: This is Just the Beginning
Recently I’ve been watching the intriguing French TV show “The Returned” on SBS 2 (Tuesday nights at 8:30pm).
Set in a small French mountain town, a number of dead people suddenly reappear, apparently alive and unaware that they have been missing and deceased. There’s the teenage road accident victim Camille, suicidal bridegroom Simon, a small boy named “Victor” who was murdered by burglars, and Serge, a serial killer. They try to resume their lives, attempting to reconnect with families and loved ones, however painful memories from the past make this problematic as well as the challenges the families face in explaining the sudden reappearance of their loved ones to the broader public.
For all concerned it quickly becomes a gripping exercise secrecy, lies and duplicity, while all the time trying to maintain a façade of normality.
It’s a bit like how the Australian people must feel about the Abbott Government. They voted for Tony Abbott but instead inherited the spectre of John Howard (on steroids).
“Conservatives” as they are known, tend to favour traditions from the past, and frown upon feel good do-gooder concepts such as “equality” or anti-discrimination. Theirs is a world fraught with imminent danger lurking at every corner, where potential threats to the “world order” must be neutered or at the very least monitored under CCTV.
And this includes you. The great unwashed who fail to appreciate your many blessings in the form of taxes, escalating costs of housing, extortionate power bills and high youth unemployment.
Graduate with honours if your parents can afford it, and you might just avoid a stint working at Burger King. For the rest of us, particularly those leaving the education system without formal university qualifications, the future is pretty fucking dire.
It’s little wonder then, that in many Western societies disaffected youth with little prospects are now saying enough is enough. While fat cat politicians and their corporate sponsors regularly make the headlines over million dollar rorts and taxpayer funded scams with little accountability and the opportunity to repay monies to avoid culpability, the rest of us are supposed to just suck it up.
Back in Australia, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Federal Opposition is missing in action. While the Abbott wrecking ball continues unabated, targeting World Heritage forests for logging and destruction, dredging at Great Barrier Reef, and slashing spending on Health and Education, Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten remains oddly impotent.
Perhaps he’s yet to realise that politically, he doesn’t seem to have a pulse.
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David Cameron might be a dishonest lowlife, but his wife is quite appealing.
What is it with gormless dorks and their ability to hang around with attractive women?
…and speaking of Bill Shorten too.
“Conservatives” as they are known, tend to favour traditions from the past, and frown upon feel good do-gooder concepts such as “equality” or anti-discrimination.’
Its true they favour tradition and for good reason, the Coalition builds on previous knowledge gained while in office. Abbot was once responsible for Howard’s Green Corps and now he believes we can learn by our mistakes from that experiment by doubling the size of the Green Army. It should work properly this time.
Trying to stop the seas from rising was a ‘do-gooder’ concept put up by the previous Labor government, unfortunately it was an expensive no-brainer which now must be dismantled.
Equality of opportunity is enshrined in the Constitution and respected by both sides of the political divide, debating this issue and discrimination is ongoing. As our population is swelled by new immigrants, mostly from China, it will be interesting to see what pans out.
‘The great unwashed who fail to appreciate your many blessings in the form of taxes, escalating costs of housing, extortionate power bills and high youth unemployment.’
The greater middle class appreciate that most taxes are justified, some are not and there is one in particular which got up the electorate’s nose and the government of the day paid the price.
The high cost of housing in the cities is directly linked to mass immigration and limited stock. This problem needs to be rectified through decentralisation.
Meanwhile the recent increase in youth unemployment maybe cyclic or connected to increased immigration, either way Tony’s green army won’t be a panacea. It might be a structural problem.
‘Graduate with honours if your parents can afford it, and you might just avoid a stint working at Burger King. For the rest of us, particularly those leaving the education system without formal university qualifications, the future is pretty fucking dire.’
The state supports those who wish to educate themselves, the government pays for the course and the graduates reimburse when they get jobs. While being educated they get financial support, which can be supplemented with part time work.
There is nothing stopping any citizen from getting a formal education online.
So I say unto you, we are a fucking lucky country.
‘the rest of us are supposed to just suck it up.’
There has always been corruption and will undoubtedly continue into the future. You find it everywhere, no matter what the economic system or religion.
