Re: The Australian Federal Election 2010 Thread (III)

[G.Wood]

Rupert, you are a disgrace.

No surprise there. It seems the only qualification needed to work for News Ltd is the willingness to do whatever Rupert says while taking his todger.

aye. I hope he does take the role. We'll have better government with him on the inside looking over shoulders.

He won't have to make any speeches will he?


Bit of a surprise to see that qunt Barnaby go all chippy

[Mick Sawyer]

You don't piss on shoulders, Mick.

aye. Equally the shoulders will want to stay dry.

[Mick Sawyer]

Bit of a surprise to see that qunt Barnaby go all chippy

I didn't see/hear that. He's a wag huh?

[G.Wood]

Aye, he's a blight on that great billie state

[skully]

Just back from a cracking night at NSW Parliament House for the LBW Trust. Barry O'Farrell was the "parliamentary host" - turns out that he loves the great game so bodes well for when the government changes.

Sen John Faulkner was also there having flown in from Canberra today - he is also a massive cricket tragic who is a patron of the LBW Trust.

I was sitting next to Mike Coward and Murray Bennett. Bennett was totally grouse - no pretensions about his ability but the man bowled Viv Richards in a Test match so he rocks. He talked about the "transitions" glasses that he used to wear - it was his only sponsorship.

Coward was very depressed about match fixing and the state of the game in general. He thinks we need a cracking Ashes to bring the game back from the brink.

Other guests on the night were the very rootable Stephanie Brantz who was the MC, Peter Taylor, Gav Robertson, Mo, MacGill and Hauritz. Hauritz was pretty good actually - he clearly loves playing for his country. Macgill was pissed and not very funny although talked about being more than satisfied with being No 2 behind Warne for most of his career (200+ test wickets earns you the right to be philosophical).

I ended up buying a framed bat signed by the Ch Nein commentators - Richie, Bill, Tony, Chappelli, Tubby, Smashing, Slats and Heals. Pretty happy with it actually other than Smashing.

Sounds a grouse night!!!

So I guess it's congrats to the overwhelming majority of posters in here who are raving pinko lefties not mad enough to vote for Abbott. [sigh]

Hass, skulls would still vote Liberal if they fielded a leadership team of Stalin, Hitler, Goering, Krushchev and George W Bush.

Damn straight. But that line-up looks distinctly pinko to me.

[horace]

skully would vote for Lalit Modi if he were head of the Libs...after all he supports a party that has kept bronny b in Parliament

[skully]

Now you're just being silly, h.

[JGK]

Has anyone heard from bl?

[Bradman]

No! But do we need a repeat of the scene from Deliverance.

[horace]

as advised yesterday, bodyline was last seen yesterday digging up the backyard for his buried shotties and ironing his confederate flag

[G.Wood]

LINK

Well that didn't take long.

I'm curious to see what Winsdsor looks like up his own petard

[horace]

time for city folks to rebel against further subsidisation of the bush

[embee]

I think Swan might get told to pull his head in too

Whats the harm in discussing the MRRT at the Henry tax summit ...its a *sh!t* implemented tax that has cost one PM his job and almost killed another ...Swan has NFI about the revenue to be raised from it and has Zero chance of getting it past the Senate before the Greens get the BOP in July next year (who will probably reject it on the grounds its doesnt punish mining enough) ...and now he wants to piss off the independent who let them cling onto power

Swan is a deadset farqwit

[Zat]

Time for the people in the bush, who actually grow the food that city folk eat, and who dig stuff out of the ground that gets made into cars that city folk spend hours in traffic jams in, to charge city customers more for the privilege.

[G.Wood]

I think Swan might get told to pull his head in too

Whats the harm in discussing the MRRT at the Henry tax summit ...its a *sh!t* implemented tax that has cost one PM his job and almost killed another ...Swan has NFI about the revenue to be raised from it and has Zero chance of getting it past the Senate before the Greens get the BOP in July next year (who will probably reject it on the grounds its doesnt punish mining enough) ...and now he wants to piss off the independent who let them cling onto power

Swan is a deadset farqwit

The smartest thing Julia ever did was kept him quiet for the past 2 weeks

[Bradman]

Go for it. Us redknecks have all the guns.

Let's face it the SE and the Mexicans will only spend it on toll roads no-one will use.

Decentralise the government services and reduce the urban sprawl and the waste of trying to keep up with it. That'll do for a start.

[Mick Sawyer]

Aye, he's a blight on that great billie state

........ with all those nice little consulting earners available to all and sundry.

[horace]

hehehe...we need a good old fashioned city v bush barney on the forum...first off - why should the city subsidise the lifestyle choices of our rural cousins...lets import more food if it can be done cheaper...get rid of cotton farms and the like....lets have a Productivity Commission Inquiry into the csts of keeping open unviable country towns...lets remind rurals that mining assets are owned by us all

**retreats to bunker**

[embee]

"mining assets are owned by us all "

...and they are "rented" to mining companies who pay royalties and taxes for the privelege of digging it up and selling it

Maybe we should start Nationalising a few mineral industries ...Iron Ore, Coal, Natural Gas ...

[horace]

think how rich the country (as opposed to Forrest et al) would be if Connors had succeeded in the 70's

[embee]

The ALP would have managed to run it at a loss ...

[horace]

...possibly...personally I would be placing caps on production and achieve greater controls over pricing

[skully]

PMSL at Windsor already nashing his teeth. It will all end in tears.

And will Windsor and Katter be p!ssed off that Oakebarrel is likely to get a Ministry and they don't?

[JGK]

WIndsor and Katter have consistently said that they aren't intersted in a Ministry.

I can't see Oakshot getting one either.

[horace]

katter from his days in State parliament would recall the risks of being a Minister - some of his then nat mates ended up in clink

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