Pauline Hanson has a thing about squat toilets. David Leyonhjelm doesn’t mind but has nonetheless lodged a complaint about being called an “angry white man”. Malcolm Roberts thinks NASA is influencing temperature measurements. Some guys who aren’t elected and (we’d like to think) have no hope of getting elected have “dressed as Muslims” (go figure what that means) and entered a church for some reason.
That is the import of the last 24 hours. And it points to the crushing emptiness of political discussion in Australia right now.
One could blame the media for reporting on the stupid and inconsequential. But “the media” isn’t sentient. It’s like an excitable pet — reacting to stimuli with, for the most part, little ability (or commercial incentive) to look away. No, the blame for this goes right to the top. The crossbench can dominate the discussion because there’s no political agenda. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull might be enjoying his break — but he has left us to the mercies of the craziest of the crazies his double dissolution election has let in. The least he can do is come back and give us something reasonable to talk about.
Crikey, what a pathetic comment, Crikey!
I hope I speak for many fellow-citizens when I say I don’t need a big Daddy/Mummy at the top to have a conversation. We are all responsible, but especially a Media that has so few owners and so much power.
Come on, Bob!
Everyone knows the most meaningful of conversations start with those who have the power to change things.
Maladministration has nothing to say!!
Hunts insipid performance on Q&A should give the media a bit to work with..
“The Live Parrot sketch”?
Why are n’t current Crikey journalists reporting on the Victorian holocaust?…Murray Goulburn. Stephen Mayne was onto it as far back as 2011. https://uat.crikey.com.au/2011/09/19/who-pays-the-ceo%E2%80%99s-wife-770k-and-then-seeks-re-election/
Yeah, agreed. Is n’t there a cartoonist around here? There used to be. All those adorable and beautiful hand-raised milking cows sold for meat value. What a fking disgrace.
Who was it deregulated the dairy industry – with all those promises about how great everything would be because of it …?
It’s relevant that CBH is now pushing hard to make the transition from Co-op to incorporation. Here we go again. If grain farmers fall for this on the back of Murray Goulburn then they are beyond help. Farmers are such idealists who produce the best produce available but lack the street smarts to sniff out a conjob. They are lambs to the slaughter. Deregulation? it’s code for stealing and market manipulation.
A caricature ( sp ) with great impact.
Only Malcolm can save us? Well, we’re stuffed then.
We’re up Shite Creek, in a barbed wire canoe, without a paddle – and along comes Turbott – a lightweight ‘ore – floating on the current…..
In defending the Nauru and Manus detention centres Greg Hunt said; “…1,200 beautiful souls were lost at sea, so we had to take action…” The action was to round up the remaining beautiful souls, men, woman AND children, and throw them in a prison as far from Australia as possible to keep away the prying eyes of the few Australians with a conscience while winning the conservative, bigoted red-neck vote.