Nine sleeps to go! As Australia’s federal election campaign enters its final days, the unhinging is going through the roof — and it’s not just the politicians who are losing their minds.
In episode we talk about bad journalism, the leaders debates on Nine and Seven, the sexiness of Bob Katter, Australia’s Mother of the Year, how all Asian-Australian candidates look the same, lies, the making of the sausages, vaccinated zombies, and why John Howard is the Angel of Death.
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Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese go head to head in the third and final leaders' debate before the election. Hosted by political editor Mark Riley.
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[11 May 2022] Day two of the pre-poll period is behind us, and so far more than 650,000 Australians have visited an early voting centre. On the chart we can see that the number of pre-poll voters for this point in the election campaign has now surpassed 2016.
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[7 May 2022] Govt Minister Sussan Ley was asked about how govt would handle RDA if re-elected: "I'm not focused on what happens after the election I am focused on...what happens in the next two weeks....right now we're not painting a picture of what we might do in govt after the election."
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These journalists are absolutely sick, feral and unhinged. This is not normal, this is unprofessional, this is abuse. What type of journalist behaves like this, and why don’t the others pull them into line? #AUSVOTES
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Robert Bellarmine Carl Katter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1993. He was previously active in Queensland state politics from 1974 to 1992. Katter was a member of the National Party until 2001, when he left to sit as an independent. He formed his own party, Katter's Australian Party, in 2011.
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[28 June 2016] Over the last twenty years, this icon of the Deep North has been questioned in the disappearance of several men across his electorate, he’s a man who would have played rugby league for Australia if he could keep his fists to himself, a man who is alleged to have slept with over 1000 women before settling down in 1970.
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[26 February 2012] Could it be that Ben Grubb, deputy technology editor at Fairfax news sites smh.com.au, theage.com.au, brisbanetimes.com.au etc, is the secret love child of independent Member for Kennedy, Cloncurry’s own Bob Katter?
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[8 May 2022]
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[8 May 2022] This is like watching two dads in the car park for Saturday morning under 14s soccer squabble about who cut off who for the best parking spot, unnecessarily bringing in whose kids never pass to whose #AusVotes2022
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[8 May 2022] All the worst elements of an agonisingly superficial campaign came to a head in a train-wreck brawl hosted by Nine on Sunday.
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[9 May 2022] Finally, a shit show that wasn’t Morrison’s fault. He’s proven himself incapable of holding a hose, ordering vaccines, or cock-blocking Xi Jinping from busting a move on the South Pacific, but I think to be fair we’d have to lay blame for last night’s raging goat rodeo on someone other than the two stunned ungulates caught in the middle of it all.
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[10 May 2022] In the vast wilderness of daft opinion on Nine’s Great Debate the summit of stupidity is the complaint that 60 seconds isn’t enough time for a politician to answer a question.
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[10 May 2022] It's funny because there are actually a lot of ways you could have a pleasant, interesting, informative debate between two adversaries, but we pretty much stick to the exact format used in the first televised debate 40 years ago, plus "town hall" style Q and A sessions.
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[22 Feb 2016] In the Australian, ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann repeated a disturbing theory about the origins of 20th century social change and the culture wars
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[11 May 2022] For the last time this election campaign, the leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder to try and win you over. Here’s what the voters thought.
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For Morrison, words are just distracting noises that come out of a hole in his head. They are not connected to any logic or fact or principle. They are not constrained by anything he has said or done in the past, nor do they commit him to any future course of action. To expect otherwise is to make a categorical error.
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[11 May 2022] “The question that could stump them both” had better be “who would you turn gay for?”
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Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (often shortened to Enough Rope) is a television interview show originally broadcast on ABC1 in Australia. The title of the show came from the phrase "give someone enough rope and they'll hang themselves". The program was the brainchild of Australian comedian, social critic, producer and media personality Andrew Denton, who hosted the show. The hour-long chat show aired from 2003 to 2008.
