Australia
Politics Down Under
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Written by Max Gross (*With apologies to George Gershwin and Georges Guetary)
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Tony Abbott once said he would NOT sell his arse for the PM position. Malcolm Turnbull did so without a second thought.
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No God or Allah here, just human greed, deceit, vengeance and misery. The clash of fanatics and criminals is being entrenched
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As long as we keep killing Afghan kids, mums, dads and goats, our lads will remain legitimate targets for any angry Afghan with a pea shooter, rock or IDF device.
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Here in Australia, when an “economic crisis” and “budget emergency” won’t fool the punters, pundits and bogans, there’s always that good old reliable standby: wargasm.
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US SecDef Rumsfeld re Saddam’s imminent threat: “It–my view of–of the situation was that he–he had–we–we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that–that we believed and we still do not know–we will know.”
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Far from locking out minor parties and independents, Turnbull has opened the cage to hateful nutters like Praline Hanson from whom John Howard stole his most divisive policies and brought us to the point where we imprison innnocent people in concentration camps to be driven to insanity and suicide for daring to seek asylum.
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Rational Mal, reasonable Mal, solemn, civil and civilised Mal made no mention of the LGBT nature of the murder victims or the fact that the murderer had no connection with any Islamist or terrorist group
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Gillard might not have all the answers – and by christ she has a lot to answer for – but at least she is moving in the right direction, encouraging new investment and technologies while Abbott’s coterie of denialists defend the 21st-century’s equivalent of the horse-and-cart: the fossil fuel industry
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How is the United States of Amnesia (Gore Vidal’s perfect descriptor) managing its war on a pronoun as declared by the retired war criminal and world famous idiot George Dubya Bush and his claque Let’s look at the root cause.
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