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EXCLUSIVE! I hacked the Government’s emails

Joe Hildebrand

by Joe Hildebrand

30 Mar 05:55am

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As you can probably guess it was me who hacked into the email accounts of ten senior federal ministers.

Top-level communications. Pic concocted by Mr J Hildebrand

I hacked into Julia Gillard’s because I wanted to know what it was like to run a country, I hacked into Kevin Rudd’s because I wanted to know what it was like to run the world, and I hacked into Stephen Smith’s because…well, I just really wanted to get some sleep.

But what I found was deeply shocking and in yet another extraordinary exclusive I can now reveal their explosive contents for the first time…

From: Rudd, Kevin
To: Gillard, Julia
Subject: You B****
Dear Julia,

Please find attached the latest Newspoll showing that I am substantially more popular than you—although to be fair, so is tinea these days.

Anyway, am I supposed to knife you now or wait until later tonight? I only ask because you have experience at this sort of thing.

Regards,
Kevin

___

From: Gillard, Julia
To: Rudd, Kevin
Subject: Re: You B****
Dear Kevin,

I’d be interested to know precisely by what mechanism you plan to knife me as I just did my own Newspoll of Caucus and apparently I’m preferred PM by 98 per cent to two. Even Swanny could understand those numbers.

Yours in Solidarity,
Julia

___

From: Swan, Wayne
To: Gillard, Julia
Subject: Re: You B****
Dear Julia,

Kevin just told me you said I was stupid. What do you mean by that?

Confused,
Wayne

___

From: Gillard, Julia
To: Shorten, Bill
Subject: Re: You B****

Dear Bill,

Could you please put your dog on a leash? How am I supposed to run the country with Swanny emailing me all the time asking me crap like how to spell “deficit’’?

Ever yours,
Julia

___

From: Shorten, Bill
To: Gillard, Julia
Subject: Re: You B****
Dear Julia,

We’ve already discussed this: You’re not supposed to run the country, I am.

(And to a lesser extent that guy from South Australia who just popped up last year.)

Ever mine,
Bill

___

From: Rudd, Kevin
To: Shorten, Bill
Subject: Re: You B****
Dear Bill,

You dirty rat-f***er - I knew you were still pulling the strings. I am going to tear you a new a***hole so big even your own head could fit up it. By the time I am through with you you’ll have to walk sideways through doors. I cannot believe this country has gone from being run by a multilingual demigod to a s***headed oompa-loompa with a fetish for polo shirts.

F*** me.

Best wishes,
Kevin

___

From: Shorten, Bill
To: Swan, Wayne
Subject: Re: You B****
Dear Wayne,

The next time you respond to an email from me do you think you could avoid hitting “Reply all’’?

Tks,
Bill

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    • acotrel says:

      05:17am | 30/03/11

      How about you hack into the emails which go around the Liberal Party, and you might reveal the latest dirty plot about who will be bashed next week?

      Reply

    • Jade says:

      07:14am | 30/03/11

      Why, labor is so much more amusing raspberry

    • Phil says:

      07:26am | 30/03/11

      I think you need to seek help.

      I really do worry about you.

      If you cannot see that this is a light hearted attempt at putting what we all know is said in private to make a joke of the emails being hacked, maybe you really need help.

      Kevin is obviously pissed off,

      The way Wayne Swan does his mathsm he obviously has the iq of the ambient temperature of an igloo.

      Shorten is positioning himself for glory.

      Gillard probably does think Swan is stupid, just like the mug punters who voted for her.

    • tom says:

      07:28am | 30/03/11

      acotrel

      I thought it was hilarious. would have been funny whatever party - lighten up and drop the politics mate.

    • Nafe says:

      07:46am | 30/03/11

      Oh my, has someone threatened you acotrel?

    • Tom says:

      07:51am | 30/03/11

      Ring the Chaser, acetroll. He would be happy to do it against the Libs. After all he is an ABC /ALP lackey.

      Bashed? Ashfield? The ALP know how to give a good bashing, don’t they?

    • Dash says:

      08:22am | 30/03/11

      acotrel, but this is so much more believable!

    • Doh says:

      09:03am | 30/03/11

      Humour detection fail.

      Why ’ you hatin’!!

