The Liberals latest bill is receiving a lot of flak from the opposition parties and more moderate (read: decent) members of their own faction. Mud slinging and hatchet jobs aside (for the record, calling Kim B. fat is not exactly news, in fact you might even be alienating the ever expanding "fat vote") let us consider the substantial thrust (ooh) of this bill. This is generally touted as something which:
"would excise the Australian mainland from the immigration zone"
Excising islands etc was a not entirely unexpected strategy used by a government who are desperately trying to suck in the borders of this continent-country to make the populace feel more comfortable. But excising the whole bloody thing? It smacks of the most concentrated kind of overkill. Not entirely unlike that kid in class when you were making paper snowflakes who cut and cut and cut and when it came time to open out ones magnificent creation he threw his angry confetti at the teacher. Or maybe that was just my primary school.
Also in the "so bad i can't stop" vein, i appear to have developed a slight SATC problem. eurovladd, this is entirely your fault.
EDIT (1400hrs): 78 votes to 62 and the legislation is passed. Lil' John, ankle tapping Australia one bill at a time, inspirational really.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
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Don't blame me! It's hardly my fault that people like you and i are hardwired so that the word "monogamy" is like a red rag to a bull.
Meanwhile I love the idea of excising Australia from it's own migration zone. Definitely geopolitics meets high theory. In fact, the Australian migration zone might even cause a tear in the fabric of the logical universe by being the only object in existence that is not equal to itself.
One question though, if they excise the whole damn continent, how exactly does one now migrate to Australia?
Oh, and i love how calling Beazley "fat" is now considered some kind of political critique. First Miranda Devine did it, and now everybody wants one.
She's so avant-garde.
Clearly your fault. Is like giving southern comfort to a dipsomaniac. And am becoming comfortably acquainted with the M word thank you very much.
One clearly migrates by teleporter. Which presumably directs one straight to a detention centre thereby cutting out the need for the middle man or "coalition government" as some call them.
Maybe Beazley is in fact "phat"?
I must confess, i am one of those people who secretly hopes that he'll have a Taiwanese parliament moment..
... and just eats Bronwyn Bishop.
and then has a hairball moment with that beehive of hers..
I look forward to the immigration statistics that reveal a huge increase in the number of Klingons moving to Australia, but a decrease of every other ethnic group.
I bet Condoleezza can teleport though. Just a hunch.
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