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06 December 2006 in Media, Politics by Stilgherrian | 1 comment
Apparently at least one federal government minister has enough time on their hands to complain about a TV presenter’s joke. Personally, I wish they’d be more focussed on matters of importance — like, oh, making sure they’re not paying millions of dollars to foreign dictators.
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21 November 2008 in Internet, Politics, Stilgherrian Live
I’m surprised. I thought that given Senator Conroy’s three-in-a-row victory as “Cnut of the week”, this week’s winner would be Clive Hamilton for his irrational rant in favour of Internet censorship in Crikey yesterday. But no.
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09 December 2006 at 12:42 am
Richard
Ministers seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on such things.
Remember when Ian McLachlan saw a soldier on TV who he deemed a little ‘portly’, and tried to get him sacked?
Who’s running the country while the pollies are channel-surfing?
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