This blog received an emergency call from Waleed Aly on Radio National’s Drive show last night. The nation was gagging for news of just how much of a craphole Kalamunda is. Apparently. Never been on Radio National before. I’ve always had a dream to be constantly interrupted by Phillip Adams. One step closer. The audio is here. I did get to mention that I started the blog to label a journalist the worst in Australia. Mt Isa was suggested as being uglier than Kalamunda. I suggested a copper mine might brighten up Kala. Touche Waleed.
Aly, “gagging” for Kalamunda news.
The Worst of Perth 
Waleed Aly – Australia’s go-to, tame Muzzy.
Did anyone catch Today Tonight’s Car v House investigation last night? I think I may have called for a Today Tonight special investigation at some stage – so I’ll take the credit for this undoubtedly hard hitting piece of journalism. I might even watch it too.
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This is not a TWOP twitter feed – WA Police and ECU team up for car versus house study
We may not be able to split the atom here in Perth but I’m pretty sure there is a Nobel prize waiting for someone who can explain why there is a 15yo Commodore in your lounge room.
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Jeezus did I really not write that?
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God help us – another $500,000 down the drain as researchers conclude, after vast amounts of data have been studied, that a car can leave the road and hit a house, if the driver is a pissed bogan, with an attention span towards his driving, that approximates the attention span of a 2 yr old.
Yes, I can say with a great deal of reliability, after studying the papers, this is an increasing problem – and if they give me $500,000, I’ll study up on the solution.
The solution will be difficult to find and put in place, but I tend to think something like the Chinese solution would work (a bullet between the eyes for the worst offenders).
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i think you’ll find that it’s a bullet to the base of the head.
but carry on, i like your thinking.
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Would the Kalamundites be 6PRacist or Aunty listeners?
I’m sure it was on the Js when Shazza was in her beauty parlour.
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Curtin fm.
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Heritage FM or that tourist radio channel
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Was the journalist Mooner Murray?
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Paul Nurry Murray.
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TWOP flags at half mast – the Bussie has resigned from politics.
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hmmmm….
Matt Birney announces last week that he is considering returning to politics and is looking for a safe seat, but says he won’t contest a seat that has a sitting member.
Today Troy Buswell announces he is quitting and that there will be a by-election in his safe seat of Vasse.
stitch-up?
swap one plump useless heir-apparent for another.
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barney dismissed it on radio this morning, so we can assume it’s going ahead.
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can we start the clock on how long it will be before Matt Birney’s first blunder?
I reckon he won’t even get to pre-selection before making some stupid fat foot-in-mouth comment that betrays his sense of entitlement.
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Apart from coming back ?
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Teh West has an ‘exclusive’ interview but is not prepared to join the dots here?
fucking useless pissant parochial Liberal echo-chamber. ‘I’ve lost the passion’ ? – ‘I need space to address my Bi-polar’ – pig’s arse – Barnett has just been letting you limp along until he could find a suitable replacement for himself and you, and since Kim Hames didn’t want the poisoned chalice Barnett was left with that mad Christian with the boy band haircut or resurrecting the political corpse of Matt Birney.
this is the most blunderingly transparent media management I can remember. Is Dixie Marshall responsible for this?
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He’s turning to cat blogging.
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Troy Buswell’s new blog:
“How Colin, Adele, and Celine Dion got me through the Male Menopause.”
http://michelephillips.com.au/about/
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Blocked as “suspicious” by work computer. Is it a cat shitting blog?
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not even that good. Phillips gave up on her blog last year. Her last post is about how she can’t get the dog off the couch, a photo of what she had for lunch, and the news that she has finally painted the hallway. Clear proof that we are in the golden age of the interweb.
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She’s not going to be cutting and pasting from old Pam Casselllas pieces is she? “Dogs and cats! How wacky is the difference between those cunts?”
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She could have tweeted that shit.
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ECU study…
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http://www.ecu.edu.au/degrees/courses/overview?id=Y71
What would she major in ?, and why can’t Dircksie name the unnameable, that is , its academics ?
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Hmmmmmm. He said you’d “flown under the radar” (ie noone’s seen it) and you had a “narrow focus” (ie it was rubbish).
You should have tipped your chair over and thrown an ashtray at him.
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Yes, it seemed a strange interview technique. Surely encouraging the interviewee to go further, rather than trying to downplay the claims, would have made for a more amusing interview?
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All interviewers that have spoken to me see it as an easy time filler that they don’t have to research or think about. Gillo, Russel, nanna etc. it would be good to have some more challenging questions. The 6pracist one got closest to actually talking about something, but he wasn’t really up to it.
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And he didn’t want to know who the journo was ?
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He said he’d terminate the interview if you did reveal who the journalist was. You did what was possible in a short spot. one minor aspect , I would avoid being boxed into “comedy”, emphasizing the seriousnesses , the call to the barricades of the fight against urban blight.
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Woah easy Tiger. Don’t put Dad and Gillo in the same boat. He’s a professional you know.
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Maybe Howard Sattler would be the man?
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give him his correct title:
‘disgraced former radio host Howard Sattler’
I see that the media are calling Buswell a ‘disgraced former politician.’
I wonder if he’ll sue. They’re as good as saying he’s like Rolf.
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You haven’t made it in this town until you are addressed with the honorific “disgraced”.
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You should have called this the worst of the Luvvies. The ABC is a witless, humourless, putrid swamp; and Aly may be the worst of the swamp Luvvies.
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Give it a break, it’s just about to fall off.
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…and still head-and-shoulders above anything else on the airwaves.
Best of a poor choice indeed, but if they had funding comparable to the those who make their income from the cost of everyday goods and services, then they might be able to afford to polish their work a bit better.
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Yair, that 2013 University of the Sunshine Coast survey showed, of ABC journos, forty percent vote Green, a third Labour, so they’ve got their hearts in the right place. And have to subsist on a measly 1.22 billion annual budget. They deserve more, oh so so much more.
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Mt Isa IS bad. I have a friend who was traumatised when her mum dressed her up as Isa’s smokestack with red and white hoops, for a school function. Hi Lyn! I haven’t heard of any Kala mums dressing their kid as a honkynut but there’s still time.
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Really?
Mums doing a May Gibbs at public street processions and baby shows used to be quite the ‘thing’.
Maybe that’s too passé for the lovely young mums these days.
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