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A plea to Malcolm Turnbull - your State needs you

David Penberthy

by David Penberthy

06 Apr 12:17pm

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Filed under: Barry O Farrell, Kristina Keneally, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nsw Politics

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The Punch is today forwarding a copy of Malcolm Turnbull’s CV to the NSW Liberal Party urging his immediate elevation to the leadership.

Malcolm Turnbull and son Alexander outside their Sydney home. Photo: Jane Dempster

If anyone can smash his way through the paralysis which grips NSW politics it is Turnbull.

In the absence of a mercy rule, NSW voters currently face a battle between the legally blonde and the legally bland.

There’s Kristina Keneally, who despite assuring us she’s “nobody’s puppet, nobody’s girrrrrl,” was slotted in by the factional bosses in a vacuous marketing exercise which has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with personality.

And then there’s Barry O’Farrell whose two big achievements so far have been to back the Greens in opposing school transparency and to block the privatisation of the power industry – with his third triumph being a possible loss at an election next year where the Libs should really secure a landslide.

Turnbull’s intellect, ideology and style would be the perfect antidote to this festival of mediocrity.

He is a passionate advocate for Sydney, and shares so many characteristics with the city he calls home – he’s flashy, full of himself, opinionated, entertaining, self-made, he loves making money but he gives a lot of it away, he’s an economic hardhead but socially quite libertarian.

His progressive views on issues such as gay marriage and freedom of expression would pass without note in this laissez-faire town. His passion for the environment makes him the ideal advocate for the harbour city.

But the one thing he has which sets him apart from the Macquarie Street drongo-fest is that he is competent. And that of itself would be a novelty here.

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    • Peter says:

      12:54pm | 06/04/10

      Malcom, please start your own party… I have no one to vote for and a fear my ballott paper come the next election will either be blank or I might draw some funny pictures on it… We need you Malcom..

      Reply

    • Peter says:

      08:25pm | 07/04/10

      @  Formersnag, I would love to abolish the states and have stronger Councils we can actually pay attention to and vote for, but we wont see it in our lifetime. I do believe in my heart of hearts that Malcom Turnball is the best man to lead our nation (unless of course Paul Keating wanted to come out of retirement, he’s still got his wits about him). And to those Libs who call Malcom a Labour plant, to them I say Tony Abbott is a left wing conspiracy planted into the leadership of the Liberal Party. Tony Abbott has been quite the socialist ever since he became leader.  I would love to see structural change in our political establishment, one consisting of no parties, just independants who care about their country first and not put their party ahead of the interests of their nation. Yes Malcom was a victim of not being well versed on the slimy political games they play in Canberra, but that man, would have definitely been the best man to run and represent our Country. He is all class and I wish him the very best. We have all lost something today…

    • Sweet Choc says:

      07:28pm | 19/07/10

      I stand with you Peter. The Labour and Liberal parties have come to their end. They are almost alike, both suffering from xenophobic tendencies and living in the past. Both are untrustworthy. We need Malcolm and Hockey to form a progressive party. Might as well rope in Brown and blow both Lab & Libs out of existence. We are sick of their lies and treachery

    • Ryan says:

      01:09pm | 06/04/10

      I am sure the NSW Liberal party have noticed that Malcolm Turnbull is nothing more than a Labor plant. Perhaps you can forward his CV to the NSW Labor party.

      Reply

    • Seano says:

      02:34pm | 06/04/10

      You conspiracy theorists must really go through a lot of tin foil. I mean phuleeaaase….perhaps Costello was also a Labor party plant having started out in a branch of young Labor.

    • JenfromNanaGlen says:

      09:33am | 07/04/10

      Yes Ryan maybe you’re right! Should change his name from Turnbull to Turncoat!
      However having said that Penbo does make a valid point! No pollie cuts it when they are too good looking or too rotund - just look what happenen to the would-be pork barreller Kim Beazley!

    • Wayne Fehlhaber says:

      01:08pm | 06/04/10

      David , i fail to see how Malcolm could advance the Liberals fortunes with a love for money , being full of one’s self , flashy , a hero for gays etc etc.
      Methinks you have tongue in cheek. ?

      Reply

    • acker says:

      02:17pm | 06/04/10

      @Wayne ...anyone could advance the NSW state Liberal cause more than the little known opposition leader Barry Apparel.  Mal’s kindred spirit Jeff Kennett did wonders for Victorian politics.

    • Wayne Fehlhaber says:

      07:09pm | 06/04/10

      acker :  But hey !  the drover’s dog could beat Labor in N.S.W.
      Barry will be the Premier after the ballot , the size of the Liberal win is the question.

    • acker says:

      08:11am | 07/04/10

      @Wayne..a drovers dog would probably poll better than Bazza Who?. Obviously whoever is in charge of the NSW Liberal election campaign studied the Simpson’s episode where Homer discovered the inanimate carbon rod very very hard wink

    • Wayne Fehlhaber says:

      09:08am | 07/04/10

      acker ,  i suspect a repeat of the political character assination of a former Liberal leader is about to begin. Labor assisted by a media made up of sheep have already begun the personal atttack on Barry O’Farrell . They will attempt the same tactic used to destroy the former leader , playing the man , not the party.  I believe N.S.W. is ready for a Premier of the calibre of the current leader.  This time though , the long sufferring N.S.W. electorate will be wake up to the trick.  They copped it last election but i doubt that they are prepared to be saddled with the N.S.W. A.L.P. for another 4 years .

    • shabangabang says:

      01:18pm | 06/04/10

      Of course he should be NSW premier. What else is there for him to do, other than count his money and laugh all the way to centrelink when his life long politicians pension checks comes through. Barry O’Fuddle is going to win, by default and will be left unaccountable for his actions as NSW becomes a 1 party state. AAAAAAArrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

      Reply

    • Ryan says:

      01:30pm | 06/04/10

      @shabangabang: are you for real, have you seen what the NSW Labor party has done to NSW? No one and I mean no one, not even Bob Mugabe could have mismanaged NSW into a worse state.

    • Kathie says:

      10:58pm | 06/04/10

      Malcolm will not claim a benefit,  to do so he would have to have been elected three times or served eight years.  He’s only been elected twice and been in parliament for five years.  He could have stood at the next election and if he’d won he would have qualified for life long super.  He wasn’t in Canberra for the money, he wanted to make a difference.  I’m sorry to see him go, he’s a thoroughly decent bloke, unlike many in parliament.

    • Jack Thomas says:

      01:31pm | 06/04/10

      Turnbull is from the classic Labor mould.

      Rich, with rich mates, good back story about humble beginnings, inner city dweller, wouldn’t know a battler if he ran over him in his Prius, holier than thou and totally hypocritical artsy w*nker. Plenty of self hating guilt about being white and well off, and talks so much policy and waffle that the average Aussie can’t ever want to hear.

      New Labor.

      I dunno why it’s taken this long for Kevin to try to recruit another celeb to his team?

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      01:27pm | 06/04/10

      Turnbull wouldn’t last a week in Macquarie Street. If that. He’d last as long as it took Sussex Street to comb through all their accumulated dirt and distribute it to the NSW press gallery whose news desks have no qualms about publishing the absurd, the derogatory and the defamatory with only the faintest hint of a ‘source’ to back it up - so long as it’s about State politics and not the grown ups in Canberra. If he managed to get through those first seven days, his own party would go to work on him. If he survived a fortnight, the Daily Telegraph would promptly slot him. A mercy killing.

      Canberra is a gentlemen’s game of short odds, big thinks, and sure things. Like the kind of investment banking Turnbull was so good at.

      NSW isn’t a game, it isn’t for lovers, it isn’t for thinkers, it’s certainly not for people who consider themselves ‘good’ or ‘decent’ or any combination of those words. It’s not for people with strongly held beliefs. It’s for the brutal and nasty, the good haters, the idle gossipers and charlatans. It’s for the crooked, the liars, bastards and proper backstabbers.

      Look at Macquarie Street’s record - one political assassination, three attempted suicides, pedophiles, sex scandals, and just in the last decade - four premiers, one honourable resignation and countless Ministers done over and done away with - career’s on the scrap heap. Two of them done in before they were even sworn in. Countless Opposition leaders. Endless preselection malarky. Billions of dollars wasted. Open corruption, ICAC hearings every other week, State in crisis.

      Look at Canberra - whose sum total of scandals in a decade amount to those kickbacks to Saddam, one dodgy email and a couple of airborne tantrums.

      In Canberra, your feelings might get hurt and you do a sabbatical on the backbench. In Sydney, they take your job, your future job prospects, they take you to court and try to put you in gaol. Then they go after your family.