Yep, where has the opposition gone ??? Do we have one ?? What are they doing ?
In the meantime we are stuck in the China-shop while the bull runs amuck.
And the bull will do whatever he wants to do with us, there’s just no opposition.
I was giving thought this afternoon to our current dilemma, when this cartoon crossed my mind . . . .
It’s fresh off the press . . .
http://cartoonmick.wordpress.com/editorial-political/#jp-carousel-851
Cheers
Mick
Love your work cartoonmick…
Thanks reb.
All I need now is a favourable editor in a large media op to take me on.
I just can’t find one.
One day . . . . . . . . . . .
Be careful what you wish for mick…
That picture of HIM makes me feel like damaging my rather large entertainment screen with solid objects, which fortunately lie just out of The Hand’s reach.
I thought that the Ye Olde Howard Piñatas were a fine idea…but they should always be filled with virulent shit, not lollies, for the sake of authenticity…
Pre-heat oven to 85 degrees`C.
Place separated, on wire rack.
Put in oven on bottom shelf, turn oven down to 30 degrees`C.
Cooking time 20 minutes, or until mutterings about boat-people is heard coming from oven.
Remove from oven and enjoy immediately.
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Your Zombies are now Reheated.
‘PRIME Minister Tony Abbott will take personal control of rolling out infrastructure for western Sydney, creating a top level cabinet sub-committee to report every fortnight on the delivery of projects.
‘The committee will be the first of its kind for a federal government and will have the same status as the National Security Committee and Expenditure Review Committee.
‘The group will consist of Tony Abbott, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Assistant Infrastructure Minister Jamie Briggs.’
Simon Benson / Daily Terror
‘A WESTERN Sydney airport will unlock a wave of prosperity and restore NSW as the destination of choice for world travellers, a new report has found.
‘As the mining boom ends, NSW is “superbly placed to cash in on the nation’s next boom” the report released today by Deloitte says.
‘It identifies five key industries that will add three-and-a-half times more to the NSW economy than the mining sector — tourism, wealth management, gas, agribusiness and international education.’
Irvine / Daily Terror
So Paul Howes is leaving the AWU.
He should get out of the ALP too.
Paul Howes the great fizzing Catherine wheel of the right. Costa was his mentor..say no more. Haven’t we got enough dropkick wankers in parliament already?
‘Among Greenway’s residents is 106-year-old Albert Morgan, who knows how lucky he is live in a property boasting million dollar views.
“I was lucky to get in here, it is like winning the lottery,” he said.
Mr Morgan, a railway labourer, was given a public housing unit for himself, his wife and daughter at the Greenway unit block in 1960 and has never left.
Another resident Michael Gormley said last week’s announcement had made residents worried.
“People are anxious, when you think about it these units would be worth a lot of money, half a million each,” he said.
“They are trying to get rid of public housing it makes you wonder if you will be next.”
Daily Terror
‘The federal Coalition has branded South Australia’s minority government “illegitimate”, as Premier Jay Weatherill conceded his party lacked the confidence of regional voters.
‘Despite winning only 47 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote in the March 15 election, Mr Weatherill is set to retain power in South Australia with the backing of rural independent MP Geoff Brock.’
Owens / Oz
‘THE Nationals are prepared to support a free-trade pact with China as long as Trade Minister Andrew Robb can secure a deal mirroring Australia’s agreement with Seoul, which places tough investment limits on buying farmland and agribusinesses.
‘Nationals deputy leader Barnaby Joyce said yesterday the Korea-Australia free-trade agreement, to be signed in three weeks, was a good deal and if the same conditions applied to a pact with China on agricultural purchases he would have “no problem”.
Stefanie Balogh / Oz
haha, so any country independent must never truly be ‘independent’ they must support the coalition or the entire ‘democratically’ elected government is illegitimate.
more conservative logic for you.
the coalition says that australia rejects any kind of minority govt [while not noticing that they could never govern in their own right themselves, being a coalition of cobbled together parties designed to win elections].
They might notice that in europe a minority govt is normal practice these days, they better get used to it, instead of demanding the population vote according to their wishes and political independents don’t act independently.
