Posts Tagged Malcolm Turnbull

The Tony Abbott Horcruxes

As a website, Facebook is generally filled with fail. But every now and again, someone creates a group that fills me with such lolz that I feel compeled to share it.

Anyone familiar with Harry Potter would be familiar with the idea Horcruxes, the dark magical objects used by Voldemort to obtain immortality. Items that store part of your soul so that you can never die. To create a Horcrux you have to split your soul and the only way to split your soul it so commit murder. In the Harry Potter universe Voldemort creates 7 Horcruxes that must be destroyed before the dark lord can be killed.

Complete with some of the best photoshop I have ever seen

Complete with some of the best photoshop I have ever seen

Voldemort’s 7 Horcruxes were:

  • Tom Riddle’s Diary
  • Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring
  • Slytherin’s Locket
  • Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup
  • The Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw
  • Harry Potter himself
  • Nagini the snake

It does lead you to wonder, if Tony Abbott had to pick seven items to place parts of his soul in, what would he pick?

So far I’m thinking the 7 items we would have to destroy before we could kill Abbott are:

  • The last copy of The Bulletin
  • His wedding ring
  • A set of rosary beads
  • His speedos
  • The pope’s hat
  • Malcolm Turnbull
  • His penis

That is where I will be beginning my search for the Tony Abbott Horcruxes. What about you?

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Wilson’s Lament

(With apologies to John Cooper Clarke)

Bloody wogs on bloody boats,
The bloody border’s a bloody joke,
Bloody Rudd was a bloody clown,
The bloody cunts should bloody drown,
Bloody Turnbull was bloody fucked,
No one had the bloody guts,
To bloody do what needs be done,
And bloody shoot the bloody scum.

I’m bloody sick of spicks and wops,
And bloody chinks who eat their dogs,
The bloody coons and bloody gins,
Should have their bloody heads bashed in,
I’m bloody Wilson bloody Tuckey,
The bloody Party’s bloody lucky,
To have a true blue Aussie ’round,
Who’ll grind these bloody bastards down.

The bloody feminists are bloody Nazis,
The bloody greenies are bloody arses,
The bloody weather’s not bloody changing,
It’s bloody hot or it’s bloody raining,
To bloody build a bloody town,
Bloody raze the bloody ground!
This bloody country’s bloody lucky,
To bloody have Ol’ Ironbar Tuckey.

Our bloody miners are bloody legends,
Bloody Gillard should pull her head in,
Her bloody tax is a bloody shocker,
She’s bloody off her bloody rocker,
She’s bloody got no bloody children!
What bloody world do we bloody live in?
The bloody country’s bloody stuffed,
And I’ve bloody had e-bloody-nuff!

These bloody terrorists on bloody boats,
They’re bloody proof shit bloody floats,
I’d bloody bring the bloody Navy,
To blow their bodies to bloody gravy,
It’s bloody them or bloody us,
Never bloody mind the fuss!
The bloody bastards can bloody starve!
Now where’d I put that old iron bar?

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Because that’s never a lie

The ALP is denying that there are any plans to replace Rudd as the leader heading into the next election, says Penny Wong:

“We are absolutely focused and united behind Kevin,”

“Mr Rudd will remain being Prime Minister and leader of the Party, and I hope we will win the next election and he’ll be Prime Minister next term.”

Just like Malcolm Turnbull.

And Brendan Nelson.

And Kim Beazley.

“Kim Beazley has had my consistent support since his return to the leadership in January 2005, there is no change in my position. My support continues for him as leader.

“Like all Labor members I am working hard for the election of a federal Labor government.”

- Kevin Rudd

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Unfortunate that it came to this

That’s a shame:

@TurnbullMalcolm: I have announced I will not recontest Wentworth at the election this year

@TurnbullMalcolm: I have announced I will not recontest Wentworth at the election this year

People like Malcolm Turnbull, no matter their political leaning, have an awful lot to offer Australian politics: intelligence, experience, drive, passion, and a genuine desire to make this country a better place. If more people like Malcolm Turnbull stood up and gave it half the crack he did, this nation would be greater for it.

However, people like Malcolm Turnbull, no matter their political leaning, also display behaviours that prevent them from working effectively within the political system: impatience, ego, excessive individuality, hastiness, hot-headedness.

Maybe the two sets of traits are intrinsically linked — impatience and ego generate drive and passion which in turn generate hastiness and hot-headedness. Perhaps people like Malcolm Turnbull are simply unsuited to working within the world of party politics. Such ferocious alpha individuals as Turnbull are born leaders and Turnbull was determined to lead and settle for nothing less. Thing is, the characteristics that make him such a great leader in the non-political sector are exactly the same characteristics that brought about his undoing in the political world.

And that’s a shame because people like Malcolm Turnbull are sorely needed in Australian politics whether they’re leading a major political party or plugging away studiously on the back bench.

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Never mind Hockey, I have a Fielding feeling

This first appeared in Monday’s Crikey email and is on the Crikey website

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Let me tell you, weeks like last week don’t come along every week. Calling it extraordinary would be the understatement of the century, as even seasoned political observers would attest. For starters, this nation’s government considered a number of highly important issues and my speeches in the Senate were some of the most passionate, articulate and emotional presentations the Parliament has ever seen. They had everything: shouty voice, soft voice, pauses for effect, graphs as props, and moral appeals to right and wrong. I’m exhausted just thinking about them. One of my speeches was so powerful that I went to do it again for Susan and the staff back in the office but Susan yelled at me to get down off the desk.

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Turnbull’s trivial decline

On Friday I attended a trivia night and turned up a little late after a rather frustrating episode concerning car keys on the back seat of my locked car.

I was on a table with a group of young ladies who would never to confess to being political junkies or news hounds and unashamedly have no interest in politics — which pretty much sums up most of the Australian population.

Before I got there the organisers handed out a sheet with photos of “well-known” people and the girls jumped on me on my arrival (no, not that kind of way sadly) to see if I knew who the cricketer on the top line of faces was — it was Matthew Hayden.

I wrote down Haydos’ name, and tweeted Leigh Sales with a Twitpic of an attractive young woman featured on the sheet to see if it was her (it wasn’t, and yes I know that was cheating).

Then I noticed Malcolm Turnbull’s pic on the sheet, his name already filled in by the girls as … Brendan Nelson!

I couldn’t work out if this reflects worse on the standard level of political awareness in Australian or on poor old Malcolm himself.

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Turnbull’s leadership: The Book

Time for the launch of Groupthink’s first competition, and this one’s going to be interesting.

With the Coalition seriously lagging behind the government in poll after poll, and with constant white-anting of leader Malcolm Turnbull within his own party, it’s a reasonably safe bet that Turbull will never be Prime Minister of this country. Not only will it take a miracle for the coalition to win in 2010, it will take a Herculean effort from Malcy to remain Opposition leader until 2013. So with that in mind, Groupthink has opened a Book and it’s time for you to take a punt: on what date will Malcolm Turnbull lose the leadership of the federal opposition?

Place your bet in the comments of this post, ensuring that you nominate a full date: day, month and year. For bonus points, also nominate the person you think will take over as leader upon Malcolm’s departure. The eventual winner will win something that will be determined at the time of the winning. A mystery prize, if you will.

Have at it!

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