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Dec. 3rd, 2009 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebrampton... because I have 30,000 things to do and less than 48 hours to catch a plane, however, let me just say that for all of you who thought Australian politics had reached a nadir of stupidity the other day, the New South Wales ALP has taken up the challenge and is even as we speak holding a leadership ballot which could possibly install the most appalling parliamentarian in the state, the ghastly, grasping and greedy Kristina Keneally, as leader of New South Wales (the ALP is currently in power, for a given value of the word power).
I have been saying for some time that the only sane vote in the next State election is one handed to anyone but the ALP. If Keneally wins, I think I will actually start handing out flyers for Barry O'Farrell (the cardigan-wearing, very dull, very competent leader of the conservative Liberal Party) if he can hold the religious nuts in his party in check (fundamentalists -- *shudders* -- give me High Church traditionalists every time.)
ETA: Keneally has won. Well, at least the State government has in her a leader who perfectly represents its self-destructive self-interest. And people wonder why NSW is such a basket case in this otherwise buoyant country. Still, the Opera House is just lovely.
I have been saying for some time that the only sane vote in the next State election is one handed to anyone but the ALP. If Keneally wins, I think I will actually start handing out flyers for Barry O'Farrell (the cardigan-wearing, very dull, very competent leader of the conservative Liberal Party) if he can hold the religious nuts in his party in check (fundamentalists -- *shudders* -- give me High Church traditionalists every time.)
ETA: Keneally has won. Well, at least the State government has in her a leader who perfectly represents its self-destructive self-interest. And people wonder why NSW is such a basket case in this otherwise buoyant country. Still, the Opera House is just lovely.
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:29 am (UTC)Oh, dear god...
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:40 am (UTC)Oh fuck me, the bint has won. As if her reprehensible ethics weren't bad enough, there's that atrocious fucking accent ...
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Date: 2009-12-04 05:51 am (UTC)Though I accept that most of your villages are well sorted for their own idiots, as are ours, our state parliament doubly so.
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Date: 2009-12-04 09:47 am (UTC)In the classic musical 1776, the character of Robert Morris describes a meeting of the colonial New York Legislature; he said everyone talks very fast, and very loud, and no one listens to anyone else, and consequently nothing ever gets done. 233 years later, nothing has changed.
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Date: 2009-12-03 11:21 am (UTC)>.>
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Date: 2009-12-03 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-04 06:53 am (UTC)I had never heard of your new Premier. She doesn't inspire confidence at first look, or listen.
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:47 am (UTC)Just wanted to mention I just watched our darling Red Kerry doing the story - he was working really really hard to keep a straight face, and it nearly slipped!
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:50 am (UTC)You may have a point with the S theory, though they've all improved in the original set ...
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:54 am (UTC)*pats him*
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Date: 2009-12-03 08:59 am (UTC)Poor Kerry. He tries to be a straight journo and the comedy erupts around him ...
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Date: 2009-12-03 09:12 am (UTC)MayB I should give up the good music & stop listening 2 triple j??? Nahh, aint gonna happen *whimpers*
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Date: 2009-12-03 09:14 am (UTC)Stick to Triple J, it hurts less.
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Date: 2009-12-03 10:18 am (UTC)MayB hubby & I should up the timeframe on the 'move 2 Tassie' plan that's been brewing, then at least we would have the excuse of 'being in the boonies' 4 missing out on stuff :-)
UR right - triple j makes everything bearable (thank god 4 a decent 'non commercial' radio station!!!) & the opera house is lurvely :-)
Njoy UR trip away from the insaneness of state politics :-)
Cheers
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Date: 2009-12-03 11:19 am (UTC)So ... you still of the opinion that people in this country aren't so thick as to vote for Tony Abbott?
*gives up on being australian*
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Date: 2009-12-03 11:19 am (UTC)Equal opportunity political stupidity?
(The keeping-a straight face thing is good for Kerry - if he could *really* take it seriously then we'd be doomed for real).
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Date: 2009-12-03 12:27 pm (UTC)And yes, bless Red Kez!
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Date: 2009-12-03 11:21 am (UTC)On that note, I'm applying for jobs with Vic gov tomorrow.
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