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Labor lies! Leaked Coalition carbon tax talking points

Toby Halligan and Matt Kenneally

by Toby Halligan and Matt Kenneally

06 Jul 10:50am

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Labor Lie: A roast dinner will only cost a few more cents under the carbon tax


The Truth: Tomorrow maybe. In just 10 years time a roast will cost the same as a car. This of course is partly because cars will depreciate in value because YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO AFFORD PETROL.

Labor Lie: Petrol isn’t in the carbon tax

The Truth: What, that Carbon Tax WE WERE NEVER GOING TO HAVE?

Labor Lie: Your job won’t be affected be the carbon tax

The Truth: You’re unemployed. You just haven’t received the letter because THE CARBON TAX HAS SLOWED DOWN THE MAIL.

Labor Lie: Keeping the tax provides certainty for business

The Truth: Yes. The certainty that their business is doomed.

Labor Lie: Banks and other big businesses support the tax

The Truth: It is unsurprising the Banks have joined with Labor given their shared goal of raising the cost of living for ordinary Australians. The Liberal Party is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people against the Banks. We know how to beat them, we used to run them.

Labor Lie: Small businesses won’t be affected

The Truth: You need to let two staff go immediately to stay afloat, but you can’t because of unfair dismissal laws. Can you afford a second mortgage?

Labor Lie: You’ll be compensated for the increases in prices by tax cuts

The Truth: If you’re on $85,000 with two children you’ll only get $879 in compensation. Split between 4, that’s only 60 cents per day, each. Have you ever bought something that cost 60 cents? A chupa chup maybe? Of course under the Carbon Tax, chupa chups will probably rise to 70 cents.

Labor Lie: If the mining tax and carbon tax are removed there will be no way of supporting tax cuts and pension increases

The Truth: Yet again, Labor proves it does understand economics. By cutting the mining tax and the carbon tax the government will get more in tax because the economy will boom. If the last 50 years of global economic history have shown anything it’s that cutting taxes increases tax revenue.

Labor Lie: Income support for the elderly will ensure they can still run air conditioners on hot days

The Truth: Your grandmother will be dead by February. You have our condolences.

Labor Lie: The Liberal party has no plan to reduce emissions

The Truth: Do too!

Labor Lie: The Liberal party plan would cost $30 billion

The Truth: Would not!

Labor Lie: There’s no way the Liberal plan will achieve the necessary cuts

The Truth: We will cut as many public service jobs as we need to. If necessary, we’ll introduce power saving measures like turning off the electricity.

Labor Lie: Scientists around the world, at NASA, the US Military, and American Government all believe climate change is real

The Truth: We accept the science of global warming. But there is a lot of warming that has gone on for the last hundred years. Human beings might be responsible for some of it. Cyclical changes for others. The sun for much of it! We don’t know which bits of the warming humans are responsible for. Maybe the good warming is our fault? We can’t be sure and we shouldn’t attack people for questioning ideas. That’s what Galileo did.

Labor Lie: Climate scientists do not practice witchcraft

The Truth: The Liberal Party believes in science. As of yet, there have been no definitive studies on whether climate scientists are witches or a actively dabbling in sorcery. We believe it is best to withhold judgement until proper data has emerged.

Labor Lie: The sky did not fall in on 1 July. Whyalla was not wiped off the map. It’s all going to be ok.

The Truth: The sky won’t fall tomorrow but it’s coming. Whyalla is like a frog in a pot of water that’s slowly boiling. By the time Whyalla realises the temperature is rising, it’ll be too late. In many ways the carbon tax is just like climate change, except the carbon tax is real.

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    • Billby says:

      11:02am | 06/07/12

      Great satire
      Unfortunately the rusted ons the Punch will believe every word of it.
      or not

      Reply

    • Chris L says:

      01:35pm | 06/07/12

      Poe’s law in action? I was chuckling pretty hard.

    • Borderer says:

      02:11pm | 06/07/12

      Too soon
      It would be nice to laugh about this but it’s all too painful. All their bumbling and incompetance and they keep leveling tax and cost increases at me because apparently I’m wealthy….. I’m not, I’m rich enough to afford a modest mortgage. The only good thing coming out of their stupidity is the economy is tanking and causing interest rates to slide, that is only good so long as I keep my job of course.
      I can laugh post election but right now I just cringe every time I see them make a policy announcement and all their half baked revolutionary ideas have delivered exactly zero so far but have sucessfully managed to spill money with every breath.
      Do I have a sense of humour and sure can I laugh about it, just not yet.

