tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post1900478801733981384..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Abbott vs Oakes et alBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-87643521546908052862012-10-14T22:38:09.215+11:002012-10-14T22:38:09.215+11:00I doubt Oakes has ever said anything relevant unle...I doubt Oakes has ever said anything relevant unless it's to do with food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-7585406990228865262012-10-12T23:38:24.913+11:002012-10-12T23:38:24.913+11:00Can't say too much but when Lozza goes out on ...Can't say too much but when Lozza goes out on the town he takes "Captain" Paul Watson with him to keep hungry Japs at bay<br /><br />The Irish LionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-88151904903671139952012-10-12T20:28:14.999+11:002012-10-12T20:28:14.999+11:00He has slimmed down a bit but when he visits the z...He has slimmed down a bit but when he visits the zoo the elaphants throw him peanuts.<br /><br /><br />Real DealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-16485753438149722232012-10-12T18:33:16.340+11:002012-10-12T18:33:16.340+11:00I was a student delegate to the January 1983 Austr...I was a student delegate to the January 1983 Australian Union of Students annual conference in Canberra and then again in Melbourne in January 1984, and one who helped Dr Nitschke style in helping euthanase a decrepit and dying AUS in 1984. I bet Julia does not put that on her CV. She has got form in presiding over dying and decaying institutions. <br /><br />Julia Gillard, then very young and even more naive (as were we all) was Vice President at the first and President at the second. I remember a young Athony Albanese doing his hard left stuff at the time also. Those few of us non-left delegates had a great time winding up the comrades for a week during summer. We solemnly debated whether 1983 should be International Year of the Lesbian (resolved in the affirmative), and with glee saw our motion condemning all acts of terrorism voted down. That proved useful later in the AUS secession campaigns. Yes, we also did resolve the marriage was a form of prostitution and pontificated on vast numbers of international issues. <br /><br />Men were not meant to speak during the women's sessions, but under the standing orders could not be prevented from speaking, so those of us with the wrong chromosones took great delight in having our say. I remember the left having no answer to our motion supporting deregulation of shopping hours as a feminist issue for working women. If only I had kept all the conference papers which I foolishly discarded some years later. <br /><br />I think any of us who 'did' student politics in those days would have to recognise how unfair it is to judge any of today's leaders by the things they said and did (or in Tony's case did not do) at age 19. <br /><br />Gillard, Albanese et all stand condemned for what they do today. It is neither necessary nor appropriate to rake over their student pasts as supporting evidence for the prosecution. 10 years later may be another thing altogether in Julia's case.WR Hearstnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70546313988965747052012-10-12T18:16:04.919+11:002012-10-12T18:16:04.919+11:00The difficulty is, Lizzie, that their history less...The difficulty is, Lizzie, that their history lesson is limited to 12 word bits on dimwits' Twitter.<br /><br />They have no understanding of the Labor Party which went before, or of the many splendid members it had at the forefront who did fine work for their constituents - a long time ago I know, but it did exist. When I was a teenager in the '60s Kevin & Frank Stewart were enormously contributive people in our community more than they were Party disciples. They saw their work as important and took it seriously.<br /><br />The whole thing went the way Beasley Senior spoke of, echoed by Rod Cavalier, Peter Walsh and John Button.<br /><br />The omniscient young have nothing against which to draw a comparison; and they are hoisted on the petard of their lazy ignorance and absent inquisitiveness.<br /><br />Similarly they know only a little of Snarling Greer and fail to recognise that roughly half of any group now - at uni, at work, on the road, in Olympic teams - are female. The equal opportunity battle was fought and won decades ago.<br /><br />I think they struggle with the imperative now to perform consistently on even terms, and for extended periods.<br /><br />The feminists are as tiresome and irrelevant to me as the blokes who want to marry blokes, and rugby backline players.Mick Gold Coast QLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13988287032319696951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-18169074516995384422012-10-12T17:54:44.894+11:002012-10-12T17:54:44.894+11:00A ripping yarn that one, Anonymous, well done!A ripping yarn that one, Anonymous, well done!Mick Gold Coast QLDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13988287032319696951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-42636735275908297942012-10-12T15:27:17.458+11:002012-10-12T15:27:17.458+11:00Yes, on a recent ALPBC Q & A there were aghast...Yes, on a recent ALPBC Q & A there were aghast gasps from the young women when Piers Ackerman mentioned her student view of 'marriage as prostitution'. They saw it as Piers being insulting, as a complete mistruth. They just don't know about this historical baggage Gillard carries. With her unreconstructed leftoid man-hating 1970's 'feminism' she is an anachronism and should be called out as such.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-80430431939815683092012-10-12T15:16:15.347+11:002012-10-12T15:16:15.347+11:00I'm reminded of the fine song from 'Wonder...I'm reminded of the fine song from 'Wonderful Town" -- 100 Ways to Lose A Man. It seems that Miss Gillard, spinster, has studied this number and learned the lessons..<br /><br />You've found your perfect mate <br />and it's been love from the start<br />He whispers,"You're the one to who I give my heart"<br />Don't say, "I love you too, my dear, let's never, never part"<br /><br />Just say,"I'm afraid you've made a grammatical error<br />Isn't 'to' who I give my heart', it's 'to whom I give my heart'<br />You see with the preposition 'to,' 'who' becomes the indirect object<br />Making the use of 'whom' imperative which I can prove to you<br />With this very simple chart.<br />That's a fine way to lose a man<br /><br />Just tell him where his grammar errs<br />Then mark your towels 'hers' and 'hers'<br />Yes, girls, you too can lose your man<br />If you will use Ruth Sherwood's plan<br />One hundred easy ways to lose a man."<br />Walter Plingenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-48783029286277526932012-10-12T12:45:10.353+11:002012-10-12T12:45:10.353+11:00Lozza was President of IDAS (Iced Doughnut Appreci...Lozza was President of IDAS (Iced Doughnut Appreciation Society) at Uni, a passion he pursues to this day.<br />Admittedly he has slimmed down of late but he is still the size of a pocket-battleship and I am led to believe astronauts in the International Space Station can track Laurie with the naked eye.<br /><br />The Irish LionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-8873045565989501172012-10-12T11:50:14.042+11:002012-10-12T11:50:14.042+11:00stop it, stop it right now!
