Friday, 6 February 2015

You're fired - The AIM Network

You're fired - The AIM Network



You’re fired










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When Tony Abbott says that the people voted for him to be Prime Minister it’s important to clarify.


When Tony called a spill motion to challenge Malcolm Turnbull for the
leadership of the Liberal Party in 2009, 35 of the 85 Liberal MPs voted
for him in the first round.  He won the second round by securing 42
votes which is, once again, less than half of the party room.


Those 42 people are responsible for Tony holding the top job.  Or
more accurately, the person who cast an informal vote by writing “No” on
their ballot paper (presumably Joe Hockey) gave Abbott the leadership. 
It would be cynical of me to suggest that Tony purposely called the
spill when a Turnbull supporter was in hospital and unable to vote.


To make him even a contender 54,388 people in Warringah voted for
Tony in the last election.  That is less than one half of one percent of
the total formal votes cast (12,914,927) and just over 0.2% of the
population (23,235,800).


Warringah is an affluent electorate covering 73 sq.km in Sydney’s
north shore and lower northern beaches, covering suburbs on both sides
of Middle Harbour around the Spit Bridge. It includes Middle Head and
the Mosman Council area, North Head and the Manly Council area, plus
parts of Warringah and North Sydney Councils.  It has always been a safe
conservative seat.


Warringah has the nation’s lowest proportion of residents aged 15-24
(9.9%) and the nation’s tenth and NSW’s highest proportion of residents
born in the United Kingdom or Ireland (10.9%). It has the nation’s third
highest proportion of high income households (55.9%). Proving it can be
an expensive place to live, Warringah rates second highest on both
monthly mortgage repayments and weekly rent.


I’m not sure that they are exactly representative of Australia though
it may well explain Tony’s policy direction and need to claim every
expense he can.


At the 2001 election he was challenged by former state Independent MP
for Manly Dr Peter Macdonald. Macdonald had a reasonable chance of
creating an upset, and reduced Abbott’s margin substantially, but his
attempt to harness local issues was swamped by the higher prominence of
foreign affairs in the aftermath of the Tampa incident and September 11
terrorist attacks.  This may help explain Tony’s penchant for ramping up
the rhetoric on threats to our safety – it’s worked for him before.


As Tony’s promises to be more consultative and collegial pile up, he
avoids the electorate like the plague.  The last time Tony Abbott
appeared on Q&A was 2010.  And the backbench think they’ve got it bad.  If his own MPs can’t gain access, what hope has the electorate of getting through?


As Tony attempts to stare down the spill motion on Tuesday (assuming
those who proposed it aren’t made to withdraw it before then – Peta is
pretty scary), I would like to remind him that the vast majority of us
did NOT hire him as Prime Minister and if, as he says, only the people
have the right to fire him, then call an election.



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Tuesday, 3 February 2015

The thoroughly humiliating and extremely satisfying demise of Tony Abbott
This political obituary is tastefully embargoed until Tony Abbott’s prime ministerial scone plops into the basket
Cartoon by FIRST DOG ON THE MOON

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Tony Abbott Has ‘Complete Support’ Of Malcolm Turnbull’s Leadership Ambitions

Tony Abbott Has ‘Complete Support’ Of Malcolm Turnbull’s Leadership Ambitions


Tony Abbott Has ‘Complete Support’ Of Malcolm Turnbull’s Leadership Ambitions



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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he stands ‘right
behind’ the Prime Minister’s strategy to make a total tit of himself.


“As long as Tony Abbott is being weird, he has my total support,” Mr Turnbull said today.


He said it was important to focus on the business of Government,
rather than talk about hypotheticals. “Let’s not speculate about the
future. Let’s instead focus in quite some detail on the strange things
Tony Abbott is doing right now,” he said.


Mr Turnbull would not be drawn about a potential challenge for the leadership.


“As I’ve said before, I have no desire to undermine Tony Abbott –
he’s doing a fine job of that himself. What I can rule out is doing
anything that will in any way remove focus from the Prime Minister in
his efforts to look ridiculous”.


