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.”

“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)

In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions, in which the rich man is the important man, in which the schoolmaster and the journalist rule what intellectual roost there is, in which beautiful youths and girls stare at life through blind blue eyes, in which human teeth fall like autumn leaves, the buttocks of cars grow hourly glassier, food means cake and steak, muscles prevail, and the march of material ugliness does not raise a quiver from the average nerves.”

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

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

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.

Let’s just hope it works on the biggest stain on Australia.

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.

Spot on that she’s a genuine surfieing 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.