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Last updated on July 26th, 2017 at 12:31 pm
News of this anti-bank demonstration apparently ran on ABC radio yesterday:
“Perhaps,” allows photographer Greg MacDonald, “there were more there later or earlier.” Maybe some of these excellent citizens were among them.
- Why am I not suprised only the ABC reports this non event?
Quite seriously though, part of the reason (aside from it feeding into the left wing worldview) is that the ABC is rather well resourced in that bloated public service way, so they can spare crews to send out to events like this.
— Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 09/01 at 07:14 PM • permalink
- It was reported as being a protest against the ANZ’s support for the Iraq War. Hadn’t noticed the ANZ taking a very public position on this, but certainly have noticed the ABC’s entrenched view.
Perhaps they are going to go on and dig up the Managing Director’s grandma and hold the remains to ransom like those creeps in the UK who have plumbed new depths in protesting against (horror of horrors) a guinea pig farm.
Telegraph / News, UK
- So it was six people and a large blue turd then?Posted by blandwagon on 09/01 at 08:34 PM • permalink
- Funny, whenever I hear “erupting citizenry” I always think of a Palestinian parade…Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/01 at 08:42 PM • permalink
- The irony – someone holding up a poster saying “Fight Greed”.
From looking at the photos many of the hippies gave up the fight against greed a long ago. A lot of them are distinctly, uh, well-fed. Not too much of the mean-and-hungry look in that lot.
Posted by walterplinge on 09/01 at 09:46 PM • permalink
- I hear the ANZ is forming the RAR First Battalion of Superannuated Tellers who will shortly be sent to Iraq. Their job will be to teach the Iraqi customers how to stand in long slow bank queues, train bank staff in new forms of rudeness and lousy service, and show local banks how to raise interest rates on home loans and make massive profits.
John Howard and Kim Beazley will farewell our boys at Darwin. Watch for colour snaps in the ANZ employees newsletter.
- Re the ABC, a trivial anecdote: last week I was at a conference which was opened by Mary Delahunty (highly unpopular State Minister for the Arts, lefty and ex-ABC journo), who complained about not knowing how to turn on the reading light on the podium. Her minder leapt into action, and…flicked the “on” switch on the lamp. Good-natured laughter from the audience. She covered herself by saying “Oh well, I used to work at the ABC, and we had ‘techies’ to do this stuff for us”. I think she was only half-joking.
- Mother Sheehan, it turns out, is not actually going to be on the bus for the tour, but is going to meet it in selected venues where she’s giving interviews…Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/02 at 01:06 AM • permalink
Quick, light a fire so they can jump over it whilst beating a tom tom, bemoaning both Bush and their Fathers.