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What The Heck?
The blighters were just playing games when they checked Tony Crook’s intentions. What was the point of that? Just to prove that they are the big boys now? No one in the playground is going to push…
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Tony Needs To Toughen Up
Brandt has signed up with Labor after Bob Brown was promised a carbon tax. Wilkie has signed up with Labor after he was promised a renovated hospital in Hobart. Tony Abbott now needs to be absolutely…
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Just Back
… from two hours of handing out how to vote cards in Kingscote (Mayo, SA). Two things of interest. 1. Someone who thought I was offering her a Labor card said ‘Not without Kevin.’ I wasn’t…
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Inevitable Election Prediction
All right, so I may be embarrassed tomorrow, but here goes. In primary votes, the Liberals are way ahead. But with preference deals counted, most polls show them at 48% and Labor at 52%. Tim Blair has…
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Gillard Strident and Negative – ABC News
No, Julia Gillard being strident and negative is not news. What is news is that an ABC correspondent says she is. Even Julia seems to be admitting that she is now running a wholly negative campaign. She…
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The Age
There was a time when, even though left leaning, The Age stood for clear reporting, and the best of liberal values, in the sense of being fair and open. That has not been the case for many years. The…
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Labor’s Report Card
Based on comments by Engineer and Mick Davis on Andrew Bolt’s blog. Labor’s Report Card 20/20 Summit – FAIL Millions of dollars of your money wasted. No ideas from summit implemented. Aboriginal Housing – FAIL $300 million of your money spent, no houses…
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A Teensy Little Gloat
Despite the morbid prognostications of Mr Mackerras and the left-wing locos, I said before the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections that both seats would be retained easily by the Liberals, that neither would go to preferences, and…
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Libs Come To Their Senses
Maybe Tony Abbott did not ignore my fax. And maybe Kevin Andrews was willing to run just to test the level of support for Malcolm Turnbull, with another stronger candidate in the background. In any case,…
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Backseat Bonking Backfires
Well, it was either that or ‘Big Banana Bonks Barmaid.’ I am no fan of Mike Rann. His is a government that has achieved very little at great expense. But I am less than impressed by…