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so much to be proud of .....
Oo Roo MalOo roo Malcolm Fraser, the King Of Nareen got the best stock prices Vic's ever seen by lowering the fences in his stockyard Wool over eyes, without pulling too hard
Oo roo Malcolm Fraser, Straya's Prime Minister clambering to power by methods quite sinister Threw out Whitlam and his social reform Made back-stabbing Canberra's political norm
Oo Roo Malcolm Fraser, noted Humanitarian
the nature of stuff...imagine... A former atheist raises hell into promoting beliefs in Christianity... And a Republican senator, Paul Broun, a medical doctor by training, claims that "All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell."
spoilt for hills .....We’re squeezed in, hundreds of sweaty bodies pressed against one another in the aptly named Greenhouse tent. It’s 30 December 2014, and two days of tropical downpours have been followed by a full day’s searing heat. We’re at Woodford Folk Festival, north-west of Brisbane, waiting to hear a speaker. It’s either deliciously tropical or downright disgusting in here, depending on your frame of mind.
liar's poker .....Our politicians have paltry ideas and express them poorly ….
fringe dwellers...So the Palmer United Party (PUP) has exploded into its constituent fragments, leaving its founder and one apparently reluctant acolyte in the Senate to act as leader, whip, bottle washer – whatever.
dealing with the devil...
lifestyle choices .....The response of Tony Abbott's colleagues to his latest wilful overreach at the dispatch box in parliament was unmistakable. By the time the punchy Prime Minister was on his feet again just minutes later, the air had been sucked from the government balloon. Rarely have iPhones, tablets, and even constituent mail been so universally compelling.
thinning from below
from the world expert on old fashioned bullying...The Prime Minister has used a video message aimed at schoolchildren to speak against cyber-bullying, labelling it "hurtful and wrong". "I want to speak to the children of Australia, you are our future," Tony Abbott said in a video message filmed in his office.
the art of saying nothing substantial against turdy in The Australian...while "blaming" the "others"...lost in political spin... Who would have thought that Tony Turdy was not any good at politics...? EVERYBODY apart from a few opinionators?... But what makes me laugh is that Paul Kelly, Turdy's pal, is blaming (other) politicians and the media for debasing the system... A bit rich. Not discounting that Paul Kelly is enamoured with Tony Turdy... Tony Turdy is the MAIN cause of the whole shammozzle going south, presently.
on heavy lifting .....The US's first attempt to export the Tea Party has all but imploded. Angry voters have hit back at the Australian Liberal Party's doctrinaire adoption of brutal right-wing policies. Nial McLaren from Truthout warns there is a larger message in this antipodean squabble.
toilet heads...
Without objective critical analysis or informed debate, the Washington Consensus principles of fiscal austerity, privatisation and liberalisation are likely to be implemented in Australia. The economic consequences are likely to be a boon for the wealthy – including overseas "investors" – and increased costs and rising inequality for the ordinary Australian citizen, as overseas experience has shown.
driving CO2 emissions...
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has taken aim at the coal-fired power industry and the mining sector in a report naming and shaming Australia's top 10 worst polluters.
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