Enda writes:
A MOCK advert designed to put the fear into boat / immigrant people thinking of coming to Australia. I wonder how many Irish immigrants might change their mind?
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A Guardian Lonergan mobile-only poll reveales that Labor has gained a little ground against the Coalition. The Coalition is still looking to win with 50.8% of the two party preferred vote to Labor’s 49.2%.
Australian Elections 2013 _ As It Happens (Guardian)
Meanwhile…
Mark Geary writes:
There is a tradition of sausage sizzles running during polling at Aussie elections.The website (below) will show which polling places have sausages and/or cake stalls. That will help people to decide where to vote.
(AFP)
Anti-same sex marriage material [the top one from the ‘Australia Family Association’] appearing in marginal seats ahead of elections in Australia on September 7.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to hold a Parliamentary vote on allowing gay couples to marry within 100 days if his Labor Party wins the election.
Children featured in election anti-gay marriage push (Richard Willingham, The Age)
Previously: Story, Rudd?
Story, Rudd?
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd explains to a Christian member of the audience why he supports marriage equality.
Scroll to the 2:20 mark for the winning argument.
Kevin Rudd’s same-sex response straight from The West Wing (Tony Wright, The Age)
Hat tip: Mark Geary
Finally.
Galway businessman Pat McDonagh would not be drawn on who the potential franchisees are, but he told the Irish Echo that many of those interested were newly-emigrated Irish.
…Mr McDonagh said the Irish fast food chain is currently searching for a site in Bondi Junction in Sydney and Northbridge in Perth.
Supermac’s eye up sites in Bondi, Perth (Pat McDonagh, Irish Echo)
Thanks Markham
See English version of Tamil & Sinhalese #byboatnovisa press ads currently printed in a no. of Sri Lankan newspapers pic.twitter.com/1McLB6nKAa
— Australian Customs (@AusCustomsNews) July 30, 2013
You stay classy, land largely inhabited by descendants of transported convicts.
Via Brian Whelan
Earlier: Monsters vs Aliens
A pleasing timelapser of the national parks of Northern Australia including Kakadu, Litchfield, Nitmiluk and Limmen, Darwin’s East Point Ludmilla Bay, and the Daly Rive, constructed from 13,000 photographs by Glenn Walker.
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard (top ) and rival Kevin Rudd this evening.
Oh, it’s on.
Mark Geary writes:
Aus may get a new PM in the next 60-90 minutes... Bill Shorten is a power broker and he has switched sides to Rudd. This is massive for Australia…
More as Mark gets it.
Live blog here
(The Age)
Update:
Mark adds:
Rudd Wins!
Awkssies
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Following menugate.
Howard Sattler (left), a Perth Radio show host, decided to ask Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (right) about rumours concerning her partner Tim Mathieson.
Not one of his better ideas.
Howard Sattler: “Myths, rumours, snide jokes and innuendos, you’ve been the butt of them many times.”
Julia Gillard: “Well I think that’s probably right. We’ve certainly seen that this week.”
Howard Sattler: “Can I test a few out?”
Gillard: “In what way?”
Sattler: “Tim’s gay.”
Gillard: “Well…”
Sattler: “…No, that’s not me saying it. It’s a myth.”
Gillard: “Well that’s absurd.”
Sattler: “But you hear it. He must be gay, he’s a hairdresser.”
Gillard: “Oh, isn’t that…”
Sattler: “But you’ve heard it? It’s not me saying it. It’s what people…”
Gillard: “Well, I mean Howard, I don’t know whether every silly thing that gets said is going to be repeated to me now.”
Sattler: “No, no, no…”
Gillard: “But, you know, to all the hairdressers out there, including the men who are listening, I don’t think in life one can actually look at a whole profession full of different human beings and say ‘Gee we know something about every one of those human beings’, I mean, it’s absurd isn’t it?”
Sattler: “You can confirm that he’s not?”
Gillard: “Howard don’t be ridiculous. Of course not.”
Sattler: “No, but in a heterosexual relationship. That’s all I’m asking.”
Gillard: “Howard, you and I have just talked about that. So now that is bordering…”
Sattler: “No, I wanted to get rid of it.”
Gillard: “Howard, let me just bring you back to Earth.”
Sattler: “I’m not saying it.”
Gillard: “Right, well, let me just bring you back to Earth. You and I have just talked about me and Tim living at the Lodge. We live there together as a couple. You know that. Yes, on the internet there are lots of what I’ve referred to in the past as nutjobs and I’m happy to use the expression again…”
Sattler: “Good.”
Gillard: “…People who peddle and circulate vile and offensive things.”
Sattler: “Awful things.”
Julia Gillard: “Yeah absolutely.”
Fairfax Radio’s 6PR suspended Howard pending an ‘internal inquiry.
Julia Gillard worried young girls put off politics by her treatment (The Age)
Thanks Mark Geary
How much?
People born in the Republic of Ireland have significantly higher incomes than their fellow Europeans in Australia, statistics show.
The [Australian] Irish Echo compared the income figures for 53 migrant communities. Only Zimbabweans earn more, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
People born in the Republic of Ireland have a median weekly income of $892.
The median weekly income for Australian-born workers is $597 per week, while the figure for “all overseas” born workers is $538.
Some 67,317 people born in the Republic of Ireland filled in a form on census night 2011, as did 22,594 people born in Northern Ireland.
New South Wales is home to the majority of Irish-born people living in Australia, according to the figures.
Irish among Australia’s best paid worker (The Irish Echo)
Thanks Mark Geary
Pic:breakingnews.