Christian Porter finally signs up to the galactic rebellion

Christian Porter’s new tattoo.

Anthony Albanese on Sky News with Laura Jayes yesterday:

Jayes: Christian Porter has demonstrated his commitment to keeping a promise. He’s got a tattoo on his rib cage. Does that just show that at least the Attorney-General is willing to go above and beyond?

Albanese: I think it’s pretty weird ­myself. I think it looks like a scribble to me rather than …

Jayes: You’re not a Star Wars fan then obviously, Anthony Albanese?

Albanese: I am a big Star Wars fan. I’m just questioning the extent to which if you looked at it without being told what it was you would know anyway about that.

Jayes: Do you have any tattoos?

Albanese: It could be a spider. That’s something, Laura, that you’ll never find out.

Jayes: Really? So not a yes or no, not ruling it out, though?

Albanese: Indeed. I can assure you I don’t have any spiders.

Jayes: Well, there you go. I’m sure someone else will pursue that as well.

.@AlboMP on Christian Porter’s tattoo: I think it’s pretty weird myself. It looks like a scribble to me.

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— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) June 26, 2019

Moving on, just what does Porter’s tattoo depict? Alice Workman explores in Strewth yesterday:

When topless snaps of Christian Porter arrived in Strewth’s inbox yesterday, we muttered: “At least one election promise has been delivered.” The Attorney-General made a campaign pledge to get a tattoo if he won his marginal seat of Pearce with an increased majority. And lo, after a 3.9 per cent swing, he now has a not-at-all-demure X-Wing Starfighter on his left rib cage. “It’s very important that when you make an election promise, you stick to it,” says Porter, 48. Why an X-Wing? He’s a “massive Star Wars fanboy” and it’s the ­“symbol of prevailing against the adversity of what appears to be overwhelming odds”.

The X-Wing lands. Picture: Twitter @cporterwa

But aren’t X-Wings part of the anti-government rebellion in the Star Wars saga? Wookieepedia says yes:

During the Galactic Civil War, the Rebel Alliance used T-65B X-wing starfighters and T-65C-A2 X-wings in many battles, including the Battle of Yavin and the Battle of Endor. Approximately 30 years later, a different and upgraded variation of X-wing, the T-70, was used by the Resistance, whereas a more advanced model, the T-85, was used by the New Republic Defence Fleet.

Just in time for Father’s Day! Allen & Unwin yesterday:

The extraordinary letters detailing Carl Williams’ last eighteen months in jail, discovered after his death, will be published in a book called Life Sentence by Allen and Unwin on 5th August, 2019. Following his murder, Carl’s possessions were returned to Roberta Williams, who found the huge cache of letters protected by encryption on the hard drive. Carl’s writing in Life Sentence gives a compelling insight into the last months of his life and imprisonment before he was brutally beaten to death by a fellow inmate and trusted friend.

The power of speech. From James Jeffrey’s parliamentary Sketch on October 25, 2017:

Few things set off Labor quite like the PM’s pronunciation of “resolute”. It is clearly a cherished corner of the vast Turnbull lexicon, each syllable enunciated with relish. Not least the least last, which arrives on the ear not as the quotidian “loot” we’re used to but as a sumptuous “lyute”, which speaks of comfort and velvet and tinkling fountains and liveried footmen and trained flamingoes and smoked pheasant tongue. It is beautiful to hear a word so loved, yet Labor hearts are not so sentimental. “Mr Speaker,” Turnbull all but sighed, “the members on the other side can mock and scoff as much as they like.”