Attorney-General Christian Porter gets a Star Wars tattoo
Australia’s Attorney-General Christian Porter has Star Wars fans literally on his side after getting a badass X-wing Starfighter tattoo.
If Australia’s Attorney-General Christian Porter gets a tattoo in a forest, does anybody hear?
Probably not. But if he gets it in a tattoo parlour and puts it on social media, word gets out.
Now, I’m not a Star Wars aficionado, but I do know my X-wings from my TIE fighters.
So, here it is.
Big responsibility being part of a Coalition Govt getting on with delivering for the people of Pearce and Australians right across our great nation. First promise delivered – ink done! It’s an #Xwing Starfighter from #starwars - pic.twitter.com/cTH12vw7PI
— Christian Porter (@cporterwa) June 26, 2019
Now he says it’s also “a symbol of prevailing against the adversity of what appear to be overwhelming odds”. This makes him part of the Rebel Alliance, not the Galactic Empire, so I’m a bit confused. Is he a goodie or a baddie?
And it appears he is one of those rare politicians who actually keeps their pre-election promises.
On election night May 18, Mr Porter said he would stand by his promise to get inked after retaining his seat of Pearce.
“In a weaker moment during the campaign I promised my team... that if we won with an increased majority I’d get a tattoo,” he says. “No, I’m not getting Clarkson’s postcode, as much as I’d like.”
He will need as much steely resolve as possible to navigate the tricky waters ahead regarding censorship and press freedoms.
Media organisations have called on Mr Porter to “definitively state” that neither Annika Smethurst or the ABC’s journalists will face criminal persecution as a result of the AFP raids earlier this month.