An Australia Day Confession

Fiona Uncategorized

My fellow Pubkateers, I have to make a confession about a surprising epiphany that occurred a few minutes ago …

(Image Credit: Pets Diaries)

Moi has suddenly, overwhelmingly, DEEPLY, DESPERATELY, AND DANGEROUSLY, fallen IN LOVE with Our Dear Leader, PM Blood Oaf.

So moi simply cannot resist sharing moi’s feelings and, more importantly, reasons, with youse humanes.

Moi loves PMBO with:

A because he is ABYSMAL

B because he is BELLICOSE

C because he is CRASS

D because he is a DOLT

E because he is EGREGIOUS

F because he is FRIGHTENING

G because he is GORMLESS

H because he is HORRIBLE

I because he is IMPOLITE

J because he is JINGOISTIC

K because he is a KILL-JOY

L because he is LOUTISH

M because he is MISOGYNISTIC

N because he is NASTY

O because he is an OAF

P because he is a PRICK

Q because he is QUINTESSENTIALLY appalling

R because he is REPULSIVE

S because he is STUPID

T because he is TERRIBLE

U because he is UNCOUTH

V because he is VICIOUS

W because he is WORTHLESS

X because he is XENOPHOBIC

Y because he is YUKKY

Z because THAT’S HIS GRADE LEVEL.

 


Toodle pip 😉

PS: Well done and fantastic choices (which I bet got up a few people’s noses):

Adam Goodes – 2014 Australian of the Year

Fred Chaney – 2014 Senior Australian of the Year

Jacqueline Freney – 2014 Young Australian of the Year

Tim Conolan – 2014 Australia’s Local Hero

All thoroughly well-deserved (as were all their fellow nominees).

877 thoughts on “An Australia Day Confession”

  2. Barnaby Joyce was going to fight for funding for SPC. This has to be a huge kick in the nuts for him. Now he knows exactly what a National Party MP is worth to the Liberals. A bum on a seat, nothing more.

  3. Won’t help….but still.

    posted in the Shepparton News.

    ” I live in Queensland, I’m a pensioner, vote ALP and I consume Australian fruit.

    It seems that the time I have spent in Aldi, Coles and WW’ths examining the provenance of canned fruit has been wasted. As has the extra few ‘bob’ that I paid for your products

    I’m sorry. I wish you all well. “

  5. http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-to-launch-efficiency-study-into-abc-sbs-20140130-31pb3.html

    Abbott government to launch ‘efficiency study’ into ABC, SBS
    January 30, 2014 – 5:02PM
    Jonathan Swan and Matthew Knott
    EXCLUSIVE

    The Abbott government is poised to launch an “efficiency study” into the ABC – a move that will exacerbate the already extraordinary pressure on the national broadcaster.

    Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to announce the review into ABC spending and work practices within days.

    The timing of the announcement – which will lead to speculation that the ABC’s budget will be cut – could not be worse for Mr Turnbull, who has taken pains to distance himself from his colleagues’ remarks about cutting, dividing, and even privatising, the ABC.

    Mr Turnbull is keen to reassure the public that he is a staunch defender of the ABC and appears uncomfortable with his government’s recent attacks on the broadcaster over alleged bias.
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    While the full details of the ABC “efficiency study” are yet to be released, Fairfax Media understands it will cover both the ABC and SBS.

    More to come

  6. And of course the ‘efficiency study’ will recommend gigantic funding cuts. Why bother with thr expense of this farce? Why not just announce a funding cut and be done with it?

  7. Beggars belief doesn’t it. For the sake of a piddling $25m the abbott is prepared to risk thousands of jobs and the livelihoods of fruit farmers It would be lov-er-ly if his god struck him down with a stroke as he sleeps tonight….

  10. As well as the SPC workers imagine the crap coming for the fruit growers and people that service them.

  11. http://www.crikey.com.au/2006/11/21/leaked-kpmg-report-abc-efficient-but-underfunded/

    Leaked KPMG report: ABC efficient but underfunded
    Margaret Simons writes: | Nov 21, 2006 12:00AM

    It arrived in the proverbial plain brown wrapper – confirmation that the Federal Government is starving the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

    Crikey has received a copy of an ABC Board briefing on the crucial KPMG review of the ABC’s funding. It shows the ABC needs an extra $125.8 million in core funding over the next three years just to maintain its present operations.

  12. Hand over $25 million, keep a cannery going, keep workers employed, keep farmers growing fruit, reap the rewards in continuing and increasing tax revenues. Or refuse the grant, go without the revenue, spend even more on dole payments and assistance packages to farmers who will have to rip up their trees and grow something else. I hope everyone realises that the fruit grown for canning is not the sort of fruit you want to eat fresh. Canning peaches are crunchy and not at all like ‘real’ peaches’. The only people who would buy them in the shops are people who want to bottle thir own fruit. Which is a skill we might have to learn for ourselves now.

    Then there’s that $1 billion Abbott will spend on up-grading water infrastructure that no-one will need now, unless Coca Cola Amatil can come up with the money themselves.

    All this so Joe Hockey can advance his leadership campaign. That’s something that needs to be talked about a lot. Hockey wants to be leader, he needs the support of the ‘dries’ in the party, this decision gets him that support. It’s all about PM Sloppy.

  15. That must feel nice for the SPC workers. Abbott telling them to go to hell and then turns around to focus on what he sees as more important things like trying to stop the ABC saying mean things about him.

    I’m not going to pretend I care what the Nationals do about this, but it kind of proves how useless they are if they simply let this slide. But knowing the scum among the Coalition I’ll bet Abbott made a deal so that the Nationals can have one of their Redneck Loony policies enacted in return that hurts even more people.

