• 26% – but the real issue is Abbott's approval rating. #AGoodDayToAvoidTheMedia #
• Cloud backup – a job, and a job creation opportunity, for the NBN: http://t.co/8cU8NVpO – a piece by @neerav #
• "Give Fraser The Razor" – http://t.co/WWU1S3dc – 1977 poster by Michael Callaghan, who died last month. http://t.co/9QM7dVEs #
• Smugglers in our midst. #
• @neerav Your Feedburner blog update – arrived today. Struck a chord with me – I've migrated almost everything to the cloud in past year. in reply to neerav #
• @neerav It's a supreme compliment – I don't subscribe to blog feeds, as a rule. in reply to neerav #
• @naomiwoodley @agentdeclan Re "effectively a carbon tax" – JG said it in her NPC speech on July 14 last year. http://t.co/XRxD2lzF in reply to naomiwoodley #
• @neerav Worth doing – your blog is the vital hub. in reply to neerav #
• @agentdeclan The battle was already lost by that point. Typically self-inflicted. in reply to agentdeclan #

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• Mrs. Landingham Dies – For Real, This Time: http://t.co/btW9x7jC #
• @latingle @russellmahoney @murpharoo I got the digital version through Readings website on Friday. I've even read it! in reply to latingle #
• As the 40th anniversary approaches, the search for Watergate documents goes on: http://t.co/sOQXMDSK #
• Looks like all those whinging, entitled, doomsayers haven't got the message: http://t.co/BDRMTevM #
• Three royal cheers for UKTV – showing the BBC in high definition minus all the scrolling tickers. #
• "You mean you just sit and think? And you get paid for this?" http://t.co/0P0w4jQz #
• Even Mr. Coorey contemplates another last chance and the prospect of a re-election under Kevin Rudd: http://t.co/WWQpH9dq #
• Tower Bridge raised http://t.co/km7RFV53 #

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• "The Australian electorate has long suspected that neither was a true leader of real stature." http://t.co/fMbw9nbe #
• Geoff Kitney: Hung up on credibility, not creed. http://t.co/DUoy18HM #
• In the most corrupt states, who will hear the watchdogs bark now? http://t.co/jaSEoxin #
• What do idealistic political operatives do after they've done their bit for democracy? http://t.co/fixXkMmA #
• The Times is offering free website and tablet access over the Jubilee weekend. http://t.co/5Q5YMs1C – do it for your Queen. #
• So I sign up for my Jubilee freebie but every story I click on results in this: http://t.co/lIHYjvRY #
• .@kcarruthers It's a cookie issue – seems to have righted itself now. #
• @djmattyg007 I got a popup message about accepting cookies and that fixed it. in reply to djmattyg007 #
• "This account will almost certainly never be put to use." http://t.co/aVwjV3BZ #
• "He was about as deep as a melted ice cube." http://t.co/a4ZdOC9F #

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• The snails in my letter-box have been gorging on the AEC's enrolment campaign. http://t.co/OMszfxnO #
• And that's the biggest question in my life at present: how do you stop snails climbing a brick fence and colonising your mail box? #
• @SteveMcKiernan @pjlogue I have no practical life skills: what the hell is a beer trap? #
• @randallgill There must be a deadly chemical I can use to indulge my genocidal tendencies. in reply to randallgill #
• @randallgill @petedavo_au @Ponder_Stybbons Salt I can do – thanks. #
• Drafting my essay now: http://t.co/RGLTQjw4 #
• John Howard to the Queen: "It was an enormous privilege to be your Australian prime minister." #
• The recall election in Wisconsin is quite interesting… really… http://t.co/qWzV7Rtr #
• Just caught up with Illinois state Republican representative Mike Bost's little rant: http://t.co/rIwMyFIT – "Let my people go" #
• I was expecting a convict: http://t.co/cxANluj2 #
• @AgnessMack I'm busy working up my own puns about forges and mist! in reply to AgnessMack #
• @AgnessMack Amanda Vanstone features in the first few pages so I've hit a brick wall… in reply to AgnessMack #
• Numbers versus social pull: sizing up the Obama and Romney campaigns on Twitter. http://t.co/lgjYqKhM (via @NewsHour) #
• The Decorum, Skullduggery and Rivalries of the Presidents Club: http://t.co/pga8mZcM – Nixon as the father Clinton never knew? #

