2013 Federal election - Rudd sets date as 7th September

[Gozu]

Murdochracy here we come!

Commercial TV networks have refused to play an advertisement by activist group GetUp which criticises Murdoch newspapers and says, “Don’t let the crap decide your vote….. Tell Rupert, we’ll choose our own government.”

Channels Seven and TEN refused to air the ad, while Nine screened it over four days in Brisbane – then cancelled it after blaming a “coding error”.

GetUp’s national director Sam McLean told Fairfax it was a case of censorship.

“Channel Seven says it’s about taste but I don’t buy that for a second. Channel TEN told us they don’t want to criticise another media network – but this is about Rupert’s son Lachlan being [chairman] of Channel TEN. And Channel Nine’s response about the coding error is interesting but the real question is why they’re refusing to play the ad, which they’re not answering.”

Nine Network confirmed that GetUp would not be charged for the pre-booked slots.

GetUp says it will report all three networks to the competition watchdog for alleged “misuse of market power”.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2013/09/net ... press.html

[Sky Pilot]

I believe Mrs Rudd (Therese Rein) is from Elizabeth area.

Champion's a dropkick he practically begged Gillard to set up welfare quarantining in Playord council.

The Greens Sheree Clay is from the protest group SPAG (Single Parents Action Group), she's got my vote.

http://indaily.com.au/news/2013/08/13/s ... wakefield/

I know that the family was living in North Adelaide just before they moved interstate in 1972. Her brother,Peter, was my best friend at school at the time. Peter was a North supporter as well...good man.
My cousin was in Therese Rein's class at Saints girls.

I stand corrected, I was sure I remember reading something during Rudd's first PMship with her saying she grew up in Elizabeth so understands what Holdens means to the area or something (maybe it was just her growing up in Adelaide in general) but having done a bit of research can't find anything about that, my mistake.

That'd be your first mistake this year G?

[cripple]

I personally like the political debate in this thread. Most people seem to have a pretty reasonable grasp of the situation and understand the nuances of the election. Also enjoy seeing the different point of views towards kruddy and the mad monk and whilst I don't agree with all of it, it makes for entertaining reading.

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[Jimmy_041]

Ha Ha
FMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First Keating admitting to a mistake, now Gozu

What was that movie where I think to myself: "$hit everyone's admitting being wrong, I've gotta get on the bandwagon and do it too, or I'll be left out"?

[Gozu]

Even Beethoven had his critics!

I can see you're feeling a bit left out Jimmy, ever made a cameo on Cory Bernardi TV?

In an unobtrusive black two-storey office on Fullarton Road with windows tinted so dark no light gets through, Family First candidate Bob Day – along with good friend Cory Bernardi – is running South Australia’s conservative movement.

“This is the conservative hub of Adelaide,” Day says with trademark chipperness, as he tours InDaily through the building’s conservative library, which occupies a fair chunk of the lower level.

Sample titles: Free to Choose (Milton Friedman); The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce; Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change; Little Green Lies: An Expose.

The library has a lectern and several rows of neatly-spaced chairs. Conservative authors often do book signings in here, many of which are MC’d by Bernardi – who also has his own mini-television studio out the back, where he records Cory Bernardi TV.

A sign on the wall lists Family First’s eight cohabitants in the centre, including The Samuel Griffith Society (dedicated to upholding the constitution); The Conservative Leadership Foundation (“something that Cory Bernardi started”); and the Australian Taxpayers Alliance which runs the conservative online website, Menzies House.

http://indaily.com.au/news/2013/09/04/i ... vative-hq/

I bet no light gets through!

[Q.]

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[Jimmy_041]

Anyone else watch the Gruen Nation?
Fantastic stuff

[Sky Pilot]

Anyone else watch the Gruen Nation?
Fantastic stuff

Yeah I watched it. Pretty good. They take the pi$$ equally of both sides I think

[Jimmy_041]

Hewson was/is so much a better person than Keating and would have made a better PM
Keating was/is so much a better narcissist

[Leaping Lindner]

I believe Mrs Rudd (Therese Rein) is from Elizabeth area.

Champion's a dropkick he practically begged Gillard to set up welfare quarantining in Playord council.

The Greens Sheree Clay is from the protest group SPAG (Single Parents Action Group), she's got my vote.

http://indaily.com.au/news/2013/08/13/s ... wakefield/

I know that the family was living in North Adelaide just before they moved interstate in 1972. Her brother,Peter, was my best friend at school at the time. Peter was a North supporter as well...good man.
My cousin was in Therese Rein's class at Saints girls.

I stand corrected, I was sure I remember reading something during Rudd's first PMship with her saying she grew up in Elizabeth so understands what Holdens means to the area or something (maybe it was just her growing up in Adelaide in general) but having done a bit of research can't find anything about that, my mistake.

You're not necessarily wrong. Peter came to my school in 1970 so the family may well have been in Elizabeth prior to that. Their dad was in the air force so he may have been stationed out at Edinburgh.

[woodublieve12]

Any chance of the liberals actually telling us were there money is coming from in there policies???

[MightyEagles]

I hear they are telling us today, so that Labour can't bring out ads attacking them about their black holes in missing money and where the cuts and money is.

[mick]

I hear they are telling us today, so that Labour can't bring out ads attacking them about their black holes in missing money and where the cuts and money is.

Just like Labor did in 2007 and 2010

[Barto]

I hear they are telling us today, so that Labour can't bring out ads attacking them about their black holes in missing money and where the cuts and money is.

Just like Labor did in 2007 and 2010

It's now 2013, "they did it too" doesn't wash. Especially since steps were put in place to stop it happening again.

Labor have released there's this time. It's now almost midday on the Thursday before polling and there's still silence.

[Jimmy_041]

And this year
Most of their costings were only released yesterday despite their bleatings
Some costings weren't released
They have run a pitiful campaign and Rudd deserves to be belted

[mick]

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/three-experts-endorse-coalition-costings/story-e6frfku9-1226711342014

[gossipgirl]

Any chance of the liberals actually telling us were there money is coming from in there policies???

its all coming from us gullable voters who never learn

[tipper]

And this year
Most of their costings were only released yesterday despite their bleatings
Some costings weren't released
They have run a pitiful campaign and Rudd deserves to be belted

personally i dont think even the best run campaign would have made any difference whatsoever for them, i would have taken a monumental stuff up from abbott for labor to do a bradbury and get up.

no matter how well the band played at the time, the titanic was still going to go down.....

[Jimmy_041]

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/three-experts-endorse-coalition-costings/story-e6frfku9-1226711342014

Obviously Liberal stooges

[mick]

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/three-experts-endorse-coalition-costings/story-e6frfku9-1226711342014

Obviously Liberal stooges

Funny I thought that as well