Oz Election Thread #6 - Abbott's LNP

A nice collage with cool music about the March in March

http://vimeo.com/89244643

The reason why Tony Abbott won't do QandA - even Year 9 students questions make him look bad.

Amen sister

Letter to bolt

http://lyndonmorley.com/articles/politics/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-contemporary-australian-political-discourse

Brilliant!

Can you believe this ****? This is our ******* COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER.

I haven't checked in to this thread for a while... maybe because the situation here is just so damn depressing - I've only been looking at the jokes page!
I'm in Tasmania and now we've got a Liberal state government as well there's no hope for our forests! For some reason a few hundred forestry jobs are sacrosanct but it's ok to ditch 500 state public servants. You'd think we'd have come some way since Hawke stopped the Franklin dam in the 80's but there's still no vision for our future. Tourists come here for the beautiful scenery, good wine and food etc not to look at miles and miles of clearfelled ugliness. And now it also looks like they're going to let someone scar the front of Mt Wellington with a cable car. Aaagh!

It does beggar belief that when tourism accounts for 15% of the economy and forestry less than 1% you'd screw with the former to open up for the latter.

And it's doomed to fail anyway - the transport costs are too high and there's a stigma attached to Tasmanian timber that overseas buyers avoid so they don't get bad publicity for creating toilet paper out of old growth forest.

And the only timber we export is bloody woodchip. The liberal agenda seems hell bent on turning us into a nation of low-skill serfs digging up an pulling down our natural resources for a few wealthy oligarchs.

Gobsmacked by the self-delusion


Greg Hunt confident of 'helping' China, US, India and EU cut carbon emissions

Environment minister says Australia will use G20 presidency as catalyst for new deal

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/greg-hunt-confident-of-helping-china-us-india-and-eu-cut-carbon-emissions

Oh dear goddess, the shame. Next time I go OS I'm Austrian.

Didn't take Cath Wilcox long...

Something's very wrong when a journalist can get a personal favour from a Prime Minister which involves changing a ******* country's laws. Jesus Christ.

Particularly when that journalist is paid by the richest woman in Australia, and whose stated goal is to pay her miners the going rate for African miners in Africa. And is oft seen at IPA functions seated with the prime minister.

Holy ****, Abbott has bought back knights and dames! Twitter running hot. My fave says basically new LNP strategy is to be impervious to satire by being more ridiculous than the satirists can paint it.

New flag will be the Union Jack and the socceroos will be singing God save the queen in Rio.

Unbelievable. It's just too depressing.

Free speech limited to billionaire media moguls and bigots.