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Will the real Prime Minister please stand up?

While Laurie Oakes marvels that the new Julia sounded an awful lot like the old Julia,  Claire Connelly wants to know what on earth they did with Kevin 1.0?
It occurs to me that sometimes being too good can backfire.
Pipe down, before you think I’m growing a big head, I am referring to a one Kevin [...]

Don’t do it Tony!

Rumours have been flying around the twittersphere today that Tony Abbott has agreed to do another debate…though I have found nothing in the media to confirm this.
Nonetheless, here are my highly overrated thoughts on the matter:
1. Julia should never have asked for another debate. It makes her look weak, desperate, and naive.
2. What on god’s [...]

Why Seinfeld is incompatible with iPhones

That’s it! I’ve had it up to here people! Mobile phones have ruined Seinfeld!
None of the complications, misunderstandings or disasters that ensued during the show’s nine year run would even have happened if the show was filmed today.
Seinfeld was the funniest show of the 80s and 90s, but if it ran today for the first [...]

Would You Like Satire With That?

In case you didn’t realise it, this is an election year. You never would have guessed with both major parties already out there wearing hard-hats, turning sods and kissing babies. In fact it’s almost as if the election has already been called. The battle lines are being drawn on the environment, immigration and the [...]

Calling Bullshit on Bella

I’m sorry but I’m calling bullshit on this whole pop-cultured can of beans that is the Twilight series, and the supposedly “feminist” message it epically fails to portray.
To begin with, the lead female protagonist Bella is a complete and utter bore – a blank slate, whose entire existence, thoughts, and actions revolves around her dull-as-nails, 110 year [...]

The Enemy of My Enemy

Man what a crazy few weeks it’s been. I’ve been trying to get into the frame of mind to write some sort of Climate Change related blog but before I put metaphorical pen to paper some new development happens that derails my original rant. From leaked e-mails to coalition leadership challenges to the ETS failure [...]

Oh the times – nothing is changing

Come gather round pollies wherever you roam,
And admit that the voting electorate’s grown.
First Costello & Nelson – now Malcolm & Joe,
The history of old you’re still paving.
Then you’d better stop spilling & start to evolve,
For your lies are most frustrating.
 
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pens,
And explain to Australia why Tony’s our man.
Reclaiming [...]

Tony Abbott’s White Christmas

We’re on a bit of a poetry kick at the moment here at Social Scapegoat, possibly as a way to disguise our seething rage. With that in mind, I present to you Tony Abbott’s WHITE Christmas:
He’s dreaming of a WHITE Christmas
Just like the ones he used to know.
Where the liberals glisten,
and children listen,
As church and [...]

“Tony Abbott, our maligned little leader”

In the spirit of Abbott’s liberal insurgency, this song is entitled “Tony Abbott, our maligned little leader” (to the tune of “I still call Australia Home”).
He dreams of cities that only bow down
to The Father, The Son, The Pope, & The Crown
but no matter how far, or how wide he roams
The Vatican will always be [...]

Xeno vs Xenu

It’s the first sign of the apocalypse, when religious prophets can’t turn a profit from their followers.
It’s a slippery slope Mr Xenophobe Xenophon is just beginning to skate on.
You mellow headed moderates may argue “oh, he’s just concerned for people’s welfare. Won’t somebody please think of the children!”, but do not let your fair-minded fundamentalism [...]