Cave Hermits Union of Australia  ~Newsletter Journals~

February 1998

1998 February 1, Sunday, 21:32

Forget Conciliation And Arbitration, Just Bring In The Stormtroopers, Wiping Out Unions Is A Form Of Cultural Genocide

Get Together And Say Unless You Pay Us Fairly, So We Can Live Decently, We Wont Allow Anyone To Work For You

Killing Off The Union Power Is An Obsession With This Bossy Class Of People, It's Like A Religious Crusade, 'Twas Ever Thus...

A New Code Of Conduct Being Put About By The Bosses Of Competition, Countries Who Sign Up To It Lose Their Autonomy

What If Those Atlantic Currents Start Doing El Nino Flip Flops, A New Pattern In The Atlantic, And Freeze Europe...

1998 February 2, Monday, 09:55

The Little Apology For A PM Opens Up The ConCon Laying Down What He Wants To Do Anyway, Regardless

A Selection Of Humanity With Opposing Views, Ostensibly Intelligent But Following Different Logics...

Every Time They Play Up They Get Smacked... The New World Discipline...

A Push Polling Question, Do You Want To Vote For The President?

1998 February 3, Tuesday, 20:40

He Commands A Huge Swag Of Votes, He Has The Public Support He Tells Them

A Landslide Then For Malcolm, With Paul Keating As His Vice President And Then Two Wimmin

Internet, And In The Opinion Polls, And Instead Of Voting At The Booths, It's Who Wins The Opinion Polls, The Inevitable President

Who Is That Mysterious Guest You Invite In Every Night To Watch And Listen To?

He'd Be A King Or She'd Be A Queen, Nothing Like Turning Back The Clock...

1998 February 4, Wednesday, 10:23

Thinking On Patriotic Flags And Symbols And The ConCon Designing A President

Having The Power In The House Then Is What We Have Here In Australia All Flattened Out At The Top, Like Uhlaroo...

The Party System Underpins Those At The Top

So Uhlaroo Symbolises A Picture Of That Heap Of Aussie Humanity

This Flag's Even Simpler, The Golden Rock In The Middle Of A Green Australia... Make A Good Story For The Kiddies...

Could Be Official Commemorative Flags With Emblems For Different Events

The Green And Gold Uhlaroo Flag, And As Well They Can Have An Official Commemorative Flag To Clutch To Their Heart...

ConCon Is Suffering From Information Overload, Lost Sheep, Then Along Comes Gareth And The Resolutions Committee...

Prayer Doesn't Work For The Umpteenth Time

1998 February 4, Wednesday, 14:30

Discontent Would Gravitate To The Reserve Power For Consideration

Dismissal By House Majority... No Joint Sitting, And Let The Power Wielders Wear It In The Democracy Of The Next Election...

Putting Of Names Forward For President, The Scrutiny That Would Be Applied

Would Take A Lot Of Convincing Away From The ARM...

The Statuesque Aboriginal Lois O'Donohue Lecturing The Cross-Section Of Australia On Their Behaviour And The Theatrics

Lois O'Donohue's Wish To Be Recognised, And A Respectful Prologue With Acknowledgment Of Aboriginal Habitation

Only In The Senate Chamber The Greens Get A Decent Voice... Consultative Endless Tinkering, She Says It's Hopeless

Christine Greenie Milne Lamented Losing A Wonderful Opportunity To Renew All Our Attitudes, And Be A Model To The World...

1998 February 5, Thursday, 13:15

A Biased Judgment Against You... What Do You Do? Appeal To The Next Unstacked High Court?

Another Model, A Spirit Of Compromise

1998 February 5, Thursday, 19:42

One Option Only And The Words As Recommended By The ConCon

Uncharted Waters, Having This Capital C On The High Court Make His Own Decision To Qualify Himself?

The New Century And The Monster Of The Media, The Little Stacker Of The Decks Putting Cronyism On Our ABC, Board...

1998 February 5, Thursday, 22:13

Someone Who Never Opens The Bottle Of The Royal Prerogative, The Reserve Powers, It's Like A Genie

Everyone On The Same Level, They Draw Lines In The Rock, The Ground-Rules... They Have Several Circles

What They Told The Old Royals Through History? Go Ponce About But Don't Ever Tread On Anyone's Toes In The Political Lines

Without The Boss Up There In Head Office, They Got Together To Govern, From Amongst Themselves

1998 February 6, Friday, 13:42

Being Typically Yobbo Australian, Like Those Two Characters Up In The Box In The Moppet Theartre...

