A month after Grodscorp lit up an excited interwebs with the revelation that opposition leader Brendan Nelson is having a big truck adventure, the big day has finally arrived.
OPPOSITION Leader Brendan Nelson began his truckie trip from Melbourne to Dubbo today, leaving the Victorian city shortly after 7:30 am.
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Any Liberals left? Or is there only room for social conservatives within the liberal party? (silly question i know). Read more »
When i was young, Terminator 2 : Judgement Day was that movie that pretty much everyone enjoyed, talked about at school and watched whenever it was replayed on tv.
And now the franchise had been weakened by a poor third installment, a mediocre television series and a soon to be released fourth movie. Read more »
I wonder if any of the journo's who came up with crazy excuses as to why Starbucks failed so miserably in Australia have ever drunk any of their coffee? It should be pretty obvious to any coffee drinker with any self-respect that they offered a sub-standard product at a heavily inflated price, those market forces teh right love so dearly at work. Read more »
There was a flurry of excitement in the RWDB blogosphere and the News Ltd hacketeriat that the fella with the forehead who runs the Liberal party might toughen up their global warming policy to basically consist of "Bugger it, it's all too hard. Read more »
The good Starbuck
"Off with their heads"Compare and contrast
Senator Obama goes on a mini-tour of Europe and the Middle East to boost his foreign policy cred, does a small speech in Berlin. A lazy 200,000 people turn up to hear him.
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The Central It is an unfortunate case about the abc's South Asia correspondent getting caught with drugs in Singapore, when he was certain to know the risks he was taking and the harsh penalties that applied. But still you gotta admire the Daily Terror for trying to connect his sexuality to his drug use. Read more »
I have never been the most loyal metal fan but like the odd band that sticks out from the pack. Too much american metal seems to rely on silly gimmicks, like Slipknot and Mudvayne giving their members evil clown masks and monster costumes to distract from the banality of their music. Read more »
As a long time advocate for improving funding and education standards its quite depressing how piss weak the debate is on the subject. Through the Howard era education ministers were foot soldiers in the culture war and little else. Their big achievements and reforms in education consist of flagpoles, accusing the education department of being run by dirty Maoists, yelling at teachers unions and trying to motivate teachers by threatening to pay them less. Read more »
How many meaningless catchphrases can Nelson fit into a small doorstop?
DR NELSON:
Well it’s terrific to be in Launceston. I spent the first 13 years of my life living in Newnham. Launnie is one of the best places in the country and it’s always wonderful to be back her in Launceston.
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There has been a lot said recently about how effective our child protection services are given many recent cases of child neglect that seemingly went unnoticed. The Daily Terror has been waging a jihad against the NSW Department of Community Services and if that department is as badly run as everything else the NSW govt touches it is probably partly justified, however this beat up was way off the mark.
As both the Prime Minister and the opposition Leader felt the need to publicly condemn a tiny little arts magazine for printing an innocent nude picture of a young girl, i assume they will be more outraged and publicly condemn the Archbishop of Sydney George Pell over recent revelations that he lied to a sexual abuse victim to protect the perpetrator.
from nooz.com.au
FROM Underbelly to bikini belly, tragic figure Roberta Williams has sunk to a predictable new low by stripping down for a men's magazine.
So a new low eh? This the same woman who spent six months in prision for her role in trafficking ecstasy.
so according to nooz ltd, bikini shoot < drug trafficking. Read more »
One of the biggest issues in the upcoming US presidential election is health care. America is in the midst of an escalating health crisis, spending more as a percentage of GDP in health than any other nation and yet leaving millions uninsured and millions more with inadequate, yet very expensive private insurance. Read more »
God i love how the Daily Terror one-ups its stupidity to new levels every month or so
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Remember Nelson's dizzying "Listening Tour" of Australia? No? Read more »
Remember how columnists continually blathered on about how the Liberals all had Super Phd's in economics, and no matter what Labor did the Liberals would always be perceived as superior economic managers? Read more »
There really isn't a whole lot i can say about the Nationals takeover of the libs over in Queensland that hasn't already been said more eloquently over at Larvatus Prodeo. Read more »
Half a week since Boltsy lowered his own already murky standards by using a case of infanticide to suggest AGW believers are fil Read more »
Remember that Obama is a dirty raghead meme that never seems to die? You know, because he lived in Indonesia as a child, has dark skin and a foreign name he must really be planning to convert America to sharia law or something of the like?
Well now Blair and Boltsy have a new one, comparing him to Hitler because he visited in Germany. That is where the similarities end. Ive been to Germany, i must also be a Nazi.
Read more »Is this what passes as commentary from one of Australians most well known conservatives. You gotta admire someone with so few morals that he immediately jumps on the story of a dead baby and tries to use it to bash AGW believers, but according to Bolt it is a "metaphor".
Me and the girlfriend thought we would catch a bus to Chaddy in the arvo, and catch a session of the Dark Knight. Unfortunately every single fucker in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne had the exact same fucking idea. Read more »
An official of a church that is dedicated to spread the word of an alleged prophet who may or may not have lived over 2000 years ago, tells sex abuse victims to get over it because the abuse happened last decade.
Bishop Fisher said he was disappointed people were focusing on sexual abuse while the WYD festivities were taking place.
"I think most of Australia was enjoying, delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people ... rather than dwelling crankily as a few people are doing on old wounds," he said.
Rape tends to get people quite cranky Mr Fisher.
POPE Benedict XVI has arrived in Australia ahead of World Youth Day celebrations.
The Pope's aircraft landed at Richmond RAAF Base, in Sydney's northwest, to cries of "the plane, the plane!" from onlookers.
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THE price of petrol could soar to a crippling $8 a litre over the coming decade, according to CSIRO-sponsored research to be released today.
The nightmare scenario says the weekly family fuel bill for a medium-sized passenger vehicle could rise to $220 by 2018 - taking $12,000 a year out of family budgets.
But under a coalition government petrol would only be $7.95 a litre, crisis solved. Take that peak oil. Read more »
A week after Howard lost the last election.
He said he would be a very quiet ex-prime minister and would not be making a running commentary.
The Front Page of the Daily Terror, January 12th 2009.
US record label SubPop is being investigated by NSW police after complaints were made by child protection campaigner Hetty Johnston about sexually explicit artwork featuring a baby on the cover of an album by 90's grunge group Nirvana.
"It is clearly a sexual pose that they have put the baby in, the fishing line with a dollar bill is obviously a metophor for child prostitution, and a naked baby is unacceptable no matter the context." Ms Johnston said. Read more »
There has been more debate over a photo of a nude child on the cover of Art Monthly, just after the Bill Henson witchunt. Ruddsy called them revolting, or something to that effect, Nelson upped the ante claiming the picture is a "two fingered salute" to Australia and promised to call the cops over it. Presumably Steve Fielding will raise the stakes and lead an angry mob to burn down an art gallery not to be outdone. Read more »
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