tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post5870850357834239511..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: The bigots' friendAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-39710479831207001852014-04-03T18:36:36.585+11:002014-04-03T18:36:36.585+11:00Andrew, while I'm not entirely sure I am grate...Andrew, while I'm not entirely sure I am grateful for the image of<br /><br /><em>... Brandis' culture-war pas-de-deux with Bolt</em><br /><br />I am longing to know who plays the ballerina, and who is the heavy lifter.Fionanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-88423134079103620112014-04-02T23:46:01.226+11:002014-04-02T23:46:01.226+11:00Yes...Crikey fooled a lot of people but with this ...Yes...Crikey fooled a lot of people but with this government... it's not a joke with some of their weird appointments..<br /><br />Mirabella at Melbourne University <br /><br />Goodness me!<br /><br />I don't agree about Wilson.<br /><br />He has lost all those supporters from the hard right(I.p.a) with this bizarre gig in human rights<br /><br />They're a pretty agressive and unforgiving bunch especially the nasty conservatives<br /><br />His intellectually poor and even the younger gen liberals see flaws in his argument. ..time will tell<br /><br />The q and a gig was a revealing insight into this freedom agenda.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-13127652076077253202014-04-02T13:20:39.333+11:002014-04-02T13:20:39.333+11:00Fortunately, it was a joke.Fortunately, it was a joke.David Irving (no relation)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05728918405973140125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-76382037645187279702014-04-01T17:46:27.260+11:002014-04-01T17:46:27.260+11:00I did enjoy your Berg-standard strawman - especial...I did enjoy your Berg-standard strawman - especially if pronounced by Inspector Clouseau "Eet iz a berm!"rhwombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-75412948636133793982014-04-01T13:26:19.255+11:002014-04-01T13:26:19.255+11:00*tips fedora**tips fedora*Seanhttp://onepointzerosixtwofive.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-54396910553781324432014-04-01T11:33:37.401+11:002014-04-01T11:33:37.401+11:00Piers Akerman on the board of S.B.S
Shoot me now ...Piers Akerman on the board of S.B.S<br /><br />Shoot me now Andrew!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-12807046574192270362014-04-01T11:05:15.491+11:002014-04-01T11:05:15.491+11:00Is it true that Andrew Bolt talks to Mr Abbott alm...Is it true that Andrew Bolt talks to Mr Abbott almost daily and looks at his speeches??<br /><br />My goodness power really lies in Melbourne these days or not?<br /><br />Take that Sydney.....smirk<br /><br />Thank you Sir Andrew for your fine analysis..I bow at your knee.;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-12059200757460360882014-04-01T07:12:15.811+11:002014-04-01T07:12:15.811+11:00I enjoyed this piece immensely Andrew.
It seems t...I enjoyed this piece immensely Andrew.<br /><br />It seems to me that the media plays the role of a distorting mirror when it does not look beyond the reminder note yellow label stuck on the foreheads of politicians. For easy sorting. For easy identification.<br /><br />Hence Christopher Pyne is a moderate. Excuse I!^%%{. Moderately what should be the first question. George B is both a moderate and a libertarian. That is clearly how he sees himself but he probably believes he is urbane, cultured and sophisticated. An aesthete no less.<br /><br />Tony Abbott is deeply devout, a romantic Catholic who has known the dark nights of soul torment. Oh the torment. The Catholic guilt! He must have the guilt goblins wriggling in a sack somewhere under lock and key.<br /><br />If only those with columns looked beyond the label we might have something interesting to read. Thank goodness for you Andrew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-2459699097588275312014-03-31T23:38:03.020+11:002014-03-31T23:38:03.020+11:00If the person with no tertiary education can see t...If the person with no tertiary education can see that saying people have a "right" to be bigots is sending a signal to the intolerant and will curtail free speech for those that people like Mr Bolt attack, then it beggars belief that Senator Brandis, with all his reading library of learned authors and his studies of the law, does not see it. <br /><br />It is doubtful that Senator Brandis cares what history will think of him. People of conscience with a genuine concern for morality may wake in the wee small hours to ponder and chide themselves over things they have done, but as far as Messrs Brandis and Abbott are concerned, the past is the past - Abbott has actually said this. Senator Brandis is no different from the Prime Minister, who views everything as a competition. This is the next lap of the run and who cares how we ran in the previous lap, as long as we are still winners. <br /><br />Nothing shames them, because they are not made accountable. Prior to the election, the media criticized 18C. Now that the consequences of the changes, which will allow people to be denigrated in the media, where the social repercussions will be great, are clear, the media conveniently ignore that they supported Abbott and the changes. <br /><br />In the Germany of the nineteen-thirties, unrestricted "free speech" allowed Julius Striecher to promote anti-Semetism in print and to write lines in children's books:<br /> "Es geht ein Teufel durch das land/ Der Jude ist's" (There goes a devil through the land/ The Jew it is..) <br /><br />Non-violent words, but insidious propaganda to make the voice of the Jew illegitimate and, subsequently, to justify violence.VoterBentleighnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-16315913229841931652014-03-31T22:31:05.483+11:002014-03-31T22:31:05.483+11:00he also want to restore the title Queens Counsel t...he also want to restore the title Queens Counsel to replace Senior Counsel. Not withstanding his own appointment as a senior counsel, was the subject of harsh criticism given it was awarded to him six years after he gave up active practice at the Queensland Bar.Johnny Websternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-70778577165827158812014-03-31T22:28:25.488+11:002014-03-31T22:28:25.488+11:00Do you know that Andrew Bolt's son worked at t...Do you know that Andrew Bolt's son worked at the I.P.A when Tim Wilson was a director?<br /><br />Coincidence or not when Tim is trying to change the act.<br /><br />Conflicts of interest Andrew!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-12876357885981507952014-03-31T21:42:15.582+11:002014-03-31T21:42:15.582+11:00What kind of horse-shit are you talking?What kind of horse-shit are you talking?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-40990721669154349172014-03-31T21:42:12.122+11:002014-03-31T21:42:12.122+11:00And now Mark Dreyfus has his own defining moment w...And now Mark Dreyfus has his own defining moment with the end of unscientific Japanese whaling (I know it's not all his work but he got to suit up and go to The Hague and make a case himself). Brandis will get less than diddly.<br /><br />Olivia IllyriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-64573017042624701902014-03-31T21:22:37.436+11:002014-03-31T21:22:37.436+11:00Quite so. Interesting to see if he claims credit f...Quite so. Interesting to see if he claims credit for the ICJ verdict against Japanese whalingAndrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-59136907444141297542014-03-31T17:13:04.056+11:002014-03-31T17:13:04.056+11:00“The reason for this is because he [Brandis] isn&#...“The reason for this is because he [Brandis] isn't as committed to it as he makes out, which I've pointed out elsewhere. There is no strong, lifelong vow to anything that will define Brandis' career in any way other than as the bigots' friend.”<br /><br />Thank you Andrew for being such a wonderful coach and guide. Your profile should include the fact that you have mastered physiognomy.<br />On special days of the week people huddle together to practice bigotry. That bigotry is protected under the banner of religion. Words that spring from the various Holy Writs are ‘sinner’, ‘unbeliever’, ‘unchristian’, ‘pagan’, ‘godless’, ‘the most vile of created beings’, ‘unclean’, etc. Do we see any effort by these people to ease up on the bigotry and spare the susceptibilities of those who elect not to attend these special gatherings? <br /><br />Andrew, if you are determined to root out bigotry a good place to start would be St Mary’s Cathedral this Sunday. Mass commences at 7:00am and you could lead a brave campaign to rid society of institutionalised bigotry but you have a Sisyphean task on hand. You might even consider handing out leaflets in the Cathedral Store (located in the Western nave)<br /><br />Andrew, your profile reveals a conflicted person. Am I to believe that a man who “as a moderate seeking to preserve rights and freedoms in a changing world” wants to limit freedom? Also your interests are listed as ‘current affairs, cooking, travel and arts’. No mention is made of you dabbling in psychology or any associated fields.<br /><br />Kabonesa<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-86678197636283039022014-03-31T15:37:40.132+11:002014-03-31T15:37:40.132+11:00I am reminded of a school teacher in the 1980'...I am reminded of a school teacher in the 1980's who I helped to get fired.<br /><br />There was a couple of young aboriginal kids in my sons grade 1 class, they were constantly singled out for abuse by the middle aged female teacher for extra abuses.