Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, September 29 - 00:00
The Barnaby Joyce Storm-Resistant Non-Renewable Energy Delivery System.
As storms in South Australia recently proved, power lines delivering electricity produced from renewable energy sources are not up to the task in high winds!
This is due to the fact that renewable energy is largely produced using light or weightless materials such as wind and sunlight.
The Barnaby Joyce Storm-Resistant Non-Renewable Energy Delivery System uses non-renewable energy produced from coal, which is much heavier and weighs down the power lines resulting in greater wind resistance.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, September 11 - 00:00
Not by Dr Seuss
Oh the thinks you don't think Mr Howard it's true
Are often the thinks that you haven't thought through
You don't think that women will have equal say
You don't think we need laws to have equal pay
You don't think anti-villification's okay
And you don't think that we should have marriage that's gay
An Australian Republic?
I don't think today
Perhaps an Indigenous treaty?
No way
Oh the thinks you don't think Mr Howard you twit
You clearly don't think of the nation one bit
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, August 7 - 00:00
Once upon a time:
The devil you knew was superstition, the devil you didn't was reason.
The devil you knew was conjecture, the devil you didn't was knowledge.
The devil you knew was trepidation, the devil you didn't was discovery.
The devil you knew was tyranny, the devil you didn't was democracy.
The devil you knew was slavery, the devil you didn't was freedom.
The devil you knew was a woman in her place, the devil you didn't was a woman fulfilling her potential.
The devil you knew was segregation, the devil you didn't was inclusion.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, July 19 - 20:21
Why shouldn't we condemn Pauline Hanson as just another ignorant racist? Well because all the other ignorant racists didn't cost us $1.2 million this election.
How?
Under election rules, the Australian Electoral Commission pays parties and candidates $2.62 for every first-preference vote they get in each state or division in which they attract more than 4% of the vote.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, July 11 - 00:00
Today Malcolm Turnbull returned to the prime minister's office to commence another three years of insipid, dishonest, manipulative, underhanded, discriminatory, narrow-minded, economically inept and socially irresponsible government on the back of three previous years of incompetent, second-rate government.
Also on the this day, one hundred years ago, Edward Gough Whitlam was born.
Here is what he achieved in just under three years:
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, July 10 - 00:00
“I defend the decision that I took. I don’t resile from it. I don’t believe it was the wrong decision.”
- John Howard
So just to clarify:
In 2003 John Howard made a decision to go to war based on flawed evidence and inadequate planning.
A war that the majority of Australians did not support.
A war that was not sanctioned by the United Nations.
A war that did not produce any evidence of the weapons program that was used to justify the invasion.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, July 1 - 00:00
Malcolm Turnbull was born in Sydney in 1954. He did not grow up in poverty, with a dissability, in a remote community, the victim of domestic violence, or reliant on any number of government services. He was not a fee paying student at university or person in debt to the government for his law degree.
Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister in September 2015, on the basis of not being Tony Abbott. The Coalition's flagging popularity improved and Turnbull began to open up a lead as preferred PM, on the basis of not being Bill Shorten.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, June 29 - 14:05
The names of political parties can sometimes be misleading - the Liberals aren't very liberal, the Nationals only represent rural constituents, the Labor party aren't American, and the Greens are the same colour as the rest of us - so here is a hastily researched list of all minor political parties registered for the 2016 election.
Okay it's a bit long but so is the bloody Senate ballot paper. Happy voting.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, June 26 - 20:34
"Our clear economic plan is more essential than ever as we enter this period of uncertainty in global markets following the British vote to leave the European Union."
- Malcolm Turnbull
That clear economic plan has increased the deficit by $33 billion in two and a half years and seen Australia go backward in terms of wealth, productivity, jobs growth and trade.
Submitted by richard.obrien on 2016, June 23 - 16:05
"Frankly people of strong religious views, they have been subjected to quite dreadful hate speech and bigotry as well...I know it from personal experience, having been exposed to that sort of hatred and bigotry for the views I've taken, from others who have a different view to me."
- Scott Morrison, responding to Penny Wong's comments on hate speech directed towards LGBTI people.
Dear Scott
Thanks to hate speech and bigotry from, among others, conservative Christians like yourself, LGBTI people in Australia are:
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