One for the political communication kids

So this post is completely unrelated to KCB201 Virtual Cultures, but it is related to another QUT unit that I am undertaking this semester; KCB302 Political Communication.

For any of you struggling with the last couple of weeks of semester, here is something that might take your mind of it for a short while and bring a laugh to your lips. Even if you know nothing about the contest between democrat presidential candidates Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama it may still be mildly amusing...

Don't get too excited - it's not quite as risque as the YouTube still looks below.




It brought a whole new meaning to political communication for me.
Kudos to creator wolf084.
Enjoy.


For those of you who take politics a little more seriously, I wish I had been in Parliament on the day John Howard and Paul Keating went head to head on the "great censure motion"! At the beginning of the parliamentary year in 1995, where Australia had the worst current account deficit on record, this was an amazing moment in Question Time where Howard introduced a censure motion against Keating. Poor Mr Speaker (the Hon. Stephen Martin) had a difficult time with this one.

It begins...



Who ever said John Howard was unflappable? If you ask me he was absolutely riled! You don't see this sort of high dudgeon from Howard these days - perhaps it's because as (former) Prime Minister he felt he had to tone things down and maintain an unemotional refined image. What a shame.

Even better is the reply by Keating...



As always it is done with a fair amount of personal invective and spiteful vigour. And people say politics is stale and yet they can watch programs like Big Brother?

This sort of fervourous debate gives me faith that Australian politics is not quite as dead-beat and boring as we are sometimes criticised of.