Tag Archives: AusPol

Last weekend over 150,000 people took to the streets around the country in protest of the Abbott government.  Tony Abbott has been in power less than six months and has surprised everyone with his surprisingly blunt level of scumbaggery.  Most recently he was at a school fielding questions from children and when asked by a girl about gay marriage, he ...

He’s going to lose the election in five days but at least he got to have an Aaron Sorkin-esque exit 🙂

The latest Galaxy Poll shows the LNP pulling ahead in two party preferred polls.  It’s not an unassailable margin but at this point, a betting man would be wise to put money on Tony Abbott and the conservatives regaining power in September. This is a disappointing development to say the least.  The only positive I take out of it is ...

“……..I’m buggered” “Thats alright” Still one of the funniest moments in Australian politics.

“I don’t oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia,” she said, apparently oblivious to the fact that Islam is a religion, not a country. In any case, Ms Banister doesn’t have a problem with Jewish Kosher food. “Jews aren’t under Haram, they have their own religion which follows ...

ETHICS Committee chair Peter Dowling has stepped aside over a sexting scandal. Overnight it was reported that a state MP had been exposed as a serial sexter, sending images to his secret mistress including a picture of his penis plonked in a glass of red wine. In addition, Ethics Committee chairman and Redlands LNP MP Peter Dowling has confirmed he ...

I can’t believe this is our third goddamn federal election where one of the main talking points is how to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boats, which they are perfectly entitled to do.  The.  Third.  Goddamn.  Time.

How to campaign entirely on sound bytes and slogans, without even the faintest idea of what your policies actually are :/

6:30 PM Australia might have a new Prime Minister in half an hour. Nearly three years after Julia Gillard assumed power in Australia by ousting sitting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from her own party, we are now having the third and final leadership spill from Kevin Rudd.  After two previous unsuccessful attempts to spill the leadership, Rudd has agreed to ...