Andrew and Kate over at Poundster have issued an international Kevin07 Seven Wonders Challenge.

Kate campaigning for Labor in the electorate of India

Here, at the Taj Mahal, we slammed the Howard Government for wasting millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on government advertising, called on the Prime Minister to end the phony election campaign and name the date to let the Australian people decide and we backed Kevin Rudd’s plans for an education revolution, action on climate change and restoring fairness in the workplace.

Let’s go a step further and issue a challenge to all Australian travellers out there who want Kevin Rudd to be PM. There are seven wonders of the world – can we get a show of support for Kevin07 in front of each one before election day? Let’s call it the Kevin07 Seven Wonders Challenge.

Schapelle Corby’s mother Rosleigh has been in the media again because she claims that Kevin Rudd is ignoring her. Thankfully, most of the media couldn’t care less, which is why I have only heard about this now, two weeks later.

From the Adelaide Advertiser:

SCHAPELLE Corby’s mother Rosleigh Rose has attacked Labor Leader Kevin Rudd for not acknowledging the plight of her daughter, now serving 20 years in an Indonesian jail for drug trafficking.
Ms Rose told The Bulletin magazine she and Schapelle’s aunt, who lives in Mr Rudd’s Brisbane electorate of Griffith, had “written to him heaps”.
“She’s been to the office. She’s rung. And not a single reply,” Ms Rose said.
“She’s had nothing, not even a single phone call to her or anything.
“I just think it’s wrong.”
Ms Rose said Mr Rudd would not get her vote after snubbing her family’s situation.
“We’ve not had one acknowledgement, not even saying, ’sorry, my hands are tied, or I can’t do anything’,” she said.
“All I can think is he’s not here to help Australians.”

I don’t know what she expects Kevin Rudd to do. He is far too busy standing in front of the mirror practising his John Howard mannerisms and friending hipsters on MySpace to bother with her. More shocking is the news that she won’t vote for him, even though she probably wouldn’t have voted for him anyway (”John ‘Oward’s doin’ a good job wif de economy and all that, but”). Simply put, he is a busy man who doesn’t have time for the parents of convicted criminals. If she really wants him to pay attention, I think Schapelle should dress in one of those spiffy Kevin07 shirts and have pictures taken. What better way to bring more momentum to his campaign?

The way Kevin07 is going, he could bring back Medicare Gold AND punch out a taxi-driver AND write a book called The Rudd Diaries: Fuck Australia and still win the election. Add in a duet with Shannon Noll and a suprise appearance on the catwalk at Australian Fashion Week and I’m sure even John Howard and Andrew Bolt would vote for him.

We’re all used to newspaper journalists blowing their load every time a politician posts a video on YouTube or somebody edits Wikipedia (thus proving beyond doubt its untrustworthiness). And we’re also used to dead-tree “journalists” shamelessly republishing blog content as original news, in the process demonstrating their stubborn ignorance about how blogs work.

So Peter Garrett writes a silly little blog on Kevin07 about singing songs in the shower in order to time them. Quaint. The Age dutifully runs an entire article on Garrett’s blog post, complete with quotes from his commenters calling them “bloggers”.

Blogger Matt Burke suggested Josh Pyke’s Middle of the Road at 2 minutes 24 seconds, because “Kevin Rudd has repeatedly said that ‘there’s this huge mountain to climb to win this election’.”

But fellow blogger Nico had a better idea for a water-saving music tip: “Load up the stereo with music you can’t stand,” she wrote on the blog.

“Put the stereo beyond arm’s reach in the bathroom and hit play at full volume. Hop in the shower. You’ll be making that shower as short as you can, so you can get out and turn off the damn music!”

GrodsCorp has been continually scathing over time about The Age’s rush to the bottom of the sensationalist and lazy journaliasm pit, but if you are left in any doubt you simply must read Adam 1.0’s review of yesterday’s The Age website frontpage.

Whatever will I wear when I go out this weekend?

Lachlan Connor has posted a personal broadcast on his blog that responds to the launch of the Kevin07 internet campaign. Lachlan seems to think it’s a cynical effort to connect to the internet generation.

Kevin Rudd had better win this election because Kevin Ten just doesn’t have the same ring to it as Kevin Oh Seven. And does anybody else feel like Kevin’s new campaign website is the online equivalent of a sad, boring 50 year old man whose wardrobe contains only suits, chinos and polo shirts parading around in baggy pants, a basketball shirt, shiny bling and a backwards baseball cap?

Yo!