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Joe Speaks up

August 26th 2010 21:41

Joe finally said something, but no one was listening - Bob Katter is more interesting from a theatrical perspective.

Why did he think that Abbott was more likely to form the next Government and why did he feel the need to say so? After the constant blathering of the AWU Wunderkinder, you'd think that any sensible faceless man would want to keep out of the limelight.

Utterances from those quarters are a bit like - actually, a lot like - decrypting L'Osservatore Romano or Pravda.

I think it could have been a momentary lapse. More likely it was a warning for close factional allies to keep their heads down.

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Abbott and the Pope

August 17th 2010 22:47

The concentration on Tony Abbott's "religious extremism" is a fascinating phenomenon from a sociological perspective. His Catholicism is the mostly unspoken background to the perception that he is unelectable. The fact that Turnbull, Hockey and Pyne are Catholics, if not precisely ex-altar boys doesn't help. No popery is the last superstition of the protestant establishment to be exstinguished by the slow drip of the Enlightenment - even after belief in God has waned to a barely perceptible, lukewarm sentiment. Better the turban of the Turk than the Tiara of the Pope of Rome.

Such prejudice ignores the fact the "atheist" PM is held in place by a coterie of which a significant section is unabashedly DLP and whose power lies in the silent manipulation of the levers of power. Clerico-fascist conspiracy is perhaps an overstatement of the case, but not by much. Paul Howse is a very imprudent man in a political sense.

Any power he had disappeared the moment he stuck his big mug in front of a camera and opened his trap.

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Desert air

August 16th 2010 07:42

Listening to Mozart on the iPhone and traveling on Sydney Rail. There's a radical disconnect. Weary workers, cheeky school brats everywhere. It's kinda like the election. The orchestra and the soloists are performing for themselves as the world goes by about it's lawful occasions - mostly not hearing what the man in the corner is listening to.

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Don't underestimate the Australian Electorate

August 2nd 2010 20:31

The faceless men of the ALP have made the mistake of thinking that the Australian people are fools. O for the days when running a campaign was not some superior form of the black arts - consulting polling and focus group results as though the entrails of shaggy black goats. Don't forget internal party polling - those astrological charts only able to be consulted by the pontiffs of spin - but leaked eventually anyway.

It used to be about making sure the electorate was covered with posters and that the candidate was shaved, sober and door-knocking. Children and church-going were always an advantage.Then there was printing the pamphlets and letter-boxing and making sure you had enough people for all the polling booths on the day. Turning up on the day was a sacred duty only reluctantly relinquished because of the gravest illness or misfortune

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Leadership Fallout

June 24th 2010 19:40

Interesting to look at the list of the Gang of Four who went to see Julia. The AWU, the SA ALP, the NSW soft Right, Victorian Right. Even Tony Burke got into the act eventually - interesting that even the SDA seems to have split on this issue.

Rudd seems to have put everyone's nose out of joint.I wonder whether he has been having heath issues? Someone who doesn't sleep much would be easy prey to illness - merely physical or otherwise.

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Collateral Damage

June 23rd 2010 14:07

Those of you faithful readers who are still reading my lack of a blog despite 18 months of inaction will probably remember some of my posts that have since disappeared.

The feud between the various factions of the ALP right will now reach fever pitch. Think Sopranos.

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