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'CAPTURING the essence of the "average Australian" is a big call — but John Howard thinks he can do it. Launching a new journal, The Conservative, edited by Queensland backbencher Santo Santoro, Mr Howard yesterday said the average Australian believed in Australia's traditions and the country's success.


"He or she doesn't think this country has much to be ashamed of; he or she believes that this country is well-regarded around the world," he said.

This average Australian also believed that individuals should be given a fair go and that if they're "down on their luck", they should be helped.

"But having been helped, they should get on with their lives and not expect the rest of the community to keep on assisting them," Mr Howard said.


Of course, the average Australian believes in the traditional view of the family. "But he or she doesn't want to persecute people who might have an alternative view, because the average Australian is a very tolerant individual." He or she was also someone who believed that "when we face a community threat, we need to be a united, cohesive people. And finally, and very importantly, the average Australian believes in a classless society."



He said the "average Australian" wanted a government that responded to and expressed their values'.




761 days til the next election.

45 comments.

Comments

09Sep12:53
Anonymous said...

HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET YOUR BRAIN TO WORK??? ARE YOU SITTING UNDER A PYRAMID IN THE HIPPY HOUSE CHANTING HIPPY THINGS TO CHANNEL HARNESS YOUR HIPPY MIND POWERS???

[where were you. transmitterbot did not see you]

09Sep12:57
Schad N. Freude said...

Gosh, Marieke, maybe your hatred for this country and its ordinary folk (who voted 55-45 for the current government) is why you couldn't write a show that rated worth a damn and just got cancelled?

Or perhaps asking a loonie lefty chick with serious man issues whose sexuality never matured beyond the "this one time at band camp..." stage to write a show from the man's point of view was simply doomed to fail.

09Sep13:06
Anonymous said...

*puts on best nerd voice*

*not like N*E*R*D voice or I'd be too busy getting all pimp on some bitch's ass yo*

*But normal nerd voice. got it?*

Umm, Golly Marieke! You stink and and and your hair is silly and and and and ummm tear up that love letter 'cause you never even looked at me at band camp and I'm NEVER JERKING OFF OVER YOU AGAIN. I HATE YOU! You...LOONY! YES THAT'S RIGHT! YOU'RE A LOOOONY.

(By the way, does that mean you bought your car at Car City?)

Schad?

Janet?

Schad?

Yes Janet?

Loony this. Cocksmoker.

09Sep13:16
Nat said...

Fucking Hell.

And I was trying to tell myself that that sort of narrow mindedness was restricted to the middle class suburbs of WA.

Keep up the good writing. Am enjoying (perverse I know) losing respect for a country I once was in love with!

09Sep13:22
Peter said...

Wow.
Some people are really mean.
Cunts.
I thought that was a pretty sharp post, actually. Well done you.

09Sep13:39
Anonymous said...

Oh gee, you all had to get the backing of spinstartshere before you came trolling this site. Gutless wonders. Wasn't it they that said "if you don’t like what we have to say then why do you keep reading"?

09Sep13:55
Anonymous said...

With accusations of sad-cuntery being flung at certain bloggers, who are the real sad cunts? The cocksuckers with chips on their shoulders who have become obsessed with the personal lives of other bloggers, and who dedicate countless posts to tearing into them? Surely they're not that hard up for material? Or are the REAL sad cunts the bloggers who stop by here, leave fawning comments, and then sit back and say nothing when disgusting stuff is being said about their dear hero Ms Fits?

Get a spine, the lot of you.

09Sep14:08
Yubris said...

While I side with Ms Fits on this and agree that low blows from people like Schad N. Freude are pretty pathetic, I'm sure the irony of anonymous posters screaming about others being gutless and spineless is not lost on anyone.

Just chill, no reason to play into anyone's hands here.