    • Shane From Melbourne says:

      09:54am | 30/03/11

      Can’t hack Liberal Party emails- they’ve barely learnt to turn on a computer….(equal opportunity hater here)

    • rightway rogan says:

      09:54am | 30/03/11

      From Juju
      To Tony
      Re: Us
      hey my little prize fighter you…you really turned me on in question time today swinging your little arms around and giving me those long hard looks. till next time…JuJu

    • john says:

      10:04am | 30/03/11

      Who would have thought these monkeys would one day run this country to financial ruin.

      At least in the UK/Greece etc citizens have a spine to protest.

    • Kelvin says:

      01:24pm | 30/03/11

      The headline should have been “I Hacked The Labor Party Hacks Emails”

      So funny!

      Even funnier that the Labour luddites like acotrel jump in with such witty and rapier like comments.

      After the weekend in NSW I would have thought that all good lefties would be spending more time reading Paul Keating’s assessment of their new leader. Nothing like watching them tear themselves apart.

    • Helen Osborn says:

      10:15am | 31/03/11

      I’m here for my date with Kevin Rudd as advertised on Twitter lol!

    • @LeonBradley1980 (twitter) says:

      10:16am | 31/03/11

      Kevin Rudd’s favorite song is now “First cut is the Deepest”

    • Danny B says:

      05:34am | 30/03/11

      Brilliant, Joe, brilliant!  Especially liked the ones from Bill Shorten.

      Reply

    • Peter says:

      05:51am | 30/03/11

      Dear Joe, There appears something wrong with the E-mails you hacked, they contain Oxford spelling not the American language used in microsoft spell checker. However one must not discount there could be at least one public servant in the offices of those mentioned to spell check all E-mails into english grammer, so the said person appears to have some education.

      Reply

    • Nate says:

      07:16am | 30/03/11

      @Peter, would that person also know the spelling of the word ‘grammar’?

    • iansand says:

      07:22am | 30/03/11

      How could you tell?

    • Deepthinker says:

      07:58am | 30/03/11

      I have always thought that grammar was grammar. Could I be wrong like a lot of Labour supporters

    • Evan Findlay says:

      09:46am | 30/03/11

      Deepthinker,
      Who are the Labour supporters? Your sentence structure may be plausible, but your spelling leaves a lot to be desired. The correct spelling is Labor.

    • Deepthinker says:

      10:12am | 30/03/11

      Come in sucker! you would have to be a Labour supporter not realize ? that the spelling was a deliberate act to get your attention, just like a lot of ALP spin.

    • Tony of Poorakistan says:

      11:04am | 30/03/11

      Peter

      next time install Windoze with Australian English selected as an installation option and ensure you also install and specify the Australian English dictionary if installing products that utilise a dictionary.

    • Chris L says:

      11:17am | 30/03/11

      Nice save Deepthinker. Using the “I meant to screw up” defence. Perhaps you could call it non-core spelling.

    • Evan Findlay says:

      11:25am | 30/03/11

      Deepthinker,
      It’s hard to know with the conservative voter. If you were educated under the years of the Howard government then we have come to expect a drop in educational standards.
      It appears by your last comment that this may be the case. Is it that you are plain lazy when it comes to sentence structure or do you not realise that the start of a sentence should begin with a capital letter as exclamation points and question marks denote the end of a sentence or statement.
      And once again I find myself having to correct your spelling. When referring to the Australian Labor Party we do not use the letter “u” in the word Labor.
      I think the use of “Deepthinker” as a pseudonym in your case is a stretch of the imagination.

    • youdy beaudy says:

      11:37am | 30/03/11

      Hey Peter, you are going on about english language as compared with Americanisms, well sorry to be an arse but grammer is spelt grammar. Back to thedrawing board, hey. A good attempt tho.

    • Deepthinker says:

      03:14pm | 30/03/11

      I am so old I have forgotten my syntax, I can even remember the DLP which I think is an acronym for the Democratic LabOur Party,. Full Stop.
      The acronym ALP must stand for the Australian Lying Party. Then again I might be an American .

    • CD says:

      05:23pm | 30/03/11

      Sheesh I got the Labour misspelling on purpose straight off.

      It’s one error I detest when supporters can’t get their own party name correct.

      Only idiots would think otherwise. Score 1 - Deepthinker ,0 - Idiots

      Very witty Joe. Had a great late arvo laugh. Thanks

    • CD says:

      05:24pm | 30/03/11

      Sheesh I got the Labour misspelling on purpose straight off.

