Back in 2011, during a visit to the White House, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard introduced The SCOAMF to a MANLY sport…one which I highly doubt he would be wanting to play any time soon…if not for the fact that Mom Jeans are not allowed!
Time for the Overnight Open Thread!
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Labor/Eco-Radicals Defeated in Queensland
by 1389AD ( 93 Comments › )Filed under Australia, Conservatism, Environmentalism at March 26th, 2012 - 5:30 pm
This is a solid blow to the AGW fraudsters, the carbon-taxers, and the Red-Green-Green axis in Australia:
Watts Up With That? Eco-rout down under: ‘A mini-van will have more seats than the Labour party in the new parliament.’
Australians come to their senses – March 24th will be remembered as the day they collectively said “we’re tired of this sh**”
Commenter “truthseeker” writes in comments:
Anthony,
You may want to refer to Jo Nova’s latest post about the results of a state election down under.
Now for all of you nice people from the USA who may not think state elections are that big a deal if you do not live in that state, please remember that we only have 6 states and 2 territories, not 50 like you guys. We just had an election in Queensland, one of our most economically important states, especially for mineral wealth representing about a quarter of the population. Before the election the Labour (think Democrat) held a small majority in the 89 seat Lower House (House of Representatives).
With over 70% of the vote counted, the results are;
Liberal / National Party coalition (think Republicans – sort of) – 78 seats
Labour (think Democrat) – 7 seats
KAP (new party – think TEA party with less logic and more strangeness) – 2 seats
Independents – 2 seats.A mini-van will have more seats than the previously incumbent Labour party in the new parliament.
I have one word for this … OUCH!
Jo Nova writes:
Those devastating Queensland Election Results: Voters hate lies and the Carbon Tax
UPDATE: Is this a record? Has there ever been a loss this bad in Australian history? Conservatives likely to win 74 seats of an 89 seat parliament.
Labor was reduced to only 11 seats in 1974, and on latest counting tonight appeared set to retain only nine seats. Some analysts put the figure even lower, at seven. This would mean Labor falling short of official party status and relying on the incoming LNP government to grant it party offices, staff and resources. The Queensland Greens failed to win a seat and suffered a fall in support. [The Australian]
This is thread for all those who want to comment on this election. According to Bolt, things are not just bad, they’re seriously awful for the Labor Party. Newspoll says LNP (conservatives) 55%, Labor 26%. Channel Nines polls says Labor could be left with less than 10 seats!
The ABC’s election predictor at 8:26 has LNP on 67 seats, Labor on four, others five, doubtful 15. Absolutely catastrophic for Labor. The current leader of the Labor Party in Queensland is Anna Bligh facing a 13% swing against her, and will need preferences just to stay in Parliament.
March 24, 2012, will be remembered as the day the electorate delivered a decisive, devastating blow to an incumbent Labor government. Courier Mail
For non-Australians, Australia has seven states (technically 5 states and 2 territories), and in 2007 all the States and the Federal Government were Labor. Currently Liberal (meaning conservative) governments have won NSW, WA, and Vic and now look like taking a landslide in Queensland. These are the four largest states.
JoNova: Those devastating Queensland Election Results: Voters hate lies and the Carbon Tax
Andrew Bolt: Queensland won’t be gentler on Queensland
The choice of words is unfortunate, but the analysis of Labor’s Queensland apocalypse seems right:
Former Hawke and Keating minister Graham Richardson said Queensland voters’ feelings towards the Prime Minister verged on “hatred” …
“I think people just wanted to get rid of Anna Bligh but I think they want to get rid of Julia Gillard as violently as possible,” Mr Richardson said.
A record:
The NLP achieved a massive 15.7 per cent swing to capture at least 76 seats… It is the largest recorded swing in Australian political history, eclipsing the 14.9 per cent surge against Victoria’s Labor government after the party’s 1955 split.
But keep denying the evidence, you believers:
ABC’s Insiders yesterday:
LAURA Tingle: I don’t think anyone can claim that this was about the carbon tax or any federal issues.