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Captain Tony - A Titanic Disaster

Captain Tony - A Titanic Disaster

Too Smart By Half



Australian Politics and Society








Captain Tony – A Titanic Disaster


Abbott


Vladimir Putin once said “great promise is followed by great
disappointment”. This pessimistic view (typical of a Russian) holds true
nine times out of ten in politics, anywhere in the world. In spite of
this, Aussies almost always give a new mob a second chance – it’s been
almost a century since a government was booted out after one single,
solitary term in office. Considering this, the 2013 landslide election
ought to have set the Abbott government up until 2019.


On top of that, the ALP’s incompetence and disarray from 2010 through
to 2013 – a circus if there ever was one – turned the Labor brand into
the cheapest and most toxic commodity in Canberra. No one in their right
mind would have predicted a 2016 comeback – bookies at the time backed
this up with a 2016 Coalition victory at $1.17.


But stats are for cricket commentators. If a week is a long time in
politics, then three years is an eternity – and it is starting to feel
like an eternity in hell for the conservatives. They are weighing up the
worst of two nightmares – stick with the most incompetent leader their
party has had since Billy McMahon, face a humiliating electoral wipeout
after just one term in office, shuffle back into opposition with their
tails between their legs, having secured zero major reforms; or dump
their leader for Bishop or Turnbull, and go through the exact same
leadership chaos that brought their enemies to their knees. This is
democracy in its most pure form – damned if you do, damned if you don’t.


But what did they expect? What good could possibly come from
installing the most reviled and out-of-touch minister the former Howard
government ever spewed forth? So intent on regaining power, so focused
on power for power’s sake, they ran with the best attack dog in
opposition. They are now paying for it at the cost of now being run by a
mutt. The mongrel inside Abbott worked wonders in opposition. But when
the time came to step into the shoes of a leader, a statesman, a
visionary, he has remained the same barking mongrel.


Abbott, desperate to cling onto the prize he chased for so long, said
yesterday that “government is not a popularity contest. It is about
competence”. He is right – good government must be competent, and more.
It must focus on strong policy, effective management, capable
negotiation, proven results, and respectable leadership. Popularity
follows. Abbott has achieved none of these, and his woeful popularity
has followed.


Not once since he became “captain” in 2013 has he stood at the helm
of the ship. Not once has he commanded his ship with any sense of
vision, or even any sense of what a captain’s job really is. He has
spent the past year or so staring backwards from the ship’s stern,
gloating over the wreckage of the decimated Labor government, reliving
past glories. The result? He has failed to notice the gigantic iceberg
his government is on course to collide with head on.


While the government is on a full-steam collision course, Abbott
still remains chained to the same wrong end of the ship. While the
Australian voters are screaming for their captain to act, to steer their
ship away from icy waters, to pull out the telescope and at least aim for
something, he just keeps playing his fiddle with the same old “fuck
Labor” tune. It used to be a catchy tune. Now that his ship is sinking,
he will go down with it as the greatest one hit wonder the Liberals ever
had.
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Monday, 2 February 2015

Abbott takes February too! - The AIM Network

Abbott takes February too! - The AIM Network



Abbott takes February too!










abbott pre election





A few days ago, I conceded that in the attempt to be ridiculous,
Abbott’s action had clearly beaten my satire for the month of January. I
have to concede that his press club speech outdid my suggestion for what he would say
by such a margin that one would have to declare him firm favourite to
win February as well. I read this before I read the transcript so I
thought that the speech might be OK.





The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan says “Tony
Abbott has taken his first step towards restoring order and stability
in his Government in a simple, straightforward manner with a speech which was error and surprise free.”



Outstanding!  Well, that should make all Abbott’s critics shut up. A
prepared speech lacking errors or surprises – that must make this the
equivalent of Churchill’s war-time efforts or Keating’s Redfern speech.
Except, Mr Shanahan – apart from the fact that his speech contained more
re-runs than Channel 10 over the summer break – it’s just not true.