09Sep14:15
mnkymelbourne said...

all I can say Ms Fits is - "I adore and love agitators, always have and always will - there is nothing more Australian than an agitator" -keep it up gorgeous! - the wheel will turn Ms Fits and one day Labor will once again have it's turn. I have remained unconvinced about the right in this country being similar or mimicking the right movement in the US, however 2 things have changed my mind - the raising of abortion as an issue and the willingness to allow the teaching of creationism in schools - I have had enough and I too will do anything to get rid of these facists - however I think our cause will be done for us by Costello in the end - we can only hope!

09Sep14:23

People, it's the internet.

We're all sad cunts.

09Sep14:29
Anonymous said...

What's meaner, Schad's call on LMS's crash-and-burn, or Marieke's snivvely little I-hate-Australia rants. (Oh, it's sooooo clever to link the PM's words to Green Left Weekly articles!).

Maybe Marieke and Margo Kingston can go shack up together...Marieke likes to talk about putting things in 'vadges' (always the lady, she is), and Margo has certainly had some interesting things in hers (Paul McGeough among them...)

09Sep14:30
Jess said...

*high fives booky*

*realises describing actions between asterisks is classic sad cunt behaviour*

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of starting a blogwar with you, T-Bags.

YOU'RE A DEADSHIT AND YOU THINK YOU'RE SO GOOD BUT YOU'RE NOT AND UMM YEAH...

Balls in your court x

09Sep14:33
Jess said...

Hmmm. I can't recall the I Hate Australia post. But she'll get a swift kick in the vadge from me if she DID write something like that.

I LUV AUSTRALIA 4 EVS AN IF U EVA KRITISIZE NE ONE IN CHARGE OF IT AGIN MARIEKE I WIL BASH U GUD! UR A H8R N JUS GO HOM 2 ASIA OR RUSHA AN MAK A COMMY BABEE WIF A BOTE PERSUN!

09Sep14:38
Ukulele said...

I guess I must be a sad cunt too as I am a fawning fan girl who lurks on Ms. Fits blog, longing for her every word and also enjoys inserting closed astericks such as *laughing till I pee* when she says something amusing or divisive in the hope that she acknowledges that I really dig her.

If this is the case, I love being a sad cunt. Please continue making me love you more, Fitz.

09Sep14:44
Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Or are the REAL sad cunts the bloggers who stop by here, leave fawning comments, and then sit back and say nothing when disgusting stuff is being said about their dear hero Ms Fits?

Should make it clear i meant the bloggers who visit tssh and here, not the quiet readers of Ms Fits blog.

09Sep14:46
Anonymous said...

Actually, the world does love Australia, Fitsy:

Australia has emerged as the most popular country on Earth, according to the results of a new survey examining the world’s top “nation brands”.

According to the report, the strength of Australia’s brand is found in the almost “universal admiration” for the country’s people, landscapes and living and working environment.

Interestingly, the report found that Australia is likely to be first choice for company employees who are likely to be relocated. This result is despite the fact that the number of tourists visiting Australia is relatively small compared to the other 24 countries analysed in the survey.

Australia’s worldwide popularity presents “huge opportunities” says the report, and there is a growing appetite for things Australian and perceived Australian values of fair play, honesty and multiculturalism.

The Anholt-GMI Nation Brands Index, measures the power and appeal of a nations image by asking consumers how the see the character and personality of the brand. Six areas of national competence are examined; tourism, people, culture, investment and immigration, governance and exports.

Australia came overall first in the NBI Q2 2005 survey rankings, followed by Canada, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. New Zealand came 10th and the United States 11th place.

09Sep14:55
Sad Cunt Observer said...

Best quote every made about TSSH was in Dawei's comments last year.

"Ever since Caz has gotten engaged to that dull, bitter old c-nt, appropriately nicknamed "The Hack", her entries/posts have gone from clever political satire and intelligent social commentary to sounding like some mentally unstable elderly harpie who lectures and shakes her fists at little children who walk by her house. "

09Sep15:20
Anonymous said...

