Tuft has revealed that, in his secret identity as the masked Bollard Man , ace news photographer Mike Bowers (above) protects the increasingly accident prone PM and his Canberra cronies from obstructive, nasty bollards , just for laughs. Brave Bowers is happy snapper at large for the Guardian Australia and presenter of Talking Pictures, the great round up of weekly pix and cartoons in the ABC's Insiders.
Bollard Man stresses he is no relation to Bollocks Man - evil advisor to the dirty tricks and slush fund department of the Coalition. He told award winning political reporter Argus Tuft there is evidence bollards are spreading throughout the nation , that politicians will increasingly run into them on the campaign trail .
Just last week Bowers received the above photograph of a defiant, uppity bollard near Townsville, North Queensland. Politically active, angry over climate change , Adani and cooking of the Great Barrier Reef the bollard plans to tie up the region, block the progress of Coalition donkeys , especially the Nationals, Pauline Hanson, nuclear powered lawnmower rider and brain irradiated, read from a sheet town crier , Bob Katter .