Courier-Mail online, Saturday:
SKY News exit polls show voters were most concerned about the cost of living (69 per cent), followed by delivery of state services (63 per cent), and carbon tax (44 per cent)
Nothing left to say:
Julia Gillard flew to a summit in South Korea yesterday without commenting publicly on the destruction of Anna Bligh’s government…
Watching and waiting:
Kevin Rudd … had planned to mount his leadership challenge after the state election. One of his old backers expressed frustration that Mr Rudd had not waited. The MP said the Queensland result would not reignite any meaningful leadership talk now but its enormity kept Mr Rudd’s prospects alive.
It was noted that of the five seats of which all or part fell within the boundaries of Mr Rudd’s seat of Griffith, the average swing was 9.7 per cent, whereas the statewide average against Labor was 16 per cent.
Greg Sheridan:
Labor’s Queensland election debacle means that the party may be forced, no matter how reluctantly, to turn once more to the former prime minister and foreign minister. This is the view of some of Rudd’s key backers, and it is correct. Tony Abbott could win the next federal election in Queensland alone.
Michelle Grattan can’t bring herself quite to mention the carbon tax as a colossal error and deceit, which actually is the basis of this analysis:
JULIA Gillard issued an extraordinary statement on Saturday night after Queensland Labor was decimated. She congratulated Campbell Newman, praised Anna Bligh and promised to deliver for Queenslanders. But she made no mention of the rout that flattened Labor and raised the spectre of Queenslanders — who don’t believe in half measures — wielding the axe federally next year.
Some Gillard government advisers want to think that because this election was fought overwhelmingly on state issues and involved the “it’s time” factor, the result does not have federal implications. This is delusional…
Queensland also highlights how important “trust” is for voters… Gillard is not likely to find it much easier to get back trust than Bligh did — trust is probably non-renewable capital for the PM.
Queensland is the warning. Politicians who cyncially break election promises get punished. Gillard cynically broke a promise not to introduce a carbon tax. Voters had being lied to about this tax, which many also fear. Gillard will be punished. All the rest is excuse-making, wishful thinking and we-know-best arrogance. Labor must drop a tax for which there is no mandate and from which there is no benefit – to the planet, the economy or Labor itself.
UPDATE
But a discreet silence from normally prolific tweeter Kevin Rudd.
Also see:
Meet Sergio Redegalli, Counterjihad Artist
by 1389AD ( 56 Comments › )Filed under Art, Australia, Environmentalism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Open thread at July 11th, 2011 - 8:30 am
Australian glass sculptor and muralist Sergio Redegalli is the director of Cydonia, an art glass studio in Newtown, New South Wales. Much as I like art glass, we’re all about the counterjihad, so let’s take a look at Mr. Redegalli’s murals instead. He paints them on the outside wall of his own glass studio. You gotta love this stuff!
Redegalli has been at the forefront of the anti-burqa movement. For clarity, click here to see what a burqa is, and no, a burqa not the same thing as a hijab (Muslim scarf covering the head, neck, and hair). That said, a niqab (face veil), worn with a hijab and voluminous clothing, provides nearly the same facial and bodily disguise as does a burqa, so the term “burqa” is used informally to refer to either system of disguise.
Sculptor Sergio Redegalli defies ‘bullies’ and refuses to take down anti-burka mural
A SYDNEY artist whose anti-burka mural has infuriated left-wing and Islamic activists is vowing that the provocative artwork will stay in place despite death threats, abuse, a string of vandalism attacks, a violent weekend protest and a police request to remove it.
Newtown glass sculptor Sergio Redegalli has this week restored the mural painted outside his studio for more than the 40th time after dozens of graffiti and paint-bomb attacks by protesters who say it is racist and inflammatory.
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The sculptor, who is a well-known figure in inner-suburban Newtown, says he has since been visited by local police who asked him to take down the mural after learning of a threat to fire-bomb it.He refuses to do so in the interests of free speech and public debate.
“I’m not going to let the bullies win,” Redegalli told The Australian yesterday.
“I’m not doing it for pride (but because) I don’t believe bullies have the right to stand over people and deny us our freedoms.”
Redegalli painted the mural and slogan “Say no to burqas” on an exterior wall of his glassworks last September, after a local fashion designer received death threats over a plan to feature models wearing the traditional Islamic garment in a fashion parade.
