To be fair, your first post in here is often in WGMG and you love an old man rant ;)

1. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/julia-gillard-to-launch-campaign-based-on-women-for-obama/story-fnii5s3y-1226660633664

JULIA Gillard is to launch a new Women For Gillard campaign based on the United States' successful fundraising movement Women for Obama.

An independent campaign arm, partly funded by the Labor Party, the Women For Gillard campaign will seek online "micro-donations" from supporters' credit cards to run digital, print and television ads.

The Prime Minister - who is resisting internal Labor calls to stand aside for a resurgent Kevin Rudd - will on Tuesday officially launch the outfit, which will highlight her famous "misogyny" speech accusing Tony Abbott of being anti-women, as well as raising the Opposition Leader's views on abortion.

2. Look at the top photo in the report, centre of screen in article, the chick in red. Now look here: http://au.linkedin.com/pub/clarabella-burley/2b/576/619

3. And look here: http://progressiveaustralia.org.au/members/clarabellaburley/

Can confirm I have never voted LNP. I swing vote between Labor and Greens... Or independent if there's an outstanding candidate.

I'm still undecided for September, but in the grand scheme of things for my seat it really doesn't matter.

The party I actually belong to wants me to run, but I would have to fund the candidacy myself. How would you guys feel about group funding my candidacy for the good of this thread?

Completely wrong champ. Each leader redefines the definition of "unemployed" to suit what analysts think the rate should be to balance the books.

Everyone can see your bias. Just admit it.

Our country's forward progress has stalled because our Politicians are too worried about upsetting one minority group at the expense of satisfying another, so they spend all their time slinging faeces at each other. These days Parliament House more resembles London Zoo's chimp's teatime than a Government.

Eleven people have been assaulted with a pole and beer bottles after up to 20 men broke into a Melbourne home.
Police say two men were walking along a St Albans street on Friday night when they were approached by a group of men who assaulted them and stole a case of beer.
The pair ran into a nearby home and locked themselves inside.
Police say a short time later between 15 and 20 men broke into the home and assaulted 11 people with a pole and beer bottles before stealing money and mobile phones.

Four residents of the home required hospital treatment for their injuries but have since been released.
Investigators have been told the offenders are believed to be of African appearance and want to speak to anyone with information about the incident.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/eleven-assaulted-in-home-invasion-20130602-2njkb.html#ixzz2Vmje2JOX

