Cave Hermits Union of Australia  ~Newsletter Journals~

May 1998

1998 May 1, Friday, 22:49

Politics In The Pub, Was To Do With The Plight Of Our ABC

Some Chuckling And Heckling Style Remarks Broke Up Some Of The Sombre Moments

A Bloke Who Was The Dead Spit Of Ian Plimer The Geologist, But Turned Out To Be A Punter Going To The Trots

Indiana Jones Look Alike Turns Up, With The Hat And All, After Doing The Picket Lines At Jabiluka

Uranium Side Effects, Those Things On The Other List Of It's Properties

The Coming Set Of Weekly Meetings Looks Pretty Good, They Have Some High Profilers Lined Up For Some Deep Thought

Those Songs I always Sings With Houie, But With Another Set Of Words Entirely

From The Tory Detractors The Swinging Sword Dangles Over All The Necks And A Vasectomy

The Crucial Issue, Maintaining The Independence Of Our ABC

It's Their Nightmare, It Spooks Them, Boo!

Protected From Imports Made In Lower Standards Of Living

The More You See Of Free Trade You Realise It's One Of Those Reverse Meaning Descriptors They Use, It's Really Slave Trade

Guarantee A Fully Funded Independent Untouchable Institution, Like The Judiciary, Who Can Speak Without Fear Or Favour

1998 May 2, Saturday, 07:14

What Ghouls Those Fisher-People Are, Fancy Gloating Over The Death Of A Beautiful Endangered Creature

Paul Mcdermott Of Good News Week's Version Of What? We May Never Meet Again?

The Call From England Chasing Up The Family Tree

Someone Reading Robert d'Bruce, A Little Girl Addict Throwing Up, Two Young Blokes Considered Their Options In Life

1998 May 4, Monday, 14:39

A Complete Slap In The Face For Little Blundering Bully And His Cohort The Clown Wreath, They Just Have To Go

News That The Unions Withstood The Intimidation And Won The Battle In Law And Justice Will Go Around The World

$250m Of Public Money, Dangling As The Carrot To Tempt The Redundancy Takers, Isn't That Money Owed By The Bosses?

Competition Will Only Come When Everyone Has Their Own Union To Belong To

1998 May 5, Tuesday, 13:06

The Tory Conservatives The "So-Called Liberal?" Party Of Queensland, Their Voting Preferences Flow On To Wun Nazi Nation

The Labor Branch Stacking Story, That Is A Terrible Thing

The Euro $, Are All The Little Diverse Communities And Languages And Cultures Going To Go?

Do They Swing These Pendulums Too Far? Too Much Amalgamation Will Make People Feel Stifled

Job For A Surrogate God Could Be Governor Of The Euro Bank

The IMF World Bank Living-On-Self-Interest Banker Comes Along All Smiles With The Toady Treasurer Dog As His Pal

1998 May 6, Wednesday, 13:12

Science Week, The Attitude To Fact, Or Fantasy

They Really Can Mount A Good Union Rally In Melbourne, Fantastic To See The Crowds

Labor Is Going To Pre-Empt The Race Debate With A Population Policy, Get In Early With A Long Term Set Of Ideals

Science, It's Too Hard To Learn All Those Theories And They're Supporting Evidence, It's A Lot Easier To Dumb Down

How Has Privatisation Helped? Where's The Proof?

1998 May 6, Wednesday, 19:05

Have Everyone Fighting Amongst Themselves, Scatter Some Seed From The Mansion, And Pig Out...

The Quite Frankly's Appeared In The SMH Letters To The Editor

1998 May 7, Thursday, 13:52

A Good Question, The Dubai Mercenaries Got 76 Emergency Passports No Questions Asked? What?

How Come They're So Eager To Float Off All The Tax-Paid-For Assets?

Try And Open Up A 60's Style Factory In Secondary Industry, A Small Universe Of In-Sourced Everything

A Lot Of Things To Do

The Big Philosophical Question Was Built-In-Redundancy, The Throw Away World Had Yet To Get Into Stride...

They Used To Say We Can Get These Cheaper From The Third World, But It Cost Us So Much More

When Sunbeam Was In Campsie It Was A Gold Mine... Gone... Poof! Bad Luck Kids...

1998 May 8, Friday, 13:16

As Far As Everyone Is Else Is Concerned, I Know Nothing About This

The Denuded Hills Of Italy Sliding Down In Slithering Dark Mudslides

Annihilated In A Black Hole... A Sign That The Tory Government In Australia Has To Go

Quite Frankly, I Hope Nobody Ever Watched Those Old Cowboy Movies Where I Got The Gun Slinger Idea From

Aren't You Feeling The Pain Kerry? Quite Frankly, Kerry, I Wish I Could Shut You All Up

Once I Put The GST Burden On All You Battlers While I Reduce The Income Tax On Us Little Trust Businessmen, You'll Feel The Pain...

