Is this Ben Chifley’s “light on the hill”?
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Its certainly “light on”.
Now now. Pseudo surfie-chicks are Howard’s Battlers too, you know.
That girl is built like a serious surfer lookin for waves, not a surfie-chick.
It would make a nice ad for menthol cigarettes.
But the “Fresh Thinking” line makes me think of an add for washing powder. Or whitener.
Try Kevin07 in your next load of washing. Shifts the toughest of stains and leaves your clothes looking bright and colourful.
Someone needs to rig up a ‘Howard 07′ version, where the two people are carrying pistols and looking out at sea, ready to shoot any ‘illegal immiterrorists’ who might try to invade this wide brown economically-flourishing land.
Yeah, that too Editor, its a very white T-shirt, for a clean administration I suppose.
The symbolism of the other colours is suggestive too: “Kevin” in blue, because he’s a fiscal conservative, and “07″ in red for the ALP.
Mind-bending stuff! I think I’ll leave it alone for now.
Wait on! Why is the bloke shirtless?
Mortgage repayment went up.
Given that the “light on the hill” is a biblical reference, it would be hardly surprising that Rudd Fundie’s might use it.
So you can tell he’s a bloke, Grace.
Spot on that she’s a genuine surf
ieing chick, and the combination of her bronzed Ausette physique and deep engagement with politics has made her irresistable to the Pol. Sci. nerdlinger on the left.While on pollies and the web, did anyone catch the story about Stuart McArthur’s fake MySpace page? He’d like MySpace to be held responsible for any offensive content posted by its users, obviously no-one’s mentioned to the Government Whip that Uncle Rupe owns MySpace.
No Kim, it isn’t. Rudd hasn’t been in government for many years and is not trying to rally the faithful for once-more-unto-the-breach, as Chifley was with LOTH. This, as far as I can tell, has the capacity to bring tears to the eyes of trooby levers but for the rest of us can mean absolutely anything: nationalisation, privatisation, whatevs.
What could this image mean?
* Relaxed and comfortable, but not in a tartan-dressing-gown-and-Horlicks way as with Howard.
* Spunky, but not boisterous or lewd.
* Young people looking beyond this country with their arses facing the nation because like all lefties, they hate Astraya so much.
* Put Kevin behind you.
* Costello in two-oh-one-oh?
* First they put baseball caps around the wrong way and now it’s T-shirts. These young people today, I just don’t know.
* Melanomas for Rudd!
* Could mean anything really.
“Try Kevin07 in your next load of washing. Shifts the toughest of stains”
Let’s just hope it works on the biggest stain on Australia.
I reckon it’s a subtle Global Warming message.
The beach they’re sitting on used to be in Rooty Hill, until the polar ice-caps melted. Now it’s prime water front property. And he’s not wearing a shirt because it’s so farrrking hot.
No, but seriously people….
People !!!
This is no laughing matter: approx 30% of the commentary by the commentarians of the commentariat these is about spin, angles, hype, being “on message”, polls, private polls, nuances, etc.
Bugger those quaint old citizens who seek policies, explanations, logical replies, details, etc.
The commentariat and marketers and pollsters and advertising ‘gurus’ and shysters are running the show - so no surprises if it’s as disappointing as a well-spruiked show-bag, when you get it home and carefully go through it.
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But it’s a nice-looking beach, and I don’t care if it was at Rooty Hill or Hooters Rill. I’d swim there.
Ambigulous
these DAYS
Dave - that’s the web for you. Someone has already put up another fake McArthur site.
I actually think the site looks a bit amateurish, at least compared to sites for big corporations or US political parties. Gen Yers can be very discerning about these things… Nice idea, but just a start…
That is indeed the web.
Speaking of which, as an enthusiast of the passing of the world, and of spending my time wasting yours: Exit Mundi.
Anyway, who is Gloria Mundi, and why doesn’t she just take a stroll on the deck for a bit?
The luvvies - ever obssessed with the US as they are - are trying to turn the ALP into a mini-me of the American Democrats in the 1970s.
Kev leaked the washing powder idea to the Rodent,who pounced on it. ” Oh,Finest Universal Cleanser Known”. Will be run for a short time in acronym.
re Stewie
am in his Corangamite electorate right now
(he’s held it since 1985)
and working on the definitive Western District bluestone homesteads history …
one of which ‘MENINGOORT’ his family has had for yonks
In 2004 he improved the road leading to it -
“Row erupts over MP’s ‘driveway’ - National - http://www.theage.com.au
Meningoort Road, leading to the McArthur family property. …
The $13800 was allocated for work on Meningoort Road, near Bookar.
This involved grading the …”
so that’s another sort of my space MyRoad.com
It’s an involuntarysubliminal reference testimony and tribute to Patrick White, circa 1958.
This is Stewie’s dad:
“In 1931 McArthur stood for and won South Western Province for the United Australia Party, and in 1934 he left the Bar to manage his father’s property Meningoort, near Camperdown, which he inherited a year later.
In 1936 he married Theodosia Syme”.
and the D.Symes married the R.Murdochs in 1981 … so it’s all Stewies own family’s fault.
(and if you followed the top link to Stewie’s photo and think he looks a bit ..
well, ovine … be assured that around here a sheep could win an election)
sounds like Jinmaro followed Antony’s link to The Sheik Of Scrubby Creek.
Nothing has changed since 1857 when
James Bonwick wrote (of the men in Victoria)
“They consort with their own kind and have a down upon all new chums and blackfellows. They have no partiality for the Fine Arts, nor any sympathy with the romantic.”
country and western music, men with bad teeth and the NSW city of Newcastle all make me gag Ann, nothing personal, but White was a camp fellow and insightful fellow so I’m sure whatever goddam connection you see was there.
“Sic transit gloria mundi”?
What is this, some sort of reference to the NSW public transport system?
Back to work with a hangover?
Phuuur, feel ill just thinking about it.