Melbourne Beats

FoundationStepper wrote:

the hun wrote: DESPITE winning the campaign and most political battles this year, Kevin Rudd has failed to mount a convincing case for government. For this, and other crucial reasons, the Herald Sun will tomorrow recommend a vote for John Howard and his successor Peter Costello. Read the full argument in tomorrow's Herald Sun and then join our online discussion.

This is really scaring me, I'm feeling quite sick in my stomach. A lot of people read that paper, and the fact it is making such a statement is really distressing me.

That is fucking horrid.

Bleh. Totally over the scare tactics being used in the political campaigns.

Why the fuck aren't the pollys trying to convince us to vote for them as opposed to trying to scare us into not voting for the other guys?

Herald Sun is a Liberal chearsquad stepper, everyone knows that

and most people know its a load of garbage. All they're doing is trying to appeal to the rusted on Liberal supporters to not "change sides"

Think about it, Bolt, Divine, Ackerman,
all these right wing fucktards would suddenly be at the level David Marr and left wing critical theorists were - championing a lost cause, come Saturday.

Don't forget, the Libs very JOBS are at stake.

Mecka:

Wedge politics.

google it, it worked for the conservatives in the USA and Howard learnt these tricks from his bosom buddy George Dubya

Stepper: lets not forget the whole "dirty tricks" and the leaflet shit this week; and howards bullshit about "the mining boom will end if Labor gets in"

the Libs look pathetic, and a shit tabloid piece is not going to help them anytime soon.

They've simply alienated too many people, and I'm tipping The Age is going to tear the Libs a new arsehole to counter.

oh, and one last thing, speaking of the media, channel 9 has completely turned on the Libs too

Yesh SWM, I know. Guess I havent been in OZ long enough to remember this dimension of the end of the campaign.

Its the intensity of it I suppose. Its opinion pieces presented as editorials in a sense - not attributed to the opinion of the writer, but the will of the paper. And really, its just that thought that it increases the liklihood of the liberal pary winning again. Thier last round of $9bn offers are really troubling me

FoundationStepper wrote:Yesh SWM, I know. Guess I havent been in OZ long enough to remember this dimension of the end of the campaign.

Its the intensity of it I suppose. Its opinion pieces presented as editorials in a sense - not attributed to the opinion of the writer, but the will of the paper. And really, its just that thought that it increases the liklihood of the liberal pary winning again. Thier last round of $9bn offers are really troubling me

Nah FS, I've been feeling the same way. I felt safe until last week, now all of a sudden I'm beginning to wonder if the Libs blatant and transparent tactics aren't gonna hook some folk. Change scares people.

all i can say is thank fucking christ we won't have to put up with the barrage of pathetic adverts from both sides again...for another four years anyway.

so fucking over this election. get it over and done with already.

big ups my dad calling howard 'a noxious hindrance to progress' on environmental issues, in an interview in the age business section earlier in the week. what an awesome line!

Friday wrote: big ups my dad calling howard 'a noxious hindrance to progress' on environmental issues, in an interview in the age business section earlier in the week. what an awesome line!

I second that, awesome

What i hate is that no matter who wins there will be an economic down turn in the next couple of years..
if labour win, it will probably mean that they stay in for one term.
cuz the economy is going to go ass up...

Even if tonight goes horribly wrong, I still got my giggles from this vid. Check it, the Star Wars Election

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1lYCbjzQ4I

oh noez teh economic downturn!

does a 'economic downturn' really effect people that badly?

greens in mbc landslide

anywhere to watch the ABC's elections special online ???

Lós Kasino— wrote:anywhere to watch the ABC's elections special online ???

http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/

^^^ sweet, thanks man.

lol

so, who won?

Rudd

...and I'm pretty farken happy about it too

...and Maxine's totally trashbagged

FUCK YEAH

HAHAHA! HOWARD CAN SUCK MY FUCKING DICK! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! sUCK IT BITCH! SAVOUR THE FLAVOUR!

tomorrow i can get depressed about rudd and the alp. but today is just straight party, bare trinks.

watching rudd was painful though; his acceptance speech was straight out of the office, i swear. all of his jokes and pauses for applause fell miserably flat, even to a crowd of delirious alp supporters wearing kevin07 shirts. that's a pretty pathological lack of charisma.

Crikey newsletter, sometime this week wrote:And, up next, Curb Your Enthusiasm with Kevin Rudd.

[quote="fooishbar"]tomorrow i can get depressed about rudd and the alp. but today is just straight party, bare trinks.

watching rudd was painful though; his acceptance speech was straight out of the office, i swear. all of his jokes and pauses for applause fell miserably flat, even to a crowd of delirious alp supporters wearing kevin07 shirts. that's a pretty pathological lack of charisma.

I thought Maxine McKewn (sp?) speech was bloody awful! References with no relevance to anything, no actual speech body to speak of and the constant pauses for effect and applause drove me bonkers. I hope it was b/c of too many chardy's cause if she's always like that, I'll weep for the future

Lizkins wrote: Petey - really? I thought there was a conflicting power in the senate. I know the IR laws got through, but they still have to be passed through.

?????

the liberals still have a majority in the senate until july 7th, when the new senate starts sitting. when that hits, the liberals will have 37 seats, alp 32, greens 5, nick xenophon 1, and family first 1. 39 votes to win, which means the alp needs all of the greens, xenophon, and family first to vote with them to pass anything (or the liberals). this might change though: senate counting takes ages.

not really one to gloat but these photos kinda say it all ay?

i really liked this one from the age:
http://www.fooishbar.org/images/best-day-ever.png

Rudd is a fucking schoolboy tool.