Such arrogance and entitlement on parade, “we was robbed, every country vote belongs to the coalition”
stop resisting toilet 😉
Let’s see where paul howes turns up next, has he mentioned any new positions? I don’t think he’ll be in high vis, working the tools.
Howes, like most ex-Trots is an interesting character. I put this down to the fact that Trots are contrarians when it comes to Marxist orthodoxy and also among themselves with their many sects. The fact that the theoretical basis of their views requires a reasonable intellect to first understand it and, if they keep thinking, to leave it behind them is another reason.
From their ranks we have Sydney Hook, Irving Kristol, Frank Furedi, Brendan O’Neill, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Schwartz, James Burnham and Laurie Short. Not all became conservative, but all are/were interesting in their own way.
can you give the trots and commies a rest sb, it hardly does you any favours in the real world, just makes you appear out of touch with modern australians and still fighting a non existent threat.
Christopher Pyne’s fury at ‘illegitimate’ SA government smacks of sore loser:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/24/christopher-pynes-fury-at-illegitimate-sa-government-smacks-of-sore-loser
It’s only legitimate if we win says pyne, we own all country votes forever [let’s not talk about howard’s illegitimate election or the fact that it would be completely legitimate if the independents chose us]
“can you give the trots and commies a rest sb, it hardly does you any favours in the real world, just makes you appear out of touch with modern australians and still fighting a non existent threat.”
HEAR HEAR!!
Was Jools a Trot?
http://australiafirstparty.net/julia-gillard-a-trotskyist-spy/
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/24/christopher-pynes-fury-at-illegitimate-sa-government-smacks-of-sore-loser
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Haha armchair,
just got in, the first thing l see, Mr-Poodle frothing and foaming about SA #Watermelon Govt, gotta`Love the re-runs,
”””””independent Geoff Brock’s decision to back Labor to form a government in his home state – has declared that South Australian premier Jay Weatherill”””’
l don`t know anything about `Brock` except he is `independent` at this election, l wonder if brock is an ex-teabag like oakshot and windsor and katter and clive are.?
#Go-Watermelon #Go-Brock #Go-Clive 🙂
‘She probably won’t ever get a job in Australia. Who’d employ Gillard? She’ll have to find work overseas and consistent with her OneWorldist Trotskyist idealism, the United Nations is her likely destination.’
John Hood …..June 26, 2013
Andrew ‘Herr’ Bolt, the self proclaimed (cowardly fence sitting) agnostic, presumes to speak for god…
hilarity ensues.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_no_god_cannot_want_more_dead_boat_people/
He gives fence sitters a bad name, we are not all cowards, I’m manning the barricades for Tosy’s moderate anarchism.
“Who’d employ Gillard? “
Do you honestly think that the likes of Abbott, Pyne or Morriscum would be employable in the private sector?
So Paul Howes is leaving the AWU.
He should get out of the ALP too.
G’day ToM … see? We agree on SO-o-o-o-o-o-o much!
Piggy needs to piss off and feed on himself instead of decent hardworking Aussies!
Possible PM my arse!
Howes is an interesting character. If you want to understand him you need to understand his political past. I have a good deal of affection for old Trots as you can see from my earlier comment. I think they are interesting people. What is the problem with that? I wasn’t bashing anyone with that comment and you can’t sensibly argue that Howes’ past is irrelevant to understanding who he is or where he is going. I think his Trot past indicates a contrarian attitude and a degree of intelligence. I am keen to see what he does next.
As for relevance to the real world, I take it the real world doesn’t include Socialist Alliance or Socialist Alternative then?
Welcome back TB.
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http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_no_god_cannot_want_more_dead_boat_people/
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don`t know how ya`read that crap dunny,
l didn`t follow thru to so-called` article, the blog-snippet was enough crap for me, tho some of the visiting hivemind were amusing, particularly the `serious` ones.
“G’day ToM … see? We agree on SO-o-o-o-o-o-o much!
You’re right TB! You continue to learn!
#Piggy Howes
l agree with grandpa of the mekong 100%
Twitter has taken to Clive and turned on Howes. So predictable.
Australians have a right to be bigots, Attorney-General George Brandis tells parliament and I agree with him.
