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Flutey has a scoop

By tigtog on November 2, 2006

Flutey has a nice little scoop coming out of the Victorian election. Head on over there for a look. Will the Victorian media outlets run with this?

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  1. Mark
    Mark
    November 2, 2006 at 3:06 pm |

    Crikey published it yesterday.

  2. C.L.
    C.L.
    November 2, 2006 at 3:10 pm |

    Political party runs a political website that criticises political opponent’s record.

    Not exactly the Profumo scandal.

  3. Phil
    Phil
    November 2, 2006 at 3:11 pm |

    Ok then, never mind.

  4. Lefty E
    Lefty E
    November 2, 2006 at 3:21 pm |

    Nobody looks at those websites anyway. Just a bit of harmless fun.

  5. flute
    flute
    November 2, 2006 at 3:22 pm |

    Did Crikey look at the domain registration?

  6. Mark
    Mark
    November 2, 2006 at 3:27 pm |

    Wasn’t meaning to be critical, Flutey, and good on you. Just pointing out that Crikey had a story on it yesterday.

    Here it is (the images probably won’t come through):

    4. Baillieu snared in the web of his party’s dirty tricks

    Misha Ketchell writes:

    Has the Victorian Opposition Leader committed his first major campaign gaffe? This morning Ted Baillieu fronted interviewer Neil Mitchell on Melbourne radio station 3AW to discuss “Steve Bracks’s lies” and got caught out in a fib of his own:

    Baillieu: I’m saying Labor lied with regard to the tolls on the Eastlink freeway… They’ve certainly broken a lot of promises Neil… they have broken a string of promises. There’s a website dedicated to Bracks’s broken promises.

    Mitchell: You’re recommending people to it. Has it got anything to do with the Liberal party?

    Baillieu: Not that I’m aware of…

    Mitchell: Bracks broken promises, I’ve got it now, it has a new broken promise will go up on this website every day on average. So you don’t know who’s behind it?

    Baillieu: I couldn’t tell you Neil… there may be somebody associated with it but it’s just a list of broken promises.

    Mitchell: But is it really sensible to recommend that people to it if you don’t know its accuracy?

    Baillieu: Well I’m just making the point Neil that there are a lot of people who think there a lot of broken promises.

    Mitchell: It’s anonymous. That’s not very good is it?

    Baillieu: I haven’t looked at it in that sort of detail to see who it is. But it’s been there for a fair while. I’m aware of it.

    Mitchell: It says they’ve broken over 300 promises, so as far as know it’s not the Liberal Party.

    Baillieu: I don’t know the origins of it Neil.

    Mitchell: You’d know if it was the Liberal Party?

    Baillieu: I don’t know the origins of it.

    Mitchell: But presumably if you own party was doing it they would’ve told you?

    Baillieu: Well I’ve been referred to it. There may be some people in the Liberal party who contributed to it, I don’t know…

    ….

    Mitchell: Can you tell me what’s at 104 Exhibition Street Melbourne?

    Baillieu: Ah, it’s Liberal party headquarters and there are some commercial offices.

    Mitchell: Who is J Scheezel?

    Baillieu: Ah, Julian Scheezel, that’s our state director.

    Mitchell: He’s the person who authorises this broken promises website.

    Baillieu: Well there you are. I’m happy to concede that. I wasn’t aware it was being authorised in that way.

    Mitchell: It should have the Liberal Party name on it… and yet they didn’t tell you they were doing it?

    Nicely wrongfooted by Mitchell and not a good look for a bloke wanting to claim the moral high ground –- but it’s the sort of gaffe you can expect when relations between the party leader and HQ are decidedly frosty. (Scheezel is a Costello man while Baillieu is in the Kennett camp.)

    Also not likely to inspire confidence are the results of this new Morgan Poll, which found that 70% of Victorians think the ALP will win and 59% think Victoria is heading in the right direction.

    But if Ted Baillieu wants some expert advice on the subject, he could do worse than read this piece from this week’s Guardian media section – Politicians take note: spin does not work on the web.

    The headline pretty much says it all.

  7. Mark
    Mark
    November 2, 2006 at 3:28 pm |

    Anyway, hopefully with a bit of a buzz on Flutey’s blog and here, hopefully we might be able to draw it to the MSM’s attention!

  8. flute
    flute
    November 2, 2006 at 3:30 pm |

    So Crikey missed the fact about domain registration. The “authorised by” is only half of it. Scoop intact.

  9. Mark
    Mark
    November 2, 2006 at 3:32 pm |

    Onya Flutey!

    I went to Uni with young Julian btw. Crikey spelt his name wrong. It’s Sheezel not Scheezel, you know, like Cheezels.

  10. Robert Merkel
    Robert Merkel
    November 2, 2006 at 4:31 pm |

    Strange. While the about page doesn’t explicitly mention it’s run by the Liberals, the Contact page says:

    Do you know of a promise made by the Bracks Government that has been broken or only partially fulfilled?

    Why not let us know at the email address below…

    bracksbrokenpromises@vic.liberal.org.au

    If they were trying to hide the fact the site was run by the Liberal Party, didn’t they realise that using a Liberal Party email address was giving the game away with a neon sign?

    And while we’re picking on the Liberals, their latest tactic is negative billboards portraying Bracks as Pinocchio. The context is the (in policy terms, probably justified, but unpopular) backflip on tolling the under-construction Eastlink freeway through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. While there is genuine resentment about this, the Liberals have zero credibility on this issue because of their own backflip. Doyle, for years, promised to cancel tolls, before they did the sums and figured out that they couldn’t afford it, instead promising to cut tolls by half. They’re so embarrrassed about their own policy they don’t even mention it in their transport policy.

  11. Phil
    Phil
    November 2, 2006 at 5:03 pm |

    If anything Robert, this little story shows what a complete joke the Vic State Libs are. They can’t even lay down a pro forma bit of astroturf without it turning yellow when the first ray of sunshine has turned toward it.

  12. Rebekka
    Rebekka
    November 3, 2006 at 11:06 am |

    If they were trying to hide the fact the site was run by the Liberal Party, didn’t they realise that using a Liberal Party email address was giving the game away with a neon sign?

    They’re just not v clever.

  13. Katz
    Katz
    November 3, 2006 at 11:35 am |

    Sheezel aspires to be sophomoric.

    Live the dream Julian.

    As Liberal leader, Baillieu is the absentee landlord of a shanty full of demented dwarfs.

    Chuck ‘em out Ted before they set fire to what remains of the decrepit building.

  14. Lefty E
    Lefty E
    November 3, 2006 at 7:07 pm |

    Post-work inertia trapped me in front of the leaders debate for the first few minutes. What a yawnfest.

    For those who dont know, turns out Bailleu’s real estate agency flogged off 48 of the schools Kennett closed.

    It was a deeply unpopular policy in the community.

    He’s screwed.

  15. Kuriouser
    Kuriouser
    November 6, 2006 at 4:14 pm |

    did any news result from this? was a good story.