On the anniversary of the 7 September 2013 Australian Federal Election

Happy anniversary to a prime minister that was not universally liked to begin with and quickly became hated by many.

The Tony Abbott Song.........

http://youtu.be/Z-qUBPyqHPs

Although this September 2013 song is satire, it is telling that at around 7:09 minutes into the video a member of the audience suggests killing Prime Minister Abbott.

In October that year this desire was being turned into calligraphy on Instagram.

By February 2014 he was being beheaded on stage by GWAR to cheers from the audience during the Soundwave tour.

While someone is squatting on a Facebook page titled Kill Tony Abbott and on another page one contributor suggested in May that; If every Australian donated just $1 we could have a private Hitman kill Tony Abbott anyone up for the job you will be WELL payed.

In June a page called Tony Abbott should be assassinated appeared.

Come July and one blogger was posting; Please kill Tony Abbott. No need to make him suffer. Just make him stop being alive. He’s hurting pretty much everyone. He’s happy about it. His actions benefit no-one other than handful of ultra-wealthy people who don’t really need him. He brings nothing good, kind or honest to the world, only selfishness and suffering.

And sentiments such as this were floating in cyberspace; Excuse me while I go kill Tony Abbott with a shovel and feed his corpse to a pack of dingoes.

As well as this; someone kill Tony Abbott already. I know he has a family and that’s tragic, but he needs to be stopped.

A Google search this month reveals the term I hate Tony Abbott occurs 4,890 times and Kill Tony Abbott 13,800 times on the Internet.

Before November this year Abbott is taking delivery of an est. $500k custom made BMW capable of withstanding explosive devices and automatic fire from AK-47s or rounds from armour-piercing weapons.

By Christmas I expect to hear that he has hired two official food tasters to compliment his Close Personal Protection (CPP) detail which accompanies him everywhere.

The "very well known person" the ICAC is referring to

The lads at the table of knowledge at the local watering hole, who are not averse to having an occasional wager, are flabbergasted that the sports agencies (aka the online betting mob) haven't framed a market on who the "very well known person" is that the ICAC is currently referring to in relation to a chain of controversial emails between that "very well known person" and a Liberal identity.

 It's possible to punt on just about every other imaginable event, so why not the identity of the "very well known person"?

For example, one agency is offering odds (see below) on who will be first to confirm by September 2015 they have been abducted by aliens.

BTW, one of the lads reckons both Clive and Alan are well over the odds in the Aliens Stakes and is real keen to have a a few bob that the "very well known person" is someone who came undone at the ICAC quite a few years ago. Could he be right?

The Northern Star today

The scoreboard at the Star today reads:

Advertising Department 1, Newsroom nil

It seems "juxtaposition" isn't in the dictionary at the Star. Shame, shame, shame!

 

Images  from today's digital edition of The Northern Star

Playing hide and seek with NSW ICAC Operation Spicer exhibits

An interesting incident which occurred during evidence given by former NSW Greiner Coalition Government minister, Robert Webster on 4 September 2014:

MR WATSON: I’m sorry to interrupt but there’s been something drawn to

my attention. I understand there’s some complaint made about material

which is Exhibit Z83 and Z84 they’ve been removed from the screen.

Perhaps it’s better for present purposes, Commissioner, if you make a

suppression order in respect of the material which had previously been put

onto the unrestricted website and marked as - - -

THE COMMISSIONER: Well can you give me a page number?

MR WATSON: No, well at the moment I can’t and I know it’s not the

whole of the volumes but I’m just doing this as some sort of general

protection. We’ve been threatened - - -

UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: (not transcribable)

MR WATSON: Well I don't know anything about this but I’m trying to

protect them but I’ve got some people who’ve got a better idea then go for

their lives.

THE COMMISSIONER: Anyway the solution presently is, I don’t want to

interrupt this for too long, the solution presently is that Z83 and Z84 are

restricted from publication in their entirety until that order is varied.

Z83 AND Z84 ARE RESTRICTED FROM PUBLICATION IN THEIR

ENTIRETY UNTIL THAT ORDER IS VARIED

MR WATSON: And I’ll have a look at this correspondence and - - -

THE COMMISSIONER: All right, thank you.

MR DUGGAN: It might be something (not transcribable)

MR WATSON: I think it’s not coming from Senator Sinodinos it was

coming from the Liberal Party.

MR DUGGAN: I thank Counsel Assisting for raising this issue and we can

talk about it after (not transcribable)

MR WATSON: Yes. I’m sorry, I - - -

Both restricted exhibits are from The Free Enterprise Foundation folders and one these folders contained some correspondence from the Liberal Party of Australia Millennium Forum whose official patrons in 2010-11 were Tony Abbott MP and Barry O’Farrell.

The Sydney Morning Herald 5 September 2014:

Media organisations have joined forces at a corruption inquiry to fight a suppression order over a controversial chain of emails involving a "very well known person" and a Liberal identity.

The emails, headed "Re Carbon Tax", were suppressed at the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Thursday after questions were raised about whether publishing the documents would breach parliamentary privilege.

Robert Newlinds, SC, the barrister for NSW Liberal Senator and former party president Arthur Sinodinos, wrote to the ICAC to alert the commission to the potential breach.

"The letter we wrote simply said that we were somewhat perturbed that there may be a breach by counsel assisting [Geoffrey Watson, SC] and the commission of the federal Parliamentary Privileges Act," Mr Newlinds told the hearing on Thursday afternoon.

"I don't really want to say out loud what the topic is because the private individual is a very well known person.

"I  just don't want this to get out. Can we at least have a suppression order about the debate."

The hearing was closed to the public while the matter was discussed.

On Friday, media organisations including Fairfax Media  (the publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review), the ABC, News Ltd and Channel 9, briefed barrister Sandy Dawson to challenge a suppression order over the emails.

Several journalists had read the emails before they were suppressed.

The emails were tendered as part of a public exhibit on Thursday morning during the ICAC's inquiry into Liberal Party fundraising.....

The risible aspect of all this, is that notoriously biased Liberal Party MP and Speaker in the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, is being asked by ICAC to rule on whether the exhibits can be made public.

YouTube of the Week

An oldie but a goodie from Mr. Rabbitt Tony Abbott…..

http://youtu.be/f7yWTxVv6TE

Oh, Mr. Abbott, personal savings from your repeal of the price on carbon overwhelm me

THE LIBERAL PARTY ALL-SINGING-ALL-DANCING SPIN

             Snapshot from Liberal Party of Australia official Twitter account

MUNDANE REALITY

My first electricity bill after the 1 July 2014 repeal of the ‘carbon tax’ arrived in August. The one-off savings totalled $6.20 or 1.61% of my power bill.

Of course after that lordly sum was deducted I was still left with a rise in fixed charges of $27.53 which will endure as a cost rise until mid 2016.

Responsible fiscal management by governments: Just for the record

Australia's far-right Liberal Party politician and Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, is telling the world how he and his government 'saved' the country from the worst government in our history.

Leaving aside the fact that the Rudd & Gillard Labor federal governments successfully steered the nation through the Global Financial Crisis, there is this confirmation from Treasury staff: 

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