(2003)
January: The leftist guru John Pilger advises Guardian readers that Australia has regressed from a social democracy "into a state of fabricated fear and xenophobia". The Wollongong academic Peter Kell tells The Jakarta Post that Australian society has "broken apart". But, apparently, not to the extent where payment has been stopped on his taxpayer-funded salary. February: Phillip Adams informs his ABC Radio National listeners the communist dictator Joseph Stalin and the United States President, George Bush, "have a similar attitude to science". The former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett predicts: "I'm going to live to 150 years … " God help us. The Canberra academic Norman Abjorensen predicts that "come July" Malcolm Turnbull will be prime minister.
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The gullibles have gathered, let's stick it up 'em once more with feeling!