      Barry O’Farrell, for all his perceived faults, has found a way to navigate through this. Macquarie Street is a roller coaster ride and he’s the only one wearing a seat belt. With one year to go until the election, the media are writing off his biggest acheivement - surviving this long. You don’t get this far unless you’re competent and your authority respected.

      O’Farrell might not have some of the character traits you’ve just ascribed to Turnbull - but he knows the game and he’s watched it for long enough to know there is only one way of winning it.

      And if O’Farrell is to really change NSW the way the ads say he will, he has to win Government. And you don’t win Government here by being the flamboyant man about town. You win by making yourself as smaller target as possible, and hoping when the dust settles you’re the only one left standing who didn’t shoot themselves in the foot.

      Reply

    • JAZ says:

      04:21pm | 06/04/10

      Well summed up Zeta.
      John Brogden…politically assasinated for getting drunk and making a pass at a journo…oh dear me…capital crime.
      Peter Dbnam…thretened to balance the budget by triming the beauracracy…hangable offence.
      Barry O…keeps his head down while the Labour Spin Machine tries to goad him into a fight….and the blody joournos take up the bait…
      David…are you guys that dumb?

    • RJB says:

      01:42pm | 06/04/10

      David, your endorsement of Rudd before federal election 07 and now your summation that Liberal voters would support Turnbull, evidences a flaw in your political judgement.

      Reply

    • BTS says:

      02:06pm | 06/04/10

      Based on?

    • Matt says:

      02:16pm | 06/04/10

      RJB

      i dont think he specifically mentioned liberal voters. in fact given the historic dominance of Labor in NSW elections it seems appealing to the liberal voters isn’t enough. NSW liberals need to convince independents and traditional labor voters that they are an attractive alternative and they will never have a better chance then now. perhaps a more progressive leader (or at least one perceived as more progressive) stands a better chance of swaying them…

    • Jay Santos says:

      02:16pm | 06/04/10

      Unless the Liberals start offering the same cradle-to-grave coddling service Labor is excelling at they will never see office anywhere ever again.

      Turnbull is proof positive that the Liberal Party has allowed its core principles to be captured by Labor which, since November 2007, has lurched even closer to the political centre.

      It is no longer a real alternative to the incumbent government, just a slight variation of the same.

      And of course I’ll vote for the Party that pays for everything, supports me and my family 100% and make all my decisions for me.

      What could be better than that?
      /sarc

      Reply

    • Rocket Surgeon says:

      03:00pm | 06/04/10

      You mean middle class welfare? Like the baby bonus and FTB part A?

    • Jack Thomas says:

      03:55pm | 06/04/10

      They were dropped by Labor were they Rocket Surgeon?

      They seem to have been added to by Kevin Rudd, with his pink batts handout, the Water handouts for farmers, the handouts for tuckshops and $850,000 for four sunshades, the motherhood statement after motherhood statement about computers for every school kid, ?

      I’ll bet you’ve forgotten already about Kevin Rudd’s $900 handout, and all the associated $900 or less plasmas, Bali holidays, etc.?

      Maybe Jay’s talking about the great gravy train of post parliament jobs for the boys from Labor? Graham Richardson and the myriad of Labor men in developer’s pockets, on boards and getting handouts.

      Or maybe he’s talking about Victorian Labor’s $5,000 a head dinner for the ear of a Labor MP next Tuesday at Lindsay Fox’s house in Toorak?

      By the way shabangabang, just because our PM and now everyone else (including a nobody State Lib) is a media tart who answers questions about anything and everything, doesn’t mean it’s of any value.

      Give me the days of John Howard who happily stated that he didn’t know or care about fluff, like Robyn Wiliams calling us rednecks in a comedy routine…

      Rudd passing comments on anything and everything just shows more evidence of a sad little vacuus man every time.

    • Rocket Surgeon says:

      04:41pm | 06/04/10

      Nice rant Jack.

      The baby bonus is now means tested. Labor tried to means test the Private Health insurance rebate but the coalition wanted to keep that one. Introducing a poor policy is far worse that not canceling it.

      As for jobs for the boys, the Libs have been up to this as well, Amanda Vanstone is very happy in Italy I hear.

    • Mark says:

      05:59pm | 06/04/10

      Next time you speak to Amanda say hi from me Rocket Surgeon you big name dropper you.