      It’s one error I detest when supporters can’t get their own party name correct.

      Only idiots would think otherwise. Score 1 - Deepthinker ,0 - Idiots

      Very witty Joe. Had a great late arvo laugh. Thanks

    • Ian says:

      06:29am | 30/03/11

      Does your employer actually pay you to write such poor journalism? It is hardly reporting. It isn’t humour.

      Reply

    • TimB says:

      07:06am | 30/03/11

      A Labor voter I see.

    • Knemon says:

      07:14am | 30/03/11

      @ Ian - I so pity you. I found it to be witty and humorous. With all the doom and gloom of recent times, it is a relief to finally read something light hearted. Some people really should get a life.

    • ZSrenn says:

      07:17am | 30/03/11

      Gee you would be fun to have around the office Ian.

      Joe thanks for the laugh.

      Great way to start the day!

    • Bob Hope says:

      07:49am | 30/03/11

      Dear Ian,

      God help your partner having to wake up in the same house as that sense of humour.
      Now… back to the monastery with you.

      Yours etc.,
      Bob Hope

    • Tom says:

      07:55am | 30/03/11

      Go and read Das Kapital. It should liven you up.

    • jf says:

      07:56am | 30/03/11

      Dear Ian

      Sock it to them Ian. Joe will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

      There will be no room for humour in the Green Empire.

      Vive La Bob

      Yours in Revolt

      The Greens
      Government of the Commonwealth of Australia

    • Steve Thompson says:

      08:06am | 30/03/11

      Where did you get the idea that The Punch was journalism?

    • Elphaba says:

      08:46am | 30/03/11

      Oh man, the indignation of the Labor voters is almost as funny as Joe’s article!

    • Against the Man says:

      08:47am | 30/03/11

      I agree it isn’t funny because this could very well be true. The childish mentality of Rudd and co is the stuff of legends.

    • Doh says:

      09:05am | 30/03/11

      LOL, another humourless victim.

      Light’n up.

    • Chris L says:

      11:20am | 30/03/11

      Elphaba don’t get too cocky. Have a read of the whinging that goes on when we get those “Diary of a Liberal staffer” articles.

      Agree with the sentiment though, some people need to lighten up.

    • Robert S McCormick says:

      11:58am | 30/03/11

      Truly a Labor voter - or are you Jjooolya, Bill or Kevvy pretending to be someone called Ian?
      Of course given thatNSW Labor was extreminated on Saturday, the drubbing QLD Labor will get next year, the annihilation Federal labor will get sometime between this week & 2013,, to be followed by the vaporising of SA Labor in 2014… It is no wonder ALP supporters have entirely lost their sense of humour!
      Never mind, Ian, Jooolya, Bill or Kevvy the others will eventually stuff things up just as you have done & we can have a laugh at them!!

    • Elphaba says:

      12:43pm | 30/03/11

      @Chris L, it’s a shame when that happens.  All pollies, no matter what party they belong to, deserve a good serve now and then, because more often than not, they’re absolutely true.  grin

    • KevF111 says:

      01:15pm | 30/03/11

      I did not write those emails. The hacker created those emails from my hacked account and sent them around!

    • Funny says:

      05:23pm | 30/03/11

      Oh please, I found it VERY funny and this coming from a Labor voter. It’s good to see journos with a good sense of humour and entertaining writing style, instead of the boring stand and deliver rubbish most come up with.

    • deb says:

      06:44am | 30/03/11

      first laugh of the day! thanks

      Reply

    • Dark Horse says:

      07:07am | 30/03/11

      You probably would have seen the letter Julia had one of her minions send me about the Islamization of Australia saying everything was wonderful, nothing to worry about and just because Islam is a menace in every other Western country with 10% or more muslims, we don’t need to worry because we only have 1.7% ... well, that was at the last census. It’s probably closer to 10% by now.

      Rather than prepare for the inevitable onslaught of Islam on our streets, Julia and her mob prefer to leave it until it’s almost unmanageable. No wonder muslims are saying that Australia will be an Islamic State by 2030.

      Reply

    • Be alert says:

      08:13am | 30/03/11

      How do we prepare?
      You are making me very worried.
      Do we need guns?
      Should we join a church?

    • Rover of North Cooma says:

      09:10am | 30/03/11

      Ummm, Dark Horse, Joe probably wouldn’t have seen that letter because his article is a joke.

