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The Dark Knight will not win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's true.

There's also Don Watson's Confessions of a Bleeding Heart, a great political memoir from which some of Keating's brilliance as Prime Minister can be grasped. Good one, but I'm pretty sure he loathed John Howard well before 1996.

Hardly the same thing, and you'd be a fool if you honestly think so. The name of Australia's oldest political party should be spelt correctly. People get to see the word up in advertisement everywhere at least every three years (without even taking into account two other levels of government)...

Knowing that the Australian Labor Party doesn't have a 'u' in Labor doesn't make me feel 'clever', it makes me feel like I know something that everyone knows. So I pick up on it because I hate that others seem so incapable of noticing something that's been in place for 96 years - it takes...

I too am convinced he's a corpse they just wheel out every now and then. Ruddock: the Leonid Brezhnev of Australian politics.

Can't believe there's not a thread on this - the biggest election of the week. So, will Helen Clark lose after her excellent leadership of the past nine years, or are John Key's promises of fucking New Zealand up going to cost him despite his seeming advantage? Discuss!

Where on earth did you get that? From what I've seen Missouri and North Carolina are the two states that as yet nobody's declared, with Obama trailing by 6000 votes in Missouri and Obama leading in North Carolina by 12,000?

It's the one real fuck up of his career, though, and even then it could've been worse. Had he left it after they'd driven the North Koreans back and not followed Macarthur's suggestion to destroy them it'd be seen as a masterstroke. And then, following that and the Chinese involvement, he...

I saw you quote that statistic before. But you did it in context, noting you used that for the next eight years, which assumes you think if he wins he'll win a second term, and not dump Palin as VP in the process. I bet you $20 McCain doesn't die in the next four years.

People do realise 72's just not that old anymore, don't they?

Truman > Lincoln > Lyndon Johnson > Kennedy > Ford > Carter > H.W. Bush > Reagan > W. Bush. Fact.

I think he's saying that Bush may be unpopular now, but in the long term this doesn't necessarily mean he'll be viewed so poorly in the future (for perhaps a more apt example and an American one, think Harry Truman). He's also wrong, though. Bush's legacy will ultimately be what's happened in...

Well it would've been Gore. I highly doubt Gore would've invaded Iraq. Also Gore definitely would have taken global warming seriously and done something to address that more immediately, rather than Bush's refusal to recognise it for much of his presidency.

I hate to be one of those knobs who names the current guy as the worst President ever (let alone Bush, where everyone does it). But really, I can't see him not rank down there. The economic collapse, even if not entirely his fault, will only further cement it. Millard Fillmore, Franklin...

I don't know, I think that could be a little explosive.

I know the article quoted that figure, but I must say, I've not seen it as the fee anywhere. Which unis charge $600 for their union fees??

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How could someone be excited about someone's death? Weird. Hate to rain on your parade of utter joy in someone's death, but I'm pretty sure, if atheism is correct, that you don't have a period of realisation wherein you go "Ah, I see atheism's the way of the world. No heaven, just...

Re: If someone votes for labor at the next state election, are they retards? srsly. You realise you don't have to preference in state elections? So someone can just vote "1" Green, and leave it empty, thereby not voting for Labor's incompotence nor voting for the Liberals, who're just...

Well, Washington's two elections in 1789 and 1792 saw him run unopposed, as was Monroe in 1820. Otherwise, ten times in history there was a margin >20%; 1800: Thomas Jefferson - 61.4%, John Adams - 38.6% 1804: Thomas Jefferson - 72.8%, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney - 27.2% 1808: James...