Opinion: Election corflute larceny sparks warning
As we enter the second last week of the campaign the most pressing issue on the radar is The Grand Corflute Larceny hitting Queensland’s far north.
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AS WE enter the second last week of the campaign the most pressing issue on the radar is The Grand Corflute Larceny hitting Queensland’s far north.
Katter’s Australian Party patriarch, Bob Katter, says up to 70 roadside election campaign signs in his sprawling northwestern seat of Kennedy have disappeared into the void.
His neighbouring candidate in Leichhardt, Daniel McCarthy, has lost more than 100.
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The motive appears to be fear and envy. Katter believes some aspirants to public office view the KAP as a serious threat to their ambitions.
“We have our eyes on you,’’ Katter warned thieves.
The issue widened into a territorial dispute in Hughenden late last week between the KAP and Clive Palmers United Australia Party.
A KAP supporter came home to her family’s Hughenden pub only to spy a United Australia Party candidate diligently hammering a UAP corflute into the pub’s front yard.
Eyes locked silently for several seconds before the UAP candidate acknowledged a mistake had clearly been made, and skedaddled,
The KAP make no allegation regarding the UAP’s involvement in the corflute heist.
But, as Katter has warned:
“We have our eyes on you.’’
CLIVE REVEALS HIS PREFERENCE ON VOTE COUNTING
Clive Palmer of the canary yellow signage and the rousing calls to arms (”Make Australia Great’’) is attempting to douse the fires of Saturday night election coverage by banning the publication of preference votes before polling officially closes at 9.30pm on the Cocos Islands.
The matter is going before the High Court today where Palmer’s legal team will argue that only first preference votes should be counted before 9.30pm.
They argue that revealing secondary preferences could bias results by influencing Western Australians who haven’t yet voted.
If Palmer’s bid is successful, expect a far less riveting election coverage Saturday night. Put aside Sunday afternoon to watch the result.
PAC-MAN EATS SPACE INVADER
It took him a few days but Caretaker Prime Minister Scott Morrison has a reasonable come back to Bill Shorten’s crack that the Morrison was a “Space Invader’’ during Friday night’s debate.
Scott Morrison says Shorten is a Pac-Man.
“Who remembers Pac-Man? That little thing that goes around gobbling up like that?”
Morrison asked, his snapping fingers resembling the voracious Pac-Man consuming little pellets (or, in Shorten’s case, tax dollars) while dodging those ghosts in the maze.
If nothing else, the computer game references of both leaders do reinforce their daggy dad credentials.
Fortnite and Minecraft might better serve as cybernetic analogies if they’re chasing the youth vote.
Originally published as Opinion: Election corflute larceny sparks warning
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