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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. Tag Archives: Tony Smith. Abbott: is the cur taking a whipping? This could well be wishful thinking on my part, however…. Yesterday, as I watched the anointing of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, I could have sworn I saw in the face and body of Prime Minister Tony Abbott the sullen demeanour of a whipped cur, already plotting his devious revenge. But hey. What do I know. Like everybody else, I can only live in desp...This ...
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. RSS feed for this section. Why do 13 coalition backbenchers need to racially offend & insult? Today, the first sitting day of a new parliament, thirteen, yes. Defied their Prime Minister and called for an amendment to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act that would see the words “insult” and “offend” removed. These thirteen backbenchers are fighting for the right to offend and insult. The proposed plebiscite on marriage equality, ...
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. Tag Archives: Tony Abbott. LNP: It’s not us it’s them. Caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday blamed. An alleged “scare campaign” by Labor concerning LNP threats to Medicare, for the swing against the government in the election results thus far. The complete absence of the media from the LNP’s jaundiced, wounded, blaming gaze is remarkable. It tells me that I was right to detect overwhelming bias in their favour fro...Tony Ab...
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The Personal | No Place For Sheep
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. RSS feed for this section. In an effort to rid myself yet again of the mother of all ear worms,. I turned this morning to Jacqueline du Pré’s performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, which decision brought with it a whole other unanticipated spectrum of matters to do with grief and loss. His cello playing was excruciatingly awful, yet he bent to his task as if he were Yo-Yo Ma. And if he left off dreaming about you…. The enormit...
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A Secular Forgiveness | No Place For Sheep
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. This is an extract from my doctoral thesis. The Practice of Goodness. Which can be found here. How, then, are we to live? Must we not accept that, in heart or in reason, above all when it is a question of ‘forgiveness’, something arrives which exceeds all institution, all power, all juridico-political authority? In The Practice of Goodness, the narrator concludes:. A further definition of forgiveness states that it is ‘…first and fo...
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. Tag Archives: Tony Abbot. But he is an honourable man…. What is notable in the impassioned defence of. Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon. By Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Attorney-General George Brandis, and Christopher Pyne (what’s he do again? Is the choice of descriptors such as eminent, esteemed, distinguished, above reproach, honourable…the list is long, you get the idea. It’s beyond belief that Dyson Heydon, given his experience a...
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Speaker of the House of Representatives | No Place For Sheep
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. Tag Archives: Speaker of the House of Representatives. Abbott: is the cur taking a whipping? This could well be wishful thinking on my part, however…. Yesterday, as I watched the anointing of the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, I could have sworn I saw in the face and body of Prime Minister Tony Abbott the sullen demeanour of a whipped cur, already plotting his devious revenge. But hey. What do I know. Like everybody ...PM To...
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The Pynes have never seen the fireworks. Right this wrong. | No Place For Sheep
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. The Pynes have never seen the fireworks. Right this wrong. In defending a $5000 cost for Christopher Pyne. And three of his family members to fly to Sydney from Adelaide over the Christmas/New Year period, a spokesperson explained. That Pyne did engage in work activities. He and his family had never seen the Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks. Time to get out the metaphorical tumbrils. Abbott, Tony. FORMER Australian Prime Minister. I’...
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The scent of a lime | No Place For Sheep
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Politics, Society, Satire, Fiction, Fun Stuff. No Place For Sheep. The scent of a lime. I’ve just had a late lunch of Yamba prawns, which. As anyone who is knowledgeable about prawns will tell you are the best in the country, and we get them fresh from the trawler. Watching shamen pore over the entrails of dead armadillos. Limes, their scent and their flavour, became Mexico to me, along with the odour of the Lismore sewage plant. Ah, I think every time I drive past it. Mexico. There are times when I imag...
