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Election Caption Contest #2: Results

Jul 28

Posted by David in Caption comps, Federal election 2010, Politics | 5 Comments

It is time for caption contest results. Before the getting to the winner a couple of special mentions.

Molesworth: Joe Hockey teaches the joys of capitalism by demonstrating the positive side of email spam.

Simon N: Dickson, Joe, they asked what we’d do to improve their electorate of Dickson.

Simon almost had two in a row, but he was knocked off by this cracker by Duncan:

 

oe Hockey and Peter Dutton in discussion with their campaign managers.

Joe Hockey and Peter Dutton in discussion with their campaign managers.

CORRECTION: Congratulations to JT, for his caption for Election Caption Contest #2. No prizes but loads of glory.

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Election Caption Contest #2

Jul 26

Posted by David in Caption comps, Federal election 2010, Politics | 23 Comments

Photo: Anglea Harper, AAP

Photo: Angela Harper, AAP

Have at it – please keep within the limits of decency.

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Friday’s Lovechild #9

Jul 2

Posted by Ant Rogenous in Lovechildren | 7 Comments

It’s mining, mining, mining in the news at the minute — so what better time to dig up shrewd BHP investor Peter Dutton:

Paul Keating + Stan Grant = Peter Dutton

And now, after Spock…’s challenge, a moment I knew would come eventually — Teh Leftosphere’s favourite piñata and only the second incumbent prime minister in Australian history to be turfed out of his seat at an election, John Winston Howard:

Ronnie Corbett + John McCain = John Howard

The only way from here is up, my friends.

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The URL doesn’t lie

May 26

Posted by David in Media, Politics | 3 Comments

The ABC’s Q&A website has profiles on some of its regular guest panellists. The link to the profile for the backward Liberal Member for Dickson Peter Dutton is the rather apt:

http://abc.gov.au/tv/qanda/mp-profiles/dick.htm

I am truly amazed this was not mentioned in Senate Estimates into ABC bias this week.

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All politics is local, or is it?

Oct 25

Posted by Scott Bridges in Politics | 12 Comments

In early 2002 the brand new MP for the Queensland seat of Dickson, an ex-police officer named Peter Dutton, rose in the House of Representatives to deliver his maiden speech. His preselection and subsequent election, he said, was “an opportunity to work with people for whom I have great respect and friendship.” Dutton gushed about how much he loved the people of Dickson, saying, “It is of course a great honour to represent those people in this great place.”

Dutton on with the job

Dutton on with the job

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