We have previously reported that Landeryou has a fondness for deformed chicken.
His fetish for chicken has again caused public outrage.
TS is especially worried for Landeryou's health. It was not long ago reported that Landeryou suffers various health problems, such as cranial gigantism, antisocial personality disorder (abbreviated APD or ASPD), delusions, and narcissism.
On other matters, we were going to release the new happy snaps of Landeryou enjoying his freedom. But on second thoughts we decided to delay publication - this will drive Andy nuts.
37 Truth On Comments:
This explains everything.
Antisocial personality disorder (abbreviated APD or ASPD)
is a psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-IV-TR recognizable by the disordered individual's impulsive behavior, disregard for social norms, and indifference to the rights and feelings of others.
Sounds like Andy...
Can't wait for the Landeryou happy snaps, but does he really live in Brunswick?
A friend of mine does volunteer work with a group from their church, looking after what she calls "hopeless cases" who live in the Housing Commission tower block between Sydney Road and the rail line at Jewell. She was at Melbourne Uni during the reign of terror and says she keeps recognising Landeryou at the flats.
Does he live there or does he just go along for the free meals Vinnies provide?
Day three of the election campaign, and what does the fat boy have on his site? A story ripped off from The Age on Gavan O'Connor (doesn't his website say "Boycott The Age"?), a YouTube link and a promise of yet more reporting on student politics irrelvancies to come.
How will it drive Landeryou nuts? If anything, he'll simply assume you're bullshitting and you don't really have a picture.
Nuts... mmmmmm! Nuts make good stuffing for poultry. Andy is drooling over his keyboard. Watch out Andy! You'll short your system!
This topic and the comments so far received show the poor quality of this blog. Truly the blog of filth.
I met a Filthia at Draculas Theatre Restaurant in Carlton. She was totally obnoxious. Of course that's what she was paid to do and the clients loved her.
Can recommend readers of this blog visit Draculas some time. Filthy blog readers being greeted by Filthia.
Pauline Hanson likes Draculas in Queensland. You can perve at her on the Draculas web site. Will Pauline make it into the Senate? I think she will. She's gorgeous.
No surprise. No Walkley award nomination for El Gordo again this year.
http://www.walkleys.com/the-awards/winners/judges.html
However, that won't stop him fraudulently claiming one.
Below is the complete list of finalists. I am disappointed Andrew Landeryou is not among them this time. Not too worried about Slanderyou. He or she does not deserve one.
52nd Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
2007 Judges and Finalists
PRINT, ONLINE AND WIRE SERVICE JOURNALISM
JUDGES – NEWS REPORT AND THREE HEADINGS
Deborah Cameron, senior journalist, The Sydney Morning Herald
Nick Cater, weekend editor, The Australian
Julie-Anne Davies, journalist, The Bulletin
PRINT NEWS REPORT FINALISTS
Sponsored by JUST Super
Richard Kerbaj, The Australian, “Sheik Hilali”
Hedley Thomas, The Australian, “Dr Haneef”
Laura Tingle, The Australian Financial Review, “Dr Ken Henry and the Year of Unusually Bad Policy”
THREE HEADINGS FINALISTS
Sponsored by Dow Jones
Hall Greenland, The Bulletin “Beyond reasonable drought”
Adrian Nesbitt, The Sydney Morning Herald “Textor leaves an indelible mark on polling”
Andrew Tate, The Age “Ponting’s number two, turned a three into four”
JUDGES - NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING
Liz Deegan, editor, The Sunday Mail
Tony Gillies, editor-in-chief, AAP
Judith Whelan, editor, Good Weekend
NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING FINALISTS
Sponsored by News Limited
James Button, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, “A Death in Zurich”
Malcolm Knox and Matthew Moore, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Dead Men Working”
Paul McGeough, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Face to Face with the Prince of Death”
COMMENDED
Lou Robson, The Sunday Mail, “Valley of Tears”
JUDGES - MAGAZINE FEATURE WRITING
Jill Baker, features editor, Herald Sun
Garry Linnell, editor-at-large, Daily Telegraph
Richard Walsh, consultant publisher, Allen & Unwin
MAGAZINE FEATURE WRITING FINALISTS
Proudly sponsored by BHP Billiton
Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, “Cruising”
Frederick Pawle, STAB, “Gay Pro Surfer”
Margaret Simons, Griffith Review, “Buried in the Labyrinth”
ARTWORK
JUDGES – ARTWORK AND CARTOON
Jane Milledge, head of design, Animal Logic
Peter Nicholson, cartoonist, News Limited
John Sandeman, art director, The Sun-Herald
CARTOON FINALISTS
Sponsored by Banki Haddock Fiora
Mark Knight, Herald Sun, “Lying Awake”
David Pope, The Sun-Herald, “Looking for a Rabbit”
Cathy Wilcox, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Uncovered Meat”
ARTWORK FINALISTS
Sponsored by Casella Wines
Remi Bianchi, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Bush’s Travelling Circus”
Sturt Krygsman, The Australian, “The Shakey Sheik”
Simon Schneider, Herald Sun, “The Destroyer”
PHOTOGRAPHY
JUDGES – PHOTOGRAPHY
John French, group pictorial manager, Leader Newspapers
Andrew Meares, chief photographer, The Sydney Morning Herald
Robert McFarlane, freelance photo critic
Michelle Turcsanyi, art director, TIME South Pacific
Barbara Herrmann, photo editor in Asia, Stern Magazine, Hong Kong
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY FINALISTS
Four finalists were chosen from two sub-categories of Spot and General News.
SPOT NEWS
Stuart McEvoy, The Australian, “G20 Melbourne”
Eddie Safarik, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “Haneef Leaves the Watchhouse”
COMMENDED
Dallas Kilponen, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race”
Jason South, The Age, “Goodbye Daddy”
GENERAL NEWS
Steven Siewert, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Under Weeping Skies”
Angela Wylie, The Age, “Tolmie Fires”
COMMENDED
Craig Borrow, Herald Sun, “Tracks of Tears”
DAILY LIFE/FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY FINALISTS
Sponsored by Epson
Brian Cassey, The Courier-Mail, “To Be Indigenous - 40 Years On”
Steven Siewert, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Act of Faith”
Lisa Wiltse, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Little Voice Dhaka, Bangladesh”
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY FINALISTS
Sponsored by Telstra
Glenn Campbell, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “Last Place at Brunette Downs”
Craig Golding, The Sydney Morning Herald, “This Sporting Light”
Rob Griffith, AP Photo Service, “Wet Job”
COMMENDED
James Brickwood, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Sydney Parkour”
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY FINALISTS
Sponsored by Nikon
Steve Christo, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Cricketing Courage”
Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald, “John Elliot”
Matthew Newton, The Monthly, “The Forests”
COMMENDED
Tim Clayton, The Sydney Morning Herald, “The Extraordinary Land Divers of Pentecost”
NIKON WALKLEY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRIZES:
There are no finalists in these two categories. The judges choose a single standout entry in each, and these are the winners of the Nikon-Walkley Photographic Prizes.