<br /><br />One day the mum of one of the boys advertised for after school care, I went to the teacher to ask who it was and get contact details and she said - I wouldn't bother if I was you, people like them just don't know how to learn like we do, the boy can't read".<br /><br />When the mother came to see me she asked my kids if they mind aborigines or brown people, they both looked around the room, then at Alison and said "'NO, YOU LOOK JUST LIKE A PERSON TO US". My kids had no bigotry then and have none now.<br /><br />When I asked them if they mind if I look after the two kids, one aged 5, the girl aged 8, they both said no.<br /><br />When it came time to test them with flash cards for words they both got the same number right as my son.<br /><br />I reported the racist teacher to the principal for her abuse of those two gorgeous kids and she was fired.<br /><br />I marched in 1988 with the mother for the peace, hope and justice cause while working for a democrat senator. This woman written off by the kids teacher as a drunken abo. was by then a qualified school teacher who thanked me for caring for her kids so she could do it.<br /><br />I loathe bigots of all kinds, we are supposed to teach our kids not to be bigots, we don't need the lizard king Brandis to tell them it is OK and a right to be bigots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-75710969682492780702014-03-31T13:59:20.576+11:002014-03-31T13:59:20.576+11:00Thank you for writing this piece. It is indeed sad...Thank you for writing this piece. It is indeed sad that a man can have such mean goals for himself in his role as Attorney General.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02112744008966657131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-33977464770618544522014-03-31T13:24:33.261+11:002014-03-31T13:24:33.261+11:00That is what happens when your raison d'être i...That is what happens when your raison d'être is simply to beat the other guys. Or as you point out, if you have no convictions to stand by. As is too common for too many Liberals.DavidRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-8410104079297260172014-03-31T12:20:45.924+11:002014-03-31T12:20:45.924+11:00I just asked three colleagues and got two blank st...I just asked three colleagues and got two blank stairs and book case?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-83363271799345383302014-03-31T12:05:11.155+11:002014-03-31T12:05:11.155+11:00I thank Mr Brandis for allowing prospective employ...I thank Mr Brandis for allowing prospective employees a vetting system to seperate employing bigots and normal people.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-16184197296354855122014-03-31T10:35:18.354+11:002014-03-31T10:35:18.354+11:00It should go like this Andrew.
The Liberal Party....It should go like this Andrew.<br /><br />The Liberal Party...<br /><br />The bigots friend<br /><br />Sth Yarra.<br />X I live in this area so I don't mix with lower working class WOGS to protect my family from "those" people<br /><br />Dame Alexandra the third.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-71141466810168890392014-03-31T10:24:20.264+11:002014-03-31T10:24:20.264+11:00Will Tim Wilson as an openly gay male be tarnished...Will Tim Wilson as an openly gay male be tarnished as the bigots friend as well??<br /><br />That's bloody weird for a gay liberal isn't it Andrew?<br /><br />Watch Q and A tonight and we'll see.<br /><br />Brandis is a creepy man to the public anyway?<br /><br />Life experiences do count and thanks Andrew for making that point...<br /><br />You silly old "Whitey" smirkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-85117118439454822132014-03-31T09:36:34.674+11:002014-03-31T09:36:34.674+11:00Worthy of much more attention than it has received...Worthy of much more attention than it has received is Senator Brandis's role in the litigation in the International Court of Justice with East Timor. All the signs point to his having been thoroughly blindsided by the Timorese action in the ICJ, and someone should make a note to explore in Senate Estimates just how much the whole affair has cost Australia to date.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-78628996582929913852014-03-31T08:49:05.955+11:002014-03-31T08:49:05.955+11:00Brandis will never eat in the Food Court.Brandis will never eat in the Food Court.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-67436125793369372352014-03-31T08:28:13.291+11:002014-03-31T08:28:13.291+11:00I think you're being too kind to him. There...I think you're being too kind to him. There's often (always?) a very nasty tone to his bluster.<br />Thank you for your excellent writing too.Jannoreply@blogger.com