A wannabe reheated MP going a 1980s rocker with the ghost of Christmas past? Check
AAP yesterday:
The lead singer of an American rock band which has accused Clive Palmer of using one of their songs without permission says being linked to the mining magnate has made him look bad. Twisted Sister say Mr Palmer used their 1980s hit We’re Not Gonna Take It as inspiration for the song used in a television advertisement for his United Australia Party.
Everything is normal. Clive Palmer press release yesterday:
Clive Palmer has responded to the latest round of insults from Twisted Sister’s front man Dee Snider by wishing the ageing rocker all the best in his retirement. “As an ageing rocker with an affinity for wigs, he is obviously still trying to gain notoriety so people will come to his concerts. He should be careful about pointing the finger at people because the song he is apparently so protective of was not an original work of his, rather a rip-off of the centuries-old Christmas carol O Come, All Ye Faithful.
Thank you to all of my friends and fans in Australia for your support in my fight against @CliveFPalmer! In my opinion he is nothing but a low life, piece of kangaroo dung, criminal without an ounce of dignity! Clive: Pick any arena son and I will bury you!
— Dee Snider (@deesnider) January 30, 2019
That’s neither news nor your answer, Clive. Time Out on November 2, 2014:
The mashup of Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It with O Come All Ye Faithful sounds surprisingly natural; Snider self-deprecatingly jokes that it’s because it “turns out I stole the chord progression from O Come All Ye Faithful”.
Palmer wishes aging rocker a comfortable retirement
— Clive Palmer (@CliveFPalmer) January 30, 2019
Clive Palmer has responded to the latest round of insults from Twisted Sister’s front man Dee Snider by wishing the aging rocker all the best in his retirement.
Chris Bowen depriving the nation of a mighty punchline yesterday:
I’ve been around long enough to remember Malcolm Fraser warning that you would have to take your money out of the bank and put it under the bed if Bob Hawke became prime minister.
Hawke’s jolly response at the time:
But you can’t put your money under the bed because that’s where the commies are.
Christopher Pyne and Anthony Albanese on FIVEaa yesterday:
Host: There has been a slew of resignations in the Liberal Party and some have raised the spectre about your plans … Are you 100 per cent running in the election?
Pyne: Yes. It’s absolutely my intention … I will be asking the people of Sturt to re-elect me because I think that I can best represent not only Sturt but also South Australia as a senior cabinet minister. I have got a record of delivery. ‘Pyne delivers’ was my slogan at the last election, and not just the submarines and the Hunter-class frigates but road and local community infrastructure … I want to keep doing that job … there has been very limited speculation, so probably a lot of people are exaggerating.
Host: You don’t think some people want you gone, Chris?
Pyne: Mostly on my own team, I assume actually. Everybody likes a bit of movement.
Albanese: That is the smartest thing he said, and most accurate.
The struggle is real. The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:
On top of school fees of more than $27,000 a year, Joseph Craven is preparing to pay thousands in additional costs for uniforms, extra-curricular activities, camps and excursions as his son Max, 12, gets ready to go back to school. Mr Craven said those extra costs could add up to as much $5000 at Reddam House, a private school in Sydney’s east, and require a lot of planning and a few sacrifices to carve out of the family budget.
But wait, it gets even worse:
He said his wife went back to working full-time and they considered moving away from Clovelly. “We don’t really go on holidays anymore, that’s more of a personal problem.”