Posts by Craig Ranapia
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And you can guess who decides what is "respectable" or "sensible" or "reliable" or "well-presented".
Just listening to Mediawatch's item on this, does that mean Willie and JT or honorary old white men? :)
And, Roughan, if you want to talk about "lack of quality control" in our Parliament, the only MP convicted (and imprisoned) on charges of corruption was... "individually assessed by a broad spectrum of the population" of the Otara and Mangere electorates. Five times.
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Ooooh, dear. It looks like the
de-Rudd-erisation of the ALP
was just what they needed.
Australia's first ginga PM has now
hit the lead insofar as the Bad Abbott
on the other side and the LibNats are
concerned.Um, so Gillard's honeymoon has lasted a whole thirty six hours? Fancy. Sorry to be the prick in your bubble, but I believe there's got to be a tiresome thing called an election campaign where Gillard's going to have to do a bit more than crack self-deprecating ginga gags. Definitely a more even playing field (and more interesting campaign), but I think there's more than a little magical thinking from various commentators who think it's hardly worth bothering with the election.
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Rather unfortunate timing for a feature in this week's Listener: 'Is Rudd a dud?' Well, yes.
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The thing I took issue with was PA being a polar counterpart to Kiwiblog. That would be The Standard, surely.liberal and Labour friendly
Oh, bite my "liberal and Labour friendly" arse Drinnan.
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How, HOW has it taken so long to give Helen Mirren a BFG?
Who needs a BFG when your eyes can project "don't fuck with me, cocksmeg" rays of bored contempt? Watch The Queen, people.
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But the fortune cookie looked so delicious!
I call dibs on Lady Haden-Guest's body.
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Now that I understand Twilight, could someone explain to me how this works:
1) The more Inception trailers, stills, enigmatic interviews with Christopher Nolan etc. come out the more thoroughly bewildered I become.
2) The more confused I am, the more I want to see the damn thing, even though I still want to hit Leonardo with a seal club.
3) My nose in bleeding. WTF?
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What would you have done?
Seriously? Run the fucking ads -- taken every opportunity to call out the mining industry as the real threat to Australian jobs and prosperity who are stone cold liars. Seriously, I find it hard to believe the mining industry ones I've seen (and I don't know if they're at all typical) would pass muster with the BSA on this side of the ditch.
Go on the front foot and asked Australian workers if they really want to be "competitive" with nations where wages are piss-poor, and working conditions are literally deadly; if it's actually fair that working families in Western Australia are expected to pay for corporate welfare with their taxes.
Hell, Julia Gillard is supposed to be such a wonderful communicator. She's not incapable of hitting the campaign trail and saying every minute of every day "The Australian Labour Party is for working families not corporate welfare, and everyone shouldering their share of their bill. The ALP believes that's the Aussie way. How about you?"
I'm sure everyone is duly shocked hearing this commie rhetoric coming from the house right-winger, but I take the free market seriously enough to believe corporates don't get to have it both ways. You don't like dry heat, don't sign a damn thing the devil gives you. You extol the virtues of a free market, then you live (and die) by the same creed you preach to others or get the fuck off my lawn.
Rant over -- it's Friday, had a generally shitty week, need to do something de-stressive and fun before I burst a blood vessel all over someone. :)
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Presumably, it would have been better to have accelerated towards the brick wall.
That's silly, Russell. It might have been better if the mining industry hadn't been sent such a clear message that flat out deceptive scare campaigns work. And, as I said, given that industry's previous form there's entirely justifiable scepticism whether people like 'Twiggy' Forrest have the same definition of "good faith" and "fair taxation" as the rest of us. Sure looks to me like they're the usual "free market red in tooth and claw for thee, corporate welfare for me" boardroom hypocrites who don't like regulation and hate paying their taxes.
I hope I'm wrong and Gillard isn't going to turn out to be an abject doormat, but forgive me for not feeling over confident at this point.
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Only it's likely they never will - because they are better than that.
Was covering off Harry Duynhoven's arse (and purely coincidentally, I'm sure, avoiding a by-election nobody really wanted) a constitutional crisis of such severity the Electoral Act had to be amended under extreme urgency?
I don't know about you, but the Electoral Act strikes me as one of those things you never ever change without proper debate, scrutiny and public input.
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