• The Corby wasn't set up by baggage handlers, in fact the whole thing was made up by her lawyer after he heard some random speculation on TripleJ. Which makes me wonder at the effects of ubiquitous blogging.
• Okay. The Opposition has stated that when the Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, meets with the 'energy powers' in Saudi Arabia at an emergency meeting he'll be unlikely to achieve much. The statement then went on to beat the unliving shit out a dead horse, mumbling something about the petrol excise. But honestly, I'm sure the Coalition is more interested in appearing lively than reducing any tax dollars they might inherit.
• I guess when you're largely symbolic, then symbolic gestures mean everything. The Anglican Church in BRISBANE has voted to automatically defrock priests found fucking children. They've voted to expel priests found guilty of sex offenses by earthly courts. The judgment of God isn't enough, we've got to remove the terrestrial powers of these people in BRISBANE. Why don't we stop misleading people ABOUT THE FUCKING AFTERLIFE WHILE WE'RE AT IT?! Stand up, say 'Fuck... we made it all up' and end the spiritual abuse of generations. Of course, that would cost MONEY. OATES SMASH. RAAAAAAAR.
• Rar rar rar, more bullshit about petrol prices, there's an independent senator unhappy with FuelWatch and he's going to vote against it once he gains his senate seat in July. Great. If FuelWatch gets stymied one of the major media outlets should take up its mantle and do the goddamn thing themselves. It's easy money for a newspaper.
• Australian troops are no longer in Iraq, prompting the Iraqi peoples to wonder where all the people with bad English accents went. Note this is only combat involvement, which means we'll still be involved in training and infrastructure, so probably there's some poor Iraqi somewhere being told to 'move the bloody pipe or the bloody shitter's gunna fuck ya street'. Or something like that, I dunno, I make all this shit up.
• Okay this is pretty awesome. The Scottish city of Dundee is going to start paying people to stop smoking. It's going to attract cheats, fair enough. But honestly, twenty five bucks a week is a lot less than it costs the public health service to treat smoking related illness. And people fucking stink less. And they're less obnoxious about their right to stink in public. Good job, Dundee.