The Harsh Couch

Intros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekman_transport

RIP

RIP Stella Young

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/08/stella-young-disability-activist-dies http://youtu.be/SxrS7-I_sMQ http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/stella-youngs-letter-to-herself-at-80-years-old-20141122-11llol.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-08/17-things-stella-young-wanted-you-to-know/5950814 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-08/what-we-learned-from-stella-young/5950876

She even had some things to say about Pistorius: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-19/young-oscar-pistorius-and-an-unfathomable-crime/4527424 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-23/young-disability-and-the-pistorius-sentencing-farce/5835928

RIP Keith Martin https://sg.news.yahoo.com/worlds-fattest-man-dies-age-225026543.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11275180/Worlds-fattest-man-Keith-Martin-dies-aged-44.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listoftheheaviestpeople

RIP Ralph Baer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RalphH.Baer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagnavoxOdyssey <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShootingGallery%28gameaccessory%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShootingGallery%28game_accessory%29

RIP Ian McLagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McLagan

RIP Paul Rosolie (we wish) http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2014/12/08/why-it-doesnt-matter-that-paul-rosolie-wasnt-eaten-by-an-anaconda/

RIP Brian 'Wimpy Roy' Goble http://www.factmag.com/2014/12/08/punk-legend-brian-wimpy-roy-goble-of-d-o-a-and-subhumans-has-died/

RIP Philip Hughes

PMs of Oz.

Number 8: William 'Billy' Hughes.

Particular Baptists are Strict Baptists but are not necessarily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReformedBaptists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonwealthPolice">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonwealthPolice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedAustraliaParty">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedAustraliaParty <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RacialEqualityProposal">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RacialEquality_Proposal

Aggressive driving in Sydney http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/09/round-the-world-cyclist-names-sydney-as-having-the-most-aggressive-drivers

Crime and Punishment

Chapter 8, or the First Scene in the Second Act (aka Part Two)

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-christmas-party-busted-by-other-police-20141209-123by6.html

Bananaland

Cruise ship terminal protest http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/more-than-1200-people-protest-asf-plans-for-wavebreak-island-development/story-fnj94j0t-1227147808598?sv=a98418d9d213ed5d8ddd045f53afb886

Qld Special Branch http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/inside-queenslands-spy-unit-20100406-rpbg.html https://griffithreview.com/articles/long-gone-but-not-forgotten/

Campbell polling to lose his seat, by some margin. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-06/qld-lnp-denies-succession-plan-in-case-premier/5792992 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-07/ashgrove-voters-put-kate-jones-ahead-of-campbell-newman/5949526

Dr Bruce Flegg rolled by head orifice, not a bad Tory compared to Campbell http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-07/queensland-mp-bruce-flegg-defeated-in-preselection-battle/5950024 http://www.addictionsciences.com.au/staff.html

Queensland Labor led by Palashea? Pallisade? Palashchook? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-02/annastacia-palaszczuk-announces-labor-election-plans/5934542

Cops bought and paid for by the Fossil Fuel industry

The Feds

Everyone hates Peta.

Although, Tony is the problem. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbott-is-the-problem-with-the-federal-government-poll-20141208-12247a.html

Scott Morrison is a kidnapper http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/08/the-argument-is-over-morrisons-amendments-show-he-has-no-genuine-concern-for-asylum-seekers

Data Retention bullshit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/08/stasi-like-data-retention-laws-shouldnt-progress-without-a-mass-uprising

A very Twiggy Christmas/Lifters and Leaners http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-04/number-of-indigenous-australians-in-prison-a-catastrophe/5945504 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-06/work-for-the-dole-scheme-for-remote-communities/5948728

A budget backlash review http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-budget-backlash-the-newspapers-did-not-see-coming-20141208-11ymq2.html

Julie Bishop has more support than Tony in Cabinet http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/julie-bishop-outflanks-prime-minister-tony-abbott-on-climate-change-conference-20141208-122ug0.html

PM Literary Awards goes to a piece of sheer anti-union fabrication http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=471958

World

Rupert Murdoch and News Ltd voting versus non-voting shares

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson