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Posted by Sir Tainley Gno... on 16 December 2011 - 2:26am.
Mary Jo Fisher is an Australian Senator. A while back she was arrested for stealing groceries from a supermarket and taking a swipe at the security guard that tried to stop her. A notable character, if you will.
Earlier this year she gave a speech in the Senate that was one of the weirdest, gripping and flat-out crazy performances you’ll ever see. She’s serious. And it’s in Hansard. Ladies and Gentlemen, a leader of our nation:
Inspired, I confess, by another website.
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Stop saying
"Mr acting deputy president"! Once is enough.
Former Aussie PM Paul Keating had some of the best comebacks ever.
This was when Norris Cole out of Corrie was the Aussie opposition leader:
A country member
Can any of the Australian massive confirm the following exchange, or is it apocryphal?
On being challenged by an MP of the National, or Country, Party with "I'll have the right honorable gentleman know that I am a Country member", an ALP MP replied "Yes, I do remember."
Too good to be true, surely?
It does sound too good to be true and I've heard it
attributed to various people (they may just want to claim it!)so that makes me doubt its veracity.
This is former PM Gough Whitlam's description of the incident. Gough called a spade a spade and was definitely quick witted enough to come out with it. Here he is talking about whether he ever used "The C word" in parliament.
“The nearest I came to doing so was when Sir Winton Turnbull, a member of the Cavalleria Rusticana, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted ‘I am a Country Member’,”
“I interjected ‘I remember’.
He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”
My favourite Gough quote, that I heard with my own ears, was the time he was asked on TV why he disliked Queensland politician Joh Bjelke-Peterson so much. Gough replied, "He's such a bible-bashing bastard."