No wonder the Rabbid Rabbit brigade was going hard on the ABC… truth. Surly Morrison must go…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-24/asylum-seekers-describe-boat-turn-back/5342210
“Two Somali passengers interviewed by 7.30 each described losing a brother overboard during rough weather when closing on the Australian coast, just hours before they were intercepted and turned back to Indonesia.”
Hours before they were intercepted? And they didn’t stop the boat to rescue him? Clearly the people-smuggler at the helm was racist.
I have a good deal of affection for old Trots as you can see from my earlier comment.
I don’t – all 18th century wankers.
I think they are interesting people.
You could say the same about royal families .. also a bunch of ‘social rapists” …
You’re right TB! You continue to learn!
Chuckle …
I’ve already “enjoyed” the teachings of a mentor … but thanks …
As for relevance to the real world, I take it the real world doesn’t include Socialist Alliance or Socialist Alternative then?
How much of the vote and how much recognition do they get in the real world sb?
I also feel pretty sure that no-one on this blog belongs to either of those parties [despite all the accusations and innuendo]
There’s a big difference between a socialist, a communist and a social democrat, they are not one and the same.
There are no differences on the right: They’re all TEABAGZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!1111ONE!!!!!
Australians have a right to be bigots, Attorney-General George Brandis tells parliament and I agree with him.
Not too many are proud of it.
They also have a right to be informed and it is the job of government to educate and inform the public, not promote bigotry, ignorance and intolerance. I would expect education-by-propaganda from the government of north korea, not a supposedly enlightened country with a first world education system.
“Australians have a right to be bigots, Attorney-General George Brandis tells parliament”
As a free-speech extremist, I say: bring on the bigotry. And the holocaust denialism. And the racialism. Let’s hear your arguments so we* can argue (or agree) with them. If speech of a certain kind is banned, how are we to know what others think, and how in dog’s name can we change their minds (if we aren’t allowed to debate them)?
*Royal “we” alert
Here we go again where the spoon fed Zombie terrorgraphers parrot “its free speech” in a jerk circle of ignorant unison….. Only a fucking idiot would argue that people have a rite to scrawl an article in a nationally syndicated toilet roll that targets and vilifies people on the basis of race, then claims that the laws that protect people from such vilification for commercial gain are limiting political free speech… I thought he was preaching the great crusade of injustice where aboriginals dare not to be aboriginal enough and steal positions from the under privileged minorities who attend kings and cranbrook?
it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt [or killed]. Some people don’t know how to play properly and other people who are ‘different’ don’t exist to provide sadistic sport for those who have more power and $$$.
Ricky, the””’jerk circle of ignorant unison””’actually getting what they want, has an extremely high likely-hood of back-firing on these morons big-time, so l won`t be getting too het-up about it.
Let`s face it, the Limited-News Tea-Trolls won`t be able to help em`selves, they will get themselves in much more hot-water than they normally would, and trigger more word-wars on fakebook than they can possibly handle.
l reckon, sit back and watch`em implode. #Teabags
You support this type of ‘free speech’ do you tony?
Perhaps you plan to never leave your house,
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/sexist-racist-bus-passenger-jailed-20140320-354ej.html
…Graham told Ms Desaintjores to “speak English or die”, and said he would cut her breasts off with a filleting knife. He also insulted her appearance and made references to slavery. The other man, Hayden Stirling Stewart, 26, threatened to cut her with a box cutter and swung his arm at the bus after he got off the bus, breaking a window…
sorry, but it’s not the kind of society that I wish to be part of.
Bolt, Brandis and the double standard on free speech:
http://theconversation.com/bolt-brandis-and-the-double-standard-on-free-speech-24423
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http://theconversation.com/bolt-brandis-and-the-double-standard-on-free-speech-24423
the rich and the poor are equally forbidden to sleep under bridges.”””””””””
was about the best part, rather bland overall tho not incorrect,
including Hensen was a bit of a goof-up tho, Hensen shot himself in the foot with his own marketing
‘sorry, but it’s not the kind of society that I wish to be part of.’
Its not a pleasant sight, but society would be better off banning the alcohol that fuelled the outburst than bigotry itself.
We could learn from the Malaysian experience where racial bigotry is tolerated, because its better to fight with words than swords.