    • andye says:

      05:30pm | 06/07/12

      @Borderer - Is the economy “tanking”? We aren’t even in recession, champ.

      Hmm, you are talking about property prices, so I can only assume you think the economy wasn’t tanking during much of the 90s?

      You guys still haven’t figured it out yet. When Tony comes in and we don’t go back to same kind of crazy growth as during those unsustainable debt-fueled days ,THEN you might finally get it.

    • Why Oh Lord says:

      03:09am | 07/07/12

      Won’t be able to afford petro, very true if we have another term of the Gillard Government,

      The Gillard Government has added 80 percent tax to make a litre of petrol unnecessarily expensive.

      They’re not just relying on the carbon tax to slowly strangle Australia.

    • Very Fat Joe says:

      01:59pm | 07/07/12

      Lie, I were not born yesterday.
      True, I were born yesterday.

    • scubasteve says:

      11:04am | 06/07/12

      stopped listening ages ago.

      libs have my vote

      Reply

    • M says:

      11:33am | 06/07/12

      I’d vote liberal if they replace rAbbott with Turnbull.

    • poa says:

      12:23pm | 06/07/12

      M….thats just another ALP lie
      Just like “No snow, no rain, no runoff, no Kakadu, no Reef…methane balls exploding in the sky, tipping points, greatest moral and financial challenfge ofthe generation, end of human life on earth” etc etc etc

    • TimB says:

      12:45pm | 06/07/12

      ‘I’d vote liberal if they replace rAbbott with Turnbull.’

      Can you please explain this line in light of the whole ‘You vote for the party, not the leader’ line that was trotted out when Rudd was knifed?

      If Abbott was replaced by Turnbull, but everything else remained exactly the same, then why would you change the way you vote?

    • james says:

      01:17pm | 06/07/12

      TimB says: 12:45pm | 06/07/12

      ‘I’d vote liberal if they replace rAbbott with Turnbull.’

      Can you please explain this line in light of the whole ‘You vote for the party, not the leader’ line that was trotted out when Rudd was knifed?

      If Abbott was replaced by Turnbull, but everything else remained exactly the same, then why would you change the way you vote?

      It would not stay the same, each leader has to bring a point of difference to differentiate themselves.
      I think Turnbull wants to support the NBN in the major cities as first phase rollout for example, however he is forced to tie the party line.
      Turnbull would like an ETS without a floor price, and that would create a point of difference between both the current major parties positions.

    • Thrall says:

      01:36pm | 06/07/12

      “stopped listening ages ago” - such a blunt admission of ignorance.. you’re an LNP dream..

    • TimB says:

      01:59pm | 06/07/12

      Thank you James. So you admit its the change in policy that is the true catalyst for any change in vote.

      So can all the people who keep spouting this ‘I won’t vote for Abbott’ line, please admit this? How hard is it to say ‘I will vote Liberal if they change their policy on X’?

      Instead they make things personal and don’t mention the issues at all.

      How pointless.

      PS. Before anyone thinks I should be jumped on, I have the exact same opinion of anyone who claims they’ll vote for Rudd but not Gillard. Without a change in ALP policy, such a sentiment is idiotic.

    • Tom says:

      02:41pm | 06/07/12

      M And, gee, I’d vote Labor if they replaced Gillard with ... a goldfish.

    • Tom says:

      03:02pm | 06/07/12

      Thrall, once it becomes quite certain that the person jabbering and shrieking at you does not have anything of value to say, you stop listening.

      That is not ignorance, it is sound judgement and preservation of sanity.

    • Thrall says:

      03:23pm | 06/07/12

      “that the person jabbering” - even more ignorance, since when do you vote for a person and not the party?

    • M says:

      03:25pm | 06/07/12

      I’d vote liberal except I’m damned if I’m going to give a vote to a fundamentalist christian.

    • Lance says:

      04:21pm | 06/07/12

      M- and I bet you were out there with the other thousands and thousands who were posting nasty crap about Turnbull too, day after day when he was Lib Leader.

