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So you feel relaxed-and-comfortable that it couldn’t possibly happen here, do you? Australians are just too nice and would never ever allow sort of thing to happen, are they? Given the previous regime’s disgraceful track-record of abusing trust and power – and given too my own personal experience and professioinal background, that was a realistic expectation. No bullshyte. No fantasy. A quantifiable risk. I am delighted that we avoided that fate.

Amibulous [73] and Everyone:
That humble pie tasted fine. I’m very glad I was wrong.

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Bullshyte, sir!

Everyone knows – well everyone they know knows – that it was only their heroic “speaking truth to power”, evading the goons of the CIA, Mossad, and ASIO that stopped “Ratty” from declaring Martial Law and marching all ALP members into the gulags in the Simpson Desert.

Come on, we owe these people a huge debt of gratitude. It was only the power of their implacable will and tinfoil helmets that enabled them to heroically resist the Orbital Mind Control lasers and scare Ratty into holding an election, instead of taking Australia into a Fascist Dictatorship.

Now Australian troops in Iraq will no longer be the Great Satan’s pawns there, they’ll be in Afghanistan instead. The dismantling of US bases will take a few years to arrange of course, as will the show trials, but It Will Happen! You just have to be a believer. Now the Truth will out, no more silencing of dissent, confining it to just a few small voices on the ABC, SBS, Channels 7,9,10, the Age, the SMH, no, the People’s Voice will be heard at last!

And all thanks to these few, these brave few, who vote early and especially often. For the Australian people can’t be trusted to vote correctly, they’re doing it for them, you see. They know better than we do.

In a career punctuated by dummy spits, today’s was a doozy.
Congratulations to all LP-posters who predicted that $weetie wouldn’t have the cojones to do the hard yards as Opposition Leader.
Co$tello’s announcment makes Alexander Downer look even sillier (were that ossible): there he was on national TV this morning, saying what a “formidable” Leader f the Opposition Peter would be.
It makes Tim Costello look even better than ever.
Dummy Spits all round: would Alexander consider transferring to Sate politics? “Well, when you’ve been Foreign Minister for 11.5 years, State poltics doesn’y have a lot of appeal.
Two leaders OUT in one go – well done, voters!
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2. Can we have Federation back now please?

3. Can we repeal the appalling ASIO Act?

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/journo-slaps-candidate/2007/11/24/1195753358992.html