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I'm sure I saw a thread here sometime ago, but can't find it, so will ask the question here:

Does anyone know of a good pub in Melbourne, Australia to watch Adelaide Crows matches in?
 
Mr_Smooth said:
adelaidenow are now behind a paywall... :mad:
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Good luck with that. In a city where people object to paying for parking, who is going to pay to read that load of filth?

The comments section was always good for a laugh though.
 
If you want to read them you can usually copy the title into google and view it from another states paper, it used to be cached into google for the Herald Sun but they have since fixed that up.
 
dylan123 said:
If you want to read them you can usually copy the title into google and view it from another states paper, it used to be cached into google for the Herald Sun but they have since fixed that up.
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unfortunately, all the news corp websites are now adopting the paywall

stabby's idea has some merit though
 
cmndstab said:
Might be a good time for a budding entrepreneur to start up a new online newspaper site since a whole bunch of web users are about to stop viewing Adelaidenow.
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InDaily has somewhat done this. Not a bad site.

The ABC and Sky News local pages will also provide good local stories for free. The ABC even have an app, but the local feed defaults to ACT for some reason, even though it's supposed to be based on your location.

For national/world news, I've been using The Guardian since they set up shop here, which is a brilliant site. Their sport section, while small, has some great articles, and I hope they expand on this in future.

Is Fox Sports still free, or is that going pay wall too?

In essence, plenty of free alternatives out there.

The pay wall is somewhat liberating as it's given me the motivation to pretty much stop reading AdelaideNow...
 

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David Penberthy: chief Murdoch minion at the Advertiser said:
If you value news, as most people do, you have to be prepared to pay a small amount for it. Otherwise, news organisations will not survive.
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David, seeing as you've sacked all your subeditors, I've fixed this for you:

If you value news, as most people do, you weren't reading The Advertiser anyway.
 
Out with the old, in with the new and now back to the old.

Kevin is in, Julia is out.

PM vote with a 57 to 45 vote.
 
cmndstab said:
It really doesn't do much for the credibility of the government when they have three (or is it four now?) internal challenges during one term of leadership. Geez.

Welcome back Kevin 07.
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Can someone please explain the popularity of Krudd? Have the voters all forgotten the sheer incompetence he demonstrated during his first stint as PM? Have they forgotten that the ALP had no choice but to replace him because the public had lost faith due to the realisation that he was all spin and no substance? Is his popularity purely down to the martyr complex? What makes them think he'll be any better the 2nd time around?

Gillard failed dismally in connecting with the people, but she was a hell of a lot better at getting things done than Krudd. Krudd achieved nothing in his previous stint as PM, other than spinning so fast that he dropped everything he was attempting to juggle. At least Gillard has substance, Krudd has nothing but spin.

I rate Krudd as the worst PM of my lifetime. Julia is probably the 2nd worst, but distinctly better than Krudd. That says a lot, considering that I tend well to the left when voting - I loathed Howard with a passion and cannot think of anyone worse than Abbott to rule the country. We've had 7 PMs in my lifetime - 5 Labour & 2 Libs. Krudd & Julia are a clear 6th & 7th on that ladder.
 
Vader said:
Can someone please explain the popularity of Krudd? Have the voters all forgotten the sheer incompetence he demonstrated during his first stint as PM? Have they forgotten that the ALP had no choice but to replace him because the public had lost faith due to the realisation that he was all spin and no substance? Is his popularity purely down to the martyr complex? What makes them think he'll be any better the 2nd time around?

Gillard failed dismally in connecting with the people, but she was a hell of a lot better at getting things done than Krudd. Krudd achieved nothing in his previous stint as PM, other than spinning so fast that he dropped everything he was attempting to juggle. At least Gillard has substance, Krudd has nothing but spin.

I rate Krudd as the worst PM of my lifetime. Julia is probably the 2nd worst, but distinctly better than Krudd. That says a lot, considering that I tend well to the left when voting - I loathed Howard with a passion and cannot think of anyone worse than Abbott to rule the country. We've had 7 PMs in my lifetime - 5 Labour & 2 Libs. Krudd & Julia are a clear 6th & 7th on that ladder.
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In my opinion, it's entirely due to Abbott being shit. If the Libs had a half decent leader, labor wouldn't even need to show up for the election.

Discounting past failures, when you put Krudd up against Abbott, people (who for some reason have stupidly short memories) will vote for Krudd.
 

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Internal party politics, promising things that were never going to happen (Budget surplus), lack of personality, monotone in interviews are the reasons Labor are where they are.

Policy wise, they've done a pretty good job, but they haven't be able to sell any of their achievements.

Hopefully Ruddy can get them to a win (which still seems highly unlikely), as I despise Abbott. If it was a Turnball led opposition, I don't think I'd be too concerned.
 
Vader said:
Can someone please explain the popularity of Krudd? Have the voters all forgotten the sheer incompetence he demonstrated during his first stint as PM?
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Pretty much this is it, yeah. People in general love it when something they don't like changes. It doesn't really matter whether it changes to something better or not, they just love a change.

Whether the time that passes between now and the election is enough to allow people to remember why Rudd was unpopular to begin with is another question.
 
Rudd's biggest issue was not following through with the ETS. If they had held their guns on that things would be much difference. That lack of political courage flowed through to the mining tax and almost every other policy decision since. Hopefully Rudd can limit the damage so that Abbott doesn' thave it all his own way. Abbott in contorl of the senate would be very scary.
 
hdecure said:
Internal party politics, promising things that were never going to happen (Budget surplus), lack of personality, monotone in interviews are the reasons Labor are where they are.

Policy wise, they've done a pretty good job, but they haven't be able to sell any of their achievements.

Hopefully Ruddy can get them to a win (which still seems highly unlikely), as I despise Abbott. If it was a Turnball led opposition, I don't think I'd be too concerned.
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Hockey for mine.

The big problem, IMO, is how Labor will be able to fill the bench :eek: 25 resignations! History in the making?
 

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