Post-Barnaby, it’s all private parts and toilet talk
Parliament really is offering up total filth these days. Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm discusses porn in Senate estimates, yesterday:
Are you aware of the argument that the guidelines have led to the frequent brushing away of prominent features of female genitalia?
Perhaps we’re easily shocked? Leyonhjelm’s comments to blushing Communications Department bureaucrats at estimates, yesterday:
You must live in sheltered circles.
But are parliamentarians saying dirty things because the whiff of scandal finally has passed? One of the few Barnaby-related exchanges in question time, yesterday:
Tanya Plibersek: Does the Prime Minister agree no member of parliament should publicly disclose the identity of people who make confidential sexual harassment complaints?
Malcolm Turnbull: I agree complaints should be dealt with confidentially.
Dare we go back to the Senate? Leyonhjelm in estimates, continued:
Are you aware … this airbrushing has contributed … contributed to the (growing) number of women seeking labiaplasty?
Meanwhile, Labor’s Helen Polley was tweeting about toilets for some reason. Twitter, yesterday:
The poo floats to the top.
The Prime Minister, for once, speaks for the entire nation. Turnbull in question time, yesterday:
I am spewing …
Though voters may be spewing over something else to do with Turnbull. The Australian, yesterday:
Malcolm Turnbull’s Point Piper mansion received a superfast NBN connection after the intervention of his department, narrowly avoiding a delay of up nine months affecting other customers.
Labor promises a new era in industrial relations. Bill Shorten at a Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union rally at the Oaky North coalmine, October 6 last year:
We now have a situation where the (industrial relations) laws of this land are being distorted … like a cancer … We will change these laws …
Who’s responsible for the current Fair Work regime again? Julia Gillard in the House of Representatives, November 25, 2008:
Under Labor’s fair bargaining system where the majority of employees in a workplace want to collectively bargain, then their employer will have to sit at the bargaining table with them. Bargaining will happen in good faith.
Who was her industrial relations minister again? Gillard on ABC’s AM, December 13, 2011:
Yes, Bill Shorten has been promoted, and that’s appropriate. Bill has done a remarkable job …
And in media news, Emma Alberici surprised News Corp stalwarts in Victoria with this tweet, Monday:
In 1990 News Corp hired me and 8 others among a field of close to 1000 candidates. By the age of 22 the @theheraldsun appointed me finance editor under the tutelage of Terry McCrann. He was a wonderful mentor.
In 1990 News Corp hired me and 8 others among a field of close to 1000 candidates. By the age of 22 the @theheraldsun had appointed me Finance Editor under the tutelage of Terry McCrann. He was a wonderful mentor https://t.co/FkMl0ou4pf
— Emma Alberici (@albericie) February 26, 2018
She gave herself a demotion in a subsequent tweet. Alberici on Twitter, six hours later:
In 1990 I was hired by News Corp in Melb. one of 9 among a field of close to 1000 candidates. At 22 I was appointed Personal Finance Editor under the tutelage of Terry McCrann. He was a wonderful mentor.
In 1990 I was hired by News Corp in Melb one of 9 among a field of close to 1000 candidates. At 22 I was appointed Personal Finance Editor under the tutelage of Terry McCrann. He was a great mentor https://t.co/FkMl0ou4pf
— Emma Alberici (@albericie) February 26, 2018