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“Australia is not an island.”
-Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaking to The 7:30 Report’s Kerry O’Brien, 28/08/08
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UPDATE: Angus Dei provides some appropriate musical advice for Kevni
UPDATE 2: More accurate map of Australia here.
https://tizona.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/australia-not-just-an-island-but-a-hella-scary-one-too/
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August 29, 2008, 1:34 am at 1:34 am
Kevin Rudd must seriously be one of the biggest ignoramus’ on the planet.
Of course Australia’s an island!
Does he even know it’s a continent?
Or does he only know it’s a country, one he’s planning on running into the ground?
August 29, 2008, 1:45 am at 1:45 am
Well ya see, Ash, he hasn’t actually bothered to spend much time here an’ all… Maybe on his next visit here, someone will enlighten him 😛
August 29, 2008, 1:58 am at 1:58 am
I’m up late (about to go to bed) and just read an Andrew Bolt post where he said,
“It’s time Rudd announced a trip to Australia.”
Cold be he needs one a Miss Carolina’s maps?
August 29, 2008, 2:47 am at 2:47 am
And, of course, the interviewer let it slide right on by.
Omega Male strikes again. What a moron.
August 29, 2008, 2:58 am at 2:58 am
No! errr what he meant to say was it’s Asia… !!!
August 29, 2008, 3:03 am at 3:03 am
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM4QOflsV0
gilligans island?? LOL
August 29, 2008, 5:06 am at 5:06 am
I’m thinking that his intention was more along the lines of “no man is an island,” but being our Dear (incompetent) Leader, none of us are going to let that one slide.
Yeah, sure, Kev, we’re a part of the global village, but why don’t you just fark off to the rest of the village permanently?
August 29, 2008, 5:17 am at 5:17 am
Hi Nilk – he did mean a “no man is an island” kind of thing, but like so many of his little home-spuns (“argy-bargy,” “jawbonin’,” “rock ‘n’ roll,” etc) it just came out a clanker and tickled my funny bone.
Can you imagine what would be the furore had George Bush said “Australia is not an island”? Lefties here are still harping back to the OPEC/APEC thing…
August 29, 2008, 6:02 am at 6:02 am
Have heard of the Left trying to rewrite history but reclassifying Oz? C’mon.
August 29, 2008, 6:17 am at 6:17 am
He musta missed the whole “Continental Drift” thing, Bingbing.
August 29, 2008, 8:50 am at 8:50 am
Oooo sorry Kev, you’re answer MUST be in the form of a question…BUT (says Alec), it was fucking wrong anyway.
Spot is correct had Bush said it, he would have been nailed to a cross on a hill.
August 29, 2008, 7:10 pm at 7:10 pm
Australia has the honor of being the only place in the world that is an island, a continent, and a single country all at once. Shouldn’t someone inform Mr. Rudd?
April 29, 2009, 3:51 pm at 3:51 pm
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