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Last updated on July 2nd, 2017 at 08:13 am
Kevni considers a nation’s most brilliant ideas in this column from the future – illustrated by Super Dave Follett:
His plan for the future was to get elected to office.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2008 02 08 at 10:38 AM • permalink
Fantastic work Tim, KRudd calling lifeline reminds me of this bloke…
“The hall lights burst into full radiance, revealing a packed audience gazing rapturously at Rudd and his Government on stage. Then they flicker, die, briefly return to full intensity, and finally settle to a dull, candle-like glow.”
They should have put the wind turbines inside the Thousand Citizen Hall. This whole shemozzle has had wind-fest written all over it since the day it was announced.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 08 at 11:07 AM • permalink
I’ve been developing a theory that the Peace symbol is a lot like morning wood. It’s an involuntary reflex, requires no conscious thought, and is less entertaining as you get older…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 08 at 11:31 AM • permalink
Excellent column, Tim! Great illustration, as well—I imagine KRudd seeing that drawing, and thinking to himself, “If only that were so……”
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 08 at 01:09 PM • permalink
BTW, please note that I did not try to close the italics door, as per earlier, and very pointed, instructions from our Blogmistress™.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 08 at 01:10 PM • permalink
#15, P.A.C.O., NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 08 at 02:06 PM • permalink
Are those hands raised to say “Me! Me! Pick me, sir”? Or, rather more likely, “Heil Kevni”?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 08 at 02:18 PM • permalink
Was Peter Garrett the hand model?
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People, be careful with the tags. Check, check, and recheck before posting if you are not sure—and if in doubt, don’t use any tags. Or you can go back to using asterisks and underscores for emphasis. *Like this* (Old newsgroup and email formatting code.)
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- Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 02 08 at 06:25 PM • permalink
Ruddles: Well, ludwig, here we are, at the controls. Look at this cabinet drinks cabinet button. Bonza eh?
Garret: mmm .hhmmmh.mmhhhppph
Swan: Wheee-heee. Look, I’ve got all the money!
Ruddles: Now, mates, we’ve come to the fork in the road. We’ve got a plan to implementate. Who’s got it? Let’s see it.
Ludwig: But we don’t have a minister of planning.
Wong: We go green. We stop using water and stuff. And stop others using it too.
Conroy: Absentmindedly The Brits give two fingers to say “stuff off”, the Yanks only use one. Now that’s digital economy.
Ruddles: Oh shut, Conroy, and go back to surfing the web or Hawaii or whatever it is you do.
Wong: We should stop selling stuff to the Chinese, that’ll teach ‘em to pollute.
Crean: Brilliant. Let’s stop making money. Bloody brilliant.
Smith: Wouldn’t want to piss off the Chinese. The Yanks are always good – let’s withdraw from Iran.
Conroy:
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 08 at 07:13 PM • permalink
Since I am on a Midnight Oil lyrics bender, I thought I’d put in this very prescient song from about 20 years ago:
“When the generals talk”
Up there on the platform
He is speaking to the people
The people are responding
With clapping and acheering
But the meaning of the message
Not revealed to those assembled
Theyre taken for a ride
Taken in his strideWhen the generals talk
You better listen to him
When the generals talk
You better do what he sayTheres a rumour in the ranking
Someones talking insurrection
So the general has a purge
cos he wants to win elections
With the certain satisfaction
That the people are appeased
Long live the revoluton
The generals very pleasedSitting on the fence both ears to the ground
The fat cats still push the thin cats aroundPosted by mr creosote on 2008 02 08 at 07:21 PM • permalink
Superb column Tim. But when do we get to see the who have been invited and who have accepted their ‘invitation’ to the Talkfest.
That should prove interesting because the selected people “would be expected to pay their own way to Canberra. Maybe we won’t get to see who have been invited but decline their invitation, but really in the spirit of the new collective Australia anyone who does this should be publically shamed before being sent to a re-education camp.
Now I wonder who selects these people – “some of the best and brightest brains from across the country” … oh yes you said who in your column – it’s Julia!… who no doubt met the selection criteria from the PM who said “We want people to be selected on the basis of individual merit,”
Mind you in the space of two days, they will tackle the challenges which include “areas such as productivity, the digital economy, water, health, indigenous people and services and the arts.”
