[Via GrodsCorp.] Brendan Nelson’s on a listening tour.
The Kings Cross gig has already been announced. Dr Nelson will be sitting in the gutter at 3am. Down the Woollahra Rushcutters Bay end I would think.
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“From Bunbury to Bathurst”
Yeh right.
Notice how he is deliberately avoiding Nagasaki on his so called hearing tour.
Heh!
Bunburying again, is he?
Eh, forget it. It’s a Wilde thang. You wouldn’t understand.
Dammit, now that I’ve gone and done that by accident, I may as well act like I did it on purpose…
Wilde thing!
You make my heart sing!
You make EVERYthang… earnest. Or sorta pink, Ah s’pose (see other thread).
“I’ll be in and out of …everyday Australians”
Is he threatening to try and screw us all again?
It’s a fair hike from Kings X to Woollahra, Mark! Perhaps you were thinking of the fashionable Rushcutters Bay side of the cross, where ladies sip chardonnay on elegant yachts, as opposed to the more intimidating Woolloomooloo side, where winos sip turps on the footsteps of the Matthew Talbot Hostel.
This 3 week “shadow” tour is the most flagrantly pathetic media whoring that 0.07 has stooped to. And that’s saying something.
He is supposedly here on the Gold Coast today, telling people to say “G’day” if they see him. I’m expecting he’ll be in my building at some time for a radio interview and just wondering what I would say to him if our paths cross. “Piss off and die”?
SCENE:
Brendan in Kings X, early on a Sunday morning quietly singing Tom T Hall to the people of Australia:
There’s more love on Macleay Street in Sydney
than you have in your heart for me
Like, is this the Lib version of Rudd’s roving Cabinet.
And, j-p-z, Nelson probablky was found in a large portmanteau at a busy railway station and taken in hand by his Aunt Agatha.
Actually, I used to live in the house on Crown Street, Woolloomooloo, where Paul Kelly had written his best-ever song just a year or two earlier:
See that man with the glad hands
I want to kill him but it wouldn’t be right
Now here comes another man with the gladbags
I want to break him but it’s not my fight
In one hand and out the other
Baby I don’t even know why you bother
Darling it hurts to see you down Darlinghurst tonight!
I’d like to see him writing “Eternity” on the streets of Bunbury and Bathurst
Cheers, gandhi.
I’ve actually only ever been to Kings X once, at around 3pm in the afternoon one sunny day in 1990. Post duly corrected.
Yes, Mark, but were you there under SNIPER FIRE?!?!?!
No, Clillary, but I was frightened about not being able to get a good hamburger!
They woulda known how to handle him in Palmer st 50yrs ago!
I noticed that the only two things he said he’d be doing was ‘pumping gas’ and ‘bagging groceries’ – he repeated both several times.
It gave me the impression that he hadn’t really thought about it because if he had there’d be other options in there (e.g. “You might see me strolling through your local shopping mall” “I’ll be standing on plenty of train stations at 8 am in the morning” “Might drop in on a cattle sale”).
I actually find the concept of the Opposition Leader pumping my gas (take that anyway you want to) or bagging my groceries a bit…strange.
Will he wash my windscreen or take the groceries out to the car as well?
Now 0.07 is dissing the UN bid, saying:
Maybe he should ask this “Average Australian” (when he finds him, her or it) how much compensation we should pay the UN for the past decade of sins, including the Iraq War, our inhumane treatment of Aboriginals and refugees, our undermining of UN authority and international law, etc, etc.
BTW: I didn’t see him today. I had decided to just make an “L” with thumb and index figure on my forehead. You’ve gotta engage these kids on their own terms, you know…
“Now 0.07 is dissing the UN bid,…”
Funny how Bren Gun and his foreign minister are singing from different song sheets isn’t it gandhi? They are pathetic.
From an ABC report….
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/31/2203212.htm
Shadow foreign minister Andrew Robb says he supports the Government’s bid for a Security Council seat. “It’s quite a legitimate ambition to try and gain a seat on the Security Council,” he said. Back in 1996-97 the Howard government made a similar attempt to try and gain a seat on the Security Council.”
Heh! Well spotted, joe2.