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• General rejoicing throughout the empire… those were the days. #
• @tcookAU I remember waiting for Sir Rohan Delacombe on the side of the highway – we got a whole day off. in reply to tcookAU #
• @tcookAU I love God and my country and I honour the flag. in reply to tcookAU #
• What a find: John Henry Austral & political propaganda from 1948-49. http://t.co/OT7z2w17 Audio files here: http://t.co/T8kSH5lI #
• Light-heartedness from Combet – there's something you never see from Gillard or Abbott. #qt #
• RT @rhysam: The song G. Combet was referring to. You're welcome. http://t.co/RNXgTGls #qt #

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• The Communists have been deregistered – what is the world coming to? http://t.co/GB4pR1Hv #
• I listened to Question Time on the car radio today. Nixon won. #
• @brucerguthrie Ah, thanks for that. in reply to brucerguthrie #
• @boeufblogginon More than the ALP, I would have thought. in reply to boeufblogginon #
• @boeufblogginon Quietly desperate, as per usual. in reply to boeufblogginon #
• @boeufblogginon That's Sydney for you. in reply to boeufblogginon #
• Today they're faceless. Back then they were masked. http://t.co/8d9ezFGw #
• @Colvinius The more things change… in reply to Colvinius #
• "He's a one-man menagerie" – Laurie Oakes on Christopher Pyne after Pyne said he ran like a gazelle and will watch Craig Thomson like a cat. #
• Was that the first time the word "evidentiary" has ever been used on A Current Affair? #
• @farrm51 "Julia Gillard plauged" – sounds nasty. in reply to farrm51 #
• (1) From "Australian Labor Leader", H.V. Evatt's biography of W.A. Holman, on behaviour in the Legislative Assembly in 1911… #
• (2) "Unspeakably vile language was used by some Opposition members, & the Hansard staff was unable or unwilling to take down every insult." #
• Some comments that were recorded by Hansard: "vile worm", "political leper", "pariah dog", "skunk", "stinking crowd" (reference to the ALP) #
• @AgnessMack You'd be really pissed off about that. in reply to AgnessMack #
• One month for free if I renew my Crikey subscription by midnight tomorrow. Am I allowed to say that I don't see the value anymore? #
• @zackster I preferred the free-wheeling cowboy days of Mayne. There was a sense of anticipation when each email arrived out of the blue. in reply to zackster #
• @AgnessMack Or stopping him in mid-stream? in reply to AgnessMack #
• @Crf001 I have the Hansard transcript here: http://t.co/Q5fqXlnR – always sorry I missed hearing it in full. in reply to Crf001 #
• @AgnessMack It's probably best we adjourn this debate… we have our reputations to think of. in reply to AgnessMack #
• @Crf001 I'm a broken record on this but those of us who lived through 1975 find it hard to take those claims seriously. in reply to Crf001 #
• @LeslieCannold Little news. Many pieces overly technical/obscure. Editorials juvenile. Growing pomposity (eg the My Ideal Budget pieces). in reply to LeslieCannold #
• @LeslieCannold It's a lot of money just to read Keane! in reply to LeslieCannold #
• @LeslieCannold And then there's my monthly debited donation to New Matilda, a website I almost never look at anymore for similar reasons. in reply to LeslieCannold #
• @RicRaftis One brief, unpaid, unsolicited contribution some years ago. in reply to RicRaftis #
• @Crf001 Indeed. Evatt's book is one of the best on the early period. Some staggering stories of skulduggery. in reply to Crf001 #
• 1.5 million missing voters: http://t.co/ylqccOv9 – AEC's 'Count Me In' campaign. An average of 13,000/seat missing in Qld. #
• And this is why Twitter shits me these days. Even a simple tweet about an AEC enrolment campaign brings out the conspiracy theorists. #
• Fruitcakes as far as the eye can see. #
• Yes, I can believe electoral corruption is the only reason for Campbell Newman's victory… #
• @LindaWhiteASU It's worse then – that's when all the bloody journalists are around… in reply to LindaWhiteASU #
• RT @democracyATwork: it's not a conspiracy it is a fact. Count..2007 ballot exclude all candidates except last 7. Ignorance is your problem #
• @SydWalker They make it pretty clear that they never fine people for that. in reply to SydWalker #
• @LindaWhiteASU …Mmm, there is some research on this somewhere. in reply to LindaWhiteASU #
• @preciouspress We'll both be decades dead when that happens… in reply to preciouspress #
• The Assange decision wasn't the only interesting 5-2 decision today: http://t.co/49X5zPtJ – Heydon dissenting as usual. #

