Fun and games here in Oz this month.
You may have heard, we had an election, and guess what? No one won.
Our situation is even worse than the UK tho, there seems to be no conceivable grouping to establish a stable government. Neither the Government nor the opposition can form a workable majority from the rest [...]
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Oz explained
BBC FAIL
I frequently have rolling news in the background and I glanced up to hear the latest on the Australian elections. You can imagine my amazement when I heard Tony Abbott described as the “Conservative leader”.
He’s leader of the Australian Liberal Party!
This annoyed me. It could have been cock-up on the BBC’s part but I doubt [...]
Garbage
Wandering through the supermarket here on Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast this evening, and what do I see? A big sign with a happy and smiling black lady, wearing ethnic clobber and her hands spreading some sort of beans on a mat before her. You know, epitomising what you and I would probably call the hell [...]
Miss Australia
You know the film “This is Spinal Tap”? You know there is a scene where the manager gets annoyed at the interfering of one of the band members girlfriends and describes her as looking like “something from an Australian’s nightmare”. Behold Miss Australia…
Ride the Crocodile!
My wife once temped with an Australian woman in Manchester. The Aussie was from Perth which is by all accounts a fine city and needs to be because there is nothing else in the state of Western Australia. Indeed this lady had initially looked into broadening her horizons by moving to Sydney or Melbourne. When [...]
Sex
The days when we gave a toss about the sex of our leading politicians is long gone. Really, it just isn’t important any more to anyone who isn’t a complete obsessive. I just don’t care about the shape of the Australian Prime Ministers genitals, and I do wish that people like this would stop rubbing [...]
Fools
If stupidity really were a capital offense these morons would be dead right now.
It crossed my mind to go down to the beach and have a look at the tsunami coming in, but it took about a picosecond to dismiss the thought as the lunacy it was. Not just dangerous, but ghoulish.
This lot though? Treated [...]
No change here then
A week ago in Sydney:
Five Sydney men convicted of terrorism-related offences have been sentenced to maximum sentences ranging from 23 to 28 years in prison.
This week in Sydney:
SYDNEY’S Muslim community leaders last night condemned authorities over the conviction of five men under terrorism laws, describing their sentencing as a "travesty of justice".
Senior Muslim figures, [...]
Real agenda
Australia has about a million camels.
You didn’t know that, did you?
During the 19thC camels were imported to transport supplies across the more arid areas, and in the nature of things some went feral. Well, there are an estimated million of the buggers now; in fact, Oz exports camels to Saudi Arabia.
Bet you didn’t know that [...]
Sanity
It worked!!!
The Emmissions Trading Scheme was stopped in the Australian Senate. Are the Liberals the western worlds only AGW sceptical major political party outside the US Republicans?
The ETS bill won’t be re presented to the Sanate until February 2010, and maybe this will be a little more prominent and influential by then.
Ok, it’s only the [...]
The fightback begins
Oz got a new leader of the opposition, the third one since the Libs lost office two years ago. It is a bit of a speedy turnover, but after over a decade of John Howard they needed to keep trying on new leaders for size.
This last change was triggered by the events of my last [...]
Media intransigence
Right now, in Oz, we are in the middle of passing an emissions trading bill. Problem for the government is it doesn’t have the numbers in the Senate without cross party support. Now the Liberals – the main conservative party – are tearing themselves apart over whether to support it or not.
A week ago it [...]
Self righteous and insulting garbage
Dear God, who do these people think they are?
Fuck off, preening dickheads.
Or as Andrew Bolt put it, how dare they.
A touch of sanity
Typical. No one is responsible for their own actions, it is always someone else.
Mr Scott died when he crashed into a bridge at Orford while driving home from the Tandara Motor Inn on January 24, 2002.
His widow Sandra Scott, formerly of Orford, successfully sued over her husband’s death arguing the pub had a duty [...]
