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Leslie Nassar created Department of Australia (Hand-crafted, artisanal satire made from the finest Google image searches) in 2014. He was at times a games developer, a producer, a photographer, and a writer. In 2009, he was fired from Telstra for maintaining the Fake Stephen Conroy Twitter account. He occasionally appears on ABC TV’s Insiders with Mike Bowers and Talking pictures.rn rnIn addition to Department of Australia, Leslie is the co-founder of Wrangling Cats Pty Ltd, and created the software that manages the never-ending torrent of Tweets on ABC TV’s Q&A.

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Fairmind
9 years ago

Poor old Fred…intellectually challenged to the extent he can’t grasp the concept of “tolerating” something being quite different to “promoting” it.

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zut alors
9 years ago

Let’s give Fred special dispensation from ever again having to cook up anything queer.

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Electric Lardyland
9 years ago

Yes, those gays, forever shoving their homosexuality down the throats of decent Christian men.

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AR
9 years ago

Lardy – most of the boyz-on-the-Wall would tell you that the forcing was onto, rather than otherwise.

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Electric Lardyland
9 years ago

Yes, AR, and possibly a good catholic education was the reason that both sides of the transaction were present?

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