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Jodie Moore was born in Woodridge, Queensland on 11
April 1976. In 2002 she was awarded a Venus Award for Best Adult
Actress in the U.S.A. She first ran for a seat in her local state
legislator seat of Woodridge in March 2001 where she achieved 5%
of the primary vote. She also ran for the federal seat of Ryan and
the federal senate in 2004 and was interviewed by Sixty Minutes
and other T.V. and Newspapers. Jodie Moore began her first large
scale promotion with the launch of Australia's largest billboard
advertisement, unveiled at 11 am Tuesday the 2nd of March, but it
was almost immediately pulled down by Main Roads Department. Over
700 Queenslanders joined "Jodie Moore's Porn Star Party"
in just 3 days, giving her way more than the required 500 members
to register as a political party with the electoral commission.
You could read her policies on jodiemoore.org , which is now no
longer on-line, but it is still on her other website jodiemoore.com.
Joh Bjelke Petersen
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Sometimes people get caught with their pants
down, but Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was caught
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In September 2005 Marcus Ehrlich was voted deputy Mayor of the NSW town of Woollahra at the age of only 22!!

Mark Latham was the Federal Member for Werriwa from 1994 to 2005 but suddenly rose to national fame when the Labor Party, realizing they were never going to win an election with Simon Crean and could not possibly re-re-recycle Kim Beazley again, elected him as their leader. John Howard's party had a field day digging up old quotations of Mark Latham which included; " George W.Bush is the most dangerous and incompetent president in living memory" , "John Howard is an arselicker" and the event where he had punched a taxi driver. Before actually starting work he spent a few days going around places like the American Embassy to apologize and assure people we should look at the future and not the past. Seemed to do well right at the start and at one time had a 66% approval rating. He had also been a critic of the Northern Territory railway but when it opened he withdrew his criticism.
In June 2004 Mark Latham, thinking he'd win green votes AND youth votes at the same time, thought it would be a good idea if rockstar / environmentalist Peter Garrett would join his political party, but the rest of the country, including most of his own Labor party, thought it was a really bad idea, especially when it was discovered that Peter had not even voted for the last ten years and was not even a member of the Labor party. In July he acccused the Howard government of employing a 'dirt-unit' orchestrating a pre-election smear campaign when one accusation after the other hit the news headlines; his ex-wife told media how Mark cheated on her with another woman, a man who had come into his office to complain about potplants out the front was punched in the head etc. He copped lots of criticism for sticking to his 'bring the troops home from Iraq by Christmas' promise, also from the US. Managed to insert some more conditions into the Free Trade Agreement that John Howard was trying to negotiate with the US though this held it up and now, just after the 2004 elections, the Americans are trying to re-negotiate things again and the FTA has not passed yet. During an interview he admitted to having smoked dope and, contrary to Bill Clinton, said that he did inhale, though did not want to elaborate on whether he enjoyed it.
Despite all his best efforts to gain popularity he was defeated in a major way in the October 2004 federal elections as most of the nation thought he was way too inexperienced to be put in charge of a country. An advertising campaign by the Liberals who kept on highlighting how a council in Sydney had descended into financial chaos while Mark was mayor there may have had something to do with this. Not too much later he suffered from pancreatitis and quit his job as party leader. The Labor Party now needed a new leader and re-re-recycled Kim Beazley once more. Mark also has a habit of not showing up at court hearings relating to him allegedly attacking photographer Ross Schultz and destroying his $9000.- camera in January 2006. In Mark's defence we must note that the photographer was a nuisance jumping on him as he left a fast food restaurant and invading his privacy.
In 2006 Mark's book 'The Latham Diaries' hit the shops,
in this book he manages to insult just about every senior Labor
politician, from the current party leader Kim Beazley all the way
back to Gough Whitlam.
John Howard's party thought this book was the best thing since sliced
bread and they thoroughly enjoyed it. Mark Latham is the author
of five other books on Australian public policy, including Civilising
Global Capital (1998) and From the Suburbs (2003). Some highlights
of the Latham Diaries include;
- Richard Butler; has not resigned as Governor of Tasmania but was
sacked for getting pissed at the Royal wedding in Denmark.
- Kevin Rudd; treacherous, nasty piece of work, addicted to the
media and leaking. A junior minister in government, at best.
- Kim Beazley; indecent, dirty dog, stands for nothing and does
nothing.
- Amanda van Stone; junkfood guts.
- Bob McMullan; combover.
- Bob Carr; A grade asshole.
After the book had been published Bob Hawke commented that he had
tried very hard to stop the Labor Party from choosing Mark as a
leader as he knew it was a disaster waiting to happen.
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Ex-New South Wales MP, Aboriginal affairs minister, and Labor frontbencher Milton Orkopoulos was found guilty on 28 sex and drug counts in 2008, he used to offer teenage boys cannabis and then have sex with them when the drugs took effect.