      If the PM really has sent you a letter saying “just because Islam is a menace in every other Western country with 10% or more muslims,” you should post it here so everyone can read it in its entirety, not your version of it.

      I saw a lovely French movie last night called “The Name of Love”. Deals with the issues of Islam in France. Might be worth having a look to get another perspective.

    • eddie says:

      09:28am | 30/03/11

      Dark Horse, You really need to see someone about your paranoid xenophobia. The article is a mildy amusing peice poking fun at our pollies. So you have to come on an push you anti - muslim barrow. I also recall you on another post saying you are, or were, in law enforcement. It worries me that loonies like you are walking around with guns on their hips and badges on their chests. It should worry the rest of us too.

    • LoveFest says:

      01:17pm | 30/03/11

      We plan to start a people’s revolution. Bring on Sharia Law now!

    • Gregg says:

      03:07pm | 30/03/11

      @ Be alert,
      Preparation is as simple as ABC & a stutter there or the D
      Castrations and Cannons or Drownings.

    • Jacki says:

      07:34am | 30/03/11

      Do you people know this is a joke (except Deb)  very funny

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      03:11pm | 30/03/11

      You had better find acotrel to explain it to Jacki and copy in Badger, Seano & Co. too.

    • Bill09 says:

      07:52am | 30/03/11

      Ha.Ha.!..excellent..

      Reply

    • Sag says:

      07:59am | 30/03/11

      Excellent, had a good laugh, thank you Joe

      Reply

    • Dash says:

      08:17am | 30/03/11

      Sadly, this is probably closer to the truth than people realise! I hate to think what shit is flying around the ALP after last Saturday’s result.

      Reply

    • Rosie says:

      08:18am | 30/03/11

      Are these the kind of people supposedly governing Australia????

      Joe, I laughed loudly, but wondered how did we get to this stage where everything happening in the political arena is a joke!

      I thought that since Gillard became PM under controversial circumstances, Oprah’s visit was the only success Australia had but now we hear that she wasn’t impressed, Gilllllllllllarrrrrrrrrrrrrd, Gillllllllllllarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd, Gillllllllllllllarrrrrrrrrrrrd think of Laaaaaaaaaaaaard! That is realllllllllllllllly funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny coming out of Oprah!

      Reply

    • Knemon says:

      02:47pm | 30/03/11

      @ Rosie - “how did we get to this stage where everything happening in the political arena is a joke!” - because everyone inside the arena is a joke!!

    • Considered Opinion says:

      08:26am | 30/03/11

      Whatever happened to Eric… sucked up by the libs party machine? A laugh for the start of another long day in paradise.

      Reply

    • Nil by mouth says:

      08:40am | 30/03/11

      Dear Joe,
      Mighty fine. Love your work!
      Good to see that all the leftie trolls who have commented above have such a good sense of humour and take satire so gracefully after dishing it out to the Libs all those years.
      Encore!

      Reply

    • mmr 30 march 2011 says:

      09:02am | 30/03/11

      Your comment:
      computer hacking is against the law.

      Reply

    • Elphaba says:

      09:15am | 30/03/11

      Oh look, the manitee is back.

    • Bilby says:

      10:32am | 30/03/11

      No dear. Computer *cracking* is against the law. Computer hacking is nirvana.

    • Doh says:

      09:09am | 30/03/11

      Nice one Joe, this will go down in History as Gillard-Gate.

      I can’t wait for the next tranche of emails including correspondence with Windsor, Oakeshott and Brown).

      See if you can get into Kristina’s and Bligh’s emails too while you are at it, there is sure to be some comedic gold there as well!!

      Reply

    • Trentyn says:

      09:12am | 30/03/11

      sorry to column jack here, but I am unconvinced that journalism can be satirical.

      This was pants wettingly funny.
      This was informative of current events.

      but was it journalism….? I don’t think so.
      its not like the revolving door deffinition of art: “Art is anything called art by an artist, and an artist is someone who makes art.”

      Lucky for me I dont come to the punch seeking high brow content.
      .... maybe this is a subject for the next “punch on”?

      Reply

    • Considered Opinion says:

      09:32am | 30/03/11

      Either that Trentyn pet, or you could be the next subject for punching on. At least here we can comment on issues which of course is quite difficult through many of dear Rupert’s butt-wipers.

