Australian Idol

[Spoofy]

Originally Posted by Mythor

Channel 7 reporting the winner of Dancing with the Stars as "news" tonight was appalling, too.

Perth is currently 3 hours behind Sydney. Daylight savings has something to do with distance from the equator, which is why Queensland can get away with not having it, etc. Dr Karl had some long confusing weird conversation about it the other day.

Our news last night was all about the Brewery's (which is on the edge of the river) nativity scene which was washed away in the floods we had Tuesday night, and it even showed you Moby Dick sailing down the river before he drowned

Yes I know Moby is not part of the nativity, but he is a standard figure on the banks....hehehe...

At last reports, Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus were presumed drowned

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Mythor

Yes, you'd think they'd have better things to do with the massive terrorist raids going on. (And the associated legislation.)

Channel 7 reporting the winner of Dancing with the Stars as "news" tonight was appalling, too.

There'll be other terrorist raids on other days. The Dancing with the Stars final only comes once a year.

Where's your priorities, man???

[Puppy]

Idol Dan 'robbed' by clock

Idol Dan 'robbed' by clock

November 9, 2005 - 4:27PM

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has demanded the producers of Australian Idol reinstate a Brisbane-based performer whose fans say was a victim of daylight robbery.

Dan England, 21, was booted off the Ten Network's TV talent competition this week in controversy after the introduction of daylight saving meant voting lines closed an hour earlier in Queensland.

Queensland remains on Australian Eastern Standard Time, which is an hour behind its southern state neighbours and half an hour behind South Australia.

Just 27 votes separated the dreadlocked singer and Melbourne punk rocker Lee Harding in the closest vote in Idol history.

Queensland voters jammed radio stations and internet chat forums over the result, questioning whether daylight saving cost England his place and venting anger over being barred from lodging last minute votes.

Mr Beattie today vented his own anger, saying England's dumping was unfair because Queenslanders had one hour less to vote.

"Look we were robbed. I mean Dan was robbed," Mr Beattie told ABC radio.

"I'm asking Channel 10 to wake up to themselves to turn back the clock to Monday and give him a fair go.

"Now if they do, I'm sure that I could find 27 votes within an hour."

It was "well past its time" that a Queenslander won the Australian Idol title, he said.

A Ten Network spokeswoman said the show had no comment.

"Dan is now out of the competition and has got an agent," she said.

Mr Beattie's demand came as anger over daylight saving, and its effect on England's vote, spilled into Queensland's parliament.

While opponents of daylight saving have said it fades the curtains, confuses cows and makes it hard to put babies to sleep, another MP came up with perhaps the best excuse yet - a lack of daylight saving was robbing Queensland contestants of the chance to win Australian Idol.

"With only 27 votes determining the result, it must be asked: If Queensland had daylight saving, would Dan still be in the race to become the Australian Idol?" Liberal MP Michael Caltabiano told parliament.

"The logic of the answer would suggest yes."

Mr Caltabiano, whose party's support for daylight saving was at odds with its Nationals coalition partner, said there would have been one more hour of votes from Queensland Australian Idol fans if the state was in the same time zone as the rest of the eastern states.

"This government and its attitude towards not acknowledging the benefits of daylight saving, particularly for the south-east corner, and completely ruling it out has resulted in another casualty - that of dreadlocked Dan England," he said.

Mr Beattie has refused to budge or even hold a referendum on the issue, despite 53,638 people signing an e-petition calling for legislation to enact daylight saving in Queensland.

In contrast, an anti-daylight saving e-petition led by north Queensland-based Labor MP Craig Wallace attracted 4,286 signatures.

England, a member of Celtic cover band Bejesus, left his job at a service station after making it into the top 13 to concentrate on the fight for Idol.

His controversial leaves Emily Williams, Kate DeAraugo and Lee Harding to fight it out for the title of the third Australian Idol.

[Mythor]

It's a TV show you moron.

The Idol producers should've demanded Queensland start using Daylight Savings Time.

[Edward]

Given Beattie's jingoistic belief that Dan should win simply because it's "well past its time" that a Queenslander won, perhaps he should have started voting when the lines opened, before the show had aired in Queensland, since clearly he's not concerned with the relative merits of the actual performances.

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Edward

Given Beattie's jingoistic belief that Dan should win simply because it's "well past its time" that a Queenslander won, perhaps he should have started voting when the lines opened, before the show had aired in Queensland, since clearly he's not concerned with the relative merits of the actual performances.

Yeah, he's pretty much airing his assumption that the voting is completely separate from the relative merits of the performers.
What a tool. How does he know that the voters in the other states weren't voting for Dan?

[hails]

chickslash on the couch, woo!! there's a first!

and n'awww, lee. goodbye pretty punk boy.

[pixieDAAS]

Good Riddance!!! :p

Go Emily!!!!

[Moogie]

Yay. Happy with that verdict tonight Australia!

[hails]

me too and casey sounded so good as well, yay!

[Mythor]

Awww, Mark Holden is leaving Idol this year.

(Necroposting ftw!)

[Starr]

Not Mark Holden say it isn't so...

cue violin music
Ah the good times he had. the entertainment he gave us all those seasons argueing with dicko. The touchdowns! touchdowns no more RIP. Farewell Mark Holden. endeth the music

Let us bow our heads in remembrance for the great mark holden...