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Look if US President Obama can try to cosy up to us with BrisVegas I reckon we can call him Bazza. The political pundits may call him a “lame duck president” but Bazza may have done us punters in Australia a bloody big favour!

Queensland after Wayne Goss became Premier bore no resemblance to Queensland prior to THAT election. Wayne Goss may not have been a man of as far-reaching stature as Gough Whitlam, though it would be an ignorant person who could not give him credit as being pivotal in Queensland’s history and [...]

As a wise person just reminded me, Howard’s “Battlers” was political bullshit. But just because it worked as a ploy, it doesn’t mean the ALP have to reduce themselves to the same level just to win support, as it seems the likes of Marles and his so-called ‘Right faction of the ALP” are [...]

This morning, way before pollies had time to give their speeches and journalists had time to pull out their memories, we on Twitter went into #GoughWhitlam over-drive, as we do. People shared memories of Gough, older tweeps harked back to their favourite times, “Where they were when the Dismissal [...]

Did an awful lot of tweets this morning and a few on twitter have mentioned they missed seeing the and wanted in a list, so here you go :)

The Senator who proudly informed the nation “that people do have a right to be a bigot you know” is the person who will give the go ahead for ASIO to start kicking down doors & spying on you. Think very carefully about that. Consider that one man, a politician, will have that power. He and he alone [...]

There was nothing stopping the ALP trying to make commonsense amendments to this new super snoop spying Bill that would protect us from it being abused (as it most likely will be)?

The man who has ‘form’ in using the ASIO (I am so sorry Timor-Leste, many of us in Oz are ashamed of that action) in the past, the political party who took us to war on mythical WMD’s and our Dear Leader who has admitted in the past that he is less than truthful - commonly referred to in punter [...]

A bloke called Grant Wyeth has written an article in The Drum titled “The 'birther' barrier is holding Parliament back”and if he thought his high & mighty attitude of “Let's hope this silly undertaking of "gotcha" journalism provides momentum to remove Article 44(i) from our laws.” would make [...]