PUP's candidate in the Richmond electorate 'Doctor Phil' has a public relations problem......

This is a snapshot of the banner at the top of the campaign website of Palmer United Party candidate, Dr. Charles Philip Fitzsimonds Allen, an orthopaedic surgeon standing in the Richmond electorate at the 7 September 2013 Australian Federal Election.

These are the website registration details found at Whois.com on 17 August 2013:

Domain Name: DRPHIL4RICHMOND.COM
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2013-06-02 23:05:39
Creation Date: 2013-06-02 23:05:39
Registrar Expiration Date: 2014-06-02 23:05:39
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrant Name: Gordon Walker
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: SE 283
Registrant Street: 15 Albert Ave
Registrant City: Broadbeach
Registrant State/Province: Queensland
Registrant Postal Code: 4218
Registrant Country: Australia
Admin Name: Gordon Walker
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: SE 283
+Admin Street: 15 Albert Ave
Admin City: Broadbeach
Admin State/Province: Queensland
Admin Postal Code: 4218
Admin Country: Australia
Admin Phone: 0420969872
Admin Fax:
Admin Email: 
Tech Name: Gordon Walker
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: SE 283
Tech Street: 15 Albert Ave
Tech City: Broadbeach
Tech State/Province: Queensland
Tech Postal Code: 4218
Tech Country: Australia
Tech Phone: 0420969872
Tech Fax:
Tech Email: 
Name Server: NS71.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS72.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Server Type:

Apache

IP Address:

203.124.119.1

The problem for Dr. Phil is that ‘his’ Gordon Walker appears to share the same registrant address as the individuals mentioned in the links below who also employed a Gordon Walker:

http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/attention-aussie-isps-whos-laying-bets.html

http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/saturdays-adult-lol.html

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/porn-link-tipped-in-net-piracy-case-20111017-1ltex.html

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/playing-dirty-20111017-1ltam.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/18/movie_rights_group_nasty_history/

Federal Election 2013: A noble promise freely given - or is it?

On 11 August 2013 ABC News reported that; He [Tony Abbott] made a first-term commitment to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, saying the nation's "soul would not be whole" until that happened.

I’m sure that Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott meant that statement made on the federal election campaign trail.

However, like many of his utterances it only tells half the story.

What Abbott does not say is that an act of Parliament passed during Julia Gillard’s’ term as Prime Minister obliges the House of Representatives by 12 November 2014 to begin consideration of the question of whether to call a national referendum on recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and, that this question is then be debated and put to the vote in both the House and the Senate.

As the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Act 2013 had bi-partisan support when it was passed, it is highly likely that a referendum will be called no matter who wins government on 7 September this year.

Whether the Yes vote wins such a national referendum is of course up to the Australian people and hopefully acceptance will prevail that there is a need to legally embed in the Constitution a recognition of the traditional owners of the land past and present and their cultures.  

Australian Federal Election 2013: backlash against Murdoch's political tactics

A newsagent couple in a small New South Wales town have refused to sell The Daily Telegraph of August 5, 2013, because of its biased front page.

Bec ‏@Brocklesnitch

Brisbane cafe putting its foot down over the Courier Mail

How America sees Australia's Federal Election Campaign 2013 *WARNING: Laughter Alert*

http://youtu.be/5W6C8O729ZE

Gaffe-alanche!

A penis in a glass of red wine, awkward kisses and a political candidate who thought Islam was a country - what's not to marvel at?

America's The Daily Show poked fun at the brevity of Australia's election campaign, with its host in awe of how much political scandal could be packed into four weeks.

The political comedy show, currently hosted by British comedian John Oliver while host Jon Stewart is on leave, did a segment on "DOWN-UNDERcision 2013".

Oliver appeared gobsmacked by the rich buffet of gaffes already publicly aired during the campaign before going on to say that Australia had its own versions of American politicians Rick Perry, Anthony Weiner and Sarah Palin.

He started with footage of the cringeworthy interview with Liberal candidate Jaymes Diaz, who was not able to name his party's six-point plan to stop the boats.

He contrasted this incident with a Republican presidential debate in 2011 when Texas governor Rick Perry was unable to name one of three agencies he was planning to axe.

Oliver drew parallels with New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who has been embroiled in sexting scandals, and disgraced [Liberal National Party] Queensland minister Peter Dowling, who sent pictures of his penis in a glass of red wine to his mistress.

"It's almost impossible to get red wine stains out of a penis," Oliver said. "He is going to have to soak that thing in club soda for hours."

He also took issue with the choice of wine.

"You do not pair a penis with red wine. Try something lighter, crisper to offset the nuttier notes of the penis."

But his favourite talent was former One Nation candidate Stephanie Bannister.

