While the Turnbull Government was bobbing belly up in the House of Representatives , the National Party Whip , George Christensen (LNP , Queensland ) , stripped down to his true identity as a thwarted Great Barrier Reef turtle patron to help get the numbers that finally saved the government from being turned into fish fingers by the ALP. He is that large white figure in the above dramatic photograph , the worried looking PM about to don a made in China life jacket , Christopher Pyne ready to fire soggy Titanic distress flares .
Before the ALP hit the government ship of state with a Japanese whaling harpoon , just on closing time , corpulent Christensen was dressed in a suit which made him look like a shellback turtle . There was a frantic call for all hands on deck as the ship began to list , so Christensen threw off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and threw himself into the large hole in the side of SS Turnbull .
During the recent election campaign those wretched GetUp! activists tried to chuck Christensen , above , into a huge boiling vat of mock turtle soup when he promised to donate $12,000 to a Whitsunday turtle rescue group-if he were voted back in . GetUp!complained to the Australian Electoral Commission that this could be seen as buying votes, the matter was referred to the Australian Federal Police , the outcome of that investigation not yet known . Of course ,the AFP is run off its feet of late , invading parliament in a search for those subversive fiends upholding democracy and freedom in this country .
After the sneaky ALP attack , Immigration Minister Peter Dutton , missing during the count, and turtle teller Christensen drew up contingency plans to counter any further enemy attacks .
