You rat-arseddirtybloodyfrickin@#$%INGGGG

I'm sorry, but this has pushed your usually erudite host into total incoherence. This is beyond the pale of the palest pale. This is nothing less than one party, in what is ostensibly a two party democratic country, attempting to obliterate the foundations of the Opposition party. No more, no less. I was speechless when I heard it, then seething, then speechless again. We live in interesting times. They're sure not democratic ones.

The Special Minister of State, Eric Abetz, will tell a Sydney Institute function that unions and other non-government groups should be listed as "associated entities" under the Electoral Act because they exist almost solely for the benefit of the Labor Party.

Senator Abetz, who is preparing to take the plan for electoral reform to cabinet this month, is also examining ways to toughen up disclosure requirements for the Australian Conservation Foundation, WWF Australia, the Wilderness Society and the RSPCA.

More at the SMH.

I propose, that by the same token, we subject the large corporations that provide the backbone to the Liberal Party to the same level of scrutiny. Let's see Piers Akerman's name on John Howard's tax return for once, if we're being perfectly honest, shall we? Worthy organisations like the Total Environment Centre and the Australian Conservation Foundation have already had to face funding cuts - not to mention smears on their good character - as they scramble to prove that they are not political mouthpieces for the Opposition for simply advocating a position other than that which the government holds. In case some people had forgotten, IT'S A FREE COUNTRY (or was once).

I'm disgusted, I'm seething, and I'm VERY BLOODY ANGRY. Vote early and often, and GET EM OUT! Thankyou.