  16. For this review Abbott and Turnbull will round up the few failed Howard era ministers and ancient Howard-era advisors not yet employed by this government on reviews and inquiries. All of them will be only too happy to tell the government exactly what it will ask to be told. For doing this they will be paid large sums of our money and given expense allowances to cover lavish meals, 5 star accommodation and frequent travel. It should only cost us a few million.

  17. Kirsdarke

    But knowing the scum among the Coalition I’ll bet Abbott made a deal so that the Nationals can have one of their Redneck Loony policies enacted in return that hurts even more people.

    They don’t need to, they know that the Nats lost their backbone a couple of decades ago.

  18. The Nationals – the Voice of the Land!
    And now, let’s hear from Deputy PM Warren Truss.

  21. The comment I posted to the Shepparton News was up, then gone. I re submitted, but it didn’t make it out of moderation. Go figure…..and I loathe that expression!

  22. The people of Hume Voted them in.

    Australian federal election, 2013: Hume[1]
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Liberal Angus Taylor 49,105 53.97 +0.41
    Labor Michael Pilbrow 23,711 26.06 −5.80
    Greens Zaza Chevalier 5,218 5.73 −1.92
    Palmer United Jason Cornelius 4,015 4.41 +4.41
    One Nation Lynette Styles 2,521 2.77 +2.77
    Independent James Harker-Mortlock 2,096 2.30 +2.30
    Katter’s Australian Bruce Nicholson 1,658 1.82 +1.82
    Christian Democrats Adrian Van Der Byl 1,397 1.54 −0.22
    CEC Lindsay Cosgrove 1,273 1.40 +1.40
    Total formal votes 90,994 93.68 −1.19
    Informal votes 6,142 6.32 +1.19
    Turnout 97,136 94.93 −0.02
    Two-party-preferred result
    Liberal Angus Taylor 55,938 61.47 +2.75
    Labor Michael Pilbrow 35,056 38.53 −2.75
    Liberal hold Swing +2.75

    I wonder if they they are happy with their choice?

  23. Yeah, I guess that’s true.

    I’ll bet the Nationals at this moment are trying to down the poo sandwich assuring themselves “Well at -least- this isn’t a socialist -Labor- government, what with their stupid -environmental protection- and their -equality- and their -actually trying to make things better for rural areas-“.

  26. ‘The people of Hume Voted them in.’
    The people of Hume won’t be much affected by this, The people of Murray will be hardest hit. They voted this mob in too. As did the people of Riverina, who will also be affected.

  28. I had a funny encounter with a National voter on election day. He was going around asking for the Nationals how to vote card, and every time I and the other HTV volunteers told him that there wasn’t any Nat candidate in Ballarat, he ignored us, ending up walking around the whole block of the school.

    The Liberal HTV volunteer tried to give him her card but he said “Nope I don’t like yous either”. I don’t know what he eventually did but yeah, it was kind of sad as well as amusing.

  31. Anyone get the feeling that Messrs. Clarke and Dawe are not enamoured of The Good Ship Abbott?

  32. The behaviour of the crew on that particular ship compares unfavourably with that on the good ship Venus.

  34. But the funding proposition has caused angst within Coalition ranks, with leading rural figures backing the $25 million proposal, while Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Treasurer Joe Hockey and other economic rationalists baulked at the proposal.

    “economic rationalists” ?!!!!!!!!!!!! Try “economic vandals”.

  36. BK

    Nah .They have assumed their traditional position in the Coalition………..a doormat.

  39. The Nationals are too busy defending CSG exploration in their electorates to know or care about what is happening to a fruit cannery in Shepparton.

  41. Abbott continuously emphasised the re-negotiation of the EBA followed by “The Government will provide the right conditions for Business to restructure”. Code for EBAs will not be accepted by the Fair Work Commission if they exceed the Award?

  43. Hmmmm….. a unicorn called ‘ABC/SBS Review’ appears to take the heat out of the SPC Ardmona decision?

    It's understood Turnbull was not intending to announce this afternoon, but calls from Fairfax will change that. http://t.co/qRd599Ms4l— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) January 30, 2014

  45. Fiona

    A very prescient toon of what happens when Wile E Coyote aka Tony catches the Road Runner.

  46. As the economy falters and slides into recession, and industries collapse, and unemployment runs higher and higher…
    As education standards fall, and healthcare becomes unaffordable, and prisons fill to overflowing…
    As neighbourhood war threatens, and our national reputation becomes a joke, and the world of our grandchildren becomes uninhabitable…
    … they’ll still be blaming Labor.

  47. Last dot point:

    “The relative importance/performance of the ABC and SBS compared to other
    broadcasting services in local markets.”

    My verdict: importance – enormous; performance – excellent (SBS), hijacked by vested interests (ABC).

    You can write their conclusions as well as I can.

  48. BK
    “The Nationals must be horribly conflicted at the moment.” They only care about “their” base in opposition once firmly in the seats of “Government” they have the let them eat cake attitude

  50. It’s not the National Party I feel sorry for. They’ve proven time and again that they’re just a bunch of mercenaries, a kind of a country propaganda arm for the Liberals. It’s the poor people who vote for them in the mistaken belief that they represent rural interests I’m sad about. The Nationals spend a lot of their time slagging off independent members who really do represent their electorates; and manage to convince people that voting independent is voting for a member without a voice. Then they hound the likes of Oakeshott and Windsor out of Parliament. The National Party don’t stand for anything, and it’s silly to imagine they do.

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