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Communities Thank Pokie Addicts
Right around Australia – which is, you know, NSW and a couple of other fairly unimportant (albeit it occasionally charmingly old-fashioned) bits – Community Leaders are in panic over the impending loss of all essential local services due to proposed restrictions on the spending behaviour of pokie addicts. Particularly in rural areas. The most [...]
Posted: 28 April, 2011 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Culture, Life, politics and government, values.
Tags: addict, addicts, australia, Australian government, Australian parliament, Australian Politics, Australian Values, club, communities, community, gambler, gambling, gambling addiction, gambling limit, government, hotel, law, legislation, parliament, poker machine, poker machine gambling legislation, pokie, pokie addiction, pokie addicts, pokies, politics, pub, R.S.L., regional, regional Australia, Rugby League, rural, rural Australia, rural communities, values, Wilkie, Xenophon
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War Criminal Howard, Jolly Joe and Mr Rabbit
War criminal Howard has become more unbearable than ever. On top of his strutting arrogance is a smugness to compensate for being such an abject, public failure
Posted: 31 October, 2010 in Australian Politics, Economics, politics and government.
Tags: Abbott, Australian government, Australian Politics, Costello, government, Hockey, Howard, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Peter Costello, politics, Tony Abbott
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For Those Afraid to Vote …
The election in a nutshell – and in Mandarin. And how the Sex Party fits in (if you’ll pardon the expression).
Posted: 21 August, 2010 in Australian Values.
Tags: Abbott, australian election, Australian government, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Brown, coalition, election, Gillard, Greens, Labor, Liberal, politics, Rudd, Sex, Sex Party
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Towards a Well-Hung Australia
So here’s how it looks for the outcome of the election if the people with connections and political savvy and heaps of money to risk were deciding the vote
Posted: 19 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, environment, Immigration, politics and government, values.
Tags: asylum seekers, Australian government, Australian greens, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Bandt, betting, betting market, gaming, government, Greens, house of representatives, hung parliament, Labor Party, labor seats, Liberal Party, minority government, National Party, Oakeshott, odds, politics, pollytics, possum, refugees, senate, statistics
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Falling In Love With Australia (all over again)
So this morning Blue Gillard visited Aunty Quentin to ask her if she could have an election on 21 August. And as one watched one was shocked and delighted
Posted: 17 July, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: Australian government, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, egalitarian, election, federal election, general election, GG, Gillard, government, Governor General, half Senate, house of representatives, Julia Gillard, PM, political values, politics, Prime Minister, Quentin Bryce, senate, Yarralumla
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Tony Abbott – Guilty of ‘Logical Manslaughter’
Tony Abbott wants Peter Garrett to be charged with “Industrial Manslaughter”. But has he always felt so strongly about the appropriateness of this concept?
Posted: 14 February, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Economics, legal, politics and government, Religion, values.
Tags: Abbott, Australian government, Australian political values, Australian Values, batts, Christopher Whyne, coalition, foil insulation, Garrett, government, house, house insulation, hypocrisy, industrial manslaughter, Insiders, insulation, Labor Party, law, legal, Liberal Party, manslaughter, National Party, OH&S, Peter Garrett, political values, politics, Pyne, roof insulation, Tony Abbott, values, workplace safety
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DLP Pulls ‘Intelligent Design’ Gambit
The DLP, surprised at its catholic image, insists the NEW party is not catholic and yet hugs catholic values. Sir Roger gently tries to help them understand.
Posted: 12 December, 2009 in Aussie Citizenship, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Culture, Education, History, politics and government, Religion, values.
Tags: Abbott, abortion, Augustine, Australian government, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Bertrand Russell, Bishop, Catholic, catholicism, DLP, fundamentalist, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, government, homosexual, homosexual marriage, magisterium, Mannix, margaret tighe, miracle, original sin, peter mcbroom, Pope, Religion, research, Right To Life, Santamaria, stem cell, the old dlp, Tony Abbott, values, virgin Mary
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Oil Swill?
Who was responsible for approving the oil drilling contract? Who prepared, and who approved the EIS that the company would have been required to provide?
Posted: 19 October, 2009 in Australian Values.
Tags: accident, Australian government, Australian law, Australian legal values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, bureaucracy, contract law, cost, EIS, environment, environmental impact statement, Garrett, government, law, legal, legal values, oil, oil accident, oil exploration, oil slick, oil spill, Peter Garrett, petroleum exploration, politics, principles, PTTEP, standards, Thai company, Thai oil, Thai petroleum, Thailand, values, worth
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