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Listed below are comments made by wagga222 between Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 and Wednesday, 1st July 2009.

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The Pom influence 10:49pm on 01 Jul 2009
Australian history was essentially based on a rejection of British modes of life - Lords and dukes, servants and slavery, wars, colonialism, rotten boroughs, Trident and (of course) Maggie Thatcher.

Australian history was strongly influenced by democratic ideas of exiled Chartists and radicals who fought for universal suffrage and women's rights. The Australian parliament is more democratic than the British and this tradition fosters a more progressive set of values than the British broken system.

The so-called 'Pom' influence in Australia has mostly been to avoid the travesties of British politics and culture.

For many expatriate Poms - Australia has developed into what they would have wanted the UK to be (except for droughts).
The fall-out from Utegate 10:17pm on 01 Jul 2009

Poor old Malcolm Turnbull, the classic "dumb rich kid".

So voters, faced with choosing between "Tweedledee and Tweedledum" should not pick the dumb one.

Turnbull is now a dead man walking until someone within his party is able to muster the numbers to put him out of his misery.
Utegate: the smoking gun which backfired? 1:49pm on 23 Jun 2009

This is now blowing-up in Watergate style. High dram, low face or political espionage?

Seems that the liberals have been receiving leaked official information from a so-called "mole" inside government for some time.
Utegate: the smoking gun which backfired? 10:37am on 23 Jun 2009

This was not a professional report.

It omitted the crucial facts that

the loan of the ute was mundane and recorded on Rudd's register,

the concept of special treatment flounders given that other applicants received more attention, and

the Liberals read out the contents of the email before it was innocently available.

The real issue that will emerge is the conduct and capacity of our journalists and the way they misrepresent events to boost sensationalism.

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