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Coalition Campaign Tactics
Coalition Electioneering So far is Tony Abbott jeering. Peter Costello’s done some sneering. Somehow they think that’s all endearing, Pulling all those swinging voters in As they complain about Labor’s spin. If that’s their strategy to win Polling must be … Continue reading
Picking Winners With Octopussy, An Octopode.
Thank you Philip, and you as well, Lenore, With the SMH you two have now gone Where none in Oz has dared to go before, Reviving the spirit of the long dead, Cassandra. You have now chosen to reincarnate The … Continue reading
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Tagged 17/07/10, Larvatus Prodeo, Lenore Taylor, octopodes, smh
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Work Choices Dead?
Have those dreadful laws Truly been cremated? Abbott, to applause, Very clearly stated On Election Eve This Act so hated, We must indeed believe, Is now just ashes. Howard has their urn. Does it comfort him, Promising return Of other … Continue reading
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Tagged 17/07/10, CW, John Howard, Julia Gillard, LP, The Ashes, Work Choices
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Does It Have To Be A Dirty Campaign?
Of course the campaign will be dirty. Ask any candidate over thirty. Go in for insults! Do some inciting! Whatever it takes, make sure it’s exciting! Without muck raking and scandal and spin They can’t get it up. And they … Continue reading
Welsh Strains.
Our PM states she has no religion;. None at all, no, not even a smidgen Of faith in a God or some afterlife. Perhaps because she has seen the strife So often caused by strong belief Which leads to warfare, … Continue reading
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Tagged 10/07/10, Boadicea, Elizabether 1, Julia Gillard, LP, Reincarnation, Welsh Strains
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Who is Julia?
. Who is Julia? What is she That press around her cluster? Loyal, fair, and wise was she; Made even Kevin trust her And let her so admired be. Is she kind and is she fair? These boats require her … Continue reading
The Never Never Party!
Was it so very long ago, They said, so loud and clear On tele, print and radio, In words that all could hear, Australia would never see, While Liberals were empowered, The oft rejected GST. ‘Never Ever!’ said John Howard. … Continue reading
A Rose By Any Other Name
Is it the name that is your enemy? Those few words ‘Resource Super Profits Tax?’ Is it ‘Profits’ that does not say it well? Perhaps ‘Super’ – or any other part Put forward by that man? O, choose some other … Continue reading
Chance or Opportunity?
Another time, another place, Or even of a different race, This child might not survive. Yet here she is alive, Living in prosperity. This girl-child’s father and mother Had no constraint to smother Her, or choose to hide While waiting … Continue reading
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