‘JEFF Kennett wants building giant Thiess to explain publicly why it paid more than $110,000 into a slush fund run by allegedly corrupt union boss Bruce Wilson, after Thiess had won a lucrative contract from a public utility, Melbourne Water.
‘Mr Kennett said he was surprised and annoyed at learning from The Australian of the secret deal, brokered while he was Victorian premier in the early 1990s with a mandate to pursue privatisation and cut unnecessary costs from the state’s struggling economy.’
Thomas / Oz
I recon Brandass has uttered the phrase that will define him in perpetuity. Ironically,the very artists that he so vehemently hates for pointing out his ideological fascism are now provided with the reality of material so good you just cant make that shit up. No really think about it, imagine writing a skit that had the Attorney General telling an Aboriginal woman in the Australian parliament that people have a right to be bigoted as he legislates to repeal racial vilification laws…you would be cast into the artistic wilderness as writing something completely unbelievable. George Bandass living proof that Truth is stranger than fiction.
Re: Brandis
I happened to be seated next to the aged parents of a friend at a birthday dinner recently.
They were the most bigoted people I have come across for many years. People in their late 70s, from a comfortable suburb. They hated everything – asylum seekers, aboriginal people, gays, Jews, Arabs, Collingwood.
They are quite awful, but shunning their company is about as far as I’d go in controlling their expression of opinion.
What would people have – make expressing obnoxious views illegal?
AO, the example you’ve used would be criminal behaviour regardless of whether there was a racist element/overtone.
“gays, Jews, Arabs, Collingwood.”
😆
And in other exciting news, Craig Thomson has arrived at Court for sentencing..
I think a public flogging and DEATH would see justice adequately served..
Brandis is absolutely correct. Bigotry should not be criminalised. That issue is at the core of the matter. We don’t need Big Brother to tell us what to think. We don’t need thought-police to sew our lips shut lest we say the wrong thing. The mewling anti-free speech bigots should stick to fucking themselves rather than trying to screw everyone else. To them there is only one appropriate response: FUCK YOUSE ALL!
TB there is a considerable difference between ignoring someone at a party and selling syndicated hate by way of a legal licence to do so. Is this what the people voted for in that propaganda chant mantra “mandate”, regression of our society back to the dark ages of legalised racial hatred? Why are the fiberals wrapping free political speech around 18c dealing with racial vilification.
‘Why are the fiberals wrapping free political speech around 18c dealing with racial vilification.’
Its only a fine tuning exercise as we prepare for a flood of Asians.
“Everybody’s got the right to go wrong.”
Completely disagree with your take on life SB.
Luke Kelly is another matter.
Loved the old Dubliners and their spawn the Pogues.
That track was a bit too Whisky in the Jar and the Auld Triangle for my taste but it was nice to see that wild old head.
The Shoals of Herring and a Nation Once Again does it for me.
Thommo sentencing hearing now underway
3 months
Dianne strongly agree with you about both Dubliners and Pogues.
Also agree about the two Dubliners songs you mentioned. I have been looking for their version of Sean South of Garryowen for years but haven’t been able to find it. (I missed backing it up when I sold my CD collection.) Among my favourite Dubliners songs are Rare Auld Times:
and Foggy Dew (which is at least as good as than the version of Sinead O’Connor with the Cheiftains:
The ultimate unresolvable dilemma for Pogues/Dubliners fans is who does the best version of Dirty Old Town (which like Shoals of Herring is a Ewan McColl song). What is your opinion on that?
More accurately CT will serve 3 months of 12 month sentence.
Thanks SB . I will click on both later.
I can’t comment on the diff version of Dirty old town as I will have to refresh my memory of the McColl rendition. I have heard McColl sing the Shoals and it was terrific but I would have to line him up against Luke to make a choice.
I suspect I would go for Luke. There is something about raw honesty which always appeals. It breaks your heart. I have seen them in three countries, Deutschland über alles, England and here of course. Each time they brought down the house with Shoals and a Nation once again. I get goosebumps. The other Irish singer I love is Finbar Furey.
Yes, 3 months for Craig, 9 suspended.
That seems about right for a crooked union official turned lying crooked politician who has shown no remorse.
