News Corp Guide to Corporate Oversight

1. Complete denial
2. Attack
3. Qualified admission (aka "the rogue reporter")
4. Pay-out
5. Deep apology (aka "the humblest day of [your] life")
6. Qualified denial
7. Join Twitter
8. Repeat

The odd couple

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This cartoon is the other one based on Clive Palmer's "Chariots of the Greens" theories that I promised last night. 

I actually really like to think of Clive and Assange together, members of the White Hair Gang in Gitmo. Both eccentric gadabouts with nothing to lose.

Derp Throat

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The Greens would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for that pesky Clive Palmer and that annoying dog of his.

I have another cartoon on the Palmer mysteries, but it's currently in submission somewhere. If it doesn't go up there, there will be more here tomorrow (and probably if it is, too).

Somebody please think about the bananas

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Great Wedgies in Political History

I'm actually reading through the inquiry's findings today for uni, so this isn't really my considered response. I've only read second hand analysis, and I'm guessing the majority of what we will get will be biased against the inquiry.

What I can say, at least at this stage of my understanding, is that if a 15 000 hit per annum blog is to be affected by the New Media Council's powers then this blog, on some measures, would be affected. On this year's stats thus far, almost definitely.

That probably means nothing. At least unless Chris Uhlmann decides he wants a retraction of my parody of his interview style, and I decide I don't believe it should be taken down....

In any case, I will probably post something when I've read the inquiry and have a better understanding of it, but it's all food for thought at this point.

You must have exactly this many faces to ride this ALP

Wow. What a day for politics. The faceless men and the two faced man both handed a serve. Apparently the ALP, on some kind of ableist nonsense, will only allow people with exactly one face to be a part of the modern party.

If we can't have the faceless or the two-faced, what will happen to the Labor core? I kid, I kid.

By the way, I am also now writing more general opinion and vaguely more journalistic (but generally not political) blog posts over at the group blog Noun Collective. We have four writers in four different countries (Australia, Japan, the Philippines and Canada) writing on a wide variety of topics - from Japanese website design, to cooking salted duck egg salad, to Euro Zone Death Stars, to Foxconn... you should drop on by (and RSS us)!

He'll be back.

Really, what a masterful work of political subterfuge. Who looks like the inconsiderate, unfeeling one, yet again? Of course, it might not make a difference in the caucus vote, but wow.

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