PM flags vow to get team onside
IT’S tough work being a federal politician.
There’s so much to remember – names, dates, this week’s prime minister, facts and figures, what country you live in.
Luckily, members of Scott Morrison’s new Cabinet now no longer have to worry about that last point, thanks to their new boss’s gift to them.
Mr Morrison gave each of his ministers an Australian flag lapel pin before their swearingin ceremony last week.
“For each of you today, I gave you a lapel pin with the Australian flag on it,” he told them at their first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
“I’ve been wearing this now for many, many years. I can’t remember when doing this.
“The reason I wear it is because it reminds me every single day whose side I’m on.
“I’m on the side of the Australian people, that’s what I’m saying to myself, that’s who I think about first.”
Of course, relying on checking a flag pin to remind them of what country they live in could I started ON THIEVES STEALING A CAR WITH A THREE—YEAR—OLD INSIDE
See this far too often... when will ppl learn lessons!! Thankgod she was found. Very scary time for the parents. Jodie Wood Don’t leave your kid strapped into a car Isaac Oliver Did the person get charged with kidnapping Peter Williams
Thank goodness she was found. Poor Mum and everyone. Well done to those who helped. Kathleen Middleton be fraught with danger should their eyes glance to the top left corner of that flag.
Granted, many of our federal parliamentarians were apparently citizens of entirely different countries for years without realising, so perhaps it isn’t without merit for them to make sure they know where they are.
But that aside, the talk of ON A COFFEE CHAIN HAVING BIKINI-CLAD BARISTAS
Chauvinist pigs and bimbos set the women’s cause back again.lovely Christine Williamson
I surprised this coffee chain thinks that only men drink coffee, because I certainly would not need or have a desire to order my coffee at a place I could perve on the girls while I order and wait and I wouldn’t be going there with any guy so I could sit and watch him perve while we wait... most women wouldn’t want to either!! Donna Lea White Shut up and take my money.... Tim Whall “teams”, is cringe-worthy, invoking the ghost of Tony Abbott’s best forgotten “Team Australia”.
If you’re not with them all the way – with their policies and their language and their homogenised views – you’re against them, an outsider.
Mr Morrison should know this better than most. He represents the electorate of Cook, which includes Cronulla, scene of the 2005 riots responsible for the perversion of the Southern Cross from a harmless symbol of our country to one of the worst brands of aggressive bogan racism.
Those tiny lapel pins are a step towards creepy and brash United States-style jingoism, which, far from uniting is used Brings on a whole new meaning to a white and two !! Colin Rowe
Don’t go in the shops if you don’t want to see them. Nothing wrong with it. Go to the beach you see less. Good on the girls its a job , at least they are not sitting on their butts doing nothing and waiting for their dole . Debra Betts For some reason i feel like a coffee now. Brett Guy Where’s the budgie smuggler baristas at? Danielle Brabants
Lol, they should try and keep abreast with new trends.... Gary Weir
Operating a coffee machine in a bikini is a workplace health and safety hazard! Kathy Wilson Yuk Jan Gal ON THE GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSED CBD VACANT BLOCK AND DERELICT BUILDING LEVY BEING CALLED A ‘BRAIN FART’
Oh so the bloke representing the property owners thinks it’s a bad idea. What a surprise. If I owned several properties in the CBD lock, stock and barrel I would be pushing back on this as well. Fact is, if I’m some rich bloke who owns a property or properties outright in the CBD (as many old money Darwin moguls do) all I have to gain from lowering my asking rents is to devalue my own property on paper and those of my rich mates around me. Better to have vacancies than admit our properties aren’t as worth as much as as we claim, right? Trouble is this attitude is part of why the CBD is dying. They need to have pressure put on them to make it more economical to rent to would-be businesses at a reasonable price or dispose of the properties to people who’ll actually do something with them. Dan
Give ‘em hell Duncan. Take the flatulence out of those clowns you’d need a magnifying glass to see what’s left !! Alan