SM, there is no point in arguing with a computer.
It just complies with the program algorithms.
It does not have any arguments, it just regurgitates a storage of
phrases. It did a remarkable switch around after the election.
It looks like the Labour Party must expected to lose and had it all
programmed up, you know swap opposition for government etc etc.

Very clever stuff, must have some good programmers there somewhere, or
perhaps Bill negotiated an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft or IBM.
Got some already paid programmers to work for them.

Nahh, not IBM, the NSA would have been all over it.

Poirot, What Shadow is failing to tell you is he is also chief researcher and founding father of the 'Stuff Em' Up Research Company' of Nambuck New South Wales, which just happens to be the geopolitical and geographical center of the universe, as well as the ancestral home of the famous 'Nambuck Dagwood Dog".
From Shadows research it is not only true that 90% of Nambuckens (people from Nambuck, population 3) believe the ABC is bias against Phony Tony, and it will be proved absolutely true once Nambuckens finally do get the dreaded idiot box in their lounge rooms! In the same survey 110% of Nambuckens also believe Shadows research is as phony as Tony!

It must be Boycotting season, Barney boycotted Tony! Yep Barnaby Joyce failed to turn up to Abbotts meet and greet in Barnaby's electorate of New England as Abbott extolled the virtues of the economically and environmentally disastrous Chines Shenhua Watermark coal mine on the Liverpool Plains in the heart of Barney's seat. Joyce is appearing to back the local farmers and townspeople who vehemently oppose the giant open cut Chinese coal mine in their backyard. Barney boycotts Tony!

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/giant-shenhua-watermark-coal-mine-wins-federal-approval-from-environment-minister-greg-hunt-20150708-gi7j65.html

Why, yes indeedy, Paul....never a truer word was spoken.

Poor old Barnaby who is both incompetent and inconsequential in cabinet has been yodelling for the rooftops that "the world has gone mad".

But he's not gonna resign coz someone hinted that he may be Deputy PM material one day.

(Although, I reckon he's got buckley's chance of being able to walk down the main streets of his electorate without attracting several rotten tomatoes, let alone being re-elected)

Note that the announcement to dump a monster coal mine in prime agricultural land was made on the very day Shorten was to appear at TURC - coincidence of course, even if Greggy's document was actually signed on the 4th - the 8th was deemed to be in alignment with Venus and Jupiter who are hanging out together in the night sky of late.

Nambuckens are avid astrologists.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/barnaby-joyce-either-incompetent-or-lacks-influence-in-cabinet-over-coal-mine-approval-labor-20150709-gi8ka0

Hi Poirot,

I can just imagine a government cabinet meeting and the verbal exchange;

Barney; "Tone, I'm mad!"
Tony; "We know that already Barn."
Barney; "No, I'm mad about you."
Tony; "No way Barn, we're not voting for gay marriage."
Barney; " No, I'm talk'n about the coal."
Tony; "Of course its cold, its Canberra in winter time Barn. Don't you know anything?"
Barney; "Nah, Tone the coal, the black stuff,,, in my backyard!"
Tone; "Don't worry about it Barn, we'll get the Chows to dig it up for ya!,,,Joe, how;s the budge go'n?"
Hockey; "disastrous Tone, disastrous."
Tony; "Next item!

Abbott playing into the hands of the Chinese again. With Coal they can-not sell all over the place, wisdom says open another coal mine for luck, and with a long long expiry date, with foreign rulers. That sounds spot on from the present regime.

The ABc has more favorable audience than the liberal talking budgies like to think.
Nothing better than good investigative Journalism.

Paul,

We shouldn't be too hard on Barnaby...after all, he is the minister in charge of shooing Yorkshire Terriers out of the country - and berating pirates.

Not everyone can do that with such aplomb...it takes special kind of blustering and blood pressure to pull it off - a kind of decadence, if you will, to make international headlines on such a topic.

Here's Dave Pope with his latest masterpiece, titled "Tits on a Bull(dozer)" ....referring to the usefulness of Nationals MP's in cahoots with the neoliberal regime of Abbott & Co.

http://twitter.com/davpope/status/619274176780603392