u have finally found perfect vocation: pro liveblogger
― haitch, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Karen Middleton, SBS
I believe i once shared a uni student office with her, she was a very smart woman.
― moley, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
As an aside to the John Laws rekkid further upthread, I once had in my possession a red coloured 7" of his with the tale of "The Bradford Fairy Godmother", which was a five minute advert for Bradford Insulation. There were a couple of poems on the other side. I gave it to a friend ages ago who probably didn't even have a record player. :(
― S-, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
BTW Almy, I speak for us all I am sure when I say you are entertaining us magnificently today.
― moley, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Shane Wright, Westralian: "defend your tax cuts in the face of inflation pls, coz nz did same thing and the whole country sank into the ocean"
Costello: "full employment > mass unemployment" <-- flat "low unemployment is still a problem" <-- flat, also WHAT THE FUCK "our tax plan = teh rox0r" <-- worm happy "building capacity, take pressure out of system" <-- worm happy "budget in surplus"
Swan: "labor shortages" <-- worm has orgasm
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost hurrah! I probably would lose mooentum if nobody were reading this
Someone from Dow Jones: "how to make rba board appointments transparent"
Swan: nice things <-- worm happy "open + transparent" <-- worm happy
Costello: "labor = disingenuous" <-- worm happy
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Some guy who wasn't introduced properly: "spend on health + education > tax cuts?"
Swan: "people want both" <-- worm spunks again
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
oops
Costello: "people want tax relief" <-- worm wants costello relief "prices are going up" <-- worm agrees "state govts = evil" <-- worm dips "people want help" <-- worm happy
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Clinton Porteous (yes that's his real name), Courier Mail: "liberal polling is shit, interest rates have risen despite your LIES, why should anyone trust costello ffs"
Swan: "I have more experience now than costello did when he became treasurer" <-- worm v happy "we don't take polls for granted" <-- worm happy
Costello: "i am prepared for unforeseen events" <-- worm slightly negative "fuck experience, it's all about policy" <-- flat "can't turn our backs on IR policy" <-- flat "i am made entirely of play-doh" <-- flat
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The antics of the worm are quite seriously the single most exciting thing about this never-ending, Godless campaign.
Vote Worm [1]
― SeekAltRoute, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
someone from 7 network: "aistralians have never been better off my arse, also what about me-tooism"
Costello: blathering about stuff <-- worm gone to sleep "look after pensioners" <-- worm dreaming of eating chocolate in chocolate land
Swan: "howard = teh liar" <-- worm goes to jupiter "housing affordability crisis is REAL" <-- worm happy "we are in touch with working families" <-- worm happy
Costello hasn't landed a single punch on Swan yet.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Michelle "HOT CHICK" Grattan, The Age: "costello must keep howard's promises or die"
Costello: "yes ffs" <-- flat "we deliver, we are DHL" <-- flat "we invest in schools and shit" <-- worm wakes up "stronger economy" <-- worm goes back to sleep
notably costello is fumbling at this point
Swan: "libs broke promise about keeping interest rates at record lows" <-- worm ejaculates
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Closing statement happy fun time
Costello: "we are funky, we are tssssssssssssss hot, we eat sex for breakfast" "we take action on climate change" "we build schools, no really" "small business = engine room of aus economy" "economy = enabling mechanism" "economy = better std of living" "i am passionate" <-- ew "ambitions omg"
worm moderately positive for most of this
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Michelle "HOT CHICK" Grattan
― haitch, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Swan: "stronger economy" "end blame game" "support those who can't afford to support themselves" "don't re-elect stale govt which will do anything to get re-elected" "increase skills etc" "i won't blame someone else like HE does" "working families"
worm fucking effusive nearly the whole time
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
worm results released on a current affair tonight. fuck that shit.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
What happens to the worm now? does it take a holiday or is it killed and eaten?
― moley, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Worm is put into battery in anticipation of the next debate between foreign ministers Alexander Downer and Robert McClelland.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
― haitch, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
DAT'S GOOD EATIN'
― haitch, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
That's great that Swan did well. (even though he's a little bit of a knobhead) Thanx for the sweet sweet liveblog action Almy!
― W4LTER, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
It kept my mind off the physical pain for a couple of hours :)
Swan didn't flub once in the whole 90 minutes, and Costello didn't land a punch on him in the whole 90 minutes.
