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Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph quoted Labor candidate and Bastard Boys superhero Greg Combet:
Not surprisingly, Mr Combet thought Bastard Boys was just fine, a fairly accurate version of events with a few fictional flourishes.
But he did feel Prime Minister John Howard got off too lightly.
“I think the Government gets off very lightly, given that they concocted the whole scheme and John Howard personally signed off on it.”
All the more reason to vote for him. Incredibly, on Tuesday night the ABC’s Lateline attributed Combet’s lines to former Patricks boss and Bastard Boys villain Chris Corrigan:
Mr Corrigan says it’s not only the unions and Mr Combet who escape scrutiny in the series.
Yesterday he told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, ‘I think the Government gets off very lightly, given they concocted the whole scheme and John Howard personally signed off on it. We have the Cabinet documents, and he signed off on the sacking of the entire work force’.
Naturally, the reporter who committed this blunder – Tom Iggulden – is a Walkley Award winner. The likely source of his error? Take a bow, Crikey.
(Via readers Andrew and Simon)
UPDATE. A lefty notes:
Some of the dialogue [in Bastard Boys] was terrible. I burst out laughing when Lucy Bell, playing Combet’s German girlfriend says ‘Come home and I will read you Das Kapital in German’, and Combet responds ‘I’m getting hard just thinking about it’.
- I won’t be watching it, fiction is not high on my priority list these days.Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 16 at 10:43 AM • permalink
- It would be interesting to see a film about the hundreds of waterfront strikes during world War II – the Battle of Milne Bay, for example, was fought without heavy guns because watersiders at Townsville refused to load the unless paid quituple time – finally US troops shot the locks off the cranes and loaded them themselves but by that time it was too late.
- Update: “I burst out laughing when Lucy Bell, playing Combet’s German girlfriend says ‘Come home and I will read you Das Kapital in German’, and Combet responds ‘I’m getting hard just thinking about it.’”
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, Das Kapital and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness
O, Wilderness were Workers’ Paradise enow!
‘Come home and I will read you Das Kapital in German’, and Combet responds ‘I’m getting hard just thinking about it’.
That’s just hilarious on so many levels…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 16 at 12:35 PM • permalink
- Good lord! Hopefully this was on a cable channel? Or can you all use that kind of language on broadcast channels?
Sounds stupid, in any event.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 05 16 at 12:38 PM • permalink
- Did Combet say, “L-u-u-cy, I’m ho-o-ome!” whenever he got home from his other gig as a band leader?Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 16 at 01:31 PM • permalink
- #10: Glad to oblige, D. The correct spelling is Rhinoceros (the Brits spare themselves the trouble of a employing a ‘u’ with this one). Although temperamental and dangerous beasts, they are usually quite well-dressed.
- Best one I ever heard was from an old digger during my short stint as a political staffer.
When the war finished much of the equipment used for the war was essentially given to some to the returned men to help rebuild the country. On this occasion a truck was being transported back from the New Guinea battlefields via ship to Australia. A few unionists decided that they would open the hood of the truck and poured sand into the engine. Several soldiers caught them in the act and gave them a nice little touchup for their efforts. But when confronted with the question as to why they had vandalised the truck. The paraphrased response “The truck will be used for capitalist endeavours”Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 05 16 at 04:55 PM • permalink
- Some of the dialogue [in Bastard Boys] was terrible. I said it in another post, but the line, “Chris Corrigan’s managers couldn’t get a root in a brewery” is hard to beat. Presumably they would have found it difficult to organise a pissup in a brothel as well.Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 05 16 at 05:45 PM • permalink
Naturally, the reporter who committed this blunder – Tom Iggulden – is a Walkley Award winner. The likely source of his error? Take a bow, Crikey.
The ABC again shows the amazing lack of professionalism that has become the hallmark of its news and current affairs department in the past 20 years. No professional journalist would quote from the notoriously sloppy Crikey WITHOUT checking the original source – the readily available Telegraph. Idiot.
- Howard signed off on improving the efficiency of Australia’s waterfront?
Nothing can surprise me about the lows this man will stoop to in order to improve the economy.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 16 at 07:01 PM • permalink
- No matter how much propaganda the ABC produces, they will not be able to undo the enormous good done by Howard, Reith and Corrigan.
The changes almost doubled the container rate. This was major factor in enabling the prosperity enjoyed by Australia since then.
Contrast these results with what happened in the Hawke vs Domestic Pilots dispute.
Surely there is a good documentary to be made when a Labor Prime Minister, cooperating with big business, uses the RAAF and hundreds of foreign pilots to thwart an Australian union’s industrial action.
The members of the pilots’ union were limiting their flying to 9 am to 5 pm in support of a 7% pay rise.
Hawke supported mass sacking and the pilots were forced to resign to avoid losing their superannuation. They had to re-start their flying careers offshore and Australia lost forever, a significant pool of skilled workers.
