Just by-the-by, Bernard Keane yesterday asked Crikey readers to suggest a collective noun for State Labor Treasurers. They obliged, and then some.
A beg — Bill Cushing
A birth — Grant Dewer
A brokerage — Bob Hulands
A cabal — Mark Coleman
A chump — Mark Edmonds
A clamour — Donald Petersen
A clink; given that they love that sound, but it’s more likely to be where they should end up — Andrew Dempster
A clusterf-ck — Peter Johns
A debit — David Winderlich
A deception — Dick Holland
A defendant — Glenn Dyer
A deficit — Jim Catt
A delusion — Chris Fowler
A deposit — David Weeding
A drain — Gavin McKay
A flange — John Addis
A flota; because a treasurer originally was responsible for treasure which of course comprised the gold & silver that once needed to be physically transported around the globe in ships. Thus: (fleet) of treasurers — Andrew Miller
A folly — Denis O’Donovan
A gaggle — Steve Martin
A goggle; that’s a cross between ogle and giggle. One ogles in disbelief at any state parliamentarian and giggles with embarrassment at what they propose — Trevor Kirk
A grab bag — David Nolan
A grovel — Jonathan Case
A hand-out — Ben Brooke-Cowde
A hoard — Damian Hasenrader
A hustle — Oliver Downes
A Khemlani — Brian Cambourne
A klutz — Paul Pearce
A loss — Jeff Marsh
A maw — Allan Kessing
A mendicant — Rowan Fairbairn
A misery — Tim Thomas
A moth pocket — Mikey Hughes
A murder — J Campbell
A nest — Paul Ferraro
A penury — Nick Ryan
A poverty — John Harkin
A recession — David Roe
A rort — Brian O’Dea
A scrooge — Damian Douglas-Meyer
A scrum — Heather Bailey
A skunk — Andy Zell
A slab — John Colvin
A sow’s ear — Lee Harris
A spin — Steve Marshall
A stack — Jon Bastow
A stamp duty — Ben Eltham
A string purse — Glen Preema
A thug — Jane Kelly
A trove — Jan Dubern
A union — Tim Di Benedetto
A vacuum — Paul Wright
A vat — Kirill Reztsov
A Wunch — Andrew Kelleher
An ape gang — Joel Clapham
An incompetence — Jenna Spears
An opportunist — Rex Manson
An overdraft — Steven Mendelson
Hmm, State Labor Treasurers…. I’m sure there’s an acronym there, but I just can’t work it out…. — Gabriel McGrath
My email crashed: I was going to submit ‘A Bleat’ or ‘A Whinge’.
A Pecuniary of State Labor Treasurers perhaps?
I know I’m late but how about a TITANIC of SLT’s
Great entries but surely ‘Grab Bag’ must be the winner – it works in so many ways.