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Mike Berwick was one of the hippies that protested
in the 1984 Bloomfield Track Blockade at Cape
Tribulation, but when the battle was lost and the other greenies
left the area he stayed on and became editor of local newspaper
the Mossman Gazette, part time barramundi farmer, and mayor of the
Douglas Shire in 1991, and thanks to the lack of competition remained
so for an unbelievable 17 years.
Under his leadership the Douglas Shire Council kept the local newspaper
well filled with one controversy and blunder after the other, ratepayers
dollars were wasted on studies whose recommendations were rarely
followed up, a stream of expensive courtcases, an illegal ferry
tax that was ordered to be abolished by the Ombudsman, a ferry
debacle, an illegally (half)built $375,000
toilet block that was never finished and a controversial townplan
that stopped people from building a house on their own freehold
land.
His entire council was on the brink of being sacked several times
and being labelled as "dysfunctional" by the State Government
Minister, after several Crime and Misconduct inquiries the council's
CEO was sacked, and in August 2007 Local Government Minister Andrew
Fraser solved the problem of the dysfunctional council by amalgamating
the Douglas Shire with Cairns Shire so Mike and the other six councillors
can go and look for a new job.
Although the state wide shire amalgamation had mainly
been for the purpose of eliminating financially troubled shires
this amalgamation was the perfect opportunity for the State Government
to once and for all get rid of the dysfunctional council that had
wasted so much of their time over the years with one inquiry after
the other, even though the Douglas Shire was financially quite healthy,
more than the Cairns Shire that swallowed it up.
One of the issues that frustrated residents north of the Daintree
river over the years is that Mike Berwick was against providing
mains electricity to their houses so they have to improvise with
noisy expensive generators and solar panels that don't work well
in a rainforest, while there is a cable across the Daintree river
providing electricity to Mike Berwick and his neighbours!
Thanks to this no-electricity stance people north of the Daintree
river are still living with noisy generators which pollute far more
than grid power ever would, and bear the sky high costs of this.
Subsidies for solar power have been available but were axed mid
2009, but solar power in the rainforest is a bit like hydro power
in the desert, there is only a short time of the year where it actually
works....
Many residents of the area had a good laugh when the local newspaper
reported Mike electrocuted himself in September 2004 Later it was
rumoured that he made up the story when the local hospital could
not even find any burn marks on him, because he was too scared to
show up for work that day with a big politician visiting that day
to blast him over his performance.
Opinions on Mike are very divided, some think he is a hero for saving
the Daintree with his radical townplan, others hate him intensely
for having severely restricted people's rights to build on their
own freehold land. And to add insult to injury, all the restrictions
Mike brought in did not start north of the Daintree River, no, they
started north of the Alexandra Range (north of Mike's house so he
was never affected).
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Mike runs a barramundi farm and had regular battles with rival barramundi farmer Geff McCloy who runs an award winning barramundi farm near Wonga beach. He claimed that Mike was using his position in local government to make life difficult for him, Mike responded with various statements that he later had to withdraw when he lost a defamation courtcase in 2008 and he was also ordered to place a big ad in the local newspaper apologising to McCloy and his family.

In 1995 she became the youngest woman to ever enter
federal parliament in Australia, and to lead a political party.
And in 2003, after serving two four year terms with the Democrats,
also became the youngest politician to qualify for a pension since
Nationals senator Bill O'Chee. At the age of 34, she was now eligible
for an indexed pension of $51,380 for life, but kept on going strong
as Senator for South Australia.
In October 2006, while she was preggo and had to be operated on
a complication, she evaluated her situation and decided to retire
when the next elections are up, to spend more time at home with
husband Ian Smith and son Conrad. This will make her one of Australia's
youngest parliamentary pensioners at the age of 37, qualifying for
an indexed pension for life of nearly $67,000 a year, boosted by
additonal allowances for spending 14 months as leader of the Democrats.
For more info see her official webpage....
Nigel Scullion was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Nationals in 2007. Not long after that reports hit the media that once while he headed an Australian delegation to a national fisheries conference in St. Petersburg he ended up stripped to his underpants handcuffed to a pole in a sleezy Russian nightclub. When asked about this he made no silly excuses like Kevin Rudd who claimed to be too drunk to remember anything about the New York strip club, he happily admitted that this night had been one of the best nights of his life, and he highly recommended to anyone never to refuse an offer to go drinking with Icelandic whalers and Canadian crab fishermen.
Forget about 22 year old Deputy Mayor Ehrlich above, we have been advised that Nick Adams was voted to be the Deputy Mayor of Ashfield on his 21st birthday!