1998 May 12, Tuesday, 13:03

India Makes A Loud Noise, Thumps The Table With Atomic Weapons, What Do They Expect The Fear To Do?

That Cocktail Party Flavour Of Grovellers, Typified By The Toady Tory Treasurer, Making Excuses, Covering Their Arses

The New World Order Has Imposed A Whole World Of Misery

Cut Your Protection And Pull Down The Walls And They Come In And Rob You Blind...

Can You Believe The Philippines? The Popularity Of The B Grade Movie Bungler?

The Diversity Of News And Comment

Each Small Ineffectual Country Forced To Sign Up For The Political Imposition Of MAI Contracts, Sign IT! Or Sanctions...

1998 May 13, Wednesday, 12:57

All This Crap And Drivel About Stealing Away Billions Of Dollars From The Needy To Make A Profit, To Smirk About

They Call It A Bonus To Dangle The Bag Of Plunder Looted From The Welfare State...

Instead Of Taxing Luxuries More Than Necessities He Advocates Taxing Everything For Everyone The Same

What Happens If Japan Folds? Blah, Blah, Just Grin Cause It Looks Like I'm Getting The Messiah Treatment, Haw Haw Haw Shucks...

The Japan Question It's All Factored In, Heh, Heh, Smirk... That Now Takes Over Quite Frankly From Don't You Worry About That

Extra Money? Dividends From Reserve Bank Trading? Making Bets In The Big Game, Playing In The Holy Markets

1998 May 14, Thursday, 20:43

The Indian Pollies Say It Makes Them Feel Good, To Stand In False Security, And To Feel The Fool's Paradise

The Uprising In Indonesia, The Inevitable Deaths And Riots And Destruction, Makes You Appreciate The System In Australia

Shadow Boxing Again, There Is No Way The Tory's Real Back Room Agendas Can Ever Be Aired Truthfully

Cruelty And Meanness Of The Tory Budget To Attack The Kids Again, Derision And Breakdowns In So Many Lives

No Details And Vague Smoke-Screens, Answer Is, Don't Vote For The Little Leaderless Loopy Tory Twits, Ever

1998 May 15, Friday, 17:54

The Pond Wont Be Still... How The Hell Do You Straighten Things Out Now?

Chasing Down The Soeharto Cronyism Path To Enlightening The Bellies Of Millions

The Sticky Fly Paper Of Capitalist Cronyism Is Having All The Hangers-On Shook Off

The Aussie Tax Package For The Future, To Nurture The Children In... Raise Tariffs

That Drip All-Stone Thinks He Can Ministerially Monster Our ABC With His Dumb-Down Bias Inquisitions, Rack Off

Be Proud Public Broadcasters With Depth Instead Of Blah Blah Redneck Radio Ratings Chasers? Give Us A Break...

Viagra Makes You Go Blind

1998 May 16, Saturday, 16:31

The Law And Order Politics, Penalties Are Ineffectual When You Live With No Tomorrows

The Horror Harvest Placed Squarely On Child Rearing, And Their Stark Staring Mad Drug War, Which Is The Root Of All Evil

The Feeling That Kids Were To Be Loved And Guided... Jail Them And Then What Are They When They Come Out? Chastened?

Such A Relief To Hear Groundswell Commonsense Opinion Getting An Airing, Only On Our ABC Public Broadcasting

So Much Criticism Of The Whole Tory Mess Now... But If Aussies Are One-Eyed-Mad-Racists Then That's It Anyway

One Girl Stapled An Extra Clause To The AWA At The Privatised Commonwealth Employment Service And Was Rejected

Australia's Richest Anyone Who Pays Tax Is An Idiot Man Paying Nearly 50% Of His Income?

A Popular Consensus Would Form, One Day You'd Have A Model Of What A Lot Of People All Think..

An Artificial Intelligence, It Wont Converse With You, But You Can Read Off The Opinion

Connect Up The Principles On Top With How To Get To Have All The Details Forming At The Bottom

Things Would Be Better Than Having Polluting Cotton Dumped On Us From Slavery Overseas

A Conservative Contagion, And Socialism Has A Bad Name! Like Keating Inappropriately Wore Arrogant...