- ‘Come home and I will read you Das Kapital in German’, and Zombet responds ‘I’m getting hard just thinking about it’. Just how did they get Spike Milligan to write the script?Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 05 16 at 07:06 PM • permalink
- No matter how much propaganda the ABC produces, they will not be able to undo the enormous good done by Howard, Reith and Corrigan
No they mightn’t be able to but the kevni & butch team and their labor/actu coalition government will. This pair are a great double act, they stand for double digit inflation, double digit unemployment figures and double digit interest rates.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 16 at 07:35 PM • permalink
- #13
“The truck will be used for capitalist endeavours”
It’s my understanding that one of the flow on effects from the Soviet/German non-agression pact, was the belief that Hitler could destroy capitalism and any actions which could speed this along would benefit the worker’s struggle.
Which goes some way to explain the jump in strike actions, particularly before Barbarossa.
- Dminor, I love watching Hornblower. It was the most expensive BBC series ever created. My cousin is a mini series director and he has directed well known TV series here in Australia.
Blair Bloggers, here’s something for you to do on the weekend.
‘Kennerton Green’ Bong Bong Road, Mittagong NSW
If you’d like to see one of the most enchanting gardens near Sydney please drive to Mitagong (1-2 hours drive)to see the following link. Bring some money and bring your cameras, the gardens are magnificent.
Please note, PETER GARRET lives next door, our humble labor member.
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‘Come home and I will read you Das Kapital in German’, and Combet responds ‘I’m getting hard just thinking about it’.
Lefty porn is very disappointing.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 05 16 at 08:13 PM • permalink
- I find it telling that the only people who didn’t think it was a shameless plug for Combet’s parliamentary tilt and historical revisionism at its most Goebbelesque are pinkos- as Chris Corrigan accurately described welded-on members of the industrial Left .
Piers Ackerman raises some intersting historical items about the sainted wharfies as well, in particular their selfless patriotism, lack of self interest, altruism and celebration of diversity. If the MUA was a city business club, the likes of Sue Smith and her ilk would be chaining their hairy armpitted selves to the doors and demanding membership.
One thing I must say, at least the MUA and their like troglydites in the TWU, MWU, CFMEU and such don’t try to hide their thuggery, misogyny and slavering greed- the limpdick left that infest the ABC (and the meeja in general) are the most pious, hypocritical turds to ever lodge a grant application or heritage exemption. I hate all of them, but reserve my deepest loathing for the coiffured commies who hide behind a facade of care and compassion.
- Was struggling to find something to watch last night, as the paint had dried and the grass is now all dead. So I did a bit of channel surfing. Caught 2 minutes of McLeod’s Daughters (seems to be about a farm run by promiscuous buxom wenches) lo and behold a young man was fired and then rehired on a lower wage because of Howard’s AWA’s. In the next scene the government was scouting the area for a toxic waste dump. Now this is a drama that rings true.
Not sure if I bumped my head when I drifted off, but you could hve knocked me down with a bulldozer in Gaza when I caught The Chaser later in the night. The funniest confrontation with Sheik Hilarity you’ll ever see – what an aggressive S.O.B. When the video is on youtube we must show it. And then to my further amazement they took the piss out of the ACTU’s anti-Howard ads magnificently. ‘Tis a strange world when I’m enjoying comedy on AyBeeCee.
Sheik Hilarity Found it.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 16 at 09:26 PM • permalink
- Coiffered commies.
Heh. I like. I may wish to borrow that, to go along with the Limousine Left and the MasterCard Marxists.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 16 at 09:45 PM • permalink
- *Coiffured*
Only if I spell it correctly, I should add…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 16 at 09:46 PM • permalink
- #30 “it’s a guaranteed mufti muzzler” lolPosted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 16 at 09:59 PM • permalink
- #36: To be fair, some of them can actually pull off the “unkempt but stylish” look
- #35 Nic, he spat out the racist tag very quickly. Almost as quick as the threats to punch him in the face. Very feisty for an invalid – glad to see he has recovered.
Now that we have been conditioned for politcal correctness, “racist” is possibly the worst thing you could call another person. What I would like to see is someone being sued for defamation or better yet, psychological injury for having called someone racist.
- I had given up on them when they did a few episodes in their previous series which (it seemed to me) were entirely anti-government. There is an improvement. So much to satirize in the opposition, minor parties and the non-christian religions. I hope they can keep it up, but as we get closer to the election the acid test will be upon them.
Lately I’ve been turning the TV off and my wife reads aloud the Encyclopedie en Francais. It makes me go all wiki at the knees.
Some of the dialogue [in Bastard Boys] was terrible.
Government funding guarantees mediocrity.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 17 at 12:06 AM • permalink
As for Bastard Boys, I’d rather demonstrate French kissing the wrong end of a rhinoceros.
*reflects on rhinoceroses he has known…*
Um… DMinor… exactly which end is that?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 17 at 01:05 AM • permalink
- Hun is pretty spiffy for rock and roll as well.
