big day

The big news around the traps, apart from Gary Coleman from Different Strokes getting married, seems to be about the big apology up at Canberra. It was enormous news where I work. They had big screens set up in the lobby, which was choked with so many people you couldn’t even make it into the [...]

stalled in committee

I note with interest our political lords and masters up in Canberra have come up with a brilliant idea for solving the world’s problems: they’ll ask people.
Kevin Rudd expects policy ideas in focus by year’s end
What a stroke of genius! Seeing as I’m generally sympathetic to that side of politics I’ll conveniently ignore that, for [...]

just call the bloody election, please….

When it comes to epic battles of political ideas, I’m as big a fan as anyone. I’d also agree that Australian politics have gotten a fair bit more interesting in the post “Kevin07″ era. I’m generally in favour of politicians running around the country throwing out fistfuls of cash left, right and centre, on the [...]

kevin rudd is the devil

By now, I’m sure you’ve already seen the headlines - “Rudd wallows in pit of sinfulness and iniquity” or whatever it is.
Personally, I don’t care whether he spent his entire formative years snorting lines of coke off the thighs of crack-whores in opium dens in New York. Frankly, who hasn’t? Also, it would explain the [...]

everyone loves Kevin Rudd

Allow me to be the first person to say, Julia Gillard is the most attractive deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party of all time.
Firstly - I know there’s not much competition, Paul Keating aside.
Secondly, before you say it - I know it’s a fairly sexist thing to say. In my defence, when [...]