Today is International Beer Day .
And as I am a world citizen I am fully embracing this celebration with a few lovely refreshing beers from my cellar
I bet our suck hole PM wishes he could hide in his cellar after his Pathetic call to Trump was released
If there is anymore evidence needed that the people on manus are just cattle the transcripts confirmed it all.
Have your favorite Tipple Peoples
It will all be over in a year or so
Some good news.
News Corporation falls to $817 million loss on crashing newspaper values
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-11/news-corporation-profit-slumps-on-newspaper-writedowns/8796800
As camp as a row of tents – Abbott poses in a leather jacket, a gift from …….. wait for it ……. Andrew Hastie.
Tony Abbott in leather: former PM joins select politicians’ club with kangaroo-skin jacket
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/11/tony-abbott-in-leather-former-pm-joins-select-politicians-club-with-kangaroo-skin-jacket#comment-103476253
To quote Mr Braithwaite, in ‘Billy Elliot’ – “You look like a right wanker to me, son.”
Also a ‘right wanker’ in the Urban Dictionary sense.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=right%20wanker
Kangaroo skin … What kind of leather is Turnbull’s.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been anywhere near the ABC News department – either radio or TV. I only know Sabra Lane by name, and I plan to keep it that way.
I occasionally read an article on their website, but that’s it.
As far as the postal voluntary survey on SSM goes, all the Liberal Party really wanted was to get it on the front page so that the LGBTI community could be publicly denigrated in an officially sanctioned way. They’ve won that battle already and we’re only a couple of days in. The survey itself means nothing, they won’t honour it anyway. What they’re hoping for now is that the smear is so large that nobody’s going to want to think about it when the government changes. The way people got sick of the republic issue once Howard had mangled it into an unrecognisable form.
It also helps keep the Coalition’s recurring parade of fiascos out of the public eye for a while, for as long as everyone is talking about marriage equality. Just a sideshow taking over from the more important and pressing stuff. Because, let’s face it, SSM is not really supposed to be an issue for all of us, it’s a basic right the LGBTI community ought to be granted as a matter of course. Nobody else needs to be discussing, we just need to get out of the way.
We have a moribund political party clinging on to power the only way they know how, with distractions.
My last point about this is that it ought to be the final nail in the coffin for all the Liberals’ talk of responsible spending and belt-tightening and austerity. That’s the platform they gained government on, and it’s the thing they talked about incessantly for a few years afterwards. You don’t get spending as conspicuously unnecessary as this. I’m surprised more isn’t being made of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/11/high-court-to-hear-challenge-to-marriage-equality-postal-plebiscite-in-september
Isn’t that nice of the ABS.
A book review about epidemiologist Micheal Marmot’s latest book
https://johnmenadue.com/kim-oates-the-health-gap/
I don’t know how to do sarcasm thingos. So don’t take this seriously.
If Dutton can have Border Patrol then I’m going to join the Plebiscite Police.
A highly trained select group of operatives whose job is to get video proof of people’s sexual activities to make sure they aren’t falsifying any info on their Plebiscite forms.
Can any Pubsters remember when Fred Nile’s office was in the doo doo for watching porno ? His excuse was that they had to monitor it to keep abreast (pardon the pun ) of latest developments.
Where’s John Clease and the Monty Python team when you need them?
Sep 2, 2010
Fred Nile caught in web porn scandal
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/fred-nile-caught-in-web-porn-scandal-20100901-14nuc.html
Fred used to be first through the door at any art exhibition or film showing featuring naked flesh too, demanding things he had already viewed at length be taken away because they were too rude for the innocent eyyes of the citizens of NSW. It became a sort of recommendation – ‘Fred Nile wanted this banned’.
What an absolute balls-up this survey is.
Government unsure if marriage survey will exclude 100,000 voters, allow 16-year-olds to vote
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-unsure-if-marriage-survey-will-exclude-100000-voters-allow-16yearolds-to-vote-20170811-gxuag7.html
Tnen there’s this –
Don’t worry. George Brandis is right on top of it!
Should the high-court challenge succeed, does that leave the govt up shit creek so far as their sms tactics are concerned? It is way past time the abbott and his fellow bigots are slapped back into the sewer.
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