I haven’t exactly gone through it with a fine tooth comb, but at a
quick glance I found the following errors or points of interest:


  1. “Our problem is not that taxes are too low; our problem is that government spending is too high.” Hardly any economists agree!
  2. “The carbon tax is gone — so every household, on average, is $550 a year better off.” ????
    All I can say is some people must have been burning a lot of
    electricity and be thousands better off, if that average is anywhere
    near accurate!
  3. “The live cattle trade that Labor closed down in panic over a TV programme is booming again.” Actually
    I think it was over what was happening to the cattle, not the TV
    programme, or is he suggesting that, if it hadn’t have been made public
    like that, there’d have been no need for action?
  4. “There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.” Wasn’t
    there one until July last year? All right, he may have been trying to
    get rid of it, but it certainly didn’t stop as soon as he was elected;
    neither did he offer to pay us back our “$550″ for the years 2013-2014!
  5. “Petrol prices are nearing 15 year lows, home loan interest rates
    are low and stable, and the September quarter had the biggest fall in
    power prices on record.” Is he claiming credit for lower petrol prices? And aren’t interest rates at ‘emergency levels’ because we have a slow economy? 
  6. “If you’re a small business owner, it’s likely that you’ve mortgaged
    your home in order to invest, employ and serve the community.” Those incompetent bastards! Going into debt!! People shouldn’t be risking their kids inheritance by going into debt!!
  7. “Every big business started off as a small business.” What? Even those who started off by listing on the stock exchange to raise a billion or so in capital?
  8. “Every new worker is generating revenue — so spending to get
    unemployed people into work; on childcare to keep parents in the
    workforce; on infrastructure to get people to their jobs; and on a small
    business tax cut to create jobs will help to get the budget back
    towards the surplus our country needs. Economic growth is the best and
    fastest way to restore the surplus.” Isn’t this what Labor argued during the GFC?

And, he does remind us that everything is Labor’s fault, and if you
ever vote Labor it’s because you’re even more forgetful than Arthur
Sinodinos, when asked exactly what he was being paid to do, so that’s
something that must make us all think that the people of Queensland and
Victoria don’t understand the concept of democracy. You’re meant to keep
voting Liberal and if you don’t, it’s because you’re just wrong.


And, of course, this isn’t a surprise or an error. It’s just another
broken promise, which is par for the course, for Abbott!  “So, a bigger
parental leave scheme is off the table.”



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Monday, 26 January 2015

The Aristocrats: why knighting Prince Philip is a joke at Australia's expense | Adam Brereton



The Aristocrats: why knighting Prince Philip is a joke at Australia's expense


Adam Brereton






If Tony Abbott absolutely had to knight a royal, why didn’t he choose
one who was popular with the electorate, like Prince William?
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‘He is such a bizarre choice because he’s actually the deadweight
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The Aristocrats: why knighting Prince Philip is a joke at Australia's expense | Adam Brereton

he trade joke of stand-up comedians is a classic called the
Aristocrats. It’s a well-known format: a family turns up to the office
of a talent agent to perform their act, which is typically the most
depraved scene of incest – in Bob Saget’s version, the family sings
Sister Sledge in a pile of their own excrement. The comic doesn’t spare
the details, dragging it out for as long as their audience can bear and
then, when the talent agent asks what the act is called, the family
delivers the punchline:


“The Aristocrats.”


Chevy Chase used to try to break half an hour in his telling of the joke. Tony Abbott
almost lasted a whole year. He started telling his own variation on the
classic in March 2014, and today he delivered his own zinger:


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Ta-da! Meet Prince Philip, the Aristocrat!


Philip represents everything Australians hate about old-world
aristocracy: his racist bon mots, his pickled appearance, his unearned
wealth and privilege. He is a natural “type” for comedy. You can imagine
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Philip stepping effortlessly into the setup of a truly vile telling of
the Aristocrats: the Duke of Edinburgh and his family go to see a talent
agent ...


He is such a bizarre choice because he’s actually the deadweight holding back what increasingly appears to be a monarchist revival.
Wherever he goes, his “gaffes” breeze ahead of him like a bad smell. He
couldn’t be further from the young dream couple William and Kate, who
have seized the world’s imagination with their sensitive, virtuous
public profiles.


If Abbott absolutely had to knight a royal, couldn’t he have chosen Prince William
instead of drawing attention to the least popular member of the
monarchy? If this is about re-establishing the monarchy’s place in our
regime of honours and titles, why not choose a royal recipient who will
play well with the punters? And who is Angus Houston again?


Already there’s chatter about how dopey the appointment is, how it
will play poorly with an electorate who are discovering anew how strange
their prime minister is. If there is a single person in the country for
whom this decision would swing their vote, I’d like to meet them. Is
there anyone demanding the Queen’s rarefied consort be given yet another
gong?


