Let me take you back. Way, way back to the evening of December 2, 2017. The Prime Minister and his deputy stood arm in arm at the West Tamworth Leagues Club. Joyce had just won the New England by-election by a thumping margin and Turnbull declared he was “putting the band back together.”
Ah, good times.
Alas, rock stars and politicians are, if nothing else, a difficult and unpredictable lot. Velvet Underground reformed and got halfway through a European tour in 1992 before the band’s two enormous egos, Lou Reed and John Cale, remembered why the band had split up in the first place. The two men hated the sight, let alone the creeping presence, of one another. The tour and the reunion ended abruptly, and Reed and Cale went their separate ways.
The Turnbull-Joyce combo did not come to grief because of crippling personality conflict. although it may do so at some time in the near future. But back then the band had only broken up when Joyce discovered his unfortunate New Zealand-news. We subsequently learned the High Court did not so hold and Joyce was off to a by-election that on the parliamentary numbers at least, threatened the Turnbull government’s majority.
Full column here.
Hmm, “sources” close to Joyce and Campion are claiming that he was in a loveless marriage and had no sex for five years.
Way to go Barnaby, let’s humiliate your wife a little bit more that’s if she can possibly feel more humiliated than she already is.
Don’t know who’s advising him on his PR, they’re not worth the money.
“sources” = scuttlebutt Tracy, you know that.
Funny thing CotC, there’s an awful lot of “scuttlebutt” about Barnaby, cover something up and it all comes out in the end.
Those dirty deeds done dirt cheap always end up costing.
thats a first right? boohoo #crymeariver
Can’t see why a lack of love should preclude a frenetic root, Tracy. Best to take exercise when you can get it.
Who is saying it should? If the subject is frenetically rooting somewhere else then it probably will.
Who knows what was happening in the marriage Tracy. It may well have been cactus and just hanging in for appearances. The media has have left that one alone, thank goodness
‘It may well have been cactus…….. ” Well yairs Boadicea, a shrewd observation, in light of the revelation it probably was cactus.
well JB, on your advice I decided to give Peter Hawken a miss. After all it’s just going to be graphs going ballistically northwards on a PP presentation, warming oceans, plastic bottles etc etc etc. Too depressing – I’m over all the hate that is permeating our world these days
So instead I went on a solitary 15k walk on the mountain. Never saw a soul, sat next to a gorgeous waterfall with just birdsong for company . Chicken soup for the soul. Nothing quite like walking alone – and I feel the need to do these things before the rampant tourism that is happening here f#@ks it all up.
At the moment we are lucky here in paradise to be able to do that just 10mins from home.
A wise choice Boa, you are lucky indeed.
It was great Carl!
AGW will “f&%&$k it all up long before the rampant tourists do.
No. Its happening here even faster than AGW I’m afra’d.
Jack, a good read in the SMH on the career of Michael ‘‘Mouse’’ O’Connor an ace Victorian detective with many a scalp on his belt.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-mouse-that-roared-20180222-p4z18r.html
Sylvester writes a lot of these. They’re interesting to a point and in this case very good but for mine he is too close to the cops to be objective in a general sense. He jumped all over the Denis Ryan case after the event and was the only journo allowed to witness the formal apology VicPol made to Dinny which annoyed me greatly. Of course it wasn’t his call. He was invited along because they expected he wouldn’t ask the questions that needed to be asked. Before that Sylvester rang me and I told him journo to journo how serious this was for VicPol as it struck at public confidence in a way the more usual forms of police corruption did not. I got the distinct feeling he couldn’t wait to get off the phone.
Well the Forestville exclusion zone has finally had some rainfall today, the first in I don’t know how long.
Canberra has obviously had more
It were full on Tracty
We were in McMaster’s Beach on the Central Coast over the weekend and saw almost no rain.
Wen we got back to Canberra, it was another story. About time, too.
Mr Trump told Friday’s White House press conference he would “love” the Australian Navy to join US freedom of navigation patrols in the South China Sea.
Oh now wouldn’t he just luuurrrrvvveee dat! The REAL reason for Malcolm’s trip was payback for the asylum seeker deal which Trump wanted no part of . So Turnbull was told during his visit that we must sign up to any wars Trump declares and also any dancing he wants us to do in the South China Sea or elsewhere. That was the cost of the asylum seeker deal.
Bloody hell we are one of the only countries in the world where ONE MAN (The PM) can take us to war. When O when are we going to have a law that says ALL houses of parliament must agree if we go to war. 16yrs of war is enuff…pull out now and save billions. It has cost us $40billion since Howard took us to the Middle East. There goes our infrastructure money up in smoke.
You a DFA plant BASSY, or have you just got your snotty nose up against the outside window?
