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[Psyber]

She sounds like she is a complete idiot.
I'd be surprised if she gets re-endorsed unless all the potential alternatives are equally off the planet when the time comes.

[scoob]

That last paragraph is a ripper.

Soundds like Ali G the movie... his opponent was caught eating horse sausage wasn't he? LOL

[Sojourner]

Bill Shorten abuses a Deli Owner who turns out to be an ALP supporter, now looks like a complete dickhead, really classy....

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nation ... 6442272819

[Gozu]

Shorten's a wanker.

[Gozu]

Mark Latham on the far-right:

Right-wing politics has a habit of discrediting itself through bizarre conspiracy theories. The Birthers movement in the United States is an example of this process: the lunar-right activists who have convinced themselves that Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be President because he was born outside the country.

The release of his birth certificate last year, proving Obama’s birth in Honolulu on August 4, 1961, has had little impact. Opinion polls show that one-in-four Republican voters still doubt the President’s credentials. The Birthers have dismissed the birth certificate as a forgery, another sham in a series of socialist conspiracies.

Not to be outdone, the Australian lunar right, led by former Radio 2UE broadcaster Mike Smith and veteran cartoonist Larry Pickering, has developed an equivalent movement – the aptly-named Brucers.

Like the Birthers, they are obsessed with ancient history: in this case, a belief that Julia Gillard should resign over a trade union financial dispute 20 years ago involving her then boyfriend, Bruce Wilson. No one has ever been charged with an offence and, despite repeated investigations by her political opponents, there is no evidence of Gillard having broken the law.

The Brucers are an example of the damaging impact of obsessiveness in public life. They fit the first rule of fanaticism: when all is lost, redouble your efforts. These political fringe dwellers specialise in myth-making and the harassment of innocent people – not just Gillard, but media figures who stand up to them and refuse to peddle their conspiratorial theories.

Not surprisingly, the anti-Labor newspaper The Australian has given succour to Smith and Pickering, deploying a so-called investigative reporter to pursue the Prime Minister. So far his efforts have not taken the story any further than when the matter was first raised by the Liberal Party in the Victorian Parliament 17 years ago.

The fact that, as a young man, Tony Abbott was charged with damaging public property and faced sexual assault allegations is of no concern to the Murdoch flagship. Its interest in reviewing old legal documents, in sweeping away the dust on yellowing affidavits, is restricted to the pursuit of Labor leaders.

http://afr.com/p/opinion/lunar_right_cr ... nIsgVboHyM

[Psyber]

... The fact that, as a young man, Tony Abbott was charged with damaging public property and faced sexual assault allegations is of no concern to the Murdoch flagship...

I remember that getting a bit of a run from pro-ALP forces about 7 or 8 years ago.
Don't try to kid us the ALP and Greens are totally ethical and the coalition is not.
Your favourite media are as biased in their direction as the Murdoch press is in theirs..

[Gozu]

Doesn't look like former AFL player Dean Rioli (ALP) is going to get up in Arafura in the NT election.

[mick]

Doesn't look like the ALP itself will get up

[dedja]

goneski ...

[am Bays]

Doesn't look like former AFL player Dean Rioli (ALP) is going to get up in Arafura in the NT election.

But former SA 2nd XI star Ken Vowles retained the Darwin seat of Johnston for the ALP. Top bloke and deserved it. Beat the NT equivalent of Gail Gago, a skanky self important moll who couldn't win a "lower" house seat if she tried (aka 3rd attempt)!

[Sojourner]

[mick]

The reality of party politics, no place for naive idealists.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Bill Shorten

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/bill-shor ... 6459374378

[Gozu]

Shorten's a wanker.

[scoob]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-03/b ... rs/4241194

Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke says he has been advised he does not have the power to block an international super trawler from fishing in Australian waters.

So they have the ability to stop live exports instantly but can not stop this boat from ripping the fish out of the southern ocean.... yeah right...

[scoob]

http://www.news.com.au/national/former- ... 6466624394

Ex Labor MP gets some jail time... Hope Craig Thomson is reading this.

[mick]

Now Fraser is getting in on the act

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/fraser-says-libs-have-lost-menzies-vision/story-e6frfku9-1226467382578

[Q.]

"A politician who has any respect for the profession will not play politics with the lives of the most vulnerable"

Amen, Fraser.

[Gozu]

The trolling of Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon by NSW State Liberal Peter Phelps & others:

http://newmatilda.com/2012/09/13/lee-rh ... -how-troll

[scoob]

It has been revealed that at least a dozen Australian bidders expressed interest in buying Queensland's Cubbie Station but were rejected.

The property is Australia's largest cotton farm and the biggest irrigation operation in the southern hemisphere.

Last month the Federal Government approved the sale of Cubbie Group to Chinese-led investors on the advice of the Foreign Investment Review Board.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-18/g ... ds/4268400