Supervote Saturday commentary

Labor got the hiding they expected and deserved in the NSW by-elections. They may have only lost one seat, but the swing against them speaks volumes. Rees is going to need to eliminate the stench by 2011 or, barring yet another Liberal Party implosion, the Carr-Iemma-Rees dynasty will be over.
The Nats – and, since the [...]

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Inconceivable

Interest rates dropping and now unemployment down slightly – the Libs are going to need a new economic narrative to tag Labor with.

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Wordlespeech

After viewing the clouds of the US convention speeches, I’ve been playing around with Wordle myself. Here are word clouds for a few of my favourite speeches in Australian political history. Links to the original text of each speech are below the clouds.

Redfern Speech, Paul Keating, 10th December 1992

Eulogy of the Unknown Australian Soldier, Paul [...]

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I’ll put my hand up

Ken Lovell asks:
Is it permissible to speak harshly of the Rudd Government yet?
 

Yes.

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Drifting into incoherence

This is just pathetic:
In an effort to soften the impact on motorists and prevent petrol price hikes, the Government is to go against the strong views of climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut and regularly cut petrol excise to make sure the emission trading scheme does not push up the fuel prices.

Piss. Weak.
The Government has [...]

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Bad Moon Rising

Not surprisingly, the OO’s theme du jour is that energy policy will be the bane of the Rudd Government’s brief existence. Of course, the OO also stakes out its own position, which is that the future must be radioactive. We were all just too stupid to listen to John Howard.
The Editor-at-Large exemplifies the Oz’s current [...]

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Inside the twisted mind of a Poison Dwarf

Glenn Milne divines the inner thoughts of a group of people who he has never been intimate with – the Australian Labor Party. A piece of speculation and opinion-shifting as rank as this should stand out as distinctively pathetic journalism – it says something about the current state of reporting on Australian politics that it [...]

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Agreement with GrodsCorp

I has it.
UPDATE: On the flipside is this tactic from the Opposition, which manages to both (i) stall the Government’s plan to eliminate a clear form of discrimination and (ii) implicitly suggest that homosexual partnerships are on a par with siblings and other carers rather than married or de facto heterosexual couples. There should not [...]

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New Leadership

Meet Team Rudd.
Meet the Next John Howard – except that I don’t think this one will win government.
Meet the Next Peter Costello – except that I think this one will have the guts to challenge his new leader.
And it’s going to be Bishop vs Gillard on IR. Given that these are the current and previous [...]

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Colourful Caroline carries on (with more of her continuous crap)

Horrible, arrogant Labor – inviting their three surviving Prime Ministers to the campaign launch.
By the way – they have won.

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