http://australianpolitics.com Resources, News & Commentary from Malcolm Farnsworth Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:23:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Resources, News & Commentary from Malcolm Farnsworth AustralianPolitics.com no Resources, News & Commentary from Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://australianpolitics.com/category/executive http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/06/gillard-criticism-is-sexist-says-brown.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/06/gillard-criticism-is-sexist-says-brown.html#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:56:31 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=5042 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/06/gillard-criticism-is-sexist-says-brown.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/05/gillard-willesee-interview-embarrassment.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/05/gillard-willesee-interview-embarrassment.html#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:34:09 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=5034 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/05/gillard-willesee-interview-embarrassment.html/feed 1 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/01/gillard-building-a-new-economy-speech.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/01/gillard-building-a-new-economy-speech.html#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:24:14 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=5013 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/02/01/gillard-building-a-new-economy-speech.html/feed 2 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/28/gillard-protest-press-conference.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/28/gillard-protest-press-conference.html#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:45:31 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=5006 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/28/gillard-protest-press-conference.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/23/pyne-gillard-richard-iii.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/23/pyne-gillard-richard-iii.html#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:34:22 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4982 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/23/pyne-gillard-richard-iii.html/feed 1 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/22/ministers-line-up-to-back-gillard-over-pokies-backdown.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/22/ministers-line-up-to-back-gillard-over-pokies-backdown.html#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:52:33 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4974 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/22/ministers-line-up-to-back-gillard-over-pokies-backdown.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/21/wilkie-withdraws-support-for-gillard-government.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/21/wilkie-withdraws-support-for-gillard-government.html#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:21:03 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4956 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/21/wilkie-withdraws-support-for-gillard-government.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/21/gillard-poker-machines-reforms.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/21/gillard-poker-machines-reforms.html#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:53:26 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4949 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/21/gillard-poker-machines-reforms.html/feed 0 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/06/lets-all-drink-to-bob-hawke.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/06/lets-all-drink-to-bob-hawke.html#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:27:54 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4820 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/06/lets-all-drink-to-bob-hawke.html/feed 0 Bob Hawke,Paul Jennings The YouTube video below shows 82-year-old former Prime Minister Bob Hawke downing a beer at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday. - It brought to mind a 1975 ditty by Paul Jennings, a well-known impressionist of the time. - In 1975, The YouTube video below shows 82-year-old former Prime Minister Bob Hawke downing a beer at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday. It brought to mind a 1975 ditty by Paul Jennings, a well-known impressionist of the time. In 1975, Hawke was the President of the ACTU. He didn't reach the House of Representatives until 1980. He was Australia's third longest-serving prime minister from 1983 until 1991. Click to listen to "Let's all drink to Bob Hawke" Whilst a student at Oxford University in 1953, Hawke drank 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Hawke recalled the feat in his memoirs: "In more down-to-earth fashion I inadvertently achieved notoriety as a result of one of the quaint and ancient customs of my college. A system operated at dinner in the Great Hall under which if an offence was committed - in my case coming to dinner without a gown (some bastard had borrowed mine) - one was 'sconced'. This meant having to drink two and a half pints of ale out of an antique pewter pot in less than twenty-five seconds. Failure to do so involved paying for the first drink, plus another two and a half pints. My chance of avoiding payment lay in downing the ale within the limit and hoping that the Sconcemaster - the President of the Junior Common Room - could not beat my time. I was too broke for the fine and necessity became the mother of ingestion. I downed the contents of the pot in eleven seconds, left the Sconcemaster floundering, and entered the Guniness Book of Records with the fastest time ever recorded. This feat was to endear me to some of my fellow Australians more than anything else I ever achieved." AustralianPolitics.com no http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/01/1982-1983-cabinet-papers.html http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/01/1982-1983-cabinet-papers.html#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:33:04 +0000 Malcolm Farnsworth http://australianpolitics.com/?p=4745 http://australianpolitics.com/2012/01/01/1982-1983-cabinet-papers.html/feed 0 Bob Hawke,Jim Stokes,Malcolm Fraser Cabinet papers from 1982, the final full year of the Fraser coalition government, and 1983, the first year of the Hawke Labor government, have been released. - The papers were formerly released under the thirty-year rule, Cabinet papers from 1982, the final full year of the Fraser coalition government, and 1983, the first year of the Hawke Labor government, have been released. The papers were formerly released under the thirty-year rule, but this has been reduced to twenty years. Until 2020, two years of Cabinet documents will be released each year. National Archives of Australia - Index to 1982 and 1983 Cabinet Papers 1982-1983: The historical context and issues of interest - Dr. Jim Stokes Listen to Dr. Stokes (22m) PLAY Listen to Bob Hawke discuss the events of 1983 (5m) PLAY Listen to Bob Hawke answer media questions about his government in 1983 (26m) PLAY AustralianPolitics.com no