Archive for the tag "Labor Party"
Denying Gay Marriage for Power’s Sake
Sir Roger does not wish to marry a man. To put it another way, while Sir Roger and Dorothy have many good friends in common, Dorothy and Sir Roger are not Facebook buddies. And Sir Roger does not think that his personal preference for his own life is of any moment or interest whatever in [...]
Posted: 29 June, 2011 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Economics, legal, Life, politics and government, Sex, values.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor, Australian Labor Party, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, gay marriage, government, Labor Party, political values, politicians, politics
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Libya – What Urgent Really Means
Urgent? What a joke! This morning Sir Roger explosively sprayed the breakfast linen with half-chewed soldiers, the boiled egg in which he’d been dunking them and the Dom he’d being trying to wash it all down with, before bursting into such loud and violent laughter that his butler was so alarmed that he stood behind [...]
Posted: 11 March, 2011 in Aussie Citizenship, Australian Politics, Australian Values, aviation, Culture, environment, History, Iraq, Language, legal, Life, Nature, politics and government, US Politics, values.
Tags: ABC, African Union, Arab League, australia, Australian environmental values, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, aviation exclusion, Breakfast, Britain, Country Party, Defence Minister, environment, European Union, Fran Kelly, Gunns, Iraq, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Libya, miners, mining, National Party, NATO, no-fly, no-fly zone, Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Peter Garrett, politicians, politics, Pulp Mill, Radio National, Security Council, Stephen Smith, Tarkine, Tasmania, Tony Burke, UN, urgent, US, values, war criminals
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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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Mungo on Labor’s ‘Retreat From Conviction’
Mungo MacCallum in Crikey has a scathing piece on the reasons for Labor’s current woes. It includes this juice:
Posted: 3 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, politics and government, values.
Tags: Arbib, australia, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Crikey, factional bosses, factions, Gillard, Labor, Labor factions, Labor Party, Mark Arbib, Mungo MacCallum, political values, politics, Rudd
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Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and the Red Cordial
With the recent burst of enthusiasm in Canberra the lesson to be learnt from it all is Don’t Let Unionists and the NSW Right Drink the Red Cordial.
Posted: 25 June, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, environment, History, politics and government, values.
Tags: Abbott, aboriginal, aborigine, Apology, asylum seeker, australia, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Costello, Downer, Gillard, Howard, indigenous, Julia Gillard, Keelty, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor Party, leadership, mining, PM, political values, politics, Prime Minister, red cordial, refugee, Rudd, Ruddock, stolen generation, the red cordial, Tony Abbot, Work Choices
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Just a Question
What is the difference really between the the Israelis and the Somali pirates?
Posted: 1 June, 2010 in Australian Politics, History, legal, politics and government, Religion, values.
Tags: Australian political values, Australian Politics, blockade, defeat, Gaza, international politics, israel, Labor Party, Law of the Sea, piracy, politics, United Nations
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Just a Question
What is the difference really between the the Israelis and the Somali pirates?
Posted: 1 May, 2010 in Australian Politics, legal, politics and government, Religion, values.
Tags: Australian political values, Australian Politics, blockade, defeat, Gaza, international politics, israel, Labor Party, Law of the Sea, piracy, politics, United Nations
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Just a Question
What is the difference really between the the Israelis and the Somali pirates?
Posted: 1 May, 2010 in Australian Politics, legal, politics and government, Religion, values.
Tags: Australian political values, Australian Politics, blockade, defeat, Gaza, international politics, israel, Labor Party, Law of the Sea, piracy, politics, United Nations
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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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Krystal Klearly Speaks Out – Secret Recording
New Pre-Meer, Krystal Klearly – Puppet, Poppet and Papist – has made it crystal clear that she is just another clone of every other loser to roll a sitting political leader.
Posted: 5 December, 2009 in audio, Australian Politics, Australian Values, comedy/humour, politics and government, Religion, US Politics, values.
Tags: America, American, audio, australia, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, bible thumper, Catholic, church and state, crazy priest, god botherer, government, Joe Hockey, Labor Party, leadership spill, Liberal Party, Mad Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Nathan Rees, New South Wales, New South Wales politics, NSW, NSW politics, Ohio, papist, platitude, political values, politics, premier, puppet, Roman catholic, separation of church and state, Tony Abbott, World Youth Day
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NSW ALP Goes One Better
Yes, NSW Labor, determined to show the Liberals “anything you can do I can do better” are in the process of demonstrating that they can have a pointless bloodletting not just in Opposition but even in power.
Posted: 3 December, 2009 in Australian Politics, politics and government, values.
Tags: Catholic, catholic right, government, Labor, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Nathan, Nathan Rees, NSW, NSW Labor, NSW Labor Party, NSW right, Obeid, Opus Dei, political values, politics, Rees, Tripodi, values
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