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GREEN VARIATIONS

“God, politics is bollocks,” declared the ABC’s Jonathan Green in 2016.

Jonathan Fudd only hunts for sport
Jonathan Fudd only hunts for sport

“God, politics is bollocks,” declared the ABC’s Jonathan Green in 2016.

But then pro-Yes politics was inserted into Sunday’s NRL Grand Final, and suddenly Jonathan thought politics should be everywhere:

'Get politics out of sport' is a territorial claim: politics is theirs, not ours. Why can't politics be ubiquitous?

Why? Why, you ask? Because, Jonathan, politics is bollocks. Not exactly a consistent chap, is he? Also in 2016, Green announced he’d become the world’s second-ever animal-hunting bald vegetarian (after Elmer Fudd). This was due to Jonathan’s deep concern about “animal commodification in the food chain”.

A few months later he was buying steaks:

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