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She moved close to my face and told me I have "beautiful, wonderfully clear eyes". #EnjoyingTheOptometrist #
For light relief, the car radio is tuned to MTR. The host clown doesn't think per capita figures mean anything. #
"And let me tell you," says a caller, "Gillard could be assassinated." It's a bridge too far, even for MTR, and she is cut off. #CarRadio #
I didn't hear the segment but MTR listeners think Nick Economou is biased towards the ALP. At least Sophie Mirabella is on soon for balance #
@DarrenFerrari Indeed! #
@downesy It would never have worked. #
"We simply chose to be cowed because we were too fearful to do otherwise," says the man who was there throughout. http://auspol.info/qzfY2m #
@deniswright Thanks. I grew up on the land in the safest National Party seat in the country so I know that attitude well! #
As George Megalogenis suggested to a commenter (http://auspol.info/qQQVUA) I visited Hansard for Oct 17, 1985: http://auspol.info/p8IAik #
"I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot & then go & leak to the Press a story about how I was beaten by Fraser…" #
@upulie It's a marvellous speech… and a delicious encounter with 'Carlton light'… #
Murdoch: "We've been let down by people we trusted." #ForeignCorrespondent #
News Limited's "Professional Conduct Policy", as published today by Crikey: http://auspol.info/pgd4cW #
Carbon tax: you all better get used to it: http://auspol.info/pFHJ1a – a slightly different approach from Nicholas Stuart #
Tom Watson, UK Labour MP: Politicians, police and media over-familiar with each other. #Lateline #
Watson: "We cosied up to Rupert Murdoch for short-term gain… we've had a wake-up call… we're recalibrating the relationship." #Lateline #
Now there's a climate analogy from Schellnhuber on #Lateline Body temperature is 37 degrees. At 39 you have fever. At 41 you're dead. #
@LozVox Hehe… fortunately they left it on the screen for long enough. #
@BiteTheDust So that makes you a qualified climate scientist?! #
Nothing particularly new, but an interesting speech on China from the Treasurer today: http://auspol.info/nNw48S #
Shaun Carney: "There is barely any appetite for difficult reform in contemporary Australian society." http://auspol.info/neRtvQ #auspol #
A few cross words on a rather odd campaign trail: http://auspol.info/o8wNVi #
Ross Gittins has a clear account of the logic behind the carbon tax: http://auspol.info/r5G3ip #
Peter van Onselen says Labor's poorly bred horse beats the Coalition's lame one: http://auspol.info/nwNtmD #
@Kimbo_Ramplin Nor me! But I'm not entirely convinced by this argument. Megalogenis runs the same line. It's too pat. #