Return flight
Thursday, December 03, 2009
It was Tuesday December 1, 2009. The Liberal Party spill had taken place and their new leader, Tony Abbott, had been elected. Many of the tweets emanating from Australia were commenting upon it.
Meanwhile, the ABCâs North American correspondent, Lisa Millar, reported at 10:30am EST that Prime Minister Ruddâs plane had been grounded.
Almost immediately, I offered my reply:
SBS must have also tweeted the Rudd grounding because later in the day, my favourite Twitter-using SBS journo re-tweeted the news:
And, still having a good reply to it, I repeated it, again, almost immediately:
Now New Matilda emails me todayâs Daily Cartoon, by Tim Hall. Hilarious and visually stunning, it still kind of reminds me of something I may have read elsewhereâ¦