Joyce of words We’re always delighted by Barnaby Joyce’s free-form jazz approach to language, and are pleased to see it on display in Tony Wright’s early review of the ABC’s Nemesis series. Nemesis details the rise and fall of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison governments in much the same way The Killing Season did for Rudd-Gillard-Rudd.
At one point journalist Mark Willacy asks his interview subjects to describe Tony Abbott in one word. Most are able to stick to this parameter but not Joyce, who went with… I mean, technically it’s not a sentence: “pugilistic and give you a hug”. Whether he adds “the honesty of being to the top is something treasured when honestly given” — no, that’s not a typo — is not made clear.
Here come the young kings Just when you thought the Australian branch of the Conservative Political Action Committee had the loopiest pitch for young people, along comes the Australian Monarchist League (AML) and its youth branch.
If you’re one of the many 18- to 25-year-olds who saw Victoria cancel its plans to hold the Commonwealth Games last year and immediately thought “Was it because the king may attend his first Commonwealth Games? Would this have happened had it been the Chinese Games, if there was such a thing? These are all questions that must be asked and must be answered”, you might be in for a bit of a treat. The Victorian Young Monarchists are having an AGM on February 21.
If you’re one of the extremely real 18-year-olds who has been a financial member of the Victorian Young Monarchists, you can even stand for an executive position! Tubular!
O’Neil oh no Speaking of absolutely understanding young people, here’s Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil’s fun list of ins and outs on young people hangout spot LinkedIn.
But… the logic of this meme format would imply the Minister for Cyber Security spent 2023 regularly clicking on links in texts and emails from unfamiliar services and posting private and sensitive information online.
Life has been so good without Barnaby infecting my world.
Hear hear! Reminded me of just how bad it was. What distressed me most was the reality that many people were duped into voting for him and Abbott. In 2014 my relatives in the US used to laugh at our ‘leaders’, then they voted for Trump!
Barnaby Joyce and literacy? Intellect? He might be a prince of pisspottery or promiscuity, but nothing above the uvula…
I figured the AML’s positions would be determined by divine right?
Hey, love the image of Joyce as an uncaged bird. Free-range but he remains a chook. Good one Charlie (or whoever done the headline). As for the pugilist Abbot well, those who paved his original entry into Politics (and don’t mean the good residents of Dee Why) ought to be held to account. If you’re wondering, Fireman Tony once described himself as the love-child of Bronwyn Bishop and John Howard. How in the world anyone could actually be so proud of such a political pedigree to put that in the public sphere is well, beyond the measure of sound reason and good judgment. Abbot is a bigot, as per his political allies. Joyce was far too close. He’s not a pugilist, he’s a monster.
Bronwyn Bishop was reported to have said, when she heard of Abbots description of how he came to be, “It must have been an immaculate conception”. I despise Bishop but that comment is brilliant!
I don’t get the item about the Young AML (a fairly standard AGM notice) – or the Claire O’Neill story either. What was the point of either story?