    • Seano says:

      02:23pm | 06/04/10

      Actually even as someone who’s sometimes left leaning I would probably vote for a small L liberal party lead by Turnbull in NSW.

      Reply

    • big L says:

      02:22pm | 06/04/10

      Added nothing to either political or social spheres,wont be missed

      Reply

    • Mark says:

      02:32pm | 06/04/10

      I think he should start his own religion.

      He’s too principled for politics.

      Reply

    • Seano says:

      04:27pm | 06/04/10

      OK I like Mal. I’d probably vote for the Liberals in NSW if he was in charge, he seems reasonable and I don’t mind the idea of a let’s say benevolent business man being in charge.

      But principled is a stretch for many businessmen and particularly one who refused to apologise for demanding the PM resign over an email he hadn’t bothered to check.

    • BULMKT says:

      02:33pm | 06/04/10

      Turnbull is a “progressive” (any who supports Cap & Trade is) and he’d be just as useless as NSW opposition leader as he was the Federal opposition leader. The mind boggles why he’d bother staying in politics – what’s the upside??

      Reply

    • Mavis says:

      08:58am | 07/04/10

      Upside?? .. Malcolm saw (maybe sees) his destiny as being the first President of the Repubic of Australia.

    • Macca says:

      02:53pm | 06/04/10

      All for it Penbo, but I think we’ll find one person standing in the way of Turnbull joining the NSW libs. And that person will be Malcolm Turnbull.

      Bit of a shame that someone who is obviously quite intelligent has suffered so poorly in Australian Politics.

      Reply

    • DS says:

      03:01pm | 06/04/10

      I couldn’t agree more - I’ve never voted Liberal in my life but I’d vote for Turnbull in a heartbeat. Exactly what NSW needs. Can we start a petition to convince him he is needed?

      Reply

    • Don Clark says:

      03:01pm | 06/04/10

      Just stop and think for a moment about the idea.

      With an Ego so big that the National Parliament pond promptly turned Prince into Frog, The Punch now seriously suggests the poor fellow would do better in a far smaller, much more toxic pond.

      What a fatuous proposition. All that would happen would be the Prince would turn into a Toad. God almighty! You can practically hear the fat splat of exploding conceit from here.

      Besides, as you can see from the sillier posts above, he’s nowhere near far enough Right to suit the shambles that is the NSW Liberal machine and its chain-email clad footsloggers.

      Impossible to take all this seriously, except as a dutiful piece of kite flying - at the suggestion of some senior Liberal goose or other, at a guess. Turnbull is retiring. Let him go, for all our sakes. Please.

      PS:  the headline and article are at odds. It’s not a plea to an ex-Leader, it’s a plea to that same sod-awful Machine.

      Reply

    • Sweet Choc says:

      01:35am | 10/08/10

      One of the prerequisites for being a politician is a big fat ego. Leadership demands that. All successful leaders have great EGOs. Thank God that simpletons like Don isn’t aspiring to be a leader or a politician. Keating had chutzpah, Turnbull has guts and intellect, Costello had both vision and courage. All had EGOs!! Cheers to ego!

    • Darren says:

      03:01pm | 06/04/10

      Malcolm would never be given the leadership of the NSW Libs - he would not be willing to forsake his soul to David Clarke and the religious right - all other aspirants to the leadership have been willing to do so -

      Reply

    • SD says:

      03:15pm | 06/04/10

      Your’e forgetting that currently the NSW Liberal party is controlled by a group who make Abbott look like a raving left winger. Unless you are from their little ultra conservative clique, forget about getting a preselection.

      Reply

    • PD says:

      03:22pm | 06/04/10

      balls ... if that were the case how do you explain an openly gay lib candidate in coogee.  so far choice of liberals candidates has been surprisingly varied (and locally connected)

    • AdamC says:

      03:19pm | 06/04/10

      It is an attractive idea - knife O’Farrell, parachute Turbull in and romp it home. Sounds a little fantastical.

      The thing I don’t get about NSW politics is, at least if you believe the hype, the semi-faceless ALP heavies have turned the organs of state in NSW into mere extensions of the ALP patronage machine, creating institutionalised incomepetence and systemic corruption. (Sounds a little like Victoria circa 1991.)

      If this is all correct, NSW needs something of a political revolution, like Victoria circa 1992, not the incremental change which Barry O’Farrell is promising. On that basis, at least, Turnbull could shake up the Lib’s (‘the next one’s unlosable’) complacency. Wasn’t the last one unlosable too?