    • james says:

      04:45pm | 06/07/12

      Lance says: 04:21pm | 06/07/12

      M- and I bet you were out there with the other thousands and thousands who were posting nasty crap about Turnbull too, day after day when he was Lib Leader.

      No that was his own party.

    • TimB says:

      06:00pm | 06/07/12

      ‘I’d vote liberal except I’m damned if I’m going to give a vote to a fundamentalist christian. ‘

      Note that the Lberals aren’t exactly running around with ‘Fundementalist Christian’ policies.

      So at least we’ve established that your voting choice has nothing to do with poliicy and everything to do with your own personal issues.

      Brilliant.

    • Mouse says:

      07:32pm | 06/07/12

      So what you are saying M, is that you would vote Liberal if their policies were the same as Labor’s?  Gee, that’s smart!  lol :o)

    • acotrel says:

      11:09pm | 06/07/12

      @mouse ‘
      ‘So what you are saying M, is that you would vote Liberal if their policies were the same as Labor’s?  ‘

      Sounds perfectly reasonable to me !  Which party is the more caring and sharing ?

    • acotrel says:

      11:11pm | 06/07/12

      ‘stopped listening ages ago.

      libs have my vote ‘

      Figures !
      Nobody with a brain ewould vote LIb.

    • Robert Smissen of country SA says:

      01:29am | 07/07/12

      “M” just another Labor stooge

    • Why Oh Lord says:

      03:27am | 07/07/12

      Yes it can only be Libs.

      The human rights record of the Gillard Government is atrocious.

      This Government likes to make out its sympathetic to Refugees, but then you read about they’re Malaysia Solution, which is Malaysian run concentration camps.
      The idea of these malaysian concentration camps is that they are so hellish they will dissuade asylum seekers from coming to Australia.

      Then you read about how they are handling Aboriginal affairs. In the NT a black man can be jailed for having a bottle of beer. When an aboriginal uses plastic cards to buy his groceries (the Government won’t give a Blackman cash) his personal details are checked with a government agency. Breaking all sorts of privacy laws here.

      Amnesty international said it was like the dark days of South Africa.

      The Government wanted to use specific hub towns In the NT to provide goods and services, if an aborigine was not willIng to leave the land of his ancestors and move to one of these towns, they would receive no assistance.

      Amnesty International called this “ethnic cleansing”.

    • Damocles says:

      04:31pm | 08/07/12

      @ acotrel - “Nobody with a brain ewould vote LIb.” Ouch, that hurts! What a brilliant statement from an intellectual giant. Wow, how long did it take you to think that little stinger up? I don’t know how us LNP supporters can cope with that kind of clever criticism and insightful repartee! Zounds, it’s enough to make me give up on the LNP because I don’t want to be identified as having no brain, unlike the ALPers that are so full of brains that their heads may burst….....please! Go back to kindergarten alcotrel…...bloody child!

    • M says:

      11:06am | 06/07/12

      Can we have one on green lies next?

      Reply

    • Tomatic says:

      11:39am | 06/07/12

      No we will focus on the ALP as they and their PM are in charge, topic changing is a shallow move.

    • andye says:

      11:40am | 06/07/12

      Do the Greens actually lie much? It seems like they are quite happy to be openly supportive of unpopular stuff.

    • andye says:

      12:09pm | 06/07/12

      @Tomatic - Are you totally clear on what the topic is here? Perhaps you have heard of parody?

    • Against the Man says:

      12:29pm | 06/07/12

      100% with you Tomatic focus on the Gillard!

    • james says:

      12:47pm | 06/07/12

      Focus on the sky and measure how far it has fallen in.

    • Against the Man says:

      04:51pm | 06/07/12

      james it has fallen enough to ensure the ALP will be wiped out at the next Federal Election smile

      Gillard slept with Emerson and broke up his family and that is what you support eewww gross wink

    • Wayn King says:

      05:08pm | 06/07/12

      ATM, did you also know the offspring of one in three Liberal supporter unions has alien DNA!? The LNP and Katter are in bed with the saucer people….That’s why he wants NQ; to build an alien-human hybrid state that votes 100% conservative .