WINNER – SUBURBAN/REGIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Simone de Peak, The Herald, Newcastle, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Illawarra Mercury, “24 Hour Storm Havoc”
WINNER – PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Stephen Dupont, The AFR Magazine, “Axe Me Biggie”
COMMENDED
Renee Nowytarger, The Australian, “Mamdouh Habib”
RADIO
JUDGES – NEWS REPORTING AND CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING
Rob Curtain, news director, 3AW
David Herbert, journalist, SBS Radio
Elizabeth Jackson, executive producer and presenter, Saturday AM, ABC Radio
RADIO NEWS REPORTING FINALISTS
Sponsored by AKE Asia Pacific
ABC Radio Newcastle Team, ABC Radio, “Floods and Storms”
Rafael Epstein, ABC Radio, “Mohamed Haneef”
Michael Rowland, ABC Radio, “Hicks Trial”
COMMENDED
Brendan Donohoe, Radio 3AW, “Steve Bracks Resigns”
RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING FINALISTS
Sponsored by ABC
Anne Barker, AM, PM and The World Today, “NT Intervention”
Rafael Epstein, ABC Radio Current Affairs, “Mohamed Haneef’s SIM Card”
David Hardaker, AM and PM, “Life, Love and Loss in Israel and the Palestinian Territories”
JUDGES – RADIO FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR BROADCAST SPECIAL
Paul Barclay, presenter, Australia Talks Back, ABC Radio
Gabby Hills, journalist, SBS World News
Anne Stone, senior journalist, 5AA
RADIO FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR BROADCAST SPECIAL FINALISTS
Sponsored by QUT Creative Industries
Eurydice Aroney and Sharon Davis, ABC Radio National, “The Search for Edna Lavilla”
Michael Edwards, Eleanor Hall, Stephen Long and Tim Palmer, The World Today, ABC Local Radio and ABC Radio National, “Where the Boom Ended”
Nance Haxton, PM, ABC Radio, “Operation Flinders”
TELEVISION
JUDGES – TELEVISION NEWS REPORTING
Ellen Fanning, presenter, Sunday, Nine Network
Steve O’Ferrall, chief-of-staff, Ten Network
Paul Williams, executive producer, Insight, SBS TV
TELEVISION NEWS REPORTING FINALISTS
Sponsored by Network Ten
Michael McKinnon and Mark Riley, Seven News, Seven Network, “Lifting the Lid”
Brian Thomson, World News Australia, SBS TV, “Timor in Transition”
Adam Walters, National Nine News, Nine Network, “Scully Sacking”
COMMENDED
Paul Lobb, NBN Newcastle, “Pasha Bulker Grounding”
JUDGES – TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING
Adrian Brown, journalist, Seven News, Seven Network
Debbie Whitmont, journalist, Four Corners, ABC
Max Uechtritz, editor-in-chief, NineMSN
TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING (less than 20 minutes) FINALISTS
Sponsored by Media Monitors
Sarah Ferguson, Sunday, Nine Network, “Garuda Flight 200”
Nick Grimm, Deborah Masters and Scott Munro, The 7.30 Report, ABC TV, “Kelly’s War”
Frank McGuire and Adam Shand, Sunday, Nine Network, “Force Within a Force”
COMMENDED
Phil Gould, The Footy Show, Nine Network, “The Andrew Johns Interview”
JUDGES - TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS, FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL
Helen Dalley, presenter, Sky Business
Peter Lewis, journalist, NZ correspondent, ABC
Mick O’Donnell, producer, 60 Minutes, Nine Network
TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS, FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL (more than 20 minutes)
FINALISTS
Sponsored by Southern Cross Broadcasting
Matthew Brown and Wayne Harley, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, “West Bank – Loveand Betrayal”
Peter Butt, ABC TV, Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?