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In the grand scheme of things, that doesn’t matter to Abbott. A former director of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy,
he has always considered royalty to be an integral part of Australian
life outside and above partisan politics and, indeed, democracy itself.
It’s “a reminder of the transcendent in the life of the world”, he wrote
in 2006. An ideal “always beyond the reach of actual human beings but
towards which all should strive”.


Or as Philip put it in a comment to Alfredo Stroessner,
the Paraguayan dictator who turned his country into a sanctuary for
escaped Nazis: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by
its people.”


Now that’s a joke! Try the veal, I’m a Knight of the Order of Australia all week!


The Aristocrats is a gag comedians tell each other in private. It’s a
“secret handshake”, a dirty joke that keeps the profession together.
Abbott’s version is the same: a joke for the benefit of the few true
monarchists left in the country, overwhelmingly men of Philip’s ilk. The
rest of us aren’t meant to get it, because it’s told at our expense.


On Australia Day, when many Indigenous Australians are mourning, when
we’re asking ourselves questions about what kind of democracy we
actually have, when the republicans among us are navel-gazing about the
flag, and when Abbott’s own supporters are tucking into their beer and
snags, the prime minister goes and knights a member of the royal family.
That’s what John Howard used to call a “barbecue stopper”, a clanger so
bad it could ruin the fun for everyone.


Except, that is, for the person who made the joke and his intended audience. Except for … the Aristocrats!
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Labor MP asks PM Abbott to prove he's not a British dual citizen

Labor MP asks PM Abbott to prove he's not a British dual citizen

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Terri Butler has written to Prime Minister Abbott about his possible dual citizenship


Kevin Rudd's replacement in the seat of Griffith, Terri
Butler, writes to Tony Abbott asking him to put to rest speculation he
is ineligible to sit in the Australian Parliament due to never having
renounced his British citizenship. Sydney bureau chief Ross Jones reports.TERRI MEGAN BUTLER is the Labor MP for the federal division of
Griffith, basically Brisbane’s inner southern suburbs. It used to be
former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s seat until he spat his final dummy.
Kev’s abrupt but overdue departure triggered a by-election held on 8 February 2014.

Terri, previously an industrial lawyer, had secured Labor pre-selection and, on the day, prevailed over the LNP's Dr Bill Glasson with a 2PP of 51.76%, despite a 1.25% swing against Labor.

It’s probably a much safer ALP seat now and, at 37, Butler has a bright future before her.

IA readers are familiar with the indefatigable Tony Magrathea as the man trying to uncover the truth regarding the Tony Abbott’s citizenship status. The results of his attempts have been well-documented in IA.

Fed up with frustrations attending the almost-impossible task of proving something doesn’t exist, in this case Abbott's 'Form RN' – his renunciation of British citizenship – Magrathea decided both-barrels, choke off, was the best approach.

So he a emailed a question to every MP in the land the following:

If a politician were to find out about something that might or
might not be a crime, should they make that decision themselves or
should it be left up to the police? I know most state crimes acts
require all who are aware of a crime to let the police know, otherwise
they risk being charged with perverting the course of justice,
especially if the politician and potential criminal are mates and there
has been some sort of monetary or political advantaged gained by staying
quiet.

I ask because the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
declared in an FOI request, 2014-159, in October last year, that Mr
Abbott is still a dual citizen of Britain and Australia. They said his
renunciation paperwork for the British citizenship does not exist.  If a
politician were to find out about something that might or might not be a
crime should they make that decision themselves or should it be left up
to the police? I know most state crimes acts require all who are aware
of a crime to let the police know otherwise they risk being charged with
perverting the course of justice, especially if the politician and
potential criminal are mates and there has been some sort of monetary or
political advantaged gained by staying quiet.
After explaining the possible legal repercussions of their staying quiet, Magrathea asked:

Now that you are aware of the crime or potential crime, will you
advise the police or make the decision yourself that all is OK? I would
hope you forward the matter to the CDPP, the AG department and the AFP
or at least ask a question in Parliament so we can all find out what's
going on.


Coincidence, by definition, is a funny thing. Terri was on the ALP
campaign trail in Rockhampton on 22 January and got chatting to booth
workers.

IA notes it has not yet spoken with Butler, we will try
although she is a tad busy at the moment, so the next bit is an
informed, but not confirmed, reconstruction.

