ScoMo's why the bloody hell is he up here tourist trundle through Strawberry Republic / Bananaland to end in Dengue Fever Debate ?
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PM expressing pain during pin the tail on the donkey and musical chairs entertainment in Canberra Liberal party room .
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No sooner had North Queensland been warned to prepare for the cyclone season , than it was announced in a big spread in the Murdoch Townsville Bulletin that windy Paul Murray of Sky would be holding a show in Townsville with the wordy , stick to the message , adman , Scott Morrison . From time to time , the Bulletin runs a syndicated Murray column on subjects which seem to have little relevance locally .
Murray, who likes to present himself as a lover of the outback and its people, showed footage of himself fumbling about in a pup tent at the Birdsville Races , travelling with Pauline Hanson's party . Sky, like Channel 9, give inordinate coverage to rapidly fading Hanson . A Current Affair in particular seems intent on giving Hanson life support in its promos , despite the obvious prognosis for One Nation , its turnover of motley members , the arrival of a bovver boy below .
In the evening of the first day that Morrison set out on his four day safari in his multi coloured pantechnicon along the Queensland coast , surprised Townsville residents received calls for a political poll conducted for a mob identified in a muffled voice at the very end as the " Group for the Common Good" . Strangely, it asked questions related to your voting intentions should a Queensland state election be held tomorrow . Eh ? Such an event is a long way off .
Then the plot thickened . Do you think Premier Annasticia Palaszczuk is doing a good job ; would you like to see Queensland Treasurer Jackie Trad as the premier; what are your feelings about Greenies influencing the government ; do you think Labor should work with mining companies to advance mining projects ( no specific mention of Adani ) ; what is your opinion of Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington ; would you vote for minor named parties?
It was undoubtedly linked to ScoMo's bumpy ride down the drack LNP line and the eventual federal election ... an indication of an early one ?
On day one , sprouting assorted slogans like a smiling, wind up adman handing out free sample bags and baseball caps for a new whiter than white product in the toothpaste or nappy wash market , the PM visited a strawberry patch.
Somehow, it seems nobody asked him for comment on the strawberry contamination investigation , especially the suggestion, raised by the ABC a week or so ago , that there could have a been a mafia link in the sabotage .
However, ScoMo managed to attack (repeatedly) the federal Opposition and the Queensland government , saying it was not doing its job re infrastructure projects in the North , which seems to tie in nicely with the line of questioning in the telephone poll .
A Townsville area woman who received the above mentioned telephone poll told us she thought the person asking the questions was the giggling host of Channel 7's The Chase . Surely not ? In answering the question about her view of the Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington , the politically alert woman told us she thought she was as negative as Tony Abbott had been when he was leader of the Opposition . Further more , the Freckled One had not minded her Deputy Leader , doom and gloom Tim Mander , calling Treasurer Trad Saddam Hussein's information minister " Comical Ali . "
Re piss and hot effluvium : During a Murray Show panel discussion , country bred Peta Credlin delivered an off the shoulder punch to the breadbasket which caused motor mouth Murray to be temporarily lost for words .
An account went thus :.." Credlin’s abusiveness triggered an impromptu ad break when she swore at her fellow panellists. “Journos, journos, journos ... and a Labor outsider,” she said, referring to her colleagues. “Nobody is going to tell you in the Liberal Party what is really going on. They are more likely, the conservatives, to tell me. And I think you are all piss and wind. .."
On a previous , somewhat disorganised Murray Show in Townsville, he made the statement that the ALP Member for Herbert , the hard working behind the scenes Cathy O'Toole, was not present because his apparent pin up girl, Pauline Hanson, was there . Not so . She was actually in Singapore exploring ways and means in which Townsville could benefit from the closer relationship between the two cities and came back with a swag of useful information about jobs and investment opportunities.
