Congratulations Murdoch on what looks like a win.

[i-need-a-martini]

...and commiseration Australia on your loss.

[izabsmiling]

Others may have already seen this .I'll add it here for those who are interested .

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3834127.htm

RUPERT TWEETS, THE TELE REPEATS

MR. RUDE CAN’T POSSIBLY COVER UP THIS LATEST BLEMISH

Make-up artist Lily Fontana, who took to Facebook to vent over her treatment at the hands of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday night. 

— Daily Telegraph, 23rd August, 2013

Hello I’m Paul Barry, welcome to Media Watch. 

Of course the story of Rude Mr Rudd was bound to make it into the papers. 

It’s real water-cooler stuff and a shoo-in for the gossip columns. 

But should the opinion of a Brisbane make-up artist really be front-page news ? 

Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reckoned the answer was yes. And having splashed Mr Rude on the cover it brought us the full shocking scandal in a double-page spread inside .

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@*ibis wrote:

g'day FG

oh nero will never go away

he is  needed around here

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I thought Nero was a woman, but perhaps you are in a unique position to know better.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

Well now that Tony has won I can hardly contain my curiosity over how he is going to "stop the boats".

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Simple - tow them out to sea and dump them. It  works on the ratsak principle - they creep away and die somewhere else and we don't have to worry about them or have them on our consciences

[*ibis]

Simple - tow them out to sea and point them back to indonesia where their muslim mates will help them

oh wait the dont GAF

[lakeland27]

i doubt its you berrd.  i'm fairly sure its someone else

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@*ibis wrote:

Simple - tow them out to sea and point them back to indonesia where their muslim mates will help them

oh wait the dont GAF

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It's an old and well tried 'remedy' Ibis. I read an account once of the seiege of a French Town during the 100 Years War - the kind of account that doesn't make its way into the official histories. .

When supplies in the town ran low, the defenders rounded up all the 'useless' citizens i.e. the old, the infirm the women and the children, and expelled  them from the town, hoping they would become a burden on the enemy. The English though, refused to feed them or let them pass through theeir lines, reasoning that the town would be shamed into taking them back.

Neither side would budge and the evictees finally found refuge in a defence trench between the town and the investing army. And there slowly, over a matter weeks, they all died of starvation. The only concession made by the town defenders was that babies born in the trench were allowed to be hoisted up the town wall in a basket to be baptised - and then lowered back again to die in the ditch with their mothers.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

Well now that Tony has won I can hardly contain my curiosity over how he is going to "stop the boats".

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Simple - tow them out to sea and dump them. It  works on the ratsak principle - they creep away and die somewhere else and we don't have to worry about them or have them on our consciences

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Here's a blueprint they could use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struma_disaster

[silverfaun]

Sour grapes much!

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Sour grapes much!

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No Silverfaun, just an observation that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.

Do you really think the things I referred to in my posts could never happen here in Australia - that the 'true blue" listeners who ring in to endorse the xenophobic rantings of Alan Jones  are morally superior to those 'civic minded citizens of  Istanbul or Harfleur?