julia gillard

Flotsam & Jetsam

Please Watch This Taiwanese Animation of The Australian Election

10:28AM Jess McGuire | Loads of people went crazy for this video on Saturday, but on the off chance you haven’t seen this animated Taiwanese wrap up of the Australian election, brace yourself for one minute and thirty six seconds of extremely hilarious stuff. More »
Online

Twitter Update Of The Day

2:33PM Jess McGuire | Today’s Twitter Update Of The Day comes from the always excellent @dailydoseofjess. It concerns Julia Gillard, and pashing. Intrigued? More »
Print

This Sounds Like An Extremely Entertaining Edition Of Woman’s Day

9:53AM Jess McGuire | Every Monday morning, the nice people at Woman’s Day send me an email telling me what the current week’s issue contains. [Note to New Idea: Perhaps consider doing something similar?] I am actually rather tempted to duck out and purchase the latest Woman’s Day simply due to the following: More »
Online

Two Excellent Election Related One Liners

1:23PM Jess McGuire | The first of the two excellent election related one liners comes from writer slash World Cup correspondent for SBS slash former breakfast radio host Tony Wilson. The second is the work of writer slash comedian slash broadcaster Tony Martin. Coincidentally, these two chaps occasionally join forces on air at RRR over the summer holiday period to become a mind-blowing wit machine that goes by the name The Two Tones. More »
Online

Twitter Update Of The Day

1:18PM Jess McGuire | ATTENTION JULIA GILLARD – please pay close attention to the following Twitter update from Tom Dickins. You could learn something. More »
Music

ABBA – “Dancing Queen”

8:29AM Jess McGuire | Here is a clip of ABBA’s Dancing Queen. The visuals are taken from a party where “ABBA donned traditional 18th Century costumes when they first performed this song for King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden the night before he was married to Silvia Sommerlath on 18/06/1976″. Sounds like a top night out! More »
Online

Twitter Update Of The Day

4:21PM Jess McGuire | Thank you, writer and comedian Daniel Burt, for your rather succinct assessment of the (NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT BECAUSE THAT’S VERY BAD) public debate about asylum seekers that is currently dominating the Australian media. More »

Twitter Update Of The Day

11:49AM Jess McGuire | Way to perfectly use 140 characters to get an important message across, musician Holly Throsby! Here’s her response to the news that Julia Gillard doesn’t support gay marriage. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Julia Gillard Becomes Australia’s First Female Prime Minister

5:17PM Max Read | Australia has a new prime minister. A woman prime minister! Her name is Julia Gillard.