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[dreamer_easy]

Rather than face an embarrassing defeat at the hands of his own part, Australia's PM has abandoned the new refugee laws. "I never did think it was a mistake to try and provide more protection to the Australian people," the SMH quotes him as saying. Exactly why we would need protection from small numbers of peaceful Papuan civilians, I have no idea.

ETA: I meant, of course, "his own party", but I like that typo so much think I'll keep it.

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[edorm.livejournal.com]

Awesomely, when we walked into town today for lunch, we saw the sky writing over Canberra that pleaded (ordered?) the senators to "vote no!".

I was a signatory to the petition that got that skywriting to happen. First time I've ever felt like I affected anything, politically speaking. Of course, support for the bill wasn't really there anyway, but it was nice to see :)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Nice one!

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

I too signed that petition, and spread it around a bit. It was great seening it as the backdrop to little johnie's backdown.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

yay!

[hnpcc]

Good. Now I wait for the backdoor attempt to get the same thing through, piecemeal.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

ggggggRRRRrrrrrr

[hnpcc]

Hey, if we're looking out for it, maybe we can stop it. :-) (It probably should worry me that I'm this cynical about the government...)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Let's face it; they're as dodgy as a cat with five legs.

[sheramil.livejournal.com]

courtesy of "Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu".

if i'd made it an animated .gif of the next few frames, you could see that this cat has about a hundred legs.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Arbitrary numbers of legs cat!!!