Nick Farrow and Sarah Ferguson, Sunday, Nine Network, “Shame Job: Circle of Abuse”
COMMENDED
Ellen Fanning and Kirstine Lumb, Sunday, Nine Network, “The Stilnox Dilemma”
JUDGES – TELEVISION NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS CAMERA
David Brill, cameraman, Dateline, SBS TV
Bruce Inglis, cameraman, Sync Pictures
Brett Ramsey, senior cameraman, ABC TV
TELEVISION NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS CAMERA FINALISTS
Sponsored by Australian Super
Robert Hill, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, “North Korea – Parallel Universe”
Sophie McNeill, Dateline, SBS TV, “Sects in the City”
Andrew Taylor, Four Corners, ABC TV, “Forward Base Afghanistan”
COMMENDED
David O’Shea, Dateline, SBS TV, “The Worst Ramadan”
ALL MEDIA
JUDGES – BEST USE OF MEDIA
Libby Chow, online producer, freelance
Peter Blunden, deputy managing director, Herald and Weekly Times
Ian Henderson, presenter, ABC TV News, Victoria
BEST USE OF MEDIA FINALISTS
Sponsored by Sensis
ABC Radio Newcastle Team, ABC Radio Newcastle and www.abc.net.au, “Emergency Broadcast June 2007”
Paul McGeough and Ash Sweeting, www.smh.com.au, “Afghanistan: the Violent Frontier”
Tom McKendrick, Tim Mummery, John Silvester and Andrew Webster, The Age, “Anatomy of a Murder”
JUDGES – SOCIAL EQUITY JOURNALISM
William Birnbauer, senior writer, The Sunday Age
Fiona Cameron, senior journalist, The Australian
Olivia Rousset, journalist, Dateline, SBS TV
SOCIAL EQUITY JOURNALISM FINALISTS
Sponsored by ANZ
Tony Koch, The Australian, “Lost at Sea”
Frank Moorhouse, Griffith Review, “The Writer in a Time of Terror”
Hedley Thomas, The Australian, “Dr Haneef”
JUDGES - COVERAGE OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
Carolyn Jones, foreign editor, The Age
Tom Krause, freelance journalist
Tim Palmer, producer, Media Watch, ABC TV
COVERAGE OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION FINALISTS
Sponsored by Seven Network
Rowan Callick, The Australian, “Brave New China: Torn Between its Present and its Past”
Sarah Ferguson and Mark Munro, Sunday, Nine Network, “Inside Garuda Flight 200”
Malcolm Knox and Matthew Moore, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Dead Men Working”
COMMENDED
Mark Forbes, The Age, “Execution Shock for Bali 9”
JUDGES - COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
Anne Barker, journalist, ABC Darwin
Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith Review
Stan Grant, journalist, SBS TV
COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS FINALISTS
Sponsored by SBS
Helen Grasswill, Australian Story, ABC TV, “Cry Me a River”
Tony Koch, The Australian, “Bloody Disgrace: Saga is State’s Worst Injustice”
Paul Toohey, The Bulletin, “Northern Voices”
COMMENDED
Matthew Carney and Peter Cronau, Four Corners, ABC TV, “The Cape Experiment”
JUDGES - COVERAGE OF SUBURBAN OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS
Wayne Buttner, general manager, Community Newspapers Perth
Sushi Das, senior writer, The Age
Celina Edmonds, presenter, Sky News
COVERAGE OF SUBURBAN OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS FINALISTS
Sponsored by News Ltd Community News
Damon Cronshaw, The Herald, Newcastle, “A Bridge Too Far”
Greg McFarland, Central Western Daily, “Cadia Wants Our Water”
Heather Stewart, The Courier-Mail and ABC Radio, “Mentally Ill in Regional Qld”
JUDGES - SPORT FEATURE COVERAGE
Bruce McAvaney, sports presenter, Seven Network
Rob Pegley, editor, Alpha Magazine
Debbie Spillane, sports presenter, ABC News Radio
SPORT FEATURE COVERAGE FINALISTS
Sponsored by Telstra
Janet Hawley, Good Weekend, “Ian Thorpe, Fish Out of Water”
Amanda Hooton, Good Weekend, “An Awfully Big Adventure”
Wendy Page, Australian Story, ABC TV, “Man of the Century”
COMMENDED
Anthony Sharwood, Alpha Magazine, “Running For His Life”
JUDGES - SPORT NEWS REPORTING
Mike Cockerill, senior sports journalist, The Sydney Morning Herald
Barry Dick, senior sports journalist, The Courier-Mail
Tracey Holmes, presenter, Grandstand, ABC Radio
SPORT NEWS REPORTING FINALISTS
Sponsored by Nine Network
Craig Hutchison, The Footy Show and Footy Classified, Nine Network, “Drugs in Football”
Jacquelin Magnay and Gerard Ryle, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Secret Payments Scandal”
John Silvester, The Age, “The Long Night”
JUDGES - BUSINESS JOURNALISM
Adele Ferguson, journalist, The Australian
Ross Greenwood, journalist, Nine Network
Mark Skulley, senior journalist, The Australian Financial Review
BUSINESS JOURNALISM FINALISTS
Sponsored by JP Morgan
Anthony Klan, The Australian, “Fincorp Collapse”
Gerard Ryle, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Where There’s Smoke”
Hedley Thomas, The Australian, “Coal Hard Facts”
COMMENDED
Rebecca Urban, The Age, “Coles Meat Scandal”
JUDGES - INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
Michael Gawenda, journalist and author, The Age
Deborah Jones, executive editor, The Australian
Mark Willacy, journalist, Landline, ABC TV
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM FINALISTS
Sponsored by Fairfax
Mansour Razaghi, Mark Corcoran and Bronwen Reed, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, “Kurdistan– the Other Iraq”
Olivia Rousset, Dateline, SBS TV, “State of Despair”
Ginny Stein, Dateline, SBS TV, “Burma – Inside the Secret City”
JUDGES - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Matt Denholm, journalist, The Australian, Tasmania
Peter McEvoy, executive producer, Factual, ABC TV
Monique Farmer, managing editor sections, The Sydney Morning Herald
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FINALISTS
Sponsored by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
William Birnbauer, The Sunday Age, “Cheated by the Law”
David Higgins, Mark Schliebs and Will Temple, www.news.com.au, “Against the Odds”
Ginny Stein, Dateline, SBS TV, “Rwanda – Questions of Murder”
COMMENDED
Richard Kerbaj, The Australian, “Sheik Hilali”
JUDGES - BROADCAST INTERVIEWING
Belinda Hawkins, journalist, Australian Story, ABC TV
Ray Martin, journalist, Nine Network
Chris Willis, Sydney news director, Seven Network
BROADCAST INTERVIEWING FINALISTS
Sponsored by Ernst and Young
Sarah Ferguson, Sunday, Nine Network, “Broadcast Interviewing”
David Hardaker, Foreign Correspondent and AM, ABC TV and ABC Radio, “Middle East Leaders”
Tony Jones, Lateline, ABC TV, “Tony Jones Interviews”
JUDGES - COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS, OPINION AND CRITIQUE
Paul Kelly, editor-at-large, The Australian
Margot O’Neill, journalist, Lateline, ABC TV
Russell Skelton, journalist, The Age
COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS, OPINION AND CRITIQUE FINALISTS
Sponsored by CommSec
Paul Daley, The Bulletin and The Bulletin Online, “Leadership Shadow Play”
Sally Neighbour, The Australian, “Terrorism Coverage”
Tony Walker, The Australian Financial Review, “Interesting Times”
LITERARY
Best Non-Fiction Book
Sponsored by Copyright Agency Limited
Longlist announced on October 24, 2007
Shortlist announced on November 12, 2007
Andrew Landeryou has a scoop today. He revealed before anyone else that Brendan O'Connor plans to stand as an Independent candidate for the federal seat of Corio. Should be an interesting contest. My cattery is in Corio so all of us cats will be taking a keen interest. No sign of Slanderyou. I want to eat him but he or she is too frightened to pay a visit.
catter8 got it wrong. It is Gavan O'Connor and not Brendan O'Connor. The other O'Connor is the MHR for the seat of Gorton I think. This is what Landeryou put on his blog this morning:
Thursday, 18 October 2007
RATTY: Morose Multi-Millionaire Gavan O'Connor Betrays The Party That Gave Him Everything To Prove His Personal Vote Is Sweet FA
The former Labor member for Corio - deposed by local Party members who were tired of his time-serving bludging approach - Gavan O'Connor has announced his candidacy as an "independent" candidate.
Appropriately his announcement occurred at a yacht club, where multi-millionaires like him live the high life on the Bay. In their case, they've earned the bucks the hard way. Gavan's pulled his multi-million dollar fortune from parliamentary superannuation, while other parts of his family have been convicted of fraud offences attracting long jail sentences.
FRAUDSTER
Mario Siketa - his brother in law and close friend - was sentenced to twenty six months jail last year and ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty of $280,872.75 after being convicted for taking kick-backs when working for Wilson Parking.
Despite a $150,000 salary, O'Connor's brother-in-law copped forty-one payments in cash in secret bribes and a jetski apparently used by the federal MP on occasion totalling $298,000.
We have asked O'Connor whether he received any financial support from his brother-in-law and how many times he used the jet-ski but have not as yet had a response.
LIAR
O'Connor's decision to run comes despite his "solemnly promising" during the ALP preselection process that if he lost that he would not rat on the Party and run as an Independent. A politician who lies. Who knew?
His selfish and insane bid for power will almost certainly derail and incinerate the surprisingly strong campaign of Darren Cheeseman, ALP candidate in the marginal seat of Corangamite. Some speculate this suits O'Connor because he is a very close friend of besieged, elderly Corangamite MP Stewart McArthur.
FLICKING THE SWITCH TO WACKO
O'Connor whose leftard credentials are well established with the exception of his belief that women who have abortions should be imprisoned is expected to be flicking the switch to Wacko in his local campaign.
With even the local Socialist Left faction appalled by his betrayal, the OC hears that O'Connor will be drawing on the support of local "anti-flouride" activists who believe that the use of flouride in our water supply is a sinister method of state control of our lives.
Long-time former electorate officer and Socialist Leftard Judy Loney is believed to have quit O'Connor's office last night in disgust at his decision, creating an opportunity for moonbats of many different persuasions to swoop upon the O'Connor campaign for the imprisonment of women who have abortions and the immediate cessation of the use of flouride in water.
O'CONNOR, FRAUDSTERS AND THE ULTRA RIGHT
While Team Marles is probably upset about his decision to run. The OC welcomes it. We celebrate it. This is the election horse-whipping Gavan O'Connor had to have.
In this poll, we will get to have a thorough examination of:
■ O'Connor's role in a fraud that led to his brother-in-law's imprisonment (still in jail);
■ O'Connor's role in corrupting ALP memberships including branch-stacking;
■ O'Connor's expenditure of taxpayer funds for self-promotion, luxurious overseas travel and his office of filth;
■ O'Connor's participation in a campaign of sleaze including teaming up with embittered ex-girlfriends of political opponents;
■ O'Connor's commitment to imprison women who choose to have an abortion; and
So very much more.
Game on.
Sorry, Fat Boy. No scoop. Try again. You were a day behind the Geelong News and hours behind the ABC and AAP on Gavan O'Connor.
lard boy wont be nominated for a walkley because to get a walkley you have to be a journalist
thr rotund one never has been a journalist and never will be
Landeryou was a member of AJA but his membership was voided.
dough boy might have been a member of the AJA but he was never a journalist!
I saw him in A1 Bakery - he is fugly to be sure
The MEAA (hasn't been the AJA for a long time) would welcome El Gordo as a member. It also represents clowns.
Fat Boy has not been happy with this thread one little bit!
The Landeryou Blog is again first with the latest, and it is a disgrace Andrew has not been nominated this year for a Walkley award, having won the inaugural Walkley Blog Award last year. It seems the smear campaign from this blog of filth (Slanderyou should perform with Filthia at Draculas)has influenced the Walkley judges.
To get back with the OC's latest scoop. The Landeryou blog predicted before anyone else that O'Connor would rat in Corio. Excellent sources and excelllent journalism.
Read below the comment from today's Aged, which only goes to prove how good the Landeryou blog is:
Sunday, 21 October 2007
NUKED: Labor's Rat of Revenge Excoriated In Sunday Age // Stirring Invective Makes OC Look Second Rate // We Pledge To Do Better
gavanoconnorcur
We have rarely before felt the urge to quote the Sunday Age at any length. But today, for your reading pleasure, we republish its blistering nuclear annihilation of disgraced Labor rat Gavan O'Connor, unabridged, without further comment.
