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Simply pathetic

Submitted by rickeyre on December 16, 2008 - 9:00am

The signs were ominous. Firstly, the news that Penny Wong was not going to take Australia's emissions targets to COP 14 in Poznan last week, but would announce them on December 15, after the UN meeting was over.

Secondly, on Friday, the very day that COP 14 was wrapping up in Poland, Kevin Rudd announced, as part of a $4.7 billion "nation building package", an investment of $1.2 billion in the Australian Rail Track Corporation to "more than double the amount of coal being transported to export markets".

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Rudd to Everyone: Drop Dead

Submitted by rickeyre on December 15, 2008 - 1:06pm

5% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020. (Maybe 15% if the rest of the world pitches in.)
$4 billion compensation package to the coal industry.
Stacks of free emissions permits on offer.
Emissions from logging/deforestation exempt.

More later. Pardon me while I take my shoes off...

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I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy 2

Submitted by rickeyre on September 20, 2008 - 10:13am

"She started with nothing, and put the house on the line 20 years ago to get a sufficient loan from the bank, initially it was a private loan and then she had to put the house on the line later on, in order to build up the business.... So, she started from scratch. Built it up. Good on her. And she’s done that, I’ve got to say, without any help from me, which is probably why she succeeded."

- Therese Rein's husband, 18.9.08 (source: www.pm.gov.au)

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Two days when Australia started to grow up

Submitted by rickeyre on February 21, 2008 - 2:57pm

It would be remiss of me if I were not to mention the fabulous events in Canberra last week. February 13, 2008, will go down as one of the most joyous days in modern Australian history - the day that Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian parliament, said "Sorry" to the stolen indigenous generations. Rudd gave what was unquestionably one of the great speeches of our country's history.

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Election campaign week 46 update

Submitted by rickeyre on October 27, 2007 - 7:39pm

Don't let anyone tell you that we're at the end of the second week of the Federal Election campaign. It all began on December 4, 2006, the day that Kevin Rudd rolled Kim Beazley in the Labor Party caucus room. At the end of Week 46, here are my observations:

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Youtube do dia: Heroically exceeding their quotas

Submitted by rickeyre on October 26, 2007 - 2:33pm

If there's a better election pisstake done on Youtube this year, I'll be very surprised!

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Video do dia: Earwaxgate

Submitted by rickeyre on October 24, 2007 - 3:34pm

Go Australia! The federal election is making it onto the US cable news channels.

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The debate

Submitted by rickeyre on October 22, 2007 - 6:51am

While you were watching Australian Idol or National Bingo Night, channels Nine, ABC and Sky News were holding their own contrived talent quest/game of chance.

Kevin Rudd won last night's debate, and in my view won it quite comfortably. John Howard started well and was best when he was delivering set pieces, but increasingly he sounded more and more cranky and defensive, and repeatedly side-stepping questions he didn't want to answer. Rudd kept his cool, however he was surprisingly weak at handling the climate change questions.

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Youtubes do dia: Saeed, Kev, Johnny and Jimi

Submitted by rickeyre on October 18, 2007 - 5:58am

Four videos today. Saeed Khan is the Greens candidate for my local electorate of Grayndler, he did a video in August as part of the kick-off of his election campaign. On, then, to the Leaders: Rudd switching off a video of a Liberal ad saying "oh come on Howard", followed by Howard switching off a video of Rudd switching off a video of a Liberal ad and saying "grow up" to Rudd.

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Youtubes do dia: Kevin07, John Ol'55, and... Hajnal

Submitted by rickeyre on October 16, 2007 - 5:48am

More proof that John Howard Simply Doesn't Get It comes with this insistence on releasing Youtube videos at 5am. Does he think the Intertubes Generation will just be rolling in from the nightclubs and logging on at that hour?

No, a more plausible reason is that 5am is a good time to issue video press releases in time for the brekky TV shows, not to mention his radio buddies such as Neil Mitchell and Belford Parrott. And Youtube, of course, is a free medium for videos less than ten minutes long.

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