Comments on: Landslide?

By: michael

michael — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:29:42 +0000

Well it looks like the refugee detention centres will be closing down, much to Nauru’s economic dismay
http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2007/12/19/nauru-wants-urgent-talks-on-detention-center-closure

now how long before we get really good broadband, not for a while unfortuantly

By: Kitty-Maree-Dahlila

Kitty-Maree-Dahlila — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:09:11 +0000

Glenda Larke:
Okay, you want a flame war? Nuclear power means using tax payer funds that could be spent on developing renewable solutions, taking years to develop, polluting the heart of Aboriginal lands, using loads of precious water to mine, risking nuclear weapon proliferation and leaving a toxic legacy for the future. Nuclear power and uranium mining aren’t a viable option when you look at the big picture.

If nuclear energy is the answer, it must be a very stupid question.

By: robin cave

robin cave — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:07:51 +0000

WHEW! yeah, WOW, YEEHAH!
Trish and I are still recovering from days of all night partying and celebration.

The only bummer is that Howard took away my AK-47 years ago, and I was really looking forward to the dream of one day running out into the streets firing wildly into the sky and shouting ” We are Free! Death to the Coalition!! then jumping onto the back of a ute and doing much more of the same. Just like they do in all those other countries…

Oh well, there is a good chance I’ll feel the same way in a few years about the current load of rabble, but at the moment it certainly is a good thing.

By: Jonathan Shaw

Jonathan Shaw — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:47:50 +0000

plus: Noise, My Father Romulus, Lucky Miles (all this year) & Ten Canoes (last year). All brilliant. (But can we please keep enormity to mean something really horrible even if excellent people want it to mean something really big? The not-really-a-landslide was enormous and it ended an enormity.)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:22:12 +0000

katie-wa: we do have some great movies. you just have to search for them and, uh, be over the age of 18 to watch some of them. or 15, but i guess it depends on the movie.

Ones that come to mind if anyone’s interested: cosi, head on, lantana, looking for alibrandi, little fish, the rage in placid lake, somersault, three dollars, the castle, muriel’s wedding, priscilla queen of the desert, the big steal, the monkey’s mask, picnic at hanging rock.

They’re probably not very well marketed overseas but they’re worth a look. personally i’d start with looking for alibrandi and the rage in placid lake.

I know it’s incredibly selfish for me to say, but funding for the arts and faster broadband is what i’m really gunning for! the rest? totally important, but if those two things came true it would be like christmas!

By: Kitty-Maree-Dahlila

Kitty-Maree-Dahlila — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:31:51 +0000

Can i say *yes* to all of the above? The first six on your list need to be adressed immediately. I knew there was a reason i loved you. besides NT, one of the biggest moves was from tasmania, with a lot of people voting green. i wonder why that would be?

I mean, aside from the incredible writing skills.

By: Kadie-Wa

Kadie-Wa — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:47:28 +0000

Those were good points. i really agree with you on the arts one. I haven’t heard much of any Australian movies, or shows or much like that, except for Australian Idol. (I think that was what it was)

I also agree with you on the global warming!! We are totally overheating our earth, and we should all do everything we can to protect it. Simple things is what people need to know, and govermnemt can help a LOT with stuff like that.

Good points, justine. very good points.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:06:33 +0000

Mark: They’re definitely ratifying Kyoto. And the water crisis at home is so very bad that’s it’s become a bipartisan issue. So that’s definitely going to happen but whether it’s too late or not is another question. And more and more big business is realising that global warming is hurting them too but whether enough will be done? I don’t know; I just hope. All the signs look good for fixing broadband too. But the rest of it? Well . . .

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:33:27 +0000

How much of a probability do you give that the new government will actually do those things instead of simply giving lip-service to them and then continuing on as-is because the big money tells them to do so. Sorry, living in the USA makes one quite cynical about how governments work.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:16:00 +0000

Girlie Jones: Relatively, sure. But I was talking about the actual numbers of people voting. True landslides don’t really happen in our kind of democratic system. That’s prolly a good thing.

Jonathan Shaw: All words mean what I want them to mean!

Did your companion want the food to be spat on? Eek! Is it naughty that I am enjoying the Liberal party disarray?

Mooseguy: I know. But a girl can dream, can’t she? Though I will get my Vivienne Westwood ballgown, won’t I?

By: MooseGuy

MooseGuy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:04:21 +0000

But few of those things are actually gonna happen. it is the sad truth that, while we DID elect the better party, they weren’t better by much.

By: Jonathan Shaw

Jonathan Shaw — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:50:19 +0000

pedantic but devoted lurker speaks: ‘enormity’ doesn’t quite mean what you want it to mean here, or at least it didn’t used to.
Also: we may be surrounded by people who voted for the coalition, but they are keeping very quiet. Last night in a restaurant in crow’s Nest, the waiter said, as he laid the dishes in front of us, ‘we’re liberal voters here.’ My companion, being tactless, said, ‘we hate the bastards.’ whereupon the waiter showed his true colours and delivered an impassioned rant against peter Costello.

By: girlie jones

girlie jones — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:41:55 +0000

The “landslide” comes from the large swing away from Libs including the fact that many Libs won last election through swings towards them. That Labor could win from so far behind is the landslide. Liberals lost many voters.