Apparently trick one for a wannabe populist right-wing politician these days is to try to sell a petrol tax cut to morons. We had Steve "Bong Costume" Fielding run it before the last election. We've seen John McCain and Hillary Clinton both trying to turn around their flagging political fortunes by calling for one over there. Read more »
I should have live blogged this because she shit spewing forth and the forced jocularity is offending my logic centres.
What a pack of fuckwits. 'Kids will move on to other alcohol,' cries Dr B. Read more »
Howard's Rage
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson has tried being a shiny, happy person, as he toured Australia "listening", but with serial-killer levels of public approval, Nelson's remaking of the Liberal Party leadership clearly hasn't worked. Read more »
Malcolm Turnbull has finally realised that having the Liberal leadership now would be a bad idea:
Federal Opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has reiterated that his leader Brendan Nelson should be given a "fair go", amid more bad poll figures for the Coalition. Read more »
I don't get it. It's like they're pretending they're in government. As in 'if we were in we'd do this'. But the way Nelson is bleating on about it it's all about 'we're going to do X, Y, Z'.
Yep - more wanking about fucking performance pay for teachers. Sigh, and so it goes.
Nelson is now astoudingly being hypocritical about aged carer lump sum payments - wailing about how it's not included as a right in future budgets.
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The bizarre fixation on the tax hike for ready-to-drink alcholic mixed drinks shows that they haven’t really got a lot to effectively gripe about with the first Rudd Budget, have they? How many of the small number of politics wonks who normally watch the Opposition Leader’s Budget reply speech will even bother tuning in to Brendan Nelson’s (aka 9 of 100) effort tonight? 1 Read more »
According to the SMH ... "Be proud of what we've achieved - don't take any cheek from the other side." Read more »
The Age believes Attorney-General Robert McClelland will announce today that he will introduce amendments to Parliament as early as next month to alter around 100 federal laws.
The changes will not allow gay marriages or same-sex couples to adopt children, and the issue of access to the Family Court for same-sex couples is still being resolved. Read more »
I'm going to put it in writing here and now.I don't mind Brendan Nelson.Yes, I know, it's a shocking thing to say. But if you read his stuff, read about his "listening tours", and so forth gone is the repellent free market is king, nig nogs should shut up, brown people are evil, generally blinkered unpleasant hard right crap that the Liberal party had been infected with under Howard et al. Read more »
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