In the days that he was Prime Minister he managed to seriously piss off Malaysia's Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir by labelling him a "recalcitrant". Despite numerous calls refused to apologize for this resulting to cancellations of billions fo dollars of contracts and trade, even at his retirement in late 2003 Dr. Mahathir was still grumbling about it and according to the Bangkok Post he had been instrumental in many Asian trade conferences to block trade deals with Australia so it will never be possible to calculate how many billions of dollars that one word has cost Australia. This was not the only time he insulted somebody, you can see some of his other insults here... In 1986 he also managed to upset people at home by warning that if they didn't work harder Australia would become a banana-republic and created a recession that he said "we had to have". Before he became Prime Minister and was still a treasurer under Guiness Book of Records beer-drinking record holder Prime Minister Bob Hawke he floated the Aussie dollar that crashed from U$90c to U$57c but he reckons that this saved the country because otherwise "it would have knocked the country int a cocked hat". In 2004 his ex-wife told media how he she had been dumped by him at a dinner party, he thought that dinner at a friend's house was a suitable time and place to announce to his wife that he had decided to break up with her!
Although officially retired from politics he still keeps voicing his opinions through the media from time to time, in March 2010 calling Tony Abbott a nutter and intellectual nobody.

A fish and chips shop owner who rose to fame after
being elected in 1996, founding the political party One Nation in
1997 and expressing her rather radical views on Asian immigration
and Aboriginal welfare which caused huge embarrassment to Australia
in neighbouring Asian countries ans saw her expelled from the Liberal
Party, and her first parliamentary speech where she warned the country
of being swamped by Asians send a few shock waves around the country
and the world.
She later went on a downhill slide when investigations turned up
irregularities in the party's dealings like electoral fraud. Pauline
and her co-founder David Ettridge were convicted and put in jail
where they remained for three months until released after on their
third appeal in November 2003 the conviction for electoral fraud
was overturned. Ironically enough she had actively campaigned for
tougher sentencing before she got what she had asked for. Tony Abbott
came under some criticism after her release as he had been the driving
force behind the witch hunt raising the money for the legal representation
to put her in jail.
She was also the inventor of the phrase "please explain"
which found its way into the vocabulary of many Aussies, and she
has a musical son named Adam who recorded the song 'Innocence' to
raise funds for his mother's legal battles, you can buy it on Pauline's
official website www.paulinehanson.org.au
In July 2004 the nation became aware of her sexy 20 year old daughter
Lee when she modelled for Ralph men's magazine, dressed in a bikini
which had been chosen by Pauline, after several other (smaller)
ones had not been approved. Lee scored heaps better than her mother,
in a 2004 survey by FHM magazine Pauline was voted the least attractive
woman in Australia, followed by Senator Amanda Vanstone.
Although she had said once, when released from jail, that she would
have to have "rocks in her head" to ever join politics
again she still stood as an independent candidate again during the
October 2004 elections. Although she did not get enough votes to
re-start a political career she did get more votes by herself than
the entire Labour Party.
Mid 2007: Pauline has announced a come-back with Pauline's United
Australia Party, to be shown on the ballot papers as the abbreviation
Pauline. At the age of 53 she is not giving up and plans to re-enter
politics, but with a change of tactic, her main policy of the past
of warning the country of the danger of Asian immigration has now
shifted to calling for a ban on Muslim immigration.
January 2008: Kevin Rudd has promised a review of how political
parties get paid for their election campaign costs. At the moment
you get paid a $2.10 per vote and this has resulted in Pauline's
United Australia Party receiving $213,095.- , way more than what
she actually spent on her campaign.
February 2010: Pauline has had enough of Australia and is selling
her house and packing her bags to move to the UK.
We seriously wonder how long she will last there, she used to be
worried about Australia being swamped by migrants, wait till she
sees the situation in England!