Good heavens BASSMAN, Australia and the USA have been Military allies for 100 years starting with the Battle of Hamel in France in 1918 when we fought alongside US Infantry. Since then fellow we and the US have stood side by side in many Military actions and if it wasn’t for the US’s intervention in WW2 at the Battle of the Coral Sea we would be addressing you as BASSMAN-SAN. Get a grip lad we need the protection of the US in this uncertain World and cant let any country big or small just walk in and take us over. We recently were directly threatened by the crazed nutter, murderous Kim Jong un with a Nuclear strike. As for Aussie Political Party’s there are only 2, Lib/Nat and Labor who can decide if and when we go to war, the likes of the Greens are bloody useless. China imho has no plans to attack Australia but we must remain vigilant and with the USA’s help send a message to them “this far and no farther”. Cheers
You advised BASSY to “get a grip” HB. That may be the problem, rather than the solution, if you get me drift.
Vassal state mate.
Does Barnaby Joyce wear his big hat to bed Jack do you know?
Perhaps he does CH to provide “shade” for his fertile extremities. Cheers
Boa said: “The #metoo brigade wouldn’t want to partake in the pairs figure skating. Some of those lifts are pretty full on”
True. But I think they have got their hooks into the alpine events. Tracty and Voltaire, if he’s out and about, will recognise that at the top of an alpine event, they have for the longest time had a camera shot of the next competitor from the rear. Straight up the clacker as it were. Hindquarters at close quarters. It was quite noticeable that at these Olympics, this was no longer the case for the women, although they were still doing it for the men. The girls had a shot over their shoulder.
It’s very much the same concept as strategically placing a camera at the tennis grand slams directly opposite the competitor’s ‘rest’ seats for the odd shot up the valley. Highly contrived and it has led to a boom in the sales of towels in the vicinity these arenas. and bicycle shorts as well.
I haven’t caught much of the skiing this time round so I hadn’t really noticed.
Unfortunately have noticed the USA women’s speed skating costumes, what were they thinking? men’s are the same but it doesn’t draw the eye as much.
Noticed that but it pales after the Colombian women’s cycling outfit. Google if you aren’t familiar.
Oh dear😳
Speak of the devil https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/was-this-the-worst-uniform-at-the-winter-olympics-20180226-p4z1qg.html
Unreal! Crikey
Goodness me – what were they thinking!!!! Black is always good. Hides a multitude of things 🙄
Absolutely fabulous! The blonde should be colour co-ordinated, but apart from that, wonderful.
And now I know what you did your thesis on, Trivalve. If you require any addendums I’ve put my name into the, umm, ring to be a camera man at the beach volleyball in Japan, 2020.
Bet the squirrel on the parallel snowboarding course yesterday saw his life flash before his eyes.
That was bizarre, Tracy. If they don’t mind chowing down on a bit of dog a squirrel could be a delicacy, hence its speed.
You’re on Milton. For the record, there’s something I find distinctly unsexy about those beach volleyball togs. Even the womens.
Silly isn’t it! I don’t have a problem with the vista of nice taut lycra-clad men’s backsides, but heck, there’s nothing wrong with a nice lycra-clad woman’s backside either. Equal opportunities and all that 😉
Moving on from MAMILs (middle aged men in lycra) arriving on their bikes at the coffee shop, we now have the VOMITs – very old men in tights.
As a columnist somewhere recently remarked – okay I’ll put up with your lycra drifting past my nose at the coffee shop – just keep your bits out of my coffee!!
VOMITS – very good. Nothing wrong with Ruggers and an old T-shirt I reckon
True, Triv. Leaving out the nether regions, beer bellies do not look good in lycra either.
Beer bellies don’t look good in anything!
Great Mates, Mr Insider as Malcolm advised a bemused POTUS Trump and gallery Australia and the US are Mates, big mates and Malcolm went on in one speech to say “Mates” 12 times so much so POTUS Trump had to explain to the Press what “Mates” meant. Great to have a mate like the USA. Perhaps we should have a “Mates Day” where we celebrate with our Mates. Goodness me I have caught “Turnbullitis” saying “Mates” way too often. Mateeeeeeeeeeeee!
Turncoat excels at kissing foreign feet.
Shame he’s a dud with everything else.
HE certainly seems to have done well over in the USA. Definitely better to have the Don onsides rather than not.
Baa baa
Done well?
Trump tells Turncoat we must jump into any war/conflict the USA asks us to to & to step up in the South China Sea & his ‘mate’ Malcolm’ bows to his commands.
I call that gutless subservience.
He does real well with that.
Amazing – the title says it all: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/cheap-shots-become-own-goals-when-ministers-make-up-facts/news-story/4a174d8f41fd383162b3ba5bd17a8917
A little bit of self awareness mightn’t go astray, Tones.
I heard or read somewhere “who would want to be holding a gun when the swat team arrive” – good point.
Indeed Milton and also the killer could pose as a Teacher too so the Swat chaps haven’t time to ask politely who you are if you have a gun you may be dead on the spot! Cheers
Teachers to be issued with government issue camo. Looks like a blackboard. That’ll stuff ’em.