Here’s To A Hung Parliament! 8:26 am / 21 August 2010 by @ndy, at slackbastard
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A massive campaign has been launched on the eve of the 2010 Australian federal election to finally bring to the attention of government authorities the issue that dares not speaks its name:
The only party prepared to even consider the issue is The Greens, and it’s thrown the party into complete disarray ahead of the election. As always, Johnny On The Spot is Christian Kerr (and Matthew Denholm):
Disunity growing in the Greens
Christian Kerr and Matthew Denholm
The Australian
August 21, 2010Cracks are appearing in the Greens as the party stands on the edge of unprecedented power in parliament.
A steady stream of emails detailing dissent over policy and preference decisions has been leaked to newspapers and websites in recent days.
The leaks reveal that the issue of whether or not to support a grassroots campaign to change the Australian flag to a giant dick is at the heart of the disputes.
And a power struggle is developing between flag loyalists and the Tasmanian Greens and the hard-left NSW party and its lead Senate candidate, Lee Rhiannon, a scion of one of Australia’s most unapologetically pro-change-the-Australian-flag-to-a-giant-dick families.
Greens sources say party figurehead and leader Senator Brown plans to retire at the end of his term in three years, but he’s avoided public comment for fear of fostering disunity…
*Or cock.

LOL.
Following his memorable performance at the 1991 VFL Grand Final, another WTF? moment from Mister Anderson, this time in honour of the Tories.
Angry Anderson fronts Liberal campaign
AAP
August 18, 2010Australian rock legend Angry Anderson has fronted the final Liberal party election advertisement in NSW before the media blackout begins at midnight on Wednesday.
In the television ad, Gary `Angry’ Anderson takes aim at Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s promise for a Parramatta-to-Epping rail line in western Sydney, saying it will never happen…
Angry’s also angry with The Greens:
Onya mate. Presumably, Angry’s own debt is now going to be somewhat lessened following his appearance in a series of Tory propaganda vids.
Angry last came to my attention when he gave evidence at a Senate inquiry about yoof gangs. See : Angry Anderson : No violence?, March 2, 2010. Then Angry expressed concern for yoof, and decried the use of weapons in their occasional street battles. Before giving testimony, Angry took the opportunity to record a song with Sydney band T.H.U.G.. Called ‘Gunnin’ 4 U’, the song recounts the adventures of a recently-released prisoner, intent on gaining bloody revenge on his tormentors. Angry’s lines bemoan the fact that his mate threw away their friendship “for some filthy whore”. The band itself features two members of ‘White Lightning’, a seminal Australian neo-Nazi rock ‘n’ roll band one of whose songs, ‘We Rule’, the band still performs live.

[h/t sean]

Darrin Hodges (above) is Grand Poobah of the NSW branch of the ‘Australian Protectionist Party’, a micro-party on the far right that models itself upon the ‘British National Party’ (BNP). Hodges is standing in NSW for the Australian Senate, along with Nick Folkes (aka Nicholas Hunter-Folkes). The photo above was taken while Hodges participated in a ‘black bloc’ organised by neo-Nazis belonging to a group called the ‘New Right’. The perhaps 20 or so fascists who assembled on September 8, 2007 to form the group were drawn from a range of tiny, far-right political formations (see: All Heil the New Reich*, September 18, 2007).
The ‘New Right’ still ekes out an existence, but the ‘national anarchists’ who gathered alongside of Hodges have almost completely disappeared. Thus on the one hand, their chief ideologue, Welf Herfurth, is still active, organising the local franchise of US-based neo-Nazi group Volksfront: in September, Herfurth will be welcoming Canadian Holocaust denialist Paul Fromm to Australia to speak at the annual fascist gathering known as the Sydney Forum. On the other hand, Herfurth’s most excitable follower — a teenage boy from Geelong called Scott Harrison — has abandoned him and ‘national anarchism’ to become a Creatard and a Reverend in a nutty white supremacist cult called Creativity. Others who gathered together in Sydney on that day have gone in different, if similar, directions, including into APP and their arch-rivals the ‘Australia First Party’ (APP blames Muslims for the world’s problems, AF, the Jews; both despise leftists, homosexuals, and all the usual suspects).

Folkes (pictured above with climate change denialist Lord Monckton — His Lordship thinks global warmening is part of a plot to destroy the world economy and establish a communist world government) is an extremely abrasive fellow, and would make a fine Tory — if he had the bRanes. Sadly for Nicholas, he doesn’t, and is thus stuck with the APP, and must content himself with bemoaning the presence of “muslim rapists” in Australia, greedy Filipinos in the UK, and denouncing me as a “Marxist Nazi turd”, an “anti-Semite” and so on.
Chances are, neither will be addressing the Australian Parliament any time soon.
wendy4senate was on facebook, but not any more…*

“Strange that I can be called a bigot for standing up for values that many people believe in yet others can deride my beliefs & that’s ok” (August 7, 2010).

OK. So. Like… just as nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition, so nobody — in their right mind — expects political subtlety, or nuanced economic or social analysis, from the remnants of the One Nation Party. So I wasn’t terribly surprised when, in response to Family First Queensland Senate candidate Wendy Francis’ recent homophobic outburst, John Groves, president of One Nation in Victoria, expressed his support. As in, his preparedness — “love” even — for “Phoofter Bashing”. Looking at some of his other, earlier tweets, however, revealed some other, rather disturbing sentiment:





Stormfront, eat your heart out!
“Only by reforming the Nation[']s finances & taxation can we save Australia from the control of the CFR. [Council on Foreign Relations] moneymen… One Nation is ashamed of our Government Ministers who travel around the world with begging bowls, cringing at the feet of the CFR (Zionist Bankers) for their cut from the IMF slush funds, & borrowing money to pay for our imports, foreign aid & fund their economic mis-management of our economy, defying the Australian Constitution & abrogating their elected responsibility to the Australian people.”
Source : http://vic.onenation.com.au/TAX%20%20Flyer.htm
“Fat Man” detonates over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Dear Leader inspires Slack Bastard on eve of Womb Remembrance Day. It’s a Dead End for all of us Mister Kwon Ho Ung. O bureaucratic capitalism! Wet slug to be suffocated in eggshells and beer.
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LOL.
HERALD Sun columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt has hit out at the person behind a Twitter account impersonating him.
Fake Andrew Bolt is threatening to sue Real Andrew Bolt. Note that the fake UK trollumnist who writes for The Daily Mail using the pen name ‘Melanie Phillips’ was similarly irked by The Real Melanie Phillips http://twitter.com/mphillips51 on Twitter. Several days ago she successfully had the account pulled.
Twitter is not a great place for creative, smart parodists to work… Obviously™.

See also : The Real Dorothy Parker on Fake Andrew Bolt pranks the real Andrew Bolt and so spreads a little joy in the world … Andrew Bolt on Andrew Bolt vs Andrew Bolt.