Friday 15 August 2014

Liberal Party of Australia finally admits that Prime Minister Tony Abbott is a serial liar and supplies Internet link to examples


A tweet from @9NewsAUS on 10 August 2014 (which included this snapshot) alerted the twitterverse to the fact that the Liberal Party of Australia had finally accepted that Tony Abbott the politician is a serial liar and, that the party had decided to revel in this situation by redirecting to examples of these lies via IP 96.45.82.239:


Clicking on this web address one is confronted with revolving screen:


Checking with Whois.com on 10 August 2014 confirmed this redirection website was not a hack:

Domain Name:               abbottlies.com.au
Last Modified:                13-May-2014 07:17:16 UTC
Registrar ID:                   Melbourne IT
Registrar Name:            Melbourne IT
Status:                             ok

Registrant:                      Liberal Party of Australia
Registrant ID:                  ABN 15217882958
Eligibility Type:               Other

Registrant Contact ID:           Z139995949925914
Registrant Contact Name:         dontchange
Registrant Contact Email:        Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs

Tech Contact ID:                 Z139995949925913
Tech Contact Name:               Wys Tech
Tech Contact Email:              Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs

Name Server:                     ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
Name Server:                     ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
Name Server:                     ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com


However, the tactic appears to have backfired because on 11 August a similar hosted website address http://abbottslies.com.au displays this home page, copyrighted on behalf of the Australian Labour Party on or around 4 August this year:



Obviously the Liberal Party didn't have a forward thinker in the office the day it decided to only purchase www.abbottlies.com.au - it should have also brought up abbottlies.com, .net, .org and of course created http://abbottslies.com.au when it had the chance.

A PC can sometimes develop a bad case of internet hiccups if users go to both the Liberal and Labor websites and then repeat the process without clearing the browser cache. :-)

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