‘I’LL DO THE GAGS’ SHORTEN: ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF BEING A MARXIST?
Good evening and thanks for joining us. You look ridiculous.You need all the joining you can get. You at the ABC are falling apart. Funding cuts must be taking their…
MALCOLM TURNBULL – BACK TO THE FUTURE
Hello my dear Liberal Party switchboard operator. Please put me through to NBN Co – that’s the National Broadband Network Company – if my carrier pigeon didn’t arrive there 30…
Abbott frees gambling industry and trusts it to behave. No joke!
With apologies to Ned Kelly and Arthur Boyd Link to related column published in The Age 27 August 2013: ABBOTT FREES GAMBLING INDUSTRY FROM REFORM The Coalition will rely on…
Rupert Murdoch – destroyer of democracy – Australian style
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%…
Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny speech’ – that famous spray
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…
Menzies: I did but see her passing by
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…
Faulkner – poor silly sad John
5 December 2012 Once upon a time, there was a silly Labor Senator called John Faulkner. He was silly because he believed in quaint old-fashioned notions like ‘political integrity’ and…