More than he can chew
Jason Koutsoukis
October 21, 2007
THE vote was unanimous. The inaugural winner of the Mal Colston Medal for Treachery has gone to … Gavan O'Connor.
Liberals everywhere have been falling over themselves in the stampede to congratulate O'Connor, the venal hypocrite who waited until last Thursday to rat on his party and do the most damage possible to those friends and colleagues he has worked alongside for the past decade.
In case you've never heard of O'Connor, he's the erstwhile Labor MP who is now the independent candidate for Corio, which covers Geelong. Launching his campaign last week, O'Connor accused his former party of branch stacking, money laundering and of making grubby political deals.
O'Connor's transformation from a man of principle and integrity to one deluded by self-interest and greed is a salutary lesson in how politics can corrupt. Make no mistake, O'Connor destroyed himself last Thursday, and everything he once stood for.
He has chosen a road at the end of which he will find only bitterness and misery.
He may not regret his decision today, or tomorrow. But whoever wins the federal election, O'Connor will be haunted by the knowledge that he betrayed the party that made him. It will itch and scratch him like a hair shirt, one he will never be able to take off.
joho200 The best description I have ever heard of what it means to belong to a political party was given by John Howard during his 2005 Christmas valedictory speech to Parliament.
Expressing his thanks for the year's work put in by the Liberal Party organisation, Howard digressed. "We each owe our places in these houses to the support of our party organisations," Howard said.
"I have no delusions of grandeur: if I had not been the endorsed Liberal candidate for Bennelong in 1974, I would never have arrived here … I never forget what I owe to the Liberal Party, any more than anybody on the other side should ever forget what they owe to the Labor Party.
"I respect that in somebody, and I despise those people who throw dirt in the faces of the people who brought them into public prominence."
Strong words, but true, and so the Labor Party will deservedly despise O'Connor.
Way back in 1990, O'Connor was a nobody. A local councillor from Colac, he was given a job in the electorate office of then Labor senator John Button, who had an electorate office in Geelong.
With a taxpayer-funded salary in his pocket (a largesse bestowed on him by the Labor Party), O'Connor used his position to make sure he won Labor preselection for Corio for the 1993 election.
He then used that same job to make sure he won the seat itself once the election was called.
Very few first-time candidates have the luxury of being able to receive a generous salary to campaign full-time (for three whole years), but it was a luxury afforded to O'Connor and one he has conveniently forgotten.
O'Connor would still be a nobody were it not for his party and its members, who sent him to Canberra in 1993 and kept him there at the four subsequent elections.
After he loses this election, which he surely will, O'Connor will be able to retire on a fat pension indexed for the rest of his life, plus a massive lump sum up front. He owes all of that to the ALP.
One can understand the basis of O'Connor's grievance, and why he was so upset at being dumped.
A hard-working, likeable, generous person, O'Connor was a popular local member. But in the end, whatever the flaws of Labor's factional system, O'Connor lost control of his branches.
He was outplayed by a younger, more energetic and better- organised candidate by the name of Richard Marles, and he lost.
O'Connor cried foul, but when the time came to challenge the result in March 2006, he declined. O'Connor has produced not a single piece of credible evidence to support the increasingly wild claims he makes about the preselection process that claimed him.
Nor is Marles without claim to represent the people of Geelong. A talented solicitor and assistant secretary of the ACTU, Marles grew up in Geelong and has lived in the city for the past 10 years.
At 40, Marles' best years are ahead of him. Turning 60 in December, O'Connor's best years are behind him.
O'Connor may have been a perfectly able MP and a decent person, but his political skills and acumen have hardly set Canberra on fire. In 14 years, he has scored not one major political victory over the Coalition, and has made not a single policy contribution of any significance.
O'Connor knew the rules of the game when he entered politics. He has played that game willingly, being unafraid over the years to undermine those he deemed unfit for service.
Former leader Kim Beazley was one of those whom O'Connor worked tirelessly to remove almost from the day Beazley took over as Labor leader.
