‘ … She tore their boats to splinters but she gave them dreams to dream.’ – Democracy, from Woodie Guthrie’s ‘Roll on Columbia’

Well, knucklehead has appointed Tough Tony as indiginous envoy. Christ, lord almighty .. I’ve spent a bit of time talking with the indiginous and I’ll tell ya, there isn’t a person more detested and distrusted by the indiginous than Tough Tony. This isnt something Ive just discovered (nor is it a fact that Scotty and the boys don’t know) … They’ve detested him for years .. colonial thinking, union jacks, punishment diplomacy. He has no idea. I mean, he has his idea .. which is no idea – deceit and ignorance. An envoy, Tough Tony, he’d have more chance of achieving something productive if he was sent as the corporative envoy to Venezuela. Of course, ive just been sentenced to death in Venezuela for the suggestion .. and run a high risk of being shot here by one of my best friends, but what can you do? Send him home to England? Make him Gov General? Now there is a thought .. he’d be a good Gov General .. eh .. eh? Whatever you do, you just dont want to put him in the drivers seat of anything.

So while were on envoys, the Dunce has been given a sinecure too. Drought envoy .. Whoopi do! Tough Tony would have more chance of making it rain. So this fella, Barney the Dunce, who got himself all tied up in knots, communism and staff when he was ‘looking after’ our water, is now going around in the big dry country making promises he wouldnt keep even if he knew what it was that he was actually promising them – the drought effected humans, indiginous too. Rain? Cash? Raining cash? Jesus they’re all be out there collecting it, the whole bunch of Neo-lib muppets – make them easier to shoot I suppose.

Pete’s just been rehashing his thing with au pairs .. “I thought it was an application in common sense!” He said. Funny I exercise my common sense continually and it’s never .. never anything like Pete’s common sense. That’s good. He can call it a mistake – if it gets him into trouble, he can call it a mistake. Mine too, I spose, all things being equitable. Pete isn’t inclined to make mistakes though .. me, I like em, makes life fuller somehow.
Pete’s real problem, apart from this thing with au pairs – I mean lets face it what red blooded Aussie boy wouldn’t get tangled up in a knot over a French au pair – is the process. This Dirty Dutton doesnt like due process and he especially doesnt like parliamentary process. He’s said time and time again that he thinks that parliament is a waste of time .. other than as a place to collect his salary and to spread fear and ignorance through our communities. Pete dreams of a Police State where he can exercise his phenomenal power of ‘common sense’ & rule by fear of law til the cows come home.

Bet he wouldn’t have shifted his law for these au pairs if the alternative, for the fella he shifted it for, was having to use one of his child rearing centres.