      Reply

    • Coxy says:

      03:39pm | 06/04/10

      Kristina is a lot better looking Mal and Baz, and her accent is kind of sexy. Me thinks the Libs should be recruiting hot chicks to try and trump Labor.

      Reply

    • Silica says:

      03:59pm | 06/04/10

      Shes a 40 year old woman, shes only been in the country for 5 years, maybe their are some hot chicks that came in as boat people we can find for you

    • Coxy says:

      04:22pm | 06/04/10

      What’s wrong with 40 year old women?

    • Lauren says:

      03:38pm | 06/04/10

      Now there is zero reason to vote for the Coalition this year (unless they start fighting the internet censorship bill).

      And Labor is looking rather bleek.

      Eeep!

      Reply

    • BigBob says:

      04:06pm | 06/04/10

      Mr Turnbull thank you for your service to Australia and to us. I am not surprised your leaving and if you start your own Party I think you may give everyone a run for their money. I am a Labor voter but I did admire your honesty and intergrity over the ETS. You showed amazing courage and that will always be admired by Australians. Many I am sure will feel as I feel, that you were treated unfairly by The Liberal Party. But your just one in a long list. So many good people have left in the last year. People like Bronwyn Bishop and Wilson Tuckey, should have left years ago but their bums are still stuck to the Parlimentary seats, it really is a shame not to let young Liberals with fresh ideas have a turn.

      Reply

    • CJ says:

      04:54pm | 06/04/10

      So Wentworth’s up for grabs? Which celebrity gardener will it be this time for the lucky folk in inner sydney???

      Reply

    • Julian Thomas says:

      05:21pm | 06/04/10

      if the conservatives “monarchy”, want to get rid of the states, then we really will have a central power, which will never give power back to the states, is that what we want??

      Reply

    • Al says:

      05:37pm | 06/04/10

      Interesting idea, Penbo. It’s the sort of thinking that might spur Labor to neuter Mal by offering him a gig in a renewed republican push. Much as they did with Nelson’s job after he was ousted as Lib leader. Or would Turnbull warrant a feeler on whether he’d switch to the ALP? He’s ambitious enough to switch teams, and he holds a treasured marginal seat.

      Reply

    • nostho says:

      06:49pm | 06/04/10

      Hasn’t Malcolm caused enough disruption to Political life ? Heavens sake its all about Malcolm and always has been. Goodbye Malcolm !

      Reply

    • jed says:

      07:21pm | 06/04/10

      have you asked the developers what they think of this, penbo?

      after all, they run the state.

      Reply

    • David says:

      07:57pm | 06/04/10

      David Clarke would never let Malcolm Turnbull near the NSW Liberals. Malcolm is far too moderate for the hardliners like Clarke.

      Reply

    • Kenny says:

      08:13pm | 06/04/10

      Labor - whether state or federal is a do nothing, waste money political party. Wake up Australia, till you vote out these jokes and send a message that we won’t stand for this, they will continue to do a bad job.

      Reply

    • Macca says:

      08:08pm | 06/04/10

      Your obviously joking about NSW needing Turnbull - he doesn’t have the guts for politics federal or state

      Reply

    • Joan says:

      10:03pm | 06/04/10

      Right on Macca. In politics you need a passionate marathon runner not a sprinter. Malcolm was all about wanting to get to the top fast and willing to do anything along the way - Godwin Grech affair. Malcolm is a firstly a businessman and plays the game that way - not really suited as political leader, but Treasurer yes. .

    • freeman says:

      09:38pm | 06/04/10

      let him go! it’s now apparent that turnbull will never be PM which is the sole reason he got into politics. let him sulk all the way back to his mansion

      Reply

    • Malcolm X-Fan says:

      10:01pm | 06/04/10

      So sorry Malcolm has gone!
      I really thought that a man of such intelligence would be appreciated by the Liberal Party….but alas, he was set aside by a man who is more “show than go”....Tony Abbott.

      I’d like to wish Malcolm all the best in the future,and dread to think what Abbott will conjure up next to try to convince the public that he’s the “It Man” for Liberal politics in 2010.

      Reply

    • ant says:

      10:41pm | 06/04/10

      I could never vote Liberal, but if Turnbull was up for NSW premier, I bloody-well would. He’d be a brilliant premier, and in the sea of utter incompetance that is NSW, he’d be sainted.