near wet myself .. ye...stop it, stop it right now!<br /><br />near wet myself .. yes, not a man to get in front of when food is in short supplyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-84760244944561928422012-10-12T11:22:33.554+11:002012-10-12T11:22:33.554+11:00And while they're at it, why doesn't the C...And while they're at it, why doesn't the CPG get stuck into Gillard's misandrist past. As past ASU president she presided over such "man-hating" polical statements as:The AUS<br />•Declared that ‘All women are oppressed because they are women’.<br />• Asserted that ALL men exercise the threat of rape, ranging from subtle appeals to a woman’s mistaken sense of obligation, to direct threats, blackmail and even physical force.<br />• Adopted a policy on prostitution which, in part, said “Prostitution takes many forms and is not only the exchange of money for sex … Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and housekeeping”.<br />• Supported all varieties of abortion, including during late term pregnancy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-79437384930911311522012-10-12T11:22:23.271+11:002012-10-12T11:22:23.271+11:00There is another interesting angle to the statemen...There is another interesting angle to the statements by "that fellow David Parch, cited by Oakes (above) and many others, as a supporting witness". All they amount to is evidence that after the alleged incident Ramjam told him a story about her interaction with Abbott. At common law, this evidence would not have been admissible on any trial of Abbott, at least as evidence of the truth of what Ramjam said happened. It was hearsay and self-serving. If this sort of evidence (ie, of what Patch said Ramjam said) is admissible, it opens up the door for a welter of self-serving & easy to manufacture evidence. Nor does it corroborate what Ramjam said, because in essence it is still evidence from Ramjam.<br /><br />The situation has potentially changed under the Evidence Acts, but the evidence could still be objected to as of very little probative value (in view, in particular of the length of time that has passed since Patch says he was told something). In a recent case, High Court judge Dyson Haydon, who is without doubt one of Australia's greatest scholars of the law of evidence, observed that the relaxation of the rule excluding hearsay has opened up the door to the manufacture of evidence.rafikinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-61200096816406826542012-10-12T10:23:34.214+11:002012-10-12T10:23:34.214+11:00Strange whereby most socialists move to conservati...Strange whereby most socialists move to conservatism as they grow older, (Aristede Briand is a great example). Laurie, on the other hand, appears to be regressing to the rabid Left. Surely he is not contemplating a late political career himself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-29506804612109148632012-10-12T10:00:59.926+11:002012-10-12T10:00:59.926+11:00I hear Laurie was also involved in a skirmish at U...I hear Laurie was also involved in a skirmish at Uni.<br />Apparently there was an ugly incident in front of the bain-marie in the caff when someone bought the last dozen fried dimmies which Laurie was eyeing off from the back of the queue.<br />A Arts student needs a solid breakfast to make it through two whole hours of Interpretive Dance lectures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-84535497898903964442012-10-12T09:49:53.328+11:002012-10-12T09:49:53.328+11:00Oakes: the girth of his ugliness (metaphorical and...Oakes: the girth of his ugliness (metaphorical and otherwise) is in direct inverse proportion to the height of his ethics.<br /><br />As to "Julia Gillard's climactic/climacteric histrionics"....think of that in combination with Slipper's bottled mussels - and you have the best appetite suppressant your tax dollar can buy.Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905667628853229999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70809396934311618532012-10-12T08:09:24.505+11:002012-10-12T08:09:24.505+11:00Oakes has done more than any other journalist to d...Oakes has done more than any other journalist to destroy the credibility of the Canberra press gallery. As a subeditor who used to wave through his immaculate copy untouched at the Sun News-Pictorial, I was one of many youngsters in the business who used to look up to him as a god. Now we find he was just a player waiting for the right moment to declare his hand. Nothing he now says can be believed except as a Labor hack and Abbott hater. The school of hard knocks in journalism taught us the craft to write dispassionately and objectively on any subject. Now Oakes, the most senior journalist in the gallery, has apparently decided that, since all the children around him are barracking for the left, no-one will notice if he joins in. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-22083582160241370332012-10-12T08:01:15.763+11:002012-10-12T08:01:15.763+11:00Professor. "Julia Gillard's climactic his...Professor. "Julia Gillard's climactic histrionics," should read as "climacteric histrionics" surely. Or are you just being too cute by half in your efforts to avoid being called a misogynist? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-78469505781997779392012-10-12T05:50:50.668+11:002012-10-12T05:50:50.668+11:00Laurie is the old hypocrite there's no hypocri...Laurie is the old hypocrite there's no hypocrite likeThe Old and Unimproved Davenoreply@blogger.com