Hey Tim, have you received your invitation yet? Do you get to choose which challenge will be yours for the weekend. Are you going to be a group leader? Now let me see – 1,000 people, 10 groups of 100 people each! Presumably each group has a real challenging topic. That’s some ground to cover – 100 people – two days, say 10 hours maximum discussion time or 6 minutes per person!
But, no doubt it will all run smoothly in the new great spirit of the Australian Collective and great use will be made of all comments and observations in formulating the next Ten Year Strategic Plan for the Democratic People’s Republic of Australasia. We have plenty of precedents for guidance. [Note we will move straight to a Ten Year Plan: none of these pesky Five Year models].
So when can I expect my invitation? I want to come! Please, where’s my ticket?
[Actually I think the whole idea of this talkfest insults the Australian community].
Canberra isn’t that far away. What will they do with gatecrashers?
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 08 at 09:35 PM • permalink
“Actually I think the whole idea of this talkfest insults the Australian community”
And I thought it was just me that felt that way.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 08 at 10:31 PM • permalink
KRudd follows Hawke with talkfest, Hawke said no child etc. Hawke borrowed child idea from send man to moon, so why not just use Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States for ideas and save time and money.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 08 at 11:28 PM • permalink
- I wonder if Kevni will consult JWH in an effort to get a bright idea.
If the speculation about the Queens’ honours for John Howard are correct, then Kevni may well have to genuflect and address his predecessor as “Sir John.”
Oh the irony!
The Prissy Prick having to kowtow to his very favourite “me-too” subject.
Doncha just luv it!!!!!
It is now 17 weeks since Australia last had a government – six weeks of caretaker rule during the election campaign and 11 weeks of symbolic government under a symbolic prime minister called Kevin Rudd..
Next week, the new Australian government will sit for the first time and its first act will be – symbolic. Kevin will say sorry but only symbolically, because he has had lawyers going over his apology for weeks to make sure it doesn’t have any real value.
This symbolic gesture follows from Bali when amid great applause Kevin ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Again it was symbolic because Rudd immediately admitted that Australia didn’t have snowball’s chance of meeting the 2012 targets.
Meanwhile, the Japanese whalers set sail during Australia’s holiday from government to do a bit of researching with harpoons. Rudd sent a ship to take photos of the whale harvest, a symbolic gesture because it could actually stop the Japanese..
And now a new bit of symbolism – the 2020 talkfest. It is, symbolically, the very image of Rudd. Dressed in a nice suit, not a hair our of place, it will sprout thousands of word that say nothing of substance, set goals so far in the future that they never have to be acted on and achieve adoring ABC coverage of every tedious detail.
Can’t go on you know. One day Rudd will have to make a real decision. Then it will get interesting.
Aye, Contrail. Terry McCrann seems to agree with you that it’s time to call bullshit on these incompetent galoots:
IT’S time for Brendan Nelson to apologise. For leaving the incoming Rudd-Swan Government a booming economy and a bulging budget.
Oh what an unforgivably terrible problem to inherit. There was Treasurer Wayne Swan, quoted on our front page yesterday, saying he was just going to have to bite the bullet and, well, let the budget keep racking up surpluses…
By the way, if anyone’s at a loss for something to do late tonight, there’s a foretaste of Rudd’s Super-Dooper Cacklers’ Colloquium on Channel Ten.
Krudd™ is a new symbolic artificial language.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 01:57 AM • permalink
I don’t think sharia law has much chance of being a goer at Kevinis conference, even the ABCs’ running at 94% against to 6% in favour.
Looks like the head hackers may have sullied their “brand name” a little.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 09 at 02:18 AM • permalink
Oops heres the link to the poll. here.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 09 at 02:20 AM • permalink
OT: Hot off the press. The average Australian’s unofficial draft of The Sorry Speech (forwarded from a cousin in Q’ld) – as opposed to Rudd’s fraudulent pile of poo.
DRAFT COPY
THE AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY TO THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION
We apologise for giving you Doctors and free medical care, which allows you to survive and multiply so that you can demand apologies.
We apologise for teaching you the English language and thus opening up to you the entire European civilisation, thought and enterprise.