The Extremist Voice That Catches The Attention And Disturbs The Peace...

Barry Jones, To Refocus The Debate At One Point Says, Hey, We're All Ethnic...

We All Did What We Did To The Missing Neanderthals, So We All Have A Murky Past, And We Are All Truly Ethnic

Need To Be Specially Treated

That Word God In The Preamble, And Proud Atheists In The Face Of These Mad Godlies... Perhaps In Lower Case?

1998 February 6, Friday, 19:46

The Persuasion Game In Drawing Out The Consequences, What Then? Ask The Questions They Find The Answers To

The Young Woman Stood Up And Admonished The Bruce And Alf Moppets, Everyone Admonished Them, So What Do They Represent?

Airing, Honing, Bending, Hammering And Ear-Bashing An Idea Into Shape... Constitutional Change On A Massive Scale...

1998 February 7, Saturday, 20:23

Snow At Nagano For The Winter Olympics Kick Off, Was Magic Kingdom Stuff, Being A Sucker For Patriotism

That Muppet Reference At The Concon, Dear Oh Dear, If That Ain't Just What Houie And I do

1998 February 8, Sunday, 14:29

President Bill Clinton Asking The Little Apology For A PM To Declare Another War On Iraq, To Remove The Threat

Parliament, All Equally Elected, Far Better Way To Go, Australia Should Be The Model For The World,

Our Country Is Run By A House Of Representatives, The USA Is Run By A Royal King And Queen...

The Irony Of All Ironies From The Aussie Public Opinion Polls Is The Model Of Direct Election Getting Monarchical Power Back

1998 February 9, Monday, 09:33

The USA Was Formed By Europeans Escaping The Monarchies And Papacies

To Lose The Best Prime Minister Ever, Paul Keating, Was Due To The Aussie Power In The House System

1998 February 9, Monday, 21:31

Like With The Dismissal, Where Fate Brought Politics Up, And People Took Sides On Things, Wasn't That Don's Party?

3 People To Choose Between, So One Would Be Labor, And One Would Be Tory Conservative, And One Would Be A Greeny

So I am Over The Other Side Of The Generation Gap, Jeeesus... Who Would Have Thought It...

Cutting Ribbons Is Rubbing Shoulders With The Establishments All Over The World, Trade Fairs And Corruption Attempts

1998 February 10, Tuesday, 08:05

Three Candidates With A String Of Ands And Ors And Points, The Design Where You Add Another Twist For Every Turn...

Today Will Be The Day Of Acrimony Again At The Concon, The Timetable Is Squeezing Out The Direct Election

1998 February 10, Tuesday, 19:48

The Little-Chief-Of-War-For-All-Of-Us Tells The Commander In Chief, The Governor-General Sir William Deane, What To Do

A Broader Support? No? Bad Luck Indeed, There Is No God, Another One For The Unanswered Prayer Pile...

The Committee, And The Voting Bypass, Like Sheep Through The Gates...

Tactical Voting... So The Monarchists Have To Decide Whether To Support One Of The Models Or None, Stay Out Of It...

The Power Blocks Will Be Discussing Things, Eyeballing It Out

1998 February 11, Wednesday, 14:22

Voicing The Cultural-Diversity, Doing The ConCon And Dancing...

What Makes This Place Have A Soul That Worries About What's Best As Well As What Would Be Nice..

Following The Long Established Practice Of Doing Up The Bosses Office, As Time Goes By

The Consensus Of State Has Arrived, The Moment When The Signatures Were Read Out, The Aussie Cross-Section Was There

The Bi-Partizan Turnbull/Keating Model... Congratulations Boyos, It's Spot On, Simply The Best...

It's Still Australia But Has Just Renewed It's Soul And Values And Matured And Faced Reality

1998 February 11, Wednesday, 19:12

Stirred The Dragon, And The Union Movement Will Raise Up Now And Spread, Capitalism Needs Some Competition...