    • Why Oh Lord says:

      04:32am | 07/07/12

      The fact that the Gillard Government is changing the Carbon tax model to such an extent POST implementation should signal to the reasoned mind that they did not know what they were doing when the agreed to launch the tax and had no idea of the impacts to the economy.

      Knee jerk opportunists run the country OMG!

      Running up to the carbon tax implementation, we all witnessed an enourmous amount of compensation being handed out to industry (including the big polluters ha ha), businesses, schools, hospitals and low to middle income families.

      The Gillard Government were terrified at what they had done to our economy, mass job losses, future jobs canned, even mining projects on the rocks (5 under review). So the threw millions into the economy to try and hold back the carbon tax tsunami they had created.

      The reasoned mind should conclude, given the frantic activity pre launch and the drastic changes to the carbon tax post launch, it is clear the Gillard Government cannot have done any accurate modelling or planning for the carbon tax.

      You should be worried Lefties!

    • Browy Mc says:

      11:18am | 07/07/12

      james the sky is falling, the shady ALP cover ups and usual bullshit isn’t going work this time. Prices up, less work hours, more outsoucing and life isn’t getting easier. The left have to prop up the Gillard regime because this is their last chance to be in a position of power. Last chance at the big time, after the next election Labor would be lucky to have authority at the local boweling club. Enjoy the end of Labor’s days james cause we will.

    • It's good night from him says:

      11:07am | 06/07/12

      That’s just mental for Farks sake this guys is a senior minister.

      Oh and this article is not very funny!!

      Reply

    • Chris L says:

      01:38pm | 06/07/12

      The two Ronneys were funny!

    • SD says:

      11:10am | 06/07/12

      Figures that are actually better under Labor are still in red, as if they are crap! Typical dickheads. It’s nice of them to put it in writing though!

      Reply

    • Economist says:

      12:23pm | 06/07/12

      Don’t get me started on how crap that table was.

    • splash says:

      11:17am | 06/07/12

      That clip is already to feauture in liberal campaign ads,
      Happy go lucky Singing labor politicians, that have Shat a brand new tax on the Australian people.

      Reply

    • SD says:

      11:20am | 06/07/12

      “Labor will stupidly splash 30 mil on the purple monkey dishwasher program. We will wisely invest 60 mil on a dish hydration and aerating scheme”! How can anyone take these sycophants seriously!?

      Reply

    • renold says:

      11:24am | 06/07/12

      Labor Truth: The carboh tax will end global warming and yes we made it happen

      Reply

    • Hartz says:

      11:24am | 06/07/12

      haha - the whole situation would be funny if it wasn’t such a sad indictment on our political situation..!! The government has gone loco and has its head so far up its own proverbial that it doesn’t know or doesn’t care that the people despise them, with their lying and inept methods of implementation, and the rest of world is having a good chuckle at the stupid Aussies who think they’re going to change the world by exporting jobs and pushing up the cost of living… The feeling out here in normalville is that our great Country is being well and truly rogered by the politicians…

      Reply

    • bird seed comment says:

      12:49pm | 07/07/12

      Yeh
      Low interest rates in decades, economy the envy of the world, strong dollar, $500,000,000,000 investment pipeline, nation building infrastructure.
      Loco government indeed.

    • Fiddler says:

      11:25am | 06/07/12

      typical leftist crap. Think they are clever but aren’t.

      I’m guessing they’re still giggling to themselves about writing this and patting each other on the back

      Reply

    • andye says:

      12:12pm | 06/07/12

      @Fiddler - That told “them”. “they” are going to think twice next time.

    • Martin says:

      12:54pm | 06/07/12

      @Fiddler

      Happy little ray of sunshine aren’t we. Somone piss in your coffee this morning ?

    • Fiddler says:

      03:32pm | 06/07/12

      nope. Quite happy, just sick of idiots getting airtime to spread crap

    • Brad says:

      05:38pm | 06/07/12

      They can read this back to themselves on Sunday morning after the election. It will be warm comfort.

    • andye says:

      06:26pm | 06/07/12

      @Fiddler - “nope. Quite happy, just sick of idiots getting airtime to spread crap”

      Haha, clearly so are the authors.

    • Miss Livvy says:

      11:26am | 06/07/12

      Like totes hilar

      Reply

    • Sheldon Cooper says:

      11:26am | 06/07/12

      Oh you made a joke! Mha!

