I will say one thing for Alexander - he seems like a good sport.
He won't live down the stockings though....staple of political cartoonists in Australia as long as he's in office :wink:
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Hey hinge!
Hello there!
But what will our cartoonists do, minus Alexander?
This is serious!
There was almost universal politeness from both sides of politics about Downer. Kev said nice things, Penny said nice things. I was starting to feel ill. I nearly choked when some Liberal Party hack said Downer had overseen a period where Australia had greatly increased its role in international affairs and international leadership - hmmm. Tampa, refugee camps in other countries, Iraq, telling the UNHRC to butt out of indig affairs, Australians in Guantanamo, sycophancy to China, ....
Thank God for Bob Brown who pointed out that Downer would most likely be remembered for being prominent in a government that lost its humanity.
), how the likes of Reith, Allstone (sp?), Vandstone, etc ... can do so much evil & harm, then blithely move on to a "foreign placement" - with a hefty tax-payer subsidized superannuation handshake! Hey, they were just following orders! 
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hingehead wrote:There was almost universal politeness from both sides of politics about Downer. Kev said nice things, Penny said nice things. I was starting to feel ill. I nearly choked when some Liberal Party hack said Downer had overseen a period where Australia had greatly increased its role in international affairs and international leadership - hmmm. Tampa, refugee camps in other countries, Iraq, telling the UNHRC to butt out of indig affairs, Australians in Guantanamo, sycophancy to China, ....
Thank God for Bob Brown who pointed out that Downer would most likely be remembered for being prominent in a government that lost its humanity.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Exactly.
You speak my mind, hinge!
For a buffoon, he was a very dangerous & destructive buffoon - that's what I think, in a nutshell.
It astonishes me sometimes, (no, actually it appalls me!
And yes, thank god for Bob Brown. Always. (My hero!
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Yep, onya Bob, Deb!
He is a living political treasure.
But I worry that retirement could be looming.
(Don't ask me why I thought that. His age? No one stays in parliament forever.The idea just popped into my head as I was admiring his little speech in support of the Tibetans & the Dalai Lama on SBS the other night. On Jenny Brockie's program. It was a very disturbing thought!
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