Congratulations to John Key and National on their thumping election win in New Zealand. Your conservative friends here across the ditch are looking on, green with envy, at you guys having a charismatic, intelligent leader with sound business sense. Here in Oz, we are led by raving lefty socialist nut jobs that you wouldn't trust with a chook raffle.
How soon can I emigrate?
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I have never had anything charitable to say about Peter Slipper, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives in Canberra, and, as you could imagine, events of the past 24 hours have not led me to change my mind.
Slipper is a manifestation of the Liberal Party (as it then was) in Queensland failing to do proper due diligence on its pre-selected candidates.
Thankfully Slipper has resigned from the Liberal Party.
The great conservative party of Australia can well do without odorous, megalomaniacal picaroons in their ranks.
Slipper is Julia's problem now.
And Julia can have him.
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Cricket commentator and writer Peter Roebuck has been found dead in his hotel room in South Africa. http://tiny.cc/usayy
I was, more often than not, in disagreement with what Roebuck had to say and write, nevertheless, I mostly enjoyed listening to him on the radio. It will not be easy for ABC Grandstand to find someone to fill his shoes.
UPDATE
Peter was an excellent cricket commentator, and, I have to say, I liked listening to him over reading him. I perhaps took issue more often with what he wrote, than when I heard him voice an opinion on the radio. Just wanted to clarify the above.
Bill Shorten says that the Qantas dispute is a failure of Qantas' leadership. Yeah, right, Bill. And the Fair Work law is the most infallible piece of legislation ever drafted.
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