I suppose the CW crowd will argue that the judge didn’t ‘think of the baby’
Williamson (who has had bail revoked and is in custody) is also to be sentenced this week not sure what day though.
I doubt that the Parliament will now put Thommo in jail as well
‘Justice it appears, has been done.’
CU / kaf
” I have seen them in three countries, Deutschland über alles, England and here of course.”
You are so very lucky. I never saw Luke Kelly sing.
I feel like I’m in an oirish poob
A long time ago [in my student days], I used to live in a flat next door to another student who used to play the pogues around the clock.
happy to never hear them, or anything that sounds oirish & folksy again!
SB – I was lucky, indeed I was.
And then, in another flat, at a different time, I lived next door to someone who played another irishman, van morrison around the clock. To this day, I have a great fondness for the van’s old stuff [astral weeks, moondance, tupelo honey, into the music, ] I play him when the mood strikes me, it’s like an old friend returning home.
Armchair – every Christmas I put on a Joan Sutherland Christmas compilaton followed by the Pogues’ Christmas anti-carol Fairytale in New York.
AND
“A long time ago [in my student days], I used to live in a flat next door to another student who used to play the pogues around the clock.”
I swear it wasn’t me, KL! 🙂 If only for the fact that I was at uni a good decade before the Pogues released a record.
The Repeal:
I am going out now to say something bigoted. It is ma right. Whoopee.
cathy wilcox and the push to change the RDA:
Armchair – every Christmas I put on a Joan Sutherland Christmas compilaton followed by the Pogues’ Christmas anti-carol Fairytale in New York.
hehe, once a year is OK for one of the best xmas songs ever! Last year we played a new album – bad religion’s christmas songs
http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/12/04/why-the-hell-did-bad-religion-make-a-christmas-album?page=2
sb, I get it now, the daily bolt is where you get all that commie/trot hate talk!
this is from a real socialist [not billy bragg] and he talks a lot of sense, much more than andy bolt who is barely comprehensible.
If the
socialistscommies are such a threat, where do you hear their voices in the MSM?http://enpassant.com.au/2014/03/24/the-right-is-bigoted/
…The right to free speech is no right at all if most citizens are in practice denied it. That is the case under capitalism. Workers are hit with bolt after bolt of bullshit. They have no outlet under capitalism for their views to be heard. They are the recipients of other people’s exercise of free speech…
…So while the mainstream media is full of Bolts, Devines, Joneses and Ackermans, and even has left liberals writing for it, there are no outlets for the voices of reason, for revolutionary socialists. How many real red ragger socialists have articles published occasionally let alone regularly in The Australian, the Financial Review, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald or The Canberra Times? None. Zero. Zilch…
There was no sense there at all, KL. Just a silly, silly rant from a silly, silly man who describes himself thus:
No surprise he was a senior bureaucrat on the Tax Office. No surprise there at all. But hey, at least he rejects Stalin. What a hero.
“there are no outlets for the voices of reason (sic), for revolutionary socialists.”
There are. But few people, other than leftist cranks, bother to read them.
“How many real red ragger socialists have articles published occasionally let alone regularly in The Australian, the Financial Review, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald or The Canberra Times? None. Zero. Zilch…”
How many Neo-Nazi diatribes are published in those places? Maybe Pissant should speak to Phil Adams – Adams loves red-ragger socialists. He might get a gig on LNL.
‘How many Neo-Nazi diatribes are published in those places?’
None.
That’s the only name you could find in the msm sb? One old man who flirted with communism briefly as a teenager and resigned from the labor party in disgust after the rudd debacle. The labor party being one of the two major right wing parties.
At least PA has an intelligent conversation with interesting people, not a bilious rant full of hatred, spite and vitriol directed at people who don’t happen to share his suck-up, self-prostituting political opinions, aka bolt.
A big stretch 🙂
Abbott has just announced the return of knights and dames to the realm.
Arise Sir John (Howard)
“Abbott has just announced the return of knights and dames to the realm.”
I thought you were just taking the piss!
