LONDON : Media magnate Lord Copper has personally instructed reporter William Boot to cover the forthcoming promising political war in the battleground state of Queensland .Doddering Lord Copper is convinced the skirmish there will be more ferocious than the inglorious British defeat at Ishmaelia in l852 .
Preparing for the trip , putting the final touches to 29 trunks of personal luggage , including a hotwater bottle and a camouflaged pith helmet , Boot told Little Darwin London bureau chief and fashion editor , Miss Evelyn Waugh , his mother had warned him about the fierce Zulus in Australia who boil people in pineapple juice .
His mother , a feisty early suffragette who repeatedly chained herself to Nelson's Column, has supplied her son with two hundredweight of birdseed for the starving Black Throated Finches in the Galilee Basin she had read about in the Daily Worker .
Arrangements have been made with Lord Copper for overworked Little Darwin staff to act as Boot's guide and lug his excessive luggage on their own broad backs , part of a new , unfair enterprise bargaining agreement . Boot's first exclusive report from the wilds of darkest Queensland will be run soon.