      Reply

    • mikem says:

      11:29am | 06/07/12

      At last the source of all those rubbish responses is revealed.  You blokes moonlight as strategists for the Liberal Party. 

      It always amuses me that Tony Abbott believe in something that there is absolutely no evidence for but at the same time claims to not believe in something that there is lots of evidence for.

      Reply

    • SD says:

      11:31am | 06/07/12

      In all seriousness it’s a bit pathetic. An awful lot of saying “labor is crap and we will do it better and cheaper” but often with little or no detail on what or how they will do it! Looks like they have no ideas and it’s a case of “what am I the answer man? Just vote for me”!

      Reply

    • Truth or Dare says:

      11:33am | 06/07/12

      Labor Lie: That Craig Emerson could sing
      Truth: He can but out of key
      Labor Lie: The boat people are Abbotts fault
      Truth: Labor are supplying the boats
      Labor Lie: We are the progressive party
      Truth: As PM is not into marriage period…tuff titty gays
      Labor Lie: Combet was really concerned when Simon Sheikh fainted
      Truth: Stop dorking around Simon…huh…photo opp..Combet 1 v Sophie 0
      Labor Lie: Gillards going to lead us to a victory next election
      Truth: Canvassing Bob HawkeLabor
      Labor Lie: The country is going great
      Truth: the east coast sux

      Reply

    • andye says:

      12:10pm | 06/07/12

      Once again proving that conservatives don’t understand comedy.

    • Gary from somewhere says:

      11:42am | 06/07/12

      Sorry guys i think youve been saving your jokes from the christmas crackers from last year. We all know the material in them is pure gold. Im amazed that your the only ones who have used them, surely everyone is on that gravy train.

      Reply

    • H B Bear says:

      11:47am | 06/07/12

      Don’t give up your day job.

      Unless this is your day job.

      Reply

    • Dave C says:

      11:48am | 06/07/12

      Sorry didnt think it was funny at all. In trying to have a go at both major parties this fell flat as a pancake.

      Next time maybe a satire on the Greens? You know what their carbon footprint is? How much industry they plan to close down etc etc Or how they are too pure for offshore processing and then blame TA for the asylum seeker problem.

      Just a thought thats all

      Reply

    • JT says:

      12:30pm | 06/07/12

      Clearly the Carbon Tax has had a detrimental effect on comedy - there being little in this article

      Reply

    • JT says:

      12:45pm | 06/07/12

      oi who is this other JT expressing the same thoughts as I

    • Chris L says:

      03:15pm | 06/07/12

      @JT - Get a hold of yourselves!

      PS. Article was hilarious.

    • Mouse says:

      10:38am | 07/07/12

      ChrisL, looks like my comment to you was a bit naughty and didn’t get through last night!  Well, have smacked my hand and I will try to remember to be more demure in future!  lol ;o)

    • Chris L says:

      04:13pm | 07/07/12

      Bad girl Mouse!

    • Esteban says:

      12:41pm | 06/07/12

      This is why the standup comedians get the big bucks and glory.

      Your standup comedian can take a very inane script and turn it into something funny with live delivery and interaction from the audience.

      The script writers and actual standup comedians should consider going on holidays at the same time. The script by itselft is not funny.

      Can anyone see what is going on here with “atricles” like this and the one about building a fence around Australia the other day?

      Some people fear being ridiculed. The subtle message is that if you don’t support the ALP you are going to be subjected to ridicule.

      Reply

    • Nikraf says:

      01:10pm | 06/07/12

      The subtle message is that if you don’t support the ALP you are going to be subjected to ridicule.?

      is it not if you do support the alp you will be ridiculed !

      if you support the lnp you will be ridiculed !

      if you support the greens you will be ridiculed and cursed !

      so if you do support a political party you will be ridiculed in Australia but is that not the Australian way!

    • andye says:

      01:11pm | 06/07/12

      @Esteban - “Some people fear being ridiculed. The subtle message is that if you don’t support the ALP you are going to be subjected to ridicule.”

      The right has the polls on its side, the tide of public opinion is their way and lots of the press are falling over themselves to attack the left. Anyone who dares question the current status-quo on the forums is roundly attacked for being “rusted on” or something.

      ...and then you claim a couple of parody articles are clearly part of some larger plot to assault your freedom.

