Furphy Tayor’s been cleared! Thats right, Pistol Pete’s cops say there’s no point in investigating just where he got the forged docs from, or in fact, even bothering to find out if there may be some dirty little squad of parliamentary secretaries, lying lefties or, perhaps, even a king’s butler or two, shimmying about and falsifying public information.

This must be a welcome relief for Furphy … rather tiresome having to keep one’s hands up above the table for all to see I would expect. Still he’s not the first – and he most certainly wont be the last – of the King’s ministers to have to pretend to be honest and humble while Pistol Pete sorts out the truths. One thing we can always be sure of here in the Lucky Country is that with Pistols Pete’s men in black at our backs were always going to get to the truth – Where they bury it is another matter.

The problem we have is that for Pistol Pete, and the rest of the Kings Band of Fools, the truths that we – the ordinary millions of characterless Aussies – wish to know aren’t the same kinds of truths the Gov says were entitled to know about. That’s a shame ’cause its always nice to be on the same page as ones employees – no real point in keeping everyone in the dark just because you’re frightened of the light switch. One could always ask one of the kids to turn the light on for you … Eh, boys? Of course, if one doesn’t want the lights on then perhaps best to just turn off the fuel source.

Admittedly though, I’m a bit baffled, you’d think the king and Pistol Pete would be interested if there were a bunch of junior liberals running about forging their own sets of documents – imagine if it was the king’s money! … But, the kids have to learn somewhere, and secreted down in the murky depths of the king’s ideologies there’s obviously plenty of vacant space – shall we say, leeway – for young white-collared criminals to prosper; one only has to pan the cameras around the right side of our parliament to see the progress one may attain through individually produced documentation and the powers of divinely inspired ministerial indiscretion. Furphy’s a star of Oz’s future and it ain’t hard to see that with just a little more circumspection (and a better approach to dissembling information) he’ll be punching out truer lies in the not too distant future. Well done Angus ‘Furphy’ Taylor … True, with mentors such as Pistol Pete and the New Christ, how could he fail to deceive!

I see too, the king’s given us a spanking new minister for the mixing of oil and water. Don’t know if the rest of you can see what I can, but it sure looks like the king’s determined for us to lead the free world into the same sort of a muck he likes his cabinets to wallow in. The new minister’s a ‘Country Green’ … You know, tear up the ground, add some fresh water, filter it through billions of tonnes of ‘clean’ coal and sell it two or three times to the cotton growers and land clearers further down stream. Sounds dodgy to me. But then, I thought it was a bit dodgy putting Tough Tony Abbott in charge of Aboriginal Education too, but it certainly shut him up. Just goes to show that wonders must never cease.

“The demand for equality among beings that are naturally equal is really just the demand that all power explain itself. A justice that comes from nature is in essence a justice that comes with reasons and is therefore subject to explanation and revision.” – Matthew Stewart.