Today’s guest poster is long time blogger ThirdCat, aka Tracy Crisp, a South Australian writer and comedian currently living in Abu Dhabi.
parties and factions
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them – Phillip Adams, journalist
One more mention of faceless faction figures and I will explode
Just ask Malcolm Turnbull and Brendan Nelson about the faceless figures crunching numbers in the Liberal Party, and what about those faceless character assassins who run our major media outlets?
Gillard: Mixed Feelings
I’ve been happily anticipating the eventual elevation of Julia Gillard to PM for ages. But is now the right time?
State vs federal politics and the Penrith by-election
Q. Did people in a historically solid Labor seat hold their noses over the weekend and vote for the Liberal Party candidate in order to send a message to NSW Labor?
A. Yes. Yes they did.
Q. Is this bad news for Labor in the Federal election?
A. I seriously doubt it.
It’s quiet…too quiet
ObNerd: I’ve got a bad feeling about this…Except it’s not the one that the MSM pundits want me to have,
Obligatory Tony Abbott Said What Now? Thread II
inspired by Pavlov’s Cat’s dissection of his explanation to schoolkids that global warming couldn’t be any sort of problem because it was hotter back ”at the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth” (actually it wasn’t).
Another gutless conservative deletes his Twitter account
here, preserved in a screencap, is Australian uni student Nick Sowden calling Barack Obama a monkey during the much-publicised interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 report on Wednesday night:
Politics vs Policy: how superficial gamesmanship steals our future
This should be shaping up as the real issue in the upcoming Federal election – for both the PM and the Leader of the opposition. What do either of them really offer for the future of Australia? Sadly, how would we know, when the media encourages both of them to “win the week’s news headlines” instead of pushing for bigger goals and the comprehensive plans to make them happen?
Last post on the #npchealth debate
This time it’s over at The Drum – The Great Debate Game: winning over the worm. As policy the debate was essentially pointless, as political theatre Abbott was relentlessly upstaged by Rudd, because Rudd stayed focussed on the audience that… Read More ›
Janet and Tony, up in a tree…
S-P-IN-N-I-N-G.
Hoyden About Town 