If it’s true that pollies are often undermined when they go abroad, should we speculate about whether 0.07 will have a job to come back to in 3 weeks?
Is he coming to Brisbane next? I’d meet him at 3am in the gutter in the Valley, but I’m a bit old for that sort of thing now.
Mark – nobody is too old for that – in fact from what I’ve seen of the Valley the older the better (visually or in years) .
But seriously, Lord Nelson is actually going to touch palms with people worth less than the GDP of Singapore? Bloody hell, before we know it he’ll be opening a fish and chip shop…
No denying he is reasonably intelligent so maybe they figured it was time to visit the ‘burbs to get an idea of why the polls are so tragic – after all he is a lot more likely to pick up what people are saying than Abbott whos arrogance defies belief…
Yep, 0.07 is in Brissie today. Be sure to give him an earful if you see him – he’s asking for it!
I’m heading into town, gandhi, so I’ll let you know if I see a media scrum in the Queen Street Mall. I’m sure cameras are a prerequisite for listening.
The obvious symbolism of this is – Kev goes to Washington, Brendan goes to a barbie.
“Heh! Well spotted, joe2.”
Ta, gandhi. I just thought it funny that Nelson headed out on a listening tour and yet on the very same day seemed incapable of hearing the very words of a senior colleague. Such an obvious breakdown of communication about policy on the un seat received no media. His “dissing link” and quote….
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/31/2203947.htm
“I’m on a listening tour and I’m going to ask the average Australians do they want $35 million of their money spent trying to get Australia a seat at the United Nations security council,” he said.
“It also risks Australia actually having to compromise on Australian foreign policy in order to get the seat at that table.”
Yah, he’s not listening to Alexander Downer either. Apparently Downer also wanted to make a UN bid some years back…
Here’s a critical little story from AAP which is currently being published in all the regional papers, quoting Albanese:
Mark:
The good citizens of Blackwater, Duaringa, Biloela, Baralaba, Moura, Theodore, Monto, Eidsvold, Windorah, Jundah, Yaraka, Tambo, Alpha, Jericho, Kuomala, St.Lawrence and Marlborough can hardly wait.
He’s been to Lilley and Griffith today, Graham, to prove that he’s not just visiting Liberal seats. Or to score an easy point by claiming he’s been there more recently than Swan and Rudd.
(Who… according to him respectively should be in Canberra working on the budget, and in Canberra working on the budget and in Japan simultaneously.)
The Qld Nats are meeting behind closed doors this weekend at the Gold Coast to form the Pineapple Party. Meanwhile Brough is rushing back from holidays to get rolled by the Santoro faction in the race for Qld Lib President according to AM.
“Mr O’Dwyer said that, if approved, the results of a plebiscite would be known within four to six weeks, in time to be ticked off by the Nationals’ state conference in July.
Then the main task would be finding a name and colours for the new party.
Most of the sessions this Saturday will be closed and a key fight is likely over the wording of the plebiscite question.”
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23468901-952,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23470358-5006786,00.html
Mark [26}:
Won’t hold my breath waiting to see if he turns up in the backblocks of “Flynn” or “Capricornia”.
“Among the many classic sights I’ve seen is a lady driving a taxi on the Gold Coast with a passenger in the passenger seat and a jack russell terrier snuggled between the both of them with its eyes up looking out the front windscreen.”
The above is a quote from Brendans exciting new road diary. Do not miss it. There is a picture on the liberal site of him with an apron on. “Bumbles” is written on the front of it. He may regret that.
http://www.liberal.org.au/Shadow%20Ministry/Brendan%20Nelson/index.php%20#3
0.07 is in Adelaide today, still struggling to understand the issues that got Howard dumped:
Maybe this tour would not have been necessary if anyone in the Liberal Party had actually listened to people talking about these issues BEFORE the election?
And then he went and spoilt it all by telling financial institutions its okay for them to make excessive profits, and its hard for them too. Stuff people being evicted, being homeless, starving in the cities because most of their income is used up on rents or paying the mortgage off. They’ll all be all right if they’ve got a big enough car to live in. At least then they can afford the petrol even if they do have to live on fast food that has Howard’s inequitable GST on it. What a jerk. Bumbles is right. I think we should all start calling him that from now on. It might stick.