Eleven assaulted in Africian refugee home invasion

DO you want the shocking truth?
There's a place in the world where dreadful violence is regularly inflicted upon women - rape, terrifying assault and murder.
In this place, women of a certain ethnic group are 80 times more likely to be hospitalised for assault and injury.
Many of the assaults are perpetrated by the women's husbands or partners and include being raped with wooden or metal objects, or being murdered by being repeatedly punched and struck with a saucepan, stones, a wheel rim and a wheel brace.
Or there was the case of the man who used a hose to whip his 32-year-old wife, stomping on her abdomen and dragging her naked body over rough ground, before raping her, and then bashing her with either a stick or metal pole, causing severe internal injuries, before finishing her off with a rock.
In this place, up to 20 people live in some houses and children are stressed out and neglected.
In remote areas, up to 65 per cent of children attend school for fewer than three days a week and up to 60 per cent of them fail the national early developmental index which measures a child's ability to cope with starting school.
Apart from the outrageously high rates of violence, unemployment is rife, and thousands of people are battling alcohol and gambling abuse.
Australians who were shocked over the last few months by violent attacks on women in India should be alarmed by this.
This place is in our backyard.
It is one-third the size of India, and has .0002 of India's population.
It is Central Australia, and in particular the Northern Territory.
"There is a tri-state area in the middle of Australia which is a Bermuda triangle for domestic violence against Aboriginal women," said South Australian university lecturer and anthropologist, Professor Peter Sutton.
"People don't want to know, but how about women being raped by a burning fire stick or by a star picket?
"After the incidents in India I had a stream of emails from people wanting something done about it, but there's no petitions hitting my in-tray about what goes on in Central Australia and has done so for a very long time."
"The society where this is going on is very different from the middle-class Aboriginal people that many people know.
"These are hair trigger communities where people fly into a rage in a second.
"People are under the influence of alcohol and there are beatings and stabbings.
"Resorting to physical violence is the norm."
Dr Howard Bath, the Northern Territory's Children's Commissioner said the most recent statistics from the NT's five major government hospitals showed that in 2010 the number of non-indigenous females hospitalised for assault was 0.3 for every thousand women in the population.
The rate for indigenous females was 24.1 per thousand, or 80 times the rate.
"In numbers, that was 27 non-indigenous females being admitted, compared with 842 indigenous women being treated for assault.
"What we are looking at is a disastrous situation in terms of the risk of violence to indigenous women.
"These numbers are mind boggling. The rate of abuse of these women is enormously high and children are being exposed to this, resulting in very, very high rates of child neglect."
Aboriginal men and to a lesser extent Aboriginal women and non-indigenous men were responsible for violence against Aboriginal women.
Dr Bath blamed alcohol and drug abuse, overcrowding and "consistent unemployment".
"Alcohol is the worst factor by a country mile," he said.
"Between 60 and 70 per cent of violence is directly related to alcohol.
"The facts are generally known, but it's a delicate area.
"Most of the people who are familiar with the details don't want to put a set of shameful allegations against the Aboriginal community and in particular the menfolk."
Dr Bath agreed Australians seemed more sympathetic with cases of violence in other countries than in their own country.
"Where is the outrage?" he said.
"I think if it's close to home, it's harder to look at.
"People aren't comfortable with what is happening to women in the Northern Territory.
"And it's having devastating developmental impacts on children.
"The figures for children from very remote areas of the territory very high rates of developmental skills and school attendance rates of 65 per cent attending less than three days a week.
"That is outrageous. It's disastrous".
Northern Territory MP Bess Price said the Aboriginal and white communities had long known about the violence and done nothing.
She had been "routinely attacked", called "a liar" and "obscenely insulted on the internet" - in particular by people with left-wing political views - for raising the issue.
She told the NT Parliament last month that two of her relatives who were "young mothers" were killed in Alice Springs this year.
"One was injured mortally in the public, in front of several families," Ms Price said.
"Nobody acted to protect her.
"Dozens of my female relatives have been killed this way. Convictions usually lead to light sentences.
"I was told by a senior lawyer that no jury in Alice Springs will convict an Aboriginal person for murder if the victim is also Aboriginal and he or she is only stabbed once.
"We all have done nothing effective to stop this from happening. It has been going on for decades.
"Why hasn't there been the same outrage over the continuing killing of our women and abuse and neglect of our kids?
If these women victims were white, we would hear very loud outrage from feminists.
If their killers had been white, we would hear outrage from the Indigenous activists.
Why is there such a deafening silence when both victim and perpetrator are black?
"I believe that we can blame the politics of the progressive left and its comfortably middle class urban Indigenous supporters."


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/violence-against-aboriginal-women-80-times-worse/story-e6frfkp9-1226661209335#ixzz2VnEcpzcZ

Violence against Aboriginal women 80 times worse

Pathetic.

Totally relevant to Australian politics

You only think it's "pathetic" because the Liberal party didn't think of it.


ERMAGHERD! STERP THE BERTS!!!

And in news just in, Labor will blame Tony Abbott for the nation's ills

And in other breaking news Liberals will blame Julia Gillar for the nation's ills.

What an outrageous revelation!

They're just going to sit there blaming each other. "It's the government's fault, not running the country properly" - "It's the oppositions fault for not letting us pass the bills to run the country properly" etc.

If Abbott comes in and fucks things up (which he no doubt will) he won't get a second term.

The Opposition has EVERYTHING to do with running a country. Do you have any idea how a bill is passed? How the Lower House works?

When Howard was running the country no one even remembers who the opposition leader was.

Beazley, Crean, Latham, Beazley again, Rudd.



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Beazley, Crean, Latham, Beazley again, Rudd.



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Gutless, Faceless, Brainless, Gutless and Shameless.

If Abbott comes in and fucks things up (which he no doubt will) he won't get a second term.

The Opposition has EVERYTHING to do with running a country. Do you have any idea how a bill is passed? How the Lower House works?

Not literally who was the opposition leader mate](*,).
He could not care less about blaming the opposition leader, he went on about his business of running the country.