Classless society? Malcolm Turnbull?
Traditional families when 65 per cent of young Australians see children making a family whether straight or same sex. Give everyone a fair go, of course, unless you're wearing a headdress, black, homo, slope, 4 by 2 and by the comments, hippy female writer. JT.

09Sep15:26

Step across this line, Jess.

09Sep15:28
The Line said...

*appears*

09Sep15:29
Jess said...

*crosses*

You're fucked now, T-Bags.

*rolls up sleeves*

09Sep15:31

Ok, now step across this Lion!


HAHA!!!

Do my bidding, SuperPet.

09Sep15:36
Jess said...

Ahh, but have you seen my LYON?

He will audit your lion to death and then measure long-run abnormal returns.

You know, even though I'm not entirely sure how one is meant to conduct a blogwar, I think we're doing okay. Remind me to high five you...r bloodied corpse! Mwahahaha...

09Sep15:36
The Senator said...

It's become a sad, witless little enterprise, The Spin Starts Here. Even their old blogger friends like Sam and Ruth and Dawei who would once have pretty much defended them to the death, avoid Caz like the plague these days.

Ms Fits, you should not give a second thought to trolls from TSSH. You are one hundred times the blogger Caz is.

09Sep16:07
Peter said...

This shit's awesome.
Gloves off, bitches!

09Sep16:46
Adoring fan of Ms. Fits said...

I may be the only one who feels this way, but I quite liked LMS. I hadn't heard that it'd been cancelled, and if that is so I am sorry to hear it.

I love this blog.

And I love when you all use little asterisks to describe your actions *claps hands with glee*

And I REALLY love it when you conduct pun wars & blog wars.

And I REALLY REALLY love it when we all get the chance to tell someone who shares an opinion contrary to our own to go fuck themselves.

I love Ms. Fits, so go find a Callipo Schad N. Freude. Just make sure you do it like the chick you are.

09Sep23:04
la nadine said...

i hope i create this much tension one day.

well done, lady.

keep up the good work.

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10Sep01:37
Scott I said...

Hey everybody...I'm not a blogger but I am someone who enjoys reading RYWHM.
I'm always stunned at the downright childish name calling that comes from the right when anyone[properly]questions the direction this country seems to be headed.Schady baby you've got to grow up and learn that it's the people who question and don't just blindly accept what their given who, throughout history have led people out of their caves[both literally and metaphoricaly]...Oh...Do you think that when your balls finally drop you'll be able to express "a mans point of view"?...You cunt.

10Sep14:03
S. N. Freude said...

Scotty, meine leibling, thanks for the advice but my balls hang so low they drag in the snow. Sure the left used to be the side of enlightenment and reason, but now they're siding with every loon from the radical greens to the radical muslims just to play out their little Freudian father-figure psychodramas with John Howard. And just who wants to lead whom into the caves now, boyo?

10Sep17:36
Daniel Hegder said...

Well, I liked LMS.

10Sep19:47
Anna A Spades said...

"little Freudian father-figure psychodramas with John Howard"

Dude, you made the Freude-allude. I'm sensing some deep seated issues. And WAY TO GO with the random German phrases!! Goddamn boyo, you must be cultured!!

11Sep11:55
Susanne said...

The post was on the mark.

Ms Fits wasn't dissing 'Australia' per se, she was dissing the government and their so-called 'Australian values'.

And there is a difference people.

11Sep21:22
fuzzbox said...

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11Sep21:26
fuzzbox said...

What annoys me about those who come on this site and personally attack ms marieke is that they don't seem to understand that this is a forum. Fits may say that she is smug etc but she is not saying that her views are the only that are acceptable. She has a perspective, thats it. Like it or not, there is no excuse for the spiteful comments that pop up from time to time on this site. I have a sneaking suspicion that those most nasty (who are by the way mostly anonymous) are merely angsty about the fact that her blog gets more attention than they could ever hope for. I hate some of fits' posts (love others), for various reasons but, I always keep reading. There lies her talent.........

