Tag Archives: Julia Gillard
News That’s Fit To Punt – 25/Apr/2012
Trying To Slip His Peter This Peter Slipper business for the last few days has been a bit of a joke. It’s a scandal for sure, but should he resign? It’s all a bit messy, what with Andrew Wilkie out … Continue reading
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I Get Asked What I Think Sometimes…
12.8 million For Hugh, Nothing For You The news this week for film industry types is that Hugh Jackman is going to bring his next Wolverine production back to Sydney. Because the degree of my jadedness – my ad-jade-ment if … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 19/Apr/2012
Entitlement, You Say? Joe Hockey’s out in the UK thumping his chest. He says Australia and the rest of the west need to wind back welfare and everybody should fend for themselves like they do in Hong Kong. Tony Abbott … Continue reading
Focus Group Fun
VIP = Vested Interest Policy I went to that focus group meeting last night. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be at all. It was actually a focus group on an ad campaign they’re planning to present … Continue reading
News That’s Fit To Punt – 23/Mar/2012
Shrinking Birthrates, Aging Populations One of the big issues in Japan is the collapse in fertility rates against the background of an aging population. Obviously, in the absence of immigration, a population will remain flat if the fertility rate is … Continue reading
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Fixing The Mess
Julia Gets Her Way And amazingly, Bob Carr is now a Senator replacing Mark Arbib, and Foreign Minister to boot. One marvels at how this deal got done, but it did. Just hours before this morning’s announcement, one minister, who … Continue reading
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ALP Hanging Itself Out To Dry
A Turd By Any Other Name Is… This isn’t meant to be a blog about politics. It just goes that way because it’s stuff from which I can’t run away in the news cycle. believe me it’s more fun watching … Continue reading
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ALP Finishes Rinse Cycle
What Came Out In The Wash Even though we all knew what the outcome was going to be going into the meeting today, I’m still of the opinion that these ALP power brokers are full of shit for picking Julia … Continue reading
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ALP In Spin Cycle Day 4
Ain’t Gettin’ It Done It’s not entirely Kevin’s fault, but he’s not going to get it done tomorrow. he won’t have the numbers. Julia Gillard is looking smug so she probably knows what the vote number will be based on … Continue reading
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ALP In Spin Cycle Day 2
Kevin For President! I watched Kevin Rudd’s press conference today. It was a remarkable performance. I didn’t expect to be roused by it, but it was quite the rousing gee-up. I don’t know if I should be surprised or not, … Continue reading
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