It’s a rich world of irony in Australia’s political world, from the Labor Party who tries to end union power to a conservative party called the Liberals. Bill Collopy investigates our political language.
Irony
Atkins: Barnaby needs to listen to more Alanis Morissette
Coalition politicians are trying to brush off the latest embarrassing Barnaby Joyce “toilet paper” gaffe as Joyce being ironic. But it’s pretty ironic that the Queensland LNP are hiding behind irony, writes Dennis Atkins
Barnaby Joyce explains the Large Hadron Collider
And the stimulus package and sandwiches and particular physics
Limbaugh hospitalised and internet explodes
Rush Limbaugh, the notorious conservative US shock jock, is recovering after an emergency hospital visit in Hawaii hospital. The Atlantic Wire reports on the bitter internet battle between Limbaugh’s supporters and detractors.
Guy Rundle: Bruno producers muzzle Chaser: ironic or funny? Neither?
The Chaser’s Julian Morrow accuses the producers of Bruno of lacking a sense of irony after they made the boys sign agreements not to disrupt the film’s premiere. Guy Rundle tells him a thing or two about irony.
