Ace political reporter Argus Tuft makes fair and balanced commentary on forces of darkness .
The first time the new leader of the Nationals and the Deputy PM no less appeared on the front bench during Question Time in the House of Representatives, Michael McCormack -Who?- a former editor of the Wagga Wagga local paper , looked apprehensive, even stunned , ill at ease , a bit like ousted Barnaby Joyce in recent months . He gazed about , stuck fingers under his collar as if being choked by the gutta percha , stared up at the media gallery , appeared to be deep in thought , below, trying to work out why so many rabid New England feral algorithms end up in the Wagga Wagga Animal Pound .
Once he got a Dorothy Dixer question , he was up on his feet , flashing a naughty centrespread of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten from the Ploughboy Monthly , popular with Riverina rustics , while doing a less red faced imitation of a typical Barnaby rant in the extensively organised , hysterical Coalition Kill Bill campaign .
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Document banned by Speaker . Easily shocked maiden aunts are advised these dark, odd shaped objects are not part of Shorten's anatomy , besides he is Caucasian .
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Soon after, he headed for North Queensland , no doubt to " speak bush" like Barnaby , where he teamed up with his tubby National buddy, jibe and gun slinger, George Christensen, and was photographed with him next to a National sacred site, a strip of highway . Then the two Cheshire cat amigos dropped in on the Adani office in Townsville to shovel coal on the unsuccessful Kill Bill campaign in Batman, television footage showing fewer people and whiteboards in the office than in the previous photo opportunity for the gullible , don't ask too many obvious questions, local media. Perhaps some of the rent-a-crowd had slipped out to the vindaloo ?
The Murdoch Townsville Bulletin unsurprisingly quoted McCormack as saying the only fake thing in the north was Bill Shorten , sticking to the Kill Bill message , this a reference to the Labor leader's statement that Adani job claims were fake. Earlier on , Townsville based Liberal senator Ian Macdonald, up to his pianola lid in support for Adani, got a run in the Bulletin by saying opponents of Adani were economic terrorists .
Despite the outcome of the Queensland state election which saw a Labor victory and the three Townsville seats go to the incumbent ALP members , the sinking Bulletin , as usual, went on about them thar southerners and latte drinkers opposing Adani, unfairly giving the impression that North Queensland is hillbilly country .
There is a strong theory afoot in Townsville that the paper's future depends on Adani going ahead , otherwise it will become a bi-weekly or be amalgamated with other Murdoch blats into one serving North Queensland , like the long standing title North Queensland Register . This would then leave Townsville to be covered by a Murdoch Sky News "bureau " ...consisting of a reporter with a camera .
Despite the outcome of the Queensland state election which saw a Labor victory and the three Townsville seats go to the incumbent ALP members , the sinking Bulletin , as usual, went on about them thar southerners and latte drinkers opposing Adani, unfairly giving the impression that North Queensland is hillbilly country .
There is a strong theory afoot in Townsville that the paper's future depends on Adani going ahead , otherwise it will become a bi-weekly or be amalgamated with other Murdoch blats into one serving North Queensland , like the long standing title North Queensland Register . This would then leave Townsville to be covered by a Murdoch Sky News "bureau " ...consisting of a reporter with a camera .
COALITION CRUSADE AFTER SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The election which, not surprisingly, saw the Libs win in South Australia after 16 years , not by a great majority , caused celebrating elderly members of the Adelaide Club to fall out of their bathchairs and then attend a wild party aboard the Torrens River boat, Popeye, popular with kiddies and men in their second childhood .
A well known happy clapper who gets about endlessly calling on Satan and Shorten to get behind the blessed Coalition to make life easier for milllionaires, , tax dodgers, water thieves and help pass laws to crush wage slaves , unions and GetUp! , even prevent charitable organisations from speaking out , was ecstatic .
The SA victory , he trumpeted, like Gabriel on a Sousaphone , was shock, horror, a mandate . It proved , he declared, the Coalition's policies would set the nation on the highway to heaven , via Rabbit Flat , in the Northern Territory .
A well known happy clapper who gets about endlessly calling on Satan and Shorten to get behind the blessed Coalition to make life easier for milllionaires, , tax dodgers, water thieves and help pass laws to crush wage slaves , unions and GetUp! , even prevent charitable organisations from speaking out , was ecstatic .
The SA victory , he trumpeted, like Gabriel on a Sousaphone , was shock, horror, a mandate . It proved , he declared, the Coalition's policies would set the nation on the highway to heaven , via Rabbit Flat , in the Northern Territory .
There was little comment from those born to rule about Ged Kearney (ALP), a well qualified person who will perform well in Canberra , showing up many of the lightweights in the Tories , winning Batman . The Coalition did not bother to field a candidate in Batman , such was their concern for voters of their ilk in the electorate .
On the other hand , the Victorian Liberals were probably too involved in the more important legal battle over the $70million Cormack Foundation fund which donated $200,000 to the hopeless Northern Territory Country Liberal Party in 2016-17.
However, on the strength of the SA win , it has been announced Prime Minister Turnbull, the man for whom the bell and the Newspoll will soon toll, and his chanting disciples , in a religious, fearful frenzy , will spread out across the wide brown land in a blitz of marginal electorates . Brace yourself sinners.
On the other hand , the Victorian Liberals were probably too involved in the more important legal battle over the $70million Cormack Foundation fund which donated $200,000 to the hopeless Northern Territory Country Liberal Party in 2016-17.