It seems the ALP booth workers filled a hitherto unknowing Butler
into the detail of the Abbott citizenship scandal and Tony’s findings to
date in that regard. She contacted her staff, who advised the content
of Tony’s email advising MPs of a possible criminal breach — not only by
Abbott, but anyone else who knew and was deliberately concealing a
crime.

Butler is now on record as the only MP, and that includes the crossbench zoo, to respond to Magrathea’s mass entreaty.

She begins her reply:

Dear Tony

Thanks for emailing me.

As you’d know, Britain is a foreign power for the purposes of section 44(i) (Sue v Hill
[1999] HCA 30; 199 CLR 462; 163 ALR 648; 73 ALJR 1016). That suggests
that if the Prime Minister had yet to renounce his British citizenship
before being re-elected in 2013, he would be ineligible to sit.

I understand the Prime Minister’s office has said that the Prime
Minister has renounced his British citizenship. If so, he would have
done so by paperwork filed with the British government, which may
explain why there aren’t Australian government records amenable to FOI.
Not having seen any proof that the claim is a lie, I am not in a
position to make any statement as to its veracity. I’d say that the
person best placed to know the Prime Minister’s citizenship status is
the Prime Minister himself. For that reason I accept his statement at
face value. Having said that, I intend to write to him, in the terms of
the enclosed letter, encouraging him to provide his declaration of renunciation, to avoid the need to continue to discuss this matter.
She concludes her reply to Tony Magrathea:

If it turned out that the Prime Minister was eligible, you
wouldn’t get relief from the court. If, on the other hand, the Prime
Minister wasn’t eligible when elected in 2013, it would seem likely that
the court would void the election for his division, and a by-election
would occur (as it did in the Kelly case). I suspect if that was to
occur the Prime Minister would win that by-election, but of course that
would be a matter for the voters in his Division. (I would make the
observation that if all that was achieved through court proceedings and
an expensive by-election was to maintain the status quo, that would be a
shame.)It appears to me that if a person believed that an MP,
including the Prime Minister, was not eligible to hold his or her seat,
the proper approach would be to seek a remedy from the High Court. As
you will have seen from the Hill and Kelly cases, that is generally done
as a petition to the Court sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns.
You could also consider a claim under section 46 of the Constitution
which allows a citizen to seek that the MP be financially penalised for
sitting while ineligible.

If you believe that he has signed any false declarations, that is
a matter that you might consider referring to the police. For my own
part, not having seen any evidence that a false declaration has been
made, I’m not going to make allegations to that effect.

Having made all of those observations, I’d say that I have many,
many disagreements with the Prime Minister. I believe he’s wrong on just
about every issue of public policy about which I’ve heard his views. I
disagree with his government’s attacks on pensioners, students,
families, working people, and households generally. I vehemently oppose
his attacks on Medicare and on access to education, among many other
things. 

I hasten to add that nothing in this email is to be taken as
legal advice. You should seek your own advice, especially if you’re
considering commencing court proceedings. You may also be interested in
this e-brief (which I suspect you’ve already seen) about section 44 from
the parliamentary library: http://www.aph.gov.au/about_parliament/parliamentary_departments/parliamentary_library/publications_archive/archive/section44

Best wishes

Terri Butler MP
A polite dead bat you might think. But you’d be wrong.

Because enclosed was also a letter that had been sent to the prime minister:



Like reporting a UFO, Labor risks widespread ridicule if it airs this
thing in in Parliament. What happens if they beat it up, then Peta
reaches into Tony’s satchel and flourishes the RN? Ignominy, that’s
what. And no-one can prove he doesn’t have it. A hippy would refer to
this situation as a mind-fuck.

But now the stakes have been ratcheted up a cog. The PM has received a written request from a sitting MP.

Will Tony fess up? Will half the front bench go to gaol for knowingly concealing a crime?

You’ll read it here first.

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Sunday, 25 January 2015

BUCKINGHAM PALACE REACTION TO TONY ABBOTT
James Hudson ‏@jamesahudson
"And then one of the colonies gave him a knighthood".

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Philip - A Just And Fitting Honour Of Someone Who Worked Quietly Behind The Scenes With No Recognition! - The AIM Network

Philip - A Just And Fitting Honour Of Someone Who Worked Quietly Behind The Scenes With No Recognition! - The AIM Network



Philip – A Just And Fitting Honour Of Someone Who Worked Quietly Behind The Scenes With No Recognition!










