The thought of a Government headed by Australia's arch conservative, Tony Abbott, is very chilling.
How unsurprising it would be if it happened to revealed that his Education and Health ministers would be under the control of Cardinal George Pell, his Industrial Relations minister would need to consult Hugh Morgan and Immigration policy would be designed by Andrew Bolt.
His current front bench of "shadows" is perhaps one of the most laughable for decades:
Julie Bishop - Nelson's, Turnbull's and Abbott's ironing lady.
Bronwyn Bishop - affable, elegant, educated but eons past her use-by date.
Kevin Andrews - another Pell acolyte and a racist - remember Dr. Haneef?
Phil Ruddock - the architect of Australia's most disgusting immigration policy since the White Australia Policy.
Peter Dutton - current health shadow and the only Member of Parliament to absent himself from the House when Kevin Rudd made his apology to the Stolen Generation. As a former Queensland cop, there has to be some "history" attached to this man.
Sophie Mirabella - so politically inept she secured the services of the one of the most reviled and disgraced Liberals in Australia - Noel Crichton-Browne -to be her advisor in the election which won her the Victorian country seat of Indi; one of the safest in the country.
How laughable it is of the Opposition to keep asking Prime Minister Gillard to reveal the details, of her conversation with Kevin Rudd the night before the Caucus meeting which voted him out in her favour.
If she needs to reveal what was said, the Australian public really needs to know what Blair, Bush and Howard cooked up to lie their ways into Iraq, destroying the country and killing perhaps millions of its citizens.
How about John Howard coming clean, particularly as the former head of MI5 Britain's crack spy organisation, has done so in the past week.
An the current scandal surrounding the Afghan conflict needs explanations fror the former and current governments in this country.
And for an Opposition which has dispatched two leaders since 2007 asking for Government comment is ridiculous.
What was said to Nelson, Turnbull and Rudd by Abbott and Gillard might make interesting reading but I'll bet my bottom dollar is would not have been as elegant as what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation:
You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us be done with you. In the name of God, go!
Australians really need to think carefully - the thought of a Government led by Tony Abbott is too scary for words.
Monday, July 26, 2010
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