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July 17, 2004

Most Influential Australians

Lucky us - another list published in the papers for us to heckle! Anytime you gather a group of names and label them “Most Something Or Other” you’re always likely to get critics, aren’t you - and I personally quite enjoy being one of those critics.

Basically, The Australian has declared fourty of our fellow countrymen & women to be the “Forty Most Infuential Australians”.

We’ve listed the top 15 below, and if you want to check out the rest, head here.

1. John Howard
2. Peter Carey
3. Rupert Murdoch
4. Ian Thorpe
5. Noel Pearson
6. Peter Costello
7. Mark Latham
8. Pru Goward
9. Kerry Packer
10. Shane Warne
11. Peter Singer
12. Baz Luhrmann
13. Tony Abbott
14. Allan Moss
15. Bob Brown

The list of the Top 15 contains five politicians (two of them less twattish than most, I guess), one underwear mogul, a cricketer (did Howard compile the list?) and Kate Fisher’s mum. Do you agree with the list?

Posted by Jess at July 17, 2004 7:18 PM
— Filed under Common , Movie Related Ramblings , Music Musings , Politics , Random, Purposeless Stuff , The Topic Of Television

Comments

Seems a bit silly...but are any of these lists based on anything other than the whims and predilections of the bored/uninspired "journalist" who creates them ? Me think not. Love how the journo's boss is number 3.

Posted by: epicurus | July 18, 2004 8:57 PM

What a joke! What did Bobby Brown ever do for Australia anyway? His music isn't even good.

Posted by: Patrick | July 18, 2004 9:07 PM

Hey - YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS !

That's him, right ?

Break it down now.

Posted by: epicurus | July 18, 2004 11:44 PM

All I remember is he got married to Whitney Housten.

Posted by: Patrick | July 19, 2004 12:15 AM

That was MC Hammer!

Anyway, that list was totally wrong...if I was going to throw together a top 20, it would probably look more like: