Of timewarps and billionaires

Tim Burrowes

August 10, 2010 9:07

The devil may have the best tunes, but so far this election, Labor’s had the funniest ads.

First there was The Abbott Family, created by the Australian Workers Union.

Then there’s been the series of ads from ex Chaser Charles Firth satirising hard-up mining billionaires. This one, The Mandate, funded by the CFMEU union, will get a run on free to air television:

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Beaudacious 11 Aug 10

That’s pure gold from the Chaser..

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Anonymous 11 Aug 10

Gold! It reminds me of that joke … why do they call the Libs tampones … because they are stuck-up …. well you get the drift.

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Paul Montgomery 12 Aug 10

The Time Warp ad is poor.

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