The mainstream media was quick to chastise PM Albanese for illustrating Peter Dutton’s ignorance in Parliament. Dr Victoria Fielding reports.
Embarrassingly for Dutton, he was attempting to slam Albanese for mispronouncing Yeppoon as Yeppen, so Albanese shot back to defend himself, clarifying for Dutton that Yeppen Floodplain is a different place than Yeppoon. Since both these places are in Queensland, Albanese pointed out that it was surprising Queenslander Dutton didn’t know that.
So embarrassing was this scene for Dutton – his sledge backfiring on him – that even Michelle Landry chuckled. Had you been sitting in Parliament, watching the scene unfold, you would have seen lots of MPs laughing at the obvious mistake the now-humiliated Dutton had made.
This could have been the end of the scene. Perhaps some media would have mentioned the embarrassing gaffe, pointing to Dutton’s rude behaviour. We know they love a gaffe. But no. Dutton had an ace up his sleeve. He knows how easily played the media is, how happily they distort reality to beat up a story that doesn’t exist.
Source: Press punishes PM after Dutton’s delusional dig
How fortunate are we with compulsory voting
The starting gun has sounded in Victoria’s official election campaign but the race to the poll is off to a slow start as the state grapples with prolonged flooding. Governor Linda Dessau signed the writs on Tuesday, ending the 59th parliament and formally triggering the election process. Labor leader Daniel Andrews kept a low profile on […]
Victorians will be able to apply for postal votes from Wednesday and cast ballots at early voting centres from November 14.
Electoral Commissioner Warwick Gately confirmed the Victorian Liberals have been cleared of illegally distributing postal vote applications.
“What was distributed was a pre-filled general postal voter application,” he told ABC Radio.
“It was not a postal voting application. There is no rule preventing a party promoting an application to be a general postal voter.”
Source: Starting gun fired for Vic state election – Michael West
What in the intellects of seemingly reasoned people would render them incapable of rational thought? It is a question I have constantly asked myself over the past decade as we slowly descended into the consequences of an overheating planet. Inevitably, I do so more often as I approach my final years.
As one day seeps into the next, the world as we know it weeps in protest, fighting the pains of its rape by nations uninterested in saving it.
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