grodscorp@grods.comOpposing Kevin Andrews
 | Posted by The Editor on Tuesday 10 June 2008, 7:49 am Categories: Australia Decides '07, Film Tags: campaign, election, KevinAndrews, Menzies, PhilipNitschke, VoluntaryEuthanasia |
During last year’s federal election campaign I worked on a documentary that followed voluntary euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke’s efforts to unseat Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews in his eastern Melbourne seat of Menzies. The animosity between these two men is immense due to Andrews’ role in repealing the Northern Territory’s 1997 voluntary euthanasia law that Nitschke helped four patients to use.
The documentary’s director, Joan Robinson, and I have cut a teaser of the film which we’d very much like you to watch and tell all your mates about. Chatter and buzz about the teaser will equal faster completion of the film, so help us out. The documentary’s website is www.OpposingKevinAndrews.com and the YouTube video is here. Enjoy!
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 8:11 am #THR
The swing against Andrews in 2007 was a sizeable 5.2%. Of those who gained a swing, Nitschke did the best, with a 3.9% swing (from nothing). The ALP only got 1.1%. Not a bad effort, even if slightly quixotic in a safe Tory seat.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 9:25 am #Bron
God he’s a smarmy looking bastard, that Andrews.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 11:37 am #Ant Rogenous
Looks awesome, Ed. Consider me teased.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 12:25 pm #Zy
Liked it as a teaser. A little disjointed perhaps. However anything that shows Andrews as the obscurantist and general political pest he is gets my approval. More power to your arm.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 2:06 pm #Krypto
I’ll bet Kevin “pro-life” Andrews is secretly in favour of capital punishment.
It’s hypocrisy itself.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 2:47 pm #alister
Interesting result. Andrews was first on the ticket, and would have benefited from the donkey vote (apt, really). Yet his vote went down, and was shared by Phil on 3.92% (who’s just lost his deposit) and the ALP. So a good independent campaign can make a difference… I’ll watch for the film with interest.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 4:40 pm #philip travers
The Australian Bureau of Statistics must of been inspired by Kevin Andrews,in its recent attempt to show that 15.4 million Australians are just not equipped for modern Australia and its occupations!? Having been in the Welfare Gulag as income for so long,I cannot help but think,we should elect a African who thinks he has a problem,because he cannot tell the difference between being an abortion and seeing them in this country!? Plus if he is seeing old abortions who want to die by inflicting their own tat tars,he or she should be wondering why they haven’t joined the Ullyses Club of motorbikers so the world can breath !? Has Ken Andrews got a comment on the ABS or the 15.4 million Australians who aren’t equipped for modern Australia!?
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 4:44 pm #The Editor
That is hands down the best ever comment on GrodsCorp.
Who exactly “cannot tell the difference between being an abortion…”?
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 5:02 pm #Bron
I can!?
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 5:24 pm #Broken Left Leg
Too highbrow.
This anti-Andrews vid is much easier to digest.
Tuesday 10 June 2008, 9:51 pm #John Surname
Grods has been called a lot of things, but never “too highbrow”.