- Yeah,another crap show from ABC,but to be totally off topic have just watched Fox News and I know when someone dies that it is sad and you shouldn’t make fun of the dead,but Christopher Hitchens was debating some wanker about the merits of the recently deceased Jerry Falwell.Christopher remarked that if you gave Falwell an enema his remains would fit into a matchbox.I reckon that is a great way of telling someone they are full of shit.Well, I thought it was funny…………..
- What, no sequel?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 17 at 06:21 AM • permalink
- Thanks to Dminor for effectively neutralising whatever feeble humour my previous post might have carried…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 17 at 06:24 AM • permalink
- Oh, crap!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 17 at 06:25 AM • permalink
- Wharfies doing the Macarena? Please. I’ve thought of a much more macho dance – it’s called the Zombet.
You simply put your arms straight out in front of you and walk around in circles mumbling and following the guy in front of you. A snap for the wharfies to learn since that’s what they do at work anyway.
Posted by Mr Anderson on 2007 05 17 at 06:25 AM • permalink
- Quite right.
(Takes a deep breath, counts to ten, smooths hair back into place)
I am that good, aren’t I?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 17 at 06:29 AM • permalink
- It’s not you, Dminor, it’s me. Rest easy.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 17 at 06:38 AM • permalink
- Let me guess: #54 refers to #51, but wasn’t aware of #53. #55 doesn’t know what #54’s referring to but makes a quick quip anyay. #56 referes to #53, then sees #55 and posts #57’s “Oh, crap.” #59 minunderstands, #60 tries to wipe it from his mind and start again, #61 begins to twig, #62 says don’t worry about it and #63 laughs at the bad timing of it all.
- Reads like the final chapter of an Agatha Christie, but you got it!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 17 at 07:52 AM • permalink
- Well fuck it all. If Tim is too busy to post a comment on it, I’ll do it.
I doff my hat to Iowahawk. (curls index fingers in a wriggly motion). Pure genious
(wronwright directs his attention to Andrea)
Fetch unto me another tankard, wench!
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 17 at 09:59 AM • permalink
- Ooooooh, wow, (sees faint glitter of Zulu spear getting closer, settles down with a tankard of Sumerian mead and the sure expectation of big bucks from the popcorn concession when she cleans his clock), wronwright, you sure told her!
Go on, yell for her again!
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 05 17 at 10:32 AM • permalink
- (wronwright gets up on bar counter)
Alas, tho it held much more than a pint, me tankard has gone dry. I say again you buxom temptress with the stiletto heels, fetch me more ale!
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 17 at 11:20 AM • permalink
- Get down from the bar, wronwright, before you get us all in trouble!Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 17 at 11:50 AM • permalink
- #74 Wrongwright, I’d never be described as buxom, but I can supply you with a tankard full of ale.
Here you go. Cheers!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 17 at 08:39 PM • permalink
- Bugger. I need to stop drinking or at least start perviewing.
Apologies for the misspelling, wronwright.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 17 at 08:41 PM • permalink
- I lasted probably 20 minutes, watching bastard boys. The dialogue that I found most baffling was that of the ordinary ‘working class’ Dockers.
As someone who has grown up around working and lower middle class Australians all my life (Indeed I grew up next door neighbour to a secretary of a major Australian union and a 5 min walk from the Brisbane docks), the dialogue was bizarre. It was outright corny. Have these ABC writers even met a working class person in there life. Have they even met real trade unionists in their life? It wasn’t just excruciating, but gut wrenching.
It again confirmed my suspicion that the Artistic/Professional lefty class in Australia live in parallel (or should that be ‘perpendicular’) universe.
On the point of wharfie’s behaviour in WW2 and Vietnam and lets not forget their inspiring contribution to organised crime, through the Painters and Dockers.
My Grandfather was in the 49th Battalion in New Guinea, who ran out of Ammunition assaulting entrenched Japanese positions at the Battle of Gona-Buna- Sanananda. They lost over almost 60% of the Battalion in 5 hours. After the battle, my grandfather who was an avid amateur photographer could not bring himself to take another photo in the war.
It still makes my blood boil.
- What was the big dock strike in the mid 50s?
My father couldn’t get a job and went to Darwin to try to find work (I think he was a bit of an adventurer). This was in about, oh, hmmm. Must have been 1954? Ish?
He travelled to Darwin and worked in Alice Springs as a framey, and also in Darwin at the airport. He was run out of Alice Springs at one stage. When he travelled back to Sydney it was on a Bantam BSA 125 from Darwin – someone wrote about him in a book. He still had that bike when he died, and it still went. His godson got it when he died. Dad even went kangaroo hunting with local aborigines on the bike in the Territory.He also helped Fed Hoinville in some of his adventures in NSW.
- I was in Darwin in 1981 and looked up some of the fellows he knew, and found two of them. One was the brother of the truckie who loaned Dad ten quid in Alice Springs so that he wouldn’t be run out of town (again) as a vagrant!
I tried to give him the ten bucks (nowhere near enough these days!), but he refused.I wish I knew more about my Dad’s adventures!
He did tell me about competitions at Bankstown Aerodrome to make the shortest landing. The eventual winner ripped off his landing gear. But he won!
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