Atheists Have The Most Honest And Respectful And Peaceful Law-Abiding Record In The History Of The Universe

1998 May 17, Sunday, 21:27

Intellectuals Saying What They Think Out Loud Where Everyone Can Hear, It's Only When Retired The Noddies Become Free

Thou Shalt Always Obey Gravity, And We With Our Atoms Are Tiny Impurities In A Vast Universal Sea Of Neutrinos

Paul Davies Is Concerned We Might Be Returned To A New Dark Age Of Ignorance And Superstition... Cripes

Not Having Ever Watched Any Aussie Neighbours, Or Any Bossy Pommy Blue Light Cop Shows, Or Any Idiot USA Sitcoms

1998 May 19, Tuesday, 14:18

Human Evolution And The Long Story, And It Was About Tails

The Definition Of Poor. It Seems That The Poverty Line, As They Call It, Is Set Way Too Low

The GDP Has Got A Competitor The GPI, General Progress Indicator, Takes Into Account The Costs

The Little Shrimp Squirming On The Barbie As "Ill-Informed Financial Dealers" Drop The Aussie Dollar In The Drink

The First Use Of The Bomb Now Will Start A Chain Reaction... Religious Executed For Insulting Other Religious, Charming

Running Things On The Cheap... And The Very Next Day There's A Derailment On The South Coast

Having One-Man-Bands Running Things Isn't The Best Way To Go, So It's Just Musical Chairs In The Mad House

1998 May 20, Wednesday, 13:27

Gareth Would Make A Good PM Y'know, Labor Has A Front Bench Full Of Talents For That Matter...

A Vision For The Campaign

Every Tory Issue Will Be Destroyed

The Queensland Campaign Kicked Off, Labor Has Got Every Chance, It's A Crooked Culture The Q-Nats Have Entrenched

1998 May 21, Thursday, 16:46

A Government Being Shadowed By The Opposition... Indonesia Should Try It...

Ex-Chief Justice Brennan Will Be Writing A Book On Just What It Is, The Essence Of The Sense Of Duty You Need

The Trick Is Draw Up Electorates Containing Evenly Balanced Numbers Politically... For Democracy To Work

Land Developers And Drains, And The Soil Turns To Acid, Poor Dugongs, The Orangutans Of The Sea...

1998 May 23, Saturday, 00:07

Was This The Way To City? Yes! Ha, Hope So... He Says And Was Friendly Enough...

She Sparked Up And Sidled Over Close, I'm A Welsh Girl, She Smiled And Lit Up Like A Warm Glow

Were Your Parents English? Yes Mate! He Says, Oh Dear, Well That's Probably Your Problem Then...

Where'd I Been? Down The Glebe Pub, It Was Politics, I Like That Sort Of Thing, It's Fun, A Political Animal...

Actuoooly It's Subversive I say, A Plot! It's All A Big Conspiracy

Gave Her A Special Bye Bye, Wonder What She Was Talking About All That Time

Funny How Tonight They Were All Talkative, Saw Me Let My Hair Down

Waved At The Education Activist From The Union

Found So Many Smiles And Nods Tonight, Just Having Fun, Real On The Wink Stuff, That Pleasant Mockery And Gentle Insult...

1998 May 23, Saturday, 14:56

The Dire Straits Of Higher Education Suffering Under The Profits From User Pays Tory Regime

The Joy Of Like Minded Souls Makes For Such A Haven In The Umbrage

It's Wrong To Let The Profit Motive Enter The Halls Of Education, Part Of The Motherhood Necessities

The Burgermeister Tim Saying As How The Free Trade Talks Were Failing, They Were A Pack Of Cheats, Said Tim

1998 May 26, Tuesday, 15:34

The Little Apology For A PM Not Sorry, And Being True To His Word For Once, He's Not Sorry, Besides He's Not Finished Yet...

What Has Been Achieved So Far By PH? Bugger All, Just A Media Romp, Horrifying Poll Figures For The Wun Nazi Nation

Expel People... And That's Their Modus Operandi, All Through History, Publicly Decry And Blame

How Can These Wun Nazi Nationists Negotiate Anything? Medicare? Finance? Management? Wonky Wuns At The Helm?

Gun Lobby Insecurity Will Be Far Less Threatened From Labor Than These Right Wing Militants

1998 May 28, Wednesday, 18:50

Some Areas Of Life Did Not Fit In With Having Market Forces Elevated To Some Universally Applicable Orthodoxy!

1998 May 29, Friday, 12:58

A Sort Of Mantra, The Outsourcing Of All Government Roles In Our Lives, Cept For Executions! Oh Hahaha...

That Mad Speeding Foot Flat On The Accelerator Who Cares What's Ahead Sort Of Attitude

If Those Other Fundamentalist Freakos Have It Why Can't We, After All We Are The Chosen Ones, God's On Our Side

The Welfare State, That's The Way To Be, Looked After From Cradle To Grave, Safe And Secure In The Arms Of The Nation

More Burning, Government Sanctioned In The Name Of Growth Economies, Seems We Are Facing A Dilemma

1998 May 29, Friday, 23:31

Much The Better For Being In Politically Parallel Company

The Big Boys, Big Maps, Big Business Aren't Talking Of Freedoms, They're Talking Monopoly And Winner Takes All

This Disintegration Of Indonesia Is Their First Real Opportunity To Be Set Free From The Yoke Of Perpetual Imperialism

The Vacuum Of The Dutch Seized By Indonesia

A Mass Miss-Perception Of National Pride, Doing War Dances With These Sort Of Weapons, Cripes

Fin