We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes for you, which you have vandalised and destroyed.
We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped prevent you from slaughtering one and another and using the unfortunate for food purposes.
We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which today helps to consistently feed all of us, where before you had the benefits of living off the land and starving during droughts.
We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric to replace the animal skins you used before.
We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between cities and building cars so that you no longer have to walk over harsh terrain.
We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay the instalments.
We apologise for giving you free travel wherever, whenever.
We apologise for giving each and every member of your family $100.00 and free travel to attend an Aboriginal funeral.
We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands the white people have to pay.
We apologise for giving you interest free loans.
We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including gold and diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their value.
We apologise for developing Ayers Rock and Kakadu, and handing them over to you so that you get all the money.
We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards daughters’ wedding ($8000 ea daughter).
We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for 250,000 people, which is $48,000 per aboriginal man, woman and child.
We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your welfare, medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2 billion each year.
We apologise for you having to approach the aboriginal affairs department to verify the above figures. For the trouble you will have identifying the “uncle toms” in your own community who are getting richer and leaving some of you living in squalor and poverty.
We do apologise. We really do.
We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins.
We are only too happy to take all the above and return you to the paradise of the “outback”, whenever you are ready.DRAFT COPY
It seems Aborigines aren’t the only natives getting restless.
- Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 03:06 AM • permalink
kae thinks Posada Carriles is a troll. Is he?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 03:18 AM • permalink
- 53, yes kae. I saw the one-liners.
Me just wondering. Now I know. Back to other business.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 03:38 AM • permalink
#49, Srekwah, I’m not signing that one either.
I’m about as sorry as a sailor judging a bikini contest.
#50, Stackja, A quick Google brought up this page on wiki. Seems like our troll is an ex CIA terrorist. Lets give credit where credits due, he doesn’t like Castro…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 09 at 03:45 AM • permalink
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#58, Pogria, is it just me, or do we all have difficulty understanding the thinking behind going to a blog you disagree with and shit stirring.
As best I can come up with, its probably due to a lack of sex.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 09 at 04:25 AM • permalink
#64, Thats a bit sexist Pogs, how do we know that trolls are all male?
Your almost certainly right, but in this day and age of gender equality…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 09 at 04:56 AM • permalink
64, things may clitorise, who knows.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 05:14 AM • permalink
I suppose you’re right. However, I reckon any female trolls have probably abused their vibrators, (stands in for the lack of necessary genitalia), so badly, that they need to air the harmony of a friendly, right wing blog to make the poor, blind little gadget show it’s sad, cracked perspex face from under the pedal bin in the bathroom.
- 67, Julia’s G-spot?
Or do I need to say $orry , for that?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 05:23 AM • permalink
Olga Kurlylenko will appear soon on the cinema screen in some movie. Will that generate troll hardening?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 09 at 05:40 AM • permalink
We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric to replace the animal skins you used before
Actually, didn’t they just walk aroyund naked. I read that they wanted to see the white man’s genitals to verify they were human.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 09 at 11:32 AM • permalink
The invitees
It’s a Logies night organised by the ABC. Not a chance in hell of anything constructive happening, which will be relief to Rudd. Last thing he wants is the few really smart people in the crowd to get air time. Publicity professionals Blanchett, Dinnigan, Smith, Flannery and Costello will make sure of that.
You would hope some of the smart people will wake up to the fact they are being used, not consulted, by Rudd.
Oh, such joy. The usual list of spivs, charlatans, wankademics, media whores, vapid socialites, carpetbaggers, leftards, watermelons, neocommies, narcissists, fools, cretins and all their fellow travellers: a selection from the worthless crusty rime that has dried out around the edge of the boiling pot of Australian civilisation.
At least we know this collection of scumbags are incapable of doing anything constructive. Beazley’s dad was right. The ALP has truly become the party of the scum of the upper and middle classes.
Be interesting to see if any electricity, mining, shipping, road, rail, oil production or heavy industry groups are even allowed thru the door.
Can’t have people who actually produce stuff allowed in, after all.
The luvvies will be coming in their pants over this one.
MarkL
canberra
Well polished column, as always …
The slowest 1000 to take a step backward?