It is with great disappointment that I discover your ending statement. I thank you for years of stimulating political translations and I note that all along you knew the sad outcome. It is left for people of like mind to secede from this depraved corporate slavism and try to survive as outsiders. May I suggest going bush and learning to be self sufficient. That is my recent goal as yet unrecognised. As you are well aware, we now have two opposing American sycophants who want to give tax cuts to the rich and support corporatism (Mussolini's fascism). I am throwing up my hands in disgust at the Australian people who, it now seems have lost all backbone and the will to fight. When did we all accept authoritarianism? Maybe if we all leave, the idiots left behind will look pretty stupid. Thanks Harold for all your years of hard work and I wish you every success in whatever you turn your hand to next.
- Richard Hardiman

I've just read your critics page, and one thing stands out more than anything: the right wing (wrong) posters seem to know nothing butad-hominem malfeasance. They seem to be hypocritical, nescient, pusillanimous, epigones who are incapable of logical analysis and introspection. To put it bluntly: do-badders, demonic consciousness's with only enough functioningintellect for expletives and vitriol. Please, Harold, do not walk away, for now more than any time in recent history we need sites like this to ameliorate the descending darkness of paleo-conservative, oligarchic fascists.
- Kim Hoffman

It's heartening to see that NOT all Australians have been conned by that little bloody sycophant. It's a bloody shame we have to wait till '07, by then there will be nothing left.
- Shane Woods

First time I have looked at your site and I must say it is very clever the way you present it, but you must be embarrased when you look through the archives and realise the rubbish that you wrote before the election. Seems you were a bit wrong about all you wrote about the Liberals, considering how the election turned out. I hope you don't feel like too much of a dickhead. All that effort wasted. Sincerely John.
- John Phillips

If you close down your site, from where shall we get our inspiration? We must have alternative views to the Tory press and it seems the internetis all that is left! Howard's changes to media ownership laws will only make it worse. Please persist.
- David Lowe

Keep up the good work. I am not feeling very confident at all about the outcome of our elections. It is only websites like yours that remind me all is not lost.
- Ronice

go fuck yourself.
- Mark Wolsuck

I love the way your opening paragraphs often have nothing to do with the rest of the diatribe.
- Spiripozzo Michelozzi

I discovered this gem purely accidently. It is wonderful what a google search on "bill leak cartoons" comes up with. The links & essays are great, with the cartoons being an essential element. +1 for decency.
- Stewart Neale

Please, please keep it up - its wonderful!!!
- Peter Fraser

Harold Holt? A marvelous man. I'm delighted to see he's recovered.
- Last words of the Queen Mother

One of the things I have really missed is a good editor and I think you are one of the best in the mold of H.L. Menken. A good editor makes good writing great writing and reveals the true intent of the writer.
- Mary Dagmar Davies

Great site. Australia would be paradise if every Australian took as much interest in politics as you do.
- Paul Robotham

I'm currently studying Chaucer who wrote in ways somewhat akin to you 700-odd years ago (his social critique was a little more ... shall we say ... indirect than yours).There's a thought, you're an heir to an honourable tradition that's been going on for close to a millennium!
- P. K.

I've been visiting your site and it's better than that first cup of coffee in the morning! It gives me the confidence to keep going when the radio and the tellie are clogged with nuff-nuffs spewing endless crappola. Thanks!
- Rachel B.

Can't believe I only just found you - I've been lamenting the reign of The Little C*nt for 7 long years.
- Jim Forbes

One of the more honest political web pages of our times..Love it!!!
- Aletha Penrith

The conscience of the left has its own Jiminy Cricket. Keep up the good work and entertainment.
- Craig Bryant

Why is it that so many critics from the "right" cannot spell? Or should that be "rite"?
Melbo

Like your stuff, and admire the rage and passion you manage to maintain. SCATT is always welcome on this desktop, so please keep up the good work. Best wishes,
Andrew D.

wanker !-----------------------------------------------------
- George Chapman

If only he knew when to place commas inside or outside quoted material. He never gets it right and I could just scream!
- Percy Lipz, Senior Sergeant, Australian Punctuation Police

