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What was Gary Punch saying the other day? Something about Asian voters hating John Howard? Let’s see what Labor research reveals about the voting patterns of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese migrants in the seat of Bennelong:
“It’s not the case that the resulting new electors are ALP voters - at the last federal election they broke slightly in favour of the Libs …”
In other local political news, Peter Garrett – worth $15 million or so – offers this description of himself:
A person of moderate means …
Sure, Pete. And Al Gore lives in a mud hut. Not to be overshadowed by Bob Brown’s recent demand that the coal industry be shut down, Billy Shorten is getting all Hugo Chavez on cotton and rice:
Union leader and Labor recruit Bill Shorten called yesterday for cotton and rice growers to be forced out of business and their water-intensive crops replaced by less thirsty options such as hemp.
Hemp is Geothermia’s major export crop.
Shorten is a bit uptight that Virginia Trioli is playing hard to get.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 28 at 10:31 PM • permalinkSpeaking Of Senator Bob Brown Coal, Terry McCrann reports on a smack down from the venerable Sir Arvi Parbo to business agog to carbon credit mania:
’ “Exaggerations and hype do not survive the cold hard light of the reality that many of the proposed actions will affect the living standards and even livelihood of large numbers of people, and that in the absence of similar action by all countries these measures will not have a significant effect,” ‘
Speaking also of Greens Senator Bob Brown. Here is a quick quiz:
How did Senator Bob Brown get to South Africa’s Earth Summit in 2002:
a) He participated via videoconference
b) He floated there on a naturally fallen log;
c) He floated there under a hemp paraglider utilising natural geothermal currents or
d) Transmeditation?Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 28 at 10:42 PM • permalinkHemp con pollo
Hemp pilaf
Hemp-a-roni, the San Francisco treat…A mite chewy, all of them…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 28 at 10:54 PM • permalink#6 - My guess that his boyfriend blew him there was way off.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 28 at 11:01 PM • permalinkI thought this would be way off-topic. But if Peter Garrett can describe himself as a person of moderate means, anything goes.
What’s In A Name?
Worksafe unless you’re a prude, or your censorious boss is good at reading over your shoulder.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 02 28 at 11:12 PM • permalinkChinese, Korean and Japanese immigrants.
Now for the the punchline. “It’s not the case that the resulting new electors are ALP voters - at the last federal election they broke slightly in favour of the Libs, but they have replaced generally WASPs, who tended to break two to one against the ALP.”
It is my pleasure to state first the gushingly bleeding profoundly obvious.
The Chinese, Korean and Japanese immigrants are not the problem. I like saying that. May I say it again? No sweat with the Japanese, Chinese and Korean immigrants. Not even a light glow. The more the merrier.
These people are most welcome here. Most welcome.
Get it?Incidentally, I’d bet the house most of them will vote for the Libs.
#16
Dave S, you already have a sentence of the year.
Please give the rest of us a chance.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 28 at 11:34 PM • permalink#17 - Surely that bloody Sentence of the Year shit expired on December 31st, 2006??? Or was it some sort of Chavez style sentence?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 28 at 11:45 PM • permalink“Come to Australia, and experience the hemp Down Under!”
(No, that won’t best Dave’s try….....damn you, Dave! Damn you to hell!)
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 28 at 11:50 PM • permalinkNo. I can’t do it. So I must say it again.
Damn you, Dave S.!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 28 at 11:53 PM • permalink(uncontrollable sobbing ensues, intermixed with the unmistakable sound of beer cans being popped in rapid succession…...)
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 28 at 11:54 PM • permalinkOT - the VRWC has Competition! Wronwright explain yourself!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 28 at 11:56 PM • permalinkKevni Ruff may not be Latham, but Labour’s second tier sure is imploding spectacularly…“Shorten called yesterday for cotton and rice growers to be forced out of business”?! Is this some rope-a-dope to goad Howard into calling the election early or something? It just boggles that these people could really be as stupid as their public comments are making them look.
The article on Howard and his Asian constituents is full of wind and the hopes of a few journalists more than anything concrete.
Howard, it would appear has a much better understanding of the ‘Asians’:
I find with migrants in my electorate, those of Asian background, that many of them do share those small business, family (values),” Howard said in 2002. It also helps that “many Asians, of course, come from an English-speaking background”, he said.