The explicit reason Costello wanted this debate was to show up who he perceived to be a weak shadow treasurer. It didn't work.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks, dear Autumn - that was fab Also, did anyone see Howard on 7:30 Report last night. He seemed particularly feeble. A shame it wasn't on commercial TV so all the knobs who vote for him could have seen him coming apart at the seams.
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not big or clever, but I had fun doing it...
http://home.iprimus.com.au/jrsmorrison/Images/PoliticalWit.gif
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Please feel free to email that on to like-minded Howard-hating persons, by the way.
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you the trumpet player from Hey Hey It's Saturday?
― S-, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
No. Weirdly enough, you are not the first person to ask.
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Howard on last night's 7.30 Report was pointless. He started with "let's talk about the future" and went on about the past for THE WHOLE INTERVIEW. Kerry even tried to pull him back by saying "you're talking about the past again". Made no difference.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
JM that gif amused me greatly. But as moley will tell you, i have an odd sense of dad-humour.
Adam, yer cracking me the hell up here. Good to have you back on deck.
I must tell Nick off for blanking you the other day btw ;P
― Trayce, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
You're so kind. Don't worry about Nick, I only really met him twonce.
xxxxxxxxxxxxpost That gif is fantastic.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, Rudd was a bit crap on 7.30 Report tonight.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 09:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I just realised there isn't a single Liberal Party poster anywhere in my suburb. I love living in a suburb full of university-educated trendy lefties and lesbians.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 10:15 (sixteen years ago) link
dear adam: I love your worms
dear everyone: thank you for this thread while I am not around to see the carnage myself
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Hell I am around and I'm not paying attention.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Trayce, the typical Australian voter haw haw haw.
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
When Turnbull falls out of line, Howard puts him in a box. When Costello falls out of line, Howard capitulates to divert attention. Yet despite the mess that today was, Abbott is still doing media, still putting his foot in his mouth (view tonight's Lateline for more) and looking worse by the minute. I suspect Howard's routine punishment for Abbott is to pull his ears every time he does something stupid.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
My older brother went to the same school as Abbot (a few years after though, he didn't know Abbot). Run by a cabal of ultra rightwing strap-wielding sadistic Jesuit priests. The sort of Catholic schoold where boys were made to kneel down and pray for victory before rugby matches. According to my brother, either you rebel, or...
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
...take it up the arse?
― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
That too, probably.
Seriously, of the people in my brother's year, half of them turned out like Abbott, and the other half are former drug addicts or dead. (I'm exaggerating, but it's a bit like that.)
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Tony Abbot = LOLERS
― SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Just saw this comment in response to George Megalogenis's column in (shudder) The Australian:
It simply isn’t possible that the Coalition has no influence or control of inflation and the ALP does. Either both parties have some control of inflation, in which case Howard has to take some responsibility for tomorrow’s likely 6th rate rise in 3 years - or neither party is responsible for inflation, in which case the ALP poses no risk to interest rates. Howard can’t have it both ways.
Most sensible thing I've heard in weeks, and eminently digestible. Rudd could use exactly this paragraph to gain enormous purchase.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
His backflip yesterday was staggering. Suddenly worsening inflation is beyond his control. Um, sorry?? So downward pressure is all your doing but upward pressure is out of your hands? Yet upward pressure under the ALP represents bad management? Idiot.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:45 (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
I am also an old boy of this school
― W4LTER, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
But I am much younger than Abb0tt.
― W4LTER, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a lot more liberal these days, of course.
― W4LTER, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just started reading Megalogenis's book 'Faultlines' at the moment on the recommendation of a colleague.
― moley, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm getting worried that Howard spending $3bn on south-east Sydney's roads that would be better spent on public transport infrastructure will mean that all the Campbelltown bogans will forget about their mortgages and vote for him again. Thoughts?
― webber, Monday, 5 November 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably.
Agreed that all this road spending only adds to the very climate change issue he and Rudd are trying to neutralise. Roads fill up, they don't ease shit. Meanwhile Melbourne and Sydney have disintegrating public transport systems that are not getting nearly enough attention, not to mention the distinct lack of train lines.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 November 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― webber, Monday, 5 November 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link