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Craigo reports:
Kate Ellis has employed Mia Handshin as a ministerial adviser.
Whoa! Break out the Cuervo! Other failed leftish election candidates seem to be doing all right, too. Courageous (Julia Gillard’s description) weatherman Mike Bailey - who quit the ABC for politics, according to an SMH tautology - now reads the weather for Nine during weekends and is media advisor for his state ALP friend Tony Kelly. Tormented Climate Change Coalition senate candidate Dr Karl Kruszelnicki spent much of the election campaign wondering if he’d ever work again:
Dr Kruszelnicki said it would “break his heart” if it turned out he had “burnt his bridges” by running in the federal election as a NSW senate candidate for the Climate Change Coalition ...
"I might have burnt my bridges,” he said from his hotel in Brisbane when asked if he’d return to his former positions.
"I might have been contaminated.
"I might have seriously done bad things to myself ... “
He said his future with the ABC was now in doubt.
Not to worry. Dr Karl returned to ABC TV in January, and his ABC biography politely avoids any mention of politics. Dr Karl also avoids mentioning a certain inconvenient V8 when asked what car he is currently driving:
We’ve got the 1987 Peugeot eight-seater station wagon, which is painted hot pink.
What happened to his mighty Monaro? Perhaps Karl finally got around to selling it:
Dr Kruszelnicki has not yet decided to sell his V8 Monaro, saying he couldn’t afford to after spending all his money switching his other car for a Toyota Prius and installing solar panels on the roof of his home.
In Dr Karl’s world, selling a car costs you money. It’s a pity his economic theories never got a chance to be tested in Canberra.
If the good Dr’s conscience dictates that he pay someone to take his Monaro, I’ll take it off his hands for a mere $50.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 03 19 at 01:39 AM • permalinkTim, your Achewood “cuervo” reference is the most awesome thing you have ever done.
“Lez out”! I’m dying here!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 19 at 01:49 AM • permalinkAhh, yes!
This is why I love this rather quaint blog. Irony, satire and pisstaking all in one.
Posted by Craig Burden on 2008 03 19 at 02:09 AM • permalinkJobs for Labor’s failures could be a worthy exercise for a newspaper with good resources. These are from NE Victoria and southern Riverina:
Lisa Mahood stood in Victorian state seat of Benambra in 2006, missed out and got a job as a special regional adviser to Steve Bracks
Denise Allen, who lost the Victorian state seat of benalla in 2002 after holding it for 2 years, resurfaced on the staff of some state minister within weeks of the election. Must have fallen out because she ran as a People Power candidate in 2006.
Lynda Summers failed, if I recall correctly, to win both the federal seat of Farrer and the NSW state seat of Albury. But she has been successful getting several lucrative psotions on government boards.
There are hundreds of Labor losers scattered throughout the public service. The party offers a jobs for life - just ask Peter Beattie.
When you start filling positions close to Government with yes men, you need to create somevacancies. Not that I’m suggesting that the new bunch are Labor goons, just that it is fairly well known that Leahy was Howard’s man and had plans for the Army that involved things like combat capability. These sorts of ideas will become less popular with the new management.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 19 at 02:43 AM • permalink#7 What about the ones in Parliament?
Snoreen Hay is barely literate but seems to be pretty handy with numbers.
Our esteemed Defence Minister couldn’t even finish his MBA
#7; A beattie backflip. now there’s a “man bites dog” moment.
Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 03 19 at 03:02 AM • permalinkI am willing to take Mr Kruszelnicki’s Monaro V8 for a small consideration—a few thousand dollars should be sufficient compensation for my trouble.
It’s the least I can do to help.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2008 03 19 at 04:11 AM • permalink#10, Richard, re: that photo - looks like the Navy is still the best fed service. Check out the whale in white on the end.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 03 19 at 04:27 AM • permalink#16, you can only do so many laps of a destroyer before the view gets boring and the smell of the galley gets more tempting each time you go past.
Seriously though, all three service chiefs? That’s a cull if you ask me, all in time for the drafting of the new White Paper.
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 03 19 at 04:47 AM • permalinkIt’s going to cost him money selling the Monaro because he’s working on putting a 3 cylinder Geo Metro motor in it. To save the planet. He’s also going to paint it pink. ‘Cause he’s fruity.
Posted by dean martin on 2008 03 19 at 05:08 AM • permalinkmike bailey, believer in global vomiting, is well ensconced at packette’s channel nine which had this view of global warming; death from the skies!
As for karrrl; how could you possibly trust someone so continuously cheerful?
The ABC has guidelines about impartiality of journalists, so if that clown, Krusty decides to air an opinion about global warming, then there should be grounds for complaints.
Along similar lines, I read recently that retired cricketer Glenn McGrath was engaged to speak to the community about global warming, only to come unstuck when challenged by a radio talkback caller about the fact that he owns a humvee. Sadly - can’t find no link.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 03 19 at 06:26 AM • permalinkLabor and media are a revolving door. Out of power Labor is in media, in power the media is in Labor. Walter Secord first Carr, then Labor lobby company now Rudd.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 19 at 06:46 AM • permalinkSpeaking of Real Climate does anyone else find the high priests there insufferably arrogant? On a recent post about Venus, naturally the spectre of runaway bloody greenhouse on earth came up, and someone suggested terraforming the hell-hole; well, not before an environmental impact statement was the reply; stuff me; and how about this for the bleeding obvious: the “stronger the lapse rate, the stronger the greenhouse.” To which we say, the longer the lapse rate the longer the retardation of an ice-age. Bloody wankers.
