Oz politics goes Dada, Surreal actually!
by stele Sunday, Apr 25 2010, 10:04am
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I would state at the outset this story is gross. It hovers between a joke in bad taste and a Greens MP playing marriage wrecker and Mata Hari.
The joke aspect of the story runs something like this, a vendor at a flea market selling bicycle seats, displays his wares – new bicycle seats $30, used $50 -- you were warned! Now to the real life example, which is in even poorer taste: a West Australian parliamentarian running for his Party’s leadership at the time was publicly exposed for sniffing/snorting the freshly vacated seat of a female staffer and snapping the bra-strap of a Labor staffer – two gross and imbecilic acts performed in extremely bad taste, the seat-snorting antic cost him his leadership bid; however, this imbecile was not thrown out of parliament – he survived, albeit in the lesser capacity of Party Treasurer.
If we’ve learnt anything about human nature it’s that ‘leopards don’t change their spots’ and this clown is no exception to that rule. After a very public and humiliating apology in the presence of his ‘devoted and supportive’ wife, this seat-snorting politician compromised himself a second time. But on this occasion for adultery and sexually crossing political divides – this Liberal Treasurer was exposed for fucking a Greens MP; imagine the pillow talk!
The only redeeming feature of this sordid story is that the Greens MP was not a bloke; however, it was the female Greens MP who released the story to the press! It seems that mutually assured political destruction no longer applies in WA – be warned all Aussies in high office, your indiscretions could be exposed at any time, what’s a ruined career against fifteen minutes of infamy?
International readers would not be familiar with the antics of West Oz politics and I wouldn’t blame conservatives for not believing any of it. So I offer a link to a mainstream press article covering the same story. Reading is believing; have a nice enlightened day and wonder no more whether we should restore a people's REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY in Australia.