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Policy is like the global game - you can't fix a bad first touch
The Labor Dry reckons policy is like football (the global game)– if your first touch is shyte, it’s almost always impossible to recover.
Feb 16
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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
Well I don’t know why I came here tonight
Feb 12
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What happens when a Food Safarist goes to Livo
Sometimes it just takes a Nine Newspaper journalist to read past a Callan Boys review to see how the real world lives.
Feb 9
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How did we go broke? Oh, that would be gradual then fast.
At the Café Iruna in Pamplona, there is a bust of Don Ernesto Hemmingway watching over patrons as a wry witness to the world.
Feb 4
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Angus Taylor - the Marcelo Rios of Australian Politics.
Nothing quite signals the return to work than the end of the Australian Open.
Feb 2
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The Treasurer and the Tempest
It takes quite a bit to impress the Labor Dry, but even the Labor Dry found the deception impressive.
Jan 30
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Inflation, Homer Simpson and Frank Grimes - when the system lets you get away with it
After today’s inflation result, the Labor Dry was reminded of an episode of the Simpsons – aired during Season Eight and somewhat cryptically (as in all…
Jan 28
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Pet Shop Galahs Squawking Revenue Neutral
Probably the most famous and consequential quip from Paul Keating as Treasurer was the one given to John Laws in a May 1986 radio interview.
Jan 14
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