As the election edges closer, there’s only one thing we know for sure – at least a few glittering political careers will end. The losers would do well to read Bill Shorten’s valedictory speech.
Following Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback, introspection has quickly made way for outrage and even amusement at some of the president-elect’s picks to lead the arms and legs of his administration.
An attorney-general (since withdrawn) who was investigated for sex trafficking. A director of national intelligence who defended the monstrous Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and cosied up with the Kremlin. A health and human services secretary who wants to take fluoride out of drinking water, left a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park, claims to have a worm inside his brain, and is widely blamed for stoking anti-vaccine rhetoric in Samoa that led to a measles outbreak killing more than 80 people – mostly children.
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Lidija Ivanovski is a partner at Brookline Advisory and former chief of staff to Richard Marles.