      Harden up, princess. You aren’t applying for asylum, no need to exaggerate so much.

    • Little Olive says:

      12:46pm | 06/07/12

      Thank god we have Labor to steer us through stormy waters. The Liberals lie through their teeth. Even their leader cant lie straight in bed.

      Reply

    • Nikraf says:

      01:42pm | 06/07/12

      now now you cant abuse the corkscrew people

    • Drama Queen says:

      01:48pm | 06/07/12

      More comedy - good one !!!

    • HappyG says:

      03:03pm | 06/07/12

      Little Olive - Lesley Watkins ???? Same degree of intellectual ability.

    • Bho Ghan-Pryde says:

      07:29pm | 06/07/12

      Ah, self congratulaons from the insiders. Be careful it is not self delusion Little Olive.

    • Mouse says:

      07:38pm | 06/07/12

      Hey little olive, how do you know Tony can’t lie straight in bed? Been peeking have you?  lol :o)

    • Chris L says:

      12:43am | 07/07/12

      @Mouse - I’ve often wondered at that old saying. Does it mean they have a spinal problem?

    • Mouse says:

      10:33am | 07/07/12

      ChrisL, yes it’s a silly saying really isn’t it? Does anyone lie straight in bed? wayne swan probably does, he is pretty rigid LOL :o)

    • Laughing says:

      12:48pm | 06/07/12

      Very funny guys, an amusing take on Australian politics..  Won’t be much laughing though, as you can see the shephard has scared the sheep witless ..

      Reply

    • Nick says:

      12:49pm | 06/07/12

      Did these guys get paid to write this idiotic article?.
      Funny?
      I don’t think so..

      Reply

    • Nev says:

      12:56pm | 06/07/12

      This would be quite funny if it was happening in some other country - it is always amusing to watch someone else’s misfortune.

      Reply

    • Geoffrey Chaucer says:

      01:20pm | 06/07/12

      “You’ll be compensated for the increases in prices by tax cuts”

      Yes, for the next 18 months. After that, the carbon tax switches to an ETS and does anyone believe that the price of electricity will come down then?

      Nope, it won’t. On the contrary, it will go up AND NO MORE COMPENSATION . . . NO MONEY !!!

      Reply

    • Against the Man says:

      01:36pm | 06/07/12

      Still no border policy Gillard, but you said you solve problems not just talk about them. Did you lie again? Poor Gillard on holiday while another boat load arrive smile

      Reply

    • Poochie says:

      02:25pm | 06/07/12

      Get your hand off it! It’s hard I know!

    • James from Manly says:

      02:19pm | 07/07/12

      Gillard does not care one bit about all this. You know what? She is going to be out of the hot seat by Sept. If it isn’t the downward poll numbers it will be the asylum seeker drowning debacle.

    • vox says:

      01:45pm | 06/07/12

      Wait ‘til tomorrow, little ones. The Athiests are doing a skit on Abbott and Pell getting married, with Christopher Pyne as the bridesmaid.
      It’s pretty funny, especially when Abbott at the altar demands a prenup which lists 11 churches, two secondary schools and an orphanage. Riotous stuff. Don’t miss it, folks!

      Reply

    • PhilD says:

      02:05pm | 06/07/12

      Oh Dear, Craig Emerson, always living in the ‘now’ with no thought of future consequences. Just like when he was shagging Gillard.

      Reply

    • andre says:

      02:34pm | 06/07/12

      One scientific theory says that was the farting that caused dinosaurs to become extinct. M<ethane in fart changed the climate then and dinosaurs died as a resulto of that.
      This scientific theory obviously contradict the scientific theory that it is breathing CO2 that causes climate change nor farting.

      Climate change “science” goes back to Sagan who proposed that Venus is hot because of the greenhouse gases there. He did it to discredit Velikowsky who claimed that Venus is hot because it is a new addition to the Solar system. That would obviously contradict all the religious ideas of the mechanics of the heaven so Velikowsky had to be ridiculed and vilified and Sagan delivered the CO2 science punch.

      “Give me hydrogen and I will give you the Universe”
      He claimed once… or more times. I am not sure…

      With this kinda Sagan’s science farting as a cause for dinosaurs extinction becomes a scientific theory.

