tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800950.post2104393051431814087..comments2024-02-11T09:30:14.251+08:00Comments on The Perth Files: Storming the election boothsFreocooksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02193077320954807218noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800950.post-69284877533396766072008-09-12T17:00:00.000+08:002008-09-12T17:00:00.000+08:00Mr Cookster,Just wanted to thank you for your blog...Mr Cookster,<BR/><BR/>Just wanted to thank you for your blog, I've been 'commuting' between South America, New York and London and have lost track with a strong passion of mine - Politics, and in particular within my home state of WA. Thanks for your insights!!! :)<BR/><BR/>Cheers, IsaakIsaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01095288305940737976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800950.post-8477199446395644332008-09-09T10:22:00.000+08:002008-09-09T10:22:00.000+08:00apologies to WB Yeats…Turning and turning in an ea...apologies to WB Yeats…<BR/><BR/>Turning and turning in an early gyre<BR/>The Premier cannot hear the punters;<BR/>Things fall apart; Labor’s Right cannot hold;<BR/>A hung Parly is loosed upon the world,<BR/>The one-vote, one-value tide is loosed, and everywhere<BR/>The ceremony of bongs is drowned;<BR/>The best lack all conviction, while the worst<BR/>Put up sites about Troy Buswell.<BR/>Surely some revolution is at hand;<BR/>Surely the Farmer Coming is at hand.<BR/>The Farmer Coming! Hardly are those words out<BR/>When a vast image out of Spiritus Boondi<BR/>Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the Wheatbelt<BR/>A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<BR/>A lisp blank and pitiless as the sun,<BR/>Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<BR/>Reel shadows of the indignant metro birds.<BR/>The darkness drops again; but now I know<BR/>That seven years of Labor luvvies<BR/>Were vexed to nightmare by a Carping cradle,<BR/>And what yellowcaked beast, its hour come round at last,<BR/>Slouches towards West Perth to be born?David Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15611780701417408618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20800950.post-6727142249007365892008-09-06T10:59:00.000+08:002008-09-06T10:59:00.000+08:00Perth's polling booths are a great place to hang -...Perth's polling booths are a great place to hang - lots of cheap / free food and a real festival atmosphere!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com