At least Amanda made me laugh sometimes. She'll end up being some quasi-celeb on shows like Enough Rope. And her control of policy? Well, I wonder how much it was her stuff ups or Howard, Ruddock and Costello playing Punch and Judy...
And the new bunch? People, it's making me salivate with anticipation. Is this the team that is going to take Australia toward the second decade of the new millenium? I think not Mr Speaker.
Turnbull? A danger on water but too ambitiious for his own good. Can I suggest he's a barefoot skier? Very clever but it only takes one piece of flotsom and he's on his arse.
Hockey? Slo Jo
Robb? Dangerous as a machine man, but dull as a minister
Brandis? Rats anyone?
Scullion? Mmm, despation tactics to push the CLP vote up in the Northern Territory
So bring it on. Our team has the end to end strength to take on this lot and beat them at their own game.
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So wHu can you keep your Mandarin up with in-session now?
BTW, that interview you did, in putonghua, on HK tv, but which could be got in Harbin and presumably all over China, 2 years ago
专访澳大利亚工党外交部长陆克文 ....
I managed, via the magic of blogs, to get some Good Person of cyber-Szechuan to do a translation for the benefit of Chinese-Challenged among us.
It's a definite improvement over the Babelfish machine translation semi-gibberish I otherwise had to read between the lines of.
I especially liked how the concept of Shadow Cabinet was explained for our FarNorthAsia neighbours:
"In today’s interview I like to introduce to you a very interesting person. He is the Australian Labor Party’s Foreign Affairs Minister (sic), Mr Luo Ke Wen.....
In countries where their system of government has a “cabinet” ... the entire cabinet could be immediately replaced should the government falls suddenly.
The opposition has to be able to take over the responsibility of government at short notice. Hence the opposition party needs to have a full complement of people able to
assume full responsibilities. It needs to show to the electorate that it has such a group of people, who they
are, their background and capabilities...."
You couldn't have put it better yourself could you? "...Should the government fall suddenly...", ha ha ha, if only it was that easy.
Here is the full rudd-unofficially-translated interview done by said Good Person.
You might drop a note of thanks, maybe even give them a bit of a hand with the finer points of their chinese, over on their blog.
Go Mr. Luo ...
Sincerely, Good To Be With You
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