Groundhog age

Last updated on July 27th, 2017 at 01:13 pm

Lead opinion piece in The Age, September 5:

The Australian Government claims to be the guardian of family values, to believe in a “fair go” and to champion flexibility in the workplace. Unfortunately, this edifice of feel-good assertions is a house of cards. Dig a little, and the foundations look decidedly shaky.

Lead opinion piece in The Age, yesterday:

The Australian Government claims to be the guardian of family values, to believe in a “fair go”, and to champion flexibility in the workplace. Unfortunately, this edifice of feel-good assertions is a house of cards. Dig a little, and the foundations look decidedly shaky.

The Age claims to be a great newspaper with a creative and innovative editor. Unfortunately, this edifice of feel-good assertions …

(Via Andrew Bolt, who has a happy piece today on the meaning of the Melbourne Cup.)

1. Dig a little and the foundations look decidedly shaky….No that’s the big hole in Sydney mate.

   Posted by crash on 2005 11 02 at 03:40 AM • permalink

1. Apparently they don’t use the full set of Cliche Flash Cards in composing editorials.  Otherwise there’d be variety.

   Posted by rhhardin on 2005 11 02 at 04:10 AM • permalink

1. Hang on, I knew I’d read that before.Hang on, I knew I’d read that before.Hang on, I knew I’d read that before.Hang on, I knew I’d read that before…..

   Posted by CB on 2005 11 02 at 04:17 AM • permalink

1. Is writing groundhog as two words an Australian thing, some play on words that I’m not getting, or both?

   Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 11 02 at 04:34 AM • permalink

1. It’s just the way we do things down here in Aus Tra Lia, Matt.

   Posted by Tim B. on 2005 11 02 at 04:49 AM • permalink

1. Can anybody say plagiarism?

   Posted by JamesP on 2005 11 02 at 04:55 AM • permalink

1. Can anybody say….

   …rats!

   Posted by Quentin George on 2005 11 02 at 05:49 AM • permalink

1. My mistake at #6 – I thought it was two different authors.

   Should have been:

   Can anybody say laziness?

   Or:

   Can anybody say one-issue-sally?

   Posted by JamesP on 2005 11 02 at 05:59 AM • permalink

1. Good Lord! Media Watch will go ballistic.

   Right?

   Posted by C.L. on 2005 11 02 at 05:59 AM • permalink

1. Ah, the perils of cut and paste……

   Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 11 02 at 06:12 AM • permalink

1. The NSW Government is guardian to State-based values, to believe in a “fair go” and to champion flexibility in the road to the workplace. Unfortunately, this edifice of feel-good assertions is a house of cards. Dig a little, and the foundations look decidedly shaky. Particularly in Lane Cove today.

   Posted by blogstrop on 2005 11 02 at 06:43 AM • permalink

1. Don’t drive angry!

   Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 11 02 at 07:29 AM • permalink

1. Maybe good ol’ Al ‘Cut and Paste’ Ramsey has been about, doing his thing.

   Control + X, move the cursor, Control + V.

   Well, that’s my work done for the day. Now for some lunch.

   Posted by Flying Giraffe on 2005 11 02 at 07:59 AM • permalink

1. Houses of cards have foundations?

   Posted by Inurbanus on 2005 11 02 at 11:14 AM • permalink

1. What an interesting . . . consistency.

   Posted by paco on 2005 11 02 at 11:38 AM • permalink

1. Portions of this newspaper have been pre-recorded…

   Of course, since there’s been absolutely no improvement in anything, ever, anywhere according to the progressives, there’s really no reason NOT to recycle the same news…

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 11 02 at 11:43 AM • permalink

1. Dang.  They mixed up the boilerplate again!

   Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 11 02 at 12:17 PM • permalink

1. All this is a bit unfair on The Age. Obviously, the anti-Howard intro generator wasn’t switched to ‘random’.

   Posted by Adam on 2005 11 02 at 07:04 PM • permalink