Nor is O'Connor the first in the history of Australian politics to lose preselection. Former federal Liberal MP David Connolly lost preselection for the Sydney seat of Bradfield to Brendan Nelson before the 1996 election.
The loss hurt Connolly, who was a friend of John Howard. But he kept his mouth shut, and Howard looked after him once he became Prime Minister, justly rewarding him with a plum overseas posting.
Such doors will forever be closed to O'Connor. The biggest splash of his political career, the only time he was ever the focus of an evening news story outside his home city of Geelong, was the way he ended it.
Game on.
it's a disgrace cait catt continually posts on this blog
that's it Andy, the more you keep posting your rants here, the more it confirms what we all know - that no one is botheirng to visit your blog anymore
Why would I want to visit Andy-Cait-Catter8-Delia's blog? I'm more interested in the federal election than dull student politics.
Once again the OC is proved a true patriot. Read her today's expose of Communist ballot rigging:
Monday, 22 October 2007
STALINISM ALIVE AND WELL: No Need For Nostalgia, Democracy USSR Style Has Been Found In A Union Office In North Melbourne
I can't imagine why it is that some people are so critical of some trade unions.
Maybe it's the special approach to the democratic process adopted by the Socialist Left ones.
This email sent last Monday speaks volumes about the fetid undemocratic culture in the Socialist Left controlled Victorian branch of the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union:
This week the AEC will send out nomination forms to National Councillors for the above positions. This is for the election of Sue Lines and Troy Burton as Assistant National Secretaries. Sue and Troy will nominate (you will not need to do anything) and due process will ensure they are duly elected. (OC: Yeh, a very vigorous democratic process it looks like. If anyone other than Sue or Troy nominates, we know what happens next.)
Thanks Jane
JANE FARRELL
Assistant Branch Secretary
LHMU Victorian Branch
9235 7777
9235 7770 (fax)
jane@lhmu.org.au
Game on.
Where are the photos of the fat crook? I have bought a wide screen, 32-inch monitor so they can fit and want to see Andy in his glory. Or infamy.
Hey Slanderyou, can you run Andy's court date and details again? Wouldn't want to miss that.
There's a cattery out on North Lygon Street in Brunswick. Is that where Landeryou lives or is he running it as a business pretending to be a woman called Cait Catt? If so, do his bankruptcy administrators and the financial regulators know? Does Landeryou really dress in drag to play Cait? Very murky and very, very sick.
Previous comment is from a sick person who needs urgent psychiatric treatment.
catter8 has told us her cattery is in the federal electorate of Corio, not in the Peoples Socialist Republic of Brunswick.
I think Cait Catt is loverly. I'd love to spend an evening with her. Please tell me her address and phone number.
ASIC want to spend some time with Caitt, too.
What are the details of Landeryou's forthcoming court appearance? Should the friends and supporters of Team Slanderyou meet up beforehand to cheer Andy on? Does anyone have an ugly grandmather, great aunt etc who can sit outside the court and knit in true tricoteuse style? That would be great for the TV cameras and guarantee maximum coverage.
The fat crook is ripping off the newspaper he urges us all to boycott again today with a piece on National Party pin up Hajnal Ban. What a pathetic shonk!
I am sick to death of Landeryou posing as Cait Catt and catter8.
Why can't posts from both of these morons be banned from this site, just as Landershonk does with anyone he doesn't like.
A poll should be held to test viewer feeling about the catts. I'm sure it will show an overwhelming response to ban both of them (or is it Landershonk?)
I pledge to eat Slanderyou if he ever visits my cattery.
The previous post makes me more determined to do so.
Mr or Ms or Mrs Slanderyou is setting up to ban me from this blog. That's Slanderyou at his or her worst. Banning people.
that's the trouble
if team slanderyou resorts to the same shady sleazy post deleting and alteration that fat boy engages in they are only sinking to his his level.
better we leave him to post away and make fun of his feeble attempts to garner interest.
at least then we know that no one is reading his blog.
Post a Comment