      Reply

    • andye says:

      06:30pm | 06/07/12

      @andre - excellent work there. that was completely believably parody of a total moron. i think.

    • andre says:

      10:15am | 07/07/12

      ...or rather moronic science that is a base for politically correct money grabbing racket

    • Rick with a silent P says:

      02:44pm | 06/07/12

      “We can’t be sure and shouldn’t attack people for questioning idea’s” That’s what Galileo did?...............I think you’ll find thats what they did to Galileo. Go tell it to the flat earth society Lord Munkdon and Co.

      Reply

    • splash says:

      02:50pm | 06/07/12

      He just lost his credibility,
      it will haunt him the rest of his political life.

      p.s love the way he danced and shuffled his feet to the Deliverance tune.

      Reply

    • Lyla says:

      02:52pm | 06/07/12

      This just wasn’t funny. Did it really take two of you to write it? Try harder.

      For laughs I’m just going to have to watch Craig’s Whyalla Wipeout again. Those awkward few seconds at the start where he has switched on his phone and is bopping his head are pure comedy. I also love the bit near the end of the vid where he kinda realizes what a d*ck he has just made of himself.

      Reply

    • No fan says:

      05:12pm | 06/07/12

      I’d vote Liberal based on their wonderful work except I’m not a dickhead, a requirement for most of their fanbase.

      Reply

    • Little Olive says:

      06:49pm | 06/07/12

      Makes two of us No fan. There are some places you just cant go and voting Liberal is one.

    • je says:

      05:42pm | 06/07/12

      @no fan - so which political party are you a fan of?

      Reply

    • SmJ says:

      06:01pm | 06/07/12

      I’ll probably vote Liberal ahead of Labor in my seat, but my first vote will go to the Sex or Secular Parties, and then pretty much everyone else with the two Ls at the bottom.

      Reply

    • Bob says:

      02:20am | 07/07/12

      They’re in the senate. However, last election they had my first votes. Worst case, preferences went to Liberal, best case, we had a sane minority party in the senate. However, Greens will always go last, even behind Labor. Shortly after the 2010 election I had some hope for them, but… No.

    • Swamp Thing says:

      06:11pm | 06/07/12

      @Lyla, I thought he was ‘having a turn’ ala Simon Sheik on that left wing lovefest before I realised he was psyching himself up to sing and dance. Labour volk & their ilk do some funny things under pressure - to be sure.

      Reply

    • Bho Ghan-Pryde says:

      07:19pm | 06/07/12

      This carbon tax thing is all over. It will be gone by Xmas 2013 and the ALP will simply disown it after that and never mention it again. Done deal and all the abuse heaped on those who dislike it will only make the up coming ALP election loss even worse. The ALP and it’s camp followers have learn’t absolutely nothing from the Qld and NSW election results. There is none so blind as those who will not see. Or perhaps they are just so arrogant and disconnected that they imagine they are the font of all wisdom and others will eventually come around. Don’t such people ever wonder why their party has less members than an average AFL club and falling?

      Reply

    • KimL says:

      05:54am | 07/07/12

      I will vote Labor if and when they undo the wrong and remove Gillard and put back Rudd, by the way so far the Lamb Roast (or leg) has not gone up, I kept all my dockets for 2 months previous to the carbon tax so I could check myself. Would not buy bread from Brumbies again, when you add up one or 2 cents from every customer, it comes to quite a lot of money that has been fraudulently charged

      Reply

    • P. Walker says:

      08:51am | 07/07/12

      Stopped listening when I saw I was getting $3 a year compensation. 

      Stopped listening when my pay slip informed me that I am now paying an extra $988 a year in tax. 

      Stopped listening when the non achievers were getting my share. 

      Stopped listening when I realised that this is the first government to actually introduce hard socialism.

      All I need to do now is white out the Labor candidates, the ganGrenes and Independents allied to Labor and toss a dart for my vote.

      Reply

    • Inky says:

      03:10pm | 08/07/12

      This article made for a poor replacement for Dr Tinman.

      Reply

    • Mark/Fox says:

      07:58pm | 08/07/12

      The cost of overpopulation, a carbon tax yet these foolish polticians allow and promote growth of our population and all we have acheived from it is a poorer quality of lifestyle.

      Reply
 
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