Controversial commercial becomes a case of bang-bang, hard sell, silver-haired Katter
Taking aim at your opponents is not just a figure of speech in Katter country.
Political correctness gone mad! Mad Katter, that is. David Koch takes on the candidate’s controversial ad, Sunrise, Seven, yesterday:
Bob, stop, stop, stop, stop. Just shooting a couple of people in a video, don’t you think that crosses the line?
Katter fires back, yesterday:
I thought it was screamingly funny and, David, you don’t realise how stupid your remark is with all due respect. Let me finish, please, you’ve tried to cut me off four times. A Nestle milk boy ad is almost identical; we’re going to go and ban all the Nestle milk boy ads, are we? The political correctness council are out there; what is not out there is what is on that poster: Australia not for sale.
Malcolm Turnbull, on the campaign trail, yesterday:
The advertisements were in the worst of taste and Mr Katter should apologise and withdraw them.
More gun trouble? The Townsville Bulletin, yesterday:
According to federal member for Kennedy Bob Katter, at age 18 he was handed a rifle and, as a member of the 49th Battalion — “father’s battalion” — was at the forefront of Australia’s wars with Indonesia and Vietnam. Never mind in 1963 when Robert Carl Katter was 18 Australia was not yet at war with either and he wasn’t even in the army.
This is now. The Australian’s Joe Kelly reports, yesterday:
Bill Shorten is poised to soften Australia’s border protection policies by granting permanent residency to nearly 30,000 asylum-seekers eligible who arrived by boat under the former Labor government … This would see Labor providing its own legacy caseload of asylum-seekers with a clear pathway to permanent residency.
That was then. Bill Shorten campaigning in Queensland, May 8:
When it comes to people-smuggling and turnbacks and not having onshore processing by people who are smuggled here by criminal syndicates, we are not for turning.
But the science was settled! The World Health Organisation will have that cup of coffee after all, ABC News, yesterday:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer had previously rated coffee as “possibly carcinogenic” but changed its mind. It says its latest review found “no conclusive evidence for a carcinogenic effect” of coffee drinking and pointed to some studies showing coffee may actually reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer.
What was that about running out of water? The Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday:
Sydney’s major dams may spill by early next week if the catchment areas receive even moderate rainfall from the coming weekend’s … storm.
Victim-blaming. New Matilda figures who’s at fault in Orlando, and who’s at fault is us, yesterday:
In a 1997 essay in Feminist Issues, As’ad AbuKhalil argues that current Islamic opposition to homosexuality is a result of Western influence …
The truth is out. Sydney’s Inner West Courier looks at Grayndler’s minor party candidates, Wednesday:
Mr Grenfell said the Socialist Equality Party’s campaign in Grayndler will focus on exposing the right-wing pro-capitalist politics of the Greens …
Ottawa tackles the big issues. Headline, Fairfax’s Daily Life, yesterday:
Canadian lawmakers vote to make national anthem gender neutral