Australia's top political reporter , Argus Tuft , dives into extensive top secret files to provide another background article in his informative series explaining how the forces of darkness evolved in the current battleground election state of Queensland .
It kicks off , before ever changing goalposts, with the 1980 above balanced, scholarly document . It reveals the strained relationship between the Liberals and the Queensland Nationals in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's reign in the state .Nevertheless, this brawling eventually saw the two parties exchange conjugal vows and become one in Queensland- the current LNP, a bellowing, moaning , complaining bunch , apropos Tony Abbott , which seems to perpetually have its collective tits caught in an old fashioned clothes mangle .
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and Joh at a black tie / Black-throated Finch confrontation soiree , where the Crazy Grazier became exasperated with the premier . The Napoleonic complex is rampant in modern Queensland as there are all kinds of fringe pollies and would be pollies rushing about trumpeting that they are/ will be king makers.
One well known jawboner in the scorched NQ backblocks regularly plunges his hand down the front of his shirt and claims he is the 12th most powerful man under the Southern Cross .
Argus Tuft insists the following rare photograph is fleecy lined underwear knitted by the Kingaroy CWA for Joh to wear in chilly Canberra when he became PM. Unfortunately, he did not get to become the nation's top banana . The jocks and a pair of Queen Victoria's bloomers will be auctioned at Sotheby's , London , next month .
Tuft then sexed up the balanced report with current cartoons, each one featuring some wandering , babbling and much travelled Queensland political characters . The first , by Financial Review deranged genius , David Rowe , captures the very essence of the mad, mad , mad Coalition .
It depicts ScoMo and the Deputy PM, alias the Wagga Wagga Wrong Font , as poll dancers in a sleezy stripjoint , a raving ranga tuned into Al Jazeera on her smart/stupid phone , some plutocrat with a bundle of money who wants to impress the dancers , show them he is a big spender.
It depicts ScoMo and the Deputy PM, alias the Wagga Wagga Wrong Font , as poll dancers in a sleezy stripjoint , a raving ranga tuned into Al Jazeera on her smart/stupid phone , some plutocrat with a bundle of money who wants to impress the dancers , show them he is a big spender.
Another tasty cartoon by Mark Knight of the Herald Sun featured a whopper serving of melting Queensland parmie for ScoMo, without mushy strawberries atop , when asked by the waitress for his preference .
Cathy Wilcox of the Sydney Morning Herald / Age contributed a ripper of an election drawing , shown below, headed TEAM SCOMO .
It shows ScoMo , running a presidential election campaign , peering through an observation panel of a locked or sealed door at those members of the Coalition , including key ministers, locked away from the public and media in what amounts to isolation , even a padded cell . His cheery message to them is to hang on in there until May 18.
One of those under lock and key is the man dubbed the Member for Manila . There is a key figure in the Watergate Affair , gagged , so too is he who would be PM , Peter Dutton. The controversial Environment Minister appears to have a recycled potato sack over her head . Finally, from another old file, Tuft provided this description of a Coalition member. The assumption being that the moisture flowing from his mouth is not from the Darling River.
