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By: Geoff Robinson » Blog Archive » Predicting the future?

Geoff Robinson » Blog Archive » Predicting the future? — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:48:40 +0000

[...] to whom Labor’s large lead in the 2PP vote is evidence once again of voters’ continuing rejection of the Liberals and of diabolical nature of inside the ‘beltway’ media elitists who still pine after [...]

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:41:30 +0000

“Mr Costello has spent the past few months weighing up offers from the private sector and starting work on his political memoirs.”

Political memoirs shouldn’t take long, I had a sneak peak at them, consists mainly of

Asked John yesterday if he was going to step aside like he promised, said no, will ask again soon. (this is repeated quite often throughout the book). and

Money still rolling in from mining boom, don’t know why Keating found it so hard.

By: Harmless Cud Chewer

Harmless Cud Chewer — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:07:59 +0000

I wonder if it is now possible to see the John Howard cult factor (or rather its absence) in the polls?

By: josh lyman

josh lyman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:53:09 +0000

Mark: working with our allies to commit war crimes by invading another country would certainly be a highlight. Negotiating a deal with the Nauruans to use their land to lock up traumatised refugees certainly rates. Oh, and an honorable mention for refusing to sign the Optional Protocol on Torture.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:25:35 +0000

Bushfire Bill:-
>What the hell was Downer doing, tutoring Rudd on Foreign Affairs like an landlord showing a tenant the light switches? And he was taken so seriously, raved on for about five minutes. Our “Foreign minister in Exile”. And Downer had the hide to snark at Gareth Evans the other day for “relevance deprivation syndrome”.>

Ah, but remember, Lord Downer was Australia’s longest serving Foreign Minister, as we are are endlessly reminded. Therefore, his every pronouncement drips with authority.

“Australia’s longest serving Foreign Minister” – sounds impressive, doesn’t it? But so does “World’s tallest dwarf”, until you think about it for a minute. He spent 11 years doing…..what exactly?

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:50:06 +0000

Note Morgan is out – increase in ALP 2pp to 63%.

Greens up 3.5% to 9%

The govdernment had a terrible week last week …

By: Larry Buttrose

Larry Buttrose — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:29:15 +0000

After the DenShan piece earlier this week I could not help but post:

Larry Buttrose
Leura NSW
Tue 03 Jun 08 (07:05am)
Give it a rest Dennis. Support for govt unchanged, despite all your Shanahanigans,
And even with his gross populist pitch, Nelson’s satisfaction rating fell too.
As regards the rising price of fuel, has it perhaps come to your attention that the
international price of oil is skyrocketing, with riots in Europe? Facts
are inconvenient, aren’t they.

This led to a friend suggesting a definition of Shanahanigans as:
“to beat up, massively and desperately. Extreme hyperbole.”

By: PASOK

PASOK — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:00:34 +0000

I cannot believe I have read these quotes from Nightwatchman:

“Symbolism is important but it’s substance that counts,” Dr Nelson told Parliament.

“It is of little consequence and meaning to everyday Australians … if we only preoccupy ourselves with the future, being indifferent to – if not aloof from – the day-to-day struggles of everyday life, none more so than which at the moment is getting petrol into the car, diesel into agricultural machinery or indeed groceries into a shopping trolley.”

http://www.smh.com.au/news/energy-smart/pm-sets-out-vision-for-car-industry/2008/06/05/1212258986721.html

Forget the future, 5c a litre on a non-renewable resource is more important. What a twit. He’d give Dubya a run for his money.

By: David Richards

David Richards — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:30:50 +0000

yes – you’d almost think that Rattus and Co had won, the way the ABC is carrying on. Mind you, the ABC is now moving closer and closer to 7 and 9 every day – standards have slipped in all areas – not just political reporting, everything from science to simply the grammatical standards and yanklish buzz-phrases infesting nearly every report.

By: Bushfire Bill

Bushfire Bill — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:11:20 +0000

Joe2…. noticed both of these on TWT. After a while you get particularly attuned to it.

What the hell was Downer doing, tutoring Rudd on Foreign Affairs like an landlord showing a tenant the light switches? And he was taken so seriously, raved on for about five minutes. Our “Foreign minister in Exile”. And Downer had the hide to snark at Gareth Evans the other day for “relevance deprivation syndrome”.

The “draining the government’s political capital” line was not in keeping with the ABC’s self-professed “stenographic” role.