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• Double standard watch

  By tigtog on 2007-11-23 • ( 2 )

  Why is it that doctors employed at Royal North Shore Hospital are giving press interviews outside the building every day this week of the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the hospital, while not a single nurse employed by RNSH has given… Read More ›

• 3 PMs with a single target

  By tigtog on 2007-11-22 • ( 1 )

  The Age today features op-eds from 3 former PMs – Malcolm Fraser (1975-83), Bob Hawke (1983-91), and Paul Keating (1991-96). Fraser can’t quite bring himself to advocate voting for Labor, but he is certainly highly critical of Howard and his… Read More ›

• Confused by the Senate stuff?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-22 • ( 4 )

  Some excellent work: GetUp’s simple guide to Senate preference flows. It’s worth digging around the GetUp site for their various election guides – they have heaps of material looking at single issues, big pictures, voting records and more. I imagine… Read More ›

• Opportunities squandered

  By tigtog on 2007-11-22 • ( 2 )

  JOHN Howard squandered the benefits of the $80 billion-a-year resources boom and wanted to be re-elected so he could retire, Labor leader Kevin Rudd said yesterday. Defining the choice facing voters in one of his last major speeches of the… Read More ›

• Careful there voters! You can’t return the Boogieman like an unwanted Christmas present, you know! But Unca John can keep your economy safe…why won’t you trust me?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-21 • ( 8 )

  Now our Prime Minister is treating voters like heedless children who simply haven’t thought carefully enough about what change might mean. Mr Howard says there is always a risk with changing Government. And he warns voters flirting with the idea… Read More ›

• So Similar

  By tigtog on 2007-11-20 • ( 3 )

  A draft I’ve had hanging around since last month: I’m trying to get these things out for some discussion even if I haven’t been able to wrap a bow around them to my entire satisfaction. Via Samara at The F-word… Read More ›

• Sagacious Shakespeare & Hoydenalicious Margarita Mayhem

  By tigtog on 2007-11-20

  Assume a hoyden, if you have it not. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from? Get your own quotes: Meme yoinked from Lauredhel’s LJ. I spent the weekend overlooking Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast with three of… Read More ›

• So what are you doing tonight at 9pm?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-19 • ( 2 )

  You could do a lot worse than listen to the repeat broadcast of today’s Life Matters Health Report program on Radio National. It was a cracker, taking a different tack in this election period on the traits we all have… Read More ›

• The horror!

  By tigtog on 2007-11-19 • ( 4 )

  Check out Kirk Douglas’ eyes! John Travolta receiving the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Kirk Douglas award, from 90-year-old Kirk Douglas, at the Four Seasons. 90 years old, and Kirk still can’t live down those beefcake sword and sandal movies! Maybe… Read More ›

• The Costello factor I sincerely believe will cost the Coalition this election (too bad, so sad, cheerio!)

  By tigtog on 2007-11-19 • ( 8 )

  CK sums Costello up over at LP in exile: He always was a gutless wonder. Couldn’t go two rounds with Winnie the Pooh. The most effective Labor ad out there, to my eye, is the one where she talks about… Read More ›