      Journalism in the age of the Citizen Journalist is in the eye and mind (and pen perhaps), of the reader/editor/moderator or participant. If you are dependant on people who have gone through journalism school, and to a point have at least a dependance on big news outlets for an income, you are going to read what they feel they can get away with vis a vis their employers. Here that isn’t an issue. We say what we like/feel, it is moderated and then shared.
      Punch On

    • Gregg says:

      03:18pm | 30/03/11

      @Trentyn,
      There’s plenty of brews about and even Oxymorons
      ” This was informative of current events.

      but was it journalism….? I don’t think so. “
      Go figure and in doing so, have you not heard of one philosopy that you’ll enjoy learning more if you have fun doing it.

    • al says:

      09:15am | 30/03/11

      Are you going to start a Hildy Leaks website?
      i would so have loved this for the recent NSW govt.

      Reply

    • Pete from Hay says:

      09:17am | 30/03/11

      Well done Joe..Bill Shorten is my mums local member, lol

      Reply

    • Richard says:

      09:50am | 30/03/11

      This is the funniest series of words and sentences strung together that has ever been written.

      Reply

    • David says:

      09:55am | 30/03/11

      All seems credible to me.

      Reply

    • NicoleG says:

      10:13am | 30/03/11

      Hahaha love it. Well done Joe.

      Reply

    • notSue says:

      10:25am | 30/03/11

      Cackle andChortle! 

      Funny stuff, Joe!

      Reply

    • Huey says:

      10:27am | 30/03/11

      Funny, thanks Joe.

      Reply

    • Likes Joining Dots says:

      10:32am | 30/03/11

      Joe, this is so obviously a fake email.

      Since when have the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister actually started communicating with each other?

      Reply

    • brian says:

      11:20am | 30/03/11

      Alene Composta?
      Joe, how did you do it? Kevin looks like a saint.

    • Sludger says:

      10:41am | 30/03/11

      From J Gillard
      To: R Hawke
      Subject: personality
      Comrade, given you helped to slow the loss of the proletarian masses in the state of New South Poverty, I wish your manifesto on the art of being popular.  The opiate of the masses is not working and we seem to have sold the hammer AND the sickle so need alternative methods.
      Yours Fraternally
      Julia (all models included)

      Reply

    • Doh says:

      11:16am | 30/03/11

      You should have signed it off “Yours no-gender-specifically”

    • Phil says:

      12:07pm | 30/03/11

      Doh
      Yours Fraternally is used by communists the world over

    • fairsfair says:

      10:48am | 30/03/11

      Cracker. I thought that was short and sweet. Enjoyed. Acotrel has a good point - a coalition one would be funny too.

      On a side note though, does anyone else think that Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong are starting to look more and more like each other everyday?

      Reply

    • Jim says:

      12:56pm | 30/03/11

      I thought that months ago FF! Same body language, same way of speaking, same ego…scary.

      And of course, they both speak Mandarin and like women!

    • fairsfair says:

      01:19pm | 30/03/11

      She has recently had her hair cut like him and I also noticed the other day she was wearing glasses. It was just plain weird. They have the same shaped head or something.

      It is truly terrifying.

      I noticed it during senate question time. She was wildly gesticulating about something and it hit me. That senate is scary territory, but at least it is the same as house of reps in that questions never get answered -there is just a strictly imposed time limit on not answering.

    • Gregg says:

      03:22pm | 30/03/11

      It’d be interesting to see which genes a love child took, poor kid!

    • Harquebus says:

      11:42am | 30/03/11

      What a load of rubbish.

      Reply

    • Sleepless says:

      05:30pm | 30/03/11

      Harquebus,  take your funny pills, wait 30 min and re read the post again.

    • Ben C says:

      11:44am | 30/03/11

      From: Shorten, Bill
      To: Bryce, Quentin
      Subject: Julia

      Dear Mum,

      When are you going to shaft the ranga? It’s not like you’re busy with much these days.

      Love
      Chloe

      PS. Can you look after the kids this week, Bill and I are going to pay Sussex St a visit.

      Reply

    • grumpy old man says:

      11:52am | 30/03/11

      Joe,
      sometimes I hate your stuff, and sometimes I love it, but its never boring!
      today I love it.

      Reply

    • allan says:

      11:59am | 30/03/11

      Excellent, thanks for the laugh, very well done.

