The Abbotts separated

[BORK]

The situation seems quite plausible. Guessing the Peta Credlin part is bullshit though.

 

[telsor]

I'm not sure you get much of that listening to your local ABC station.

Sure....

 

[telsor]

The situation seems quite plausible. Guessing the Peta Credlin part is bullshit though.

It's there is an Abbott smear, you can bet they'll connect Credlin to it somehow.

 

[telsor]

BTW...people complaining about the media cover up...

How long did Hawke 'stay' with Hazel while actually with Blanche?

How widely was that reported?

 

[smokingjacket]

BTW...people complaining about the media cover up...

How long did Hawke 'stay' with Hazel while actually with Blanche?

How widely was that reported?

Pre-internet and 24 Hour news cycle with associated content demand.

Apple juice and apple drink.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Seems weak for the media not to report it given he relentlessly promoted himself as a family man for 4 years. Don't need personal information, but their being apart is public interest.

If the Credlin part was true that would surely get reported... Unless the Liberal dirt unit has stuff on all the Canberra journos (like a scene in The Thick of It where Malcolm kills a story by threatening to tell the editor's wife about a one night stand).

 

[The Coup]

Why be part of the problem?

How is resolving the problem being a part of it?

 

[telsor]

Pre-internet and 24 Hour news cycle with associated content demand.

Apple juice and apple drink.

How new do you think the Internet is? I was certainly on it back then.

 

[Richard Pryor]

How new do you think the Internet is? I was certainly on it back then.

Internet of the early 90's =/= internet of today by any stretch.

 

[telsor]

Internet of the early 90's =/= internet of today by any stretch.

True, but people trying to justify the media releasing information that is nobodies business (so long as it doesn't affect job performance) on the net/24hr news are being petty.

 

[Richard Pryor]

True, but people trying to justify the media releasing information that is nobodies business (so long as it doesn't affect job performance) on the net/24hr news are being petty.

Not justified ethically no, but if we had the round the clock coverage back then, the same thing would have happened to Hawke. (and probably JFK).

 

[smokingjacket]

What ^ said.

 

[blackcat]

I'd heard the same rumours. Whilst it is a personal matter the fact that he has used the who basis of the family unit of a male & female parent being required to raise children against the same-sex marriage and paraded his children out everywhere during the election campaign does make his personal relationship soemthing that can be debated in the public domain.

It is though worth noting that Bob Hawke's marriage was a sham before he entered federal politics. Both he and Hazel (she's not the saint some would have you believe) had lovers on the side for a large portion of their marriage. Of our last 6 PMs only 2 have had what could be called strong long term realtionships/marriages that are required to stand the rigors of political life, in Howard and Rudd.

rudd like his cuddles and iced vovos and nights a spearment rhino in manhattan
mebbe prue? or was this a whispering campaign?

 

[blackcat]

Why be part of the problem?

did PJK just like cuckoo clocks and classical music and geoffrey tozer, or was there more to his likes? I heard PJK might have not been the pantsman of the tradition of Hawkie

 

[blackcat]

I'd heard the same rumours. Whilst it is a personal matter the fact that he has used the who basis of the family unit of a male & female parent being required to raise children against the same-sex marriage and paraded his children out everywhere during the election campaign does make his personal relationship soemthing that can be debated in the public domain.

It is though worth noting that Bob Hawke's marriage was a sham before he entered federal politics. Both he and Hazel (she's not the saint some would have you believe) had lovers on the side for a large portion of their marriage. Of our last 6 PMs only 2 have had what could be called strong long term realtionships/marriages that are required to stand the rigors of political life, in Howard and Rudd.

has anybody thought about the kids! loughnane

 

[blackcat]

Peta Credlin.

oh man, the ironies, the ironies.

be the funnies if Abbott can knock up his COS when she is on IVF cos he could not have even knocked up his housemate and the out of wedlock sound recordist on the ABC and dont tell me that him slashing the ABC budget is not to rid himself of the scourge of not being able to knock up his housemate at university.

loughnane is the colac cuckold and i dont usually like alliteration but thats not bad - adam zwar

 

[The Coup]

The situation seems quite plausible. Guessing the Peta Credlin part is bullshit though.

Yeah she's with Brian Loughnane the hopefully soon to be jailed federal leader of the LNP.

 

[clogged]

Internet of the early 90's =/= internet of today by any stretch.

Also Hawke was PM in the 80s, and his infidelity was know (he admitted it on TV).

 

[Gough]

did PJK just like cuckoo clocks and classical music and geoffrey tozer, or was there more to his likes? I heard PJK might have not been the pantsman of the tradition of Hawkie

Valentino would have struggled to follow Hawkie in the pantsman stakes.

 

[blackcat]

Also Hawke was PM in the 80s, and his infidelity was know (he admitted it on TV).

when I saw A... Hawke, I freekin thought Alex freekin Hawke and was ready to correct your malapromism, guess it was my brain malapropism, but really that aint a suprise innit

 

[blackcat]

Valentino would have struggled to follow Hawkie in the pantsman stakes.

so you never heard that PJK has a period where he walked light in his loafers?

 

[Gough]

so you never heard that PJK has a period where he walked light in his loafers?

Quite possible I suppose, always thought the young man in question was his son though. The love of Keating's life has always been himself anyway.

 

[clogged]

Quite possible I suppose, always thought the young man in question was his son though. The love of Keating's life has always been himself anyway.

It's pretty tiresome to hear him go on about how great he was. He won one election FFS, by running a scare campaign against a tax he previously supported.

Bob Hawke won four elections. Pretty easy to tell who was the superior politician.

 

[Kynge of Begrem]

It's pretty tiresome to hear him go on about how great he was. He won one election FFS, by running a scare campaign against a tax he previously supported.

Bob Hawke won four elections. Pretty easy to tell who was the superior politician.

Keating carried Hawke, and was responsible for every election win. Just ask him, he'll tell you.

 

[Slax]

Keating carried Hawke, and was responsible for every election win. Just ask him, he'll tell you.

Can I frame this, have some mates who could organise Keating to sign it too.

Thanks for giving me the best laugh I've had in weeks.