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The popular ABC program is considering implementing what is effectively a Twitter-based "truth-o-meter". Or as executive producer Peter McEvoy puts it: "Tony asks someone about the budget. We could then ask [viewers via Twitter]: 'Is this politician answering the question or dodging the question?"' The results of this snap poll might then be flashed on screen and conveyed to Jones. And if viewers decide the panelist is talking through their hat, Jones could inform them of this, then insist on a clear and direct reply.
hypocrite, incompetent, playing politics and both...
from the governmental excuse book..."I cannot find them, I am sorry. I had them on a notepad." With that bumbling, mumbled apology on Tuesday, the Attorney-General's Department's new secretary, Chris Moraitis, may have spared himself and his minister, George Brandis, from a criminal investigation. How so? Without Moraitis' missing notes, the Australian Federal Police is powerless to act on Labor's urging that it investigate whether Brandis sought to bribe the Human Rights Commission president, Professor Gillian Triggs, into resigning.
good government .....
welfare made incrementally simple, by slow simplifying dummies...
Social Services Minister Scott Morrison says wholesale changes to the welfare system are "necessary", but he has signalled they will be introduced slowly and in stages.
The Greek Tragedy - Some things not to forget, which the new Greek leaders have not ….from the The Anti-Empire Report
that sinking feeling .....from PoliticOz ….
you say bullshit, I say rat turd... let's call the whole crap off..."By any measure, the threat to Australia is worsening," Abbott said. "The signs are ominous. ASIO currently has over 400 high-priority counter-terrorism investigations. That's more than double the number a year ago." And so on. This may be factually correct, but is it a prime minister's job to engender fear among his people? Isn't that the terrorists' job?
je suis Tonee …..from PoliticOz …..
from the master of rattles and populist porkies...
Je suis Hizb ut-Tahrir ….Australian media is full of suggestions that the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, will ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as part of his national security announcement this Monday.
good old aussie CONservative know-how to CONfuse, CONfound and deCONstruct australian industries...Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says the Federal Government needs to come clean about whether it has decided to scale back the number of new submarines Australia will buy.
global warming is crap...If you are freezing your balls off (or your tits off) in some eastern part of the USA now, you're entitled to say "global warming is crap"...
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