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Abbott Watch: they’re coming thick and fast
In the interests of sound record-keeping, here is a collation of some of the awful, awful things Tony Abbott has been saying since the federal election date was set. Get ready to be set reeling by the way he is capable of being offensive in so many directions at once, but also remind yourself that this is just in the past week.
The loud and erratic behaviour of Anthony Scrinis
Adviser to Libs female MP sacked after charity ball Numerous witnesses reported incidents at the parliamentary press gallery’s Mid-Winter Ball on Wednesday night ranging from Anthony Scrinis fondling women’s breasts, or asking to — to him questioning guests about their… Read More ›
Troy Buswell to quit at last?
Despite recently surviving a series of leadership spills, sleazebag chair-sniffer and sexual-harasser Troy Buswell, leader of the WA Liberal Party [1], is expected to stand down today.
Buswell has the majority support of the remainder of his motley crew (resignations have been rife these past few months), but his support from the Party as a whole and the WA population is low.
Stay tuned.
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The Perils of Blogging #37291
If you blog from work, someone will find out unless you are scrupulously careful. If your workplace is a political party and you use a photo that could only come from party sources, that is not being scrupulously careful. If… Read More ›
Senate balance
We already knew from the last few years and the introduction of Workchoices and more how having a Government majority in the Senate leads to an undemocratic failure of the Upper House’s role as a House Of Review. Now we… Read More ›
This is what we’re up against: “Ironbar” Tuckey
Wilson “Ironbar” Tuckey , the member for O’Connor, a huge rural electorate in WA, walked out on the apology this morning. Ironbar Tuckey got his nickname after he was convicted in 1967 for beating an Aboriginal man with an iron… Read More ›
Troy Buswell: In His Own Words
[image source] Has anyone noticed a particular pattern in the speech of Troy Buswell, Leader of the WA Liberal Party? ABC News: “Walker-Buswell meeting set for today” quotes Buswell as saying: “I always have and will continue to respect Sue’s… Read More ›
Hippocampus-blamin’: Beavis in Charge
So Troy Buswell, the not-so-shiny new leader of the Liberal* Party in Western Australia, has got a pretty serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. You may remember Troy from such episodes as “Snapping open the Bra of a Labor Party Staffer… Read More ›
Which way? I didn’t quite catch that, Boys-Club Buswell. Repeat, please? Which way should we go?
When’s the earliest the WA Labor Party can call an election? I doubt the Libs are likely to have their act together any time soon. Troy Buswell, former candidate for the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, has touched… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 