      Reply

    • jay says:

      12:05pm | 30/03/11

      are the emails real ?
      If not Joe could sued by labor?

      Reply

    • marley says:

      06:21pm | 30/03/11

      If yes, could we sue labor?

    • Matt says:

      12:26pm | 30/03/11

      Joe,
      This was a mistake.  There is enough real problems with the Labor leadership that we don’t need to invent stuff.  I don’t get it.  This is not funny, and it is not real so what is it supposed to be?
      Some readers are likely confused and think it is real.  Sure, there is likely stuff like that going on behind the scenes, but why make it up?  How would we like it if they did that to us?

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      03:30pm | 30/03/11

      Matty,
      Sometimes when situations are so sad you could have a cry, having a good laugh can help.
      Those emails are real for as Jay says, Joe does not want to get sued.

      Most of us are prepared to accept what is going on behind the scenes, even if there are a few Labor supporters who are not willing to admit it and hey, if you do want others to see what you have written because of what it is, just write stuff that you can stand by.

    • Puff the Magic Dragon says:

      12:53pm | 30/03/11

      From: Conroy,Stephen
      To: Hildebrand, Joe
      Subject: On your trail

      Joe, I had my suspicions it was you. It was only a matter of time that you would be found out.  It was either you or that rabid Chihuahua Christopher Pyne. I am recommending that you (and Christopher because he makes me angry) are exiled to that vacant city adjacent to Chernobyl. (its not all that bad, I recently invested there in a butcher shop that looks pretty good online). Also Bob Brown wants to tax carbon there but Putin had to remind him and me that it is not part of rural Australia.

      Stephen
      (Revenge of the Nerds)
      Conroy

      Reply

    • Ben C says:

      02:13pm | 30/03/11

      Would Conroy have seen this piece if hsi filter was up and running?

    • Paddy says:

      03:19pm | 30/03/11

      Brilliant and quite enjoyable.
      Tell me Joe, were you having Yum Cha and just happened upon a folder containing these emails?

      Reply

    • Tony says:

      04:12pm | 30/03/11

      Joe, do you think you could hack Hockey’s, Turnbull’s and Pynee’s emails and find if they still love ME or not?
      Yours,
      Tony
      P.S, is fri the first of April or not.

      Reply

    • Sleepless says:

      05:34pm | 30/03/11

      Joe, have any of the Oakeshotts emails come your way? If yes, would love to read them wink

      Reply

    • archi monteith says:

      05:21am | 31/03/11

      Joe, once again, Hahahhahahahahahah. You will have to get security now to keep you abreast of ASIO coming to look/spike/test and run with your computer. National Security Risk Number One. Ps. Windsor/Oakshot’s emails must surely be full of places to hide and cunning running?

      Reply

    • Puff the Magic Dragon says:

      10:37am | 31/03/11

      I heard (birdy) that Windsor/Oakshott are a bit more security minded. They save to floppy disks on their commodore amigas and take them home in their Dukes of Hazzard lunchboxes..

    • vic says:

      07:03am | 31/03/11

      Another pathetic swing by the propaganda arm of the Liberal Party. Do Newscorp management hold a weekly meeting about which Labor Party member they’re going to bash for the next 7 days?

      Reply

    • Richard says:

      09:31am | 31/03/11

      Oh Vic, you take it all too seriously!!  I can see the steam coming out of your ears right now…Thanks Joe, you are always good for a laugh.

    • Emma Barnett says:

      10:13am | 31/03/11

      Oh yeah… we shall see ... 100th comment.
      x @emmaobarnett

      Reply

    • Emma Barnett says:

      10:14am | 31/03/11

      Or this one.
      @emmaobarnett

      Reply

    • AFP says:

      10:20am | 31/03/11

      Hilders, can I swap for a date with Julie Bishop?

      Reply

    • Adele says:

      10:21am | 31/03/11

      I am posting this comment so I will be number 100

      Reply

    • bullwinkle says:

      10:39am | 31/03/11

      Love your work as usual Joe. Pity you couldn’t squeeze “Programmatic Specificity” into it somewhere. Multilingual demigod - how I laughed.

      Reply

    • Nicole says:

      11:01am | 31/03/11

      I am posting so as to be no.100 - please tell me I haven’t won second prize!!!

      Reply
 
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