KL I like Phil Adams on radio. He is a joy to listen to and I do listen to him a lot. Even the re-runs. He has interesting guests. His chief virtue is that he gives his guests time to explain themselves and is polite with them. But they are generally of the leftist persuasion and he seems to have a fetish about old Commos. Overall, he is more interested in getting the best out of them than arguing with them. He appears to have read their work and gently guides them to the salient points.
I am happy to forgive his pompous style, his sly entre nous whisperings to his gladdies and poddies and the insufferable broadcasts of the wankfests he hosts such as the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I think it is funny when he starts billing and cooing with the likes of Chomsky. I don’t mind his regular guest, Shapiro, who is another hard core leftist. And of course I am not surprised that the ABC spends public money providing this leftist platform. That is what it does, apparently.
Gawd, I see Thomson is STILL declaring that he’s not guilty…. FFS..
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http://enpassant.com.au/2014/03/24/the-right-is-bigoted/
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arnchair, my problem with posts like this,
(which my ABC falls for continually)
is the left/right clap-trap, passant mentions `voice of reason`, which l won`t argue with, but then reckons `need more red ragers`, WRONG,
when it comes to `true` information, it meeds to be as factual, truthful and educational as possible, else it not ANY use to decision making, be it educational, technical or community needs,
the real answer to bolt-borg-blogs is to ignore them, don`t give`em more oxygen for their derp by pointing people in their direction, or give their argument `legitimacy` to a yet wider audience, as my ABC does,
bullshit should just be called bullshit, and shunned
l would also point out that everybody that disagrees with Limited-News clap-trap content, and/or antagonistic style, and/or having them inject themselves into topics as the `central` item, are not necessarily trots, maos, or any other `left` doctrine student either, no matter how much either side squeal otherwise.
Thommo is
appallingappealing.‘Gawd, I see Thomson is STILL declaring that he’s not guilty…. FFS..’
He is truly deluded and should receive professional help while in the big house.
Pretty much sums up Bolt
http://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/robert-manne/2011/10/24/1319413522/name-ten-journalism-andrew-bolt
Interesting article I was just reading – Top 10 Highest Minimum Wages ($US/hour)
Australia – $16.88
Luxemburg – $14.24
Monaco – $12.83
France – $12.22
Belgium – $11.69
San Marino – $11.49
New Zealand – $11.18
Ireland – $11.09
Netherlands – $10.99
Canada – $10.25
So Australia pays over 30% more than the rate applicable in the next country with a reasonably sized economy (France) and 65% more than the 10th highest minimum!
Go Aussie! OI!
(but is this sustainable as the mining boom recedes?)
Why the obsession with the lowest income earners?
Perhaps a more interesting conversation, you know just for a change, might be how our highest income earners rate against those from overseas?
#Justsayin
how our highest income earners rate against those from overseas?
Especially politicians …
And maybe compare minimum wages against cost of living – something that seems to get lost in the scramble by
whingerspeople with a lot of disposable income, thinking that low income earners should be paid less … fkn astounding …“And maybe compare minimum wages against cost of living – something that seems to get lost in the scramble by whingers people with a lot of disposable income, thinking that low income earners should be paid less … fkn astounding ”
Indeed.
The ‘criticisms’ do tend to come from certain demographics (ie. those with a lot of disposable income). The true amusement is that they rationalise it as champions of the ‘greater good’.
”””””””’Perhaps a more interesting conversation, you know just for a change, might be how our highest income earners rate against those from overseas?”””””””””
Gina pockets more cash than any other woman in the world,
she has struggled to earn it by working hard, not inheriting,
and her kind personality ensures her workforce is paid much more than two bucks a day, so they can afford their gay wedding, if they so wish, a social responsibility she has fought long and hard for.
#fairy fcuking tales for reb 🙂
Gina doesn’t know what hard work is coz she’s fat.
Why get all bothered about my comment? It’s only a fact.
Good Stuff
‘TREASURER Joe Hockey has clinched a deal with his state counterparts, offering new incentive payments for the states to sell off their government-owned assets and redirect the proceeds into productive infrastructure.
‘Mr Hockey announced he had won the “in-principle support” of his state and territory colleagues for a new “asset recycling” initiative, which would see existing state-owned infrastructure assets sold off to invest in significant new major works.’
Wilson and Crowe / Oz