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  • Searchable polling booth map

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    Don’t forget to vote. Searchable polling booth map. Enjoy.

  • Melbourne Choral Flashmob urges “Vote the Bastards Out”

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    kwoff_id = 6742; Your Youtubes du jour. First up: “Vote the Bastards Out”, sung a choral flashmob in Melbourne. The composer was Stephen Taberner. Jodes writes on reddit: Members of several choirs decided to create a choral flash mob across… Read More ›

  • We’re back

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    Fancy that. I’m not quite sure what broke the blog, as the upgrading seemed to be going so well at first, so I will be moving carefully from now on. The look of the blog has been reverted to the… Read More ›

  • Fiddling

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    I’ve been thinking for some time that I really need to upgrade the site to the latest versions of WordPress and K2, which requires mostly me spending ages backing things up before updating. So, this will be happening and hopefully… Read More ›

  • I, for one

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    So the Blairites seem mostly to be resigning themselves to their fate, though I’m confident they will be like pigs in shit for their time supporting the Opposition. This thread laments the fake campaign pamphlets, Don’t bother with most of… Read More ›

  • Double standard watch

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    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 ›

  • Busted! Racist Liberals caught red-handed. How high does this go?

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    [Gary Clarke, Jackie Kelly’s husband, caught with dirt on his hands.] For the latest in illegal Islamic-Panic racist spew from Australia’s reigning bigotocons: the Libs have been busted red-handed letterboxing fake campaign pamphlets in Lindsay, a marginal electorate. The pamphlets,… Read More ›

  • 3 PMs with a single target

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    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?

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    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

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    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 ›