So Now It Will Be We The People Instead Of Whereas The Queen, Good On Ya Gareth, Ha...

There Was Someone Putting Atheists Down, Well Atheists Are Stuck For Words...

The Preamble Is For The Values We Argue About Socially, In School, In The Village Malls, It Should Be In There

Was Ludicrous Said Malcolm, Was Putting The Flag On Trial Before There Was Even A Challenger...

Will You Stay As Our Queen In Queensland? And She Says I Only Act On The Advice Of My Prime Minister Tony Blair, So Ask Him

The Bi-Partizan Model Pops Up... So We Have Sheep... Being Conciliatory But Look What They've Done To The Countryside

1998 February 12, Thursday, 20:03

The Holy Grail Genie In The Bottle Will Be "Incorporated By Reference" Or "Continue To Exist"

The Little PM Has Insisted On A Furfy Vote Within The Convention? The Model Against The Status Quo... Why?

All In One In On These Big Things...

1998 February 13, Friday, 10:58

The Diversity Discloses The Adversity So Close To Home... There Were A Lot Of Strange Bedfellows So To Speak...

Speeches Ran On Into One Another, All The Colours And Hues And Smudges, 'Twas All: I Believe Dah De Dah De Dah

My Choice For King And Queen Of The ConCon Were Malcolm Turnbull And Christine Milne

A Little Bit Of Power Thrust Down On The Ground From The Big House To Thrash Around With

The Clear Majority Is Based On Abstentions But The Little PM Accepts It To Be Put...

1998 February 13, Friday, 21:06

Patriotic Lumps In Throats Got To Everybody, A Sense Of Achievement And Happiness And Pride

1998 February 14, Saturday, 06:31

Soak Up A Bit Of World After The Confinement Of The Concon Giving Birth To The Baby Republic...

1998 February 15, Sunday, 08:56

At The Phony Cricket Played For Grudging Appearances, There Was The Sight Of Dog's Balls Being Hit For Six, So Should He Be...

1998 February 16, Monday, 12:17

The Shopkeepers Are Scapegoated And The Rich Families Are Pushing It To Deflect The Responsibility

In Iraq, The Prospects Are For Clouds Of Gas And Anthrax Drifting About And The Capital Laid Waste With Atom Bombs

Another Stuff Up, They Want To Tax The Poor More, And The Rich Less, And What Tax Are Globals Paying? Bugger All... Tax Them!

The Skim Of Ideas Off The Top Of The Head? Knee-jerk, Reflex Reactions To Simplistic Propositions They Ask

No One Screamed In The Streets For Downsizing And Competition And Dumping Cheap Imports On Our Businesses

1998 February 17, Tuesday, 08:07

Beautiful Golden Sun And Crisp Air, The Day The Aussies Leave For The Theatre Of War, Hoping For A Good Show

1998 February 17, Tuesday, 19:16

The Bush Has Done Miracles In Recovery, So Many Small Lives Soaking Up The Rains And Sun

1998 February 18, Wednesday, 18:15

Another Walk, Beautiful Day, So Tired So Sore, Jeeesus All This New Life Around

A Billion And A Half Profit From Telstra, It Should Be National Income, Now It's Going Into Private Pockets

Why Aren't Minerals Part Of The National Estate? Mines Ought To Be Nationalised Too

A Promotion For Dog, More Like Dog's Droppings, What A Load Of Baloney That Was

The Rich Pay Less Income Tax While The Public Pay More Tax On Their Council Rates, Electricity, Gas, Schooling, Childcare, Petrol, Their Purchases In General, And All Their Services, Etc, Etc...

A Small Percentage Collected By Computers On Every Bank Withdrawal Has A Charm

Wipe Out The Whole Taxation Industry Overnight, Well Why Not? A Simplistically Appealing Idea, Complexity Thrivers Would Hate

Subsidising The Not So Sure-Bet-Jeff's Casino In The Wonderful Melbourne, And Dish Money Out To Sweetheart Projects

See Saddam Pat Little Kofi On The Head And Smile While He Threatens Something Ridiculous..

1998 February 19, Thursday, 15:38

Cleaning Up The Mess, In Queensland They'll Be Better Off With Labor Than Those Cronyistic Cretins

Kerry Kennel Dragged Out Some Numerology, Shades Of Nancy Reagan, To Do Little Winston's Plus 15% Horror Scope

Electricity On The Block In South Australia, That Olsen Character, Was He In The Adam's Family?

