“At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” Where to from here?
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According to a very scientific poll on Channel 9, Ricky Ponting is overwhelmingly the favourite to be Australia’s next prime minister. They have always said the captain of the test team is the toughest job in Australia…
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A brilliant Clarke and Dawe this week on 7.30: “Carbon Tax – The Movie”. Opening Everywhere Soon!
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GetUp is trying to get this ad aired during the AFL and NRL grand finals in support of the government’s anti-problem gambling legislation.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2011/09/30/video-get-this-ad-on-air-and-support-anti-problem-gambling-legislation/
The Age: “Labor is facing a grassroots revolt on asylum policy in inner-city branches, with Collingwood-Fitzroy joining at least 26 branches in passing a condemnation motion – the fifth in Melbourne.” Fingers crossed this has an effect…
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2011/09/29/labor-branches-rebel-over-refugee-policy/
Can you think of a better advertisement for Aussie rules football? “Priceless”, is how Geoff Slattery described it. Andrew Demetriou must be ecstatic right about now. If you’re interested in something more of substance (only just), I’ve embedded below their chat to the media.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2011/03/08/obama-and-gillard-handball-a-footy-around-the-oval-office/
I don’t think people know how to respond to this — apart from horror that someone in a public position like Kevin Bracken’s could believe such ridiculous conspiracy theories, and then to distance themselves as much as possible. That is, you see, what has happened after Bracken, the president of Trades Hall and secretary of the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia went on Jon Faine’s program yesterday [...]
Tags: 9/11, ABC, ALP, Australia, Conspiracy theories, Jon Faine, Julia Gillard, Kevin Bracken, Maritime Union of Australia, Terrorism, Union movement, USA Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2010/10/21/mua-official-911-is-a-conspiracy-theory/
In an excerpt from his upcoming book The Party Thieves published in the weekend’s Fairfax papers, Barry Cassidy explores the “ambush on the night of the long knives,” that is, the night of Julia Gillard’s successful putsch against then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The cut-out is a great read, and makes me very tempted to buy the whole book (thus increasing my 2010 election campaign-themed book collection to two after my [...]
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2010/10/17/the-night-of-julias-putsch/
A very creative and interesting piece in today’s Age: AS SHE tries to put in place a minority government, Prime Minister Julia Gillard must be hoping she can avoid the fate of two other prominent female political leaders: Canada’s Kim Campbell and Israel’s Tzipi Livni… Wrangling three rural independents would seem like child’s play compared to Livni’s task. Then again, the Israelis are used to it. For Australia, this a [...]
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2010/09/04/similarities-between-gillard-and-livni/
Shopping centre tours, live TV crosses, billion dollar pledges and babies being kissed across Australia. This must be election season. The media might be calling it one of the more dull campaigns in recent memory, but it doesn’t mean it’s not worth dwelling over. More than half of all Australians are on Facebook and Twitter and all of them seem to be talking election 2010. It might be boring, but [...]
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