Peter Garrett was born in Sydney, is a committed Christian,
married with three daughters, studied art and law, headed the Australian
Conservation Foundation for years and was lead singer of Midnight
Oil from 1973 onwards.
Their songs had strong political lyrics condemning uranium and all
other sorts of mining and US militairy, and supporting environment
and Aboriginal rights.
Peter first attempted to get into Australian politics in 1984 with
his Nuclear Disarmament Party but did not manage to get enough votes.
In June 2004, when Labor leader Mark Latham was trying to appeal
to the younger voters, he was made Shadow Parliamentary Secretary
for Reconciliation and the Arts In June 2005.
In December 2006 Kevin Rudd, the newly-elected Labor Party leader,
announced that he had given Peter the job of Shadow Minister for
Climate Change, Environment & Heritage and Arts.
Greenies were delighted with Peter Garret, known for his strong
views on nuclear and environmental issues, now being responsible
for the environment. But much to their surprise and dismay Peter
by now had softened and modified many of his previous views, the
American base at Pine Gap was now OK with him, and he approved the
Bell Bay Pulp Mill in the environmentally sensitive Tamar Valley
in Tasmania, a controversial plan to dredge Melbourne's Port Phillip
Bay, a major gas plant on a West Australian island surrounded by
fragile eco systems, and a major expansion of South Australia's
Beverley uranium mine, which was heavily criticized by the Australian
Conservation Foundation (of which Peter once was president for ten
years of his life). Opposition members called it the Greatest Backflip
In Australian History and many Midnight Oil fans were also bitterly
disappointed.
On the positive side, Peter has also received several awards ranging
from the Australian Humanitarian Foundation Award to a Member of
the Order of Australia, and although his band Midnight Oil had split
up in 2002 he regrouped with them several times for fundraising
concerts for the Asian Tsunami and the Victorian bushfire appeal.
But in February 2010 the shit hit the fan with the Home Insulation Fiasco, a massive WOFTAM in which $2.5 billion dollars was spent on dodgy home insulation batts, leading to a spate of house fires and four people killed installing it, Peter got the blame for it all and was demoted.
Here is a selection of Midnight Oil songs where you can hear Peter in action:

Queensland Liberal Peter Slipper slipped out of the
parliamentary chamber for a quick visit to the toilet on December
12, 2002 . However, after finishing his business in there he was
unable to open the door to return to the chamber. He unsuccessfully
pushed and pulled the door bit it would not move! Fortunately he
had his mobile phone on him and he rang fellow Liberal MP Peter
Lindsay to organize a rescue party to save him from his entrapment.
Four security guards left Australia's government in the parliamentary
chamber unprotected and vulnerable to terrorist attack and raced
to the toilets to rescue the imprisoned politician. They did not
take long to resolve the situation and calmly slid open the toilet
door. He was in the toilet for the disabled which has a sliding
door! Speaker Neil Andrew said MPs should sharpen their toilet know-how
in time for the Christmas party period.
In 2008 his name appeared again in the media when he was alleged
to have made a mobile phonecall from an Aussie navy ship in the
Red Sea that gave away their position and the next mission had to
be abandoned.

Australia's longest serving Prime Minister, managed to stay in his position for considerable time from 1949 till 1966. Most remembered for introducing conscription, sending lots of young Aussies to Vietnam ( quite a few went in hiding as well to avoid going), keeping Aborigines under the thumb and for keeping Australia white, prosperous and free of evils like communism and Asians. Later became a Sir and wrote several books and has the Menzies Foundation named after him.
Roy Smith is MP for the NSW Shooters Party and he reckons that children should start firearms training from age 10 and shooting programs should become part of school curriculums.

Mr Highway was one of seven candidates running for
mayor in the Darwin City Council elections on May 29 2004 and has
the idea to make Darwin the Amsterdam of Australia by legalizing
drugs. He says that once he gets the job of Lord Mayor he will accelerate
the Network Against Prohibition campaign for the re-legalisation
of all drugs that would attract thousands of tourists from all around
the globe. Cannabis will be sold from local cafes and other drugs
would be available from licensed sellers.
Stuart Highway was sentenced early October to 8 months jail for
his involvement in a Community Smoke-In held at Darwin in October
2002. The Smoke-in had been organised by the drug law-reform group
the Network Against
Prohibition (NAP), of which Mr Highway is a founding member.
NAP formed to oppose the Martin Government’s ‘drug
house’ legislation , this allows police to glue a 1.2
metre high fluro green poster on your front door declaring your
home a drughouse.
For more info on the 'Free Stuart Highway' campaign and on how you
can visit him in Berrimah Prison click
here...
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Tom Koutsantonis is the South Australian Road Safety Minister but despite this impressive title he has built up a list of more than 30 traffic offences which include speeding, running red lights, using mobile phone while driving etc. He had also lost his licence for three months a few years ago.
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