The Australian 30 March 2011
It’s always a bit awkward with an ex-leader hanging about the place.
Not sure what the cricket equivalent of Foreign Minister is – probably deep fine leg. Anyway, I’m sure Kevin can talk Ricky through it some time, possibly in a Frequent Flyers’ lounge somewhere.
The Australian 29 March 2011
Look, I’m not a climate scientist, but it’s pretty obvious the NSW election was all about putting NSW Labor out of their (and everybody else’s) misery like the pack of mangy, rabid, parasite-infested mongrels they so clearly were (too kind?).
Bit difficult to read much more into it, though I’m sure that won’t stop anyone.
The Australian, 28 March 2011
Looks like George Negus’ show is going up against the dodgy plumbers at 6:30.
Good luck, but it’s probably going to need a cooking segment to capture the public’s imagination.
The Australian 25 March 2011
Customs were taking a boatload of asylum seekers to Broome as there was rioting on Christmas Island and on the way put them ashore on Ashmore Reef for an hour so that they will be processed as offshore arrivals rather than deemed to have made the mainland.
This strikes me as a particularly shitty thing to do.
The Australian 25 March 2011
The placard is the way that crazy people announced their views to the world before twitter, and is still the social medium of choice for an angry mob, because it’s quite difficult to securely affix an iPhone to a stick (rumours of an iStick coming next spring notwithstanding) and too much spittle on the screen can void the warranty.
Now just as retweeting is not necessarily an endorsement of said tweet, being photographed in front of a placard, while not a good look, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in agreement with its sentiments, though Australians should be free to draw their own conclusions because this is a free country and I am not one to stop people from holding their own views on things.
*Note: there is no apostrophe on the placard as, while I’m not an English teacher, the grammar on the apostrophe isn’t settled yet and not even all English teachers agree on the apostrophe**.
**Okay, most English teachers probably do agree on the apostrophe, but they’re all hopeless at maths***, so the statistics aren’t in yet.
***Probably true.