September 7, 2010 – 5:14 pm
This little image came into my head after one of Jason Soon’s status updates. I gather he was also feeling a bit frustrated at the lack of decisiveness from the independents as to whom they would support. When SL and I were talking about the status update this morning, a vision of toddlers on potties [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Art, Funnies, Politics
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Also tagged Australian Labor Party, Bob Katter, cartoon, Federal Election 2010, Hung Parliament, independents, Politics, Rob Oakeshott, Tony Windsor
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August 25, 2010 – 2:02 am
Julia Gillard is a childless 48-year-old unmarried atheist redhead who lives in sin with her hairdresser. She is also the first woman to become prime minister of Australia. Just in case you thought that might mean a new era had dawned, be assured that it is probably just about over. Not that Gillard had radical [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Economics, Environment, Feminism, Funnies, Law, Media, Politics
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Also tagged australia, Australian politics, Bob Katter, Germaine Greer, Tony Abbott
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August 22, 2010 – 5:27 pm
The outcome of the 2010 Federal Election is fascinating. The Liberal National Party have 71 seats, Labor has 70 seats, the Greens have 1 seat (their first ever won in a General Election), and other independents have 3. It looks like Labor is better placed to form a minority government, but we’ll wait and see. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Politics, Society
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Also tagged Australian Greens, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, Federal Election 2010, General, Hung Parliament, independents, kevin rudd, Tony Abbott, voting
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I am not going to link to anyone making ‘dog whistling’ claims this election campaign; there are too many of them. Instead, I am going to make a few requests. 1. Before using this phrase, please take some care to find out what it means. 2. When claiming that this or that politician is ‘dog [...]
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. (William Blake, The Sick Rose, Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794) plate here There is a canker eating at the heart [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in General, Politics, Society
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Also tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, belief, fear, kevin rudd, opinion polls, politics of fear, reason, the worm, Tony Abbott
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Okay, don’t answer that question. But I didn’t watch either the Debate between our esteemed political leaders, or the Master Chef final. Thus I suspect I am in a minority of the Australian population. I didn’t watch the GillAbb Debate because I am so shizzed off about the direction politics is going in this country [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Fark!, General, Law, Politics, Popular culture
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Also tagged Australian politics, churn, crazy stuff, general grumpiness, law firms, lawyers, Master Chef, Tony Abbott
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Australia will hold a general election on 21 August, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced. Ms Gillard – the country’s first female prime minister – said the snap poll would be “tough and close”. The governing Labor Party elected her as leader three weeks ago after ousting her predecessor, Kevin Rudd. The race between Labor [...]
Julia Gillard has called an election for 21 August 2010. I must confess that I’ve been pretty down about politics the last few weeks. What particularly depressed me was Labor’s ill-conceived plan to palm asylum seekers off to East Timor. It showed the same ad hoc ‘policy-on-the-run’ approach that KRudd’s regime had shown before. It [...]
I attended a religious school for the first three years of High School. I’m afraid that it went in one ear and out the other, because I didn’t even realise that Jesus was God according to Christian doctrine until I was about 25. I have a fantastic ability to be able to switch off during [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australian internet filter, Children, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Religion, Society
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Also tagged Australian internet filter, censorship, Religion, Sex, stephen conroy, violence
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