*Drifts off thinking of tall poppies*

11Sep21:35
paul said...

Hey, if this redneck wonderland is so dire and such an affront to your progressive sensibilities, I'm sure there' a writing gig beckoning in Burbank- after all, they love illiterate pinkos, and make much more unitelligible and inane dross than we dum hicks do.
Or don'y mum and dad have any friends there?

12Sep01:12
Scott I said...

No no no no...You've got it all wrong dude. I'm a lefty and I know I've no "Freudian father figure psychodrama"
because that presumably means I want to root Janette Howard...And I'll tell ya pal, I really really don't.

Oh, and by the way when I speak of balls.I'm not talking about those peanuts in a sock that dangle so amusingly between your legs.I'm talking about having the courage to speak your mind.Now I'm sure this is what you think your doing.But as usual you [and all your kind]are simply attempting to defend the indefensible and secure your little chunk of the status quo...sorry, Did I mention your a cunt?

12Sep03:09
Anonymous said...

...the average Australian is a very tolerant individual
You could've fooled me.
Nice post.

Zoot

12Sep09:29
Marcus said...

Can I ask if any particular incident brought about this almighty bitterness between Caz/The Hack/TSSH and Ms Fits?

I'm going to be honest here that I've been a regular reader of both blogs for the past few months, finding 'Reasons You Will Hate Me' to be consistently the more engaging of the 2, but also finding TSSH's Neighbors summaries to be a welcome reprieve from the doldrums of work. But I just don't get why TSSH keeps hurling its slings and barbs towards Marieke... what's up with that? It just seems... unwarranted?

In any case I just have to say I love this post *applause* .

12Sep09:58
MelbourneGirl said...

can someone throw me a bone here.

i would like the links to the spin starts here, and the others mentioned in the above comment.

please don't make me try and find them. i have no time.

please. thank you.

12Sep10:00
MelbourneGirl said...

and i'd like to say i enjoy this blog. i don't comment much because everyone else covers everything.

keep it up ms fits

12Sep10:21
Google said...

*waves madly*

Hey MelbourneGirl - over here! Simply copy and paste into me and voila!

12Sep18:03
Illiterate Pinko said...

1. Really loved the post fits. I'm a pinko activist type, passionate about left politics. Sometimes it can seem like voices of opposition are completely drowned out by the thunderous march of the neo-conservatives/neo-liberals towards fuck knows what hell on earth we're headed. I'm currently tucked away working on a big piece of writing, and it's been a saving grace to recently discover this beautiful, brash band of hilarious, articulate and fabulously political women bloggers. Keep it up, maintain the rage, etc..

2. Anyone who chooses to go by the name 'schadenfreude'- meaning to take pleasure in the misfortune of others, and who displays a similar ability to think critically about their world as one of my dogs turds really isn't worth engaging with..

3. However, to the anonymous who supposes everything is ok afterall down here in Brand Australia because a piece of market research found that Australia has a groovy multicultural 'image' - get a fucking analysis.

12Sep20:15
MelbourneGirl said...

thanks google. the site didn't load properly and i couldn't see any text, but what an ugly masthead. sheesh.

11May11:50
ella said...
Marieke,
I fucking loved that show, last man standing, so don't worry about the retarded comments left by ignorant pigs about your showing being avg or whatever they said. IT was fucking awesome, all my friends loved it, especially guy friends, so good on you.
You're great.
27Jun18:36
Anonymous said...
Australians - in no particular order........

Crass, obtuse, uncouth, uncivilised, unsophisticated, coarse, boorish.

Egocentric, racist, xenophobic, amateur, incompetent, inept, bungling

Insular, officious, narrow-minded, smug, delusional, conceited, arrogant, self-satisfied, drunks, chauvinistic, reactionary,

Defensive, parochial, misogynist, luddite, ignorant, uneducated, cruel, false, insincere, selfish, hypocrites, self-serving, narcissistic, self-absorbed, indifferent, callous, uncaring .......

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