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Chess without pieces : Comments

By Bruce Haigh, published 24/2/2011

Australian politicians are all pawns, without the gumption to even make it to the other end of the board and become queens.

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The analogy with chess is a faulty one. A male Australian politician with desires to be a queen would be dismissed by the Australian electorate. The part of the Australian electorate that favours monarchy already has a queen, and the homophobic part of the electorate are unhappy with the queens we have.

However, since Mr. Haigh never made any explicit connection between the title 'Chess without Pieces' and any content in the article I still wonder at the title.

I agree with the content of the article and share his opinion that Gillard and Abbott are both inadequate but would still like to know the reason for the title of the article.
Posted by david f, Thursday, 24 February 2011 9:32:47 AM
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Give up on that diet of pawn David, slip down to Louie-on-the-Loo for a Great Big Serve of Raw Prawn.
Posted by Wakatak, Thursday, 24 February 2011 10:13:36 AM
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Dear Wakatak,

My wife likes prawn. Don't like it myself. Heard about the man who had panties tattooed on his chest. He wanted a chest of drawers.

Think we might do better rather than have elections to draw our pollies by lot from the part of the population who were literate.
Posted by david f, Thursday, 24 February 2011 10:36:54 AM
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Well Brucey.

There was the chance of Abbott and Costello but
Punch and Julie will have to do.

Abbott looks like the type to throttle his fellow man if he could get away with it. His reputation as a man who distrusts that half of humanity barred from rising to his priesthood is notorious.

This guy saw One Nation as muscling into his rightwing Liberal heartland, hence:

"In 1998, Abbott established a trust fund called "Australians for Honest Politics Trust" to help bankroll civil court cases against the One Nation party and its founders, Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge.[39] Prosecution ultimately resulted in Hanson & Ettridge being imprisoned.[40] The conviction against Hanson was ultimately overturned, leading to criticism of a range of politicians for political interference by the adjudicating justice." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott

Abbott is demonstrably unhappy having women as senior politicians, even if members of his own party. So far he has been frustrated in attempts to send down Julie Bishop but has succeeded in doing away with Dr Sharman Stone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharman_Stone

Meetcha in the Gulag Brucey - once Il Duce* rises to power.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duce connects Abbott with the National Civic Council's prophet Santamaria who was oddly impressed with Mussolini.

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:23:23 AM
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TA comes across as an imperfect human being, who was at least honest enough to admit that many politicians talk "bovine excrement".

The Communists, trying to discredit his "budgie smugglers" only served to remind us, he is a "VOLUNTEER" "Surf Lifesaver".

Attacks on his parental advice, only proved that he is the loving father of 3 lovely daughters.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11663#199309

Pete, i will grant you that many people have NOT forgotten about what he did to Pauline, but even that, could not have been done without the connivance of the Red/green, getup, GAYLP, Socialist Alliance & even the Australian Democrats.

Every politician, journalist, academic & bureaucrook got in the act of branding her a racist, kicking her while she was down & all because she had the courage to say what 90% of the Australian public believed. Even though they were too afraid of the Politically Correct, Thought Police to say it.

The election was stolen for the GAYLP by

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

who conned many disgruntled ex labour voters into leaving their ballots blank. They did not want to vote for the Red/greens or Socialist Alliance, or they would have.

If he had told those people to vote for other minor parties & independents we would, have had a result & i can guarantee you that at least 60% or more, of those voters would have preferenced the Conservatives.

BTW, Pete try looking at GAYLP policy circa 1930's, i defy you to find any significant differences between them & the allegedly evil fascists. White Australia policy, the great depression was engineered by Jewish bankers, lets nationalise them, social credit, you name it, the GAYLP was a Nationalist party until it was taken over by Communists in the 1970's & became an "inter" nationalist party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Campbell_(politician) is still remembered by many ex labour voters & swinging voters.

Australia First http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/index.html

&/or the DLP http://www.dlp.org.au/

&/or http://www.democrats.org.au/ will do well in future.

This year pressure on non communists in the GAYLP, like Rudd will grow to the point where they resign, join one of these minor parties & preference the conservatives over Communism.
Posted by Formersnag, Thursday, 24 February 2011 4:14:34 PM
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