Mark at LP points out that it’s been exactly three long years since the Howard government was last elected.
elections
“best argument against democracy is 5 min conversation with the averag VOTER sa winston churchil who was aktualy not bad and looking at colection of numskuls oiks roters bulies and cads of st custards he may hav a point.” ~ Nigel Molesworth esq, the goriller of 3b
The second election: who will control the Senate?
Hopping on to my hobby horse again, but there’s been a development this week: there’s actually corporate media coverage of the Senate balance issue. Bob Brown posted a video about the Senate election last week; There are really two elections… Read More ›
Heh. Heheheheheh.
I’m putting this behind the cut so that the prank doesn’t get noticed before it’s had its full allocation of LOLZ.
Slices of Google, from the Buoyant Honed Two
Anagrams Because the cool kids at Shapely Prose are doing it, I went and anagrammed Hoyden About Town. Some of my favourites, a selection that I think reflects the spirit of our bloggy duo: You Wanton Hotbed! Dab Honey Onto… Read More ›
Wanted? Want!
If you want one too, Ducky is selling proper poster-sized versions, beautifully printed on gorgeous paper. Put it in your window for the run-up to the election, frame it afterwards and put it in the loo! Fabulous. Image Source: Ampersand… Read More ›
Time to go?
Image Source: The Age The Liberal Party have just filed into a Party Meeting to debate Howard’s future as Prime Minister. It seems to be shaping up as a Potemkin meeting, with reports that Howard has effectively stared down his… Read More ›
Still nervous
Mark at LP wrote an excellent post yesterday on how Howard is now looking so bad in the polls, pointing out in part that margins in the last two elections were closer than is generally acknowledged and Howard would have… Read More ›
Non-sequiturs
I’ve just forgotten what I was about to blog. In the meantime: A few moments ago I accidentally stepped backwards on to my cat’s paw. She yowled and then leaped several feet around the corner, so that she could glare… Read More ›
Malcolm Turnbull’s environment cred
Helen at Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has a nice summary of this week’s brouhaha with the Minister for the Environment reacting badly to criticism from a fellow corporatocrat, Geoff Cousins, about the seemingly fast-tracked approvals process for a… Read More ›
Budget forecasts from our Treasurer: incompetent or just irrelevant?
Ken L has a post up at Surfdom well worth reading: Headlines you’ll never read Costello budget hopelessly wrong Last May, the government forecast a surplus for 2006/07 of $13.6 billion. Today, it announced that the figure was actually $17.3… Read More ›
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