Well done Australia

db wrote:Rudd is a fucking schoolboy tool.

Well done Australia

You would have preferred Howard?

Every day of the week.

fooishbar wrote:the liberals still have a majority in the senate until july 7th, when the new senate starts sitting. when that hits, the liberals will have 37 seats, alp 32, greens 5, nick xenophon 1, and family first 1. 39 votes to win, which means the alp needs all of the greens, xenophon, and family first to vote with them to pass anything (or the liberals). this might change though: senate counting takes ages.

my comment was on what liz saiid.. didnt make sense..

ahh so happy libs are gone, now the enviroment may have chace

not that peter garret isnt a flaccid donkey

labour still supports a dirty Gunn's pulp mill mill in north of tas...

labour suck, liberal suck.

lols at tony abbot putting his hand up to be lib leader, what a disgusting excuse for a human.

script to 'thank god its over' sentiments!

i'm actually rather nervous now... after coming back from voting and sharing my vote with my olds i received: 'it's your conscience'!!!

i really really hope it works... meh to all political parties.. only there for the purified water and travel perks anyway!

nic wrote:not that peter garret isnt a flaccid donkey

labour still supports a dirty Gunn's pulp mill mill in north of tas...

labour suck, liberal suck.

lols at tony abbot putting his hand up to be lib leader, what a disgusting excuse for a human.

labour will be very very very dumb to keep going with that mill..
i hope they see some sense, cuz they got alot of votes from teh greens..
I have also heard peter garret isnt going to be enviromental minister..
he is going to get arts and aboriginal affairs

he's fucking hopeless. put him on the back bench.

hurrah!

and, lolzor

nic wrote:lols at tony abbot putting his hand up to be lib leader, what a disgusting excuse for a human.

word.

looks like brendan nelson has won leadership in the libs camp.

seriously...how much more can they fuck their party? he's a disgraceful excuse of a human being. revolting turd of a man.

db wrote:Every day of the week.

what has howard done though in his 11 years ??????
i personally think that anyone who ignores and issue like global
warming should not be in office..

witty_pseudonym wrote:looks like brendan nelson has won leadership in the libs camp.

seriously...how much more can they fuck their party? he's a disgraceful excuse of a human being. revolting turd of a man.

Good, i'm glad he won. I think Turnbull would have been a good leader and would have had a good chance of getting the libs back in in 2010. Therefore i'm happy Nelson won. He'll just fuck things up for the Libs even more.

dust wrote: Good, i'm glad he won. I think Turnbull would have been a good leader and would have had a good chance of getting the libs back in in 2010. Therefore i'm happy Nelson won. He'll just fuck things up for the Libs even more.

oh.. I think turnbags coulda fuked things up just as nicely.
I don't think the Nanns would vote for him.
what a Slime bag of Slime.

i don't turny is so bad. my mum (not in anyway Liberal voter though) reckons he's 'the thinking woman's sex symbol.' lol. she's said the same about kofi annan and anton enus.

i'd rather see his mug on the tele than brendan fucking nelson who is a hard out creep of the highest order.

dust wrote:

witty_pseudonym wrote:looks like brendan nelson has won leadership in the libs camp.

seriously...how much more can they fuck their party? he's a disgraceful excuse of a human being. revolting turd of a man.

Good, i'm glad he won. I think Turnbull would have been a good leader and would have had a good chance of getting the libs back in in 2010. Therefore i'm happy Nelson won. He'll just fuck things up for the Libs even more.

I think Nelson is the best choice the Libs could have made. Great to see a women in at deputy as well, she also would have been a good choice from the little I've heard of her. I have a feeling that Turnbull with his background could have possibly isolated sections of the Australian Community when it came to re-election (seems like he's part of the toorak society scene to me.)

Overall, the writing was on the wall in terms of who was going to win the election once Labour got the act together and elected someone with some intelligence and pose to the top position. Even though it was a very dry and disappointing campaign in terms of annoucements (ie, spending about as much money as they could to earn votes in the libs case, and computers for every HS student in the ALP's case) i think it will be interesting to see how the ALP's policies will come off, in particular with regards to the environment, Iraq etc, policies which all appear to have good potential.

Except for work choices. This was probably one of the more progressive policies of the previous government. It did have some issues which could have been solved with some adjustment, but overall I think an excellent policy which was unfortunately given bad press by organisations with other agendas.

I also can't believe how the Hawkes/Keatings are still such poor losers (as seen/heard on the media), and that they are still so vocal on how bad the Libs were. Pity they put this country in some severe economic stress, and that its taken the Lib Govt about 10 years to fix.

dust wrote:

witty_pseudonym wrote:looks like brendan nelson has won leadership in the libs camp.

seriously...how much more can they fuck their party? he's a disgraceful excuse of a human being. revolting turd of a man.

Good, i'm glad he won. I think Turnbull would have been a good leader and would have had a good chance of getting the libs back in in 2010. Therefore i'm happy Nelson won. He'll just fuck things up for the Libs even more.

he comes off as a smarmy little bugger. brilliant.

sAme'0 wrote:

db wrote:Every day of the week.

what has howard done though in his 11 years ??????
i personally think that anyone who ignores and issue like global
warming should not be in office..

Can you remember when the ALP was in power?

But I do agree with you re: ignoring global warming.