But he did achieve a swing to him in 2001, when the defining issue was border protection. The Asians swung with him then, albeit not as strongly as the WASP areas of Bennelong.
Hong Kong expatriates, Japanese, Koreans, etc, are all diverse in many ways. I will say that HK expatriates will not warm to the ‘wealth readjustment’ and resultant tax raising measures that Labor has in mind.
Labor needs to realise that a diverse group of Asian professionals, often business owners, with considerable assets are not the same as the easily malleable Labor sub- branch groups that may exist in say, Cambodian or similar communities.
Sounds like a job for Guardian readers:
“Dear Asian person who votes in John HoWARd’s electorate…”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 01 at 12:12 AM • permalinkThere’s a huge market for hemp. Hippies and other welfare types love having lots of rope.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 01 at 12:22 AM • permalinkI am concerned about the growing gap between the poor and those of moderate means.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 01 at 12:36 AM • permalink#24 The_Real_JeffS
(uncontrollable sobbing ensues, intermixed with the unmistakable sound of beer cans being popped in rapid succession…...)
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Hey, I can hear that too! Oh wait, that’s because I’m drinking.Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 01 at 12:40 AM • permalinkI’m sure that the UK Guardian letter-writing campaign to Asian immigrants to vote ALP will work well with those that don’t eat rice as a dietary staple.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 01 at 12:53 AM • permalinkBy Labor standards, Garrett is a working-class man. He may be the only person in Rudd’s cabinet to have held a real job, albeit an elite one. All the rest have survived through the party, either directly, as unionists, bureaucrats or in ALP holiday camps such as the unis and the ABC. But otherwise, Garrett meets all the requirements of a good Labor man - he’s rich, he lives at an exclusive address and he believes in controlling every detail of Australian’s lives.
We could also save carbon emissions by replacing union leaders with one of these and then dressing ‘em up in hemp.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 01 at 01:22 AM • permalinkA person of moderate means …
I think he meant to say a person of moderate mind.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 03 01 at 01:31 AM • permalinkHow can we dance when the hemp is burning?
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 01 at 02:09 AM • permalinkMy Dad still says that Hemp is the Beatles’ best album.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 01 at 02:26 AM • permalinkRemember Whitlam’s comment as quoted in Clyde Cameronm’s memoirs about “fucking Vietnamese Balts with their political and religious hatreds against us?” The Darwin wharfies going on strike to protest against the Entalina and other ships rescuing Vietnamese from sinking refugee boats? Brian Burke and Bob Hawke demanding “Halt this refugee flood?” Etc. Etc.
The first australian union formed with the decalaration: “We invite all men except Chinese to enroll themselves”?
The poems of the great bard of Labor, Henry lawson - “Turn out the Calico Jimmy, the nigger, the Chow, and his pals”?
Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet
One of the freedoms they fought to uphold is being denied them? Home of the free land of the brave what a crock of shit.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/02/TNSreedinspect070227/
Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media, one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
It is unusual for soldiers to have daily inspections after Basic Training.
Cotton Australia CEO Adam Kaye said there was no market for hemp and the crop used the same amount of water as cotton.
And the executive director of the Ricegrowers Association of Australia, Victoria Taylor, said, “In my view Mr Shorten has as much credibility on water as I do on industrial relations.” Miss Taylor said ricegrowers played by the rules. “That is why, because of the drought, we have the smallest crop in the ground for 50 years.”
Wentworth Group scientist and water economist Mike Young said cotton and rice were an integral part of the irrigated agriculture industry. “Australia has one of the most variable water supply systems in the world and to manage it we need annual crops that can be switched on and off depending on how much water is available,” Professor Young said.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 03 01 at 05:07 AM • permalinkYou want to get blotto?
Or planning ri-sotto
Just plant a little hemp for Bill
You’re countries in drought , now,
The river’s too dry for trout, now,
Just plant a little hemp for BillThe miners, The miners, you saved from a hole
and we will vote you
who’s finer?,who’s finer?,an upper class prole
Oh, how we love you
oh farmers,oh farmers, follow Bill’s advice
No cotton or rice
‘Cause only hemp can break the dryPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 01 at 07:16 AM • permalink#16
I don’t think even that would get Al and Peter to shut up.Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 03 01 at 12:32 PM • permalink
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