SADLY, THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A MINISTER - NAME AND ADDRESS WITHHELD BY REQUEST- IS LOSING HIS MARBLES . ASKED BY A REPORTER WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT FEISTY ALISON ANDERSON , WHO BLEW THE LID ON THE SIHIP SNAFU ,THE MINISTER REPLIED," ALISON WHO ?"
THIS ANSWER BROUGHT TEARS TO THE EYES OF THE USUALLY RUTHLESS POLITICAL REPORTER. HE COULD TELL THE OVERWORKED POLLIE WAS CLEARLY LOSING HIS MEMORY DUE TO THE STRAIN OF CONSTRUCTING AN INTELLIGIBLE SENTENCE FROM TIME TO TIME . THE TROUBLED MINISTER WAS IMMEDIATELY PLACED IN A PASSING RAM-RAIDER'S CAR AND DRIVEN TO THE ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL.
THERE , AN OVERWORKED TRIAGE NURSE, SMOKING A CUBAN CIGAR,ASKED THE MINISTER FOR HIS NAME AND HE LISPED ," ALISON ANDERSON." THIS WAS A CLEAR INDICATION THAT THE POOR GUY HAD LOST HIS MARBLES , INCLUDING THE VITAL ,COLOURFUL AGATES.
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST HOSPITAL BULLETIN , THE PATIENT HAS UNDERGONE SEVERE SHOCK TREATMENT WHICH CONSISTED OF REPEATEDLY READING THE LATEST POLL INDICATING HIS PARTY IS FAR FROM POPULAR. BECAUSE THE DEMENTED PATIENT STILL THINKS HE IS ALISON ANDERSON, HE HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE MATERNITY WARD, FITTED WITH BIRTHING STIRRUPS, AND IS SOON EXPECTED TO GIVE BIRTH TO TWIN BLOOPERS .
