Liam Getreu

Courtesy of Adam Hills: our national anthem to the tune of, uh, another national anthem –

What is it with the buzz word ‘economic conservative’ that Australians seem to want to hear? Both John Howard and Kevin Rudd have being so keen in this election to show their fiscal responsibility — which I guess is no surprise with the economy going full-steam ahead and Howard leading by so much in the [...]

A reason to vote Labor: In Tasmania, trying not to upset too many old people, Kevin Rudd said that under a Federal Labor government, he would allow “volunteer organisations could receive petrol vouchers, for example 120 vouchers of $25 each, and the organisation could distribute these to their volunteers to help offset petrol costs.” Pretty [...]

This is why all the global warming stuff scares me — proponents seemingly claiming that everything in the future depends on what happens with climate change.
Labor’s environment spokesman, Peter Garrett, yesterday described climate change as a “threat multiplier” that can further destabilise already unstable countries. [#]
Doesn’t that sound a little crazy? One problem will trigger [...]

Ten has today announced that, from December, it will carry “alternative” programming on a “breakaway” digital station to give us more options when we switch on the box.
According to Network Ten, Ten HD will feature time-shifted existing Ten shows like its 5pm news, as well as shows that it doesn’t usually show including something called [...]

Any bride that changes her name is sooner-or-later going to convert to Islam if her husband wants her too, or become a slave of the family. Yeah, right. But, that’s the contention of Catherine Deveny, feminist nut-job op-ed writer for The Age.
Deveny actually says that for a woman to take her husband’s surname is oppressive, [...]