Don Farrell: Special Minister of State. Minister for Trade and Tourism. Labor Party.
DON FARRELL
MICHAELIA CASH – 2
Michaelia Cash: Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Liberal Party.
PENNY WONG
Penny Wong: Minister for Foreign Affairs. Leader of the Government in the Senate. ALP.
SIMON BIRMINGHAM
Simon Birmingham: Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Liberal Party.
KATY GALLAGHER
Katy Gallagher: Minister for Finance / Women / Public Service. Manager of Government Business in the Senate. Labor Party.
MICHAELIA CASH
Michaelia Cash: Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Liberal Party.
PENNY WONG – 2
Penny Wong: Minister for Foreign Affairs. Leader of the Government in the Senate. ALP.
MARISE PAYNE
MATTHEW CANAVAN
PAULINE HANSON
Pauline Hanson… Burston out in tears
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JOURNALIST: Ms Hanson, your old familiar smile has returned after your recent tearful meltdown on Sky News. You were upset, claiming your One Nation Senator Brian Burston had stabbed you “in the back” for supporting the Coalition Government’s company tax cut policy.
HANSON: Yes, I am ecstatic over that performance. It was cameo Hollywood material wasn’t it? Brian had betrayed me despite his claims to the contrary. He maintains I had been contrary on the issue. Contrariness is my prerogative.
JOURNALIST: You are ecstatic. Why?
HANSON: Since that appearance, my staff phones have been running hot in sympathy and support of me.
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Cash for trash and the Joyce affair: System bites the dust
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Our key instititions have failed us miserably.
Displacement looms for our wombat population as countless Australians seek out their holes to crawl into.
It is so hopeless that extrication from society seems the only option for anyone with a social conscience. Trust has bitten the dust and politicians are the major culprits.
One could have wistfully hoped that with the start of a new year, 2018 would bring just a modicum of improvement in the standard of federal government. Senator Michaelia Cash put an end to that and now we pessimistically await the next exercise in trashing our Parliamentary system.
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