Plans for Saturday night
1. Good company with MsKP, Rach and others.
2. Trying not to hyperventilate.
3. ABC TV coverage.
4. Shrieking, one way or another.
5. The Greens' election night shindig in North Melbourne.
6. Huge fuck-off-Howard (hopefully) piss-up at Trades Hall bar til the wee small hours.
7. Hopefully get a celebratory root, or at least a snog.
8. Streaking optional.
Yes, I know I wrote this as a comment on RYWHM yesterday, but I'm overworked at the moment and couldn't think of anything else to write here today. So sue me. Actually, don't - I have no life savings to speak off, only a stupidly large collection of CDs by obscure indie bands and lots, LOTS of books. I could possibly spare something from my collection of 80s fantasy novels I suppose...
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2. Trying not to hyperventilate.
3. ABC TV coverage.
4. Shrieking, one way or another.
5. The Greens' election night shindig in North Melbourne.
6. Huge fuck-off-Howard (hopefully) piss-up at Trades Hall bar til the wee small hours.
7. Hopefully get a celebratory root, or at least a snog.
8. Streaking optional.
Yes, I know I wrote this as a comment on RYWHM yesterday, but I'm overworked at the moment and couldn't think of anything else to write here today. So sue me. Actually, don't - I have no life savings to speak off, only a stupidly large collection of CDs by obscure indie bands and lots, LOTS of books. I could possibly spare something from my collection of 80s fantasy novels I suppose...
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On Saturday night I am planning lines of coke from the coffee table and bottles and bottles of bubbles from the bar fridge.
If all goes bad, I have a bag packed and floaties and I have a vague understanding that NZ is somewhere SE of Melbourne.
Remember this Saturday we are voting to evict.
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anon - have you read today's age?
"There are a range of Labor candidates who, on existing public record searches … are still listed as working for state government departments, for state MPs, for state ministers and for state and other public service authorities," Mr Robb said.
But The Age spoke to 11 of the candidates yesterday, who said the allegations were "utter nonsense", "absolute rubbish" and "a pathetic stunt", and that they had resigned according to the rules.
"This is an act of desperation by the conservatives. They would say or do anything," Mr Neumann said. Mr Conway, second on Labor's ACT senate ticket described the Liberal allegations as "gutter politics of the worst kind".
I couldn't agree more.
As to claiming that 'they can't manage their own candidates let alone a whole country', the Age today also has a great article by former PM Bob Hawke - not a man I especially admire, but from which I think the following is worth repeating:
"Who, as treasurer, had responsibility for economic management for more than five years before I was elected on March 5, 1983? John Winston Howard. I knew that he was handing me the worst legacy in terms of unemployment and inflation in Australia's history; both were at 11%. But I didn't know exactly how bad the projected budget deficit was, because he had refused to come clean on this during the campaign.
On Sunday, March 5, I called in the secretary of the Treasury, John Stone, who told me that the projected figure for 1983-4 was $9.6 billion, the largest in our history; equivalent today as a percentage of GDP to more than $40 billion. Stone pointed out that "the budget balance is projected to deteriorate from near zero to more than 6% of GDP in a two-year period. The speed and magnitude of that deterioration is almost without precedent among the major OECD countries in the postwar period". Stone was no Labor stooge — he went on to become a Nationals senator — and his written judgement was that Howard's performance was virtually the worst anywhere in the developed world since 1945."
Thanks, Bob. Over to you, anon.
The other thing you might want to consider is whether they have a legitamate right to complain or whether they are just greedy and striking because they can. I tend to think it is the first of these, since there is of course a teacher shortage, which is in part caused by the poor wages/conditions that they have. Its not like other areas, say, like doctors, where the number of training places is hugely restricted.
This happened at the party I was at and I have the pictures to prove it! I didn't post the ones of ?? dancing naked on top of her car.