Let me just say, in the spirit of Tim Lane's departure from the ABC,that you have been an ornament to the internet, the only intelligent site available in Australia. (The eye on the game. The capacity to catch up with the buried articles.) Armageddonoutofhere.
The Dailys

Have just read all your self-indulgent and self-orientated crap on your so called informed Web-site, but you seem to have forgotten one important fact, Australia is a Democratic Country with free and open elections and consequently have the Government the thinking population prefer, that's why the majority rule this Great Country of ours and miniscule and fringe groups as the ones you apparently support will always be in the 1% region of the political arena.
- Kjell

Keep up the good work in the face of a country that has reverted to the Menzies era with no excuses! When our kids berate us in twenty years time when sanity returns, we can say 'we tried'.
Jude

Just a word of congratulations and thanks for your remarkable site. A compelling archive, a one-stop resource and a suitably satiric/vitriolic tone.
- Rod Quantock, Keeper at the barricades

The stench of leftist evil emanating from this Mexican public toilet of an excuse for journalism is that strong I can almost smell it.
- Fabian Blandine, President Illiberal Party Anosmics Who Went Overseas Once

What a bunch of sad fucks you are!!!!!
- Gianfranco Gudjohnsen

Hark's capacity to penetrate to the heart of the matter is fabulously inexistent.
- Beauregard Hildebibble, Editor, Back to Front Review

Soon's I find Hark I'm gonna force the commo to his knees just by lookin' at him...'course my boot in his balls will've helped. Then I'll put my other boot right up his faggot arse, and after that, I'll take and grab the ninny by his pencil-neck like he was Bart Simpson, and just before the life goes out of him, I'll give him one last chance to love John Winston Howard.
- Thugs Bashboy, former bodyguard to G. W. Bush, now spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott

...well...Well...WELL I'm no political commentator, nor have I been advised that he isn't, but if I knew anything about the matter I would still have to say I know nawseeng. By the way, which John Howard does he keep referring to?
- John Howard, Prime Minister of the Arse end of the World

Just vait till ve get our anti-terrorism bills past zose Labor chumps. Ve vill soon have vays to deal vith ze likes of Hark.
- Denislav Beria, Commissar-General, ASP (Australian Secret Police), a division of ARSE (Australian Repressive Security Establishment), in the interests of FAUX (For All of Us Xenophobes)

From his muddled thinking and slipshod research, it is clear that Harold Hark pursues this shoddy enterprise simply because he can. Hopefully the new anti-terrorism laws will put an end to such irresponsible freedoms.
- Little Lord Downer, South-east Asian karaoke bar entrepreneur, with new franchises opening soon in Baghdad

Shakira told Shakaya (2) who each told J.Lo to tell Brandy, Pink, Joy, Sophie, Mandy, Jessica, Gabrielle, Christina A., Christina M. and, y'know, Britney, to step aside 'cause my wriggling belly's gonna be the next big thing! Oh! Was I supposed to say something about-uh--let's see here--Harold (are you kidding me?) HORCK? Doof, doof, doof. How's that?
- Bubbles Bath, comin' @ ya soon!

I came across your web site: SCUM AT THE TOP, and I found it 2 be nothing but tree hugging socialist scum sucking shit. You must one of those damn labour loving blood sucking socialist slims that can only dribble about poor Islamic terrorist boat people that throw their disgust kids in the sea in an attempt to seek a better life without having to work for it in Australia under the Great our great nation leader ship of JOHN HOWARD!!!
- Anon

You are fucked in the head!!!!!
- Mike

Having read some of your material while searching for information on the notorious bigot group called "The Black Shirts". I came to one conclusion and figured I might send you some advice... Instead of name calling, why don't get off your high horse little man, and actually try to do better than the people you are calling childish names. It also shows the inmaturity of people like yourself who lack the intelligence to actually try and make a difference, but instead mislead yourselves into thinking that such tripe and trash as published on your website as making a difference. MY ADVICE... GO FOR POLITICS AND DO BETTER OR GET A BLOODY LIFE!
- Scott Smith

while looking for a particular site i unfortunately stumbled across your dribble.............. That about sums it up
- Glen

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