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Drastic action required to remove barnacles and boofheads from the body politic ?
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In the reign of
Prime Minister Jolly John Gorton,
during which it was claimed somebody
chundered in the swimming pool at
The Lodge in Canberra, his Principal Private Secretary was the
highly efficient Ainsley
Gotto, railed against by some members of the Conservatives. She was too close to the PM , wielded too much power , they complained . When former Minister for Air, Dudley Erwin, was dropped in a cabinet reshuffle, he explained his removal thus...."It wiggles, its shapely and its name is Ainsley Gotto ." This
clearly indicated there was
a strong streak of misogyny
in the fractious Coalition at the time .
Sheilas with brains running the
nation - what next!!! They should
be at home emulating Queen Victoria, making sure not to
entertain sly Mr Brown, the man who
delivers the farm fresh
lactose to the
doorstep.
Knowing more than what
the butler saw and heard in Canberra, journalist Pete Steedman , editor of the then
new
publication Broadside , in 1969 launched the raunchy comic strip,
Fabula , drawn by Gerald Carr. The said
skimpily
clad Fabula wielded
a whip and ran the office of a leader
in a great southern
land in which there were many sheep that Asians
and others wanted to snaffle . Fabula
even confronted Tricky Dicky in a country which was a great and powerful
ally . Thinly disguised leading politicians appeared in the strip. Not long
after it was launched out came the bitching about poor Ainsley Gotto . Gotto went on to carve out a successful career in
international business. She married a lawyer and in 2008 returned to parliament as chief of staff to Shadow Finance Minister, Senator Helen Coonan. Coincidently, Coonan's former chief of staff had been one Peta Credlin .
Now the same situation has surfaced
over the performance of Tony Abbott’s
head of the Prime Minister’s
Office , Peta Credlin. If any bunch of politicians needs whipping by a Madam
Lash type it is surely
the present bumbling Coalition . Speaker Bronwyn Bishop is
doing her bit on the rowdy
Opposition. Going on the squeaky voices of some anxious born to rule types , Ms. Purick's painful green round rubber ring is also being applied.
Pete Steedman , still unpacking boxes of books and files
after moving from his bushy retreat
to suburbia , has made some typically pungent
comments about Fabula and the
situation in which Peta is
placed. He firmly believes the time is ripe for a modern day Fabula comic strip. Any takers out there in media land ?
