Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Answering Budget Questions...

So Prime Minister, how are you coping with the public anger over your budget?
The Government is doing what is best for Australia and Australians.
Do you feel people are justified in believing you have miss-led them?
Australians will learn that we have done the responsible thing for the country.
Will you change your budget in response to public criticism?
The government has developed this budget after detailed analysis and due consideration...
Do you ever answer a question directly?
The Australian people will have the opportunity to judge us at the next election....
Do you remember Kevin Rudd?
Yes, why?

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Our ABC, QI

Prime Minister?
Yes?
I heard you are writing a guide book to the new ABC?
It is not called the ABC guide book!
No?
It’s called QI, ABC.
I repeat QI
I repeat QI
I repeat QI
I repeat QI
I repeat QI
I repeat QI
Oh, I see, nothing else?

No.

The War Continues

Hello Prime Minister!
Hello!
How is our war-time Prime Minister going?
Excellent!
Does it feel  good to be at war with everybody?
Good for me and good for the country!
Truly?
Yes, my father always said that young people have become too soft. They really need another war to toughen them and teach them what life is all about!
But innocent people suffer and die in wars!
For the greater good!
And nobody truly wins, except big business…
And this is good for the country….

Are you sure, Prime Minister?

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The Aging Population Problem

So Prime Minister, our aging population is a major problem for your budgeting?
Don’t you worry about that now…
But I’m an aging baby boomer. I am concerned for my future!
No worries. We have had an enquiry and have a solution.
A solution?
Yes, it’s called the Pacific Solution.
But that’s for Boat People!
And it worked for them! Baby boomers like to travel and we think they will like to spend their retirement years in Asia. They will be much cheaper to support there…. I mean living expenses and medical costs will be far less. The Asians will barely notice a few Australian retirees. I mean our numbers are barely significant compared with their populations. And think of the contribution the wealthy retirees will make to the local economies! There will be no argument.
And if they don’t want to go?
Ah well, we have places we don’t use any more, where we can put them…
You have?

Yes, you know. Inverbrackie, Villawood, Port Augusta, Port Hedland….. and many others!

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Black Holes revisited

Prime Minister, do you remember when in August last year I talked to you about Budgeting and Black Holes?
Black Holes??
Yes...
Black Holes? No...
Surely you remember! You said your budgeting contained no Black Holes...
Black....   Black Holes.....  Can't say I do..... Totally blacked out on that one...
Hmm, away with the stars...

Crisis!

Did you know we are at war?
We are?
Yes, no doubt about it! At war with DEBT, at war with DRUGS, at war with BOAT PEOPLE, at war with INTERNET CRIMINALS, at war with LIBERAL EDUCATIONISTS, at war with BIKIES and at war with UNIONS….  At war with our OPPONENTS.
So that’s why we need strike fighters, war time taxation and austerity measures?
Absolutely….
So you are a war-time prime minister!
The one Australia needs!
And you will bring peace?

Hell no! I would lose my job…

The Economy continued....

So Prime Minister, you promised not to increase taxes or introduce new ones….
Have you forgotten about core promises and non-core promises?
I think you said they were a thing of the past!
Some things are set in stone.
Like core promises?
No, I mean “core promises and non-core promises”…
So this is politics. Does that mean it is OK to lie?
No I think people wouldn’t like that… but you can’t  always tell people what is good for them…
So you lie to them?
No, but it is OK to scare people shitless…
What do you mean by that? Is that policy?
I’m not sure… I just thought of it…

To be continued…