The Source: The many, many, many faces of Deakin MP Michael Sukkar
Michael Sukkar at a cake stall. Michael Sukkar at scout awards. Michael Sukkar cutting a ribbon. The member for Deakin has taken a carpet bombing approach to keeping the community up to date on his comings and goings.
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The good people who live in the federal electorate of Deakin in Melbourne’s outer east should never be left wondering what their local MP looks like.
Liberal MP Michael Sukkar regularly sends out community newsletters of what he’s been up to. Cake sales, school visits, local barbecues and other happy events.
But his latest bulletin, for summer 2024, features Sukkar’s smiling dial in a total of 85 photos.
Yes, 85, that’s not a misprint. And all in just 12 pages, which The Source rates as quite a political achievement.
The newsletter is growing in infamy and now has its own following as a thread in Reddit, complete with some not too complimentary comments.
One commenter remarked: “Sukkar will turn up to the opening of an envelope and then tell everyone he sent it.’’ Ouch!
Sukkar won the seat of Deakin by a mere 375 votes in 2022 and a redistribution means the electorate will be “one to watch” in the next federal election. Watch that face!
Ho Ho … No! Santa’s sleigh gets ‘woke’ makeover
Santa might want to reassess his gift allocation for the clever clods at Monash University which, on Wednesday, sent out news of his sleigh being upgraded.
“Santa’s sleigh has undergone a transformation this year with the help of Monash engineers,” a media release from the university said with a sly wink.
“They’ve just conducted a final inspection on the upgraded sleigh, giving Santa the official pre-flight green light.”
The Source isn’t the Grinch, so we get the fun spirit of Melbourne academics pimping Santa’s ride to include “precise chimney navigation” “reindeer health tracking” and “antifreeze technology.”
However, the sleigh redesign team might end up on Santa’s haughty list for making some woke alterations – “Its carbon-neutral design incorporates recyclable materials, and it runs on sustainable fuel.”
2024 Santa probably doesn’t go near chimneys either because, you know, COAL.
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