Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson has been running the line (which by the way is quite a clever and humorous line, but it is not Anderson's creation) that the Greens are "watermelons": They're green on the outside, but they're very very red on the inside, if you know what he means. And I have this to say..... John Anderson is right when he says that the G
FishHead, I suppose I can understand your resentment, and perhaps I should have been more sensitive. It was not intended as an attack but a friendly jibe, in much the same way that I have already taken a shot at myself with my own screen name. I have already stated that I want to use this site for testing out left wing shock jocking. However, I balanced this with an attack on your argument. However, I withdraw and apologise for possibly stretchin
The Kiwis the same as us?!?! For a start they had a much higher population of Celts than we did. It has been said many a time that the reason for the Kiwi accent is owing to the Scottish, wheras Australian accents owe much more to the English, particularly London heritage. The Kiwis are a much more forward thinking, compassionate nation than us. Many Kiwis resent us as being brash and outspoken, so they clearly see a difference. That is not saying ther
"The PM announced a $1 million dollar aid package for the survivors and the families of the dead within 24 hours of the blast. I don't like him, but you have to give him credit for that." Quite honestly, I wasn't really talking about Howard or the Government specifically in this instance. I was simply reflecting on white Australian journalists in general and how this feeds into our society. I never said we shouldn't say we're not int
Good to see you missed the point entirely F---Head. However, you may recall that Enough Rope won a Walkley award last year - the most prestigious journo award in Australia. Best broadcast journalism. Alston included Lateline. There were Lateline news stories included there, not just interviews. Nonetheless, I've seen many people complain that Tony Jones treats poor little Andy Downer unfairly. But you are right Lateline blasts both
It is indeed a terrible event and I doubt either side of politics can do much about this sort of stuff, no matter how tough they talk. It will be interesting to note Australia's reaction to this as compared with our reaction to the Dili massacre.
Oops sorry Theo, hadn't realised that link was to my site. I had assumed btw that it was a deliberate typo.
“Australia Attacked”. That was the esteemed Courier-Mail’s headline this morning to announce that 8 Indonesians were killed, 160 Indonesians were injured and one Australian was injured in Indonesia . A bomb went off in the Australian embassy. The Courier Mail seems more concerned about Australian buildings than Indonesian lives. Many Australians respon
Thanks Theo and everyone. I may run for politics one day but in the mean time I want to make a difference at grass roots level (not meaning this blog). Gandhi, note my sidebar (interesting blogs). btw, not sure how to ask this Theo, but would you mind reciprocating the link I have provided to your blog? Keo Lin?
Brilliant!
I'd just like to say that I find the SDA does quite a good job, though perhaps not universally.
Liberal Party Communication Minister Richard Alston recently lodged a complaint against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for left wing bias. If you want to read his letter, you can find it at www.abc.net.au/mediawatch. Dicky Alston, the same clown who supported David Flint as the head of the ABA until Flint recently retired in shame. That was after
LMAO? Ke?
Howard claimed that it was “fact” that the children were thrown overboard. At best, the difference between that and a lie is like the difference between a levy and a tax. But more importantly, it was a lie designed to play on our fears and use innocent people for political gain. As to the rest, again, I can't put it better than Toblerone.
John Howard’s Liberal Party recently announced its plan to have it so that public schools who do not display the Australian flag and do not enlist their children to mindnumbingly chant their allegiance to the national anthem will not receive equal funding. This is a Government who wants to punish our children for the actions of administrators. This is a ma
Who really cares what the Senate Inquiry says about whether John Howard lied about children overboard? My concern then, as it is now, was how keen he was to use these innocent people for his own political gain. Before you could say "asylum-seeker", he was playing on our fears, stating that it was unquestionable fact. That certainly was not true. It is his arrogant lac
I would like to apologise for misleading my readers. FishHead of course also gets reliably informed by JoeUser bloggers. Hooray LittleWhip!
Well it's good to see you're well informed on the issue FishHead. I suppose the holocaust didn't happen either. Only a Liberal could see these people as numbers. Because that's all the Liberal Party can ever deal with is numbers. People's lives are not numbers. "Maybe, just maybe the media got the whole "Stolen Generation" thing wrong" Quite frankly I don't give two rats about the media's perspective on it. What I care about are the
Well FishHead, Dude, homie g, down one time wid ya bad self, yo wassup, I'm not surprised that YOU don't know what Latham stands for! I mean Andrew Bolt is hardly likely to inform you! Maybe you are feeling the need to fulfill some contractual obligation to reply to my every utterance like fellow warmonger Ted Lapkin feels about John Pilger. Or maybe you're just a Liberal party lackey. The ALP is hardly a new organisation. They did not abandon eve
John Howard says he doesn’t know what Mark Latham stands for. We might have expected our Prime Minister to be a bit better politically informed, particularly if he is so intent on plagiarising Latham’s policies on politicians’ super, pneumococcal vaccinations, and the Free Trade Agreement. The rest of the time Howard has been highly critical of Latham. How can he crit
Well if Pig Iron Bob Menzies could read this now he'd be well proud of you lot. It amazes me that the Conservatives are still trying to portray the Australian Labor Party as a bunch of Commies. I am rather angry that there are a few pinkos who have come in here and tried to appropriate my site for their benefit. I am arguing in favour of the ALP who are a Centre-Right team in favour of capitalism and in favour of profits. The ALP that Vanstone
"Without the motivation of profit, most of what we have today would not exist." Without slavery we would not have rock n roll. Without the French monarchy France would not have beautiful palaces. It was a terrible mistake getting rid of those systems, look at what they gave to the world! Vive la monarchie! "Do you think we'd have the Internet in a communistic society?" I can remember my life before I had the internet. Sometim
"what exactly is he supposed to be apologising for?" Now? Nothing imo. We had a chance in that moment to move forward together as a nation or to get bogged down in semantics and cement the rift our ancestors initiated between our races. Some of us took the opportunity, others focussed on creating division. Any aplogy from a racist such as Howard would now come across as hollow. What WAS he supposed to apologise for? I'm probably not t
Here's hoping there's always some child version of Teegs. haha, that Sinbad voice of yours!
So sorry we couldn't only focus on the issues that suit you FishHead. Talk about being able to twist any political issue to suit your argument. That point about Latham going public, that was an excellent piece of twisting things about. If I had half a brain I might just find it convincing. As to caring, I think we should bloody well care. I mean heaven forbid we give a toss about our Governments being honest. The reason there is such a huge fuss is
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