"So, in just four weeks, Australia already has a Rick Perry and an Anthony Weiner ... of course the real test is, does it have an under-informed, right-wing woman thrust into a national political spotlight she's not only unprepared for but at times seems to barely comprehend?" Oliver asks.

He then calls Ms Bannister "a turbo-Palin", referring to the controversial Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 US elections.

Ms Bannister was an anti-immigration candidate vying for the Brisbane seat of Rankin. She mistook Islam for a country and confused "haram" - a word that refers to acts forbidden by God - with the Koran during a television interview that attracted worldwide attention.

"I don't oppose Islam as a country, umm, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia," Ms Banister said in the one-on-one interview with Channel Seven in her Queensland backyard.

More laughs were had when Oliver played footage of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott misplacing a kiss on the back of a mother's head, instead of her baby.

"Yes, that's a creepy moment, but is it any creepier than a stranger pressing his lips on the head of a non-consenting baby?" Oliver asked.

Photo Essay On A Political Poseur

Has there ever been an Australian opposition leader with such a large portfolio of posed photographs, as the Liberal Party’s Tony Abbott?

Here is a small selection found on Google Images.

'Presidential' Tony

'Pensive' Tony

'I’m Watching You' Tony

'Sartorial' Tony

'Serious' Tony

'Hard Man Tony'

'Looking Down My Oxford Educated Nose' Tony

'Home Boy' Tony

'Let Me Remind You That I Belong To The Largest Religious Bloc' Tony

'Marlboro Man' Tony

'I Wear Lycra' Tony

'Family Man' Tony

 

Politifact nails Federal Nationals MP for Cowper for being loose with the truth

Snapshot from The Sydney Morning Herald 12 August 2013

According to economic journalist Peter Martin writing in The Sydney Morning Herald on 12 August 2013:

He [Hartsuyker] is talking about the levy on bank deposits, which incidentally the Coalition hasn't yet said it will oppose.

It's due to start in 2016 and it won't be anything like as big as income tax, as Hartsuyker implies when he says savers will be taxed twice.

It'll amount to just $5 per year on a bank account of $10,000, just 50 cents a year on an account of $1000.

Other bank fees dwarf the levy. The cost of withdrawing from another bank's ATM is typically $2 a throw.

But is it a tax at all? More particularly, is it a tax on savers?

Read the rest of the article here.

If Tony Abbott wins government does he intend to dissolve a number of Local Aboriginal Land Councils in regional Australia?

Can Opposition  Leader Tony Abbott follow through on his desire to abolish scores of statutory indigenous governance bodies?

Are there more than twenty Australian Government statutory indigenous governance bodies? To date I can barely find twenty entities to which that description might possibly apply.

Or is Abbott including Local Aboriginal Land Councils [LALCs] on his 'to abolish' list? 

If this is the case then hopefully LALCs in regional New South Wales will be exempt (unless Premier O'Farrell agrees) as these councils were apparently formed under state law.

The Australian 10 August 2013:

Mr Abbott said the Coalition had to stop the boats, fix the budget and address infrastructure spending, which was seriously neglected. But, if elected, he wanted to add taking "reconciliation to a new level" and embedding the idea of personal responsibility as he had in government with the work-for-the- dole program and the Job Network.

In promoting indigenous affairs to one of his top priorities, Mr Abbott said there was no longer institutional racism in Australia and he believed most Australians saw Aborigines and Aboriginal culture as an "adornment" to the nation.

Mr Mundine, who quit the ALP six months ago after becoming disillusioned with Labor's failure to recruit an indigenous representative in parliament, supports Mr Abbott's vision for Aboriginal Australia and is prepared to work with any prime minister to end indigenous disadvantage.

He will today reveal a radical four-tiered plan to rewrite Aboriginal affairs by abolishing scores of statutory indigenous governance bodies, which he says hinder development, opening up communities to the outside world and excising townships from the communally owned land system to create private home ownership and business development. Mr Mundine, the executive chairman of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, will deliver a keynote speech at the Garma Festival, in which he calls for dramatic changes to land ownership to create more economic opportunities.

Mr Mundine's steadfast view that commercial development offered the only chance for indigenous communities to escape poverty has long stood in opposition to the rights-based agenda of the Labor Left.

Edited version of Warren Mundine’s 10 August Garma Festival Corporate Dinner Speech.

Excerpt from this speech:

When Europeans came to Australia, indigenous people were grouped in nations, each with a distinct geography, language and culture. The identity of indigenous people was tied to the culture and language of their own nation, not to the Australian land mass as a whole.

Most statutory bodies created to govern indigenous people are not aligned to indigenous nations. In NSW there are twice as many land councils as nations, and land council members do not need to be descended from a nation that the land council services. In the Northern Territory there are four land councils and dozens of nations.