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Ah, remember how the Left laughed and mocked Tony Abbott for
reintroducing knighthoods and dames. Remember when Tony explained how it
would work:


“There won’t be very many Knights and Dames in the Order of Australia,” Abbott said.


“There may be – I say may be – up to four a year, but they will be
people of extraordinary achievement and pre-eminence and I believe that
no one gets to be the Governor-General of this great Commonwealth
without being a person of extraordinary achievement and pre-eminence.”



So, the first two were the outgoing Governor-General, Dame Quentin
Bryce and the incoming Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. Given his
suggestion that it was pretty much an automatic thing for
Governors-General to be awarded this honour, there was hardly any
surprise with the choice.


The question of who would be our next knights or dames was the
interesting question. I’m sure many of you had sleepless nights and that
many pub conversations and barbeques were dominated by wondering
whether it’d be some ex-politician like John Howard, or someone with an
outstanding record in the area of charity such as Peter’s more likeable
brother, Tim Costello, or even, perhaps, someone who’d selflessly
devoted themselves to becoming as rich as possible like Rupert or Gina.


When the name Angus Houston popped up, I thought, of course. Apart
from his distinguished career as a military man, he did all that work on
those missing planes, and while not finding on of them cruelled his
chances for Australian of The Year, a knighthood was still an
appropriate reward for all his service to this country. A fine choice!
And as the man himself said:


“I was very comfortable with who I am and what I am,” he said.


“It’s a great honour to be recognised in this way but I’d like people to still call me Angus.”

I’m glad he cleared that up, because had I met him I’d have wondered
if I should call him Mr Houston, Chief Air Marshall or Loretta. But
Angus it is. Would ‘Gus be ok too, I wonder, or is that a bit informal
for someone like that.


Yes, the PM was correct to suggest that Angus had always put Australia first.


But now we had our woman, our soldier and our air force person,
obviously we needed a sailor to complete the pack, otherwise the navy
would feel left out. Much to everyone’s surprise, Abbott found a little
known navy person, whom he wanted to recognise for his services to
Australians – Prince Philip, a man that I’m sure has always put
Australia in his top three.  He was known for his services to some
of the Australian women, according to various sources, but I have no
confirmation of that.


For those of you who don’t know much about this latest knight of Australia, here are a few facts:


  1. “Prince” is not his actual first name, but a title bestowed on him
    at birth, when he was “Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark”. (Now that
    he’s been given the knighthood, it’s possible that he’ll be known as
    “Sir Philip” or “The Sailor Who Used To Prince”)
  2. His family was kicked out of Greece when he was a baby – not sure why.
  3. He joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, at the age of 18, which was a pretty bad year to join as it turned out.
  4. He is also known as “The Duke Of Edinburgh”, and is believed to have
    been worried that if Scotland had voted for independence he may have
    had to change his title to “The Duke of Hazard”.
  5. The “Duke Of Edinburgh” awards were actually named after him, and not the other way around.
  6. He married his third cousin, a woman called Elizabeth with whom he began correspending when she was 13.
  7. He has four children, which coincedently are three boys and one
    girl. Just like the knighthoods awarded by Mr Abbott. Three of his
    chlidren have been through a divorce, which suggests that it’s not a
    good family to marry into.
  8. He commented at the 1986 “Duke of Edinburgh” Awards: “Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”
  9. His sisters were married to German princes, so they didn’t get an
    invite to his wedding in 1951. Something to do with sensitivities about
    Nazi connections.
  10. He commented during the 1981 recession: “A few years ago,
    everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too
    much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re
    unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.”

So, I hope you can see why this man was such an outstanding choice
for our fourth knighthood (if you include the dames as part of the
knighthood, it seems awkward to be saying knightandordamehoods)! The
choice of Prince Philip (I wonder if he’ll suggest we just call him
Angus, too) shows what an excellent idea it was to reintroduce these
imperial honours and allow people who wouldn’t have access to such a
high title, the chance to be recognised. When Abbott first introduced
them, people suggested that it was a crazy idea, but I think you’ll all
agree, that this just shows how firm a grip Abbott has on reality, and
what an astute politician he really is. If we can’t honour rich men who
live overseas on Australian Day, when can we?



Twitt


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