Political columns, comment, cartoons and caricatures by Bruce Keogh
The curtain is to close on our super-hero key independents –
THE CROSSBENCHERS
Independent MP Tony Windsor has joined fellow crossbencher, independent Rob Oakeshott, in announcing he’s quitting politics at the next election.
Story from The Sydney Morning Herald 26 June 2013
Mr Murdoch, no fool whatever his other failings, realised very early on that – just like a large shareholding in a company leads to control of the company – 70% media saturation can be turned into 100% control of political discourse.
… so writes David Horton in Independent Australia on 22 May 2013 headed :
Rupert Murdoch’s journalistic cancer
In retrospect: Q&A 14 May 2012 – gay marriage watershed moment
Joe Hockey verbatim: I must confess my views have changed since I’ve had children. I think in this life we’ve got to aspire to give our children what I believe is the very best circumstances, and that’s to have a mother and a father.
Penny Wong acknowledged that comments like Hockey’s were hurtful, and concluded by calmy saying: ”I know what my family is worth.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard gives a spray of Misotein to Opposition Leader Tony (Louie) Abbott
Gillard’s famous spray has become known as the ‘misogyny speech’.
That was 9 October 2012 and within a day it has gone viral around the world!
ABC News report
In retrospect: “Many Australians would just see Pell as an embarrassment, noting his quick dismissal of the row over child sex abuse as a media ‘beat up’.” ~ Ross Peake Canberra Times 17 November 2012
In retrospect: What he said and what she might have thought.
It was at Parliament House where Prime Minister Robert Menzies, a devout royalist, was to quote the 17th century words of Thomas Ford: “I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.”
Sir William Heseltine Private Secretary to HM the Queen 1986-1990: “It was one of the very few occasions I think Sir Robert misjudged his audience. And I can remember that there was a frisson of embarrassment and this was perhaps reflected on the Queen’s own look on that occasion.”
Was Her Majesty squeamish?
Take a look at the speech on video courtesy Speakola