The artist says his objective is to promote debate about the Islamic face veil, which he sees as a symbol of repression and violent extremism.
Redegalli sometimes repaints his mural to cast a harsh light upon Aussie politicians, such as Fiona Byrne and PM Julia Gillard, both of whom toe the Red + Green + Green, socialist/eco-fraudster/dhimmi political line.
Winds of Jihad: Quote of the Week
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Sergio’s Mural WatchOur dear friend Sergio Redegalli updated his mural again:
The Watermelon Greens: Green on the Outside, Red Inside. Time to dispatch them to the scrap-heap of history…
SMH: Mural targets mayor over Israel boycott
THE GREENS candidate tipped to take the once-safe Labor seat of Marrickville from the Deputy Premier, Carmel Tebbutt, in the state election has been targeted in a mural over her council’s decision to boycott Israel.
Marrickville Council’s support for the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel in December has already been the subject of hostile questions to the Greens candidate and mayor of Marrickville, Fiona Byrne, at a debate with Ms Tebbutt last week.
The policy has been attacked by numerous media commentators and Labor member for Grayndler, Anthony Albanese, who is also Ms Tebbutt’s husband, penned a newspaper column last month condemning the boycott as “unfortunate and misguided at best”.
Yesterday a mural in Newtown stating “Say no to the burqa” was temporarily repainted by its artist, Sergio Redegalli, to read “Say no to Fiona Byrne”. The burqa-clad woman with a strike through her was replaced by a figure in green and a mayoral sceptre stabbing a Star of David.
Ms Byrne said that the mural was dehumanising but she stood by the boycott.
“We don’t live in a vacuum … things that happen nationally and internationally affect people in our local area.”
Ms Byrne said Israel had not been singled out, and that she supported the federal government’s sanctions on countries such as Zimbabwe and the longstanding council boycott of Burma.
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Redegalli, a Newton resident, said he was keeping the new mural up for only 24 hours to document it.He has drawn praise from anti-Muslim immigration groups for the original anti-burqa mural and has addressed a number of political meetings, including an Ironbark Club meeting in December, which is run by the far-right nationalist Australian Protectionist Party (APP).
He told the Herald he planned to send photos of the new mural to a range of contacts, including prominent members of the APP and the website the Gates of Vienna, which claims the West is in a “new phase” of an “old war” against Islam.
The artist said he was not a member of any political party and hated Labor.
“[I wanted to] get people to look up Fiona Byrne, see who she is, what she stands for,” he said.
In this mural, Redegalli shows Fiona Byrne in a green burqa with a mayoral crown and a scepter labeled “BDS”, which stabs the Star of David:
Winds of Jihad: Anti-Semites Love Our Greens
Our Greens Love Anti-Semites.
Or could it be that they’re anti-Semites?
Andrew Bolt
The bigotry is in direct relationship to the ignorance – and futility:
The Greens’ Marrickville policy. NSW candidate and mayor Fiona Byrne on ABC Online’s The Drum Unleashed on January 13:
On December 14 last year, Marrickville Council in Sydney’s inner west resolved to support a boycott of goods produced in Israel and of cultural and sporting exchanges with Israeli institutions, withdrawal of funds from institutions and companies that invest in or do significant business with Israel, and the implementation of government actions [sanctions] that indicate disapproval of Israeli policies in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.
A message from Sergio Redegalli:
‘I have attached the image of my latest Mural, I have temporarily created this image over the SAY NO TO BURQAS mural, I will change it back in the next few days after enough Sydney siders have seen it going past by train.’
I think that its title should be THE QUEEN GREEN RUBBISH BAG or GREEN RUBBISH BAG.
Redegalli recently weighed in on the nefarious Australian PM, Julia Gillard, who resembles Barack Hussein Obama in every way but outward appearance:
Winds of Jihad: Screwed by a plummer
“A fight to the death in the arena of public opinion” … Prime Minister Julia Gillard turns her back on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on 7 July 2011
Sergio Redegalli put up another mural today. Lets see if it lasts through the night. If you don’t know what BDS means, check it out here…
