Abbott says Gillard “too precious” about “bitch” word
Not content with standing under a banner proclaiming that Julia Gillard is “Bob Brown’s Bitch,” Opposition Leader Tony Abbot (aka the Nope Dope ®!!) said on the 7.30 Report last night that Prime...
View ArticleGillard’s premature enunciations
The Gillard government’s announcement of its plan to spend 12 million taxpayer dollars on an advertising campaign to sell the carbon tax beggars belief. The carbon tax is by no means a done deal. The...
View ArticleRudd cancels party; pot calls kettle black, and it’s all good for the mad monk
This time last year, freshly ousted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promised a “first anniversary of my knifing” party for his then staffers. As the anniversary looms there’s entirely unsurprising and rabid...
View ArticleWould you buy a carbon tax from this woman?
With a primary vote of 27% in today’s Newspoll, the ALP with Julia Gillard at the helm is sinking faster than a leaky SIEV. The poll was taken before the carbon tax roadshow began in earnest on Sunday,...
View ArticleIt’s all about Julia. Nostalgia, trust and fear
There’s a member of our household we affectionately call Mrs Chook, for reasons none of us now remember. Mrs Chook is central to everybody’s emotional well being as she is generally unfailingly just...
View ArticleThe Greens’ great moral challenge
I keep coming across comments such as this one from Zareh Ghazarian, Monash School of Political and Social Inquiry, in a piece in The Conversation today on the carbon tax legislation: Indeed, even if...
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