CANBERRA : As expected , God fearing PM Scott Morrison invoked the 10 Exodus biblical plagues applied to the Egyptians when, armed with the jawbones of many asses , he ferociously attacked the Leader of the Opposition , Bill Shorten, his tribe , all its firstborn children and union members .
The house , nay , the nation , echoed to him shouting : Liar !Liar! Liar ! in respect of the loyal Leader of the Opposition . Repeated in subsequent media conferences and the budget luncheon when he trumpeted, as if outside the walls of Jericho , that Shorten and his team of unwashed, uncircumcised lepers would drive the nation into a future of Hell's fire and brimstone .
A smart-arse , lefty ABC reporter was glared at when he pointed out that many Labor politicians were women , so circumcision did not apply to them . It was decided on the spot to slash another $200million from the national broadcaster's always shrinking funds .
The house , nay , the nation , echoed to him shouting : Liar !Liar! Liar ! in respect of the loyal Leader of the Opposition . Repeated in subsequent media conferences and the budget luncheon when he trumpeted, as if outside the walls of Jericho , that Shorten and his team of unwashed, uncircumcised lepers would drive the nation into a future of Hell's fire and brimstone .
A smart-arse , lefty ABC reporter was glared at when he pointed out that many Labor politicians were women , so circumcision did not apply to them . It was decided on the spot to slash another $200million from the national broadcaster's always shrinking funds .
Deputy PM Michael Mackenzie , tottering current head of the all shook up National Party , shouted Hallelujah! and repeatedly raised his hands to Heaven , announcing , midst a cloud of trumpeting angels , the arrival of the age of coast to coast concrete , based on the Japanese experience which transformed that once lovely country into a German autobahn .
On hearing skinhead Josh Freydenberg explain the budget , observing the Coalition performing like a bunch of happy clappers under ScoMo's Sunday School leadership in past months , one veteran Canberra watcher said it reminded him of Upton Sinclair's expose of cant and hypocrisy , The Profits of Religion .
Seeing the manager of government business , Christopher Pyne , The Fixer , sob at the end his farewell speech was a memorable moment . However, if anybody should have been weeping and wailing , it is all those unfortunate Australians who watch Question Time and had listened to mind numbing, infuriating, infantile Dorothy Dix question's compiled in Pyne's office under his supervision .
Ms. Dix will , in all probability, retire to a nunnery, and after a bout of Spanish self flagellation , seek divine forgiveness for her many sins against the nation's mental health , her contribution to the rapid growth of offensive language in the community , widespread smashing of television sets and helping spread Coalition fibs.
Apart from it being revealed that he will become the PR for South Australia's big wooden rocking horse at Gumeracha , it is also known Christopher is on a short list for the important job as the commissionaire outside the Adelaide Club . In this highly responsible position, dressed like the man outside Hoyts , he would protect the club being invaded by women , republicans-like that academic chap Geoffrey Dutton - and noisy day trippers after a ride up the Torrens aboard the nuclear powered Popeye riverboats.
Meanwhile , jostling street-wise pigeons outside parliament house were hard pressed to find a crumb of benefit in Freydenberg's first budget for the many men, women and children in crowded struggle streets.
After Bill Shorten delivered his well received budget reply speech , above, he was asked how he felt having been soundly abused and rubbished by the PM and the rest of the front bench during Question Time . Shorten's response sounded like a take from the Monty Python movie , Life of Brian , when he said , in effect , he expected to be stoned and hung out to dry by the hysterical Coalition side , fearfull of being decimated , cast into the political wilderness under the aggressive , name calling leadership of pompous Pontius Pilate.
