Batshit Moments in Australian Politics

Documenting the weird and wonderful moments happening down under. Smash follow.

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Homophobic senator Cory Bernardi accidentally walks into a 'Vote Yes for Gay Marriage' photoshoot, 2017

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Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen

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Regularly forget we posted this and then are hit like a brick with notifications like this one

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Merry Fuckmas mates

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In a 1996 by-election, one of the candidates for Australia's parliament changed his name to Steve Grim-Reaper so he wouldn't get mixed up with other candidates

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Update: Thanks to some brilliant suggestions from you all, we have an even better contender - A man who ran in the 1998 federal election named 'Prime Minister John Piss the Family Court and Legal Aid' who received a whopping 183 votes for the party 'Abolish Child Support'. Sounds like a lovely guy.

Unfortunately for Mr Prime Minister Piss, this name change came back to haunt him after he was denied a passport a few years later due to the name. This led to this quite incredible entry into Australia's case law that is still frequently cited today:

Unfortunately for Pisso, the court ruled that the government was right to deny him a passport, on the grounds that the phrase "Prime Minister" might be considered by some to be offensive.

Australia went on to change the laws around name changes as a result of Mr PM JP, making him the first and last Prime Minister Piss we'll likely ever see on the ballot in our lifetimes, and democracy is all the poorer for it.

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Honourable mention to this headline from a South African newspaper:

And this quote from Time magazine:

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There was more than one of them!

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"BRUCE THE-FAMILY-COURT-REFUSES-MY-DAUGHTER'S-RIGHT-TO-KNOW-HER-FATHER"!!!!!

Truly one of the names of all time

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That is a name that answers every question about why he's not allowed contact with his daughter, I feel.

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HELLO???

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How does this post keep getting weirder.

So we looked it up and yes, it was indeed the 'Dane' recording studio owner who attempted to stage a fascist uprising in Melbourne (of all places) in the 90s.

This was the last update we could find on him in the news, sounds like he's doing well for himself:

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Not DTF 😔💔

um

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Kids today will never know the joy of the Australian government-funded free-to-air porn hour on the "Special Broadcasting Service" TV network.

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Hey did you see the politician elected as ‘right-wing’ who then proceeded to come out as gay and say he loved immigrants. Because it’s beautiful.

I think we speak for the entire nation when we say: lol

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Wait is poob australian

yep!

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🫡

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what the fuck is the statistics office planning

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˙ʇɐqʇᴉnɹɟ ɐ ǝɯoɔǝq oʇ pǝpᴉɔǝp ǝʌ,I

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To Australians this is just a normal post

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Just remembered that one time the Australian government for some reason decided to have Cate Blanchette and Huge Jackman come up with their future policies

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May, 2019: Minister Angus Taylor forgets to switch to his alt account before commenting praise on his own Facebook status

To this day, Angus cannot post on social media without being flooded with comments reading "Fantastic. Great Move. Well done Angus."

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Pleased to announce this guy just became the leader of the opposition in Australia, and the comments on instagram did not dissapoint

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Police have tweeted that large bags of cocaine are washing up on the beaches of Sydney and have asked the public not to touch them.

Merry Christmas everyone

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Don't know what possessed us to make this. Sorry.

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Tis the season

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Occasionally as an Australian you'll be talking to someone from overseas, and you'll discover a common phrase you took for granted is, in fact, not universally known outside of our country.

Turns out casually dropping "fuck me dead" into conversation will give unsuspecting Americans an aneurism.

The more you know.

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Imagine being on a work call with an Aussie and they suddenly announce they're gonna blow a load in response to a problem.

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Not Aussie but I asked an American once if she was taking the piss ( i.e. pulling my leg, joking. Perfectly cromulent and friendly english expression)

and she got really upset because she thought I was threatening to piss ON her

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This is killing me

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Rifling through the tags, here's some other terms which are apparently causing mass carnage whenever they escape our borders:

Having a goon (i.e. Sipping on a delightful wine)

Having a gaytime (Eating an icecream)

Having a sticky beak (Investigating)

Take a squiz (To have a sticky beak)

Get stuffed (To express a revelation is most frightful)

Chuck a sickie (Take a day off work due to the humours being misaligned)

Chuck a wobbly (When one's temperament becomes visibly upset)

Carry on like a pork chop (Acting most silly indeed)

Thongs (flip flops)

Hot chook (Pre-cooked supermarket rotisserie chicken, otherwise known as the Bachelor's Handbag)

Fair suck of the sauce bottle (Let's be real)

Shits me to tears (Something is mildly annoying)

Not here to fuck spiders (Expressing a situation is serious)

Having a piss-up (A social gathering)

I'll shout you (offering to goon an old chum)

A cruisy place (a relaxed atmosphere, where one might shout and goon the night away while enjoying many a gaytime in your favourite thongs)

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Some usamerican friends of mine recently learned the Aussie meaning of snail trail (the line of hair from the bellybutton heading south). They were horrified to say the least

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Don't know what possessed us to make this. Sorry.

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Best part of non-American twitter is that sometimes Trending In [Country] will just be a set of loose words that people from your country happen to be using a lot today.

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