So long Gill Triggs, auf wiedersehen, good night, you gave Aussies a massive fright

Former Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs gives her (second) farewell interview to the ABC. Triggs on RN Breakfast, yesterday:

I think that there are no regrets and I very much hope that in the future the commission can continue to be fearless in standing up for the rights of Australians.

She’s giving Cher and Frank Sinatra a run for their money with the length of this goodbye tour. Chris Kenny in The Australian, yesterday:

Triggs has become emblematic of the elite’s disdain for common sense and national values. And it is why, for the green left, her mistakes and contradictions are overlooked in favour of her pontification and the discomfort she has caused the Coalition.

But Triggs never gives up an opportunity to let us all know we’re inferior. RN Breakfast, yesterday:

I’ve just come back from Yongah Hill (Immigration Detention Centre), for example. I suspect most Australians have no idea where Yongah Hill is.

Yes, Gillian, we know we’re not as clever as you. Triggs with Jon Faine on ABC Radio Melbourne, Monday:

It’s (the expansion of the government’s national security powers) something Australians can’t relate to, don’t really understand …

So you know where Yongah Hill is? Triggs on RN Breakfast, yesterday:

Fran Kelly: Where is it?

Triggs: Well, I couldn’t place it on a map.

As Homer Simpson would say … The Simpsons,December 17, 1989:

D’oh!

Wait, hold up, she remembers now. Triggs on RN Breakfast, yesterday:

It’s about two hours’ drive out of Perth and there are hundreds of men held there …

She can’t catch a trick, can she? Kenny in The Australian, yesterday:

The irresistible conclusion — on which supporters and critics can surely agree — is that at the end of Triggs’s term the AHRC is in need of a strong defence. It is an inglorious legacy.

Talking of people who are geographically challenged … Barnaby Joyce in Canberra, yesterday:

My grandmother is English. I’m working on the presumption I’ve never been English. I’ve never been to England.

But dude, you were there just a few weeks ago. A press release from the Deputy Prime Minister’s office, June 23:

Maintaining and growing Australia’s $3.1 billion food and agricultural exports into Europe is central to a visit by Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, to the United Kingdom …

The Deputy Prime Minister apologises on Twitter, yesterday:

Apologies but there’s a lot on my mind — to correct the record from my press conf, I have been to England, but am not a citizen.

And Donald Trump hates his Attorney-General. The US President on Twitter, yesterday:

Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are e-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!

If that’s how he treats his most loyal supporter … Trump’s election victory speech, November 9 last year:

The first man, first senator, first major, major politician (to endorse me) and let me tell you, he is highly respected in Washington because he’s as smart as you get: senator Jeff Sessions.