Utegate · 25 June 2009
20th June 2009
I do love a good political smear campaign.
The recent alleged misleading of parliament by Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd has gained a lot of traction in the last 24 hours – and has subsequently been given the nickname Utegate.
I love how Aussie that is – If there were ever going to be an Aussie Prime Minister scandal to rival Watergate, it was going to be UteGate.
The affair has been compared to that of the previous government’s infamous Weapons for Wheat scandal but to be fair (and I’m not a Rudd apologist by any stretch of the imagination) he was only (allegedly) helping out a mate… not Saddam Hussein.
It’s amazing how much coverage something gets in a slow news week- and I suspect the days ahead will be cluttered with Ruddgate material. I reckon Rudd will just be praying for another ship to crash into Newcastle.
Rudd could just shrug this off with a contrived “Fair shake of the sauce bottle mate.” Or, it could become the undoing of Rudd’s squeaky-clean term in office.
23rd June 2009
Well it seems Utegate has indeed become quite the political shit-storm, but in a masterful backhand from Rudd, he’s turned it on Turnbull and found the email to be fraudulent; urging he apologise and resign.
In the immortal words of Happy Gilmore, “Talk about your all time backfires..”
Between all of the brilliant cartoons shooting out of the presses around the nation, I think the most humourous thing I’ve seen is a fraudulent (ironic) Twitter account being made in Godwin Gretch’s name.. I love the bio description.
And Just for the record… How much does Gretch remind you of Dobby from Harry Potter!
28th June 2009
To see my final take on Utegate for the week on ABC’s Insiders program, click the video below.
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Jed Kemsley passed this link on today – a nice piece on the late James Kemsley OAM. A great man and a truly remarkable observer.
“Being still pre-post-modern, I don’t know about ‘sense-moral’ or ‘wisdom phrase’. But I do know that snatches of conversation are glimpses of life. And that the best cartoonists, like the late James Kemsley, who for so long breathed life into Ginger Meggs, are masters of life’s glimpses. They abstract from reality as a philosopher might. It’ll do me that these gentle glimpses are offered. We’re all passers by. We all need the insights.”
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Two of my all time favourite blues guitarists playing together at the Grammys.
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Cottesloe Beach... FAIL · 14 June 2009
Oh dear.
I’m heading back to Perth in a couple of weeks, and you can be sure as hell Cottesloe beach will be one of the first places I’ll be heading… just not this ‘water’ part.
Thanks Cottesloe City Council. You saved my life…