That picture of Dr. K on the abc bio page makes Richard Simmons look macho.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 03 19 at 07:50 AM • permalinkAs someone with access to the AAP wire service, I can tell you the most biased journalist, as opposed to commentator, employed by the Australian media is Maria Hawthorne. You would swear that her stories were written in Rudd’s office, then emailed to Hawthorne for her to stick her byline on them.
Even during the carers payment debacle, her stories painted Rudd as the white knight who came had back from overseas to fix the problem. AAP obviously has no one with enough balls to bring her into line. Newspapers feeding off the AAP teat want stories reported without the propaganda.
#27
The stories were written in Rudd’s office by Secord.
Newspapers feeding off the AAP teat want stories reported without the propaganda.
I disagree. Many newspapers want propaganda.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 19 at 08:10 AM • permalinkDoes not matter who is running defence - Lu Kewen will be doing all the glory bits. Just like he did with HMAS Sydney.
With my minds eye jumping 3 years I can see:
Wearing combat gear, covered with mud and smeared with blood, yet still identifiable by his “Gee-whiz” haircut and Gough Whitlam lunchbox, our fearless leader Lu Kewen. Behind him are the men of the SAS; determined of eye but exhausted of body. One is on a stretcher, his glance darting feverishly, arms flailing at an unseen foe, croaking “They’re everywhere! Nowhere’s safe!”
Yes it is the Canberra Channel-9 Newsroom and Kevin is talking to his people:
"Well, we came in from the north, over the mountains. It was rough. But these men - these brave men, God love ‘em - well, I got them through.
“Then we saw the enemy encampment. It was to big for us to surround, and winter was closing in fast. We had to draw them out. So I loaded myself up with a few provisions and a lot of ammo, and set myself up as bait. Well, the
bastards, sorry mum, fiends came out alright. And while they had me pinned down, I snuck around behind them and let ‘em have it: (with gestures) BANG! POW! Some of the SAS guys helped. Old 8-Ball bought it.“Well, that is how I won this here ‘Inscrutible Order of the Snake-in-the-Grass’. Those Tibetan-Monk
Cockfags, sorry mum, blighters did not know who they were messing with!"Picture fades. Strains of “Our Glorious Leader suckles stray dogs” play in the background.
What a weasel.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 03 19 at 08:34 AM • permalinkI happened to pass by an ABC book shop in Miranda in December where Dr Karl was signing his latest book. A great Christmas present I thought. I got two, but when I got him to sign, he was in no mood to chat. There wasn’t a line behind me, just a couple of people. I was brushed aside. A week later, I went to the same shop to buy two signed books by ex cricketer Kerry O’Keeffe. I knew Kerry was to be there from the week before. Now at Kerry’s book signing. The person in front of me was disabled, in a wheelchair, and Kerry organised for him to be at the Sydney Test, and also meet him in the ABC commentary box. After several minutes of being enchanted by Kerry’s generosity, I got my books signed. Plus I chatted to him for a minute. I got the Kerry laugh happening too. Who was the more sincere?
#32 Dave S.
Well, when the very basis of their economic theory is that the money you earn is not yours at all, but the State’s, and the State decides how much of it you get to keep, every bit of laughable nonsense like this is entirely predictable.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 19 at 01:43 PM • permalink#29
Rudd and the carers debacle was straight from the Beattie play book.
Maybe so but it didn’t go well for Rudd.
If it was stunt, he would have flown home and immediately announced the bonus was always going to be paid. But he talked waffle for two or three days before giving in.
To me it revealed that unlike Howard, Rudd will buckle under media pressure within a week. Look out for more of this. It will be like sheep dog trials as the media tries to get Rudd to run this way, then that.Rudd has to find budget cuts if only to pay for election stunts. Have a funny feeling that much of the burden will fall on the left’s pets such as the arts and environment. The left’s support is guaranteed, the public couldn’t give a toss and both portfolios are held by the minister Rudd can’t stand, Peter Garrett.
According to his article in the March/April issue of the NRMA journal,The Open Road,Dr.Karl has recently completed a trip through the Simpson and Strzelecki Deserts.He doesn’t disclose his means of conveyance however I’m prepared to offer long odds on it having been a Pious.A thumping great gas-guzzling 4WD would start favorite but then again he might have taken the Monaro,that would explain why it might cost him money to dispose of what remains of it.
#25 Speaking of Real Climate does anyone else find the high priests there insufferably arrogant?
I can’t stand RealClimate.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 19 at 10:27 PM • permalink
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Dr Kruszelnicki has not yet decided to sell his V8 Monaro, saying he couldn’t afford to after spending all his money switching his other car for a Toyota Prius and installing solar panels on the roof of his home.
When the gloabl warming shit goes down Mad Max style, you need a V8!