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[7 May 2022] On the other, journalists tend to respond with a version of “this is how the sausage is made”. Well, now we’ve seen inside the sausage factory, we’ve decided sausages aren’t on the fucking menu any more. What else do you got? Cos we are still very hungry.
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[9 April 2022] Housing initiatives purporting to create a ‘social mix’ are a convenient way for governments to avoid building new social housing or to neglect existing stock while shifting public land into private ownership. By Claire Connelly.
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Usually attributed to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the mid-1960s. Also used by (and incorrectly attributed to) Australian PM Gough Whitlam in the 1970s.
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[11 May 2022] Anthony Albanese asked what the rate of inflation will be in a year's time under Labor? #ausvotes
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[6 May 2022] You're probably a very intelligent person, but you feel like you live in a breathtakingly stupid world. Yes? And during elections the stupid piles up so fast you don’t know if you can make to the chopper on the roof to escape?
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Law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly or typically give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task.
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[7 May 2022] Seen on a fence in #Kooyong - read the fine print. #auspol #KooyongVotes
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[11 May 2022] A Liberal MP is under fire over an incorrect claim made on the 2GB Breakfast show. Reid MP Fiona Martin was involved in a studio debate with her Labor rival, Sally Sitou. During the fiery discussion on Ben Fordham Live, Dr Martin claimed Ms Sitou was only contesting the seat because she’d missed out on running in the electorate of Fowler.
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[11 May 2022] In fiery candidates debate, Martin appears to refer to Vietnamese Australian lawyer Tu Le’s preselection loss to Kristina Keneally.
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[12 May 2022] A journalist points out Fiona Martin's explanation does not make sense & Scott Morrison pushes back & claiming "no, it wasn't the case" that she confused Sally Sitou & Tu Le. Her keeps referring to her statement, clearly doesn't want to touch it #ausvotes #auspol
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[11 May 2022] Macquarie MP Susan Templeman says ALP has ‘no proposals’ to change law around terminations as she is targeted by pro-life group Cherish Life
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[6 May 2022] Let's check in how that "Mother of the Year" award is going after a right wing religious org took it over when Barnardos brought the award to an end.
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Mother Of The Year - Pauline Hanson. Why does this person deserve the award: Pauline has been a true mother and indeed a wonderful grandmother with four children and six grandchildren. Pauline Hanson exploded upon the Australian political scene with her landmark maiden speech to Parliament after she was elected the Member for Oxley in 1996 showing her commitment to community.
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[6 May 2022] Kinda impressed at the coverage FamilyVoice get via their troll tactics, I mean they're essentially two old dudes & a box of used tissues from Adelaide.
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It was founded in Adelaide in 1972 as the Australian Festival of Light and Community Standards Organisation, with the name and inspiration from United Kingdom's Nationwide Festival of Light founded in 1971.
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[12 May 2022] Rate [sic] adopting various positions re: sinking ship.
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[11 May 2022] The chief political correspondent with The Financial Review, Phil Coorey, joins RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.
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[5 May 2022] State of play: 21% of U.S. adults now say Asian Americans are at least partly responsible for COVID — up from 11% in 2021.
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[9 May 2022] Michael Flynn affirmed belief that “5G technology” will unleash a new “pathogen” hidden inside the COVID vaccine. Clay Clark elaborated that this will create zombies who will “begin to bite people.”
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[9 May 2022] The way Miriam Margolyes goes from 0-100 in seconds is absolutely sensational
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[10 May 2022] Don’t reward Labor’s lies.
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17 November 1973.
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[11 May 2022] is it normal for media figures to openly ask people to share political party's ads?
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Pays on party which supplies the Prime Minister following the next Federal election. Bets settled at time of swearing in. All bets carry over if the Gov General does not swear in a PM because supply cannot be guaranteed.
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Scott Morrison: we have the strongest economic recovery in the world Also Scott Morrison: a 38 cents per hour rise in wages in real terms will crash it to the ground
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[7 May 2022] “I look at John Howard as the angel of death,” the Liberal says, of the significance of his presence. “You don’t send John Howard somewhere you don’t need him.”
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