THE QUOTE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CanOz said:Use the quote buttons.
Cheers,
ROTFLMAO! You think its funny now....wait and see what happens after they're elected. Can you imagine having all the states and the Feds Labour?
God help us. (hmmmm, maybe Rudd has that one too)
Drover's Dog sums it up
December 16, 2002
I was quite taken by this essay by Bill Hayden in The Age a couple of days ago. Much of it was just venting his spleen at Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam (but not Bob Hawke interestingly enough). However, this passage was interesting for another reason:
"Howard is transforming Australian values in the most radical manner imaginable. He is changing the fundamental values of ordinary people. The great swing to subcontracting is remaking people who would once have been wages tradesmen with union affiliation into small-business people, thinking as individualists, concerned about profit return, maximising efficiency, especially from any workforce they now employ, and a whole range of other middle-class, employer values.
Labor is confronted with a seemingly impossible conundrum; how to hold its traditional working-class base (which it is failing to do), and how, concurrently, to appeal successfully to the new, middle-class, small-business people Howard and Tony Abbott have created (and it hasn't worked that strategy out yet).
The notion of "Howard's battlers" takes on an ominous quality for Labor. Howard is securely fusing his ideology on to the national psyche. Australia will be transformed by the Howard years - and whither national Labor? Perhaps that's the word: withered."
It seems to me old Bill is right on the money. The Drover's Dog might not be suggesting any answers, but he sure as heck can see the questions a lot more clearly than either Simon Crean or any of the current bunch of leadership aspirants, including Mark Latham.
Aussie English for Beginners, the third in a series, delves behind the whys and wherefores of some peculiarly Australian phrases.
Put together with the help of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University, the latest volume makes sense of slang phrases, where earlier editions focused on uniquely Aussie words, like bludger, dob, ocker and swag.
Look up "chuck a wobbly" and you'd find it means to have a tantrum or lose your temper.
And it originated in no lesser a place than the federal parliament, when one Senator admonished another to: "Stop chucking a wobbly, Senator. Behave yourself."
It was a also a politician - later turned governor general - who helped get the term a "like drover's dog" into more popular usage.
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Although it had been around since the 1940s, usually as a less than flattering term, it became more widely used after Bill Hayden - bumped from the Labor leadership - infamously commented in 1983 that a drover's dog could have led the party to victory.
His political contemporary Malcolm Fraser gets a mention for popularising "life wasn't meant to be easy", which he later attributed to British playwright George Bernard Shaw.
Yes, and Kerry does not like him either. New Labor vs Labor left, don't get along. But Rudd certainly won out.carmo said:I saw Rudd on the 7:30 Report last night, certainly cleaned up Kerry.
I posted this elsewhere But would be it be fair comment that Kevin Rudd just did a Steven Bradbury?2020hindsight said:THIS is a case where the moral of the story whacks you between the eyes - and yet not a word is spoken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQMJtilOGg = steven bradbury
wayneL said:As much as I detest politicians, I actually felt a bit for the big fella. Losing a brother at the same time, he must have felt like he had run over a chinaman.
I am assuming that this is in reference to my post because it comes directly after my post.Knobby22 said:Why do people pick political parties like a football team?
This is true, hopefully thats what we get.Smurf1976 said:Regardless of who is in government, we need a strong opposition otherwise the standards seriously start to slip.
This is bad... However,You think its funny now....wait and see what happens after they're elected. Can you imagine having all the states and the Feds Labour?
Every day is friday :drink: and JD is his nick name... he likes itjustjohn said:Minty whats going on mate shouldn't JD become Jack Daniels show some respect and mabey arfternoon (what the..........) how many have you had also you think todays Friday instead of Monday
chops_a_must said:Yes, and Kerry does not like him either. New Labor vs Labor left, don't get along. But Rudd certainly won out.
2020hindsight said:So Rage , does that mean you'd prefer to pick politicians like Hockey teams ?
(Front bench :- hockey 1, hockey 2, hockey 3)
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