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I really warmed to Laurie during the national ALP conference. The night before, I caught the last Western Line train of the night home. I got in and collapsed in my seat, pissed as a newt. I looked ahead of me at the only other person in the carriage - Laurie, looking my inebriated equal. The...

eg. the Australian Labor Party. Oh come on. I've campaigned for Labor at many elections, and can not even count the amount of abuse I've copped. I've been called a communist more times than I can count, unAustralian, scum, a liar, told I'd not been pissed on if I was on fire and so on and so...

Has anyone ever read A Confederacy of Dunces? Sometimes I wonder if Iron has based his entire schtick on Ignatius J. Reilly. Of course, Ignatius eventually wanted the gays to band together the world over to unite and take over the governments, with their gaiety naturally leading to world...

Haha this thread is so fucking ridiculous. The first post is pretty fucked up. That the religious right still manage to lose this debate shows just how retarded they are.

Currently in Israel, last I heard?

I am sceptical that this will lead to anything. I can't see Rudd, who even his biggest detractors would concede is a smart politician, doing something so stupid to get himself as fucked up as this potentially could. That said, if there is no evidence, I believe Turnbull could be in quite a...

So, then, in terms of each individuals' personal political feelings and politics, not their image, who would you vote for? Who do you think best in that sense? (I'll ignore the time you said your ideal political party would be if Stephen Smith and Peter Costello broke away from their...

Oh my God. I'd say "marry me" but I know how you'd feel about such an immoral proposition.

Holy shit, that was the greatest post ever.

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I also don't get it. Rudd's just getting good at last, as far as I'm concerned, why would this then lead to a popularity drop like this? It's not as though the Coalition have listed their game, or the ALP having done something awful and contentious. The media's hostile, but no more so than...

Costello is leaving parliament. Took him long enough. If ever a man long outstayed his welcome. Now Turnbull can actually stand a chance in making his leadership more secure. Unless the Coalition begin wanting a more experienced leader, and we can finally get the Ruddock/Tuckey leadership...

This is a good initiative. I work as a casual worker at a shitty establishment with a number of young people, for many of whom this is their first job. Recently I became the place's first union delegate, and heard from a number of people that they'd asked the managers about joining a union...

Menzies? I wouldn't have thought Menzies more popular than Curtin or Chifley - where'd you get the numbers for that? Also, he lost to Chifley in 1946 - Barton, Hughes, Lyons and Hawke are the only four men to have never lost a federal election. And I wouldn't really rate any of them as being...

I can't claim to be, no, but what's wrong with the unions? The ALP is, after all, the political wing of the union movement. Several of Australia's greatest ever Prime Ministers were unionists, and one of the reasons why Australia was, in many ways, a workers' paradise until the past 30 years or...

Man, Gillard/Combet sounds amazing to me. Good idea, Lentern!!

.... You know, right next to the titles, they have the years of release. Bruce Willis has been a while, but he wasn't around in 1921. You need to watch some Chaplin, honestly.

Jesus Christ, your "those who did the same as Smith = good, those who went with Latham = bad" mindset is really fucking annoying. It was over five years ago, move on already. All the media says expect Combet to get it, or at least get moved into the Ministry with Evans or Faulkner getting...

What the fuck? The Kid is a splendid film, why on earth did it warrant getting singled out???

Lentern, in the past two pages you've said some really really dumb things. Brendan Nelson's a joke. He was William McInnes' punchline for the majority of that Q & A episode. While I prefer his politics to that of Thatcher's, to compare his political talents to hers is fucking ludicrous. His...