Great blog article here by Kerryn Goldsworthy on Tony Abbott and women voters ( Read more... )

I hate Tony Abbott.

Tony Abbott has addressed parliament for the first time as opposition leader - and declared he will now have to stop flirting with Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard.http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/978288/ ( Read more... )

I'm giving up on them today. Just saw a snippet of Kevin Rudd aka our Prime Minister visiting our troops in Afghanistan. He's sitting eating with some in the mess and he takes a mouthful of food and asks one of the men, "Are you having fun ( Read more... )

Ya know? All things considered, and having half my family on my mother's side brutally murdered as a result of Hitler's policies, I'm gonna go with ... um ... NO! I DO NOT PLACE SECURITY ABOVE FREEDOM! NAZI LOVING BASTARD!

If I'm not free, what's the point of being safe?

A Western Australian politician says his comments about Hitler during a ( Read more... )

So I've been following the Roman Polanski thing, and by "thing" I mean that the police finally caught up with him and the US is trying to extradite him back to the States cause he skipped the country instead of standing for sentencing for a crime that he already plead to. And by "plead", I mean that that he agreed to a lesser charge of "sex with a ( Read more... )

Yeah, um, no.

The product's tag line reads: "iSnack 2.0, because it's the next generation Vegemite."


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Quotes from ABC News

But a Coalition bid to silence the Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek backfired - it gave her new ammunition to attack the Opposition for failing to give female MPs a prominent role ( Read more... )

So, I guess I don't understand.

A VICTORIAN footballer has been charged with the manslaughter of his teammate during a club's grand final celebrations - which continued in a "low key" manner ( Read more... )

I'm really not sure what to say about this.

Adolf Hitler is the face of AIDS in a controversial new awareness campaign.

Warning: it's graphic and NSFW.


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I tend to avoid 9/11 memorials - it's not really my event to be constantly commemorating and for me, I dunno, but not enough time has passed for the emotion to have abaited. I just for some unknown reason played the video on Boing Boing that streams together pretty much all the TV channels that covered the event live - and in each case, there's ( Read more... )