Filed under: ALP, Australia, Election, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal, Politics
The election will be in twenty-five days, and normally by now I would be frothing at the mouth and ranting at all those who will not let me rave at them. However, this election is different.
My contempt for all the major parties, the Democrats and all the pundits who take up valuable column inches remains and increases day by day.
However, having said that I am still wanting a glorious Labor victory. Tis a weird situation to be in, I have no great passion for Mr Rudd, but my hate for Howard remains and increases daily. The Dear Leader looks increasingly old and tired (much like me) and has all the passion of a dehydrated mullet. That meaness said, so does Mr Rudd.
I just hope the latter, JoHo v2, doesn’t fuck it up. I have come to believe that in copying Howard, Labor campaign strategists have devised a campaign tactic that will not scare the horses, and that the glorious socialist revolution will kick off November 25, 2007.
Don’t laugh, I am serious.
Filed under: Australia, Election, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Politics, Work Choices, WorkChoices
The Department of Workplace Relations has been fined $AUD 30, 000 for breaching workplace laws for not allowing staff personal leave to attend anti-WorkChoices rallies.
The $3, 000 will be paid the the CPSU to run more anti-government ads in the lead-up to the election.
If if were not for the obstruction of our rights to protest againsst bad legislation, it would be fucking hilarious.
Thank God for the courts.
I bought the remastered version of Depeche Mode’s elegant Ultra album yeserday. It is magnificent and benefits more than the others from the 5.1 remastering treatment.
Having heard Ultra several thousand times over the last decade I did not think it possible to hear any new sounds within.
But no, I was wrong. Home and It’s No Good sound like new recordings. And watching the DVD which accompanies the beautifully packaged album, it becomes evident just what an achievement Ultra is.
5.1 Stars
With three weeks and five days until the election I can smell the cremated flesh of change.
Put a fork in Howard. He’s done.
Hello and welcome to the world Mia Kate, who was born very cute and cuddly yesterday, Thursday 18 October.
She is my second great-niece and a very welcome addition to my family.
Dear readers,
I am going to Brisvegas for a few days to wish Mummy bear a happy 80th birthday.
Normal blogging will resume around October 25, 2007. Until then enjoy reading and make sure you go and do things in the sun with your friends and family.
Soon you will all be regailed with tales of drunk 80 year olds wearing cotton tails on their heads.
Cheers
Michael
Filed under: Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Performance, Review
New York city artist, poet, composer, singer, multimedia performer and writer Laurie Anderson premiered her latest work, Homeland last night at the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
It is quite an extraordinary piece; an epic poem set to music that eschewed traditional narrative while providing stinging criticism of both the war on terror and the current cultural landscape. She rails aginst ‘underwear gods’ and ‘experts’ while creating a luxurious and inviting soundscape of beats and violin juxtaposed against her warm and sweet voice.
Anderson is an intriguing presence; elfin-like, she commands the stage with her minimal frame as she sings in a voice that is both booming, sweet and detached.
It could have been quite didactic, and when the album is released next year there will be NO singles, but by the end it was a loving, hypnotic and hilarious tribute to Anderson’s Homeland.
It is on until Friday at Hamer Hall. Go and see it as it is truly terrific.
Filed under: ALP, Australia, Election, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal, Politics
The ALP’s moral compass is askew. No doubt about it. It is totally wonky.
They have provided bipartisan support for pulp mills in Tasmania and intervention in the Northern Territory, and agreed on a referendum which states the bleeding obvious and ignore the fact that previous Australian government’s embarked on a systematic campaign of genocide.
Despicably, we also have the ALP supporting executions in Indonesia.
At this rate of me-too-ism I am almost expecting Kevin Rudd to line up and fuck Janette.
“Me too, me too.”
Sorry!
Forty days to go, and I hate them all.
I want Labor to win, but they don’t deserve to.
I want a socialist revolution, but it will not happen.
I have banned political discussion in the office in case I lose it.
Forty days to go!
Filed under: ALP, Australia, Death Penalty, Election, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal, Politics
Revolting behaviour this week form prime ministerial pretender Kevin07, who has ditched Labor’s long held opposition to capital punishment by saying it is OK for the Bali bombers to be shot dead.
Well, no it is not. It is just not right. Judicial murder can never be right, or moral, or just.
Perhaps Kevin07 has forgotten that it was his state Labor predecessors that abloished the long drop in Queensland in 1922.
No matter how abhorrent the crime, an eye for an eye just leaves a lot of blind people.
Labor doesn’t deserve to win the election. They have failed on almost all counts to establish any credible diffenece between themselves and the monstrous Liberals.
They better win though!
