Category Archives: Howard

Election Debrief 02-A: I see the future

Against my better judgement, it seems a lot of Australians have voted in favour of Labor in this election.
By which I mean to say that my judgement is better than a lot of Australians, and that some (presumably large) proportion of those same Australians cast votes contrary to the requirements for action based on my [...]

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Today’s News + Angry Commentary

On this fine day, the 12th of November, stuff has happened. Most of that stuff was quite boring, but some of it was just monotonous enough that I felt it could be made interesting by completely ignoring what actually happened and inventing my own stories (hey, it works for the Socialist Alternative), so here’s the [...]

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Subsidies are not Economically Conservative Policy

KEVIN Rudd has brushed aside the car industry’s concerns about its future, suggesting that it could be propped up with production of locally built hybrid vehicles.
[...]the Labor leader pledged $500million for a “green car innovation fund” to fund development of dual electric-powered cars.
This proposal brings with it a few questions:

Why should any industry be “propped [...]

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The first demonstrable impact of blogging on Australian politics

Yesterday I posted something saying that Howard’s stock would rise as soon as voters realised Rudd was a cunt, and tomorrow’s Newspoll sees the gap between the two parties narrow by 8 points.
Game. Fucking. On.

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Rudd: Three months on, still a cunt

A bit over three months ago I posed the following on my Facebook blog:
So it seems that St. Kevin has been labelled by one of his own backbenchers as a friendless, cynical, autocratic, egotistical, narcissistic, short-tempered, thin-skinned, condescending, smart-arse cunt. Now there are many, many people throughout history that this kind of description could apply [...]

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