February 26, 2012 – 11:09 pm
Kevin Rudd has confirmed he will stand against Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Monday’s Labor Party leadership ballot. He would ”restore the trust” of the Australian people that she had lost, he told a news conference in Brisbane. Ms Gillard, who ousted him as prime minister in June 2010, called the vote following weeks of [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Fark!, Funnies, Politics, Popular culture
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, bunsen and beaker, jim henson, julia gilard, kevin rudd, labor party leadership, muppets
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February 26, 2012 – 8:33 am
Since my post on Rudd’s announcement that he was resigning as Foreign Minister, Australian politics has now become a bear pit, at least on the Labor side. No sooner did Rudd resign than the Labor MPs started aligning themselves as pro-Gillard or pro-Rudd (Gillard appears to have the numbers). A number of Ministers in the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Politics, Society, The Left
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, leadership putsch, Politics, Prime Minister of Australia, Queensland, revenge, train wreck, Victoria
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February 23, 2012 – 11:39 pm
Photographer Mark Tipple uses an underwater camera to capture the “battle” between man and the power of ocean waves in Australia. His book, called the Underwater Project, shows surfers, bodyboarders and swimmers diving below the surf to avoid being pounded. The Telegraph has two galleries of Mark Tipple’s work, or you can go to THE [...]
February 23, 2012 – 2:19 am
Apologising for something one does not think is wrong is not very nice. Apart from anything else, it is insincere. I have done it several times in my life, once publicly. The public apology was not a success for anyone concerned (me or those who disliked me), and I have long since retracted it. Sometimes [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Britain, England, Fark!, History, Law, scotland, Skeptics
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Tagged Adam Lusher, Camilla Long, Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph, kevin rudd, Mary Ann Sieghart, richard dawkins, Stolen generations, stolen generations apology, Tony Abbott, tories who should bloody know better
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February 22, 2012 – 4:31 pm
I’ve avoided posting on Australian politics for a long while because it’s really been a bit farcical, and frankly, I have found the whole thing deeply depressing. For overseas readers, our present Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, came to power in June 2010 after ousting the incumbent elected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, after Rudd’s ratings fell [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Politics, Society
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Australian Prime Minister, foreign minister, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, leadership putsch, Politics, resignation
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February 22, 2012 – 5:52 am
… Before using their cheat sheet [now stolen by Google Plus, sorry]. There’s a parable about the stupidity of intellectual property laws in here, too. UPDATE 29/2/12: Especially given the fact that we’ve now had to re-source the video over eight times due to pursuit by copyright claims. Current copy is here but is subject to [...]
February 21, 2012 – 1:37 pm
When we lecturers write exam questions involving hypothetical legal problems, we create a string of mishaps which happen to one poor hypothetical plaintiff. Occasionally students complain that these scenarios are not realistic. This morning in the Herald Sun, I read this story, and I think I’ll show it anyone who complains about unrealistic bad luck [...]
February 20, 2012 – 6:53 pm
… Just sayin’. I saw this handwritten on a notice stuck to the bar in a pub the other day, and I thought it was pretty good — good enough to steal, anyway. As many of our readers know, we run advertisements on this blog with a view to paying Jacques for his sterling efforts, [...]
February 19, 2012 – 2:32 am
… Alaska’s got talent. Mind you, I strongly suspect that Mishka the husky’s owner has fed her through Autotune, an ingenious piece of audio processing software that blends pitches to the nearest true semitone (to the exact pitch of the nearest tone in traditional equal temperament). While huskies are among the most tuneful of dogs (in part through [...]
February 18, 2012 – 4:00 am
Tesco has come under increasing pressure from customers to stop participating in government unemployment schemes which allow the company to take on jobseekers to stack and clean shelves for up to eight weeks without paying them. After a link to a job centre advert was posted on Twitter on Wednesday evening, appearing to show that [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Politics, Society, Welfare
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Tagged benefits, boycott, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, disability living allowance, employment and support allowance, ESA, Iain Duncan Smith, Jobcentre Plus, jobseekers allowance, JSA, mandatory work activity, minimum wage, sanctions, slave labour, tesco, unemployment, work experience, work for the dole, work related activity group, workfare, WRAG
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