Shame Mooseheads... Shame

I didn’t think any of the political clubs had a particularly huge membership – I would have thought they’d be much better off sponsoring the whatever the latter-day equivalent of the Challenge Club is.

Perhaps Mooseheads thinks it’ll get plenty of business in return for the sponsorship. Maybe they figure the labor mob will just take the freebies and not put anything over the bar.

Interesting phrase ‘the disgusting leach of Canberran society’. Could you expand on what activities of theirs are leach like ?

I suspect that the campus Young Lib’s will slot right in at the Moose – and probably a good thing to, like Slinky says, it’ll keep em out of the decent bars.

That said, many years ago, when Big Al was a student at the ANU he was a bipartisan supporter of both the Young Liberals and Young Labor – more for the free booze than the ideology. Back in those distant days the best Young Labour could muster by way of a ‘party’ was a couple of wooden bowls of that funny pre-cubed caterers cheese and a couple of casks of wine. Everyone had to stand around being very serious and if you smoked they had to be those nasty Indonesian cigarettes made of rolled up leaves than smell like burning cow dung.

The Liberals on the other hand used to regularly put on affairs with no food but all the beer you could drink – well that, and the girls that went along to these things didn’t have hairy armpits. I even remember a night at the Parliament House (the old one not the one on the hill) when we ended up in the Members bar with a couple of the Liberal Party’s finest who let us help ourselves to the liquor cabinet – our resulting over-indulgence even made the news, caused some red faces and someone had to slip the Speaker a cheque for around $900 to make it all go away.

Never voted for the pricks though.

Having said that we like stories like these, thanks for that.

Mooseheads, or, as I like to call it after their redecoration, “Starbucks with Beer”, is the perfect place for liberals of all ages.

Hell, the labour students have the labour club. Admittedly, it’s in Belconnen, but that just gives you greater access to the proletariat.

‘s alright with me! Keeps the Howard worshippers out of the decent pubs!

Surely just a good business move by the Moose?

Anyway (IMHO) the first order of business of any student body worth it’s feed is securing a supply of free beer.