      Reply

    • Matt Dee says:

      11:43pm | 06/04/10

      I wouldn’t vote for Turnbull under any circumstances he stinks of Labor!

      Reply

    • Corsair says:

      11:55pm | 06/04/10

      I really, really hope that Labor lose the next election in NSW. If they don’t - I think that is more a reflection on the people of the NSW than anything else.

      Seriously - Labor’s time is up in NSW. It’s time for a change.

      Otherwise - just dissolve State Governments altogether. It would be a much better alternative than another term of Labor Government.

      Reply

    • Peter B says:

      06:45am | 07/04/10

      Anyone foolish enough to believe in the scam that Co2 in the atmosphere is causing global warming is not fit to represent people. Rudd and Labor as well as Malcolm Turnbull and David Penberthy have made complete gooses of themselves and as a result will suffer the consequences. Turnball already has with a sacking and Penberthy has lost a lot of respect with his ignorant and narrow minded stance on the climate change scam.

      Reply

    • Al says:

      12:06pm | 07/04/10

      So, Pete, holding a belief is “narrow-minded”? You’d rather the snaky approach of Abbott and Minchin—lying low, concealing your opinion, changing your stance with the polls or waiting until the scary former leader, Howard, is out of the way before showing your true colours? The exit of talent such as Turnbull is further proof that without Howard playing headmaster the Libs are a shapless mess. All squabbling and blind ambition but no ideas (What has Abbott done other than lamely return to the Howard playbook—a jog or swim to replace Johnny’s walk?). I’ll take narrow-minded over that any day.

    • Bluecollarworker says:

      09:29am | 07/04/10

      Stand for election in N.S.W Malcom, we are all sick of Labor and have no confidence in Liberal, start your own party, you will win with a landslide. The Unions did a survey of blue collar workers , the boilermakers fitters ect and we are all fed up with Labor in the state of N.S.W Their incompitence costs us
      Don’t worry about Tony Abbott many of us are aware hes a snake and I suppose we will all be subjected to seeing him slithering alone on that bike ride every time we turn on out tv. Thanks for your courage Mal we appreciate it mate.

      Reply

    • acotrel says:

      10:13am | 07/04/10

      Mr Turnbull goes on to observe that, “the fact is that Tony and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change”

      “They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion “climate change is crap” or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, it’s cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world,” he said.

      Turnbull was never going to become successful by speaking the truth!

      Reply

    • SydneyIfeel says:

      01:33pm | 07/04/10

      Malcolm - Dont Go, and leave us with - in the words of another computer users father: the mad monk abbott. ! I know im not voting labour but gees now will have to vote greens.

      Reply

    • Onthesideofthehill says:

      04:57pm | 07/04/10

      MT created the ultimate sin when he decided to back KRuddy and his mates on the ETS. He refused to listen to his colleagues who were rapidly disappearing under emails decrying the ETS sham. If you won’t listen to what your colleagues then you’ve lost touch. I admire MT and his business acumen but selling the Australian public up the river on a trumped up theory brought him down to earth with a crash

      Reply

    • Vaemar says:

      08:58pm | 07/04/10

      What about Heard Island? Turncoat could try his great talents on the Penguins?

      Reply

    • river says:

      12:30am | 09/04/10

      Malcolm “Goldman Sachs” Turnbull an ex merchant bankster with a personal fortune exceeding $160 million dollars. Now there’s a man who understands everyday Australians. NOT.

      He couldn’t wait to impose his carbon tax regime on hard working Australians who barely make it from week to week. And now you want him to run NSW? PUhhhleease. And a social libertarian? Ohhh lordy.

      Reply
 
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Other stuff to be angry about today (with chorizo pic)

by Anthony Sharwood

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Other stuff to be angry about today (with chorizo pic)

That dopey Spaniard. Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has been banned for two years,…

Nosebleed Section

choice ringside rantings

From: City vs country: What would you change your life for?

Dieter Moeckel says:

We made the tree change from Darwin to Wonbah more than 15 years ago. After fencing, a road, and couple of dams our money was gone. Super is enough to live comfortably. We have geese growing old and stringy the only one that made it to the pot committed Kamakazi by flying into a tree; the chooks are… [read more]

From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics

Erick says:

Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]

Light weight

Gentle jabs to the ribs

No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops

No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops

Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more

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