1998 February 20, Friday, 12:28

Seems Adolf Was A Lazy Bugger Who Slept In And Did Nothing But Talk And Waffle

They Are Asking For Phone-Ins Now, Spose Anyone Can Expect To Have A Camera In Their Face Instead Of A Gun...

The Same Racist Flame As Always Is To Have The Native Title Petrol Chucked On It, The Wick To Be Lit

If The Pro-Lifers Are Handed Over These Babies To Look After They Would Claim They Haven't The Resources Either

No One Likes Others Interfering With Their Most Personal Inwardly Held Grievances And Despairing Decisions

Dignity From Honest Contribution Of A Persons Time And Talents, And The Only Way Is Unionised Lifetime Security

Workplaces And Why The Abysmal Attitudes... A Little Bit More To Imagine...

Live In The Richest Caringest Sharingest Good Life, Cradle To Grave Welfare, The Socialist Life That We Were Heading For...

Painters And Dockers, The Desperate Workers Of The Not So Golden Olden Days Of Wharfie Wars

Time Waves Will Carry The Iraqi War III Out Into The Universal Vastness On The Photons Of Light

1998 February 23, Monday, 09:51

Enjoy The Defrosted Freezers, Get Fit Running Up Fire Stairs, Press Your Nose Up Against Automatic Doors

Some New Neighbours To Lap Up The Corporate Rip-Off Good-Life In The Swanky Self-Congratulatory World Of Failed Bosses

Let There Be Light The Private Management Said, Light Fingers In The Till And Stuff The Public, What A Turn-Off...

Don't Blame Us, We're Just The Right Wing Style Small Government Who've Ducked All Responsibility

1998 February 24, Tuesday, 19:05

That Infrastructure Of The Nation That's Going, The Bones And Flesh And Blood Of A Loving Living Creature With Soul

This Heritage Fund Is Used Buy The Sydney Harbour Foreshores Off Themselves, What On Earth Is Going On

Who Is Still Smirking? The Little Bigoted Twit For One, And So Is That Idiot Dog

Close To The Hallowed Halls Of Power And Politics, All The Shops And Infrastructure, Parks And Bike Paths, Cooler Celtic Weather

1998 February 25, Wednesday, 11:11

Murder Becomes The Option, Kill Off The Competition Is The Order Of The Competitive Day

Lowering The Taxation On Casino Losses, Never Mind The Legitimate Business Out There In The Real World

Some Things Are Done For The Duty To Public Life, There's Some Things Done For Profit

Speaking Of Voices And The High Priests Of Media

Insist On Collective Wishes, The Power Comes From Being In A Union, You Get Together To Be Stronger

The Undermining Of Science Brought Into The Light, As It Drowns In A Sea Of Privatised Education And Lack Of Brains

1998 February 25, Wednesday, 22:35

Gone Into The Black Now, 82 Years, Created A Stir In The Big Pictures Did Bob Santamaria, Can't Help Liking That Man...

Bob Says Labor Has Lost It's Constituency, Has To Scuttle The Eco Rat Theory... Pump Priming To Absorb The Unemployed

1998 February 26, Thursday, 12:41

Driven By That Nagging Caring, And Steering A Middle Course Between The Capital S Systems

Lately He Put It So Well, The Horrors Of Globalisation, But, He Was Too Intolerant Of The Impurities Of Human Nature

1998 February 26, Thursday, 20:11

Whether We Can Make Detrimental Laws Like They Did In Nuremberg And Sth Africa, And Once Before In Australia

Free Trade Wins? Best For Whom? Some Place Where They Work For The Least Possible

1998 February 28, Saturday, 15:11

Back To The Farm And Vegetable Gardens, A Noble Aspiration By Any Measure Anyway

1998 February 28, Saturday, 23:28

Facing Fears of Mortality, Don't Work You're Wasting Your Time

The Universe Knows

Another Stage Of Possible Intelligence, If Only We All Took That Step And Smartened Up...

The Universe Lives Belief, It's Only A Belief, But If It Lives It Fits

What About That Flirty Devil-May-Care Attitude To Have

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