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• IR in the real world: http://t.co/gzVAZkO1 #
• Anyone know who was editor of the Sunday Herald-Sun in June 1993? #
• @NeilMcMahon @Sparts1 @pjlogue Thanks – I was just wondering who was responsible for this: http://t.co/xuUnSPJG #
• The Mabo decision is 20 years old next Sunday. It wasn't held in such high regard back then: http://t.co/xuUnSPJG #
• @Gump5000 So many things to panic about but so little time. in reply to Gump5000 #
• @pjlogue He was definitely on the weekday edition but maybe not Sunday. in reply to pjlogue #

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• We've never had it so good. #
• And we've never been patronised so much. #
• @maxcelcat It's the chooks doing the patronising now. in reply to maxcelcat #
• @zackster We are the 25%. in reply to zackster #
• @Colvinius I do miss the old crook. in reply to Colvinius #
• Four Years Of Failed Promises: http://t.co/Wefire5O – New Zealand Labour Party ad #
• Dickens is almost always an option on the Year 12 English reading list in Victoria. http://t.co/bppIlWll #qanda #
• @monsoontrader Breadth matters. But VCE English requires at least one work to be Australian. Read the link. in reply to monsoontrader #
• @rharris334 I was teaching Great Expectations & Hard Times in those years. It's all down to choices within schools from a prescribed list. in reply to rharris334 #
• @prestontowers True. in reply to prestontowers #
• @monsoontrader They can decide what they read but not necessarily what they study… in reply to monsoontrader #
• @rharris334 They probably chose works they thought were more "accessible" … in reply to rharris334 #

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• A bizarre Sunday night conversation outside a convenience store. An (almost) perfect stranger approaches me: "Why don't you tweet anymore?" #
• "But I tweeted about 10 times last night," I say, reflexively adopting a defensive posture. #
• "Oh, I didn't look last night." #
• I will keep my promise but you know you are. #
• Remember what Rumpole said about listening to Wagner? #
• @sdampf It's somewhat unsettling. in reply to sdampf #
• @Tzarimas Greetings. in reply to Tzarimas #
• @JordanPolitics That's next, if I can't work out what to do with Pinterest. in reply to JordanPolitics #
• @Tzarimas But I hear you nearly every day. It's as if you're with me always. in reply to Tzarimas #
• @Tzarimas @bluntshovels It's all right, it's like the ABC – no-one's listening. in reply to Tzarimas #

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• The media was so much more civil back then: http://t.co/sLL13Qms #
• No-one could communicate back then, either. Except for Bob. http://t.co/KLX9LFre #
• @lapuntadelfin There's nothing new, whatever they say. in reply to lapuntadelfin #
• And those pesky ex-leaders just wouldn't shut up: http://t.co/o6Dc3OL6 #
• @Captainsuburbia Appointed by Frank Crean, reappointed by John Howard. http://t.co/t3qanWo8 in reply to Captainsuburbia #
• Amonst other things, nutty Queenslanders were worried we couldn't stop the boats: http://t.co/Vx8SnSyR #
• And whatever happened to the Gestapo? http://t.co/KAOGIYtG #
• Even the commentary has the same ring about it: http://t.co/DSfkuWe5 #
• And look what they wasted our money on: http://t.co/d1Pt4Ziy #
• @zackster To paraphrase Gough's errant words about Kerr: "Comrade, they wouldn't have the guts." in reply to zackster #
• Mind you, the most interesting figure here is the 482,576 daily sales: http://t.co/d1Pt4Ziy #
• @zackster Craig is innocent, I can feel it in my bones… in reply to zackster #
• @NeilMcMahon And I don't remember them giving it away back in those days. in reply to NeilMcMahon #
• @zackster Of course. That nice Mr. Slipper wouldn't do anything untoward. in reply to zackster #

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